STARGATE ATLANTIS Angelus by Angelus (SGA-11)

Author:Angelus (SGA-11) [Retail]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Fandemonium Books
Published: 2020-06-30T20:39:35+00:00

Chapter eleven

Lock and Load

She awoke, suffocating. The sheet was tangled around her, pinning her to the narrow bed, and the darkness pressed down around her like wet sand. There was a noise close to her head, a shrill buzzing that scratched at her ears, but she couldn’t identify it nor reach out to silence it. The depth of her sleep, and the suddenness of her waking, had nailed her down.

She fought the pressure, the crushing fatigue, convulsing sluggishly on the bed until, finally, some measure of control returned to her deadened body. She got an arm free, flailed until she found her headset, and shut off its insistent whirring.

Carter sat up in bed, not remotely awake, and pressed the headset into her ear. “Wha?”

“Colonel? Is that you?”

“Teyla? What… What’s going on?” She swung her feet free of the sheet and stood up, swaying a little. According to the clock next to her bed she had been out for no more than a few minutes. Just long enough to fall really, soundly asleep, which made waking all the harder.

There were noises coming through the headset; scuffling, panting, as though Teyla was running. Another voice, too far out of pickup range to identify. Something that sounded like sobbing.

“Colonel, something has happened. We were attacked, the lights have failed —”

“Attacked? Lights?” Carter rubbed her eyes, trying to shake the edges of fatigue away. “Where are you?”

“We are near to the Ancient’s lab. Colonel, we were attacked by two of the marines guarding him. I do not think they are human.”

“We? Who —?” Carter stopped in mid-sentence, aware that she was doing nothing but asking random questions. “Okay, let’s start again. Are you injured?”

“I am not. Radek is fine too, but Alexa Cassidy is in extreme shock.”

A thin tone broke through the Athosian’s words; another call coming through on the headset. “Teyla, hold on a moment, I just need to switch channels.” She keyed the new call in. “Carter.”

“Colonel, this is Palmer in the control room. We’ve got a serious situation here. Looks like an entire section of the west pier has gone into some kind of lockdown.”

“I’ll be right up.” Carter switched channels again. “Teyla, get yourselves up to the infirmary, as quickly as you can. I’ll meet you there in a few minutes.”

She dressed quickly, in the dark, something she had done so many times that she could let her body deal with the task while her mind went elsewhere. The west pier was, of course, where McKay had chosen to set up Angelus’ lab. That was no real surprise to her — in fact, it had a kind of sickening inevitability. Despite all her efforts to keep the situation with Angelus under control, all her hopes of dealing with the Ancient’s plans peacefully, through diplomacy and reason and common sense, the whole thing had slid out from under her. Now she was getting wild calls in the middle of the night and Fallon was going to have her skinned alive.

Carter was

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