an hour later everyone was wide awake and nobody was baby-sitting Shepard, which makes the perfect escape route.
Shepard climbed out of bed and tried to inch toward the door
"What is it that you are trying to attempt" Shepard's wraith brother asked
"I'm trying to get the hell out of dodge, before the only doctor in the city that probably has a stunner hide in her breasts; comes back. Suddenly the very second that Shepard said that Dr. Rea Maveriks walked in the room.
"Colonel, when are you going to learn that we are not stupid enough to leave you alone without at least a camera watching you. And what I have and where it is, is something that you don't and won't know" by this time the wraith couldn't help but smile. For the first time since his team brought his brother through the gate he noticed how different he looked from the last time he saw him. His skin instead of the molted green that it was then it was a very pale greenish color, and his hair, which had been a dirty gray mess then, was now silky silver.
Then Shepard noticed that he wasn't the only one who had been looking at the wraith, Rea's eyes had been on the wraith since she walked in the room.
"Hey doc, you going all googly-eyed" Shepard asked then Rea spun around and backhanded him. Then she walked out of the room turning extremely bright red.
"Ha, I knew it!" Shepard laughed rubbing his face.
The wraith was still clueless to what had just happened, he was still being disturbed and enjoying the idea that the female doctor had a stunner hide.
He didn't understand why he enjoyed this imaging, it was so very unnatural, which is why he found it so disturbing. But ever since he got to this place he couldn't help but think about her.
Just a few seconds later another female rushed into the room shouting
"Rea, Rea guess what I gota wave from my sis, she says her and her family are comin to the party this weekend…. OOPS, sorry colonel, uh where's Rea?"
"You just missed her Major." Shepard said
"Oh, Okay. When you see her tell her that my sister's response to her question about what it is like being with a wraith is that they are good at every thing and getting to sleep isn't always easy. Oh and her one request for their time here is that her and Michael get to share a room to themselves.
"Okay you can go now major."
"Her sister is with a wraith and you are not bothered by it?" Shepard's brother said thinking that it might be possible to have a relationship with Rea.
"Yeah they have been together a while their daughter is seven now. And I'm not bothered by it any more but when we first found out about it, we were all a bit upset, Leena more so than any of us she was furious with Michael. That's what we call Keira's wraith…hmm I'm not sure whether to call him her mate or her husband. The only one who might actually know what his real name might be would be Keira. But anyway it seems like they are coming to the celebration this weekend. There are going to be some serious hangovers after this with the stuff that Keira has."
Then Shepard heard something, but his wraith brother was still lost in thought about a relationship that he might be able to have. Then Shepard just shouted for no apparent reason.
"Officer on deck!"
The very second that Shepard yelled five youths appeared standing in a straight line with their arms behind their backs and looking straightforward. There were two males and three females. One of the females was a wraith, who had the distinct aura of control but had obeyed Shepard's command with her companions. It seemed that Shepard was her superior. Despite her wraithness the only odd thing about her was the fact that her hair was in light purple dreadlocks.
Shepard spoke again "major what's with the hair, hey and you've gotten taller since the last time I saw you."
The female spoke but her voice didn't sound like a multi-toneal wraith voice it sounded like a human female.
"The deal with my hair sir is that I fell asleep and a certain blue-tailed friend of mine decided to play a joke on me. And as for the getting taller sir last time you saw me I was sixteen and about 5'4" and I am now eighteen and 6'7".
"Wow that's one heck of a growth spurt major" Shepard whistled
"Yes sir, it is." the purple haired female said
"Why do you call females major?" Shepard's brother asked
"Hmm, oh that's not what we call them that's their rank, their military status in the city."
"So what merits this visit, you only come here when something bad is happening."
"No we don't, this particular visit is for two reasons and that makes it only half bad. One reason is that there is going to be a party, and parties mean drinks and we listen across time and space for any mention of free liquor. The other reason is that we are here is that something is going wrong with the retrovirus I take it is building up or something and that's really not good. Waking up on a hive ship in your boyfriend's room as a human is really not a good thing."
"Woe, woe, woe, hold it you and Shal'tak are sleeping together! Well now we know .Oh your dad is gonna freek when he hears about this!" the blue skinned female said.
Then Shepard spoke "since when do you have a boyfriend, and why are you with a wraith and…."
"Okay enough questions about my personal life and you…" the wraithly female said looking strait at the blue skinned one. "Had better not tell my da' about Shal'tak and me or you are in for a world of hurt.
"And colonel the reason I'm with a wraith is because I like him and this should be obvious by now, I am half wraith."
These bits information made Shepard's wraithen brother think more and more about his feelings for Rea. There are already two hybrids in existence, so it would be possible for us to be together. But how would I ever know if she feels the same.
His thoughts were soon interrupted by the half- breed female speaking to him in the wraith tongue.
/you must know that I am not of this time, and therefore should not be taken into account to justify the actions that you wish to take. /
Just then Rea came back into the room and the second that she opened her mouth the five powerful youths cowered from her wrath.
"Atlantis 20 you all had better have very good reasons for being here and disturbing my patients because if you don't your hides are skinned."
This made all but the half-blood hide from her. The half-blood just walked up to her and pulled her jacket off of her feeding arm and showed the Rea her arm it looked like a normal wraith arm, pale and sharp clawed, feeding slit and all. But then her arm changed into a slightly tanned human arm.
"You come with me."
As they were leaving Rea stopped and told the youths to watch Shepard.
"You here that if he tries to get out of dodge, shoot him and bring them back. Stun only." the half-blood told her team.
After both females left all four of the youths pulled out their weapons and switched them to stun. Then Shepard spoke.
"What was all that about Boomer I've seen you stare down an entire wraith hunting party without batting an eye and your scared of her!?" Shepard laughed disbelieving what he had seen.
"Colonel your married, I have a girlfriend that should be enough to know not to make a mad woman madder. And besides I know her daughter and she's got a mind slicker than a greased cat when she wants payback."
"Boomer I've got to know were did you learn all of your sayings if your not hum... wait hold up Rea has a kid!?" Shepard said extremely surprised
"Actually she has two" Boomer said
Meanwhile Shepard's brother was feeling left out of the conversation. The only information that he was grasping was that Rea had two children in the future.
"Woe, back up if she has kids who is their dad?" Shepard asked knowing that he probably wouldn't get a straight answer.
Then the blue-skinned female spoke "colonel you know full well that we can't tell you anything about the future, just like the first time we went back in time because the stargate malfunctioned we had mentioned your daughter. How is Andy by the way?"
"She's fine. But can you tell me one thing; will the IOA ever lift the military fraternization regs off of Atlantis? It gets so annoying how many people in Atlantis that cant have relationships because of the regulations Shepard asked.
"Oh that I can tell you sir the IOA will release Atlantis and the SGC from reg. in about three months due to the fact of they got fed up with trying. But the only reason I can tell you that is because it is closer to your time line, but you still can't announce that over the city's PA." she said
Shepard's brother spoke shortly after Shepard had mentioned his daughter "you have a daughter, Shepard?
"Yea she's two years old now, she looks just like her mom her name is Andy, short for Andrea Calen Shepard."
"I have only met my daughter once and she was a product of geni science. When I met her she was barely a year old and the geni were trying to train her into a weapon to destroy wraith but she was no murderer, she was just a child and they hurt her, I don't even know if she is alive now. She had no name nor any time to be blessed with one."
"Wow, that had to be pretty harsh
Then Rea and the half-blood walked back in to the room and she threw her bag into a corner, everything seemed to be okay. Then there everyone heard a whispering sound, the blue-skinned one turned to her superior.
"Boss I think we have some stow-aways." As she said this she jerked her thumb to the bag that her superior had dropped in the corner.
Then the half-blood walked over to her bag and opened it the second that she did she slapped her forehead in frustration.
"Okay you two get out of my bag, now. Mirage, Talc'na you know you aren't supposed to follow any of us without an invitation get out of my bag."
After saying that, two children climbed out of the bag. It seemed almost completely impossible for the two of them to fit in the bag but they did and the second that they were out of the bag there was an ear-piercing screech. It was let loose by the humanoid female. Instantly the half-blood covered her mouth to stop her scream.
She silenced and quietly stood beside the other child. Despite her human appearance she seemed distinctly wraith, with her strait chin length blood red hair and bright green eyes, not to mention how pale her skin was. For a human she would appear sickly. The other child was a small male wraith was completely in shock of what just happened.
"What was that?!" Shepard yelled
"That sir was a siren defensive mechanism, sirens are born with near human vocal cords with one exception there are extra smaller cords mixed in with the normal ones. Nobody would be able to find them if they didn't know what to look for. Once sirens reach maturity their vocal cords split into other specialized cords namely the ones that influence their mating and hunts"
The female hid behind her wraithling friend and began ranting and was showing no sign of speaking in common any time soon.
/Talc'na there are humans here. Zorra why did you come here/
Her superior seemed to see this.
Mirage we didn't spend two weeks teaching you common just so you rant and freak out in siren the first time you meet a human. Now speak in common or I will personally ground the both of you on this little outing.
"Aaaaaaaah…"
"No complaining or I will have the both of you cleaning the armory till your five hundred years old" the hybrid fussed
"Come on kid don't you think that is a bit harsh …hey wait a second five hundred, your saying that you sirens can live that long?" Shepard asked.
"Hell yea sir, we sirens can live a very long time, we can live for thousands of years even tens of thousands" said the smallest female.
" Okay now Boomer, spike take these two to my quarters"