Author's Note: It's really sad how much I'm enjoying thinking up these chapter names... ;)

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Dinner Date

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"Colonel Sheppard, it is good to see you again," Todd said.

"I'm afraid that I can't say the same about you," Sheppard said. "It seems that a lot of problems have been going on lately; involving you."

"You certainly can't blame me if you have notoriously bad timing," he said, shaking his head with disapproval.

"Would you knock it off?" Instantly the wraith was all business.

"Why do you need me?" he asked. "You know that it is a great personal risk for you to come here; especially since this hive was so recently acquired--- thank you, Teyla--- and the crew still does not trust me completely."

"I'm crying for you," John said sarcastically. Todd frowned, growling a little, but his attention seemed mostly taken up by Teyla.

"Something has changed in you," he said thoughtfully. "That's very interesting..."

"What have you done to me?" she asked him, her voice cold and trembling with rage.

"Other than give you a chance to be a queen; to learn what it truly means to rule?" Teyla was obviously having a hard time keeping herself under control; her friends got the sense that she was barely restraining herself from strangling the wraith right then and there. Considering the difference in their sizes, that would have been something to watch.

"Why am I hungry?" Todd blinked, seeming genuinely surprised.

"Hungry?"

"Yes. I have eaten everything that I can; nothing satisfies me anymore. Why am I becoming like a wraith after my body has been returned to normal?"

"I've never heard of this happening in such a way before..." Todd was muttering, not paying attention to them anymore. "I have only seen wraith turn human; never the opposite way, and never females. I wonder..."

"You mean you didn't do this to her?" Carson asked. Todd shook his head regretfully.

"No, but I wish that I could take credit for it; it's really quite incredible."

"What is "it"?" Rodney asked, sounding nervous.

"When we transformed her for her... stewardship here, we only changed her body. Nothing but her appearance was touched. But something seems to have awakened the wraith genes in her; and they are starting to take over."

"What hat did you pull that story out of?" Sheppard asked, still not willing to trust him.

"It is not a deception, Colonel," Todd said distractedly, his eyes still focused on Teyla. "I can feel it in her."

"And you're sure that you didn't cause this?"

"I promise," he told them irritatedly. "But I think that I might have an idea of what did."

Suddenly, his body jerked and he blinked, a second before Teyla doubled over. This time, her change came must more quickly.

"Why are you doing this to me?" she shrieked, the wraith-like qualities heavy in her voice. "How dare you deny your queen her sustenance?!" Todd instantly grabbed her arm and started to tow her off. After a second of shock, her team followed.

"I'm sure that you would all prefer to stay here," Todd said, lengthening his stride a bit.

"I don't thinks so..." Ronon began.

"You don't have a choice," Todd said, passing through a doorway. "Besides, I doubt that you'll enjoy watching her at her first feeding." That startled them to a stop, and it gave Todd the time to activate the door. it closed between them, dropping a wall of hard, wide mesh in between them and their sobbing team-mate, who now seemed to be arguing with the part of her that thought she was a queen; as if she could not decide which one she really was. Her team-mates were furious.

"TEYLA!" But Todd pulled her around a corner, and out of sight.

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Todd took Teyla through the empty halls of his hive, unti they came to the cells and the cocoon area.

"Take your choice, my queen," he said, addressing the wraith part. And that part seemed to dominate, suppressing the sobs of her human part. She drew herself up to her full height and began to inspect the prisoners. She found a cocoon that seemed to interest her, and brushed stringy threads away from it's inhabitant's face.

"He is strong," she said, taking in the hard set of his features, even in unconsciousness. "I will enjoy this." She pulled back her hand--- the one that wasn't in a cast--- and felt the skin on her palm rip. She glanced at it to see a newly formed feeding slit, one that she was more than ready to use.

Just then the man awakened, and he glared at her defiantly.

"Go to-" he never got the last word out. Her hand slammed down onto his chest, and with a blood-curdling shriek that could be heard throughout the ship, she began to feed.

As soon as she began to feel his life seep into her, the real Teyla began to fight the wraith instincts again. When she saw what was happening she shrieked and tried to pull her hand away; but as if run on a will of it's own it held fast until she had absorbed every last bit of life from the man. Only when she had sucked him dry could she let him go; and she jerked her hand away from the corpse as if she had been burned. She turned unsteadily to Todd, feeling suddenly dizzy and disoriented and sick.

"What... what have you done to me?" she slurred.

"I did it to save your life," he said. "I made you feed." For possibly the first time in her life, Teyla fainted.

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A/N: Eek, when I started this fic I wasn't expecting that. Please review with thoughts, comments, complements... angry letters... lol