Finally getting high enough in the tree Teyla passed the broken branch, what was left of it that she saw, looking up as she heard a clink of metal against wood she smiled, her gun, straining she reached upwards to grab it, and all but lost her grip on the tree, the branch under her grave a very unnerving creak as she tried to get her weapon to reach the light.

Then...

CRACK, "Whoah!" The branch Teyla was standing on fell from underher and she fell fast once more into the swampy water, her P90 light though had turned on and was swaying in the tree as Teyla hit the water with a splash, once more in a deep area,looking up she saw the branch with her P90 snap and fall towards her. "oh no." she muttered to herself as she tried to get out of the way, only to get snagged by the leg as the branch hit the water and started to sink...

FAST.

She struggled with the branch that was pining her down, sinking ever deeper into the mirky water as Halling and the man with him arrived just intime to see a branch hit the water and a light go out, "Teyla!" Halling called making his way to the tree where Teyla had been leaning against but by way of a path throu the mirky swampland.

Teyla struggled against the branch, she had hit the bottom of the swampy, mud filled water. and had finally gotton free, only when she came out of the water she was in the reeds, and so did not see nor hear Halling call her, well she didn't see him until he all but tripped over her.

Thinking her a log he said to the man behind him, "careful, there's a log in the path" then the two men passed on by, thinking Teyla nothing but a log because of the mud in her hair and all over her body. Teyla then relized that water was cold. she dragged herself out of it and leaned against a tree, hoping that Halling would come back to her.

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Over by the crashed Jumper John started to come to, "where am I?" then he remembered and said before Rodney could speak, "Don't answer thast I remember where I am." John looked around, "Halling back yet?"

"Nope Carson though is near here and... there he is, hope he has some dry socks!" Rodney said, once more complaining.

John just laid his head back on the leaf covered ground, "well things don't get better then this." he mumbled before blacking out again. Not knowing that Carson had landed and was already trying to get the tree out of his leg. John couldn't feel a thing.

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After Halling's voice faded from her ears Teyla slowly stood up, not only did her whole body hurt, but she was starving, how long had she been under the swamp water and mud? As she leaned against the tree a wave of pain washed over her, driving her to her knees, her vision swam and she coughed up blood, 'something must be broken' she thought. She had no idea that she had shattered her backbone when she hit the branch.

Once more getting to her feet Teyla slowly moved along the path towards the campment, Hopefully John had made it there before crashing, only thing was she did not klnow that John was back in Atlantis getting worked on by Beckett.

"Where is food, I need fo-- Wraith? What are they doing here?" Teyla wondered aloud as she felt in the back of her mind a very strong Wraith precense... or was it truly a Wraith? Following the feeling Teyla found herself staring at a web, unable to move as she stared at the insect on the web, every bone in her shattered beaten body told her to run, but something held her back.

"I see you are admiring my little friend" a voice said, Teyla twirled around and found hgerself staring right at a Wraith, "donnot be alarmed, Vernse stays on her web. Hmmm" The wild haired Wraith took a step back as he looked at Teyla, seeing her muddy and badly wounded, "you seem damaged, come let me help you." he said reaching out a hand.

Teyla didn't move, how could she when her back was to a Iratus, and a Wraith was in front of her about to feed, "Don't you touch me!" Teyla said, trying to sound strong though her mouth had a thick coppery taste to it, she spat out blood again. when she looked up the Wraith was within arms reach of her.

"You donnot understand, I am the only one left from the Great War long ago, since then I have fed off my own kind, and now since they are gone i perfer the animals of the forests. Please let me help you." The Wraith said to Teyla, all but begging.

Teyla couldn't help but see into his mind, he indeed wanted to help her, but how could he? Taking a deep breath Teyla asked confused, "How can you help me?"

"Just... Trust me" The Wraith replied as he set his hand, his feeding hand on her chest. Teyla screamed as the Wraith Enzyme was injected into her body. Teyla dropped to the ground as the Wraith gave her new life, putting her bones back together to the point wherein she would still need medical attention. then something else hit the Wraith. when he finished he began to think over what it was.

He had picked up Teyla carefully and taken her to a small hut that he had built for himself. Laying Teyla on the bed he started moving about the hut putting on a fresh pot of water to get hot on the fireplace, then doing his best ot clean Teylas wounds.

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John slowly came to, the first thing he saw was the Infirmary ceiling, "Where am I?" he asked, his voice slurry.

"Good to see you wake up, it's been almost five days" Rodney said, "I'll be right back, I'll let Weir know you are awake." Rodney then took off from the room.

"Five days?" John asked as Beckett arrived, "I was out for five days?"

"Yes you were out for five days, your leg seemed to piece itself backtogether, the bone was shattered to a pulp, apparently the tree knew where to hit and where to miss." Carson said as he checked Johns I.V.

"And Teyla?" John asked, already fearing the worst. Carson took a deep breath, unsure if John had to know, John asked again, "Doc, did you do your mericle work on Teyla?"

Carson shook his head, "Halling returned to the Jumper shortly after I arrived, They saw Teylas light, but got no response, Halling said she most likely drowned in the swamp." Carson said sadly.

That news woke John from his slurriness, heck being told your friend just died would wake even the dead. Looking to Carson John asked, "are you sure? did you scan for her lifesign?" As much as John hated hearing his friend dead John had to be sure.

Carson nodded, "it was the first thing I did, it showed that she had taken in far too much water and mud to even float to the surface, something must have pinned her down. I'm sorry col." Carson then left John to tend to another medical problem.

John laid back in his bed, staring blankly at the Infirmary ceiling, Somehow he knew Teyla was alive, but if she was, where the hell was she?

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Teyla woke up inside a hut, 'Where am I?' Looking around she noticed two things, the first being a tall very older looking Wraith near a fire, most likely making something to eat, and the second, the Iratus bug on his shoulder, the same bug that she had seen on that web. The insect was making a cooing sound as the Wraith fed it some of the stew he had made. Teyla though staring at the bug said simply, "that smells good."

The Iratus hopped off of the Wraith shoulder as he turned to regard Teyla, she looked a bit younger, mostly becasuse she had been cleaned up, though still in her own clothes, "you are awake? Did you sleep well?"

Teyla looked at the Wraith, not noticing the Iratus bug that had hopped off his shoulder had come onto the bed and curled up in her lap, the little bug made a cooing sound. without thinking she stroked its hard shell asking, "what did you do to me? I donnot feel older."

"I helped you." came the very simple answer, "you were wounded most likely dead on your feet, yet something told me not to feed on you but help you instead, so I did"

"What did you do... exactly?" Teyla pressed the Wraith for answers. She wanted to go back to Atlantis.

"I gave you the gift of life, something that is very rare for a Wraith to do to a Human that is food, but since I now feed off the animals of the deep woods, I thought it best to heal you enough so you can leave." The Wraith then sat on a stump of a tree next to the bed, a bowl in his hands, "now drink this." he said giving her the bowl of stew.

Taking the bowl Teyla asked, "where is this place? How far is it to the settlement?" She took a sip of the stew, it was both hot and somehow energy giving to the body.

"The Settlement is half a day north, you found Vernse to the east of here, you have been asleep for five days and four nights. For a few of those days you had me worried that I had killed you when i healed you when you first saw me." The Wraith told her.

Teyla all but choked, Five days? She had been in a Wraith's home for five days? "The settlement is half a days walk? is that by a path of somekind or will I have to traverse the swamps again?"

"There is a path of hills you may take, however I must ask you, promise me you will tell none of me or of where I live. If you are asked of who helped you, say only a friend helped you."

"Why would I lie?" Teyla asked, she hated the thought, but if a Wraith had helped her to the point wherin she could leave on her own...

"Very well, if you are asked of who helped you, say that there is only a single Wraith on the mainland far from the settlement by at least a day, yet is fearful of those living in the settlement." The Wraith looked away from Teyla as he reached for a cloth to clean her forehead of blood that had collected there during the night.

"You are afraid of my people?" Teyla asked confused. "Why are you afraid of them?"

The Wraith chuckled "it is quiet simple, there are many of them, and only one of me, i have lived here many many years after my ship was shot down."

"Who are you?" Teyla asked as a small stab of pain hit her in the back where she relized that she had slammed that part of her body into the tree branch.

"I am called Mathar, you already know Vernse" the Wraith then snapped his fingers and the Iratus bug gave Teyla one last nuzzle before scampering over to a web near the fireplace. "If you want to go, you had best go now." Then a thought hit him, "when I was healing you, something in us connected, what was it?"

"You speak of my Wraith gene inside of me?" Teyla asked slowly standing up, as a second stab of pain washed over her. Mathar nodded, and let Teyla head for the door, turning back to him she asked him again. "The Settlement is to the north you say?"

"Yes," Mathar said he pointed straight towards the trees on the far side of a clearing, "that is the way you want to go. Good bye." the Wraith then got busy at a table working on a small stake of weapons, "here, you will need this" he took a good sized legknife from the table and handed it, hilt first to Teyla.

Teyla took the weapon without a word and left the hut, she made her way to the trees, then from there to the settlement. and collapsed just within sight of the Athosian settlement. out cold from the overwelming pain from her back.