The Halloween party had been a success. People continued to talk about it for days and it was decided the party would become an annual celebration. It was also decided Atlantis needed to celebrate in order to keep morale up.
They celebrated again when Carson, Rodney and Caitlin were married on the mainland by the Sanguis. The ceremony had been as unique as the relationship between the three of them. There wasn't a dry eye there since everyone knew how much the three of them had gone through to get to that point. Even Jack seemed touched by it.
The three had planned on going to Earth for a few days for their honeymoon but the plans had to be scrapped when Atlantis received word about the Wraith culling one of their allies. Everyone knew they needed to step up their efforts to get rid of the Wraith so all of them worked overtime to figure out new ways to dispense the retro-virus and find the hives faster.
Unknown to any of them, Molly had accidentally overheard a conversation about the Wraith and what Atlantis was trying to do. She offered to help find the hives and, after talking her parents into it, Radek made her a large star map and soon the little girl was pinpointing where all the hives were. The team started to take the hives out as fast as they could and were helped along when the Wraith started to fight each other because they thought it was other hives and alliances that were doing the poisoning.
Even thought taking the hives out were a good thing, Fred found herself missing her husband. They had become so busy that the only time they saw each other were on missions and at night before going to bed. She knew the sacrifice was needed to keep Atlantis safe but she was also selfish so she decided to take the day off and take John to the cove.
So after securing a picnic, Fred wandered through the city to find her husband. It wasn't hard to and once she had, she went over to him and grabbed his hands. "Come on," she said, tugging at him. "We're going to play hooky today and go out to the cove. I have one of the jumpers ready and there's a picnic waiting for us."