Within a span of five minutes of getting into Earth orbit again John beamed himself straight to the room wherein Teyla had been placed to sleep peacefully out of all the hubbub in the normal infirmary, so she'd been transported to Rodney's sisters place to rest. For two reasons she'd been sent there.
One, Jeanie Miller had spoken with Rodney and been with Carson when Teyla was at the SGC, turns out her DNA had a mix of both Wraith and Ancient since she had Ascended not more then ten months before. and two, because Carson had been told to keep the SGC Infirmary beds open, and that also included post op.
So John beamed down into Jeanie Millers lving room, much to the surprise of Jeanie, who qwas partly happy to see him but more happy to see her brother. So leaving Rodney with his sister John went upstairs to the guest room, which had been (for the most part) turned into a makeshift Post Op room. (At least the bed was a King) so John simply got ready for bed and joined Teyla in the thing.
About six hours had passed before John woke up to the smell of coffee, and Teyla. without opening his eyes he asked, "what time is it?"
"Well after six in the evening John" Teyla responded, she had recovered to the point of being able to sit upright, but that was really it. For the time being
"What is... erm... was... today?" John asked sleepily.
"Tuesday" Came the answer.
"What did I do on Monday again? Oh yeah I remember now, I shot the sh!t out of two Wraith hives and lived to tell of it" John woke up and for about a full minute he just blinked at Teyla, then he squinted. She didn't Ascend again did she?
Teyla looked at him, confused, "John? Are you alright?"
"I think I need some coffee." John said, making Teyla not just smile, but laugh as well. "Did we have any visitors?" John asked getting out of bed and grabbing what should have been his bathrobe (it was Rodney's but what did he care? Hell what did both men care for that matter?)
"Other then family, no." Teyla said.
"What do you mean other then family?" John asked heading for the door, and upon opening it he was all but tackled by his daughter Kiro wh otook him into a hug. "Whao!" John got out before they both hit the ground with a very loud thud. Thankfully Rodney only called up the stairs to see what was up, and didn't come up. otherwise John would have been both fired and demoted to PFC in the same minute.
John got up and shut the door, "OK now I think Mike told you what was going then? Rodney told me and I didn't want to believe it, what do you guys think?" John grabbed a chair as Kiro perche on the bed, dressed more or less in a Lord of the Rings styled dress and overrobe to blend in on Earth. John made a mental note to thank Jack for showing Kiro the LOTR Trilogy.
"Rodney told me everything, since you were asleep he figured it best to let you snooze" Teyla said, a smile on her face as she remembered the last time Rodney had woken John from a nice sleep too early. "He even said that under pressure your ship held pretty well, it did not act over stressed from the Wraith hives."
"Are you good to get out of bed, you took quite a lot with that Dork back in Antartica." John said rubbing the bruise mark on the back of his head. He still couldn't believe that Teyla used a oversized icicle to kill the guy.
"I'm fine John, I'm ready to go back home, I need some rest, and so do you, like say enough time to get our minds calm and back in order?" Teyla smiled. "besides, don't you think it is time to be back at Atlantis again?"
John was nodding while Teyla was speaking, "true." He said, "I'd take a day behind the controls of a jumper over being here without one any day. Lets go home." John said, Kiro smiled.
"What about me?" She asked, she'd been with Carson, helping with her mother until she was moved to the Millers place.
"You little lady, need to leave this room and get ready to leave, far as I know we can take my own ship home." John then pointed Kiro towards the door so he could get dressed. Kiro smiled, and left the room as Teyla stood up, Teyla was dressed and ready to go already, only if John went in Rodney's bathrobe well... Lets just say that Rodney would need a new one and leave it at that.
Teyla got out of bed and got dressed, then headed for Rodney to let him know they'd be transported up to the Wraiths Bane to head back home. As she neared the room wherein Rodney and his sister were talkling over things she heard Rodney said.
"I think it is time for us to go back home, I got a date tonight." Rodney said.
"Really? Who?" Jeanie asked.
"A real nice lady, named Maffy" Rodney said, he sounded, from what Teyla could tell, really sweet about it. and the fact that Jeanie didn't laugh made it even better. "She's not a Pegasus native though, but she's nice, and get this, she also thinks I'm cute" Rodney sounded rather... odd at that point so Teyla stepped in.
"I hope that I am not interupping anything but, we are almost ready to go to the Wraiths Bane" She said. she noticed Rodney trying to look dignfied but said nothing his way.
"Yes well, I thought that as well, as I... have to get back to work" Rodney said, giving his siter a hug before getting on his radio, "Wraiths Bane this is McKay, ready to beam." Rodney then disappeared from sight.
Teyla then hugged Jeanie, "Thankyou, for allowing me to rest here, you have been very kind."
"Hey, you and John, you are friends of Mer, and therefore Friends of mine, after all, you helped me with a problem, and so I thought to return the favor." Jeanie responded, she like Teyla, and the thought of allowing the Athlosian to rest up in her own home was not something the Earth born sister of a really snarky man could be able to pass up.
A few minutes later John came down "we set to go?" He asked. Teyla nodded, and the three of them, after Kiro had hugged Jeanie, disappeared from Jeanie Millers sight to the Wraiths Bane. Once inside the three then looked out the viewport towards Earth. "Lets get this show on the road. Michael has a bit of news he wants to tell us in the confernce room." John put a finger to Teyla's lips, "Now, I know you want to kill the guy, but trust me, if you try to attack him Lrone is not gonna hesitate to stun you."
Teyla took a breath, then spoke, trying to remain calm, "Very well, but if he so much as makes a move towards Kiro..."
"I know I know, I told Lorne that if mike makes a move towards her he can shoot the bomth of you." John said, "come on lets go, Rendo, get us to Atlantis would ya"
Rendo nodded, "Yes sir" The huge ship then turned on a dime and headed to hyperspace.
John and Teyla, along with a elven clad Kiro entered the confernce room, Michael was already seated, and Lorne was seated as well, with a stunner sitting aimed at the halfbreed. "Lorne" John said whe nhe saw the Major.
"Sir" Lorne responded.
"OK, so, what do you have for us Mike." John said taking his seat at the table, the room had been designed to by like the meeting room at Atlantis, so John sat where he normally would do so, second part of the left side table with his chair all but leaning against the wall.
"There is a planet on the inner edge of the galaxy, on this planet a coven of seven Hives will meet there, each of the seven is a Hive Queen, and each of them have a vandetta against Teyla and your self General." Michael said in response.
"Any idea why?" John asked.
"None, other then they are to meet there to find a way to destory the city of Atlantis, of which you call home." Michael said, "For a time it was my own home, without me knowing it."
"Do you still... resent us, for what we did to you?" Teyla asked, in a calm as she could possibly be, John could tell that she wanted to assult the Wraith seated at the other end of the table.
Michael thought a moment, then shook his head no, "Even though what you made me is not what I was before, I hold noything against you, for you and General Sheppard, have both tried to make a friendship with me. For that I hold nothing against you."
"But what do you want out of this? Bad enough we blew up two hive ships without even breaking a sweat with this ship." Rodney said, "hell i just checked with Major Redos, he says that at the speed we are going, we'll be at Atlantis system wthin twenty four hours. The Daedalus took four days even with the ZedPM loaded into the main drive."
"We know that Rodney, But there is still one thing, Is there any Wraith in the Milky way as of right now? Or did we kill them all?" John asked.
"From what we knew thanks to Michael here, there were only two hives and two escort ships with them, they made no stops towards the ground at all on any of the planets they stopped at, as they were mostly just woods or desert. so." Rodney said.
"So...?" John prodded.
"So, there are no Wraith in the Milky Way, Grandma can die of natural casueses, you happy?" Rodney asked.
"Yep, anything Else Mike?" John asked looking to the Wraith.
"There is only one thing that you should know, that at this speed, taking care of the Coven that are to meet within the hour, if you time it right, the Coven can be destroyed, now. If you wish it." Michael said. John looked thoughtful, so Michael continued, "Think of General Sheppard, seven Hives, one planet of only their Queens, meeting in one place where they can all be destroyed once and for all."
"This Coven, what exactly are they?" Lorne asked.
"The Coven of Seven is a group of Seven different Hive Queens, every five hundred years they meet on a different planet, known only to those in the Hive. the current meeting place in only known as Amnira." Michael said.
"So here's the deal, we go to the planet, one of us beams down, but that one of us has to be able to live past seven Hive Queens, and set off a nuke in the center of the room with a timer that we can remotley set off from up here unless it is fired on." John said.
"The odds of getting the stargate on that highly hot planet going before the nuke even reaches the Stargate itself is highly unlikely to even have a chance even if we beamed them out." Rodney said, he wasn't wanting to kill John's perfect plan, but he wouldn't call it perfect, hell he was in the room at the time.
"Yes but the odds are that if we could remotely set it off from say, space after, we beam back the person that went down." John said, Teyla rolled her eyes, she already knew who was going to the planet, why did it have to be her?
"OK we beam them out AFTER the bomb is set up to blow, but who's going?" Rodney asked. Everyones eyes turned towards Teyla. "You sure about this Sheppard?"
"Do you even have to ask that Rodney?" John asked. John looked to Teyla, "You sure you want to do this?" Her slience was all th answer he got when she nodded her head. "OK, Mike where do we drop out of hyper?"
"If you wish to meet with the Coven you will want to stay as hidden as you can, there is not much time." Michael said, watching as Teyla stood up and left, she needed to think.
"Great, Rendos" John said.
"Yes sir?"
"Drop us out of hyper and have Novak ready a Gatebuster mark II nuke" John said, "we got a Wraith party to crash." John stood up from his seat, and left with Teyla. Near the engine area is where John finally found Teyla, she'd left before he did and he assumed she was worried about something. "Teyla, are you OK?"
"I am fine John, but it is that I am unsure of this mission, what if..." Teyla started to say before John placed a finger to her lips.
"Let's not think about that. I trust yiou to do the right thing, I trust you to fight the Wraith better then any of us." John said taking the Athosian into a hug, "If you don't want to do this I fully understand why."
"No John, I will do it." Teyla said, John lifted her face to meet his, and gave her a kiss, for how long the pair stood there, niether of them knew, nor did they care. They were just with each other, in the others arms. and niethier of them wanted to let go...
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Ten minutes later Teyla was beamed dow nto the planet surface by herself, she felt seven others nearby, all Wraith. The Coven of Seven had begun, Teyla found her way to a open floorboard and looked through the crack and listen, and watched.
The seven were seated around a long table. one of them spoke, "What of Altntis, three of us have tried time and again to storm and take the city, yet each time we have failed. The one named Michael has been a traitor to us."
"Michael is of no concern to us at this time, nor is the City, for we have found and tried, to get to the place called Earth. Yet were were stopped by a single ship. The Hives were totally destroyed by this craft, yet we now know that it did not seem the least bit fazed at our own feeble attacks against it."Another Hive Queen said.
Then one spoke up, and Teyla knew the one that spoke just had to be the leader, It was one that looked a hell of a lot like Mina, the Queen she had killed on the Ori ship. "Even though you say that Michael is now a traitor, he may still be of help to us now. Before his own ship was destroyed he told us of one that could kill when we feed."
"Is that why we are here?" A different Queen asked.
Teyla took in a sharp breath, they were told of me she thought in horror, then she relized that Michael was feeding the Coven of Seven misinformarion about her, as he never said which one that could kill from being fed off of.
"What if this planet is a trap waiting to be sprung?" a Queen asked.
"Because it is, for the ones that set it are us, for there is a ship in orbit over this planet, and our own Hives are engaging it in combat." replied the Leader of the Coven.
Teyla had gotton enough anger pent up in side of her that she grabbed the waiting Wraith that had sunk up behind her and stabbed it in the neck, then tossed the dead body onto the thin floor. the body fell through the floor and landed on the table, dead as a doornail. Teyla shortly followed after.
The Hive Queens snarled and grabbed up weapons and open fire, Teyla dove out of the way of fire and grabed at the nearst Hive Queen, stabbing it in the neck and taking up the weapon, moving fast she kicked at the leader, and stabbed the thing through the head. she then threw a knife and caught a Hive Queen in the chest, to which she hit the ground. with in a minute it was over, and Teyla let the last body fall.
Looking around the seven bodies she made sure each were dead. The radioed John. "I am ready, where is the weapon?" After being told where it had been beamed down she then headed for its location, and while she was working the weapon the Wraiths Bane, against Sheppards orders to stay and get Teyla out, jumped to Hyperspace.
Teyla finished arming the weapon, "Bane this is Teyla do you read me? weapon is set to fire. Wraiths Bane do you copy?" Teyla then relized that the Coven of Seven were right, it was a trap, a trap laid for them. She knew there was a stargate nearby, she just needed to get to it.She took off, leaving behind the remote, The same remote to the nuke that she thought totally useless.
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John was mad, the instant they were in range he beamed dow nt oAtlantis and paced in the gateroom, waiting for the stargate to open, not knowing tat Teyla was fighting seven Hive Queens at once. "She should be dialing the gate by now" John said.
"For all we know she never got the weapon." Rodney said, also looking to the gate, as if willing it to start up.
"She got the thing, she radioed just before we lost contact in Hyperspace." John said, he stopped and looked at the gate, "You think?"
"Do I think what? Look, You were right, Teyla is the only one that could do this and get back here in time before the nuke got set off." Rodney said.
"What would make you think the nuke was set to go off?" John asked getting in Rodney's face.
"I didn't say that, I'm just saying that it might have been set ioff somehow, like say a stunner blast to it or the like." Rodney said, "I'm not implying that she blew herself up."
"You better not be." John said.
"Look you are in a mood, maybe you need food?" Rodney commented.
Johnnodded, he had yet to even have breakfast. "Yeah, now that you mention it Rodney I'm starving." John said as he started to turn and leave the gateroom floor. Just as the stargate came to life. John twirled around and shouted up to Chuck, "Who is it?"
"I'm reading Teyla's IDC." Chuck said droppingthe shield.
Teyla ran for the stargate for all she was worth. When she finally made it she had no idea that a Wraith soldier had found the remote, and pressed the dreaded red button to set the nuke off. Right when she sent her IDC through the 'gate was when the blast wave reached her, blasting into her like a locomotive on PCP, the fire did't hurt, oddly. She found herself staring at the exploding planet from out in space, she had ascended... again.
In Atlantis the shield dropped, and fire blasted into the room, then died, but...
No Teyla.
John stared, "No, it can't be, Dial it back, now!" He called up to Chuck,
"I can't get a lock." Chuck said. then he tried again, and got a lock, "I got it."
"Send a probe" John said.
A few minutes later his worst fear was proved, Teyla, was gone.