Ch. 69

(Wraith Hive)

Stacey woke up, but her senses were in and out of focus. It was dark, the table that she was lying on was cold and hard. She noticed that she was laying on her back. Before she passed out again she saw a Wraith leaning over her.

Before she opened her eyes, she attempted to use her other senses to seek out how she would get to her weapons. Stacey heard the familiar sounds of gunfire. When she opened her eyes she saw John and his team.

"The Nanites work," John told her as she got up from the cold floor.

Rodney fiddled with the panel on the wall and opened the gate. John handed her, her P-90. Stacey swiftly got into position and began firing as the group made their way to their exit.

(Atlantis, Gateroom)

Stacey passed the Nanite infected P-90 and clips to an SF.

"Good thing these types of Nanites only work with people who have the healing gene, eh?" she said to the guard. When she saw the look on his face she added, "You'll be fine. They'll only activate if you have an open wound and have the gene."

Lorne appeared with Allison at his side.

"Mom!" Allison greeted her mother.

Stacey picked her up and twirled her around as she hugged her daughter tightly.

"Nice job, Doctor," Lorne complimented Stacey. "You could have told me when you first arrived though."

She shrugged, "I had patience to tend too first," Stacey tightened her grip on Allison. "We've had some few days, huh?" Stacey asked.

"Uh-huh," the girl mumbled as she dug her face into her mother's neck.

"Come on. Let's go get Adam and the four of us can spend the rest of today together. What'ya say?" Stacey asked.

She felt Allison nod.

(Atlantis, Commissary)

The Sheppard family had spent the remainder of the day locked up in their quarter's playing games, exchanging jokes, and generally enjoying time together as a family. When dinner time rolled around they headed to the Commissary. With Adam on John's shoulders and Allison clinging to her mother's hand as they walked, or in John's case hopped, to the Atlantis Commissary with Adam bouncing up and down on his shoulders.

"Don't hurt yourself, old man," Stacey warned, with a grin on her face.

And sure enough, he did. He pinched a nerve in his neck. Stacey took Adam and put him down. Once he was released, Adam started running around the Commissary. Allison ran after him and started plat tag. Stacey placed a hand on her husband's neck, and with difficulty, healed the nerve.

"Huh," she said.

"What?" he asked. As they entered the room.

"I should have healed you within a few seconds. That took way longer than it should have," she said.

"Maybe you're the one getting old," he commented.

"Maybe," she gave a small smile.

Once he turned to grab the kids, the smile faded. Something was definitely up.

(Atlantis Infirmary)

During the night Stacey found herself throwing up her dinner. This worried her even more. When she woke up, she glanced at the mirror and realized that her stomach had grew a little over night. Now, Stacey was just freaked out.

Stacey went to the Infirmary the moment she woke John up and told John.

"Carson," she made her presence known.

"Stacey?" he returned the greeting. "What can I do for you this morning?"

"I need some blood work done," she told him.

"Alright, have a seat," he got up from his chair and then asked. "Anything in particular I need to find?"

"Not really. Something just feels off since I returned from the Hive," she told him, sitting down on a medical bed.

"So, everything, then?"

"Sorry. I wish I had more to go on,"

He waved her apology away.

To be continued . . .

(A/N: Okay, I know the "being trapped on a Hive" storyline was short. But, what happens after the abduction is what's important. And that's all I'm saying on that . . . )