Chapter 11 I'm kind of glad I wasn't here
A week after the bomb insistent, me, Lorne and our team headed out to check up on a planet we were helping after they were culled a couple of months ago. I made some friends in on the planet so I was kind of excited to go back there.
"How are you?" I asked when we arrived at the planet with Doctor Cole, "We are good, thank you for coming" Doman replied. It was very unlike Doman to be nice to me; he was what we called sexist on Earth. He never really liked me, mostly talked to Lorne, Brown and Collin for the most part every time we came here.
I was thinking too much, maybe he turned over a new leaf in his life, ha doubt that. I laughed out loud; "sorry didn't mean to laugh" I said as I realized that Lorne was trying to talk to Doman about his daughter who I guess was very sick by the way Doman looked at me with that sicken face he always gave me.
Lorne pulled me aside to talk to me, "What is wrong with you?" he asked, "Sorry, I was thinking something funny" I replied, "Alex, his daughter is very ill, doesn't know what is wrong with her. Can you at least act like you care?" Lorne asked, "I told you, I'm sorry. Look, I'll go talk to Doman and tell him that I didn't mean to laugh and that I wasn't laughing at his daughter or how sick she is" I replied smiling at the Major. Hopefully, he didn't tell John about this, not that John would have anything to say about it.
Well maybe he would mostly because Doman's people gave us a lot of their harvest, when we first meet them; our first year in Atlantis. I walked over to Doman and smiled at him, "I'm sorry Doman, I didn't mean to laugh and I wasn't laughing about your daughter, I'm very sorry to hear that she is ill" I said hoping that he would accept my sorry and forgive me.
"It is alright, Doctor Wilson, I understand that you were most likely thinking about something else, am I right?" he asked, "Yes, thanks for understanding Doman and Doctor Cole is a really good Doctor and I'm sure she can help your daughter" I replied.
Things were better after I talked to Doman, I was walking around the town when Brown came up to me, "What's up?" he asked, "umm. You know what I figured out that we don't talk that much" I replied, "Yeah, I know, I'm sorry. Usually I just let you and Major Lorne do the talking on the missions we go but I figure that I might as well as make friends with you" Brown said.
"Cool, well how are you?" I asked, even though I already knew that answer, word around Atlantis was that he heard from his sister last month and turns out that his mother was in the hospital and wasn't doing to good. She was very ill and could die within the next two months.
"Well, I'm 3,000 light years away from my family and my mother is in the hospital and might not live until I can get R&R time to go back and see her" Brown replied, "I'm sorry to hear that, Jake but I'm sure she will pull through" I said.
After talking to Brown and getting to know him a little bit better, I was once again walking through the town, talking to old friends that I had made the first time we came here, it was nice to see how these people took so kindly to us and didn't expect too much in return. I was almost sad to see the way the people looked at me with envy that I have never be too badly burned by the Wraith. Sure I had my run-ins with the Wraith but not as badly as these people or the other million people out here in this galaxy.
But what made me feel better was the fact that I knew I was fighting for these people to stop the Wraith and help bring peace to the galaxy, the Ancients never knew how bad it would get if they really did awaken the Wraith. John still felt like it was all his fault that the planets were being culled so much because he was trying to save his people but I kept telling him that it was worth it to bring the people he saved back to Atlantis and gave us a fighting chance against the Wraith.
We headed back to Gate after finding out that Doman's daughter was gonna live, I smiled at him and told him that I just knew she would be alright and that me and Doctor Cole would be back in a couple weeks to check up on her. We dialed Atlantis and stepped through the Stargate.
I went to find John and heard from Chuck that he was in the Infirmary, figuring that he got himself hurt again, I headed down to make sure he was alright. He filled me about how Rodney and the pilot he was with were stuck in the Jumper underwater and after the pilot saved Rodney's life, ended up dying and that he was done there and almost died too. I checked up on McKay to make sure he knew there was no way he could have known this was going to happen. He said he was alright so I and John headed to the mess hall to grab something to eat before heading to bed.
I'm kind of glad I wasn't here for all that. John told me how he thought he almost lost McKay there for a couple of minutes, I knew how good of a friend McKay was to John no matter how many time McKay annoyed or pissed John off.