The Atlantis team journeyed through the Stargate in Puddle Jumper Two. John tried to ignore Teyla but found it harder than he thought. He never could ignore Teyla, it was almost like asking a dog to ignore his favourite bone; Teyla was irresistible. Avoid her he could do, but ignore her when she was 3 feet away? Impossible.
Eventually he landed the jumper in dense forest. Slowly they exited; McKay and Teyla were talking quietly about the incident in the practise room. Everything was quiet, too quiet. That was about to change.
Twenty Genii spies ran out of the clearing in front of them firing madly. Teyla and McKay ducked behind a large log, while Sheppard hid behind a thick tree. The spies fired at them continuously. The team took out as many as they could. When the Genii had to reload, the team made a run for it.
They nearly reached the jumper. The first wave of Genii caught up with them fast. Rodney ran into the jumper while Sheppard and Teyla laid down cover fire. Teyla ran in quickly and Rodney cloaked the jumper. It took them a moment to realise that John hadn't followed them in. They looked back out to see John lying in the grass. They quickly killed the Genii with their advantage of not being seen. Teyla ran out and pulled John towards the safety of the Jumper as the second wave of Genii approached them. As soon as Teyla was in the back compartment McKay shut the rear hatch.
Bullets connected with the jumper as the Genii shot blindly. The cloak decided to disengage. As they slowly lifted off the ground the Jumper jolted suddenly and started to fall back to the ground. McKay did his best to land the craft without damaging it or hurting its occupants. McKay ran back and forward fiddling with the controls trying to cloak the jumper again, frustration set in and he kicked the jumper, immediately the cloak reengaged.
"The old 'kick it and it shall work' trick." He grinned as he told her.
"What happened?" Teyla asked once the firing had completely stopped.
"Judging by the fact we crashed, there's something wrong with the thrusters."
"What is wrong?"
"When they fired a bullet must've short circuited the inertial dampers, either that or gravity increased; which I very much doubt. I can rewire it in here without going outside and getting killed."
"Hey guys." A harsh whisper broke their speaking.
"Colonel how do you feel?" John glared at McKay's stupid question.
"Like a Jumper ran over me. Did you get its number?" Teyla gave him a small smile at his joke. Rodney helped John sit up against the seats.
"I take it that this isn't very good?" Rodney held up his had to show Teyla. It was covered in red blood. Her eyes widened and she ripped John's body jacket and Atlantis jacket off him. She gently probed to discover he had taken a bullet to the shoulder, a broken wrist and sprained ankle, probably from when he fell.
"Will you watch where you're poking?" He told her sternly. Rodney had taken the initiative and fetched the first aid kit, pulling out a canteen of water he popped two painkillers out of the pillbox and handed them to Teyla to give to John and set about repairing the ship.
"Shut up!" She told him after he continued moaning.
"I'm your Commanding officer."
"And you are my patient."
"Ahhh, been spending time with Dr. Beckett have you?" Teyla's reply was to shove the pills in his mouth and give him the water to take them. She cut his shirt with the small set of scissors and pulled it off him. "That was my favourite shirt!"
"You have more just like it. I will ask Colonel Caldwell to send more for you." She turned away from him to reach for a bottle.
"You have half of them, you like my shirts…ahhhhhhhh!" He screamed. "What's that?"
"Disinfectant." She had a grin on her face as she said it; she started to clean the wound, then the blood that surrounded it.
"Warn me next time."
"Īnfāns." Rodney snorted as he realised what she'd muttered.
"What did she say?" John looked at him. Rodney mouthed 'Baby'. "That wasn't a nice thing to say."
"Dr McKay!" Rodney walked over, as Teyla was cleaning up John's blood covered chest, bruises started to appear.
"John where did you get these?" John tried to look down before answering Rodney's question.
"Training."
"You did not. We only trained today for the first time since your father arrived." It finally clicked into place for Rodney; he had a suspicion but didn't really know for sure until now.
"He did them didn't he?"
"Rodney who are you referring to?" Teyla asked him.
"John knows exactly who I'm referring to, don't you. I've seen the signs: you've been avoiding us, you're unusually quiet, you're not eating properly, you've even blocked Teyla…" He turned to Teyla. "And I bet he's even warned you to stay away?" She nodded. Rodney softened his tone. "Your father hits you doesn't he?" John looked at them with eyes mixed with pain and sadness; he slowly nodded his head in reply.
