A/N: Okay, hi everyone. This fic is basically an idea that popped into my head after watching a bunch of SGA the other day. And then of course the idea did not pop out again, it just got bigger and bigger, and now I'm writing it. :D. In any case, this story takes place after Season 5; they returned to the Pegasus Galaxy, as they would have had the show not been cancelled (though they're doing continuation books! Yay!). In my story though, Carter replaced Woolsey after they got to Earth (this is mostly because 1. I like Sam better and 2. I can write Sam better because I spent ten years watching SG-1 before SGA. I can never write Woolsey very well, he's just too….Woolsey. XD.). Anyhow, I hope you enjoy this! Oh! And reviews would be nice. ;D

Oh, and I do not own SGA, any of the characters, et cetera, et cetera.

Oh, and scene breaks are just the lines now, since the thing keeps erasing my scene breaks. And they looked so nice too. Grr.

"What're we doing here?" Sheppard asked as they trekked through the dense forest of their assigned planet of the day.

"Well," McKay said, coming up alongside him, "The team who came here before reported some buildings that looked like Ancient design on the other side of the forest. But they didn't have time to investigate because of a freak rainstorm, so we don't know for sure."

"So…what're we doing here?" Ronan asked from behind them.

"Rodney wants to look at an old building." John said, sounding less-than-thrilled.

"Ugh." Ronon rolled his eyes.

"Perhaps there will be something interesting there, like some of the Ancestor's technology." Teyla said diplomatically.

Ronon and John just sighed.

"Well, here we are." McKay said an hour later, as they finally reached the main building. They'd investigated some of the outlying buildings, but had found nothing worth note.

"Oh, goodie, another empty building." Sheppard said, his voice dripping sarcasm.

"Hey, this one might not be empty, okay?" McKay retorted.

And so they entered the building.

They went through various rooms, and found what seemed to be science equipment. It was of Ancient design, but was obviously in disrepair from not being used in a long while.

"There's a downstairs." Ronon said eventually, pointing his gun in the direction of some stairs headed down.

"Alright, let's check it out." John said, gesturing for Ronon to go ahead.

They descended into the darkness. Then….

"Sheppard. You'd better check this out." Ronon's voice came from the center of the basement room.

John walked over. "What is it?"

"A person."

John got to the Satedan's side, and saw what he was looking at.

"It's a stasis chamber!" McKay declared excitedly, scurrying over.

And inside was a teenage girl.

She looked about eighteen, with pale skin and long dark brown hair. She was dressed in a loose white shirt and long white pants, like the clothing a hospital patient might wear. The only clothing item that wasn't white was a black fingerless glove on her right hand. She looked like she was asleep, her chest rising and falling rhythmically.

"McKay." John said expectantly.

"Well, don't look at me, I don't know who she is."

"Is she an Ancient?" Ronon asked.

Teyla frowned slightly.

"Teyla?" John noticed her face. "Something wrong?"

"She…feels like a Wraith." Teyla said uncertainly.

"Well, that's impossible." McKay said. "I mean, look at her. She's obviously human."

"Well, this appears to be a laboratory of some sort." Teyla said, gesturing at the equipment. "Perhaps we can find answers here."

"Alright. McKay, check it out. Ronon, Teyla, with me. Let's finish checking out the rest of this place."

With that McKay was left alone in the basement laboratory.

He puttered around for a few minutes, checking out various computer interfaces, and some vials of a strange chemical on table against the far wall, but kept coming back to the stasis pod.

"Oh, what could it hurt?" he asked, and pressed a few buttons.

The glass top retracted, and after a moment, its occupant's eyes opened.

"McKay!" John said, coming down the stairs. "What'd you just do?"

"Uh, I…uh….woke her up."

John looked past the scientist to see the girl sit up, blinking confusedly, like someone woken from a deep sleep. "Well, now what are we supposed to do with her?" he hissed at McKay, who recoiled.

"I don't know!" he said helplessly.

"We could take her back to Atlantis." Teyla suggested.

"Why don't we ask for her name first?" Ronon said, walking past them.

McKay stared after him in disbelief. "Since when is he Mr. Sensitive?"

But they watched as Ronon went up to the girl, who was now sitting up, looking around.

"Do you know where you are?" the Satedan asked.

She rubbed her eyes sleepily. "The lab. Why?"

"Do you know how long you've been here?"

The girl frowned. "Yolan should be here. She said she'd come back for me. Where is she?"

"Oh no." McKay said suddenly. He'd been reading a computer interface across the room.

"What is it?" John asked.

"This place has been abandoned for thousands of years."

The girl went pale. "Impossible." She vaulted out of the stasis pod faster than the Atlantis team could react, and ran to the computer interface, typing frantically.

"No. No no no no no NO!" she slammed her hands against the computer. "No…" She sank to the ground.

"I take it that comes as a shock to you." John said.

The girl just stared blankly ahead, not seeing anything.

"The most recent activity on this thing was the activation of the stasis pod. And….something about a Lorelai."

"Is that you?" Ronon asked, kneeling next to her. "Is your name Lorelai?"

She nodded numbly.

"Here." He took off his coat and draped it over her shoulders.

She took a deep breath and that seemed to focus her. Looking up at the team, she frowned. "Who are you?"

"I'm Colonel John Sheppard, this is Teyla Emmagan, Rodney McKay and Ronon Dex." He pointed to each in turn. "We're from Atlantis."

Lorelai straightened at this. "Atlantis? It was lost…ages ago." She frowned.

"We found it, and brought it back again. But before that, it was missing for ten thousand years."

"Ten thousand?" she repeated, shocked.

"Lorelai?"

"It was only gone for two thousand years when I was awake last." Lorelai said weakly.

"Oh, is that all?" McKay asked sarcastically.

"Lorelai, were there Ancients here with you? When you were awake?" Teyla asked gently.

"The scientists who were working on me."

"Working….on you?" McKay repeated, frowning. He turned back to the console and hurriedly started tapping keys.

John stared at McKay for a moment, then turned back to the others. "So, moving on…."

An hour later, John had pried McKay away from the computers, and they were all on their way back to the gate, Lorelai with them. With Ronon and Lorelai in the lead, McKay was whispered urgently to Sheppard.

"I'm just saying, Teyla said she felt like Wraith, and those files were obviously for some sort of genetic experiment. And Lorelai even said herself she was 'worked on'."

"McKay…"

"I just don't think it'd such a good idea to let her run around Atlantis, is all."

"Okay. So we tell Carter your theory," John said, referring to Colonel Carter, who had replaced Woolsey as head of the Atlantis expedition after they had finally returned back to the Pegasus Galaxy after the landing-the-city-in-San-Francisco-Bay incident. "Then we can keep Lorelai isolated until you figure out what's going on. Okay?"

"Yeah. That sounds good."

John nodded. "Glad we cleared that up."

Colonel Samantha Carter let John pull her aside when they arrived back through the Gate to Atlantis. She agreed with his and McKay's decisions. "Let her have a shower and a change of clothes first, then put her down in the cell."

"Whoa, hang on. Isn't that a little harsh?"

"John, you said yourself she could be Wraith. We need to be careful."

Eventually John agreed, albeit with reservations. "She's just barely eighteen. Well, ignoring the thousands of years in stasis, anyway."

"I get the idea, John."

"All I'm saying is…be nice to her. She's just a kid."

Lorelai showered and changed into clothes Teyla brought her. A light blue tank top and cargo pants, Teyla told her. She changed into them, but was careful to keep her glove on. Teyla didn't seem to notice.

After changing, Teyla brought her up to McKay's lab, where he drew blood samples and did some basic scans. This, of all things, helped her to relax. It reminded her of Yolan and the other scientists, giving her the small comfort of vague familiarity.

It occurred to her that since it had been eight thousand years, Yolan and the others would all be long dead or ascended. This caused her to drop back down towards depression, but she managed to balance her mood out with the small consolation that she was, after all, in the lost city of Atlantis. It cheered her enough to help put up with an hour of poking and prodding from McKay.

Eventually he was finished, and waved her away. However, instead of Teyla, two armed guards escorted her from the lab. And down to the holding areas. Where she was put into a specious holding area, though to be honest, it was, basically, a cell. There was even a force field in addition to the bars.

"Is this how you treat all your guests?" she asked, giving a tired smile to her escorts.

"It's just until McKay's finished with your tests." Sheppard said from the door.

She turned around, and managed to smile at him too. "I understand."

In any case, it wasn't so different from before really. This time the cage just looked like it was.

A/N: So…..like, dislike? Kindly review and tell me what you think.

And worry not. If you didn't like this first chapter very much, it gets better. I actually started writing chapter 2 first, and then had to come back and write this, which is why it might seem short and possibly a little rushed. But! Review anyway. It'll make my day. ;D.