BANG, BANG, BANG.
"Rea, Rea let me in! Wanna see daddy!" came the voice of a small child
" Okay I'll let you in. just stop trying to bust open the infirmary and keep it down my patients are sleeping."
"I am not sleeping." The wraith said that as he looked at the child, she had Shepard's dark brown unruly hair but her skin was more tanned than his was. Then she spoke to him
"You saved my daddy. Didn't you?"
"Yes, I did years before you were born though. How do you know?" he asked. Then the little girl walked up and hugged him. He was taken aback by the child hugging a wraith.
"I'm Andy."
"She has her father's memories, Shepard has the ancient genetic marker so he passed on all of his memories at the time of her conception. It is a rather rare thing to happen among humans because so very few have the ancient gene but we have many of the people in possession of the gene here in Atlantis. Take Shepard for example any child of his would have a 95 chance of memory passage from him." Rea stated to the wraith then for no reason what so ever she continued. " The chance of memory passage for many of the gene possessors is only about 40 and for those who have the gene artificially it's about a 2 chance. For me however if I ever have any children the chance of them having my memories would be about 90 because of my amount of the gene."
"Daddy wake up" Andy said as she jumped onto Shepard's lap
"Oof."
"Mommy's gonna make you sleep on the couch if you don't get out of the 'fermery soon"
"You can be out of here today colonel your physical is all fine" then Rea looked over to the wraith " yours was fine too if your wondering"
"Rea you did a physical on me without my knowing?!" Shepard fussed.
"No sir it was not a complete physical. I only did your blood work. The whole base gets complete physicals next week, there is no offworld travel and there will be gate diagnostics being run. But thankfully I shall not be the doctor doing said physicals." Rea stated while rapidly typing on her laptop.
"Ah shit."
"What is wrong?" the wraith asked Rea
"Oh nothing except my big brother managed to talk General O'neill into being aloud to come to Atlantis to visit me. Oh great this was sent before the Dedalaes left earth. See this is what happens when I am on call 24/7, I don't get to check my mail for three weeks. And great he expects me to have a boy friend by now. This is just fucking great the Dedalaes is going to be here tomorrow."
"Brother you really shouldn't of asked her what's wrong." Shepard whispered.
"Hey Shepard at least he is considerate enough to ask." Rea said to Shepard.
"Yea considerate and stupid." Shepard said looking at his brother
"Well I think its sweet a man is nice enough to ask a woman what's wrong when she's upset." Rea said sticking her tongue out at Shepard.
"Well as you two are feeling better I think me and Andy will go get some breakfast" she said as she threw a tee shirt and a pair of BDU s at Shepard and threw the wraith his trench coat and shirt. "come on Andy lets go get breakfast." "Okay"
: off world activation :
Andy's face lit up "Mona's here! Mona's here! Rea lets go see Mona! Then we all go eat."
"Colonel you two get dressed and meet us in the gate room, I have a feeling that we may have a full party later. Also both of you are going to help me put up the decorations, and I have reserved the gym for the next week for all the little kids that are going to be here. Lets see there is Andy, Mona, the group of little kids that follow Mona, and those two kids that showed up with Atlantis 20. Well I will let you two get dress and I might give you a tour later" she said pointing to the wraith slightly blushing.
"You know brother I really think she likes you." Shepard said smirking.
"Why do you say this." The wraith questioned
"Well she doesn't try to kick your ass or start a fight or insult you every time she sees you. In fact I've noticed that she blushes a lot around you. She even smiles more. This is the most I've seen her smile sense before she was captured by the geni. She is a woman with a will a strong as steel but that event scared her so bad, they knocked out that entire team and both of the women that were with them got scars across their side. Rea was gone when the rest of the team woke up. The Geni brought her back to them unconscious. On both girls doctor Beckett said that the incision was right over their ovaries but there didn't seem to be any damage. We still don't know what they did."
" The Geni are a people who care little for the ones they experiment with." The wraith said getting angered just thinking about the Geni. He remembered his time in their hands, the nightmare that always haunted his dreams.
7
The girl that would take care of him would come every day and tend to his wounds from their experiments. One day while she tended to him he leaned forward and kissed her cheek, "thank you" her face seemed shocked and she got up and left the cell. An hour later the guards pulled him out of the cell, they stripped him of his clothes and hung him from his wrists. Koya walled into the cell and began to speak "so you like one of our women do you. Well maybe you should just reconsider that" one of his men pressed a knife against the wraith's nethers. Fear shot through him. Koya laughed at his fear. "Hmm maybe we will leave him capable of breeding, for now we may need him." They let him fall then they threw his clothes at him and left him.
"Brother hurry up and get dressed Rea had said that she was gonna give you a tour but first we have to go to the gate room." Shepard said.
"Very well." The wraith said putting his shirt, trench coat and boots on in a quick movement he wanted to speak with Rea.