Chapter Eight: John's Resolution
The wind blew out into the morning dew as it fell from the trees leaves, John looked from his seat by the fire while sipping from his cup of coffee. He had woken early and could not go back to sleep so decided not to. He had already scouted the surrounding area and caught some fish for this mornings breakfast. Now he was just sitting waiting for someone to wake up and thinking about the nightmare that had awoken him. It is not the first time a nightmare has woken him and nor will it be the last. He was so lost in thought he did not hear that someone had come up behind him. They placed there hands on his shoulders and encircled them around his neck for a hug. He turned to look at the person and saw that it was Teyla.
"Hey." He said.
"Hey." She replied going around to be in front of him and to straddle his middle. He placed his hands on her hips and hers were on the back of his neck playing with the little hairs that were there. "You ok?" Teyla asked while she leaned her forehead against his.
"Yeah." He said one of his hands moved up to go on the back of her neck while the other remained.
"Another nightmare?" She asked John smiled he loved how she could tell what the problem was without him having to say anything.
"Yeah." He replied she just smiled and leaned in to kiss him and he complied and kissed back, it was a long passionate kiss one that he needed. That was another thing about Teyla that he loved, the fact that she can fix the problem without having to talk about it. Because god knows he's no good at that and she knows exactly how to do so.
As they pulled back he smiled at her and she smiled back. "Now pour me some of that coffee before I start drinking yours." She said.
"Ah I don't think you'll like mine, Black with no sugar and I'm pretty sure you like your full of sugar." John said smiling knowingly she smiled back while climbing off of him and headed to the wash rooms.
Just as Teyla left Cassie came out and headed straight to the wash rooms herself. Not to soon after Dave woke as well. "Looks like the camps waking up." John said to him.
"Yeah I guess." He answered. He saw that the girls tent was open and probably all awake. "They all awake?" He asked.
"All except Kelley." John answered as he started to cook the fish that he caught. Dave looked at it and then at John.
"How long have you been awake?" Dave asked.
"Since 3:30 this morning." John answered.
"Oh well need any help with that?" Dave asked.
"Nah I got it." John said Dave nodded and headed back into his tent to get something. John saw Teyla come out and head to the lake, he watched as she took some water and splashed it on her face. He watched as she took a deep breath as she stood up and he couldn't help but think that she was the most beautiful woman he has ever seen and he knew then that she was the one for him. He was tied down from that moment on and off the market. She didn't belong to him, HE belonged to her.
She was now headed over towards his direction smiling, he smiled back as she sat down next to him. He placed his hand on her thigh and she placed hers on top of his and he flipped his hand over and held on to it. She laid her head down on his shoulder then. "John?" She asked.
"Yeah?"
"I love you." She said squeezing his hand a little tighter. He stiffened at first and then he turned his head and kissed the top of her head.
"I love you too." He said and he felt he free hand as she placed it over his heart. Just then Kelley came out of her tent and headed to wash rooms as she went in Cassie came out.
Cassie sat across from John and Teyla and grabbed some coffee and fish for she was starving after a long nights rest of what was left of it anyways from Kelley's outburst last night. "Where's Dave?" She asked.
"He went back into the tent you can go in if you like, if he asks tell him I gave you permission to go in." John said smirking Cassie smirked back and nodded, she got up and headed over to the tent. As soon as she went in the tent there was another ear shattering scream that came from the wash rooms. John looked at Teyla at the same time she looked at him. "Well I'm not going in there." John said knowingly, Teyla nodded and got up before she could go though Johns hand tightened on hers. She looked down and saw John holding his gun up to her and so she nodded and took it placing it in the waist band of her pants, then headed to the wash rooms.
TBC