Date : 21.09.2009
Title : The Fate Series : Part 1 - A Touch of Fate
Author : ElaineDex
Chapter : 10 of ?
Rating : M
Pairings : Lt. Colonel John Sheppard/OC
Major Evan Lorne/OC
Warnings : Some Sexual Content, Romance, Angst, Maybe Some Strong Language.
Feedback : Yes please, always welcome whatever it may be.
Disclaimer : Dr. Ellie Lorne, and any O/C's are mine. Lyssa Hunter belongs to Kazavid and is from her Atlantis stories Behind The Mask and Reunions. Lexi Roberts was created by Soccer-Bitch. Stargate Atlantis, unfortunately, has nothing to do with me.
Summary : AU : Lorne is gone for good this time and Ellie must move on with her life. There'll be no second chances this time, no way around them being parted…or is there…and is that what Ellie and Lorne for that matter, really wants?
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A/N : My O/C's are in this story quite predominantly at one point and I do apologise for that, but I felt it necessary for the series to work. Hopefully though, you'll like them enough to continue to read on and enjoy what they're getting up to! There are of course all the old favourites in here and a newbie or two…oh and remember…forget the Ellie and Lorne's of the past, this is another AU
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Lorne moved forward, the foliage rustling as he did so and at the sound of that, Ellie stood and turned, her blue eyes widening as they drank in the sight of him.
They stared at one another for the longest moment before Ellie's eyes rolled backwards and she passed out.
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"Crap," Lorne muttered as the woman who looked like Ellie passed out before him.
He glanced around the forest before moving to her side and checking her pulse. He was relieved to feel that it was still strong so she had obviously just fainted.
He put his P-90 on the ground at his side as he observed her.
'But why had she fainted?' he asked himself, 'and who the hell was she and why did she look so much like his ex wife… his dead ex wife?' he hastened to remind himself.
He looked at the silver case she had with her and clicked it open. It and the contents were all SGA standard equipment and his frown deepened.
He shook his head as he considered parallel universes. His luck could not be that bad surely.
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Major Statham glanced at his watch and then over his shoulder, frowning when he saw no sign of Ellie back in the distance where he, Lyssa and Lt. Franks had left her collecting soil samples.
He pressed his ear piece, causing Lyssa and Franks to look at him as he said,
"Ellie, how's it going? You ready to catch us up yet?"
When there was no response he felt his heart thump a little harder in his chest and he exchanged a glance with Lyssa as she began to pull the life sign detector out of her tac vest pocket.
"Ellie respond please," he tried again.
Still nothing.
"I got two life signs back that way, a little into the trees from the looks of things," Lyssa told him, cursing lightly and he nodded stiffly and readied his P-90 as they began to jog back toward the area they had last seen Ellie.
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Lorne removed Ellie's ear piece when he heard it buzz and he listened to the man's voice at the other end with interest. It was definitely not his voice and it didn't sound like Sheppard or Ronon…in fact it didn't sound like anyone he recognised.
'So maybe you're not on a parallel world after all,' he reasoned. 'So how do you explain her?' he asked himself, glancing down at 'Ellie' again.
He couldn't. She was the spit of his ex wife, even down to what she carried in her samples case, but he knew it wasn't 'his' Ellie, she would never wear a dress like this one was for going off world and besides, she had died on his Atlantis, with Lyssa…
A wave of pain washed over him just as Ellie began to stir.
He watched as she put a hand to her forehead and moaned softly.
"Hey, you alright? You passed out…" he said, dropping onto one knee as her eyes flew open and she stared at him.
She sat up slowly, her face going paler than before if that was at all possible.
"Evan…?" she whispered, then glanced around. "Am I dead? Did the wraith get me?" she asked and Lorne regarded her curiously.
He shook his head. "There are no wraith here…" he began, but trailed off as he saw remembrance register on her face and the wealth of emotions that crossed her features before her eyes met his again had him wondering what the hell had gone on in her life.
Before he could ask though, she moved onto her knees and threw her arms around his neck.
"If I'm dreaming then I don't want this to end," she murmured against his ear and Lorne's brow creased as he tried to turn his head to look at her, but he couldn't because she held him so tightly.
"You feel so good and I missed you so much…"
Lorne was confused.
He let her continue to strangle him for a moment or so longer before gently patting her back and then, grasping her arms, he removed them from around his neck.
"Um…ma'am…I'm sorry, but…" he was cut off as Statham said,
"Don't move!" and both Lorne and Ellie looked around to see the Major, Lyssa and Franks all stood with their P-90's pointed at them…well, at Lorne at least.
Ellie stood, her legs feeling shaky and Lorne also stood, his eyes assessing first the two soldiers who were wearing SGA uniforms and then Lyssa.
"Lyssa," he said her name in a similar tone to how Ellie had whispered his, but that thought didn't register with him as she frowned at him.
"Who are you?" Statham asked.
His heart had almost stopped beating in his chest as he and the others had broken through the trees to find Ellie in this stranger's arms.
Lorne's eyes met Statham's as he heard Lyssa say,
"It's Lorne…"
Ellie wanted to speak but found she couldn't. Her brain suddenly lost the fog that had descended upon it and she looked at Statham, her heart doing a funny kind of dance as she realised that if he were there, then the man behind her could not possibly be 'her' Evan.
She looked back at him, confusion crossing her pretty face.
It was then that her eyes rolled back in her head again and she fainted right out again.
Lorne managed to catch her before she hit the forest floor, Statham reaching their sides a couple of seconds later.
Lorne laid her onto the ground and moved back as Statham felt for her pulse.
"She did that earlier too…when I first saw her. Is she alright…does she have some kind of problem?" he asked, knowing that his Ellie had had a mild heart condition. He went to reach for his own gun that was on the floor nearby, but Lyssa stopped him.
"That's fine where it is…for now," she told him and he looked up at her, the look in his blue eyes making her frown again before she replied,
"Ellie passed out because she saw you…you're her 'problem'. Where have you come from?"
Lorne regarded her for a moment, wondering what she meant and also noting that she didn't look overly pleased to see him.
Statham turned away from Ellie and said,
"We're waiting…"
Anger flashed through Lorne as he looked back at Statham.
"How about you guys tell me who the hell you are huh? You are just as…alarming shall we say, to me as I obviously am to you."
"We asked first," Statham pointed out and Lorne sighed and raked a hand through his hair.
"Okay," he began, "well, I'm from Atlantis…obviously," he said, holding his arms out and indicating to his now worse for wear uniform.
When Statham, Lyssa and Franks merely continued to look at him he continued,
"A few weeks ago, our allies the Genii, launched a surprise attack, destroying the city completely..." he took a deep, steadying breath, trying to get the bitterness out of his tone before finishing, "everyone was killed aside from me....somehow. I searched the wreckage that was Atlantis for days trying to find survivors but to no avail. Eventually I took the only working Jumper I could find, along with as much ammo and food as I could lay my hands on and was gating to a planet where we had friends...other allies...but something went wrong and I landed here."
"What do you mean 'something went wrong'?" Lyssa asked and Lorne looked at her.
"I entered the wormhole and everything was proceeding as normal until what seemed like a bolt of lightening hit the Jumper and I was knocked out. When I regained consciousness, I was here...I guess I crash landed. I've been here for a couple of weeks now..."
Statham regarded Lorne carefully, trying to gauge if the man was lying or not.
He glanced at Ellie before standing.
"Franks, keep an eye on the Doc," he said, then to Lorne he said, "Show us this Jumper of yours then."
Lorne nodded, deciding to go with it for now. He watched as Lyssa picked up his P-90, knowing that she had no idea how good it felt for him to see her again and then he began to lead the way back to where he had hidden the jumper.
"You did a good job in concealing it," Statham conceded as they approached the place. He was trying not to think about what the appearance of Major Lorne would do to Ellie...the fainting was a good indication, but what would the after-effects be?
"It took some doing...but I didnt want it to be discovered," Lorne replied, holding back the information about the other ammo that he had hidden in a different part of the forest...after all, these people might be from Atlantis, but it wasn't 'his' Atlantis.
"I thought that one day maybe i'd get it working again...." he added as an afterthought and Lyssa cocked her head to one side as she looked at him.
He was exactly like the Major Lorne that they had lost...only he wasnt theirs and she wondered what his history was. She also wondered what they would do with him. It wasn't their policy to leave him stranded here alone, but would they be able to take him back to Atlantis...and would Ellie want that?
She looked at Statham and found that he looked deep in thought, probably mulling over the same thing in his mind 'What do they do with this Lorne now that they had found him?'
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Ellie opened her eyes and blinked rapidly.
"Welcome back," Lt. Franks said and she looked at him, her brow furrowing.
"Matthew what's going on?" she asked, "Am I losing my mind or was my late husband just here?"
Franks helped her to stand and shook his head.
"It was Major Lorne Doc, but he says he's from another Atlantis, one that's been destroyed by the Genii in a surprise attack...he says he is the only survivor."
Ellie rubbed her eyes.
"Did he mention...me...at all?" she asked and Franks avoided her eyes as he shook his head, he knew it must be painful for her.
"No...he didnt really mention anyone before Major Statham headed off with him to check out the Jumper that he so called crashed here in."
"Right..." Ellie replied. "Should we go find them now i'm awake again?" she asked him, but Franks looked at her dubiously.
"Do you think that's such a good idea?"
Ellie sighed and composed herself. "Sure...what's the worst that can happen?"
Franks nodded and they headed off in the direction that the others had gone.
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Statham looked over the Jumpers' consoles and sighed.
"Looks like you're right...this thing seems fried. I could get Ellie to take a look...maybe she could get it going enough for you to get through the gate and to wherever you were headed before," he said, not really wanting Major Lorne to come back with them to their Atlantis for obvious reasons.
Lorne nodded, but Lyssa shook her head.
"But if he left through the gate now he would need whatever hit him the last time to hit him again, otherwise he'll still be in this universe...not back in his own..."
"That's true," Lorne said, offering her a soft smile which she instantly felt uncomfortouble with in a way she couldnt pin point.
"Right...the whole solar flare thing..." Statham said and Lyssa nodded, thinking Ellie would be proud that they listened to her techo-babble once in a while.
Just then Ellie and Franks joined them at the back of the jumper and Statham moved to Ellie's side.
"Hey, how're you feeling?" he asked, noting that her eyes were already on Lorne.
"I'm alright, thanks..." she said, clearing her throat before venturing, "So what's going on?"
Lyssa stepped forward and said, "This Major Lorne is from a parallel universe...his jumper got hit as he was gating to an address from his Atlantis...we're thinking solar flare."
Ellie nodded as Statham squoze her shoulder.
"You feel up to taking a look at the consoles, see if you can get it up and running again?" he asked, hoping that if she got the Jumper going they could maybe just let Lorne go on his own merry way, even if he was in the wrong universe.
"Sure," Ellie said, "but from the sounds of it, even if I do get the Jumper operational again, it wont matter as if he...you..." she paused, looking at Statham again and then back to Lorne before continuing, "did get hit by a solar flare then we would need to trace and time another one before you could get back to where you came from and even then there are no guarantees that it would work, you could end up being vapourised."
Lorne folded his arms across his chest.
"To be honest...I have nothing to go back to my universe for...Atlantis has been destroyed and I have no way of contacting my SGC even if I did get back to the city. I have no way home, i'm stuck."
As the enormity of his realisation hit him, he sat down heavily on one of the Jumpers' benches, knowing that the others were looking at him.
"What about your Daedalus or Odyssey?" Lyssa suggested, but Lorne frowned at her.
"Also destroyed...we were tricked on a large scale...a 'very' large scale..." he trailed off, shaking his head.
"Jesus," Statham said as he thought about how many lives had been lost.
"You could come back to our Atlantis...with us..." Ellie suggested and Statham and Lyssa looked at her sharply.
"Provided I can get the clearance to take you there that is," Statham said, his tone none-too-pleased, a fact that Lorne picked up on, but Ellie didnt seem to.
"I'm sure it wont be a problem," she said.
"Um, Ellie, can I have a word with you...outside?" Statham said, not waiting for her response before pulling her outside and away from the Jumper.
Fate was playing a cruel trick on them that day.
End of Chapter 10