Guys, thank you for your reviews. I'm trying to address certain things that I felt the writers of the show did not do. So the next couple of chapters will do that. I have confrontation between John and Teyla coming.

Chapter 6

Leaving Woolsey's office after their meeting, John felt relieved the meeting was over because he really did care for the business of doing paperwork he much preferred being a solider to being a pencil pusher. And admitting to himself - he was a little apprehensive. He would have to talk to Teyla. And for the first time in a long time, he wasn't sure what Teyla would say or what she was thinking.

Things had been a little strained between them the last several weeks. They hadn't been spending a whole of lot of their time together lately as friends or teammates. Withdrawing from being around her and only seeing her when the need arises because he didn't want to be an audience to the time she had spent with Kanaan when him and the Athosians were still on Atlantis, and preferring to give her some time and space with everything she was dealing with like being a new mom and taking care of her people.

But, however, he was well aware that Teyla was saddened by IOA's decision regarding her people even though she wasn't vocal about it. In true Teyla's fashion, she had handled it with dignity and understanding. But, he was too aware of Teyla's frustration and hurt with that decision even though he believed she understood and accepted the reasons behind the IOA's decision.

He knew Teyla too well not to know that she was not happy about it. And he although, he wasn't any fan of the IOA. This was a decision, he had totally agreed with at the time in light of Michael's almost psychic ability to control the people that he had working for him. So precautions needed to be made to safeguard the city and the civilians on Atlantis.

Michael had captured and held Teyla's people for months, doing experiments on them. Heaven knows what type of experiments Michael had performed on some of Teyla's people especially ones that Michael turned into his hybrid's soliders. When they had first found and rescue all that was left of Teyla's people from Michael's compound, to his dismay, the only way to describe the state of some of her people was akin to the ravages of war. Besides being frightened, they were malnutrition, some of them had various limbs' deformities, and a few of them was already in the progression of being turning into one of those things, one of Michael's hybrid.

And after encountering a few of so called hybrid's soliders on Michael's Hive ship, he didn't too much care for the idea that Kanaan was once, one of those things either and although, Kanaan may have assisted them with escaping from Michael's ship because Teyla was able to reach through to the human part of him. And with Carson at the Athosian's settlement now, treating the Athosians with the retro virus and there seem to be some progress being made with them, Kanaan included. The news was that they were all back to their former human selves in appearance.

That still doesn't precluded the fact he still didn't trust the guy especially after hearing Teyla's recounting of what Michael tried to do her while he held her captive. Kanaan was there and could have helped her to escape, but chose or refused not to because of Michael. So he was still questioning the hold Michael had or has over Kanaan.

So, it was time for him to talk to Teyla, he had been trying to avoid her, dealing with certain issues, namely his feelings, but he couldn't do that any more. He knew Teyla was visiting her people with Ronon. And she was expected back the fortnight, so he would talk to her upon her return to Atlantis.

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On the Athosians' settlement on Planet Nova, a cluster of nylon fabric shelters stood erected in the ground, tents grouped together several yards from the Stargate…in one of those tents…

"You seem tired Teyla."

Teyla looked at her friend, Halling with wary eyes for a moment. "That is because, I am. Halling, my son seems to have an aversion to sleeping at nights."

Teyla smiling half heartily at him, "So, I haven't gotten a good night sleep in weeks because of it my dear friend. I have taken to walking Torren at nights to calm him down, distracting him with the beautiful lights of the city of the ancients' ancestors, telling him stories of our proud history, telling him stories about his grandparents (her voice lowering softly upon her mentioning of her deceased parents), but it has been tiring for me with these long nights. "

Her son unwillingness to sleep more than a couple hours at a time was becoming increasingly frustrating. Like a lot of new born babies his age, many of them not sleeping at nights for long periods was nothing new. That was the natural part, but Teyla could sense it was far more than that with her son. She could sense her son's fear. It was a fear that was constant. But it was a fear that has begun to trouble her. She didn't quite understand it all yet, but she could feel her son's agitation increasing each new day.

So she had taken to walking the city at nights with him, hoping to distract him, and relishing the joy of showing him the city at night. The city of Atlantis was awe inspiring to say the least at nights. The city was quite beautiful. Lights as far as the eyes can see outlining the many structures of the city, the lines of metal columns, tall and small, brighten by the many lights. The sound of the waves of the ocean as crashing into submerged structures of the city was melodic. The way the lights reflected off ocean, glistening. Seeing the city at night, one can really see and appreciate how truly beautiful and enormous the city of the ancients was.

And her son seems fascinate by it all. How much he understood was another matter especially with someone so young. But it was a learning experience for herself as well too. She was learning many aspects of the city. She was getting to learn and discovery parts of the city that she normally would not see or had known existed on her nightly excursions with her son.

TBC