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Teyla turned around and looked at him. He tore his eyes away from the picture that had caught his attention. "Teyla…" She cut of his words, when she stepped forwards and kissed him.
John pulled away. "Teyla, I don't know when it happened but I'm in love with you." He smiled at her and put his hands around her face and made her look at him.
She looked at him and smiled. "I love you too." She said and kissed him once more. "Come on let's go and see if we can contact Dr. Weir. They must be worried about us."
They walked out of the room and headed down a hallway. "Major, I believe we are in the Southern peer. That may be why we have not yet discovered this room."
"You're right we've only covered about half of Atlantis in all the time we've been here. Let's see if we can find a ring transporter around here." John stated as they turned yet another corner. This section of Atlantis was different than the others. Different colours were used along with many different architectural designs. Suddenly Teyla stopped dead in her tracks. "What is it?"
"Did you not hear that?" It was someone's footsteps only this time both John and Teyla heard it. John signaled for Teyla to move to one side of the corridor and John moved to the other. It was quite obvious that the person that was walking down the hall had no intention on being unseen or unheard by the two as they walked right up to where they had been.
"Have we met?" John asked sarcastically yet cautiously. The person that was walking in the corridor was John Sheppard; only it wasn't because John Sheppard was with Teyla.
The John that had walked down the hall appeared to be unarmed, and looked just as shocked as the 'real' John and Teyla were. "We will not hurt you." Teyla soothingly and comfortingly said to the other John.
The other John's eyes were filled with tears. "I know." He slowly reached for a device that he had on his wrist. This is why you guys probably haven't been able to detect me on any of your sensors. He dropped it to the ground. "Come on, I think I know the way to the control tower I'll explain everything when we get there." He calmly stated.
Teyla and John just looked at him. They nodded in agreement and followed him in silence as 'John' led them back to the control tower.
"Major!" Elizabeth called as she saw him, Teyla and, him. What had they been doing and where had they been, was all she could think. "Care to explain?" She asked.
"Well when one of our genius the scientists locked all the doors in the east peer, Teyla and I got trapped in the gym. I know I said we we're taking one of the jumpers out but…"
The other John interrupted him. "Jumpers. You call them that too." He stated. He looked as though he was deep in thought.
"Elizabeth perhaps this would be better if we went into you're office." Teyla suggested.
"Agreed." Elizabeth nodded, and then headed to her office as the others followed.
"So what happened?" Elizabeth asked once more.
Teyla explained. "John and I managed to climb into one of the vents and when we came to an exit we found ourselves on a balcony. We entered the room that the balcony doors led to and when we entered John and I saw some photo's of ourselves that we have no memory of. There is also a photo of you and Dr. McKay. Lieutenant Ford as well. There is also a small area filled with clothes that look as thought hey are from Earth and they fit myself and John." Elizabeth looked at her.
"Where is this room?" She questioned. She needed to see this room. "And take no offense to this she looked at the other John and said, "Where did you come from?"
The other John explained. "The room is in the South peer. I've been in Atlantis for the past week. And the reason why none of your sensors picked me up is because I had one of the little wrist bands that Rodney gave me before they came." He trailed off and more tears came to his eyes.
"It's okay, go on." Elizabeth said.
"As hard as this may be to believe, I'm sort of an Ancient. That's why your gene is so strong." He looked at John. "I was sent back in time, believe it or not, about twenty years before the Ancients were defeated by the Wraith. So was all of my team. Teyla, Rodney, Elizabeth, Carson, Aiden, Amanda, who by the way is Aiden's' fiancée, and myself."
He continued, "Anyways to top of the whole time travel thing, before we were sent back we came through the mirror thingy. The one that sends you to different realities. We went through the mirror seeking help to save ourselves from defeat from the Goa'uld in 1997. There was nothing the other reality could do but they offered us a home in their reality. Of coarse we accepted, but after a while we started going through these seizure sort of things. All they did was get worse after time passed. So finally we went thorough the mirror again and there we were then sent back in time over a thousand years. That would be to this reality by the way. The Ancients had some sort of injection they gave us to stop the seizure thingies. We we're told we could just live our lives out for as long as we wanted. Ten years past and not one of us aged a bit. Eventually the Ancients discovered that because in the reality we were in, we technically hadn't been born, we wouldn't age until 'we' were born and became our current age. How old are you?"
He looked at John. "Twenty-eight."
"Then I won't age for five more years. That's when I will begin to age. But, when the time came when the Wraith attacked Atlantis and we tried to stop them with everything we had but nothing worked so we used our contingency plan. Rodney, Aiden, Carson, and myself fled to an uninhabited planet and stayed there along with many other Ancients that made it out. We left Amanda, Elizabeth and Teyla in Atlantis in the stasis chambers. That's where we knew for sure they would be safe. They're still there. Rodney and Aiden left before me. I told them too. I managed to make it out undetected. The plan was that if there was a remote possibility that you were detected you were to head back and fight so that you wouldn't give away the other's position. Rodney, Carson and Aiden made it out and so did I. We were three out a thousand people that made it. Over three million people planned on heading there. I guess they didn't make it."
He stopped for minute. "Rodney and Aiden should be here within the next few hours. I sent a signal saying it was clear. They're the only two people left besides myself that are still around, Carson ascended. His wife Nancy died when the Wraith first attacked. The rest of them died or ascended. Sure we had the option to ascend but we promised those woman that we would come back." He laughed at himself. "I can't wake them on my own, I don't know how. Only Rodney knows." His eyes once again filled with tears.
"Then we wait for them. They'll come if they're anything like the Rodney and Aiden that are here, they'll come." Elizabeth said and smiled at John.
"I know they'll come." He smiled back.
"Well perhaps we should show you a comfortable corridors for now. You look tired." John offered the other John.
"If it's alright I'd like to stay in the corridor that's in the south peer." He looked at them waiting for an answer.
"I see no problem with that." Elizabeth said approvingly. And with that they all got up and left.
When John arrived to his corridor he looked around at the pictures scattered throughout the room and said to himself, "I promise." As he looked at a picture that had been taken of him and Teyla only days before the Wraith came. He thought to himself. 'Thank god they managed to put the city under water to keep it safe.' He sat on the bed and looked around at the dark room and listened quietly to the sounds of the ocean before drifting off to sleep.
FLASHBACK
People we're screaming and running everywhere. "Teyla just go! They're coming and I don't know if we'll manage to hide the city in time!" John screamed at her.
"No, please stay!" Teyla yelled back at him with tears filled in her eyes.
John caught up to her and grabbed her and pulled her into their corridor and quickly closed and locked the door. "That should do it." He turned around and looked at her. "Teyla look at me." She was crying. "You have to be strong now, more than ever before. I know that you can."
She looked up at him. "I know but please just stay with me where I know you'll be safe, please. She looked at him pleadingly."
"If I do there wouldn't be anyone to look out for Rodney to wake us," he joked, "We would be in stasis for god knows how long. Please just go I'll be fine. I promise I'll come back for you. I have to get to the jumper bay so we have to be quick come on."
He grabbed her hand and led her to a secret door that only few knew about that led to a room where there were four stasis chambers. Two were already filled, one with Elizabeth the other with Amanda. Rodney and Aiden must have already left. "Okay babe listen to me I will come back for you no matter what. I promise you."
She looked up at him. "John just stay, please." He shook his head and she cried. He couldn't and he knew it. Teyla and them would stay here where they would be safe for sure. Rodney, Aiden and himself had to leave so that they could wake them when the time came that it was safe.
"Teyla, babe, do you remember the first time the Wraith attacked and I had to leave?" She nodded. "And do you remember the song we danced to that night?" She nodded again. He started to sing the song and Teyla couldn't help but laugh.
He was terrible at singing and even he knew it but he would do anything for her especially if he knew it would make her smile. "All my bags are packed, I'm ready to go," His voice was going all over the place as he sang. "I'm standing here outside your door, I hate to wake you up to say goodbye," he got down on his knees and looked up to her and held her hands. "But the dawn is breaking, Its early morn, The taxis waiting, He's blowing his horn, Already I'm so lonesome, I could die, So kiss me and smile for me, Tell me that you'll wait for me, Hold me like you'll never let me go, Cause I'm leaving on a jet plane, Don't know when I'll be back again, Oh babe, I hate to go, There's so many times I've let you down, So many times I've played around but I tell you baby, they don't mean a thing, Every place I go, I think of you, Every song I sing, I sing for you, When I come back, Ill bring wear your wedding ring, So kiss me and smile for me, Tell me that you'll wait for me, Hold me like you'll never let me go, Cause I'm leaving on a jet plane, Don't know when Ill be back again, Oh babe, I hate to go."
And when he got back they did get married but didn't even get to celebrate their three-month anniversary together. It was time, the Wraith were coming.
He stopped and smiled at her. "I will come back, I promise you this. Okay?" He pulled her into a hug and kissed her hair. "I promise."
She nodded and walked over to the chamber that was waiting for her. "Come back for me." She said then smiled. The chamber closed and Teyla was put into a stasis. A tear shed from John's eye. He had to leave and he knew it.
END OF FLASHBACK
John suddenly woke to someone over him waking him. Was that? It was. "Rodney what are you doing?"
"We made it, wake up sleepy head, I thought you might want to be awake when they come around."
"Are you for real?" John couldn't help but ask.
"Oh don't worry John he's for real Amanda just woke up and Teyla looks like she's going to be waking up soon too." It was Aiden. John sat up and turned a lamp on beside him. When you were in Atlantis, a lamp was considered 'Old School' but modern things like that helped John out a lot when he missed home.
He got up quickly and headed up the stairs that were in his corridors and proceeded through he doors that had already been opened. "Why didn't you wake me up right away?"
"Thought you might like to rest a but more plus you were talking and grinding your teeth." It was John who was there with Teyla. His Teyla was starting to come around. He walked over to her and touched her face.
"Babe come on, wake up." She opened her eyes and smiled.
"John, you came back." Her eyes were filled with joy.
He nodded. "Well I promised you didn't I?" She smiled. "Do you want to get up?" He offered her his hand.
She nodded. When she stood she noticed another Teyla and John. "Has it been that long?" She asked then looked at John. He nodded.
"I came as soon as I could." She looked at him and hugged him. He took her in his arms and kissed her forehead.
"I know you did, I know." Teyla said and continued to hug John.
Authors Note: There will be a lot of drama plot line in the next chapter and I will be sure to include a clear way to identify who is who. Sorry about any confusion in this chapter. I will probably repost it later. Please Review!!!