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Teyla: dead
Teyla�s son: with Michael
Ronan: blown up in Wraith lab with Todd
Lorne: 2 star General, head of SGC; the only person with seemingly positive life of the gang
Jennifer: died from complications brought on by repeated exposure Hoffan drug
Sam: went down with the ship, �Phoenix�; took out 3 of Michael�s Wraith hives
Rodney: Mr Rogers cardigan wearing hologram; presumably died on Atlantis though never discussed
Michael: ruling the galaxy with his hybrids and Teyla�s son
With a completely undignified crumpling of limbs I collapsed to the floor, falling, once again, through Holo-Rodney and landing face-first on the floor of Atlantis. I immediately decided that it was definitely a good thing I was going to be jumping back in time soon to where I would only have to deal with a Rodney McKay who hadn�t seen the several less than graceful movements I�d made since jumping forward in time in the first place, because as I rolled over onto my back and lay looking up at the hologram of my best friend I could see his barely contained laughter delaying his endless string of jokes with assorted intensity to the barb of each verbal assault that were just waiting to burst forth. It�s not like it was my fault, though. The collapsing thing. I had been in stasis for� well, I wasn�t exactly sure how long, Holo-Rodney wasn�t talking so much as curling over holding his stomach and biting his lip while his shoulders shake and that stupid brown cardigan�with the cuffs rolled up twice to allow his hands to stick out of the sleeves making me think that somewhere before Rodney made Holo-Rodney he started shopping at the Big&Tall store for reasons having nothing to do with the &Tall part�pulling tight over his back while I�m given a perfect view of the top of his head�he still has all his hair, damnit. I could have at least teased him about that when I get back, about how he was there, totally bald, or maybe with a really bad grad-eight-math-teacher style comb-over or something, but nope, not gonna happen now. I mean, his hairline is less than a quarter inch back from where it is now� or in my time� the time I belong in� guh! This time-travel stuff is annoying. And, while I supposed I could always lie, it�s just wouldn�t be as much fun as if I were teasing him about something that was true.
It took me a few minutes to get my vocal chords working again (it took me nearly a full minute to achieve the ability to blink again so the vocal chords were a bit more of a challenge) but Holo-Rodney seemed to have a significantly better grasp of the concept of patience than the McKay I�m used to. Probably Keller�s doing, which means it�s probably not a trait that my McKay is going to acquire unless something changes�last I heard Keller was bunking with Ronan, the fact that he had developed a tendency to linger at pre and post mission physical time adding weight to the rumour, as does the fact that the good doctor has been spotted trying to sneak out of Ronan�s room to the Infirmary at a run after sleeping late (Ronan couldn�t figure out the alarm clock so he gave it back to the City�s stores) no less than five times in the last month� or the month before I jumped forward.
I hate time travel.
Finally I managed to ask what, really, was the only question that I needed answered.
�How long until the solar flare?�
�Two hours, if my calculations are correct,� Holo-Rodney said.
The fact that he didn�t add something about how, of course they were correct because it was him who did the math after all or whatever threw out about half a dozen flags on the play. �You don�t sound as confident as I�d like,� I frowned, still trying to get all my muscles to do what I wanted them to. I couldn�t remember any mission reports that outlined the sensations of exiting stasis pods but so far I have to say that I�m not a fan.