Once again I own nothing…sigh…if only I did…
The cold intensified as Teyla felt the wraith behind her move…time slowed down around Teyla as she pivoted to face the wraith, ready to fight to protect John but as she came around her surroundings once again began to dissolve, the chamber quickly vanishing before her and the last clear image burned into her mind was of a wraith hand descending…
PART 2
(Back in the wraith cell)
"NO!"
Teyla's outcry shattered the silence of the darkened cell startling both Ronon and Ford. Teyla had been sitting quietly, her back against the cell door when her eyes had flown open and she had jerked back and cried out.
Ronon lunged off the bench to reach Teyla but was stopped by Ford…
"What do you think you are doing?" Ronon's voice dripped with menace as he gripped Ford's shirt, lifting his slightly off the ground and starting to throw him back but Ford stopped him, grabbing Ronon's own shirt, "Stop, Ronon…look at her…"
Ronon paused for a moment and with a suspicious narrowing of his eyes, shoved Ford away and then kneeled beside Teyla, who after her initial outcry, made no further movement. Ronon looked into Teyla's eyes and started slightly at the blank brown void that greeted him, "What's wrong with her?" Ronon asked never taking his own eyes off of the still form in front of him.
Aiden slowly approached and knelt beside the female warrior he once considered one of his closest friends, "I think she's connected to them…the wraith or maybe something else, I'm not sure…it's the only thing I can think off."
Aiden paused and in a soft voice continued on, "She tried this before…connecting to the wraith, it wasn't like this, before I mean, but she's somewhere I think she needs to be…She needs to fight the demons invading her thoughts… I've had a few of those haunt my own dreams this past couple of months."
Ford shifted uncomfortable and stood up, putting distance between him and the Satedean warrior. Then with a more firm and removed voice stated, "This is what she wants to do, let her ……I trust her."
Ronon's eyes grew hard at the sudden shift in Ford's attitude but remained where he was to stay close to Teyla. He moved to sit beside her and softly whispered, more to himself then to her, "Stay Strong."
(In the chamber of the Wraith Queen)
The Queen Wraith looked down at her prey kneeling before her.
"…..where is this place you come from?...Tell me how to find the planet you come from?..."
The Queen raised her webbed hands and placed them on either side of the male human's head, not touching but still able to exert her force upon the feeble mind of the one staring so defiantly up at her, "TELL ME…WHERE IS IT THAT YOU COME FROM?...TELL ME NOOOOWWWW!"
John starred at the Queen, her each individual word a driving force that spiked into his brain, splintering his thoughts and making it hard for him to focus. A witty remark would have been a customary John Sheppard thing to do but John's mind didn't seem to want to cooperate with him.
"TELL ME!"
Pressure seemed to build behind his eyes making him squint as pain laced through his head. "TELL ME HUMAN. TELL ME NOOOOOWWWW."
The words came as blows that built upon one another. John felt his strength desert him as the word 'Earth' flickered across his mind and balanced on his tongue, ready to spill from his lips.
"I love you…like none other in the past."
The words came softly, a mere whisper among the torrid of the Wraith Queen's demands but John grasped on to them like a lifeline.
"I love you."
John focused on the soft words spoken in a feminine voice, a voice he recognized.
"Teyla"
And with her name, came a calming, and the wraith queen seem to disappear to be replaced by the one woman who now filled his thoughts.
She smiled up at him, raising her hand to trace his face, caressing his lips; "I love you…like none other in the past." And before John could react, Teyla stepped up to him and kissed him.
John's startled reaction soon gave away to true emotion as he slipped his arms around her, pulling her closer to his body and deepening the kiss.
"Dreams…this is nothing but a dream…yet…" John held Teyla even tighter to him, allowing himself to savor the feeling of her body against his, allowing her warmth and strength to seep into his weary soul, "you're with me… right?"
He felt Teyla's body stiffen beneath his fingers and she pulled away from his embrace, horror reflected in the depths of her brown eyes as she looked at him. She whirled away, turning and…
John grasped his head with both hands as pain exploded, clouding his vision with its intensity…He tried to glare at the Wraith Queen but the only thing that came into view was a hand descending towards him…
(Back in the Wraith cell)
Teyla sat quietly still, Ronon keeping vigilant watch over her even though he could not fathom what was occurring behind the blank orb of her eyes…
Teyla screamed out to the empty blackness that now greeted her…there was no John…no wraith queen…she was alone but the cold that had invaded her being did not leave her..
Teyla knew what she felt had been real…she didn't know how or why she could connect to John but she felt the danger he was in as if the danger was directed towards her…
A thousand emotions welled up inside Teyla at the thought of losing John…just like her mother…just like her father…
"I will not ALLOW IT"
Teyla felt anger replace her desperation, spawned from the memories of all who she had lost during her lifetime. She centered this emotional storm on one image. The sight of the Wraith Queen filled Telya's mind… standing mockingly above John, planning to feed upon him…
All of her emotions Teyla collected inside herself; anger, frustration, sadness…and then she mentally threw them at the Queen, using the connection that tainted her as part wraith to now fight back and attack to save the one man she loved…
Teyla focused all her attention on attacking the wraith but as she tried to connect to the Queen, Teyla felt herself slam up against an invisible wall that sent her mentally reeling back, clutching her head in pain…
"You will not harm him…" Teyla gasped out as the strain from focusing through her connection to the Queen, 'You WILL NOT!" And with a final shove that took all her strength Teyla felt herself break through the barrier that protected the Wraith Queen's consciousness…
Teyla gasped out in pain as she felt the whiplash of her attack on the queen wash over her, pummeling her until her eyes started to lose focus and she fell to her knees…
"John," Teyla whispered as darkness crept over her vision taking her to a place that even dreams did not impede upon.
(In the chamber of the Wraith Queen)
The Wraith Queen stood over her pray, ""TELL ME HUMAN. TELL ME NOOOOOWWWW."
Anger suffused the Wraith Queen as she threw her head back and emitted a screech that echoed off the large cavernous walls of her chamber…
She returned her gaze to the human male in front of her, hissing softly. Something had changed with this one…he was close to breaking, she could almost taste the victory of his defeat as he moved his lips to tell her what she wanted to know and then…
The Queen hissed again, lowering her head so she could look into the human's eyes…She snarled in wrath as she took in the calm, peaceful expression that she saw reflected there…
The Wraith Queen jerked back and gave another ear piercing screech and lifted her left hand and jabbed downward across the human's chest, ripping aside the shirt and exposing the vulnerable flesh beneath it.
The Queen then moved her head once more so it was level to the defiant human's and spoke into his ear, "Ignore my will human…?"
And then she stood up and with a demented gleam in her eyes, slammed her hand upon the awaiting flesh of her meal…The Queen threw her head back in triumph and was about to start to feed when…
She violently threw herself away from John, her hands going up to grip her head and her mouth open in a silent scream as an unknown assailant plowed through her mind, wreaking havoc, drowning her in sea of malevolent emotions…
A screech ripped from her throat as the assault overwhelmed her senses making it impossible to concentrate…
The Wraith Queen stumbled back from John, weaving unsteadily as she made her way to a doorway exiting the chamber. With the last vestige of her strength, the Queen called to her wraith underlings, "Take him to the prepared cell, nooowwww….." and with that command stumbled into the adjoining chamber and collapsed onto the floor, unconscious.
John felt…nothing…pain seemed to have made his mind numb, he barley registered the fact that two wraith guards grabbed either of his arms and started to drag me away, through dark-lit hallways that blended together in their bleakness. When the passing gray colors stopped moving across his visions, John knew he was at his cell. One of the wraith guards grabbed him by his vest and hurled him into the cell causing his body to roll several times over until it crashed into the back wall of his prison.
John slowly pulled himself up into a sitting position and leaned against the wall. He looked around and a sickening feeling washed over him…he was alone…Ronon, Ford…..Teyla….they weren't here. Panic started to well up inside him…where were they…was she safe…
John leaned his head against back and remembered his dream…She had come to save him…he grinned ruefully at the thought and then grew serious…
The kiss…"You're with me…right Teyla?" The words came out softly and were greeted by silence.
With a sigh John closed his eyes thinking of Teyla, hoping that she was all right, hoping that he would find her…
(Back in the wraith cell of Teyla, Ronon and Ford)
"Teyla! Teyla!" Ronon held an unconscious Teyla in his arms.
One moment she had been sitting and then next she crumpled.
Ronon shook her several times but Teyla's head merely lolled to one side.
"Teyla! TEYLA"
To Be Continued