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Season: One

Spoilers: None

Pairings: Weir/Sheppard, bit of Teyla/Ford

Genre: Romance/Angst

Summary: Sequel to "Sample This". Can't say much or it'll give away what happens.

Rating: PG-13, T

Tomorrow

Chapter One: Unfinished Lunch

It was lunchtime. John and Elizabeth were in Elizabeth's office with a plate of turkey sandwiches and two glasses of orange juice.

"Don't mean to sound like I'm trying to get rid of you or anything but, don't you have reports to do as well?" Elizabeth took a sip of her juice.

"Well, I just felt that I'd keep you company. Is there anything wrong with that?" John was sitting besides Elizabeth as John kissed her cheek.

"Meaning you don't have anyone to bother since Rodney is off world on a recon mission with Atlantis four, looking at ruins."

"That's…besides the point." Elizabeth smiled as she kept on typing her report up.

A couple of moments passed before the Stargate started to dial in. Both leaders looked up and then at each other.

"No teams are due back until tomorrow," John commented as Elizabeth looked confused along with John and they both left for the control room.

As they walked over to the control room, they saw marines running to their defence positions on the sides of the gate room. The wormhole connected. When they got to the control room, they saw Grodin along with the other gate technicians' busy working.

"Peter, what's happening?" Elizabeth enquired.

"I don't know. It's taking all of Atlantis's power to keep the shield sustained for some reason," said Peter as he hit some other controls on the control panel.

"Any IDC yet?"

"None."

All of the sudden, everything shut down. Systems, lights, power, everything, even the shield. Both John and Elizabeth looked alarmed as John contacted the guards that were guarding the naquadah generators that powered the control tower.

"Smith, is your generator offline?"

"No sir. Is there a problem?"

"We'll have to get back to you on that one."

"Understood."

"The generator is working normally." John turned to see Elizabeth facing the Stargate from the mini balcony.

"What could've happened?" asked Elizabeth as John walked next to her so both of them were looking at the Stargate.

"Well before the systems shut down, we received a high energy spike where I think, damaged the computers and systems," said Grodin as he tried to get the system back online.

"This doesn't make any sense," John said as they both turned to see if they could help out. Just as they started walking to a control panel, a large energy surge came out of the ancient mainframe and hit John square in the chest. Elizabeth reached out to grab John before he fell backwards over the balcony but it was inevitable as he fell backwards to the gate room floor and landed with a dull thud.

"John!" Elizabeth cried out as she reached out.

She ran down the stairs to the gate room to go to John's aid. She checked his pulse and was relived that he was just unconscious but was worried about how many places he just broke or fractured and didn't know if he'd be alive for long. What she didn't know was that there were Wraith coming through the Stargate.

They came through. First in a group of five, which eliminated half of the SFs' but the marines soon got reinforcements as more marines came through the doors wielding machine guns and P-90s'. Along with the backup, Teyla and Ford came as they fired upon the enemies. The first group was killed. As soon as the first group was destroyed, as second came through, a group of ten. They opened fire.

As the fight began, Elizabeth was beside John, trying to get him to wake up. Tears streamed down her face as she kept calling and whispering his name.

"John…please wake up…John…I need…you…please-" Just as Elizabeth was about to finish her sentence, she was yanked up as she faced a Wraith. Her eyes widened as the Wraith drew its hand back and started to feed on her. She screamed.

"Dr. Weir!" Elizabeth faintly heard Teyla yell out to her but couldn't remember what happened afterwards.

As the Wraith pulled his hand back to feed on Elizabeth, Teyla saw something she had not seen on a Wraith arm and noticed that only it had one. Teyla yelled out to Elizabeth as she started to scream in pain. Teyla, doing the only thing she thought of, fired at the unfamiliar object on the Wraith's arm. The Wraith pulled back abruptly as the bullets inflicted pain on it. A Wraith soldier tackled Teyla to the ground as the Wraith leader started feeding on Elizabeth again. All of the sudden, as soon as the device on its arm was shot off, all of the systems came back online and the shield was back in place.

Ford saw Teyla getting tackled and almost squashed to death by the Wraith.

"Teyla!" Ford raced over to her and fired all of the bullets in his P-90 at the Wraith. Even though the Wraith dropped lifeless next to Teyla, who got up, Ford reloaded his gun and continued to fire in anger.

"Lieutenant! It is dead. I am fine," Teyla said as she intervened from him wasting any more bullets for her. Ford pulled her in for a brief hug.

"I'm so glad you're okay." Teyla smiled, as they pulled apart and continued to fire at the remaining Wraith.

Elizabeth whimpered as the hand slammed into her chest again as the pain started to increase again. She gritted her teeth, trying to bit back her scream again but couldn't hold it back any longer.

"JOHN!" Tears poured down her face as it aged.

"Pathetic human," hissed the Wraith as it continued to feed, savouring each moment.

Then, ten bullets were shot into its chest to head. There stood, John Sheppard, wielding his 9mm, empty. He ejected the empty ammo and replaced it with a fresh new on from his vest pocket. He took off the safety catch and opened fire again. The Wraith stood there, frozen in shock and bullets but that didn't make John stop firing endless rounds of bullets. He threw aside the 9mm and took a P-90 from one of the fallen soldiers and fired rounds and rounds of bullets into the Wraiths body before he stopped, with the gun smoking. Since the Wraith had a chance to fall down, dead, it did.

John dropped the gun aside and ran to Elizabeth's body. He cradled her as she gasped for air. He rocked back and forth as tears welled up in his eyes.

"Elizabeth, please…don't leave me…"

Elizabeth barely had enough energy to crack her eyes open but she did anyways. She surveyed his face, how it was about to spill into tears.

"Jo...John…I…lo-lo…" Elizabeth rasped for breath.

"Liz, you'll be fine. Just hang in there. You'll be okay," John said as he choked on his tears.

"Don't call…me…Liz…" John chuckled through tears as Elizabeth smiled. His eyes widened as her body fell limp with a smile on her face.

"Elizabeth? Liz? Lizzy!" He cried tears of sadness as he pulled her lifeless body in a hug. He sat there, hugging her lifeless body, amidst the lifeless bodies of both human and Wraith.

I'm really sorry for the cliffhanger! I'll try to update soon! Please review!

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