This is my first attempt at SG:A fanfic. Most of my previous work has been for Inception.

I felt that there was a great opportunity for John Shepard and Larrin. I feel like Shepard needed a woman who would be his equal.

I made some major changes in the character of Larrin. The only thing I kept in fact, was her name. LOL.

I've also brought back Dr. Becket because it was a HUGE mistake killing him off. HUGE! The only worse mistake was killing off Weir. So I brought her back as well.

I also Brought Bates back. I think he got a bum rap and he will casue some groovy friction. LOL.

So this story is going to happen without Weir's stupid replicators, and poor Becket dieing. Oh and I also don't like the replicators cuz I think it's a cheap plot device. So they are gone to.

Maybe it was all a dream.

I've re-cast Milla Jovovich or Resident Evil fame as Larrin.

I enjoy writing Erotica and I intend to have Erotica in this story.

I don't own SG:A but if I did, that would be awesome.

Stranded

It was a pleasant visit for Col. Shepard to M-505. The locals were friendly and... uninhibited. It had been his day off and (like always) he had volunteered his free time to help Dr. Becket deliver medical supplies to the people there.

Normally Shepard kept busy on his days off. There was little personal available who had the Ancient gene that let them pilot a Jumper. It had meant a grueling day of flying all over the planet and he was anxious to get back to Atlantis and have a hot meal and a long sleep.

It would be at least two hours before he reached the Star Gate and he was feeling his eyes start to twitch with tiredness.

'Why do I always have to play hero?' he mused sourly at the thought of wasting his entire day off on a humanitarian mission.

He let his thoughts roam back to the local women of M-505.

They had been particularly beautiful. Well toned and athletic. He smiled to himself. He had been more lonely then normal the past few weeks. Tayla had been spending more time with her people, Dr. Weir had been busy with all the various duties of Atlantis. He always had Rodney and Ronan were always ready for guy talk but he was missing the fairer sex.

He always enjoyed being around women. Had no problem serving with them professionally. Even liked serving with them. Tayla and Weir had been particularly pleasant to work with. But they had always been off limits in a way. He was sure he could have perused something with Tayla once upon a time. But things were different now. Same thing could be said of Dr. Weir.

It was in thinking how lonely he was on the long flight back to the Star Gate, that the Jumper gave off a violent shutter and went dark.

~ Larrin was flying her own Gate Ship to check reports of unusual activity on a non- gate world.

"What kind of unusual activity?" She asked Eva over the com link.

"Well, our sensors have detected Gate Ship activity but not the kind that comes from our ships." Eva said from the home base of Efrafa*.

"Wraith?" Larrin asked.

"Negative." Eva answered. "Their nothing like Wraith ships. Their like ours, but the signals are very out of sync."

"What do you mean out of sync?" Larrin laughed. She enjoyed these solo missions Eva sent her on. Always enjoyed getting away from Efrafa. She heard Eva sigh.

"To be honest Larrin, I don't know. I don't want to say it but..."

"Say it." Larrin said.

Her friend was a genius at most everything and if she believe something was correct, Larrin was willing to believe her. Still, it was not wise to express opinions. Not in Efrafa.

"It's an Ancient signal, Larrin." Eva whispered. Larrin sat in silence for a moment.

"How is that possible?" She asked. Half afraid.

"I don't know. I may be wrong. It may be debris form an Ancient battle with the Wraith." Eva ventured.

"We both know it's not." Larrin said soberly.

"I know." Eva said sadly. "Listen, observe and report back what you find. Do not engage. Let operations handle this okay?" Eva said in a low frightened tone.

"I will. Watch your back." Larrin said silencing the com.

She worried more for Eva then herself at this moment. It was dangerous to go around asking the wrong questions. Or to mention anything about the Ancients to the Efrafa council. Whatever she did find on this normally silent world, she hoped it would not be Ancient.

~Real fear was invading Shepard at the moment. Everything was dead. Controls, communications. He was a long way from the Star Gate and a rescue would be hours away. Always assuming they waited till the last second to launch a search party. He would run out of air by then.

A heavy duty flashlight fended off the darkness as he tried to get the old gal going again.

Nothing. It was like a dead battery.

'Why did everything just stop working?' He wondered. It was like that planet with all the kids. Some kind of dampening field. Yet, they had detected no such problems on the many trips before.

'Probably some kind of ion storm.' he figured.

The Jumper almost felt haunted. Like it's sudden plunge into darkness had brought back it's ancient ghost. Shepard shook those thoughts away. He tried to focus on getting power back as he could feel the air start to turn bad.

~ It was an Ancient Gate Ship. No doubt about it. Larrin had the cloaking device up on her own vessel as she maneuvered around it. It was out of power, and there was a life sign in it.

"How?" she asked. Wondering aloud to no one. She had a million questions but knew if she made contact with whoever it was, there would be very serious repercussions once she brought that person and his ship back to Efrafa.

She should take Eva's advice. Observe and not engage. Her sensors showed the Ancient Gate Ship was completely drained of power and it's single passenger was running out of air.

She could help him. He was alone, helpless. He would die out here in a few minuets if she didn't do something.

Larrin acted.

It was a simple matter to link her ship to his. End hatch to end hatch. Her own ship was at least twice as large as his and far more impressive. It still held the same design as the ancient ship but was too wide to go through the traditional Star Gate.

The Efrafans didn't use traditional Star Gates.

She hooked up emergency power to the smaller, older vessel and flooded it with breathable air till her sensors were all reading green.

Larrin armed herself before entering the ancient ship.

~ John was barely conscious as he felt the air come back on. He thought he saw lights flicker on as well. It almost felt like the rear hatch had opened and someone had come onto the Jumper. But that was impossible. He was in space. No one could save him like that.

~ It was a solitary man on the ancient ship. The air was bad but becoming breathable. It was incredible. If this was an Ancient ship, then this could be invaluable to Efrafa.

The genesis from where her people had come from. They had come from the Ancients, but ten thousand years had progressed from the fabled city and it's people. The latest evolution who now called themselves Efrafans.

The man gave a grown that pulled her attention away from the sights of Ancient technology. The humanity in her made her examine the man who might be Ancient.

He certainly didn't look it. His clothing and hair were unkempt and he needed to shave. Most Ancients were impeccably clean, in neutral colors. Larrin's only reference were holograms she had seen when she was younger.

"Hello?" She asked tentatively leaning over him as his eyes opened. He was not armed and posed little threat considering he was on deaths door a moment ago.

The man looked at her and sighed.

"Well, dieing isn't a bad I thought." He said breathlessly.

"Your not dead." She told him smartly. Not getting Shepard's humor. "What's your name?"
"Lt. Col. John Shepard." He informed her automatically. "And you are?"

"Wondering what your doing in this ship." She said curtly. "Did you find it? How did you get it into space?" She asked. He was sitting up now and her training told her to back away toward the open rear hatch. Her escape route.

Shepard's head hurt but that was soon forgotten when he saw the rear hatch was open. But instead of open space, he saw the bright comforting lights of technology. It was as if the Jumper had landed inside another ship.

"Where am I?" He asked her forcing himself to stand. That was when he noticed the strange woman was holding a formidable weapon. Shepard raised his hands up.

"Look, I just want to know what happened to me." He said giving her his most charming smile. She didn't fall for it. She had a very pleasing face except that it was very serious.

"Your ship encountered difficulties, you lost power. You were almost out of air when I found you." She informed him.

"Where am I?" He asked keeping his hands up. Something about her told him she was the type of woman who would shoot him if provoked.

"Your in space." She told him waving her weapon at the front window of the Jumper. Shepard turned to see the view of space. It made no sense.

"How-" He started to ask.

"Now it's your turn." She interrupted him leveling her weapon at him. "How did you find this ship and how did you get it into space?" She asked.

"Well, I flew it into space, Miss...?" Shepard told her, allowing a pause for her to give him her name. She didn't offer it.

"You flew it into space?" She repeated. "Your not Ancient."

"Never said I was." Shepard retorted.
"Then what are you doing with this ship?" She asked.

"Look, can you just lower your weapon? I can tell you everything you want to know if you just lower your weapon."

Larrin found herself listening to the man. This John Shepard. She lowered her weapon slightly.

"Tell me how you came to this ship." She asked again.

Shepard never got the chance to answer her as the lights started to flicker on the Jumper as well as her more modern Gate Ship.

It wasn't long before both vessels were in total darkness.

* Efrafa. Watership Down, by Richard Adams. A particularly militant warren of rabbits. Much of this story will be influenced by this book.

Pls. R&R