A/N-I'm really sorry about the wait! I know this sounds cliche but my computer was down and I couldn't figure out how towrite this chapter.
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ch. 9 Almost Home
Teyla sat on the floor and hugged her knees to her chest. Silent tears made their way down her cheeks. 'How could he do this to me?' She thought. 'NO!' Teyla scolded herself. 'He would never do that on purpose.'She needed to clear her head. So she stood up, wiped the tears from her face, and left the storage room she was in.
Many jaffa passed her but none of them noticed as she walked by. As they passed, they bowed and went on their way. Teyla walked around for maybe half an hour before she stumbled upon a dining hall of sorts. She was hungry and there was food sitting on one of the tables so she satisfied herself with foreign fruit for another hour.
Between each bite, she allowed herself to cry a little bit. She was so confused. Why would the goa'uld give up control? Teyla couldn't help but feel violated. Not because of the goa'uld, but because of what it had done.
Flashback
Teyla slowly opened her eyes. The memories of what had happened slowly came into focus. She sat bolt upright in the bed. 'Oh no.' She thought. 'No! Why is this happening?' Teyla felt something on her arm. She looked down and saw a hand resting on her wrist.
Her eyes were drawn up and rested on the familiar features of her C.O.. John slept peacefully and Teyla couldn't help but watch as his chest rose and fell with each breath he took. She gently pulled her arm out from under John's hand and slipped out of the bed.
When she found her clothes, Teyla hurriedly put them on and silently darted out of the room so as not to wake John, or rather, the goa'uld.
Teyla ducked into a storage closet nearby just as the tears were forming behind her eyes. She threw herself onto the floor and curled up into a ball, letting the tears flow freely from her eyes.
End Flashback
A sound was heard from behind her but Teyla didn't dare look up. She knew it was one of the jaffa and that she would be punished for having control of her body. So she let all of her tears out. All the emotions she was feeling rushed out of her in tired sobs. Teyla whipped around when she felt a hand on her shoulder.
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"Do you think it's a trap?" Ronon whispered to Terras as they watched the woman they thought was Teyla eating at the table.
"Maybe." She replied skeptically. "But Teyla doesn't even know we're on this ship. Unless John told her. But he probably thinks we left." Ronon glanced back at the rest of their team, all spread out along the corridor in case anyone came by.
"I think we should take her by force just in case." Ronon moved to stun her with a zat, but was stopped by Terras when Teyla started sobbing. Terras stood up and rushed over to Teyla, putting a hand on her shoulder.
"Teyla?" She asked when the terrified woman looked around at her. When she saw it was Terras, Teyla stood up and wrapped her arms around her, sobbing into Terras' shoulder. Terras embraced Teyla and shed a few relieved tears also.
"Thank you Terras! Thank you so much!" Teyla almost yelled when she let go of Terras.
"It's okay Teyla. Come on. We're going to get you out of here." Terras took Teyla's arm and led her to the corridor where Ronon stood waiting impatiently while Carson, Rodney, Lorne, and Cadman looked on eagerly.
"Teyla?" Ronon asked cooly. Teyla only nodded out of fear that she would start crying over the fact that he didn't believe it was her.
"Teyla?" Dr. Beckett came forward to check her over. "Do you have any idea why the goa'uld gave up control?" She shook her head.
"Well I don't much care right now, Doctor." Terras huffed. "I'm just glad that she's safe. And right now our main priority is getting John safe as well." She turned to Teyla. "Do you have any idea where he might be?" Teyla nodded.
"I last saw him on the third floor up, in the fifth room next to the..." Teyla put her hand on her forehead. "I can show you." She said, unable to come up with the precise location.
"Okay." Terras rested her hand on Teyla's back and led her down the hall past the stares from Lorne, Cadman, and Rodney.
They walked slowly through the ship, passing almost no jaffa, and when they did, the six dived into the nearest room. They only had to shoot at a jaffa once.
As they walked, Teyla couldn't help but think about what her friends would think when they saw John in that bed, knowing she had been with him. Her cheeks flushed at the thought.
"You've been quiet." Cadman commented to Rodney. They walked in the back of the group, lagging behind purposely so they could talk without being overheard.
"It's just so strange. There is absolutely no way that the goa'uld would give up control unless it's a Tok'ra. And I just can't believe that. If it was she would know."
"You forgot if she's pregnant." Cadman added.
"True. But I have a hard time believing that too." She had to agree with that.
"You're probably right. But it's possible." And with that their conversation ended and they continued to walk in silence.
Teyla was spared the embarrassment of having to bring her friends into that room because they met John halfway to the room.
"Jaffa!" He cried before a blue energy surged through his body and knocked him unconscious.
"Let's get him and go!" Terras ordered, putting away her zat gun. It was only a matter of seconds before jaffa would swarm around them.
Ronon and Lorne half carried, half dragged John through the ship. Terras busied herself with putting C-4 behind the gold columns that lined this section of the wall. When she ran out of hers and everyone else's C-4, Terras set a timer for twenty minutes. That gave them plenty of time to get to the ship and get a safe distance away before the ship blew.
"McKay get those doors opened!" She ordered when they were only a few minutes from the cargo bay. He succeeded in doing so while jogging and Terras radioed Miller. When he radioed back, McKay closed them again. They reached the Jumper just when John was starting to wake up. Terras zatted him again and he was dumped onto the bench in the back of the ship.
"Terras." Bates growled as the team piled inside.
"Oh hello Sergeant. How's the head?" He glared as Terras smiled sweetly. Teyla was almost inside when she remembered something very important.
"Wait for me!" She yelled and she ran back out of the cargo bay.
"Teyla!" Terras called after her. "You only have nine minutes! Dammit." She turned quickly to the rest of the group. "I'm going after her. Wait for us. Leave if we're not back in eight minutes." And she ran to catch Teyla.
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Kojhah sat patiently in her quarters, waiting to hear from her queen if she would be needed. She dared not pick up a book and read for fear that she wouldn't hear Neith calling. She thought she heard something but disregarded it as her imagination. She heard it again in thirty seconds and decided to investigate.
Kojhah stepped out of her quarters and into the corridor. She heard it again. It sounded like someone crying out something. Kojhah was about to go back to sitting when she heard it again, louder and clearer this time. It sounded like someone was crying her name.
"Kojhah!" She was sure of it now and followed the voice down the hall and into the next corridor.
"Kojhah!" Teyla yelled and embraced the girl in a hug and before Kojhah could respond. Teyla grabbed her arm and pulled her through the hall. "Hurry! We only have a couple of minutes!"
After running for what seemed like eternity, but was really only about a minute, the two women ran into a little snag.
"Stop!" A jaffa cried. They had no choice but to obey when they heard his staff weapon activate behind them. They turned around to see Hotep standing there. "I will not let Neith's host just leave." Teyla knew they were not going to make it out before the ship blew up. She let a lone tear escape for John.
"I'm sorry." She whispered. Hotep suddenly gave a cry of surprise as he fell to the floor and blue electricity circled his body. Behind where he had been standing, Terras stood holding her zat gun.
"GO!" She screamed. The three wasted no time in sprinting down through the ship to the cargo bay. On their way, they passed the C-4 that had been put up and Terras stopped for a second to check the time left on one of them. "One and a half minutes!" She yelled, running after Teyla and Kojhah.
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"We've got one minute till that C-4 goes off. I think we should go." Bates said impatiently in the Jumper.
"Give them a few more seconds." Ronon replied.
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"Get the doors opened McKay!" Terras yelled as she darted into the cargo bay after Teyla and Kojhah. They managed to close the Jumper door just one second before the cargo doors opened.
"Fifteen seconds." Bates announced. Miller powered up the Jumper and it liffted off the ground.
"Come on, Lieutenant! We have got to go!" Major Lorne called. Miller flew the Jumper out of the cargo bay and into space. Behind them, a crash erupted from the mother ship and it exploded, the Jumper just barely escaped the burst that followed them.
A/N- I'm not going to be here all next week so if I don't get the next chapter up by friday, it won't be up till the monday after break. If I don't update before then, HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE!
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