Chapter Seven: The Truth

By Technician Fan

Disclaimer: Guess what? You got it! I don't own anything except Elizabeth and all that other stuff that I said before.

A/N: We are nearing the end of this story, unless I can think of other random ideas to put into it. The final chapter is coming soon, I just don't know when. Please leave a review and any ideas you might have. Oh, and WARNING!!! There are some minor spoilers for that episode in the 2nd season that I can't remember the title where Sheppard turns into a wraith. Sorry if I just spoiled that but I can't remember what it was called. Do you?

Chapter 7:

As soon as the gate closed, it started dialing up again. Elizabeth sighed in frustration and ran up the stairs to the control room.

"Unscheduled off-world activation!" Amelia said, who had returned to her post. "Receiving video and audio transmition."

"Put it on," Woolsey said, who had suddenly appeared from his office. Sheppard's face appeared on the big screen. "Colonel Sheppard, you just barely left. What is so important that you just had to call us back two seconds after you left?"

"Let me speak to my damn daughter, sir!" Elizabeth winced at the anger in his voice.

"I'm right here, Dad," Elizabeth said. She walked up to the stand beside Woolsey, who was slightly baffled at the annoyance in Sheppard's voice.

"Elizabeth, unless it is my imagination and Teyla's imagination, we thought we heard you say something . . . Peculiar after you said, 'Bye Dad.' Something that sounds a lot like 'Bye Mom.' Is this true, Elizabeth?" He was speaking through gritted teeth.

Elizabeth sighed again. "Why don't you just come over here and I can tell you the whole story."

"Fine. McKay, Ronon, stay here while I go home and speak to my daughter with Teyla. We're coming over, Woolsey."

Woolsey's mouth opened but nothing came out. "Drop the shield, sir?" Amelia asked him. Still unable to speak, he just nodded. She pressed a button and the shield dropped down. "Colonel Sheppard," Amelia said into the radio, "you're clear to come through."

"Well then, in that case, I'm coming through!" Sheppard's face disappeared from the monitor and a few seconds later he came through the gate with Teyla right behind him. The gate shut down after they came through.

Sheppard immediately ran right up the stairs and faced Elizabeth. He was just looking at her when Chuck ran up the stairs with a picture in his hand.

"Check it out, Amelia, Lorne gave me a picture of—" he stopped short when he saw the glare that Sheppard was using on Elizabeth and the startled look that Teyla was giving her. He ran over to Amelia. "Did she tell them about Teyla being . . ." He trailed off, knowing that Amelia could finish what he was thinking. She nodded. He handed her the picture of Emily. She looked at it and they were talking about it so that it wasn't totally silent in the room.

Sheppard grabbed Elizabeth's arm, suddenly, and pulled her through the fancy doors of the briefing room. Teyla followed them, looking back before entering the room.

Sheppard gestured for Elizabeth to sit down at the head of the table. She sat down and he took a seat to her right, while Teyla sat to her left.

"Explain," Sheppard said.

Elizabeth folded her hands and looked down at them, explaining everything she had said to Chuck and Amelia earlier that day in the mess hall.

"All I really need to do now is get you two together," Elizabeth said slowly after she finished explaining, heading towards the doors, which were opening up. "You already like each other, so I'll just . . . Let you two talk it over, maybe steal a kiss, and then use this big briefing room table thingy as a bed for you two to make out and have fun." With that she jumped out the doors as they started to close once more.

"Wait, Elizabeth!!!!!!" Sheppard called after her, but she was already out and away, sealing the doors shut. "Dammit!"

Elizabeth skipped over to where Amelia and Chuck were sitting, looking at the picture of Emily that Lorne had given Chuck.

"She is so adorable," Amelia said. As Elizabeth looked over her shoulder, she could see the picture more clearly. Emily was sitting on Cadman's lap on the steps of what Elizabeth presumed to be their house. Lorne was there as well, his arm around Cadman's shoulder and smiling at the camera. Emily had Lorne's eyes, but Cadman's hair, which was up in cute little pigtails. She was wearing a cute little pink dress and giggling at the camera, showing off her pearly whites. Elizabeth had seen this picture before; Emily always had it with her.

Elizabeth looked away from the pictures and went over to Chuck's laptop and sat down.

"Hey, what do you think you're doing?" Chuck asked.

"I'm bringing up the security camera in the briefing room. Let's see what Dad and Mom are really up to." With one final click of a button, the screen changed and showed Teyla sitting on the table while Sheppard paced back and forth. "I know they're going to kiss. I can feel it."

"It's not their first kiss, you know," Chuck said, pulling up a chair and sitting beside Elizabeth.

"Wait a minute, what?" Amelia asked, wheeling her chair to sit on the other side of Chuck.

"Yeah, he kissed her when he was turning into a wraith a few years ago. They were sparring and he was going nuts, of course. He was better than usual and he was kicking Teyla's ass, slamming her against a wall and then he kissed her. She gave into it, sort of, from what Sheppard told me."

"That is so amazing. It wasn't him, but it was him. Oh, look at them!" She said, pointing at the laptop screen. Sheppard and Teyla were barely a foot apart from each other. After a few more seconds, he cupped her face in his hands and kissed her.

"WHOOOOOOOO!!!" Amelia and Chuck shouted. Everyone in the control room went silent and stared at them.

"Hey," Chuck said, "you would be happy too if you even cared. We do, so we're happy. So go back to work before I fire you."

Everyone looked for one more second and immediately went back to work. "You can't fire them," Amelia said. She was looking back at the screen of the laptop.

"Oh yes I can!" Chuck said. "I am their commanding officer. I will fire them, after speaking to Woolsey about them. They are not working, thus they do not need to be paid."

"Uh, Chuck, if you haven't noticed, we're not working."

"Yeah, well they can't fire us, so there. Oh my gosh, look at them now. Elizabeth shield your eyes!" He quickly covered Elizabeth's eyes with his hands.

"Are they doing it?" She asked them. The answer that Amelia gave her was quite clear.

"Can anybody even manage that position?" She sounded horrified yet interested at the same time. That was disturbing.

"Oh, sure they can," Chuck said. "I mean, they're in that position right now. Oh, god, that's nasty." Elizabeth heard the laptop shut as Chuck slammed it down with one of his hands. He let the other drop from her eyes and he looked aghast. "Nobody needs to be seeing that."

Amelia looked remarkably happy. "Yay! They're together! Do you know what this means?" Without waiting for an answer, she continued. "It means that our many friends don't have to die that died in the war and it also means that Elizabeth won't die! Yippee!!" She leaned over and hugged Chuck, who sat there, baffled as ever.

"Choking," he said, "not breathing!"

She let go and her face turned slightly pink. "Sorry about that. I'm just so happy."

"That might be and understatement."

A/N: I know, it's a weird spot to end it, but I want to wait for the next chapter to do what I want to do. Now review, please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!