In the mud filled water where she landed Teyl woke up and opened her eyes, then snapped them closed when the mud and sand pushed at them, she had settled on the bottom of the swamp and pushed off for the surface, breaking the calm still waters with a splash and a huge gulp of fresh air. she rubbed her eyes as best she could. then found herelf treading water as she looked around in a full circle, "John? JOHN?!" she got no answer.

Still gulping in air Teyla headed for what she hoped was solid ground, finally making it to a tree and sitting up against it. She was in pain with every move she made. Looking upwards she noticed a shattered branch, the same tree she was eaning against she had hit. Cold, wet and hurt Teyla tried to thinking things through, she felt sick. most likely because of the muddy water, or the that she herself was very muddy.

If only she could see herself, just looking down on her body as she leaned against the tree she knew she was muddy, but she did not want to see a mirror. she tried to clean herself off as best she could. But then gave up. She leaned against the tree and waited, someone had to find her, her back hurt, and for all she knew trying to find her way through the woods would be next to impossible at night.

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Rodney and Halling along with two other men made their way to where the crashed Jumper was, Rodney had radioed Atlantis and Weir had sent out a second Jumper, with Beckett inside ready to help with the injured. After slogging throu a third swamp about three hundred meters away from Teyla Rodney started to comeplain again, "I hate this place, these boots were not made to fill with water, but they are, whaoh wait a seciond i'm picking up al ife sign."

Rodney stopped dead in the ceter of a small hill in the center of the swamp, "What is it?" Halling asked? the firelight from the toruches could only go so far.

"There it goes, I guess it is nothing. Come on, I have the Jumpers power signature on here we gotta be close." None looked around the sawmp near the trees off the path, even though there was no path, Teyla saw the fire, but didn't move, thinking the fire belonged to the Wraith. The group headed for the downed Jumper, thankfully John had dragged himself over to the Jumper and made the lights turn on so Rodney could locate him.

"Sheppard?" Rodney called, his voice soon drowned out by the voice of Halling calling for Teyla. Rodney took a wrong step and tripped over what he thought was a log,

"Watch it will ya?! That hurt!" John shouted from next to Rodney, who all but dropped the ALSD.

"Sheppard? You OK?" He asked, "I'm not much of a doctor but Bceketts on his way."

"Well if you count seeing if the Jumper could do a handstand, which turned out to be a major nono..." John took a ragged sounding breath, "what time is it?" he squinted to Rodney and Halling, "Hello Halling, nice to see you."

"Where is Teyla, was she not with you?" Haling asked.

'The Trilion dollar question, I wish I knew the answer to that' John thought, he sadly shook his head, "she was with me, something in the jumper was acting wierd and the HUD went all fuzzy, then, when Teyla went to the back part, the doors sealed her in the back and me in the front, then the back ramp opened. And I think Teyla got sucked out because of the air getting pulled out at the speed we were going."

Rodney sat back on his heels, "Wait a minute, maybe that lifesign I saw before was her?" he looked on the ALSD, the other lifesign hadn't moved much, it showed Teyla was in in the center of the swamp, "Well that explains it, I think getting tossed out of a Jumper at 500 meters could knock out a person when they hit the water, but then this area is almost all clay, so the landing would hurt if she didn't land in the water."

"Well If that other lifesign is Teyla why'd you pass her by?" John asked shocked as to what Rodney and those with the guy did, "Go and bring her back here!" he was starting to lose his vision again and his voice got a little slurry, "McKay... Find Teyla and forget me!"

"As much as I want to do that Ronon'll kill me when I go back to the city without you." Rodney said, "Tell you what, Halling. yopu take one other guy with you, Teyla might be injured or underwater, most likely badly hurt. I'll stay here with one of the guys and Sheppard until Beckett gets here."

Halling nodded and started off, once just out of sight he started calling Teylas name over and over again hoping for an answer.

Teyla heard her name called, and looking up she saw yet another torch being carried around not far away, 'most likely on the other side of the lake and the mud, I can't get to them... unless I want to get see I'd better see what I can' Stifling a groan as she stood up Teyla then started to climb the tree, the same tree she had slammed into.

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Back at the smashed Jumper John was partly shouting partly groaning at Rodney, "Look I don't care how hurt I am just go and find Teyla."

"I'm not leaving you here to die on your own!" Rodney said back to John. He looked at the Stunner in his hands, he'd dug around inside the smashed Jumper and found the small weapon, though he found no sign of Teyla nor her P90 which had a light on it so...

Rodney shouted hoping Halling heard him, "Halling! Teyla most likely has her P90 with her, she might have turned the light on look for that!" 'why didn't you think of it before dofus?' he scolded himself.

"Why didn't I think of that?!" John asked from on the ground.

"Because you were most likely yelling at me." Rodney said he looked down to the Stunner then back to John who was in pain on the ground trying not to move.

John saw the looks Rodney was giving the Stunner, then nodded, he thought hopefully the same thing as Rodney was, "Stun me" he said.

"What?!" Rodney asked startled out of his wits, "Stun you? why would I do that?"

"It would keep me free of pain, unless you like to see me in pain." John retorted he was hoping that Rodney was right that Teyla had her P90 with her and the light was on. "Look there is a tree sticking out of my leg and a good sized thorn in my ribs even talking is...thanks"

Rodney snapped up the Stunner and fired at John, knocking him out, "he was right, I hate seeing him in pain, heck I hate being out of the labs! I wanna go home!" Rodney sat on a rock near John and waited for Halling to return, hopefully with Teyla.