I was not to sure if I wanted to place this story on here but I did. So enjoy. Things will make sense later on! I don't own Stargate Atlantis

'It will be a high of eighty degrees today in the big city so make sure you grave some sunscreen on your way out the door. One that happy note remember to...' A hand swung out to silence the dull reporter's voice. Sharp blue eyes looked over at the man next to her. Ally slowly wrapped a sheet around her abused body and headed for the bathroom. Jason, her older brother, walked over to her.

"How are you?" His eyes were laced with fear as he flashed a look to the man's bedroom.

"I'm tired, sore and hurt but other then that I guess I'm okay." She shrugged slightly.

"I have to be more careful, he's going to kill you." Jason sighed as he headed to the kitchen and Ally went to shower.

Opening the door to the fridge he found nothing but beer and wine. Nothing worth eating anyway.

"What do you think you're doing boy?"

Jason spun around to see Jake with a bathrobe around his body. His brown hair sweated to his forehead.

"Nothing Dad, just looking."

Jake was anything but a father. Jason hated calling him that but Ally's health depended on his behavior

"If your hungry your just gonna have to wait until your sister gets here." Jason snarled at him.

Ally had just finished her shower and was now towel drying her hair. She throw on a pair of holey jeans and a shirt hat had 'fine' on the front. She hated to wear anything Jake bought for her, but Jason's life depended on her.

It was summer here in New York City and school was out, so Jason and her had all the time in the world to be away from the man.

The odd thing about everything was Jake was seen as a hero from everyone in the foster home. The reason was that he took on a sixteen year old girl, and a seventeen year old boy. Not many people would adopt kids that age, let alone together.

Ally know wished that the moment they had first walked into this man's home that she and her brother would have ran out of there. Jason was a punching bag and Ally was, well the other thing…

Ally headed to the kitchen to see and irritated Jake glaring at Jason. She cleared her throat hoping to clear up the tension between the two. It worked, but set of eyes set onto her.

"There's my beautiful girl." Jake grinned as he walked over to Ally and began to play with her shoulder blade length brown hair.

"Hi Jake." She mumbled as he pushed her to the table.

"I really need to get you a haircut." Was Jake's response as he sat next to her in wait of his meal from Jason.

Jason looked out the apartments dirty window to the street where the sun was raising against the buildings.

'Does no one care anymore?' He wondered silently as a single tear rolled down his left eyes.

**********TODD**********JOHN************SO ON************

John tried to hide his laugh as a cough as Todd and McKay argued on how to make the ancient device working again. It was a silver bracelet that when activated it hide Todd's true wraith form and made a hologram of a man over him. Now that they were in the city it decided to stop working.

"Sheppard I see nothing that is funny about this." Todd snapped at him with harsh eyes.

Teyla and Ronon both looked at each other as John grinned and rolled his eyes. They had found the device about five months ago. Once McKay found out what it could do John got the crazy idea of showing Todd the big city life. Mr. Woolsey was not at all pleased with the idea.

It took several more months to get Mr. Woolsey to agree to let Todd off of Atlantis for a short time. So here they were, in a fancy hotel with a wraith and technology that wasn't even working.

"If I don't get this working I don't know how we'll get Todd back to Atlantis without anyone seeing him." McKay sighed frustrated.

As if anything else could go wrong. Todd was not that thrilled to be getting a tour of Earth. Honestly? He just wanted to go home, but he knew that would never be allowed.

"I got it." McKay grinned proudly.

John did not see a large green alien any more, he saw a striking young man with brown hair and brown eyes. A man with a black shirt on and blue jeans. Teyla shook her head.

"What happens if someone bumps into him? They will feel a wraith. This is only a fake to the eyes, not the touch." Teyla looked over at Todd.

"He'll just have to walk beside us so no one can get near him." John shrugged as if it meant nothing.

The sliver bracelet no longer looked like a bracelet. It took it's own hologram on as well. It now appeared as a golden watch.

"Are we going to see the city or not?" Ronon questioned sharply.

John grinned and headed for the door.

"What happens if the device stops working again Sheppard?" Todd stopped the human cold in his tracks.

McKay went to a closet and pulled out a long trench coat that had a hood attached.

"This could work, but it's hot out side so you may not want to wear it, just carry it." McKay handed the clothing to Todd.

"Very well, let us go and get this over quickly." Todd was impatient and really did not want to be here.

The days on Atlantis he feed on criminals that no longer needed to be alive. They were usually old and not worth any life force, but it was enough to keep him going. Todd was impressed when they first got here with all the humans that were around. No wonder wraith wanted to get to Earth. Talk about no stop food buffet.

They were now outside with John in the lead telling them about buildings and what not. Todd found that most of the humans all looked the same. No one stood out of the large crowd. That was until his eyes caught hers.

A young girl watching the crowds walk by with no emotion in her face or in her blue eyes. Her brown hair was placed in what Teyla would call a messy bun. Suddenly she rose from the seat on the street and headed for one of the small openings in-between buildings.

Without bothering to tell anyone where he was heading Todd went to the entrance. She was no where in sight. A hand came down on his shoulder and looked to see Sheppard behind him.

"What are you doing?" John raised an eyebrow.

"There was this girl." Was all he could say as John forced him back to the others.

"Probably a street rat. There are a lot of those around here. It is best not to make eye contact. Some of them can be dangerous."

Todd shook John's hand off and looked over his shoulder. Something about that girl made him feel as if she was still there, but he couldn't see her. He sighed as he followed the others once again.

*********ALLY************JASON**********************

"I thought we were never going to get out of there." Jason snapped under his breath as brother and sister walked down the crowded streets.

Ally mumbled good-bye to her brother as she went to the town square to watch of tourist that may hold something good to steal. She never liked taking things from anyone else, but to survive she had to. Jason and her were saving up money so they could run away from Jake. To get money they had to steal and sell. It was a poor life, but she would rather waste away in jail then spend another second in Jake's possession.

Her eyes traveled over the bags that people carried and she caught a light of bright gold. On a man's wrist was a golden watch that was probably worth a lot. The man looked bored out of his mind and seemed to want to get away from the black haired man.

Sitting down on a curb she waited for the man to see her. In no time his eyes caught hers. She showed no emotion but kept staring at him. He narrowed his eyes and she slowly stood up ad headed for one of the alleyways. She could feel him following her.

Once out of his sight she ducked behind a trash can and waited for him to walk in. She watched through one of the cracks in the wall to see him at the entrance but not daring to go in.

'Shit, come on.' She thought bitterly as the black haired man walked up and placed a hand on the brown haired man's shoulder.

"What are you doing?"

The man sounded annoyed, as if the brown haired man was not allowed to leave his side, like a child. Ally smirked in amusement.

"There was this girl."

The man had brown eyes that matched his hair. A girl, was that all he could say? He sounded interested, like he had never seen a stray before. They walked off making Ally unable to hear the rest of their conversation. She would tail this guy, it was going to be easy to get his wrist watch.

She slowly got back up and began to follow them from a distance. She watched as the brown haired man glared back at her. He knew they were being followed. That was not good. Making a quick decision Ally walked faster and went to his left side where the watch was. She squeezed between a cave man looking guy and the brown haired man. Her hand wrapped around his wrist as she began to remove the watch.

Suddenly the cave man graved her arm and the group followed them into a deserted building. She spun around as dreadlocks man let her go.

There were five of them. A small looking nervous one. A female with red hair. The brown haired man, the solider looking black haired one, and the cave man.

"What are you doing?" The solider one glared at her. His green eyes were harsh.

Ally stayed quiet.

"John, is she a street rat?" The brown haired on asked the man who just spoke.

"She's to nicely dressed. What is your name."

Ally spit at them.

The female approached her slowly and smiled slightly.

"You don't need to be afraid. Your not gonna be in trouble. Just tell us why you were trying to steal from us."

"Who said I was afraid? Who said I as trying to steal from you?" She played dumb but brave.

"You had your hand on the watch, that is why I think you were going to take it." The brown eyes landed on her coldly.

Ally shook her head and slowly began to back away.

"You don't understand. Listen, I just need the money, that's all." She found herself surprised at the sudden tell of the true. Never before had she come out and told a stranger that she needed money.

"Why don't you ask your parents for it?" John glanced at the others.

"If I could I would. They were murdered." Ally lowered her eyes away from them.

"What's that bump on your head from." This was the first time he had spoken. His brown eyes traveled over her head.

Ally slowly touched it, the wound from where Jake had slammed her into the wall last night.

"Nothing, it is nothing." She began to back away faster now.

"Doesn't look like nothing." John sighed, "Just come here, let us help you."

Shaking her head she spun and headed to the back exit.

Todd watched her run off. No fear had showed in her young eyes until they asked to help her. How could you fear help?

"What now?" Ronon asked as he watched Todd's movements.

"We go back to seeing the city and forget about this. She wouldn't becoming around for a long time anyway." John headed back for the streets.

Todd was about to follow when he turned and headed for the direction the girl went. She was trying to open a door that clearly was stuck.

"Need help?" Todd kept his distance hoping not to scare her off again.

"Get out of here, now!" Wild eyes glared at him.

"I can help you." Todd took a step forward.

"No you can't. I don't the hand of some rich mortal." Her voice was harsh.

"Are you not a mortal?" He asked while raising he new eyebrows.

"I am more then that. I have a heart unlike those who walk around thinking that material is the best thing you could ever have. I escape death everyday. What do you do to help others?" She looked tired.

Todd shrugged and was about to answer her question when she gasped and clenched her stomach. She growled under her breath. The last thing she saw was the brown eyes man keeping her from falling onto the floor. The last thing she felt was sharp claws running across her arms. Her last thought was,

'Jake's gonna kill Jason when I don't come back….'

That's all for now. Ally has some life changing stories for Todd to listen to. A friendship is going to be born. But will she ever et away from the life she leads right now?? ….