Disclaimer: SGU and it's Characters belong to their respective owners which, sadly, is not me. I do, however, own Alex and her story line and squad, etc, etc. This has come from my mind because my mind knows no boundaries.

Opera123: Thank you my dear.

The First Kino

=Alex's P.O.V=

I stood with the others as Eli plugged in the Kino and started to download the footage before playing it, I frowned slightly before taking another at the Kino to find it was indeed us on the footage. I glanced towards Rush and cocked an eyebrow up looking for a possible explanation only to receive a small shrug in return. I turned my attention back to the footage and leant against the edge of the wall just to Eli right; I couldn't help but feel a small wave of déjà-vu sweep over me.

"How are we supposed to know what's safe to eat?" Chloe queried looking down at all the fruits and nuts gathered on the tarpaulin.

"Truth is we can't know for sure until we try some or figure out some sort of test we can run on them" Alex said before kneeling down and picking up one of the fruits turning it over in her hand before letting it roll back onto the tarpaulin.

"What's that saying? 'A starving man...'" Eli trailed off as he squatted and ran his eyes over the fruits before picking up one at random and stood biting into it, he chewed it for a moment before stopping and turning and spitting it out quickly, a small chuckle rising through the group.

"Maybe it wasn't ripe"

"Try it" Eli threw the half eaten fruit to Scott who caught it out in instinct immediately turned and threw it away.

"Uh no... no thanks"

Eli wiped at his mouth before turning and kneeling to pick up another piece of fruit.

"You've just exposed yourself now" Rush stated grabbing his wrist and pushing his hand away.

"Come on, seriously?"

"Yeah"

"If you had a reaction we wouldn't know which one caused it" TJ explained looking up at him before the group glanced over at Brody as he appeared from the bushes.

"Uh, Volker just puked"

I shifted slightly against the wall and folded my arms just under my breasts before trying to think through all my knowledge of Stargate's and how they worked to come up with some reasonable explanation as to what we were seeing.

Eli started to dial the gate, both Alex and TJ moved quickly towards Scott. "That's not your call Lieutenant," Alex called before looking to TJ. "We can't head back to Destiny"

"She's right; if it's something they got here it could be contagious"

"So what are we supposed to do?"

"Wait it out," Alex answered. "We've got what?"

"Thirty six hours" TJ looked towards her.

"Exactly, until Destiny jumps back into FTL, if whatever this is, is contagious the cure might be around here somewhere and we can't risk bringing whatever it is back aboard until we're sure"

Scott looked between both women before giving a nod. "So we wait here? For what?"

"See how this plays out" TJ explained before the Kino floated towards Rush, a disapproving scowl on his lips before he slapped the Kino away from him.

I grinned softly towards Rush who scowled back in return before I turned my attention away from him and swept my eyes over the photos about Eli's Kino control desk before looking towards Young, he glanced up with a questioning look, a confused silence passing between the two of us as well as everyone else.

The Kino camera zoomed in towards Rush and TJ standing together just to the side of the gate.

"You must have some suspicions, I've seen you giving them shots" Rush snapped lightly at the blonde haired medic.

"I started them both on high doses of antibiotics. I hate to waste it but given the symptoms of headache, fever and neck pain, it's better to be safe than sorry" TJ sighed softly.

"Ok, so what is it? Bacterial meningitis?"

"I don't know," TJ turned her attention towards the trees to their left before looking back at Rush. "But if it turns out that's what it is and I haven't done anything they could die quickly"

"You don't know," The Scot was losing his temper. "You're using up all our antibiotics on a hunch?"

"Yes, that was my judgement call"

Rush gave an aggravated sigh. "That's great"

I glanced towards Rush and then back at the Kino footage before shifting and trying to relieve the dull ache that had entered my hip from leaning on the corner of the wall for too long.

Rain poured down on the group, Eli and Rush were underneath a tarpaulin together trying to keep as much of the rain off them as possible, Alex stood just in front of them with her fatigue jacket done up tight and collar turned up with her back to rain as she scanned the darken area around them before glaring at the Kino and flicking it away with her fingers.

"Well this couldn't get much worse"

"I'm afraid that's a failure of imagination"

The Kino raised up a little over their heads to show the entire area, most of the military personnel were stood a few feet apart on guard, the others all huddled in groups trying to keep warm.

"Top five desert Island movies," Rush turned to give Eli a deadpan look. "What? It'll help pass the time"

Rush turned away and shook his head lightly before looking up at Alex for help, she grinned softly and shook her head before shifting her weight from one foot to the other, her Steyr Aug clutched in her hand before her attention was drawn towards Scott as he called out for TJ before she turned and headed towards them.

"James is not doing well"

"Where is she?" TJ queried.

"How many does that make now?"

TJ turned towards Rush. "Uh, that's Chloe, Volker, Marsden and Franklin"

"Now James too"

TJ paused and looked towards Scott. "Wait a minute; let me look at your eyes"

"No, I'm fine"

"No you're not, you need a shot too"

Everyone turned at the sound of some sort of animal chittering and then a scream, the Kino turned towards it showing Brody with some sort of animal trying to burrow through his chest before gunfire filled the air as the military personnel opened fire at random directions.

A bullet clipped the Kino causing it to fall before something hit it making it roll; it rocked for a moment before steadying and showing Chloe also with one of the creature's burrowing through her chest.

Eli paused the footage, a silence fell over the room before Chloe shot up and rushed out with her hand over her mouth, TJ following suit after her. "Ok," Eli slowly turned to face us. "What the fuck just happened?"

"That's what I'd like to know" Young stated looking at the image before looking towards me and then Rush.

"Your guess is as good as mine on that one Young" I murmured frowning slightly before looking towards Rush.

"Oh! What about an alternate reality?" Eli queried looking towards Rush as he tipped his head down looking thoughtful for a moment.

"Sir, given the illness that developed on this planet I suggest we quarantine everyone that went through to retrieve these Kino's"

Young glanced up for a moment. "So that's Hunter, Scott, Greer, Eli and Rush"

"And everyone they came in contact with since returning"

"Well that'd be nearly everyone on the ship" I sighed shifting before leaning back against the wall again and crossed my ankles over each other.

"We were only there for, like, a half hour at the most"

"It's more than enough time to come in contact with a contagion"

"No, wait; you're worry because people got sick on this recording, which never happened"

"Well we don't know that"

I glanced towards Rush and raised an eyebrow slightly in question. "Elaborate that thought genius; some of us aren't on the same wave length yet"

He glanced towards me before motioning to the footage. "Well, that is clearly us, the recording happened somehow"

I turned my head towards the ground trying to think through what could have happened. "That wormhole looked unstable, unstable wormholes are dangerous at the best of times"

"Exactly" We shared a look for a moment before Eli fast forwarded the footage to the next morning.

"Chloe's dead" Eli's face was tired and raw from crying. "James, Spencer..." he paused for a moment screwing his face up trying to concentrate. "Uh... Marsden, Brody and... and Colonel Hunter are all dead," The Kino spazed for a moment before Eli shook it. "Something's wrong with the gate, Rush..." He paused looking somewhere behind him. "Uh Rush doesn't think we can risk using it even with what's happened," He tore off a strip of duct tape. "We can't reach Destiny on radio either so apparently we're trapped here, there's twenty two hours until Destiny jumps back into FTL," He tore off another strip of duct tape trying to fix the Kino to a helmet. "The creatures seem to be nocturnal, they stopped coming once the sun came up, hopefully the gate will start working again before dark," he tore off another strip fixing it to the Kino. "Apparently we don't have much ammunition left"

I paused slightly and glanced towards the footage, when he'd said I'd died I'd almost had to do a double take, part of me was curious as to what got me and the other angry that I'd been taken down.

"Volker wasn't killed by the creatures," Eli pulled back a blanket covering Volker. "TJ says he died of the illness during the night," He stood and turned before the Kino landed on Rush, he was on his knees beside Alex's body, fingers laced through hers with his head down, his face shadowed by his damp hair. "Uh... the Colonel... Alex..." He paused taking a steady breath. "She was hit by a stray bullet, it... it caught the side of her neck," His voice dropped lower. "Rush... Rush stayed with her until she passed," He almost sounded close to tears. "He hasn't left her since, I think it cut him up pretty bad, I don't think he's got many friends, I mean she must have been like his only friend on Destiny"

"Eli!" Rush snapped glaring at the boy, his eyes raw and hands covered in blood.

Eli backed up a step. "Sorry," He murmured. "But this could be important..."

"Who do you think is ever going to see it?" Franklin snapped.

I looked away from the footage and turned my eyes towards the ceiling exhaling slowly before a comforting hand landed on my shoulder, I glanced back to see Scott and nodded lightly before taking a quick look at Rush, his face was unmoved but his eyes and mind were trying to work through something. I looked away before turning my attention back to the Kino and exhaled again trying to steady myself for whatever the hell was next to come.