A/N-It's short, and I probably should have combined it with the next chapter but I wanted to get it up quickly.
Start Chapter 19
"What happened?" John asked taking a seat.
"As soon as we stepped through the gate we saw a dart heading for it," Keller explained looking at the rest of the team for confirmation.
"It didn't shoot?"
"No it dialed the gate and headed through."
"Did you get the address? They might have some information about my people," Teyla asked joining the briefing late although no one questioned her tardiness.
"I don't think we can walk up to the wraith and ask them,"
Teyla turned her eyes and voice ice cold, "Perhaps not but if we were to capture one," she said leaving the rest up to their imagination.
"Or perhaps it was Michael in the dart and we'd be finding his base of operations." John said giving Teyla a warning look to cool it off or she'd blow her chances.
"Rodney can pull the last 50 addresses and we can search those they should be there."
"I would like to escort some of the teams," Teyla asked looking at Carter knowing John would object but if she could get Carter to allow it she'd get to go.
"If you stay in the jumper I've got no problem with it," John said causing Teyla to turn shock penetrating the mask she normally wore to hide her emotions. She stared at him for several minutes vaguely aware that Carter had agreed and continued on with the conversation. Eventually she heard Carter repeating her name several times and realized that she was still talking to her.
"Teyla I want you to stay in the jumper and do not leave under any circumstances ok?"
"Yes Colonel I understand I will not put myself in any danger," she said coolly unhappy about being talked to as if she we are child.
"I'd like to lead a team back to the planet and see if it was Michael while Rodney gets the addresses am I clear to resume active duty?" John said slightly unsure of where he stood with Carter.
"As soon and doctor Keller clears you go right ahead," she said and indicated that he could go get checked out while they finished up the briefing.
***
Sheppard sat in the infirmary waiting for his test results to prove that he was still healthy. Teyla walked in and waited for her own test results. "Teyla I want you to stay in the jumper and if we come under attack head through the gate don't wait for us just get through the gate alive."
"I understand John you do not need to treat me like a child."
"Yeah but I worry about you we don't want you to end up losing the kid or worse so behave."
"Do not worry John I promise to behave."
"Thanks," he said getting up as he saw Doctor Keller walking across the room. He walked over to her," Hey doc am I good?"
"Yes Colonel try not to wind up here by the end of the day though."
"I'll try," he said laughing as he walked out the door heading towards the armory.
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He stood before the gate as it light up it had been far too long since he'd gone through the gate. As the gate roared to life he turned and looked up at the control room Colonel Carter, Teyla, and Keller were having some sort of discussion and were looking at him strangely. He stepped through the gate and followed the rest of the team to the village. When he arrived he saw that the city was a smoking ruin he guessed that it had been Michael who had been in the dart and he had some failsafe in place for this kind of scenario. They avoided the city unsure if there were still more booby traps waiting to be sprung and headed back towards the gate where they waited for Rodney and his team to finish.
"Ok got the addresses ready to head back?" Rodney said picking his head up from the computer.
"Yeah dial it up," he said to the Marine near the DHD.
As he walked through the gate he saw a similar sight to the one before he had left Keller, Carter, and Teyla along with Lorne and Zelenka were talking amongst themselves up near the control room. He headed up the stairs with Rodney. As he reached them Zelenka turned and handed him a tablet, "Press play," John did.
"Colonel Sheppard I am truly sorry that I must now abandon you and Teyla in your time of need however I am needed elsewhere for the time being. I understand that you are searching for the Athosians I managed to locate them and have enclosed their location with this message however I warn you that you must act quickly for the wraith have also found Michaels lab and are moving to destroy it soon. I would have given you the planet before but they were recently moved there from another that I had no knowledge of."
"The message ends there and a gate address was sent attached," he said tapping the screen to show them the written gate address.
"How did the ship take off without anyone knowing and when did it take off?" Sheppard asked hoping that perhaps it hadn't left yet or had been stopped.
"We don't really know it doesn't seem to have even gone into space it just seems to have hovered a few feet above Atlantis and then entered hyper-space," Zelenka said excitedly knowing that this would surely shock Rodney.
"It entered hyper-space inside the shield?" Rodney said in total disbelief as Zelenka continued staring at the different sensor readings.
"Yes Rodney," Carter said looking over her own computer.
"But how?" he asked totally confused about how this could happen.
"We don't know."
"I'm sorry to interrupt this but are we going to be launching a rescue mission for the Athosians?" he said and received a thankful smile from Teyla.
"Yes let's compare and see if that planet is on the list I downloaded from the gate."
A/N-I know its really short, and the next one is to, but the next one is also probably the most boring chapter in the entire story. Seriously the whole thing is a briefing. So if it takes a few days for that one to come up, don't worry you aren't missing anything, but the team sitting in chairs listening to each other talking.
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