Title: Of Allies or Enemies
Author: Flea
Date 08.02.07
Part: 18/?
Rating: M

Pairing: J/T
Characters: John, Teyla, Elizabeth (bits from the others as well)
Genre: Romance / Suspense /Angst /Action its got some of everything
Word Count: 2717
Archiving: only here and on fanfiction net
Warnings- angst, swearing, suggestions of torture.
Spoilers: slight once through out all the season, many from the episode which Kolya appears in.

Disclaimers: No copyright infringement is intended. All characters belong to MGM I'm only borrowing them for my own personal enjoyment.

Summary: After years of planning, many disappointments and many failures … At last he has finally succeeded. Acastus Kolya is now the leader of the Genii people and is in full control. What does this mean for Atlantis and how does John take the news?

Chapter 18 – More than Friends

A few hours had passed since Kolya and his men escaped through the Stargate with Teyla, a few hours which John wished he would never have to experience again.

Rodney had successfully fixed the gate allowing Ronan and himself plus a team of heavily guarded marines to gate through to the address Kolya had dialled. They found nothing, the Genii must have dialled out straight away going to another planet; one which John had no way of finding.

"Can't you find the address from the DHD?" John heard Major Lorne ask.

He found himself once again in the briefing room, surrounded by Ronan, Carson, Rodney, Lorne and Elizabeth all trying to work out the best course of action for getting Teyla back.

"Yes I could … but as I've explained the DHD stores about 5o addresses and I've got no way of telling which one was last dialled. So unless you're planning to gate to each planet one by one, it won't do us any good." Rodney replied angrily.

"Rodney calm down." Elizabeth tried.

"Well it was a stupid question!" he huffed.

John rested his elbows on the table dropping his head into his hands. Gently rubbing at his temples he tried to relieve some of the tension which was causing his headache.

The Major had returned a little after Kolya disappeared arriving back in what to him must have seemed like a war zone. There were marines armed and posted at the gate on their arrival, people still rushing around the corridors, in and out of labs working 100 to get the city back on
line.

Lorne had managed to confirm John and Ronan suspicions about how Kolya had gotten his hands on the ZPM.

The city they found had been burned to the ground; everyone who'd lived there was killed.

Elizabeth asked if what the Genii had told them could be possible; that the wraith were to blame for the total destruction of the city and its people. The major gave her his honest opinion, to him and his men they saw no signs of wraith involvement.

"I don't understand why he would attempt to blow up the city with himself still in it." Carson asked slightly confused. "Surely it would make more sense to set the bomb and escape before it detonated."

They had lost a total of 27 people in Kolya's little diversion, over a 100 people were injured. Carson hadn't even heard about Teyla until he arrived at Elizabeth's office once the infirmary had been calmed.

"Who knows how the mind of a crazy person works." Rodney mumbled a statement which received a warning look from Elizabeth.

"Maybe destroying the city wasn't his overall plan!" She commented trying to answer Carson question as best she could, though it was a thought which had
puzzled her.

"He knew we were on to him" John spoke up only just lifting his head from his hands. "He'd been watching us the moment he'd stepped through the gate … he knew what the major would find on that planet and the moment he returned his plan would have failed."

"He knew we wouldn't continue the alliance knowing he'd destroyed a whole city just for a ZPM" John explained; understanding finally hitting Elizabeth.

"He had no choice but to try and escape before the Major returned."

"So he set off the bomb giving him a way to escape?" Elizabeth asked. Just when she believed Kolya could get no worst he goes and proved her wrong. The city was in a state of shock after the bomb and it would take months for everything to get aback to normal. People had died people she knew and cared about; just so the bastard could get out of the city.

Evil wasn't a strong enough word to describe the Genii leader.

"It doesn't matter how he did it … what about Teyla?" Ronan growled.

"We've got no way of finding the address of the planet he took her too Ronan, I'm sorry." She tried to explain. "I want to get Teyla back just as much as you but …"

"What about the prisoner, the Genii you caught?" Lorne asked.

"Five minutes" Ronan barked "Five minutes and I'll get the address!"

"Because torture is the best way off getting him to talk!" Rodney spoke sarcastically.

Elizabeth felt her heart beat race at all the faces which now looked towards her; all expecting the answer she gave to be the answer they wanted.

Ronan waited for permission to do what ever had to be done, as long as it made the Genii talk; giving up Kolya's whereabouts. Rodney and Carson both looked slightly sickened by the idea while the Major seemed unsure as whom to side with.

"I …" she began but had no idea what else to say.

How could she allow a man to be tortured; yes, he'd been one of the people responsible for over 20 deaths that morning, responsible for the kidnapping of one of her closest friends but still … Elizabeth just couldn't make herself give the order. Especially after she had been wrong the last time.

"Elizabeth you can't ..." Carson spoke up breaking the silence which had formed.

"If we don't do something then Teyla's as good as dead" Ronan shouted, Elizabeth noticed John's whole body tense; she couldn't even imagine what he was going through.

"I understand that … but there has to be another way."

"Any other way will take too long."

"John what do you think?" Elizabeth asked, she felt all eyes shift from her over to the Atlantis's leading military officer. John didn't say anything; he just sat there with a look of anger spread across his face.

"I agree with Ronan!" He spoke quietly but it was loud enough for everyone to hear and Elizabeth was blown back by the sudden outbursts which filled the room; mainly coming from the 2 doctors.

Elizabeth watched John as he sat there not moving, not looking up; trapped in his own thoughts as arguments were thrown this way and that.

"That's enough!" She shouted over the noise. "I agree the Genii is our best bet at finding the planet which Teyla was taken to but … that doesn't mean I'm agreeing to your methods Ronan, not yet anyway."

"So what do we do!" he growled

"I'll talk to him; you and John shall occupy me. Let see if we can solve this with out any more violence."

Teyla slowly felt herself begin to drift back into consciousness, wondering why her shoulders and wrists hurt so much, not to mention the terrible headache she had.

Slowly she attempted to move her arms; surprised when nothing happened. As her eyes began to drift open, noticing the barren walks of the room she was in, memories began to resurface in her mind.

She could remember Carson asking her to deliver the medical supplies to the mess hall; and the door blocking her way. McKay had informed her that someone must have removed the crystal.

Then Kolya and his men arrived, she could remember someone making a grab for her; she had fought back but; why had she stopped?

Teyla squeezed her eyes shut at the suddenly feeling of nausea which over took her body, breathing deeply Teyla tried to calm herself until it passed.

A needle! Someone had stuck a needle in her arm: she remembered now! One of Kolya's men had slammed her into the wall; Teyla could remember hitting her head and being dazed just long enough for them to drug her. After that everything was blank.

Teyla heard the sound of a door scratching against the concrete floor as it opened, the noise sending a pain shooting through her head.

"I see you are awake!" Teyla looked up to see Kolya standing in front of her, a number of guards standing around the room.

Teyla lifted her head, wincing at the pain she felt in her neck from the movement. Her arms and legs were bonded to the chair making it impossible for her to move.

"Where am I?" She asked. Her throat was dry; her voice coming out as a raspy whisper.

"That's not important!"

Teyla swallowed trying to relieve some of the pain in the back of her throat; it had very little effect.

"What do you hope to accomplish from this Kolya? Atlantis will never agree to an alliance now."

"My dear Teyla … an alliance was never my plan." He smiled smugly as he pulled up another chair placing it a few feet in front of hers. Teyla watched as the Genii leader motioned for the guards to leave, he waited 'till they left the room before he sat down. "Now we can have some privacy."

"They will find me Kolya!"

"I'm counting on it!" He said; as his smile grew.

Teyla watched the man who sat before her, a man who had caused her and her friends so much pain over the last few years.

"You're after John." Teyla felt her heart sink at the sudden realisation.

"And what better way to get him!" He smiled triumphantly. "My plan had been to take control of your city; killing Sheppard in the process, but this way is so much better." He leaned in closer and Teyla could feel his hot breath on her face. "What could be worse than watching the one you love die a most painful and slow death."

Teyla's eyes widen in shock as she watched Kolya walk back over to the door signalling for his men to return, bringing with them what looked like a camera. Was Kolya going to do to her what he did to John?

Teyla watched as the camera was placed on the other side of the room facing her direction. Sudden movements behind her snapped Teyla from her thoughts as she felt her binds being loosened. This was her chance.

As the soldier released her arms she lashed out as hard and fast as she could, knocking the man off his feet, but it was of no use. The rest of the guards rushed towards her, Teyla was outnumbered with no chance of overpowering them.

"I wouldn't try to resist, my dear, it's only going to make this more painful." Kolya told her just as her arms were seized again.

Teyla's arms were yanked upwards above her head, she noticed some sort of chain hanging from the ceiling just as two metal clasps were locked onto her wrist.

Teyla was trapped, with no way of escape. Her only hope that John and the others would find her soon.

"You are wasting your time." The Genii spat: "I will never tell you what you want!"

As John watched the Genii soldier sitting across the table from Elizabeth, his hands cuffed and refusing to speak; a strange sense of déjà vu washed over him.

Only this time instead of the city being at risk it was Teyla; if they didn't get the answers they were looking for there was no telling what Kolya would do to her.

The though that she may already be dead flashed through John's mind; pushing it away he tried to focus on what was happening before him.

"You used our trust to get into the city, detonated a bomb which killed many of my people; good and innocent people."

"The bomb was only meant as a distraction!"

"A distraction?" Elizabeth asked in disbelief. "Do you know how many people were killed?"

"We had no idea the blast would be as powerful as it was … we were lucky."

"Lucky you didn't destroy the city with you in it, you mean." John spoke calmly, controlling his temper. Elizabeth had made it perfectly clear how she wanted this to happen, and even though the only thing he wanted to do was punch the guy until he told them the gate address, he wouldn't; he would follow Elizabeth's orders.

Ronan on the other hand was just waiting for an excuse to cause the Genii some pain.

"We did not expect the exposition to be as big or cause as much damage. We were lucky that it allowed us to complete our goal."

"Your goal … kidnapping Teyla, you mean."

"The Athosian was not our target … but plans change." The Genii turned to look straight at John. "Things developed!"

John understood what he was saying; Kolya had been after him, not Teyla. But the change in their relationship meant a change in Kolya's plan …hurting Teyla would cause John far more pain than anything they could do to him.

The heart could always be hurt more than the body.

"What things." Elizabeth asked the look which pasted between him and John not escaping her.

"Why don't you ask the Colonel … after all he's the reason she was taken."

"You know what?" John marched over to the table placing his hands firmly on its top as he leaned in closer to the soldier; eyes burning into his. "Why don't you start telling us something useful, like where the bastard's taken her?"

"And your do what if I don't?" The Genii questioned. "Shoot me? Beat the answer from me?"

"Don't temp me!" John growled.

"Colonel …" John heard Elizabeth's voice from behind him, he knew he was pushing the line but if it was the only way to get Teyla back he didn't care. "Stand down Colonel … now." Elizabeth warned.

"It doesn't matter what you do, I won't tell you where she is."

"Colonel … stand down, I won't tell you again." Elizabeth ordered.

"There are many Genii who believe an alliance between our people is the best course of action. After all; you live in the city of the Ancestors … imagine the possibility." John backed away from the Genii listening intently to what he was saying. "But why have an alliance when you can have the city!"

"Kolya's idea I suppose."

"The plan Commander Kolya produce was flawless, we enter your city, learn your ways; become your friends. Until the time was right then we could take Atlantis from you."

"I guess it didn't quite go to plan!" John's voice was filled with sarcasm.

"It was your people's distrust which caused it to fail."

"I wonder why!" Ronan snarled from the corner of the room, John could see he was still itching to cause the man some harm.

"With our chances of taking the city gone we had little choice but to escape, but the commander had no intentions of letting you live." The Genii looked towards John his statement aimed at him. "Taking Atlantis was the second part of his plan, our main mission was revenge."

"So why take Teyla." Elizabeth asked, although she already knew the answer.

"As I said: things develop."

"So he uses my friends to get to me … he tried that before and if I remember rightly it didn't work." John watched as a smile appeared on the soldier's face, a smile which caused a wave of anger to wash over his body.

"A little modest aren't we colonel … looked like you were way past the point of 'just friends' after what I saw you two doing last night."

That was the point John completely lost it; lunging over the table; his thoughts set on beating the man senseless, the only thing that stopped him was Ronan.

The Satedan saw it coming stepping in front of John before he could cause the man any pain.

"He's not worth it!" Ronan growled in John's ear as he pushed him to the other side of the room.

"Elizabeth" Rodney's voice sounded over the radio. She sighed thankfully for the interruption.

Elizabeth watched as the Genii rested back in his chair happy with the reaction he had received from John. Her heart was still beating rapidly from the Colonel's sudden attack … not that she blamed him, Elizabeth had nearly fallen from her chair trying to get out of John's way.

"Elizabeth!" Rodney's voice sounded again; this time more impatient.

Taking one final glance over towards Ronan and John; happy that the Satedan seemed to have things under control she answered her radio.

"Yes Rodney?"

"You're needed back in the control room!" Rodney informed her, his voice sounding urgent.

"We're a little bit busy here Rodney." Elizabeth watched as Ronan released his hold on John. She wondered if this was a little premature; thinking that he might again go for the Genii.

"Elizabeth, you go we can handle this." John spoke but there was no way Elizabeth was leaving those three alone in that room, especially after what had just happened.

"I need all three of you back in the control this instant!" Rodney yelled through the radio.

"McKay …" John began.

"Just trust me … get back to the control room as quick as you can!"