Enter Doctor Weir.

[doctor_weir]

Whatever Elizabeth Weir had been expecting before walking out of her apartment door, it certainly wasn't...this.

The door clicks shut behind her and Elizabeth walks forward, bewildered and staring almost agape at everyone she's positive couldn't possibly be real but maybe Sheppard had a point with the whole 'alien hallucination

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[no_comb_shep]

Sheppard's been looking for people he recognizes. And oh, he recognizes one. His expression is remarkably similar to that of deer caught in headlights as he turns and notices Elizabeth not too far away.

Really, there's only one thing to think in this sort of situation.

Dammit!

Maybe if he stays very, very still, the t-rex Weir won't notice him? She might notice the cough, though-of all the times...

[doctor_weir]

That cough.

Sheppard.

Elizabeth's head snaps toward John.

No words.

Just...pointing, out the window.

[no_comb_shep]

Sheppard looks out the window.

Honestly, it still makes him a little dizzy to try and look at it directly. But he nods a little.

"Yeah, I still think somebody should probably do something about that..."

[doctor_weir]

"John."

Elizabeth has remastered speech, and her voice is equal parts indignant and utterly confused.

"...Care to explain?"

[no_comb_shep]

"Um." Think, Sheppard, think!

Think of something besides a long and interesting stream of cusswords.

He settles for gesturing vaguely around at the bar. "It's Milliways, it's a bar at the end of the universe, somehow it doesn't get blown up every day, and the door is really picky about when it shows up?"

It's a start.

[doctor_weir]

Elizabeth raises an eyebrow, nodding as though to accept his attempt at an explanation.

"And this -- " A hand is waved around the entirety of the bar, even landing every twenty yards or so on ... Rats? " -- this was not worth trying to explain to me."

[no_comb_shep]

"Not worth the time spent in the infirmary after everybody's convinced that I've gone kinda crazy. And McKay never mentioned it, either."

He's not the only one from their universe who knows about the bar, after all.

[doctor_weir]

"Rodney has been here too?"

The indignance is fading to a sort of exasperation, and she shrugs off her coat from the heat and the restlessness of needing to do something.

"You could have tried to explain, John."

[no_comb_shep]

"Yeah, but I probably would've ended up opening doors all over Atlantis and never getting one to open up to here. Seems like I only show up at bad times."

He glances back towards the door, watching to see if McKay-or anybody else from their universe-comes wandering through. "We're not the only ones from our universe either. I found Colonel Carter, Dr. Jackson, and Dr. Frasier here, too."

He hopes the thing about Janet being dead doesn't come up.

[doctor_weir]

Elizabeth's face falls flat at the mention of Janet.

"That's a horrible thing to say about Dr. Frasier."

Sorry, John.

[no_comb_shep]

"She's here," he says, frowning as he looks back to Elizabeth. "It's like...afterlife or something for her; I don't know. But she's here."

[doctor_weir]

"People don't come back from the dead."

With as many people as they've lost on Atlantis, she should know. So should John.

Even with that sentiment rattling around in her brain, Elizabeth sounds far more defensive than she has a reason to be.

"...I don't understand."

[no_comb_shep]

Unfortunately, Janet isn't around at the moment to help explain-and he's not even sure she really could explain the whole afterlife thing. So instead he offers, "I don't really get the whole afterlife thing either, but it sounds like it happens to a lot of people..."

[doctor_weir]

"...It's certainly not how I imagined dying."

It's a bar, after all.

A thought occurs to her and she looks to John with something like worry: "Carson was meeting me at my apartment..."

[no_comb_shep]

"Time's probably stopped out there-it always stops for me, and I've been stuck here for months before."

From his tone, he didn't enjoy the stays.

[doctor_weir]

Elizabeth is grasping for any sort of explanation that she can understand of this whole situation, and one jumps at her, however implausible.

But everything right now's implausible, so she gives it a go.

"Is this some sort of...time dilation field? Maybe your idea when you called wasn't too far off - an alien hallucination..."