I am so sorry to every one that has been waiting for the new ch but shool has been a nightmare.

CHAPTER 8: CALLED, LOST, FOUND, AND DISCOVERED

"Colonel Shepard, we have incoming wormhole."

"Is there a IDC?"

"Yes sir. Its Laden Radeem

"Colonel Shepard how nice to see you again."

"What do you want Laden?"

"I will need to speak to you here as well as your Dr. Maveriks and the wraith that you rescued two weeks ago."

"How could you know about that"

"We have our ways, now you will gather them and what ever team you wish to join you"

As he awoke the next morning he found that Rea was already awake and dressed. She was standing out on the balcony looking out at the sun rising over the vast ocean.

"Oh hey they're sleepy head."

"Hello, why are you awake so early?"

"I guess your not use to sun rises. But I am up this early because normally I would have to report to work now but I have today off if all goes according to the plans. But that barely ever happens." The second she finished speaking her radio crackled to life.

"Speak of the devil."

"Dr. Maveriks, how long will it take you to be field ready?"

"Two minutes colonel."

"Good, go get our wraith friend, Kid and, Spike."

"Understood"

Rea walked to her closet removing a silver case from it, she then placed the case on her bed. She opened the case reviling a barrage of weapons. Rea began to remove the weapons from their places and armed herself with all manners of knives and several guns.

Diutinus was amazed at how many weapons were visible but even more at the ones that weren't. He watched her slip four into each of her boots, one very large one down the back of her shirt, and two concealed in her waistband.

"Here your gonna need these." She said handing him a stunner and a knife.

"Why are you so heavily armed?"

"Because there are only two places that the colonel would tell me to be field ready for, the Geni or the wraith. Since a wraith alliance isn't on the agenda its gota be the Geni."

Seconds later she was beating on one of the doors.

"Kid, get your ass up."

The door opened reviling a very sleepy hybrid with one look down at Rea she snapped awake.

"Kid get field ready and go wake up Spike."

Minutes later they were all in the gate room, Diutinus, Shepard, Rea, Kid, Spike, Ronan, and Dr. Keller

Dr. Keller was starting to worry about why she was there as well as what was going to happen.

"Jen just chill, your gonna be fine now I know you don't believe in harming anybody but we might need to." Then unstrapping the knife that was on her hip she gave it to Dr. Keller.

"If somebody tries to kill you, you got to make that as hard as you can. I'm not saying that you have to kill but you need to be able to get away if necessary so use this but only if you need to."

"Dial it up." Shepard said to the technician who did as he was told.

As they reached the other side Laden Radeem greeted them and told them to follow him.

"Why should we?" Rea said being snide.

"Ah is that the lovely Dr. Maveriks? Still as sarcastic as ever it seems. But I believe that it would be you most of all that would want to see what it is I have to show you. As it has every thing to do with you."

Laden could see that his riddles were getting to her and so could all of the others but Rea didn't care one bit she was feeling the distinct urge to throttle him and flay the life from his bones.

"Cut the riddle crap, what the hell are you talking about? Rea said angrily.

"Follow me and you will see."

Laden led them to an entrance to a Geni bunker. Lifting the hatch he climbed down.

Once they were down the walk seemed to be even longer that the first. The hybrid that they had called Kid seemed to have a very short attention span as she was now throwing a green orb at the floor as she walked and catching it as it bounced back.

"So Laden why did you want to see us." Shepard asked casually

Laden handed a folder of papers to Rea, who quickly read.

"Take me to them." She ordered

"As you wish, but I must warn you, you may not like what they are."

" I don't care what they are I am more angry at the Geni than anything, it has taken 7 years for your people to admit what they had done."

Yet again Diutinus saw a person cowering from her wrath this time however it was obvious that the person deserved it.

Laden led them to a door which he then opened for them

When Rea entered the room she saw immediately what they had come for.

"Papa! Papa!" A grinning wraith child that ran up to Diutinus she looked up into his face and saw him smile.

"My little one" he said as he kneeled down to her hugging her. Then he turned to Rea,

"This is my daughter."

"And mine too" Rea said smiling at him now showing the file that Laden had given her earlier.

The file had in it a picture of Rea, as well as pictures of Diutinus and the little girl. there was also a picture of a little boy with white hair. The same little boy happened to be on the top bunk of the bed at the corner of the room. Rea looked over to him, he had the same look that his father had when he didn't know what to say.

He could see how the black haired woman could be their mother, his sister did favor her some, but he still couldn't stand the wraith. He hated it, the wraith were evil the general had said so. But his sister had always said that they were just people too. He wasn't sure about what to do, he had never had a family to care for him and here there was one. In his short life he had learned that good things don't come without a price. As he went over to the woman he looked up at her still cursing his smallness as he only came up to a little past her hip, she smiled at him. He was a little taken aback because no one was ever happy around him much less smiling at him, except for his sister but she didn't count because she was always happy.

Rea couldn't understand her son even though she had just met him she could tell that he was not sure of the situation. So she decided to try to talk to him.

"So what's your name." Rea asked him in the same way that she would talk to any of the adults that were with her except maybe Kid, there she would have to tease a little bit.

"Name?" Then it dawned on him, he unbuttoned the wrist guard that was on his small arm and looked at his wrist.

"3-6-5-9-3-6"

"That isn't much of a name, what do people call you?

"Um... People call me Boy or 6"

"And what do they call your sister?"

"Girl and 5"

"Those aren't truly names those are more like descriptions."

"What is a name?"

"Well a name is more like how you say who you are like my name is Reanna Loran Maveriks, but people call me Rea, and Maveriks is my family name."

"What is my family name?" the boy asked beginning to like his mother.

"Well yours would be hmm..." then turning to Diutinus "Do wraith have family names"

"No, wraith identify themselves with their hive queen."

"Well then I guess you would have the same family name as me."

"What about me?" The little girl asked.

"You would be the same."

"Do I get a name people call me too?" she asked enthusiastically

"You two are very curious critters aren't you how about we go home and I can answer all the questions you two have." then turning again to Diutinus "And don't think your not gonna help me answer them."

Everybody that was in the group behind Rea started snickering. Then Kid looked over at the little girl hearing her stomach rumble, Kid grinned as she pulled a small yellow lemon shaped fruit out of her pocket.

"You hungry Little Bit" she asked and the girl nodded. Kid peeled off the skin of the fruit revealing a teal colored center.

As she ate the fruit Shepard was staring at her,

"I thought that people weren't able to eat a whole one of those."

"I didn't say that sir, I had said that humans couldn't, the keeshiwa fruit fills a human stomach like it was the size of a pea. But she is a hybrid so she has to have even more carbs and nutrients than a normal human kid."

"Okay if we're all done chatting we can go home. If I must remind you colonel I have not had coffee or breakfast."

"Yep we're movin' on"

"I'm sorry colonel but I can't allow that. You have several members of your team that our scientists would love to study, but for now take them to a cell" Laden ordered a group of soldiers that had appeared behind them out of no where.

"Oh wait I almost forgot." He then pulled out a gun and shot Kid. Then he pulled a stunner out shooting Spike until he fell out "now the rest of you will go along quietly." Kid was lying on the ground jerking in pain and Spike was lying on the ground motionless.

"You idiot! You shot her with silver! She could die" Rea screamed at him.

"Then it is in your favor to listen to what we say."

One guard picked up Kid but it took three of them to lift Spike's massive form up enough to drag him to the cell. The others followed being pointed around at gunpoint.

Minutes later they were in one of the all too familiar Geni holding cells. One of the guards dropped Kid onto the floor, her six and a half-foot frame was curled into the fetal position and she was badly sweating.

"We got to think of something quick, because Kid is on a time limit." Rea said leaning over Kid as was Dr. Keller.

"Well what are we going to do. You know that the Geni are not going to let us go without a fight, I mean they took out both of the people that could have busted these bars." Shepard said beginning to go down the list of things that went wrong that could have helped them escape.

"Hold it colonel, that's an idea."

"Mommy what are you gonna do?" her daughter asked looking at her mother's battle ready eyes.

"Well there's an old saying 'know thine enemy' and that applies in this case. The Geni are arrogant and self-centered and can't resist the temptation of a gamble."

The little girl didn't understand a lot of the big words that her mommy used but it seemed like her mommy was looking for a fight. It turned out she was right because a few seconds later a group of soldiers came by the cell and her mother called to the biggest one there was

"Hey you! I got a proposition for you, you fight one of us hand to hand, you win we stay put and do what ever you guys say, but if we win you let all of us go."

None of the rest of the group was sure if Rea had lost her mind or if she really had a plan but things didn't look good.

"Okay then, I choose you" the soldier said pointing to Rea, who just by appearance looked to be the weakest short of the two children and Dr. Keller. But as the children were each being held by a strong looking adult (Shepard and Diutinus) and Dr. Keller was exceptionally close to Ronan he chose the one that looked like they would be the easiest to fight.

The soldier opened the cell door and let Rea walk out then closed it immediately.

"So you said hand to hand right, that means no fancy weapons that I know you have on you so we throw our weapons into a pile." He spoke to Rea like she was a small child but she ignored it, a devil-like grin spread across her face.

The soldier took off his jacket and his firearm, then he turned to Rea only to see that she was removing a pistol from under of her shirt as well as a large knife from under the back of her shirt, then two knives from her waist band.

The soldier was the one who threw the first punch but Rea just stepped to the side avoiding it all together. Each time he threw a punch Rea just stepped out of the way.

"Stop dancing and fight me." He yelled

"If you say so." Rea answered calmly as she dodged another one of his punches this time elbowing him at the base of his scull when he fell forward. The force of the impact made him fall to his knees.

The soldier grabbed her ankle pulling her off her feet she rolled to the side to avoid another one of his punches this time it just narrowly missed her shoulder

"I better be a little more careful it he actually lands a punch he could snap my bones."

She got him to fall again but as he was getting up he grabbed her breast; her smile faded and her eyes grew serious, that's when he realized he had never had a prayer because she had been toying with him.

Rea began to throw as many punches as she had dodged but he got in one punch that caught her off guard landing it right on her collar bone. Every one in the room could hear the sound of her bone breaking. Even with the searing pain of her snapped bone she decided to end the fight; she spun behind him and rammed her knee into a nerve cluster in his lower back.

The soldier went rigid as a board and fell, his fall knocked him unconscious almost instantly.

One of the dumbstruck soldiers that had been told to hold the keys went and unlocked the cell. Once the cell was open Shepard began to freak out.

"Doc how the hell did you do that? Your background information doesn't say any thing about you having defense training at all and you broke a bone and you still won."

"Colonel you can wait till we get home, right now I have patients." Dr. Keller said and it wasn't a question.

"Ronan you and him need to try and lift Spike" Keller said pointing to Diutinus.

Ronan took one look at Diutinus and scowled; it was a common fact that he hated wraith but spike weighed a ton (almost literally) and they had to move him so Ronan grabbed his arm trying to be careful of his wrist spikes and put it around his shoulder. Diutinus followed in suit, he grabbed Spike's other arm and put it around his own shoulder. Diutinus couldn't believe how heavy the boy was, yes he was tall (7' 9") and built but there was no conceivable reason for him to be this heavy, he would have to remember to ask Rea.

"Colonel you grab Kid and carry her."

"Rea I'll help you."

"Jen, I have a broken bone, I'm not incapacitated."

"Rea have you ever heard the phrase doctors make the worst patients, cause I really think that its true". Jen said

Rea tried to shrug her shoulders but her fractured collarbone didn't allow it.

"Okay lets get going before Dr. weir sends a rescue team for us."

It took the group an hour to return through the stargate to Atlantis. The second they were in Atlantis however the medical staff was called to take care of the various injuries and to look over the two children.

"Ya know luv it is truly amazing ya didn't get killed by that punch, but ya'll be happy to know that ya'll be just fine now." Dr. Beckett said speaking to Rea.

"Yeah lovely, except that I have a broken collar bone. But any way Carson, how are the kids?"

" They were both extremely malnourished but with a good diet and you looking after them now I think they will be alight."

"Malnourished? How come I didn't notice anything?"

"Probably because there were almost no external physical symptoms but the internal ones were undeniable. If I had to guess, I'd say that the wee ones haven't eaten in two weeks."

"oh my god. Why, how could any one do that to a child?"

"the Geni could."

Rea turned to see that Ronan, Shepard, and Diutinus had just come into the room. Diutinus looked at her arm in a sling before moving his gaze back to her face.

"Dr. weir said that she will give me a joined double room so I can watch after them." Rea said to everybody. "Are they allowed to leave the infirmary yet Dr. Beckett?"

"I believe so as long as they eat several good meals."

Then Shepard spoke "doc this is a military base, good and meal don't go in the same sentence."

" If you say so colonel." Then turning to Rea and Diutinus " you two may go see them now."