New Home (Stargate Atlantis fanfiction)

4 Who could have defied ancient rules

"So, dr Keller, what can you tell us?" Asked Woolsey three hours later, when some basic tests were done and woman's state was stable.

Keller looked at everyone gathered in the conference room behind closed doors. They were not sure how much info should be given to the whole expedition, or what was left of the actual expedition. John sat quietly after Beckett literally dragged him from isolation room. Good doctor was still analising some data on his tablet. Rodney took Zelenka with himself. Chuck was there as representative of tech staff. Teyla and Ronon were also present. Doctor Jackson looked nervous. "We checked her and detected no nanites, neither dormant nor active. She is in quite bad shape because of amount of time she must have spent there, in freezing water. Good news is we can take care of that fairly effectively. We managed to make some test and determine that her DNA matches that of Doctor Weir and at the same time all her internal organs demonstrate the exact condition from last scans before being infected by nanites." Keller looked at Beckett, who took over this last statement. "This is Elisabeth Weir we knew. We can tell that." He said strongly but not so loudly. "We have her back."

"This makes sense" said Daniel after quite a long quiet moment. "From what I heard she had a mind strong enough to be able to control the whole Asuran collective for the time you needed to escape. And she wanted to protect the City for all cost."

"She would do everything it took to make sure everyone was safe." Stated John quietly.

Everyone stayed quiet again. It was Woolsey, surprisingly, who initiated further talk. "What is it you're not telling us about her condition?"

"She is in a coma." Said Jennifer quietly. "We didn't find anything that could have caused it but we are not able to get any reaction from her. There is no spinal or brain damage to do that."

"We should concentrate on what to tell people here." Said John. "They have a right to know that their leader is still alive. But the more important question is what happens to her after IOA finds out about it. I got the impression that they did not exactly authorized what we did here."

"I will take care of the IOA as well as I can if, or when, it comes to that." Declared Woolsey. "As for the information I thought you and your team along with our CMO's here should decide what should be revealed."

He decided, because they gave him full authority in that matter. No one was to know what she did or, for that matter how was she back. Noone was to disclose any info about her being here. The less told, the smaller hopes and disappointment if something bad happened as well as less chance for this information to find its way to the IOA. He was her 2IC for three years and knew how this disappointment hurt.

He did not know how long he spent by her side in the isolated room of the infirmary, where they moved her. He knew that at some point Carson told him they had to go, that next day was their first day at the SGC and all formal calls were to be made, so they had to catch a plane in the evening. They made their goodbyes to everyone that mattered to them – meant exactly everyone who was to stay in the City – and left with Jackson for the airport.

John woke up without optimism. It was his first day at SGC and it meant only one thing – he had a lot of paperwork and administrative decisions ahead of him. He would so much prefer to be in Atlantis' infirmary and now he was heading towards his new office to pick his new team so he could go offworld as soon as possible. He was to meet with gen. Landry at 1300 hours so he had now about five hours to scan through the files and pick people he would trust to watch his six off-world. Again. Last time he picked three men he had basically to take care of. Not as irritating as Rodney but not as brilliant either.

There, he found one file to match his vision – Lt. Cadman was just perfect. She requested post at SGC just weeks ago and there was no free post for her until now. Ok. One done. Just two to go. He just skipped some files and looked to the heap of scientist files. About third from the top and he saw Alison Porter. Name rung the bell somewhere in his head. He opened the file, looked at the picture and found out why. This was the same scientist from Teldy's team he and Carson worked with. She was not really good fighter, but she would take care of herself and not be a liability. Plus she was a really good scientist.