Previously on Vacation Gone Past: As they headed for Elizabeth's office, Jaq tugged on her arm to stop. "Oh no, no, no! Not there." Elizabeth shot her a look. "What?"
"Not there. Too many distractions. Besides, I think you'd like this place." Jaq grabbed her arm again, heading off towards a hallway. "But what if there's an emergency?"
"If there is, trust me, they'll call you."
From around the corner, four heads peeked out, looking for anybody in the corridors. Ronon stood behind them, giving them a look. "What are you doing?" Cash turned around, putting a finger to his mouth. "SHHHHHHH!" He looked back down the hall, rushing to another crevace in the wall. Cam and Matt went next, crowding in behind the young man. It seemed a little odd to have four grown people sneaking around the hall like Mission Impossible wannabes. "We're being sneaky, so no one else finds the place."
"But aren't we showing up on Atlantis's scans?"
Cam frowned from across the hallway. "It's just fun to run around like this!" She whispered very loudly. Ronon shrugged, he never quite got these people.
A few minutes later, Cash stopped everyone in front of a slide away door. "This, is a magic door, A WONDERFUL door. A door of secrets, and power. But mostly, it's a door of…" Cam rolled her eyes, stretching her arm out around him, swiping the panel. The door slid back, revealing a very open spaced balcony. "Fun ruiner." Cash muttered, walking inside. John was amazed at the size. "Wow! It's huge!" Cam nodded, as she ran to the middle of the room, plopping down in the middle of the floor. "Yeah. We found it soon after the second ZPM boosted the extra layout scanners." Sheppard and Ronon looked at her, and the girl clapped a hand over her mouth. "What? Another ZPM? Where?" She shook her head. "I can't tell you. I've said too much already."
"Why not?"
"Because if you were to find it, our timeline would be tragically different, and when we got back, things would've changed and it could go either way."
John nodded, leaning against a wall. "Oh…you seem pretty confident that they'll figure it out." Cash opened a piece of floor, finding what looked like chalk. "Despite his constant nagging and whining, Travis can be a really smart guy." He tossed the chalk to Cam, who made a circle around herself, and tossed it to Matt. "Only, he usually has to be threatened, with either death or Becca going to replace him." Matt nodded, drawing a square and throwing the chalk back to Cash, who did the same. "He's just like his father." Spoke up Ronon. Matt looked at him. "Aren't we all?" Cam hopped up, going over to John and looked around his feet for something. "What are you doing?" the Colonel asked, giving her a look. Cam apparently found what she was looking for, stomping on a panel. Inside the chalked out areas filled out with a grayish material. "Whoa! What happened?"
Cam looked over her shoulder at the bumps. "They filled in. I think this place was used to draw out designs for larger materials. Cash nodded, drawing a line a little ways in front of 'Second Base'. "Baseball?"
John looked around. "Where's the stuff?" Cash scratched the back of his head. "Oh. I didn't think about that. There's usually stuff here when we come. I have a couple of hackysacks in my bag."
"And I have my sticks" Matt chimed in.
"Well then I guess we'll have to wait for Teyla and Kim."
Ronon came to stand next to John. "What's Baseball?"
"Oh. Let me explain…"
…
Rodney was surprised at the two kids. They reminded him of the way him and Radek argue. The two did just the same. "I'm serious, Travis."
"That theory is rediculus!"
"But it's happened before, remember? Four times. Twice to General Carter, Teal'c, O'Neill and Dr. Jackson. Once to Dr. Ja-Weir, and now to us!"
"Zelenka-"
"It's Rebecca, Travis."
"Fine. Rebecca, The possibility that a solar flare at the exact time we had a wormhole open, causing the singularity to reverse itself is-is a billion to one!"
"Well I think we found the one."
"Your wrong."
"How do you know? You have a better theory?"
"No…"
"So how do you know I'm wrong?"
"PEOPLE!" Rodney told the both of them, causing the two of them to stop arguing. "Wait, until we reach the lab, to spout of ideas, hm?" And they kept walking. The two younger people were silent, controlling sniggers with years of practice. "Look who's talking…" Rebecca muttered.
When they got there, Rodney gave the two explicit instructions to sit and stay, while he went to find Radek. Travis and Becca looked around at all the scientist working. "Wow…I've never seen so many people work together in one place." Travis said. Becca nodded. "That's probably because they haven't found their second ZPM…" She turned to Travis, grinning, "Wanna tell them?" He shook his head. "We can't do that. Drastic changes could be made to our time if we told them now were the second ZedPM was." She slumped. "Oh, fine."
Rodney came back, Zelenka in tow. "Rodney! I was very busy! What crazy idea of yours could be so important that it drags me away from my work?" He stopped, staring at the two kids. The gave a little wave. "I thought it would be nice to have another hand helping them." He gestured to the two kids. Zelenka gave them a confused look. "Who are they?" He asked Rodney. "A couple of kids from the future, actually. Through some space anomiliy, no doubt a solar flare-"
"Ha! I was right!" Becca laughed at Travis, who frowned.
"Would you let me finish? They are stuck here. So now we have to find a way to get them back." Travis and Becca looked back and forth from Radek to Rodney. "Okay…" Travis waved again. "Travis McKay, Physics and Technology Expert."
"And Destroyer of Labs…"
"Ahem?"
"Oh! I'm Rebecca Zelenka, but I don't think we have met before, Dad."
Radek nearly fainted.
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Kimberly and Teyla were silent on the way to the infirmary. Carson was elsewhere, probably grabbing lunch, seeing as it was high noon. So they just came in, finding their bags. "Okay…so their's mine, Becca's, Cash's, Jaq's…" She counted, as she and Teyla picked them up, "Travis's. Where's-"
"This one? Mattemao." Teyla read off the Athosian writing at the base of it. Kim nodded. "Yes. That's it. You can always tell Matt's bag from the others, it's more handmade. He likes to make stuff like that." She said. Teyla looked down at Kim's bag, which had a similar-but-more-feminine look to it. Kim's had Athosian writing on it as well. The red-head noticed her reading. "He made this for my birthday. It's supposed to be my name." Teyla shook her head, as they began to walk out, Kimberly in the lead. "No it does not say that. It says Red Bird." Kim stopped blushing. "Yes…that's what he calls me." And kept walking.
"Why?" Teyla asked, after a few moments of silence. Kim shifted the weight of a few bags before answering. "Well, birds like to sing. I sing quite a bit, when we do musical bits here on Atlantis, off world to entertain the Athosian children, in the shower…oh, I just said that aloud didn't I?" The two women laughed, walking down a corridor. "And, my hair is 'Sun Silk' a fiery red. I take after my mother." Teyla nodded in understanding. "You seem to be quite close to Mattemao." Kim nodded, smiling. "Yeah, we are. Everyone says that we go together perfectly. I mean, Matt's great; He's kind, funny, and has many different skills. Your lucky to have him. I mean, later on." Teyla nodded. "Thank you."
End o Chapter 4! Yay! Thank's again for all your reviews. Things might get a little slower now that school had started again, but I'll try! And I made it longer! Woopie!
