A New Life- Prologue

(This story is the property of obsessed-fangirls-forever.)
Disclaimer: I don’t own Stargate Atlantis, or the Wraith.

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Prologue

Planet Earth, Salem, Oregon

Marie was enjoying a quiet night at home. She’d just broken up with her latest pathetic excuse for a boyfriend and was prepared to kick back and welcome depression.

Marie sighed dejectedly as she thought the past couple of months. In the last six months she’d lost her family in a plane crash, had to prove she was capable of taking care of herself to the child services court, and had at least four relationships go sour. Her life was currently going from bad to worse.

Getting up off the couch she made her way towards the kitchen to heat up some left over Chinese for dinner. Grabbing a soda while waiting for the microwave to finish she replayed her thought about her latest break up and what had led to it.

Jason Crawly was a decent enough guy and fairly popular around school. He was a member of the football team, photography club, and had been one of her closest friends. Their relationship had started in a fairly romantic way. With him coming to her house, bouquet of roses in hand, asking her out to the movies. It had been going so well that she was unprepared when he announced that he didn’t want to see her again in the middle of school. Depressed and angry she’d walked right up to him and landed a solid right hook on his jaw, effectively breaking it and getting suspended for fighting.

Hearing the microwave ding she grabbed her food and went back into the living room. Sitting down she turned on the tv and got ready to watch stargate atlantis reruns. Suddenly Marie heard loud banging sounds coming from the front door. Getting back up she went to the door, knowing full well who it was. Just as she suspected there was a large black hawk with white highlights and a great horned owl sitting on her doorstop.

Giggling at the picture the two birds made she moved to the side so they could come in.

“Come on you two.” She said, “We don’t want the neighbors to get suspicious, now do we?”

The birds cocked their heads in unison at her and walked through the doorway. Getting on the back of the couch they settled down to watch their master.

Shaking her head at the two Marie closed the door and sat back down and resumed watching her favorite tv show.

A few hours later the tv was still on and Marie had fallen asleep. Suddenly the room was filled with a bright light. Startled the two large birds latched onto their master a mere moment before the light died, leaving the room completely empty.

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In the Pegasus Galaxy, planet unknown

“Has he responded to any of our interrogation methods Sergeant?”

“No. And as far as we can tell he’s resisting the effects of his hunger.” Sergeant Bates told Dr. Weir.

The two stood in front of a monitor watching the live footage from the holding cell. The captive wraith was sitting in the same position he’d been in five hours ago, completely unresponsive to Colonel Sheppard’s questions and threats. Sighing, Dr. Weir went to her desk to finish some more paper work. Bates was just about o leave her office when Rodney came bursting in. His face was red and he was babbling incoherently while waving his arms around in a deranged manner. Raising her eyebrow at the distraught scientist in front of her Dr. Weir gave another internal sigh.

“What seems to be the problem McKay?” she asked the over excited man.

Taking a deep breath McKay waited a moment to compose himself, and for dramatic effect, before speaking.

“Just moments ago there was a large energy burst in one of the uninhabited part of the city. When the flare died down the city detected three stationary and unclassified life forms, though we’re fairly sure one is human. So far they haven’t moved, but we don’t know whether or not their dangerous.” He told the ancient city’s current leader.

Taking a moment to process what Rodney had just told her, Elizabeth stared at him in confusion before taking action. Standing up she turned to look at Sergeant Bates who had stayed to listen to what the scientist had to say.

“Sergeant. I want you to assemble a team and go investigate this anomaly. If the life forms are hostile then don’t hesitate to shoot them. If they are friendly then I want them brought to the briefing room for interrogation. Understood?”

“Yes ma’am.” He replied. Saluting her briefly the Sergeant went to assemble his team.

Meanwhile, down in the city’s lower levels a certain wraith raised his head in confusion, as if puzzled by something. Then as if understanding something important he grinned. Seeing said wraith grin John Sheppard shivered, not liking the look in his eyes.

‘Things just got interesting.’ Medarion thought, grinning the whole time.

Things just got interesting indeed…

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