TWENTY EIGHT
It took less than 8 hours after we set foot though the gate to Atlantis to find out if we were to make it in this new galaxy we would need help. So we picked an address and stepped though the ring and I met you.
It took me 20 seconds to realize that when you smiled at me with what I would later come to know as your 'knowing' smile that I had found something special. But, if I am truly honest with myself it was a much shorter time than that.
In the next 28 hours we shared tea. We shared a moment. You shared your history with me and then the Wraith came. You were taken, my people were taken and I had to do something. We don't leave our people behind…I would not leave you behind. Later, when all was done, in spite of our losses we shared hope. You then shared the tradition of your people -touching your forehead to mine and pledged your friendship. It was then that I knew we would be forever connected.
It took 28 days, 20 minutes and 8 seconds for us to locate you after Michael took you. I know this because I counted each day, each hour…each second until you were back on Atlantis safely. I would not allow what I had witnessed in that alternative reality to be your fate or that of your child. I could not; I would not regardless the price. 28 days, 20 minutes and 8 seconds – the longest, most painful time of my life.
It took me 28 sheets of paper to prepare the words I would use when I asked you to share my life for as long as the ancestors would allow. I know it was 28 because I counted each one as I tossed it into the trash.
It took me 28 steps to reach your door after I stood there for what felt like 28 years to get the nerve to use those words. In reality it had only taken me 6, but in the end the words were not worth the piece of paper I had written them on, my heart had found others. My heart spoke and yours answered and in the end that was all that mattered.
Today is the 28th day of the 2nd month of the year and I hold in my hands a thing of beauty. I hold our daughter, the newest love in my life. I could not have been given a greater gift – a more blessed life.
Twenty-eight seems to be my number.
Footnote:
28 DAY NUMBER
The 2 energy of the number 28 makes the 28 Day Number person sensitive – but the 8 energy sees a drive for success. Together they give the attributes of leadership.
The 28 is a stubborn and independent energy. They will excel anywhere they can show their leadership qualities. If they have an A, S or J first initial they may try to rule the house.