Anything with /'s inside quotes is being spoken in Czech.
Epilogue
"/It was good that Dr. Beckett took her. As long as I could feel she was safe, I ... slept, it's not the right word, but with Marina safe, I could stay where I was. When I could no longer feel her, I woke./" Radek explained. Marina was tucked into one arm, his other hand holding the bottle. He was getting good at the practicality of this, sitting up in his bed. His midsection still ached, and the burns were bothersome but otherwise he was very much alive and well and quite happy about it.
"/I was so afraid I'd lost you. I ... when you didn't wake up, I began to tell myself you never would, so I could keep doing my job. But I didn't give up, not really, I just ... I couldn't let go of everyone else, and-/" She was stopped by the gentle brush of lips against hers and she sighed quietly, returning the light kiss for a long, lingering moment.
"/I'm back, and you are still here, and Marina is here and well, and I still love you, and you love me. I only wish I had listened to you. I lost two weeks of time with you, and we don't have a ZPM./"
The regret that tinged his eyes poked at Elizabeth's heart. "/You had no choice but to go, love. I didn't want you to go, but you needed to. Because you're my Radek, and you're Atlantis' Dr. Zelenka, and both men will do what's needed. I was angry at you at first, but I got over it because I knew you were right. And you're back now. I might not let you go off world ever again, though/" she smiled and they gazed at each other until Marina began to fuss. Radek watched with loving eyes as Elizabeth scooped the newborn up, draping her against her shoulder, gently patting her back. Elizabeth was as tender with the child as Radek was, and already getting used to being co-parent, loving the job as much as she loved Radek.
"/She's getting quieter/" Radek said later, after Elizabeth had put Marina into the tiny handmade cradle near his bed, then lay beside him.
Something in his voice told Elizabeth he didn't mean the baby. "/Atlantis/" She rested her head against his shoulder when he took her into his arms. It had taken her only a short time to get used to being able to get her arm fully around Radek's stomach, now that Marina wasn't filling it.
Radek nodded, his fingers drifting idly through her hair. "/She'll never fall silent, she never really was, but it's getting harder to feel her./" He'd known he would eventually lose touch with the city, but he'd held out a very tiny hope of keeping some vestige of it, something more than memory.
Elizabeth said nothing, there was nothing to say. She had envied Radek that contact, brief as it had been, but she ached for him now that he was losing it. Her only response was to move a little closer, as if offering her own presence in replacement of the city he was slowly losing. Radek accepted, tightening his arm, savoring her embrace.
"/I wish Marina had your eyes/" Radek said much later.
Elizabeth held that thought for a long time, a warmth spreading in her.
You've found the place to walk the path you've chosen
You'll never miss the world you've left behind
When life gives life, it's happiness unbroken
– Air Supply, "Eyes of a Child"