4. Leaving

John, Ronan and Rodney found themselves in a glass cell, with no clear way of escaping. They had long given up trying to break the glass about an hour previous even though Rodney hadn't really deduced what the glass was made of, but even he could tell that one man's shoulder was not going break it.

"It may look like glass," Rodney explained, his voice full of it's know-it-all attitude.. "But it's not."

"Then what is it?" Ronan asked, nursing a sore shoulder as he leaned against the substance that had been giving them so much trouble.

"I don't know," Rodney snapped. "I don't have any of my equipment here-"

"Then what can you tell us Rodney-?" John asked, trying to be the diplomatic one, for once.

"All I can tell you," Rodney began simply tapping the glass-like substance for effect. "-is that this- this is a unique substance- known only to them. It is totally transparent, yet it's solid like steel. I would think that a couple blasts from your P-90 or even Ronan's gun would be hard pressed to break through it"

"Is there a way we can get break though?" John asked tapping the walls looking for a weak spot.

"Yes," Rodney answered sarcastically. "We could break though with the invisible weapons that we have."

"Alright I get the point." John muttered, leaning against one of the walls feeling utterly defeated.

"I'm sorry." Rodney apologized after a moment of silence. "It's just that, I don't know how we're going to get out of this one."

"We'll think of something." John encouraged with a sigh, his shoulders slumped in defeat. "I just don't know what yet."

"Of course we will." Ronan agreed with a nod.

"I just-" John paused, something finally breaking though his mind.

"What?" Rodney asked, noticing an all too familiar look of concern flashing across John's eyes. "What were you thinking of?"

"I was just thinking about Elizabeth…." John trailed off, slightly embarrassed to be admitting how worried he was about Elizabeth although after the events of last week- he shouldn't have been so worried.

She had handled herself quite well in their fight against the Asurans and John had no doubt that she would some how be okay. But even those thoughts couldn't calm the feeling of fear that was building in his stomach- something was wrong, he knew it and it was killing him inside that he couldn't do anything about it. In frustration John slammed his hands against the glass causing Rodney to jump a bit in surprise.

"I know." Rodney admitted, worried about Elizabeth himself once Sheppard leaned against the wall of glass in defeat. "I know…."

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"Me?" Elizabeth asked in shock, noticing that Teyla was now standing. "What could you possibly want with me?"

"Dr. Weir, I think that we should-" Teyla began worriedly, noticing that they were not alone anymore.

"You are not going anywhere." Ura stated standing up watching with a stone cold face as Elizabeth stood up to flee when both she and Teyla were surrounded by Traisoran guards.

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"I don't like sitting here." John muttered after what seemed like an eternity silence.

"Neither do I-" Ronan agreed. "-there has got to be something that we can do!"

"I've told you," Rodney stated again exasperated. "There is absolutely nothing that we can-"

"You-" A female voice came from the now open door of the cell. "You will come with us."

"What are you going to do with us?" John asked standing up and confronting the Traisoran whom he recognised as Yenara.

"You are being let go." Yenara answered stoically.

"You mean, we can leave?" Rodney asked excitedly.

"Yes." Yenara answered coldly. "We," Yenara began referring to the two Traisorans behind her. "-shall take you to your ship."

"Well, thank you." John thanked sarcastically looking from Rodney to Ronan as the three women escorted them out of the cell.

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They walked through the labyrinth of the glass city and found themselves back on the glass platform by the sea with their puddle jumper safe and sound. Rodney used the remote to open the back hatch and they were all prepared to leave when John saw Teyla being escorted to them. John was glad to see that Teyla was safe, but his heart plummeted when he saw that Elizabeth was not with her.

"Colonel." Teyla urged, her voice strained with worry.

"Teyla," John began warily. "Where is Elizabeth?"

"Dr. Weir will be staying behind." Yenara explained emotionless.

"Ah… I don't think so." John replied shaking his head. "We are not leaving with out her."

"I'm afraid that you don't have a choice." Yenara countered.

"I think we do." John argued pulling a 9 mil, from his pocket and pointing it straight at Yenara's head.

"You have a gun?" Rodney exclaimed in shock. "How did we not know that you had a gun?"

"Eh-" John shrugged, not taking his eyes off of Yenara. "-took a page out of Ronan's book."

"Ronan-" Rodney began confused and when he turned to look at the Staetan he saw that Ronan had two long daggers out and was prepared to fight with them. "-ah, of course."

"Now," John began slowly looking Yenara right in the eye "-bring us Elizabeth or take us to her."

"Very well," Yenara sighed, her gaze falling to the ground. "This way."

Yenara led John and his team back towards the glass city when Ura appeared in front of them with Elizabeth held in between two Traisorans. John's heart started beating again and he started to breathe again when he saw that Elizabeth was standing in front of him.


A/N- Short chapter, I know. But there will be more tomorrow...

..thank you to Stargatecrazy, Calliath, nieis06, TangledPencils, amsilcox and faldo for reviewing chapter 3...hope you all liked chapter 4 and will review it as well!

A/N2- Thank you tangledpencils for noticing the plot hole...all fixed now!