Sorry for the delay, I had hope to finish write and post the epilogue this last week, but sometimes things happen to us and you have to ask yourself why me. Alright, I really want to thank those of you that have taken this journey with me and who have given me encouragement when I struggled with this story. I really wanted to look at how John and Teyla's relationship may have changed having become a married couple and expectant parents.

This fic title was inspired by the song by The Proclaimers, I'm Gonna Be and then there is the Vanessa Carlton's A Thousand Miles that I love too. But it was more so the chorus from I'm Gonna Be. You see for me the thing I love about SGA, the team. With the team is that sense that you know they have each other backs no matter what and with John Sheppard in particular I believe John would walk that thousand miles for Teyla and even his friends. We have seen him do it in episodes like The Ark, Search and Rescue, Sateda, so I don't have any doubt that. I know John is not doing the saving in this one, but sometimes the hero needs saving too.

I decided not to include certain scenes in the story. Because I don't think they are too, too important. Again, thanks to those who let me know their thoughts and opinions and for the encouragements.

Epilogue

John's head bobbed then his eyes abruptly opened. It looked as if he may have dozed off for a bit. He had been hoping maybe this was all a bad dream. But once his drowsy eyes opened and saw his surrounding and the direness of his situation. He knew he was very much awake and not imaging anything.

His neck felt stiff. There was now a slight discomfort at the base of his neck, in his spinal area. It felt tight. He touched the back of his neck, rubbing it. Hoping to loosen that knot he felt forming there. He tried stretching then he tried turning his neck to loosen up the stiffness he felt there.

John hated waiting for anything, but that what he was pretty much reduced to doing. Waiting and hoping, hoping that his teammates will come to give him a hand out of what felt surely like a tomb. A mummy he wasn't and he didn't care to be one either. John fingers tighten into a fist. Minutes that seemed like hours passed, but when an unexpected noise drew his attention. He stilled as he tried to listen for what he thought the sound could possibly be, maybe it was some kind of phantom sound, a sound from his own imagination, but then he heard the noise again. His brow lifted.

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Rodney walked out of the Jumper's Bay room followed by a badly limping John who was being assisted by Ronon and they were followed by a member of the medical staff, Dr. Woods and Major Lorne and several marines. Mr. Woolsey met them in the corridor as they exited the Jumper's Bay room, the men pausing as they saw Mr. Woolsey.

"Gentlemen…" Mr. Woolsey said looking at men before looking at John directly.

"Colonel, I'm glad to see that you have made it through your ordeal in relatively one piece."

John smiled half heartily. "Me too, sir."

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John hurriedly limped into the infirmary with Ronon not too far behind him. John had only been briefed that Teyla had gone into labor, so he didn't know what would await him as he entered the Infirmary.

Carson saw the two men when they entered into the Infirmary and walk over to them. The men looked fatigued. Their clothing soiled, so too were their faces and hair, however the Colonel had looked the worst by far. There was a bandage on his cheek. One his pant leg was ripped apart. It's not like he hadn't expected as much.

"Where is Teyla?" John asked Carson impatiently as he came to stand next to him.

"Ah Colonel don't you look the worst for wear." Carson said to John before looking over at Ronon.

"Ronon." Carson said.

"Ah, thanks Doc. I've had better days." John said grimacing.

"Hey Doc." Ronon said.

"Doc, where is Teyla? Is she okay? And the baby…" John asked a little nervously.

"She's resting Colonel." Carson could see John's worried look. "She's fine. She will be back to her old self in no time."

John relaxed some, but he was still nervous. "And what about the baby?" He asked.

"Aye, ..." Carson looked at John with a sad expression.

John fell his heart began to pound, pounding as if it would leave his chest. Did something happen to the baby?

Carson saw that John looked aghast as soon as the words left his mouth, realizing what John was thinking. He had only wanted to say that he knew that John would have wanted to be here with Teyla when she had gone into labor and for the birth of their daughter.

"No Colonel! You have a beautiful and healthy baby girl."

John froze, Carson's words washing over him, he couldn't move from the spot if he had wanted to. He couldn't believe the words that came out of Carson's mouth. Carson was smiling at him, so that was good. So he really was a father. He suddenly felt a burst of emotions welled up in him. There were too many emotions for him to really name, relief, joy, pride, regret. But the two things he was most certain at this moment was that he just wanted to see Teyla and he wanted to see his little girl.

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John was sitting in chair by Teyla's bed holding their three days old baby girl in his hand while Teyla watched him from her bed. Teyla was smiling at him. The way John held their daughter. The adoration she saw in his eyes for her brought tears to her eyes.

John couldn't stop looking down at his baby girl just studying everything about her. She was perfect in every way to him. She was a little small due to her entrance into the world, but she was still perfect to him, with her tiny pinkish hand and fingers by her sides, although they were covered by the baby's blanket she was wrapped up in. His daughter had a strong grip. She probably got that from her mother. He loved giving her his pinky finger to hold on to when she was awake with her eyes usually closed of course. They still didn't know the color of her eyes yet. The Doc said that would take a few weeks before they know that, but that didn't stopped him and Teyla from debating with each other as which one of their eyes' color their daughter would have. He was sure he knew the answer. His little girl already showed signs of having the same dark hair color as her father. He took one of his fingers, lifting aside the little cotton cap covering his daughter hair to peak. Yep, she has his hair. He grinned to himself. Of course, he totally missed Teyla watching him and smiling.

John was too engrossed in his daughter. The first time he set his eyes on his daughter he regretted not being there when she first entered into her parents' crazy world of ridding the evils from Pegasus Galaxy, but he had made a promise then to his daughter that he wouldn't missed anything else in her life even if he had to walk a thousand miles to do it or to make it happen and it is a promise he intended to keep.

The End.

Yeah, I know fluffy. But this was a Christmas's gift and now it is almost Valentine, so it had to be a happy ending. :)