I WILL FIND YOU, I PROMISE CHAPTER 2
SUMMARY: When John Sheppard left Earth fourteen years ago, he didn't realise that his past would be coming back to him, and banging on the door of his present. Established Sheppard/Weir and Carson/Teyla
DISCLAIMER: I don't own Stargate, I promise. Otherwise there would be a lot less fighting and a lot more CARSON BECKETT :)
Sorry it took FOREVER to upload! I swear the hour after I got the edited version of the chapter, my computer crashed :(
As Makenna stepped through the Stargate, she had the look that I frequently saw on myself in the mirror. A closed-off, determined look, eyebrows drawn down and a mischievous smile that puts people on edge. I watched from Elizabeth's office as Carson went down, and escorted her to the infirmary. He was going to do a full physical test and a brain scan to see what was causing her drawing…abilities.
"John?" Elizabeth came up behind me and put her hand on my shoulder. I sighed, and pulled her in to hug her tightly. We sat in Elizabeth's office in silence for a while with Rodney tapping away on his tablet in the corner.
"Sheppard, where did you live when you were on Earth?" Rodney asked, hunched over the tablet.
"Nevada, why?" I looked over at him.
"Makenna came from an orphanage in Denver. Do you know anyone there?" Rodney looked at me.
"No." Rodney huffed, and turned back to the tablet.
"What are you actually doing on there Rodney?" Elizabeth looked over at him.
"Scanning Makenna's history from the orphanage."
"I don't think I'm ready to be a dad," I muttered after a long pause.
"You'll be fine laddie," Carson walked in from the infirmary frowning. I kept forgetting about his daughter with Teyla. He was fantastic with her.
"Why are you frowning?" Rodney said from behind his tablet where he was scanning Makenna's somewhat limited history from the orphanage.
"I'm frowning because she's completely fine."
"And there's something wrong with that?" I asked.
"No, there's nothing wrong with that. It's just that the results don't show anything abnormal," Carson sighed, and leant against the desk.
"Where is she?" Teyla asked, coming in with Ronon. She walked over to Carson and slipped her hand into his. He smiled at her.
"She's in the isolation room."
"Sheppard, don't you think-"
"Ronon, right now I don't know what to think, okay?" I snapped at him. I let Elizabeth go, and walked down the halls to the chamber overlooking the isolation room. There she was. She had my dark brown hair, but hers was long and thick. She wasn't very tall from what I could see, but she was built much like Teyla in the way that she was practically all muscle, lean and thin.
"She's just like you," Carson came up behind me and consulted his charts. I smiled slightly.
"What, stubborn, doesn't take orders and annoying?" I muttered. Carson just chuckled.
"What's it like Carson? Being a dad?" I asked him, after a long pause of me just watching Makenna. Carson looked at me.
"It's nice, I guess. At least you don't have to deal with diapers and 1am bottles," Carson looked at his records again.
"Yeah, but I have to deal with all the hormones and the tantrums and-"
"John, she's grown up in an orphanage-"
"Don't remind me."
"-so I'm guessing that she hasn't been around that sort of behaviour. She'll be a lot like you, I bet." Carson gave a final grin, and left.
"A teenaged John Sheppard? She'll be a handful," Elizabeth walked into the chamber and stood next to me.
"John, please talk to me. At least tell me what you're thinking, because I'm trying and I'm coming up blank." I turned away from her, and looked through the window again. She spun me around, with surprising ease for someone almost half my weight, and led me over to a set of chairs. She sat down next to me and put her hand on my shoulder. I groaned and put my head in my hands.
"I feel like I'm in a cage, Elizabeth. If I send Makenna away, I will be constantly regretting it. She'll go back to an orphanage, and I can't do that to her. I know what happens to kids in the orphanages, and I don't like it." Elizabeth got up and knelt in front of me, her arms crossed over my knees.
"But if she stays here, she'll be in danger. From the Wraith, from the war, and from the constant fear of death," I looked down at Elizabeth. She stood up, put her hands on my shoulders and kissed me. I pulled back slightly, considering where we were, but then pushed forward into the kiss. Elizabeth pulled away slowly, and looked at me.
"John, whatever you choose to do, I will support your decision. I love you," I looked up at her quickly and kissed her again, long, slow and passionate, putting all the things I couldn't say into it.
"I love you too, Elizabeth," she smiled. Carson came rushing in, with Rodney right behind him.
"We've got a problem Sheppard," Carson said, grabbing my arm.
"What's wrong?" Elizabeth asked.
"It's... Makenna," I looked quickly up at Carson, and then dashed over to the window. She wasn't in the isolation room.
"Shit," I swore, and ran down the stairs into the Room. No sign of her.
"Nobody's ever gotten out before," Carson came rushing in.
"How could she have gotten out?" Elizabeth asked over the radio. She must have been heading to the control room to check the maps.
"We have no idea," Rodney was grabbing his laptop and punching in numbers to try and calculate where she could be. I was spinning around, trying to see the room from Makenna's eyes.
"Why did she want to leave? She spent ages trying to get here just to escape!" Carson was wringing his hands in worry. Suddenly, it dawned on me.
"She didn't want to escape," I started back up the stairs and down the corridor, with Carson, Elizabeth and Rodney following me. It must have occurred to Elizabeth as well.
"She wanted to see-"
"You," a voice came from behind me. I spun around to see Makenna looking straight at me. Elizabeth looked at me quickly.
"It's Makenna, right?" I asked cautiously, walking slowly towards my daughter. She smiled, and it was so alike mine it was uncanny.
"Hey there Dad."
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