[Robert "Bobby" Oxford Jr]

0948
South Wing Laboratories - Level 2
Vedas Base

Captain Sniffles?

Bobby threw Harper a look. His XO was hanging around Witwer too long or it was his own damn cousin. At least he was hanging out with one of them. The young Lieutenant was a sharp and mouthy, wasn’t afraid to say what was on her mind, but the woman did it in such way that it was hard to tell if she was telling off someone or being inexperienced sailor in another galaxy. He wasn’t the one to forget that she was trained in the matters of the Stargate Program. A smirk was on his soon, “Says the Beaver,” and chuckled, “Keep it up Harper.” And rolled his eyes.

Ever the man of calm, Warren spoke with his observations of what appeared to be wrong here. “I don’t have allergies,” he sneezed again, “the room has so much dust.” That was true. It did appear that the room had a thick layer of dust on the floor and tables along with other areas. Blowing his nose in the tissue he pulled out from his pocket, he looked at Warren again, “Outpost ones were in perfect condition when we arrived. I doubt that anyone looked after those machines. If someone did, well…” He shrugged.

Robert tipped his head thinking he had heard something, and hushed two of his team members, as he listened. He was sure he hearing things, “You hear that?” he faced his group and asked.

Tag: Blake Warren , Nick Harper , SV-2 & SV-3

[Kata Harris]

0948
South Wing Laboratories - Level 2
Vedas Base  

Kata could not help but smile as she watched Witwers reaction upon finding out what the file room held, “Geological file room. Data on the planet’s eco-system and possibly other planets.” the blonde woman was excited, “Might help us understand the planet’s seasons.” Harris nodded, "So basically it all is stuff that is right up your alley...the Admiral will be glad to hear that, maybe you can be in charge of going through it all." she replied, "And having old records on the weather might help, so far we have seen rain and enough heat and humidity to make a Southern Georgia summer look like spring." The planet they currently occupied was still a large mystery to them, and the more they learned about it, the better off they would be in the long run.


0948
South Wing Laboratories - Level 1
Vedas Base


"Please, I am tech support, Cooper."

Tech support who also had a track record of frying the tech he was working on, she thought to herself. "Or Earth group therapy. Form a circle, smoke the hookah lamp there and spill your guts." she looked to the Colonel then back to the chairs, Makes Eternal gave her input, which based on what Isabelle could understand, went along with what everyone one else was thinking. They had definitely found something worth while here, what it was exactly was still a mystery.

"Well, sh!t." this time they had not succeeded in breaking the device but the opposite, "Off's not working." Steve called, "Have you tried unplugging it?" she replied, not really knowing what else to suggest to the tech guru Colonel. Usually when a computer did not work, Isabelle muttered a few choice words under her breath and just turned it off...but if off was not working...what was left to do? Smash the thing till it stopped working? That seemed like a very American way of doing something. 

There came no reply from the Colonel, the quiet humming of the machine was only interrupted by the sound of something soft and heavy hitting the floor, turning Isabelle saw Steve now sprawled out unconscious. "Colonnello?" she called as she cautiously started towards him, there was any obvious cause as to why the man was now unconscious, her hands went for her radio. "Man down SV-3." she said to anyone who was listening, keeping one hand on the radio she reached  for the pulse point on Steve's neck, "Repeat, SV-3 is in need of med-" her fingers no sooner touched Steves neck then she was felt what seemed like a mild shock of electricity move through her body, quickly followed by darkness. 


0949
South Wing Laboratories - Level 2
Vedas Base

“Says the Beaver,” 

It was Nicks turn to shoot the man a look, where the hell did beaver come from? "I believe you are confusing a furry water termite with a Honey Badger." he replied, of course he had not actively shared his old call sign with people, not that he was embarrassed by it, least he did not have a story telling of a stupid events leading to said nickname being bestowed...unlike his cousin.  Oxford sneezed yet again and Nick chuckled, "Actually, without regular maintenance most anything man-made will deteriorate fairly quickly. Shows like 'Life After People' do exaggerate but not by much." Warren always had some good insight. "Shows like that make me want to see Earth like that, then again they also scare me because they show how fragile things really are without maintenance." Nick looked to the doctor, "It also does not matter what we do, what we build. Nature will always reclaim what is theirs." mother nature was a bitch when she had enough. 

“Outpost ones were in perfect condition when we arrived. I doubt that anyone looked after those machines. If someone did, well…” Nick lightly kicked at a small pile of dust near his foot, "Oh yeah, someone totally has been taking care of this place. June Cleaver would be proud." he replied, then something crossed his mind. "Why is it most of the rooms seem to have the power off?" he asked, for a technologically advanced base, they sure had power issues. 

“You hear that?”

"What the sound of a million dust mites screaming as we step on them?" Nick fired back, "Or the weird humming? Or your constant non allergy related sneezing you've been doing all day." he added, he was getting better at the snark thing, and he did not know if he should credit his CO or the fact that he had been hanging around Witwer more. 

"Man down SV-3."

Of all people he did not expect to hear Coopers voice come over the radio, "Or do you mean did we hear that?" he muttered, "Repeat, SV-3 is in need of med-" the comm suddenly went quiet, "Who touched something that did not need to be touched now?" he said aloud, not waiting for Oxford to give the order Nicks started for the door, ready to go help with whatever was needed, thankful to finally get out of the dust room.  

((Pardon large post between Nick Harper, Kata Harris and Isabelle Cooper))

Tag: SV-1//SV-2//SV-3

[Blake Warren]

0949
South Wing Laboratories Level 2
Vedas Base

Blake looked up at the ceiling for a moment. He'd allow the captain his dignity on this, as he pled just the dust. Well, mostly. "I think Steve carries some anti-histamines, since he also totally does not allergies to everything that grew back in Georgia."

"I did say man-made. Atlantis was amazingly functional considering how quick technology should deteriorate with no maintenance." Though the possibility they weren't actually alone on this planet was somewhere between interesting and a little worrisome.

Responding to Harper mentioning the maintenance, Blake gestured at the wall. "But it is a good object lesson for not looking down on those who do the work that keeps modern civilization running. But give it a few thousand years later and someone like me will be trying to figure out the remnants of our civilization and theorizing on the ruins."

Harper was still needling Oxford when the call came. Blake took off right after Harper. The stairway between the floors was close, he remembered that.

0951
South Wing Laboratories Level 1
Vedas Base

It was the raw fear born out of love that made him take the single flight of stairwell two steps at a time. And yeah, Blake thought in his head, this, right here, was why they preferred not to work closely.

It had been like this from the word 'Go' when Blake had signed on with SG-11 and SG-15 had provided security, and so they had learned where the other was working after not saying anything for security reasons.

He made it to the lab where SV-2 and SV-3 were. Both team leaders were down, Martin and Cooper was up. He went to Steve first while looking at Isabelle. "What did my idiot do now?"

As much as he wanted to go in and check Steve's vitals, he would mentally bet Major Harris had just done that and been caught up. He couldn't help without touching though. It went against everything he wanted to do as he headed for the computer at the wall instead, talking to Cooper and Martin. "At least the console is displaying. I'll need a minute to read it. Um, 'chikitsa' means therapy, but that's not all that helpful without what kind of therapy, working on that. What's your running theory?"

<<tag Robert "Bobby" Oxford Jr , Kata Harris , Stephanie Martin , Makes-Eternal-Everlasting >>

[Steve Hamrick]

1300
January 1997
Woodlawn Cemetery
Colma, California

Steve walked, almost against his will, closer to the funeral. It had been a lucid day for the older woman and she was fully in touch with reality for once. A woman a few years older than her brother had her arms and legs crossed, riding the 'anger' step of the stages of grief and determined to provoke in a bright red dress contrasting her mother's mourning black.

After the coffin was placed, Steve dropped down on the ground, refusing to go closer. Watching his younger self move to the family seats and briefly, almost too quick to be seen if you weren't looking, exchange a hand grasp with another young man in the row behind them before sitting down with his mother and sister.

But he was no longer alone as he looked behind him. "Harris?"

The priest started to speak from the Book of Common Prayer, starting the funeral.

[Kata Harris]

0949
South Wing Laboratories Level 2/Woodlawn Cemetery
Vedas Base

Kata entered the lab, with the rest of her team behind her, the first thing she noticed wasn't the weird humming of the machine, or the bodies on the floor, it was the very heavy feeling that settled in her chest. She felt like she wanted to cry but couldn't and that she had just lost something important to her, but what it was, she did not know.

Cooper was sitting on the floor beside Hamrick, she had her eyes closed and was holding her head in her hands, "Cooper, what happened?" Harris asked the woman, Cooper quickly looked up, "Headache, nothing bad. Hamrick touched that-" she turned and pointed to the machine, "and then passed out.." The weighted feeling in her chest kept growing, Kata knelt down on the other side of Steve and touch his wrist, the emotions hit like a freight train.

Kata suddenly found herself standing in a cemetery as a light shower of rain fell, it was eerily quiet, a few feet ahead of her she saw a familiar figure and she started walking. The further she walked the more she realized what was going on in the cemetery, what else did you expect, a funeral. She stopped when she reached Steve, her eyes were glued on the service before her. The last time she had been a service like this it had been her fathers. "Harris?"  she blinked away the tears and glanced down to Steve, "What..where are we?" she asked quietly. 

TAG: Steve Hamrick

[Nick Harper]

0951
South Wing Laboratories Level 1
Vedas Base

Nick entered the lab just in time to see his cousin, Major Harris's eyes roll back into her head and she drop to the ground out cold. "What did my idiot do now?" Warren asked as he came in behind Nick, "Something he shouldn't be touching." Cooper quickly replied, "Like always." she added. "And what did she touch?" Nick asked pointing to Kata, Cooper pointed to Steve.  "So he touched the thing and she touched the guy who touched the thing." Nick started checking on the two, making sure that they were breathing, only odd thing was that both of them seemed to have an elevated pulse. 

"At least the console is displaying. I'll need a minute to read it. Um, 'chikitsa' means therapy, but that's not all that helpful without what kind of therapy, working on that. What's your running theory?"

"We had been discussing the idea that this room might have been used for discussions or as the Colonel put it, "Form a circle, smoke the hookah and spill your guts.." Isabelle left Nick to do his job and followed Blake, her head still hurting, "Everything was off when we entered, and after it turned on it didn't take long for Steve to drop, then Harris came in and tried to take his pulse and the same thing happened to her." Nick looked up, "Both of them have an elevated pulse, Hamricks is a little higher than Katas and since neither seem to want to wake up...it is almost like they are in a coma or a really deep sleep." of all the things he had seem happen since joining this lovely group, randomly falling unconscious was his least favorite.  

TAG: Robert "Bobby" Oxford Jr, Blake Warren, Makes-Eternal-Everlasting 

[Steve Hamrick]

0949
South Wing Laboratory Level 1

1301
January 1997
Woodlawn Cemetery
Colma, California

Looking at the other officer, her presence was reassuring that maybe he hadn't actually time traveled almost twenty years suddenly. Or maybe he had, and Harris had been tossed along with however it had happened.

His tone tried to distance himself from the pain of this day by being flippant as he pointed to the key players. "Well, the kid in uniform there is Midshipman Hamrick, next to him in black his crazy-ass mother Anna, the whore in red is his sister Kelly, sitting behind the midshipman is totally-not-his-boyfriend Patrick, and the guest of honor there is Eric Hamrick. My father."

The flippancy made for a flimsy cover. "He was barely older than I am now, that's the hell of it. Why here?"

The priest was leading an opening prayer, as Anna twisted in her seat to cry on her son's shoulder.

<<tag Kata Harris , Isabelle Cooper , Stephanie Martin , Robert "Bobby" Oxford Jr , Nick Harper >>

[Kata Harris]

0950
South Wing Laboratory Level 1

1302
January 1997
Woodlawn Cemetery
Colma, California

"Well, the kid in uniform there is Midshipman Hamrick, next to him in black his crazy-ass mother Anna, the whore in red is his sister Kelly, sitting behind the midshipman is totally-not-his-boyfriend Patrick, and the guest of honor there is Eric Hamrick. My father."

She nodded, her eyes following his hand as he pointed everyone out. She did not recognize any of the others, but after a moment she realized that the kid Steve had pointed out was a much younger him, "He was barely older than I am now, that's the hell of it. Why here?"

"This seems to be a very specific point in your past, but why am I seeing it and no one else?" she replied to a question with a question, something that did not always help a situation, it only had the people asking the questions asking more questions. 

TAG: Steve Hamrick

[Robert "Bobby" Oxford Jr]

0951
South Wing Laboratories - Level 2
Vedas Base

He was sure that whatever Warren’s idiot had done was likely to be at the par with Travis’s foolishness he had experienced over the years. After entering the lad Bobby took the thoughts back. Hamrick was a little more of an idiot than Travis. “Did he miss the don’t touch sign?” Bobby asked as he set his weapon down, checked on both as did Harper. But he didn’t touch them.

Hearing Cooper’s expiation as to what transpired here, he wanted to shake his head, but sighed, “Well I ain’t explaining this one to Matthew.” Hamrick could. And thought for a moment more as he was trying to make the sense of it all. “Sounds like ATA activation rather than touch. Did he touch it?”

He moved to call the medical officers, he send the location of the group and the gave a quick summary of what had happened so far. “Medical team without the ATA gene as we don’t want then to be in the same situation as the patients they are going to be tending to.”

He heard Travis’s voice over the radio and winced, “Not now. You can bite and bark at me all you want once this is over. And this isn’t my fault. Wanna blame your older brother?”

Tag: Blake Warren , Nick Harper , Kata Harris, and others who are around

[Steve Hamrick]

0951

South Wing Laboratory Level 1

1302

January 1997

Woodlawn, Cemetery

Colma, California

Steve was still on the ground, he did not want back at this day and refused to go to the rows of folding chairs. And the closed coffin on its scaffold. "Hell if I know, I don't even want to see it. You shouldn't have to bury a parent while you're still a kid yourself, you just shouldn't."

Nope, he wasn't going to deal with this. Focus on why he was here, and shove everything else into its little mental box labeled 'guilt.' "Good question, excellent, we're focusing on that now."

He stood up and turned around, his back to the funeral. "Last thing I did was check out the table we'd found, there was a device in the middle. I sat down while speculating about it and the computer. And then I was back at, here."

Steve ran his hands through his short hair. The funeral. Guilt wouldn't stay in the little mental box anymore. "I wasn't there when he died. I was at school in LA, he was dead and gone before I ever got the word he'd had a heart attack. If I'd been home, I could have saved him. I was home the weekend before, three days earlier and I would have been home. Three fricking days."

<<Tag Isabelle Cooper , Robert "Bobby" Oxford Jr , Kata Harris , Nick Harper , Stephanie Martin >>

[Blake Warren]

0951

South Wing Laboratory Level 1

Under normal conditions, he would have laughed at Steve's description of things. Now he was thinking, tamping down on worry to get to solutions. "Therapy. That's exactly what it is, group therapy. With technological assistance." Blake kept reading the scrolling Hindi on the screen. "Steve started the session, and Major Harris accidentally joined it. But," he thought there was medical information displaying, but translating the specific medical terms was tricky, "I don't think they can get out on their own until they complete it. That's gonna be a problem."

Blake looked over his shoulder, wondering where Steve was. He tried to decipher the displayed notes and thought he had a chronological date for the event the therapy was focused on. "1997? What's in 1997?"

When Oxford got there, Blake shared his theories. "I think they're in group therapy, for something in 1997. I'm trying to think of what but nothing's coming to mind. They successfully deal with it and then they should be out. Dr. Collins might be useful."

<<Tag Robert "Bobby" Oxford Jr, Kata Harris, Stephanie Martin, Nick Harper, Makes-Eternal-Everlasting, Isabelle Cooper>>

[Makes-Eternal-Everlasting]

0951
South Wing Labs
Level 1

Makes observed everything quiert as Bobby entered speaking with Blake, at elast it was quiet now, everyone more worried of the two on the floor asleep compared to everything else, At least they werent screaming out that the wroom was clear anymore. Why humans did that she never could figure out. Finally she thought it over. [/Madromas, hook me in, passively please. I'd like to wake up quickly.

[/Confirmed, connecting you now.... Since you will be in passive modus you wont be able to interact or speak to either Steve or Kata while within ther dreamshare. The Ancilla said

[/I know, I want to waken after seeing whats going on within their sleep. Hook me in. Seconds later Makes stood silently by the machine as madromas hood her in, passively waking up as a drone floating a few meters away able to see everything but that was it. She couldnt even control the drone. She saw a cemetary, many folk buring another... and a younger Steve while Steve himself and Kata stood not far away. She never heard or could make out Steve explaining to Kata what was going on

[/Ok Madromas wake me up... ow. Steven seems alright, I cannot make out any injury to wither Steven or Kata... Ow... Seconds later Makes blinked and rubbed her temple with a massive white furred paw, the snow leopard had a headache. Even passively there hurt

Finally she spoke up "They are at a burial ground, Steven and Kata do not appear harmed in any manner, However Steven appears to not want to be there." She said to Bobby and Blake. She pointed at the machine "It is a Memory recall and storage device. We have them at my home world in the Medical Wards and in the Historical Archives in order to continue reproduction and remember ancestors"

Well that explained a lot now didnt it ?

Steve Hamrick Robert "Bobby" Oxford Jr  Blake Warren Kata Harris

[Kata Harris]

0952
South Wing Laboratory Level 1

1302
January 1997
Woodlawn, Cemetery
Colma, California

"Hell if I know, I don't even want to see it. You shouldn't have to bury a parent while you're still a kid yourself, you just shouldn't."

She had been an adult for a good while when her dad suddenly died, even then, she was still a kid who even though she did her own adult things on a daily basis, often needed the advice of her parent. The weight of emotion still sat heavy on her chest, while she was looking at what they now knew to be Steves memory, she kept seeing her own situation in her head. 

"Last thing I did was check out the table we'd found, there was a device in the middle. I sat down while speculating about it and the computer. And then I was back at, here."

So it was some type of memory device? Kata took her eyes from the funeral before them and looked around as Steve kept talking, once again going back to the scene before them. "I wasn't there when he died. I was at school in LA, he was dead and gone before I ever got the word he'd had a heart attack. If I'd been home, I could have saved him. I was home the weekend before, three days earlier and I would have been home. Three fricking days."

Harris turned her eyes up to Steve, "Eleven years ago I was driving when a drunk driver ran the light and hit the truck my dad and I were in. We were coming back from the store and I can't remember the finer details but I ended up driving. The drunk hit us on his side hard enough that it sent me through the window." she paused for a moment and fought the lump in her throat. While Nick knew what had happened and had come to the funeral, he never asked her to talk about it, same with the rest of her family, but now standing there with Steve, it felt right. "From the moment I woke up in the hospital I wondered how things might have turned out differently if he had been driving, or if I had taken the longer route home or maybe if we had sent one of my other siblings...so many what if's and not enough whys." she had spent hours wondering why her dad had been killed, and even today she still wondered sometimes. "Eventually after a few trips through the Stargate, that in this universe there are only so many things we can control. Who lives and who dies is one of the hard ones." 


TAG: Steve Hamrick

[Isabelle Cooper]

0952
South Wing Laboratories - Level 2
Vedas Base

She did not know if it was a good thing or not that they now had access to a group therapy machine, it could be beneficial in the future if they have more control over what happens verses it randomly happening to people. "1997? What's in 1997?" Isabelle shrugged as she looked at the screen Blake had been watching, even though she could not read many of the words, she did recognize the language. "Hong Kong declared its independence....dolly the sheep...or was that 1998?" She had a feeling that neither of those events pertained to Col. Hamrick, “Well I ain’t explaining this one to Matthew.” Iz rolled her eyes and turned her head to face Bobby, "Well luckily, no one is asking you to explain anything, Captain." she replied. 

Isabelle turned her attention now to Makes, the humanoid leopard who had been apart of the expedition for a while now, the tall Fijitian seemed to have discovered something. "They are at a burial ground, Steven and Kata do not appear harmed in any manner, However Steven appears to not want to be there." 1997...and a cemetery..."This is the Colonels memory...so what happened in 1997 that would cause him to be at a cemetery?" whatever it was, it probably wasn't a good one. 

TAG: All yall 

[Nick Harper]

0952
South Wing Laboratories - Level 1
Vedas Base

For once Nick was glad that he did not have the weird ATA alien gene that just about everyone else on the Base had, he did not need any weird stuff happening to him. Nope, he was 100% fine being normal. Nick kept an eye on the two sleepy heads, so far nothing changed. Oxford called for more medical teams to move the two to the infirmary, smart move since no one knew what state they would be in when they woke up...whenever that would be. 

Cooper started naming off things that happened in 1997, trying to figure out what Harris and Hamrick might be seeing, after everyone chimed in their thoughts, including some valuable insight by Makes, the two sleepy heads were in a cemetery, so that helped...some. "Princess Diana died..but I don't think they are at her funeral...and Kata's dad didn't die till 2003." that had been a crazy year, then his cousin up and vanished to work in "Colorado" aka a zillion miles away across the galaxy, but he did not know that at the time. 
"Makes...are we able to remove them from this room once our medical teams arrive or do they have to stay till they wake up." Nick asked, last thing they needed was for there to be an adverse side effects from the machine.