Title: Eternal
Author: Cindy Ryan
Notes: See part one

"So who are they?"Teyla asked quietly as she leaned against the wall.

Elizabeth handed Dean's file to John as she said. "Dean and Sam Winchester. Brothers from Lawerence, Kansas. Drifters from what SGC has been able to pull together."

John frowned. "How did two drifters get a hold of Ancient technology?"

"Good question."Elizabeth replied as she sat down. "At least we know they're human from Beckett's physical."

"Which gets us nowhere."Rodney asked from his spot next to Teyla. "We got the water drained in that section and my team is working on getting the shield back up but its slow going."

John was done reading the first page of Dean's file and handed it to Ronon as he continued to read. "If the stuff in here is accurate we can't let these guys know where they are."

Elizabeth nodded. "Which leads us to the main problem. How do we find out where they got this technology without letting them know that aliens and intergalactic space travel exist?"

"Why not let them know?"Ronon asked as he finished reading what John had handed him. "If they're killers and we send them back home who's going to believe that they were on another planet?"

"He has a point."Rodney acknowledged. "For once."

Elizabeth nodded. "SGC wants us to find out how they got here sooner rather than later so it doesn't fall into the wrong hands. Maybe Ronon's right….maybe we should try the fly to honey routine."

"All these guys have is each other."John commented as he looked up from the file. "They're not going to roll over on the other."

Elizabeth nodded. "Okay, here's what we'll do. Rodney check in with your team see how the repair work is going. Then take Teyla and go down there and see what your scans can pick up that maybe internal sensors didn't. John,Ronon, I want you two to be in charge of our guests. Play good cop,bad cop. Whatever you need to do to find out how they got here. John, when they're not with you keep a security team on them. At least until we clear up things in that file. Let's go."


Normally John Sheppard detested being left with babysitting duty. Not what he joined the military for. But as he walked toward the conference room John couldn't help but feel that this was going to be an interesting one.

After entering the room John picked up the chair and spun it around so he could sit on it and lean on the back. He looked at the two Winchester brothers he just couldn't peg them as cold hard killers like their records said. But then he'd been wrong before.

"Okay,let's start this again. I'm Lieutenant Colonel John Sheppard, United States Air Force. This is Ronon Dex,member of my team. I now know you two are Dean and Sam Winchester born in Lawerence,Kansas."

Dean stood having had enough of his time wasted. He was after all on a clock."Good. Now that we know who each other is, can we go now?"

John shook his head as he leaned forward on the chair. "First you have to tell us how you got here."

Sam threw his hands up in exasperation. "We don't know where here is. All I know is that we dug this thing out of the wall of a cave. Everything went blue and we ended up here with a killer headache."

Dean caught the look on Sheppard's face at Sam's explanation. He'd been around the unusual and the unknown long enough to know when something was off. And something was definitely off here and Sheppard knew it.

Dean leaned his hands on the surface on the table as he looked straight at Sheppard. "We're not in Maine any more are we?"

"No."Dex replied quietly.

Sam came to stand next to his brother. "Look, I know you've pulled our police files by now. And I know they look bad…….but I can assure you we aren't killers."

John met Sam's gaze. "Maybe, but a lot of people seem to die around you two. But that's the lesser of two evils right now. What exactly was this thing you pulled out of the wall?"

Sam shook his head. "I don't know we never got it all the way out. It was square with these weird symbols."

John pulled out his keycard and flipped it over. He set it on the table facing Sam. Just above the normal black strip was a row of Ancient lettering.

"Like these?"

Sam studied it for a minute before nodding."Yeah."

John sighed as he picked up the keycard. He remembered how confused he was when the whole Ancient gene thing and Gate travel was explained to him.

"Okay."John began as he stood. "This is going to be a lot for you to take in but it is the truth. You're on a planet called Lantea."

Dean's head snapped up. "Did you say planet?"

"It's in the Pegasus galaxy."

Sam's mind was spinning. It just couldn't be true. But then demons,ghosts,vampires,gates of hell why not space travel?

"Wait."Sam said as he struggled to wrap his mind around what Sheppard was saying."Just wait. Are you seriously telling us that by touching that metal box we got zapped to another galaxy that the air force just happened to have a base on?"

"That basically puts it in a nutshell."