Waking up the next day with bright lights shining in his eyes John began to panic slightly fearing the rescue had been nothing but a dream and he was still in that hell hole of a room with M.H. and Grunt. Before full blown panic could set in John felt something squeeze his hand, looking over and seeing that it was Elizabeth, John's panic faded.
"Welcome back to the land of the living Major." The familar Scottish accent drew John's attention away from Elizabeth. Turning his head John spotted Carson as well as his team located around the infirmary.
"Major...John..." Elizabeth started but was cut off by John.
"You want to know what happened." John paused a minute to get comfortable. "To be honest I'm not compleatly sure myself. One minute I'm on PX-whatever listening to McKay prattle on---."
"I do not prattle!" Rodney cut in.
"Rodney." Elizabeth warned.
"What all I'm Saying--."
"Anyway," John cut in. "The next thing I know it feels like I'm being rammed into by a 200lb linebacker and I'm waking up in a lab of some kind with Mini-Hitler and Grunt standing over me."
"Mini-Hitler, Grunt?" Rodney raised an eyebrow.
"What I had to call them something, they didn't think me worthy of knowing their real names and their nicknames pretty well speak for themselves. Now back to the topic at hand, at first all they really did was poke and prode, take blood samples, stuff like that. Then they started testing me, sometimes it was physical endurance; how long I could do something before dropping from exhaustion, my pain limit, those kinds of things. Other times they tested how I reacted to ceartain things; hot, cold, wet, dry, light, dark, you get the idea. After a week or so of that I was thrown in a holding cell where I met Kilik and Talen."
"Kilik that's the boy you brought back with you?" Carson interrupted.
"Uh yeah it was his job to bring food and water to the prisoners." John didn't remember telling them the kid's name, but shrugged it off - it was probably the meds. "And Talen was my cellmate, early to late fifties is my guess. I'm not sure how long the two had been there, Talen said he'd been there about two cycles, which I think is close to two years are time, and that Kilik had been there longer than him."
"Do you know why you were there?" Teyla questioned.
"From what I understand Talen was there as a prisoner of war. His people, the Rygelians, and Mini-hitler and Grunt's people the Sa'tareeians have been at war for generations. Other than as a slave I'm not sure why Kilik was there he's neither Rygelian or Sa'taree. As for me I was there as revenge against us."
"Revenge? Why would they want revenge against us." Aiden asked the question on everyone's minds.
"The Genii."
"The Genii?" Elizabeth stiffened in her seat. She hadn't expecting that neither had the others.
"Yeah after all the testing and stuff was done they started taking me to this room and asking questions. Between what they all ready knew and what they wanted to know I knew the Genii had to be involved some how, no one has spent that kind of time in the city other than us. Turns out the Sa'taree are allies with the Genii and they didn't take to kindly to what we did to the Genii, never mind the Genii started it.
So of course when I wouldn't answer Mini-Hitler's questions Grunt got to start having is fun roughing me up. When I still wouldn't answer their questions they stopped beating on me but instead for every answer I didn't give they laid into one of the other prisoners. It went on like that for days before orders came for what I hope was a prisoner exchange cause one day all the prisoners were taken away leaving just me and Kilik. With all the prisoners gone you'd think they'd start in on me again but no they had to start in on Kilik. Thankfully you guys showed up when you did I don't know how much longer I could have held out."
"John--."
"Elizabeth I know we're having enough trouble keeping our own people fed on top of the million other problems we're dealing with, but I couldn't just leave him there. I don't know how to explain it but I've felt this conection with him since we met..." John continued talking as Elizabeth tried to get a word in.
"Major!" That got John to shut up. "John that's not what I was going to say, but it's ok you did the right thing. We'll figure something out, maybe an Athosian family will be willing to take him in." Elizabeth looked at Teyla.
"I will ask." Teyla stood placing a hand on John's shoulder. "Do not worry Major the boy will be taken care of."
"Yeah I have no doubt of that." John got a far off look in his eyes as Teyla left. The others soon followed at Carson's insistance so John could get some rest.