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Summary: What happens when a Wraith and a human fall in love? Well, it's not a walk in the park. They have to fight for what is theirs and the family they desperately want.

OC X OC

Hell hath no fury than a woman scorned. Edward had really pissed off the Queen when he turned her down. Bitch even came with her guns loaded. Jesse knew this was coming, she had known for a long time. That cold feeling was her telepathy kicking her into motion but none of the warnings had worked. There were three Wraith Hive ships in orbit and all they wanted was Jesse. They had given Atlantis two hours to comply to their demands or they would shoot us out of the sky. Great.

Edward, John, Ronon, and everyone else with the rank to make important decisions sat in the conference room with Jesse off to the side. She was still reeling with the knowledge that this Queen was going through all this trouble just to kill a human.

"We can't just give up Jesse because this Queen wants her." John bottom lined it.

"She will stop at nothing. Not even my demise by her own hands will satisfy her. This is more personal to her, the female thing." Edward still wasn't good at the whole conveying feelings bit but he was learning.

"Bitch wants me because I stole her man. If I wasn't pregnant I'd go over there and kick her ass myself." Jesse was sick and tried of this pointless talking. "She isn't gonna leave until she gets me and I'm obviously not leaving. What are our options." Everyone in the room was looking at her. "What?"

"We don't know what to do, unless we decide to fight." Dr. Woosley stated.

"Give me a gun."

"Jesse…" Edward warned.

"No, really, give me a damn gun. Bitch wants to break up my family she's gonna have to come here and fight." Jesse pushed away from the wall and stomped out of the room with everyone staring after her.

She wasn't going down without a fight. From what they could determine, Jesse's due date was within the next few weeks but she could tell it would be sooner than that. Different pains and pressures told her it could be any minute. This situation wasn't helping but hell if she was going to take this lying down.

John caught up with Jesse a few minutes later. "Hey, where you going."

"To get a gun, just in case."

"Is that safe?"

"I use to deer hunt every year. I'll be fine. I just want to be able to defend myself in case they decide to send an executioner."

"Eddie is worried. He knows we won't give you up but he can't help but feel like this is all his fault."

Jesse stopped and contemplated John's words. "It's the both of us. If I would never had come here he would have chose her and this city wouldn't be in trouble. We fell in love and now everyone else is paying for it." She laughed. "Now I know how Romeo and Juliet felt. It sucks. There is no right answer for anything and every answer feelings wrong and right at the same time."

"I lost you at 'the city wouldn't be in trouble.'" He laughed.

"John, I'm scared that not all of us are gonna make it."

"Is that your psycho talking?"

Jesse growled. "I don't know. I'm not psycho!"

"Jess, just stick by Eddie and make sure that baby gets here safe and sound. Let us military guys take care of the Queen bitch."

Pulling him into a tight hug, she finally felt a little relief. John was going to keep them safe and Edward wasn't about to let anything happen to his women. Finally the weight was lifted but immediately replaced with something else. A heart-wrenching pain ripped across her conscious mind and finally settled in her abdomen. The mind of her daughter linked with her own.

"John?" Jesse pulled away looking terrified. "Call Dr. Keller, something is wrong." No sooner did the words leave her mouth, she collapsed to the ground with John helplessly trying to wake her.

"Jesse. Jesse!" He called but she was out cold. "Dr. Keller!" He called over the comms. "We need a medical team to the hall outside the conference room, Jesse collapsed. And someone get Edward to meet us there."

John stayed with Jesse, holding her and trying to wake her until Dr. Keller and the team arrived.

"What happened?" Jen asked.

"We were talking and then she collapsed but I think she saw it coming because she warned me and told me to get you." He explained as they lifted her onto the gurney. "Is it the baby?"

"I don't know. I have to get her to the infirmary." Jen rushed down the hall with her medics. "Head off Edward!" She called over her shoulder as she disappeared down the hall.

His mind racing with questions, problems, and complications that could hurt Jesse or the baby, John flew down the hall as fast as he could to find Edward. Jesse was one of his best friends, she was about to be a mom and now she might be in trouble. The least he could do was find Edward and keep him from freaking out. The Wraith in question was ten steps ahead of him, obviously freaking out.

"Eddie!" John called after the Wraith, stopping him in his tracks. "C'mer buddy, Dr. Keller wants time to check her out before you go in there."

"What happened?!" The Wraith growled.

"We were just talking and she passed out. It could be nothing."

"It could be everything! This is Jesse and my daughter!"

"I know, trust me, I want to help her as much as you do but running in there all hot headed is not going improve the situation. Now wait with me out the infirmary and cool down." He placed a comforting hand on Edwards shoulder. "Our girls are gonna be ok."

Visibly, Edward relaxed but John could feel the strain in his new found friend. This was tearing him apart. His relationship with Jesse, their child, his standing with humans, and his life pertaining to the Wraith threat, it was eating away at him. Adding a complication to the pregnancy was just another nail in his heart. Jesse was his whole reason for siding with the humans, his whole reason for living and now they were going to have a child. She was going to be a miracle, their miracle, a hybrid child born from two parents that love one another. As soon as the treatment to stop his hunger is completed everything would be perfect. His sanity depended on Jesse, his world.

After an hour of holding back an irritated Wraith, Keller emerged from the infirmary with a smile on her face. "Jesse and the baby are fine. She's in labor."

"Oh, is that all?" Flopping down in his chair, John finally relaxed. "How far along is she?"

"She is doing so well, she's already half way through. Another couple of centimeters and we'll have a new babe in the building." Jen reassured Edward. "You can go and see her." She moved aside as Edward almost ran to Jesse's side.

"Hey you." Jesse smiled as Edward took her hand and kissed her forehead. "I didn't worry you did I ?"

"You are a difficult woman to comprehend." He admitted with a smirk.

"I don't want to make things easy for you."

"You never have. My world spins out of my own control, but you seem to have no trouble taking the reigns." He took a seat by her bed, continuing to hold her hand in his. "Is the child well?"

"Thriving." She shifted uncomfortably. "Another contraction." She whined as the waves hit her hard.

Edward was at a loss. He held onto her hand as she squeezed to help relieve the pain. John walked up a moment later and hand the shocked Wraith a cold compress. "All you can do is watch."

"I feel helpless."

"You've done enough." Jen walked in to check on her patient. "Lift your legs." Throwing back the blankets to reached between Jesse's legs, John couldn't help but choke.

"Hello! Men in the room!" He tried to shield his eyes but the damage was already done.

"You've seen it before." Jen pointed out to John.

"In theory, yes, but I've never seen Jesse naked."

"When a woman gives birth most decency is forgotten." Jen tried to explain as she examined Jesse.

Ignoring John's complaints, Edward placed all his attention on Jesse and her care. "How much longer?"

"Well, she's eight inches dilated already so I won't be much longer. We got to get to ten inches." She clarified for the Wraith. "Have the two of you thought of any names?"

He grumbled. "I have left that to Jesse."

With the contraction dissipated and Jen finished with her examination, Jesse was able to join in the conversation. "I picked a name already."

"Really?" John finally recovered.

"Jamie, but I was hoping Edward would give me an idea for a middle name. She is going to be an Earth citizen, right?" She glared at John.

"Of course! Why wouldn't she be?"

"Just checking." Another contraction hit and Jesse held onto Edward for dear life.

"John, please check on the progress with the Hive ship currently threatening our lives." Edward stated calmly as he watched Jesse writhe in pain.

"Kay." He left the little family and entered the conference room minutes later with a huge grin on his face. "Jesse is having a baby!" His announcement broke the silence in the room.

Everyone looked at John with fear.

"What?"

"Another Hive is in orbit." Rodney bore the bad news.

"Who?"