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Wow, people actually liked that chapter. I weren't sure on a couple parts in it but I guess it turned out okay after all. Here is chapter 15. Hope you like it.

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John could only hear faint voices at first when he came around. It sounded like Beckett and Weir were discussing something and they seemed worried.

"John." Teyla's voice made him open his eyes to see her. She was blurry but it was definitely her. "Can you hear me?"

"Yeah." John said in a groggy voice. "What happened anyway?"

"You passed out again." Teyla said. She let out a deep sigh and rubbed the back of her neck.

John looked at her, his vision still clearing, and noticed what she was doing. "You okay?" Before she could get a chance to answer, John could see that Beckett was walking towards his bed.

"Glad to see you're finally awake." Beckett said. "How are you feeling?"

John blinked a couple times and then squinted his eyes to focus them on Beckett. "I feel fine Doc." John said as he began to sit up. He could feel Beckett's hand on his shoulder and understood why. About half way up into a sitting position, he was hit with a wave of dizziness crashed into him making him give up and lay back down.

"You need to lie still son." Carson said with his hand still on his shoulder, obviously afraid that he would try again. "And for the record…..you're not fine."

"Well, aside for being a little dizzy and my vision being a little off, I feel fine." John clarified and received a worried look from both Beckett and Teyla.

"Say that again about the vision." Beckett said.

"I said my vision is a little off…….kinda unfocused but it only happens when that damn device gets turned on. After a while it wears off." John said and again made another attempt at sitting up. He had the same reaction as he did earlier, he became dizzy again.

Teyla looked at Beckett, then back at John, and then back at Beckett as if she were trying to figure out what was going on. "What does that mean?" Teyla asked in a confused tone.

"Nothing right now." Beckett said. He turned back to John with a worried look on his face. "How many times has this happened to you anyway?"

"A few times……..mostly the stuff that's been happening recently." John said just before squinting his eyes shut.

"John?" Beckett said trying to get his attention. John opened his eyes to see both Teyla and Beckett staring at him with concern splattered all over their faces.

"They haven't found Kavanaugh yet." John said feeling his head begin to ache.

"How do you know that?" Beckett asked with a confused look on his face.

"Because he is near the infirmary." John said seeing the confused look on Beckett's face get even worse. "Look……McKay said that the thing only has a fifty foot range so that means he is within a fifty foot radius of the infirmary."

"What if he turns it on again?" Teyla asked receiving a surprised look from everyone because she had been fairly quiet until now.

"I'll go radio Dr. Weir about it." Beckett said just before walking out of the infirmary all together.

John looked over at Teyla to see a familiar look on her face. It was a look of fear and concern for him. "You okay?" He asked in a soft tone.

"I am worried about you." she said with a sad look on her face that almost made John want to cry. "This keeps happening to you and there is nothing we can do for you……." she said. "There is nothing I can do for you." she added in a softer tone.

"Teyla……I'm….." John's sentence got cut short by a blinding pain that had John arching off the mattress in pain.

"Oh no." Teyla said with a look of horror clear on her face. "Dr. Beckett!" she yelled and just a few seconds later, Beckett came flying into the infirmary. By this time, John was laying on the mattress curled up into a ball holding his head.

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"I thought I'd find you here." Kavanaugh said as he approached Weir in the room where her and Rodney were trying to find out where he was.

"Kavanaugh…….where have you been?" Weir asked in a firm tone. "We had to confine everyone into their quarters because of you."

"Well, that's just too bad now isn't it?" he said in a strange voice that made Weir feel quite uneasy. She looked around the room real quick and noticed that McKay had disappeared on her.

"Kavanaugh…..I don't know what you are planning on doing but its in your best interest that you stop right now." she said in the same firm voice as before.

"Oh….you mean you want me to turn this off?" Kavanaugh said holding the artifact up so she could clearly see that it was on.

"Yes…..of course." She said looking strait into his eyes. Neither her nor Kavanaugh noticed McKay sneaking up behind Kavanaugh with a laptop in his hand. He lifted it up as high as he could without Kavanaugh noticing him there and with one swift swing, he caught Kavanaugh on the top of the head making the laptop break into several pieces and making him fall to the floor unconscious.

Weir let out a sigh of relief and bent down to get the Artifact. Once she had it firmly in her grasp, she quickly turned it off and took a deep breath. "Well done Rodney." she said with a smile on her face.

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All of the sudden, all of the pain was completely gone. John knew something must have happened for the device to be turned off. Teyla noticed that he was no longer in pain when she looked at his face.

"John…..are you okay?" she asked in a soft tone. He wanted to say something but didn't feel like destroying such a beautiful moment of pain free silence. She gently grabbed his hand and rubbed the back of it with her other hand.

"I'm fine Teyla." John said knowing that she wouldn't believe him because of the way he looked. He was breathing heavy and was pale. She could see sweat beaded off his head and blood running down from his nose.

John rolled onto his back and casually wiped the blood from his nose. He knew that Teyla was worried about him but there was absolutely nothing he could do or say to make her so she wasn't worried.

"How are you feeling son?" Beckett said with concern as he checked John's vitals. "And don't even think about telling me that you feel fine because I don't buy it."

"I feel the same as I did before…..only worse." he said telling the complete and honest truth. Teyla looked at him and then up at Beckett with concern splattered all over her face.

"What do you mean by worse?" Beckett asked as he continued with his examination.

"Well, before, there was time for it to all wear off. Now I have to wait all over again." John said.

"What about your vision?" Teyla asked in a concerned tone as she looked into his eyes.

"It's all blurry." John said as he blinked them to try and focus them. "But that is pretty much normal lately."

"Well, hang in there…..I'm sure they'll find him soon." Beckett said. Suddenly, Beckett heard Weir's voice over his radio.

"Carson…..are you there?" she asked

He touched his radio and answered. "This is Carson."

"We have good news." she started. "We found Kavanaugh and the artifact is turned off now."

"That's good news." Beckett said

"What is?" John asked only hearing one side of the conversation.

"Rodney hit him over the head with his laptop so we'll be having him brought in soon. I'll give you more details later. Weir out." she said disconnecting her radio.

Beckett stood there for a few seconds with a goofy grin on his face. "Dr. Beckett…….what was that about?" Teyla asked with a worried look on her face.

He took a deep breath and looked at both John and Teyla, his smile widening, and explained why he was so happy. "That was Dr. Weir……they found Dr. Kavanaugh. He no longer has the artifact."

Carson though that maybe Teyla would be happy about the news but her expression didn't change much. John's expression was quite different though. He let out a long sigh of relief and laid his head back on the pillow. "It's about time."

"Aye….it is about time." Beckett said with the same smile on his face. Teyla looked from John to Beckett and put on a fake smile.

"Would you excuse me?" She said and before John or Beckett could really say anything else, she grabbed her crutches and hobbled out of the infirmary.

Once she got outside the door, she stopped and closed her eyes. She thought that she would be happy about what she just heard but for some reason, she wasn't. Maybe it was because she had heard the same news so many times before that it seemed too good to be true, and maybe it was what she witnessed. The imaged of John arching off the mattress in such intense pain scared her beyond what anyone could imagine. She seriously thought that something really bad was going to happen that time. She was afraid of him dying.

No, the ancestors would not be that cruel to take him from me now that we finally have each other. I just wish all of this would end soon. I am so afraid of something happening to him and him dying. If that ever happened, I do not know what I would do.

"Teyla……are you okay?" A familiar voice made her open her eyes up quickly to see Kate Heightmeyer standing there with a concerned look on her face.

"Yes……I am fine." Teyla said deliberately not telling the truth.

"You don't look fine." She said.

"I am just tired and need some rest." Teyla said and without another word, she hobbled off on her crutches towards her room.

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After laying on her bed for what seemed like an eternity, Teyla finally drifted to sleep.

"John…what is wrong?" she asked with horror filled eyes as he dropped to the floor on his knees and screamed in pain. She knelt down beside him and rubbed his back in a failing attempt to soothe him.

Then, without any warning, the pain just stopped and John became completely motionless. "John……say something." there was no response. Teyla shook his arm a little bit which would usually get his attention so he could say something to her. He flopped over onto his side.

"John?" Teyla said in a much softer tone fearing the worse. She moved to the other side of him and took his hand into hers. She reached up with her other hands and put two fingers against his wrist to feel for a pulse…… was nothing. Instead of freaking out, she decided to check again, but this time, she would check on his neck.

She put her two fingers against the artery in his neck and gasped in horror. There was no pulse. He was gone. They had finally told each other how they felt and now it was the end for their relationship.

"No John……you cannot do this to me."

At that instant, Teyla bolted upright in her bed. "No." she said in almost a whisper as she breathed heavy. Tears began to stream down her cheeks. After wiping them away, she looked at her watch. She had only been asleep for a hour. It seemed like forever but it was only an hour. Thank god she was only dreaming. She put her radio piece on her ear.

"Dr. Beckett, are you there?" she asked. She needed to know that John was alright. She had to know after that nightmare she just had.

"This is Dr. Beckett. What can I do for you Teyla?" he asked recognizing the voice immediately.

"How is John doing?" she asked hoping that everything would be fine.

"He's doing just fine love." He said in a happy tone. "As a matter of fact, he's getting his strength back much faster than before so I expect that I will be releasing him either tonight or tomorrow morning."

"That is good to hear." Teyla said with a smile on her face. It was the best news in the world after what happened earlier and the nightmare she had. "Thank you." she said and before Beckett could say anything else, she clicked her radio off.

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Well, there you go…chapter 15. I really hope you like it. It's a little bit slower than the previous chapter……I think(personal opinion I guess)……there is some whumpage in it. I will try to update as soon as I can so please……tell me what you think about this chapter.