Author's Note: I don't know why, but for some reason, the idea of Teyla having to watch her team leave without her again and again fascinates me. Drabble and a half.
My prompt was "months"; but I'm not sure if I want this one for fanfic100_claim on LJ or not...
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It had been four months. Four months since Teyla had last seen her people, last kissed her husband. It had been almost as long since she'd learned she was pregnant...
...And one month since she'd been removed from duty.
Standing on the balcony in the control room, she turned her gaze towards the gate; her habit since John had removed her from duty. Yet again she watched her team leave and return without her. Without learning any more about her people.
Agonized, she looked away.
She wanted to be out there with them, searching; but for her child, she stayed. She could not let anything happen to this baby; he was the last link to her husband and the rest of her people. She had helped to create him, and she would protect his life with everything she had.
Even if no one else survived, her son needed to live.