This story is a translation of my french fanfiction "Les derniers mots".
Disclaimers: The characters of Stargate Atlantis aren't my properties.
Last words
"I love you."
A heavy silence takes place between them. Teyla searches her words, the right words, flabbergasted. This confession is destabilizing for her, especially in these circumstances.
She questions herself about her feeling for John Sheppard. She trusts him since the beginning. She appreciates Rodney, Ronon and others peoples, but her relationship with John is particular. When she is sad, she finds her comfort with John next to her. Never with Kanaan. When she is in danger, it is John's help she hopes. She pronounces his name in first, always. And she gave his name at her son: Torren John Emmagan.
Teyla still tries to understand the emotional thunderstorm in her mind when the Lieutenant Colonel cracks up. Abruptly, he weighs heavier in the alien's arms.
"I'm sorry" he murmurs, ashamed.
"Do not feel embarrassed."
And, suddenly, she presses her lips delicately on Colonel's mouth. It is cold like the ineluctable death; hot like the fight to stay alive. Their tongues search and find the other in a briefly kiss. John abandons his last strengths at the athosian woman.
He expires in her arms, after an ultimate look of lucidity, an ultimate second of existence. Loved.
THE END