A/N: sorry for the delay, life tends to do things I don't want ot get into. the chapter following this one will be late in coming as I have a vacation as well as...life(whatever life actually is I'm not sure about)
A/N #2: names in bold please see bottom of chapter
John landed the Jumper in the Daedalus landing bay, "Flight this is Jumper Three, we are ready for the beaming to the infirmary now." Rodney said when John gave him a nod to do so.
"Understood, Col Sheppard, if you and Ronon would join me in the mess hall for a moment" Col Caldwell said.
"On our way." John said as Teyla disappeared into the Asgard beam to reappear in the infirmary, the doctors went nuts when they saw Teyla in her very bloody state, and they started to clean her up, but when one Doctor removed the bandage from Teyla's left arm, they all noticed the two burn marks from Staff Weapons.
One Doctor got on the radio, "Col Caldwell, this is the Infirmary, Teyla has lost a lot of blood, we aren't sure how much at this point."
"Understood, keep us updated."
"Yes sir." The doctor got off the radio and started giving orders, "OK people Lets get this poor woman cleaned up and fixed up ASAP, no slacking off, lets get to it!" the other Doctors went nuts getting Teyla cleaned up, as she was laying in the bed having two doctors actually giving her a sponge bath Teyla moaned when one of them touched her burns on her arm, her hair was still matted with blood but to the horror of the doctors the handprint where the Hive Queen tried to feed was still there as if it had been branded into her skin.
"Where am I?" Teyla asked somewhat asleep through the sedatives the doctors had given her for the pain.
"You are on the Daedalus, in the Infirmary, please try to not move," came the answer.
But move Teyla did, she sat up in the bed, her bloody hair falling in her face she was breathing hard, "How did I get here?" Teyla asked, "Why am I covered in blood?" Then it hit her like -what John would say- a Locomotive going faster then a bullet, she remembered everything, fighting the Hive Queen the first time along with killing the Ori, then getting hit from behind in a fighter, then fighting dozens of Wraith and Ori soldiers, then facing Michael's Hive Queen, Wait a minute, the Warith was feeding off me wasn't she? Teyla felt where the Hive Queen and tried to suck the life out of her, the handprint was still there right where her locket hung, but why am I not dead? Or aged for that matter? What happened? Where is... "John" she said, finishing her thought, he had to be somewhere.
The doctor placed a hand on Teyla, "ma'am, it is alright, Col Sheppard is with Col Caldwell right now. You need to lay down." Teyla started taking the stuff she was hooked up to off her, "ma'am you are not fit to leave the Infirmary, you have to stay in bed while we clean you up."
"I am fine," Teyla said taking out the IV out of her arm as well as the heart monitor she was hooked up to, she didn't care if she was a mess she wanted to know what happened when she was out.
The doctor didn't say anything nor did she do anything to hinder Teyla as she left the Infirmary.
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John and Rodney were beamed into the mess hall on the Daedalus, Caldwell entered a few minutes later, "Care to tell me what happened the Supergate is gone now."
"Yes it blew up along with the two Ori ships that we overloaded the engines on, thankfully we got throu the gate before it went." Rodney said.
"What happened exactly, off the record because if Teyla went Die Hard on you something happened." Caldwell said sitting down at a table.
"Well since it is off the record, to explain would take too long so we'll sum up." Rodney said.
"We went throu the gate after you beamed us the needed weapons, we found a Ori ship not moving so we landed in the landing bay and found three lifesigns, one of them was Daniel, the other two was a Hive Queen and a Ascended Ori, Teyla killed both the Hive Queen and the Ori, though the Ori was already Ascended it makes no sense." John said, "then I went and dropped off Teyla and Rodeny back in the Ori ship we found just floating in space..."
"Which Teyla then knocked me out and headed for the Ori fighter bay seven levels above the bridge." Rodney broke in.
John went on, "Then I fired a Drone thinking that Teyla was a Ori soldier going to join the fight, then she got hit from behind, and was knocked out, then landed in the last remaining Ori ship and killed off Michael's Hive Queen as she was getting fed on, only Teyla does not look like she was fed on at all." John said.
"But you yourself said she is in bad shape" Caldwell said.
"Yes she is really bloody, I'm guessing she got a head wound when she was hit in her fighter she used. then getting shot at by both the Wraith and the Ori, as well as fighting hand-to-hand with two Wraith Hive Queens and one Ascended Ori." John said.
"So she is in bad shape" Caldwell stated.
"You could say that." John said.
"Better yet you could see for yourself" Rodney corrected as Teyla appeared in the doorway, a very bloody mess. Everyone at the table turn to look to Teyla as she entered the mess hall.
"What are you doing out of the Infirmary?" Caldwell asked.
"I'm fine," she said. "What happened when I was... asleep?"
"You were possibly fed on by Michael's Hive Queen before you killed her, which would explain the handprint on your... neck" Rodney said. somewhat stuck on where to say the Wraith was feeding off of Teyla. She smiled, she knew what Rodney meant, normally a Wraith would feed right off the heart. Only her heart was in a place wherein few men would speak about, unless it was John.
"What happened to you on that ship?" John asked.
"Well, I landed in the place where we had on the other ship, everyone was either dead already or just ready enough for me to let them out of their misery, both Wraith and Ori alike. then there was only one and that was Michael's Hive Queen that was left." Teyla said going over the events as best she could remember, "The odd thing that happened was one Wraith ran from me as if he was seeing a monster, then when I faced the Hive Queen she also screamed and asked why I was alive and not dead, she said I looked like one out of a Wraith bad dream."
"Wraith dream?" John, Rodney and Caldwell all asked at once.
"It appears that way." Teyla said, also confused, if the Wraith did dream, why would they think of her as one from their worst dreams?
"What confuses me is that you were able to kill a already Ascended Being" Caldwell said, "how is that even possible?"
"I donnot know, but he was unable to go back to the being of energy before we fought, therefore the Ori is actually dead and nolonger Ascended" Teyla said thoughtfully.
"That might be why, though we could always ask Red too" John said, making both Rodney and Teyla smile at the name of the man that helped them on the other side of the Supergate.
"Red?" Caldwell asked, he had no idea that Red Skelton himself had a part in this mission in helping Teyla.
"What about the part when the Wraith fed on you...if it did." Rodney said.
"Yeah, I've been wondering on that too, you don't look any older, though you are a bloody mess." John said making Teyla smile again when he refered to her current cleanliness.
"The Hive Queen held me up against the wall by the neck with the left hand, then slammed her right hand on me to feed, only...instead of her feeding on me...I fed on her" Teyla said.
"Funny, you don't look any younger." Rodney said as the Daedalus jumped to Hyperspace.
"Nor do I feel younger." Teyla said.
"Strange, you are a bloody mess your hair looks as if it hasn't been cleaned in years." John trailed off as Teyla started to laugh, "What? you know I'm worried for you, why aren't you in the infirmary?"
"I told you, I am fine." Teyla said, the idea of cleaning up though seemed to spark something inside Teyla. if she could get cleaned up before they got back to Atlantis Carson would not have a fit like he always did, but then again, even a few burn marks would set him off.
"OK as long as you don't die of blood loss I don't see any need for you to be in the infirmary." John said, Caldwell nodded.
"I agree, even though I don't like it, I think it best to wait until we get back to Atlantis and let Dr Beckett get a look at you." He said.
"Agreed" Teyla said as Caldwell got up to leave. She looked to John as if to say, 'now what?'
Daniel spoke up as Caldwell left the eating area, "Now that we seem to be in a safer enviroment, can somebody tell me how you guys got to the galaxy of the Ori? And what is a Wraith? You keep mentioning them."
"Well for one thing the Supergate was a old one, I'm amazed the Wraith didn't know about it at all." Rodney said, "the scarey thing about the Wraith is they can suck the life out of you with their hands, and I don't think you'd want to meet one alone in a dark alley."
"Like we said it is a long story." John said. "but since Teyla is a very bleeding mess, I think I'll help her get cleaned up."
"Aren't you..." Daniel started to ask. he wanted to ask, 'aren't you not married?' only John cut him off with a 'look' Daniel raised his hands in defeat, "nevermind then." he said as Teyla smiled as John got up, and made the, 'get moving or I'll make you' motion, and the two of them left to go to their cabin on the Daedalus.
As the two walked from the eating area John asked, "Now that we are alone, care to tell me eveything, mostly what I want to know is how you took life from the Wraith as it was feeding on you." John hit the keys to open the lock he set.
Teyla entered the room and looked in the mirror, ignoring John's question in full. "I am a mess, though I don't feel... tired or... how do you say it?" she said when she saw what she looked like in the mirror
"Wozy?" John offered, Teyla nodded.
"That is the term, though I think cleaning up is a good idea but then I'm not sure of how Dr. Beckett will deal with me showing up unhurt with just burns on my arms." Teyla said sitting on the bed.
"So... what are you gonna do? Stay a bleeding mess until we get to Atlantis?" John asked as the door slid closed and locked.
"I think I'll at least try to clean up a bit, though Dr. Beckett will be wondering what happened." Teyla said getting up from the bed to go into the bathroom to John's right.
John moved over to the bed and sat down on it, "what exactly are you thinking of doing?" he asked. The idea of Teyla not getting cleaned up seemed to confuse him a little. Then he remembered how John McClane must have felt when he got bloodied up a few dozen years back, he never cleaned himself up until he got home.
"What do you mean?" came Teyla's voice, followed by a sharp hiss of pain as she removed the bandage from her arm, even though John couldn't see Teyla he sure could hear her as she cleaned her arms as best she could.
"You OK?" John asked.
"I am fine." Teyla said for the upteenth time, she was starting to get sick of it now. She took the final piece of the bandage off her arm and looked to the burns, two long black/red fist sized marks were clearly seen, there was no more blood but somehow Teyla knew that a new bandage was needed sooner then water. "What of Rodney? I hope I did not hurt him when I hit him in the head." Teyla said as she found a bandage under the sink and started to put it on.
"He's fine, still a little pressing that you hit him, doesn't seem to want to drop the matter, then again he's always like that" John said, which made Teyla smile inside the bathroom.
Leaving the bathroom, not bothering to clean her hair, Carson would do that while he did his thing on her when they got to Atlantis. "Are we far from Atlantis?" she asked, the Daedalus had been in Hyperspace for almost an hour.
"Not sure as of now, though it is possible that we are close to home why?" John asked getting up from the bed.
Teyla looked to John with a odd look, should I ask John to leave so I can sleep? or should he stay? she thought, then spoke, "I am feeling tired now, it seems as if I am starting to feel..."
"Wozy" John said.
"Yes, that." Teyla said, as she moved to the bed and sat down.
John started for the door, "I'll see how far we have to Atlantis and see if I can bring our passanger up to date on things as they are here in Pegasus." he said.
Teyla merely nodded and laid down to sleep, and was in a deep sleep within seconds of the door sealing itself locked, leaving her in near darkness and complete safety.
the events in Die Hard(c) in this story actually happened(the characters watched it on the news and gave it the term "the guy will never Die Hard" since it happened.