Main Characters: Major Evan Lorne, Lt. Colonel John Sheppard, Dr. Elizabeth Weir, Dr. Rodney McKay, Ronon Dex, Teyla Emmagan, Dr. Radek Zelenka, Dr. Carson Beckett, Dr. Astra Owen (OFC), Captain Jason Wood (OMC), Liuetenant Wyatt Van Ingen, and Mahendra Temdulkar (OMC).

Summary: Evan Lorne and his team finds a small black box. Can they save Lorne in time?

Disclaimers: I don't own anything Stargate for they belong to their rightful oweners. I write for fun and make no money from this. I do own my original characters of Dr. Astra Owen, Captain Jason Wood, Lieutenant Wyatt Van Ingen, and Mahendra Tendulkar. The title of the fic belongs to Rascal Flatts.

Chapter One: John Talks With Evan

Major Evan Lorne was in his office doing his paper work when Colonel John Sheppard entered with a grin and an easy going manner.

"Major Lorne," John said breezily.

"Colonel Sheppard," Evan replied. "Take a seat, Colonel."

John sat down and leaned back, stretching his long legs.

"Is there something I can do for you, sir?"

"I'm here to tell you about your team, Major Lorne and have put together a few names for you. I'm also giving you command of team two, and you'll be my XO," John informed him.

Evan stared at him in shock. He was going to be team leader of team two and Sheppard's XO wasn't what he was expecting at all. He was stunned but excited by the news, and he grinned.

"Thank you, sir," he accepted.

"You're welcome," John said, returning the Major's grin. John passed Evan his list of names.

Evan nodded and accepted the list. The first name on the list was Captain Jason Wood. He was an F302 pilot and had an exclamatory record. He'd been apart of Cameron Mitchell's squad that defeated Anubis over Antarctica. He then spent twelve months apart of the SGC before joining the original expedition team. He also had excellent demolition skills, and loved to tinker, but not on McKay or Zelenka's scale. Evan had never worked with Wood, but had heard of his reputation while being at the SGC.

Second on his list was Lieutenant Wyatt Van Ingen, a Marine. Wyatt had been plucked from the war in Iraq for his skills. From what information Evan had on Wyatt, the man's skills and abilities impressed him. Van Ingen had done tours of Afghanistan and Iraq.

The first civilian on his list was Dr. Astra Owen. His heart almost stopped beating and thought the Ancients were playing a cruel joke on him and laughing at his expense.

Evan and Astra had been dating before she left for Atlantis. He'd put in an application to go as well but had been denied by General O'Niell – her father. General O'Niell hadn't given a reason why and Evan hadn't questioned it. He had been angry and upset that Jack hadn't let him go with Astra to Atlantis. Before Astra had left for Atlantis with Dr. Weir's team, they had a huge fight and said some horrible words to each other. At that moment Evan felt like they had broken up over it, parting on bad terms.

When Colonel Everett asked him to go with him to help Atlantis, Evan jumped at the chance. When they had gone through the 'Gate too Atlantis Evan had been surprised to see Astra. She'd been in the 'Gate room talking with Dr. Weir and Colonel Sheppard at the time. Dr. McKay had been there as well.

Astra had been shocked to see him and obviously still mad with him. Evan had tried to speak with her but they had ended up fighting in the 'Gate the room with people starring at them. Evan had found himself with Astra on his team as they defended the city against the Wraith. They'd ended up getting separated somehow and when he found her again she had been lying on the floor with a Wraith looming over her, fear etched in her face. Before the Wraith had attacked her Evan had been able to kill it.

Since then Evan had tried to speak with her several times, but she'd refused to speak with him. It made it hard for them both when on a few occasion they've had to work together. Evan was brought back to the present when Colonel Sheppard spoke to him.

"Is everything alright, Major Lorne?"

"Yes, sir. You've got some fine men here, Colonel. I know Dr. Owen is the best archaeologist/linguist in the Pegasus Galaxy and learnt from Dr. Daniel Jackson."

"You know Dr. Owen?"

"Yes, sir. We worked together on a team at the SGC. She's pretty amazing at what she does."

"John nodded in agreement. "Yup."

Evan read the file on Mahendra Tendulkar, who was an Athosian. He'd lost his family to the Wraith. Mahendra had one surviving sister. Mahendra often acted as a liaison for SGA teams in the past. Evan was impressed with him.

"I'll go inform my team that they are the new SGA2."

"You can also tell them you ship out on your first mission tomorrow morning at 0700 to the planet P47-X89. There's an Ancient building of some sort and your civilian is one of the few who could translate it. She's also half Ancient as you know, and would probably love to get her hands on this stuff. Anyway Rodney says he has far more important work to do then look at Ancient writing, unless it contains Ancients weapons or cool Ancient technology that could help us fight against the Wraith."

"Understood, sir."

"You'll find Captain Wood in the armoury checking out the new batch of explosives that has just come in off the Deadalus. He was still there when I left. You'll find Lt. Van Ingen in the training room with Ronon Dex. I believe that Dr. Owen will be in the archaeology lab, she lives there when she isn't going off world."

"How long do we have off world, sir?"

"You have four days and three nights. You need to check in every three hours."

"Was there anything else, sir?"

"That will be all, Major and I'll leave you to find your team."

"Yes, sir," Evan gave Sheppard a smart salute and watched his CO leave.