Andrea couldn't remember when it started, but she remembered the first vision she had. She thought she'd only been daydreaming, considering it was John in what she was seeing. In a fantastical city, or that was what it had appeared to her, and she even received confirmation from a few of the people around John, they were calling it Atlantis, but it seemed the city was under water, and because of the extra power that was being used, triggered by their arrival through something they were calling the Stargate, it was taking power away from the shields, threatening to allow the water to come in.
Then nothing. She'd come back to the real world, and she shook the whole thing off, or tried. After all, she had her own work to do on the cardiovascular unit as a registered nurse.
Days went by before she had another, and these days, she can't remember what the second was about. This happened for a while though, she remembered, it would be days, weeks or even months between visions. But time passed, and with it, the frequency of her visions increased. She cried when Lt. Ford apparently died. Wasn't completely sure about Ronin, screamed and agonized when Dr. Carson Beckett died in the explosion. When Dr. Weir was turned into a replicator, she couldn't believe it, and was really uncertain about Mr. Woolsey. But he seemed to have proved himself capable, and eventually won her own trust in him, certainly before he'd won John's.
At some point, Andie realized she wasn't making these visions up. Some of the things John did to keep his team and Atlantis safe, she would never have guessed of him. But she saw, always, that what he did, it needed to be done, and there was often no other way.
John had been her brother-in-law at one time. Married to her older sister Nancy who was now working for the Homeland Security. Andie and never been close to Nancy, they tried, but the age difference between and the differences in personalities often was too much of a bridge to cross. Nancy and John started out well enough, and Andie had like John, even a bit of crush as Highschool teenage girl would have. In Andie's opinion, Nancy was too focused on the fact that she'd married someone who was making the military his career, and not focused enough on the man himself. The second Andie found out that John Sheppard was in Special Operations, she knew there were going to be a lot of things that he wouldn't be able to speak about, including where he would go. There were times that he would get a phone call and have to leave his and Nancy's home within an hour, able to only say he'd been called on a mission and he had to go. And no, he didn't know when he would be back.
Nancy was the type that she had to know what was going on through his head, know where he was, who he was with, what he was doing. But how was he supposed to have done that if he couldn't speak of it? Andie understood that, Nancy didn't. Eventually, the distance between Nancy and John was just too much, even long before Nancy filed for divorce. Nancy started having an affair, something Andie didn't know until after the fact, after the divorce had been finalized.
And during their marriage, Andie and John became good friends. She didn't know if he ever had similar feelings for her as Andie grew for John. Andie had more than just a crush on him, and grown to love him much more than she should have. Something she always felt guilty about, and would often catch herself daydreaming of what she would if she ever had the chance, should John and Nancy split up.
Then it happened, but Andie didn't get the chance to do anything, she wasn't sure if she would have if given that chance, but John had disappeared. Dropping all contact with Andie, she assumed it was because she was Nancy's sister. She knew it would probably have been odd, and awkward. To say the least.
It was about a year after that when the vision started. Eventually, as the years drew by, the visions became so vivid that she had no idea what was going on around her on Earth. Nancy saw this, their parents, by that time, had passed away, and so Nancy felt it was up to her to take care of Andie who seemed to be losing her mind, and had her younger sister commited to a mental institution.
Nancy never mentioned this to John when he came back for his father's funeral, instead, they ended up hashing out what had happened in their marriage, that is, Nancy felt the need to hash it out. Andie had no idea what John's reaction was, she hadn't had a vision of that, and only heard Nancy's side of things when she came to visit.
More time passed, and Andie was deteriorating. Her health was fragile at best since she was going into organ failure, hooked up to kidney dialysis a few times every week, and on several types of medications to keep her lungs and heart going, along with every other organ in her body. She rarely ever seemed to come out of her visions anymore these days, but when she tried to be heard by John and his team, or by anyone in Atlantis, she spoke aloud in her room at the mental institution. Copper colored hair had been cut to shoulder length for easier upkeep, though it was still often in disarray from being strapped to bed constantly, to keep her from pulling IVs out.
Recordings were made of her as she was trapped in these illusions. And eventually, they caught the eye of someone who had once worked in the Stargate Program. Seeing this, Dr. Joseph Anderson, who had been a physician for those wounded off world, and was currently Andie's physician, relayed the video to Lt. General Jack O'Neill.
This was big, he knew of the connection between Andie and Lt. Col. John Sheppard, and it had only been a few, quiet months since Atlantis was landed in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Francisco, California. Now, he was on Atlantis, coming from Cheyenne Mountain where the program was based, and calling for a meeting with Sheppard and his team, along with Woolsey and the rest of the heads of staff to show the video of Andrea Davis.
"So this video was brought to my attention a few days ago, Sheppard, I think you might find this one interesting as you know the person in it," O'Neill said after everyone had gathered and seated themselves. Only then, did he enter the video and played the contents.
On it, Andie was shown strapped on a bed, talking in an apparent one sided conversation, but she mentioned the name of every person in that room, except for O'Neill. At certain points, she seemed distressed, agitated. Shouting out for everyone to hear her, based off of her monologue, it was during the time that Atlantis was being flown from the Pegasus Galaxy, to the Milky Way, and the landing of where it floated now.
In the meantime, Andie was in the room with them, feeling no pain from her physical body, she was trapped in a vision still, and she was witnessing the video with the rest of them. She stood behind John, arms folded under her chest, copper hair in disarray, and she was shaking her head. "Why are you showing them this? What do you have planned?" she asked, knowing there had to be a plan of some sort. She just couldn't fathom what it was, she just knew she was just a few weeks from dying finally. That is, as long as her organs continued to fail her as they were now...