Disclaimer: Don't own Stargate Atlantis
Note: This only came about thanks to Kate Bush and her wonderful song 'This Woman's work.'
Warning: Suspected character death
Elizabeth looked out across the glistening water that surrounded the city. She closed her eyes and let the tears she'd been holding back fall onto her cheeks.
As she allowed her tears to fall, she let her sobs free.
She
gripped tightly onto the railings of the balcony.
He was
gone.
John Sheppard had gone on a mission and had not returned and while there was not any solid evidence that he was dead, well the scorched lifeless planet spoke for itself.
She'd failed to protect her people. She'd failed to protect John.
She quickly wiped the tears off her cheek and from her eyes. The last thing she needed was Aiden or Carson noticing that she'd been crying. She was going to have to be strong. Not let her emotions get in the way.
She needed John, wanted him to be here next to her. To hold her and tell her everything was okay, she wanted to tell him everything she'd never had the strength to tell him.
Wanted to
tell him how much he meant to her, how that without him she wouldn't
have been able to handle the expedition.
But now
she was alone, she had to draw on her own strength and the strength
John had gave her.
She was
full of darkness and that had to go way.
She had to
be strong and lead these people.
That was
her work.
Fin…