Chapter 2

"Where am I?" Briana asked Reed warily. No matter what they said, Briana promised herself, these people were Wraith, and Wraith are the enemy.

"You are aboard the Uss Enterprise. We brought you here when Kurak told us that you were human. I want to ask you some questions." Reed told her, pushing a button so that Briana could here him.

"Enterprise doesn't exist. it's a made up ship on the Sci Fi channel. Therefore, you are Wraith and I'm not telling you anything." Briana told Malcolm, arms crossed over her chest and her stance was saying loud and clear, mess with me at your own risk. She had one hell of a day and no smooth talking British man was going to mess with her mind.

"I am not Wraith, I bloody don't even know what that is. And Enterprise exists just as you do." Reed was starting to get very tired of being called something that he clearly wasn't part of that species.

"Prove it. And if you do I will try to explain how I came to be on that outpost." Briana said, sure that Reed couldn't prove her wrong.

Malcolm Reed did what any military man did, he called his superior down to the brig to talk with the prisoner.

When Captain Archer arrived, their guest, Kurak was accompany him. "So our guest is awake, finally." He said stopping next to the Lieutenant.

"You know that I can hear you right?" Briana asked the captain. "And the name is Briana."

"How did you get to the outpost in the first place?" Jonathon Archer started asking questions of the mystery infront of him.

"Couldn't tell you." Briana said, playing the blonde act, it worked in the past and she hoped it would work this time.

"Can't or won't?" Archer asked, pressing the button once more.

"Do I look like a scientist to you, Captain?" Briana hedged around the answer, clearly trying to hide something from the rest of the men. The Stargate Program was under the top most security imaginable, after all.

"You're weapons, where did they come from?" Archer decided to try another track to make Sheppard trip.

Briana started to laugh, after hearing that question. Looking at Archer's dead serious face, she stopped. "You're actually serious?! They come from Earth."

Reed had never in his life met a more confusing woman. She was beautiful, yet didn't know it. The things that she kept to when the captain started questioning her, wasn't the usual story, so Malcolm had come to grudgedly think that major Briana Sheppard was telling the truth.

Briana was quite for a long time, suddenly asked the two men on the other side of the brig. "What year is this?" Her tone of voice was urgent and the humans detected a slight hint of panic in her voice.

"2164, what does that have to do with anything?" Captain Archer asked the nervous lady.

"Nonononono..."Briana whispered, reeling from the answer. One stinking trip through a stargate sent her almost 158 years into her future. Sliding down the wall, Briana started to panic, knowing that everyone she talked with like three hours ago was long dead. She heard about the time-traveling trip that her cousin had, and she was starting to fully understand why John Sheppard hated that accident almost as much as he hated the Iratus Bug.

"Phlox get down here, I want you to run a test on our guest." Archer pressed a button near the door, paging the Denobulan doctor.

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Doctor Plox hurried to the brig, which apoun entering found his patient staring at the wall, not bothering to notice the new arrival

"So what's the emergency?" The alien doctor asked generally concerned.

"Doctor Phlox, I would like you to meet Briana Sheppard. I want you to run scans on her and make sure that she's telling the truth doc." Archer gestured to the really still Briana. She never looked up when being introduced to the alien doctor.

"Very well, captain. I shall see what I can do." Phlox turned to the frozen woman in the brig cell. "Ms. Sheppard! If you would kindly come with me, dear woman, I can start doing my tests."

Briana startled only when Reed entered the cell to let her walk to the medical bay. "Nononono... This" She waved her arms around to indicate the whole ship. "This is all fake, I'm dreaming and any moment now, Doctor Carson will wake me up and tell me that we're under attack by Wraith hive ships!"

Noticing how close the security officer was to her, Briana moved as far away from Reed as possible. She didn't want anyone of them close to her, not knowing what might happen.

Finally fed up with the slightly scared woman, Reed looked towards his captain for answers. Archer nodded at Reed once, signally that he should use his phase-pistol and stun the Major, whom hadn't let anyone even get close to her, not even Reed.

Stunning the woman was the easy part, but that wasn't even stopping her with one stun.

Turning to Reed, who was the one holding the weapon, Briana smirked at him. "Those things don't work so good on me. I have developed a resistance to energy based weapons set on stun."

Smirking, Reed stunned her again, this time actually dropping the woman on the ground.

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Doctor Phlox started to look deeper at the scans of his latest patient, noticing with an odd look that her blood chemistry came back a little unique, even for a human female.

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Waking up, Briana didn't remember what happened, and finding herself in a totally un-familar place, well she was instantly alert. Jumping up from the white and in her opinion, highly uncomfortable bed, Briana saw the two doors. But in front of them, stood a pair of guards. Soldiers, who were wearing camo like Briana had on her jeans.

The two men, seeing that their guest was awake and not very happy, well they raised their weapons. Phlox walking in, motioned for one of the guards to get the captian and Reed down in the infirmary. Spinning around, Briana stopped dead in her tracks. Who was this man with bumps on his forehead and smiled an in-human grin at her?

Phlox gestured for Briana to stop screaming so he could talk, but she scrambled backwards to get away from the doctor as fast as possible.

That was how Malcolm Reed found the 5'4 woman, gesturing frantically to Phlox. Briana Sheppard had faced many aliens and dangerous situations, but this doctor took her by surprised with his large and terrify smile and the rows of bumps on his forehead first thing she woke up to seeing, okay it was second but who was counting?

Clapping his hand over Briana's mouth, Reed talked to her in a calming voice. "Phlox is our doctor, He treated you, he's Denobulan and won't hurt you."