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Chapter 7
Ronon and Rodney stumbled upon John's lifeless body on the ground with the protruding arrow in the side of his body and him lying in a pool of his blood. They kneeled down to take a look at him. Rodney checked his pulse. His pulse was faint. Ronon stood up and looked around the area for any sign of Teyla. He looked down again at John's still body, "How bad is he," he asks.
Rodney looked up at Ronon, "Very bad! He has loss a lot of blood. He needs medical treatment now. There is nothing that I can do," replies Rodney nervously with concern on his face.
Ronon sensing the approaching Boli Kai's warriors, "We need to leave now," he orders. Stooping down he looked at John's wound and the protruding arrow. He placed one hand on John body and the other on the arrow and began to slowly pull the embedded arrow out of John's flesh. There was no response from John. He was unconscious with his breathing labor.
Able to pull the arrow out of John's bleeding wound, Ronon toss the arrow to the side. He pickup John and placed him across on his shoulder, "We need to go now," he reiterates to Rodney. Rodney nodded while clumsy grasping his gun. They started in the directions of the puddle jumper. Rodney tried to radio Teyla to let her know to meet them at jumper. He pleaded with her to response. Teyla, please response!
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John opened his eyes. His eyes took a moment to get accustomed to their surroundings. He tried to move, but his injuries prohibited his movement. He was hooked up to a respirator which limited his mobility. The nurse who was monitoring his condition appeared at his side. She radio Dr. Keller on the comm. that John was awake. She appeared at John's side, "Colonel, you need to keep still," she advised him. John tried to speak. He whispered Teyla's name. The nurse nodded her understanding and responded that she will page Teyla to come to the infirmary on the comm. now.
Teyla, Rodney, and Ronon who heard that John was awake rush to the infirmary. John still a little bit groggy from the sedatives he was given earlier saw the forms of his teammates coming toward him. His teammates gather around his bed. As his eyes slowly began to focus on his teammates, they smile down at telling him they are glad he is finally over the worst. They told him that he really gave them a scare. Dr. Keller joined the teammates around John's bed in the infirmary to advises the teammates that John needed his rest and that they could speak to him later when he got some rest. The teammates recently said their goodbyes. John's eyes followed their departing backs with a half smile on his lips. He closed his eyes when he could no longer see his teammates and drift off to sleep.
John who was still in the infirmary recuperating from his injuries had a lot of time to think and reflect on his life. I guess coming so close to losing one life can do that to a man. One tends to reflect a lot when one is lying in a bed in the infirmary day after day. He did not want to die with any regrets and as far as Teyla was concern, he had maybe one or two. Never telling her how he felt about her is one. Never finding out how she felt about him was two. Whether they could have made it as a couple? Was another one and don't get him started on his family. He sigh, he did have too many regrets.
While he has been confine to the infirmary, Teyla has visited him often of course blaming herself for what happen to John on the planet with the Bola Kai's warriors. He tried his best to reassure her that he would be fine.
John rejoice the day he was told he could go back on active duty by Dr. Keller. He had so much pent up energy and he was finally going to tell Teyla how he felt about her. He had rationalized to himself these last couple of days while coup up in his bed in the infirmary that there was no reason that him and Teyla couldn't be together. She was on his team by choice. She was not bound by any of the military rules or regulations regarding fraternization between officers in the military. So why should he deny himself some happiness with the woman he loved! Their time in this galaxy which was in so much turmoil and with so much destruction abound was fleeting to say the least.
So he asks to Teyla to spar with him. He told her that he needed to get back into fighting shape, but he did not want to ask Ronon because Ronon would be too rough, but of course Teyla questioned whether it was wise for him to be sparring so soon after his release from the infirmary and he pleaded with her that they could go over the basics. She agreed to his request, but he could see her reservations.
John was in the training room twirling the bantos sticks slowly in his hands as Teyla entered the room, she smiles brightly at him and he grins back. They were face off in the center of the room each holding their bantos sticks in the fighting positions. "Teyla, I want tell you something Teyla smiled at him again … I want to tell you… that I love you," he pronounced. Thud as the sticks that were in her hands struck the floor.
The first time he kissed her was in this room. Yes, he was under the retrovirus when all of his inhibitions weren't suppressed and his physical abilities surpassed that of a normal man, he thought he frighten her that day. When he tried to apologize to her later, she had told him that there was no need to apologize and they have never spoken about that incident since. John drops his sticks, he slowly approaches Teyla, he reaches out to touch her, but she disappears, he hears Ronon and Rodney talking, but they seem so far away.
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The Present….
Rodney and Ronon made it to the cloaked jumper on the ground with the injured John, but there was no response from Teyla. Bandaging John's opened wound, they secure the injured John in the back of the puddle jumper. Rodney hurried to the front of the jumper to look out the window there was no sign of Teyla. He radioed Teyla again, but there was no response. He turned with his face a washed with concern and uncertainty he looked at Ronon who had also made his way to the front of the jumper and who clothing was soaked with John's blood. Uncertain whether to stay and wait for Teyla while John was dieing in the back of the jumper, the two looked at each other for a few seconds, but those few seconds seem like an eternity, finally Rodney jumped in the pilot's seat of the jumper. He turned on the controls. The jumper began to lift off the ground.
TBC
