A/N: Camy gets all the credit for this chapter, she helped me get the idea going and provides me all the info I need to do this without it being corny. This one's for you Camy. I would've had this up sooner but the computer screwed up and I lost it all. GRRRRR!

Teyla closed hers eyes and forced her tense muscles to relax. She was standing just outside Halling's home. She opened her eyes and stared up into the hills where she knew John was even now. She let a gust of wind blow her loose hair around and pulled the blanket she wore even closer.

Thousands of emotions rolled with the tempest, flowing with the same ferocity of the wind. How was she supposed to feel? Her two children had been abducted by her own people and now she couldn't even go searching for them.

If only she could get her hands around the council's frail necks. She'd twist them around until they learned to fear the day that they took Teyla Emmagen Sheppard's children. She stopped herself, had her people truly fallen so far?

As she looked out onto the mountain range she could feel her heart linked with John's as he searched for their children. She could feel the intense burning determination and love that nearly consumed him. She fell for him, again.

A single tear dropped from her eye, she immediately stopped the rest. John would return, with both of their children, she knew it. She had to know it. The empty hollow inside her ached at the thought of losing a part of herself.

She let her arms wrap around the image of Eliya in her arms, the one time she had held her newborn child. If she closed her eyes she could almost she the amazed grin of John as he looked down Tagan in his hands. For a moment, she forgot she was cold.

She gazed onto the field where Jinto and his friends were playing football, just as John had instructed them. For just a moment, she could see her children grown up, playing in that same field. The tears slowly began to fall as she realized just how close she was to losing that.

Then her heart leaped into her throat as she saw John walking towards the home. He was carrying two sleeping infants, Eliya and Tagan. Teyla knew it in her heart the second she saw them. She dropped the blanket, completely oblivious to the cold and ran, heedless of the pain to him.

She stopped only a step away from him, staring at him, letting the tears of joy stream down her face. She gazed into John's green eyes, melting then and there with love and passion. She took the final step and wrapped her arms around him and the infants, kissing him in the process.

As if on cue, just as they broke the kiss, Eliya woke up, gazing up at Teyla with intense green eyes. Teyla slid her arms gently around Eliya and began to hum a quiet Athosian nursery rhyme.

John caught her gaze as she sung and they shared a moment of silent communication, almost telepathic. Teyla knew immediately just how much John loved their children, and her.

She finished her song and cuddled a once again sleeping Eliya in her arms. She turned to John and kissed him once again. "Thank you John." She said breathlessly.

John raised an eyebrow. "They're my kids too."

Teyla suppressed the urge to laugh. Indeed, they were his children too. In that moment however, the world was very small. It included nothing more than two happy parents, with two sleeping infants. They were together forever.

A/N: I need another plot idea to continue.