Come Away With Me

John dialed the last chevron and the wormhole came to life in the darkness of the night and he quickly punched in his IDC. They would come back tomorrow to Hapano to discuss the burial of Nadia. John knew that was going to be an issue, but he thought it would be best if they just left it alone for tonight. He looked over to Teyla and saw her standing there, just looking at the stargate. He held onto Isabella still, and Teyla held onto a small bag of things that had been given to them for the baby.

He continued to hold onto Isabella as he reached one his hands out to Teyla. Teyla turned and looked down to it, and seemed to hesitate for a moment before taking it. She looked up to John and met with his eyes, and they stayed like that in silence for a moment before John said, "Let's go home."

"Home," Teyla said quietly to herself so only she could hear. Suddenly, nowhere felt like home. She stepped through the stargate with John.

The stargate shut down behind them and she quickly noticed that they'd caught the attention of a few observers that were on the night shift tonight. John continued to walk out of the control room and took Teyla with him. She followed willingly, but didn't say a word.

They reached the infirmary, and saw Elizabeth as they approached it. "Teyla, John. Nice to have..." Her words trailed off as she noticed the third person whom John was holding. "Oh..." was all she could really manage at the time.

"I'll explain later," John said, saving Teyla from having to talk about something he knew all to well she was not ready to talk about yet. It was simply too soon.

Elizabeth nodded and turned to find Beckett for them, but was surprised to see him already walking up to the four of them. "Well Colonel, just who's this little one we have here?" Beckett asked as he noticed the baby.

"Her name's Isabelle. I'll explain it all later. For now we're just here for our quick check-up as usual." John said.

"Alright then, follow me." He said leading them to the infirmary.

No more than twenty minutes later, they were finished. "I'd like for the three of you to come back tomorrow morning, I just want to run over a few more things. And I see no reason to keep Isabelle here for the night, so I've had a small crib that you can use for her tonight sent to one of your rooms." Beckett explained.

"Thanks doc." John said as he got up. A moment later a nurse came into the room holding Isabelle in the same soft white blanket. John walked towards the nurse, and took Isabelle as she handed her to him.

Beckett was back in his office and the nurses had left the infirmary. John sat down next to Teyla on the bed, Isabelle still sound asleep in his strong, protective arms. Since they had gotten back Teyla had still not said much. John continued to hold Isabelle as he managed to stretch one arm away without waking her. He reached it out towards Teyla. "Come on," he said quietly. "Come with me." He said with a reassuring look as Teyla looked over at him.

With a silent nod, Teyla stood with John and followed him once again. They stopped at her room first, expecting to find the crib for Isabelle there. "Guess not," John said after he took a quick glance in the room. They immediately headed a little further down the hallway to his room. Most of the lights were off, and it was mainly the moonlight and small dim lamps here and there that lit the hall as they passed through it. They reached John's room and Teyla opened the door for him, so he didn't have to risk waking Isabelle. As soon as the door slid opened they saw the small crib sitting right next to the doorway.

The room was litenough simply bythe moonlight that was shining, but it was still dark where the crib was. For the first time, John handed Isabelle to Teyla. "Hold her for a minute," John said. He slowly and carefully passed the sleeping baby, who looked so calm, so peaceful, over to Teyla.

Teyla looked down to the tiny little person she had just been handed. Isabelle's white blanket was the softest blanket Teyla had ever felt and thought imaginable. Her small arms were lifted up just above by her head. When Teyla looked she noticed that Isabelle's nose reminded her so much of Nadia's; she definitely had Nadia's nose. Slowly, and cautiously Teyla lifted her finger to touch Isabelle's face. She brushed away the small little hairs to the side by Isabelle's forehead, and smiled at the site of how peaceful Isabelle looked all curled up in her arms.

Teyla tore her gaze from Isabelle and she looked up to see what it was John was doing. As quiet as he could, he moved his desk to the side of the room more, away from the large windows and balcony door, into the corner. He looked around once more and made sure the area was cleared and walked back to the crib. "What are you doing?" Teyla asked.

"You'll see," he said then began to move the crib across the room. He positioned the crib at an angle, right next to the window. "There we go," he said soundingquite pleased with himself.

John walked back towards Teyla and she passed Isabelle to him. Very gently, he unwrapped Isabelle's white blanket from her and laid her down on her back in the crib. Then, careful not to wake her, he spread the small blanket over her. While he did this, Teyla stood next to him. The two of them stood there next to one another, staring down at Isabelle as she slept. "She's beautiful," Teyla said.

"Yea, she is." John agreed. John took Teyla's hand and looked over to her. "Come on," he said. "Let's let her get a bit of sleep." John said pulling Teyla away towards the balcony. He opened the balcony door and stepped out. John then walked over to the small table that was out there and Teyla immediately sat down as tired as she was at the moment. John turned on the small CD player he had out there and hit play on the first song that came on. It started and Teyla looked to John, slightly confused. John put his hand out towards her and said, "Dance with me?" His seductive smile was simply irresistible and without a second thought Teyla took it. She stood and walked with him to the center of the balcony.

John wrapped his arm around her waist, pulling her close. He took her hand as she wrapped her other hand around his neck. Slowly, they swayed back and fourth the song as it softly wisped through the air. For those few minutes everything seemed right. Like nothing was wrong. And Teyla savored these moments like there was no tomorrow. She hadn't felt so safe for years –as long as she could remember even.

The song ended and Teyla forced herself to pull her head away from John's chest and look up to him. "John?" She asked.

"Yea?" He said looking down to her.

"Thank-you," she said, speaking with an over-whelming amount of emotion in her voice as she rested her head back on him.

For a moment, John wasn't sure what to do. Then he looked down at the woman before him, and his instinct lead him. He wrapped his arms around her into a hug, pulling her close to him as he continued to rock her back and fourth comfortingly as the next song came on.

A few minutes later as they still stood there, the air had started to grow a bit cooler. John pulled away slowly and took her hand, leading her a few feet over to the chair that was out there. Even though there were two chairs out there, he gestured for Teyla to come sit with him. Teyla sat down in-between his legs and rested her back against his chest. Having him there so close to her right now could seem like such a small thing to a person. But right now, to her, it meant everything. It was that one iota of hope that let her know everything would be okay. Maybe not today, but soon. Teyla leaned her head back and looked out onto the ocean as the moonlight accentuating the waves. She felt his arms warp around her and she closed her eyes. "Soon," she thought to herself, "soon."

TBC

Authors Note: No I'm not from Australia, I'm actually from a whole other side of the globe -Canada. It was thanksgiving. Sorry I didn't post this sooner, but I wasn't to sure to post what I had originally, so I rewrote it, and posted this instead. I want to develop the theme of 'lost battles' for John and maybe some more background story into Teyla which will connect with Isabelle and Nadia of course. Thanks so much for waiting so long and reading. I hope you'll review and in the next update I'll post replies for all of your reviews.