Ch. 71
(Atlantis, Briefing Room)
"You've got to be kidding me?" John said.
"I'm afraid not," Weir told him.
"You're allowing a Wraith to come to Atlantis?" Ronan asked.
"He says that he was the one who experimented on Stacey in the first place," Weir said.
"You mean impregnate her with a bunch of Wraith," Rodney said. "How can you be sure that this Wraith can be trusted to keep the city a secret?"
"We don't" John said.
"What are the terms?" Teyla asked.
"Carson is preparing for a C-Section now. Once the baby Wraith are born the Daedalus will beam them onto the Wraith ship. The Wraith has agreed to turn off the transmitter that would normally prevent us from beaming things on board their ship," Weir told them. "Once the babies are on board they are to leave."
"You do realize that there will be Wraith with the ATA gene, now right?" Rodney asked.
"I know," Weir sighed. "It was either that, or be destroyed by the Wraith. He says that there are several Hive Ships a few minutes away by Hyperspace."
"And my promise to Stacey?" Ronan asked.
"This is the one promise that you're going to have to break," she told him.
(Atlantis, Infirmary)
Stacey laid soundlessly on the bed with Adam and Allison napping on either side of her. John sat in a chair next to the bed, reading a book. When Stacey began to wake, Carson and Weir made there way over.
"We should get a permanent bed for you in here," Carson teased. "You're in here as a patient more than a Doctor."
Stacey thwacked him.
"Well, he is right about that," John said.
Apparently he had awoken as well and now the kids had began to stir. Stacey glared at him, too tired to reach over to him had thwack him as well. Carson chuckled.
"How are you feeling, Stace?" Weir asked, as Allison crawled off of the bed.
Adam quickly followed suite, having John help him off.
"Still pretty tired," Stacey told her. "So, what exactly happened? I was pretty out of it toward the end, there,"
Weir, Carson and John looked at one another.
"What?" she asked.
"It's the kids bed time," John got up and left, dragging Allison and Adam out of the Infirmary.
"I have patients to attend too," Carson said, walking away.
Weir sighed, looking around. Now she wished that there was an emergency.
"Elizabeth? What happened?" Stacey asked.
"We had to give the Wraith babies to the Wraith, under the threat of another attack on the city," Weir told her.
"So now there will be a bunch of Wraith able to use the Ancient Tech?" Stacey said, rhetorically.
"I'm afraid so," Weir said. "Let's hope that the Wraith will keep his end of the deal."
Stacey sighed and put her face in her hands.
To be continued . . .
(A/N: Okay, I meant to have the whole 'Stacey is pregnant with Wraith babies' story a lot bigger and longer. But, somehow I forgot what I wanted to happen. headdesk So, if you're a little disappointed in the way this storyline worked out, so am I. If I remember, I'll see if I can edit this chapter to add that stuff in at a later date.)