" Come on, Faith, we're saddling up." I watch Lieutenant Ford walk away from me, leaving me standing in the way to my quarters wondering what could be going on.

I look behind me to see my slightly new and improved room, a set of Athosian curtains covered my bay window and the new bedding was also Athosian. A gift from Teyla.

Sighing, I look back out my door and rush out, my navy blue satin full length dress flowing behind me, what can I say it was my day off.

I found Teyla, Ford, and three other men preparing to depart in one of the Jumper's.

" What's going on?" I step inside as the chosen pilot closes the ramp.

Ford looks at me, " Sheppard and McKay haven't radioed after their three hours, they, along with two other scientists, where going to a planet the had a Wraith ship emitting a distress call. McKay thought the ship had been there since the Ancients war with them."

I nod and take a seat next to Teyla, preparing myself for a lovely fifteen hour flight. I roll my eyes at my own sarcasm. There are some people on Atlantis, no names mentioned, that don't really like me so when they hear my sarcasm they tend to take offense which is why I just think it, I don't speak it.

" Any new leads?" I turn my gaze to Teyla, " Leads?"

" The Major told me about- what did he call it?"

I saw the answer in her mind as she remembered Sheppard telling her about my seeing my Wraith thousands of miles away, " Out of body experience."

" Yes. I still cannot see how your desire to find this one Wraith can be so strong."

I nod, " Ya, a lot of people do, but only because they never met him."

" How do you know he is truly the way you picture him?" she was just trying to understand but I saw the direction her thoughts were taking this conversation.

I shake my head, " There was nothing that he could hide from me for long, Teyla." I said that only to her, the other people in the Jumper heard nothing.

Silence fills the cabin for a few minutes before she decides to learn more, " Do you know where he is?"

" If I did, I would be there getting him out."

" What are you going to do when you do find him?" I noticed she said when, not if.

I shrug, " I don't know. Atlantis is the only way to Earth, I actually find myself very comfortable in the city. But on the other hand, fifteen years isn't enough time to dissolve a ten thousand year old relationship. Consider this, I was with him and our son as a vampire a lot longer than I was human with my parents and little sister. I don't even know if I could act "normal" with them anyway. I suppose that time will tell."

Teyla didn't like me talking about leaving but there was nothing that she could do to change my mind so she tried to change the subject slightly, " What about your son? In the first meeting you kind of skimmed over those years."

" Ya, sadness will do that," I sigh, " I don't even know if there is anything to tell that wouldn't gross you all out. I mean, Alex was different. I raised him with morals and a powerful sense of right and wrong, but even like me he had his moments. Especially the time his mate was murdered."

" His mate?" she was throwing me a line.

" Yes. Her name was Kara and she was a wonderful person to be around. We met her on a planet that the Hive was preparing to cull, you see, every now and then Alex and I would ask the Queen to stall the culling for us to go done and... reap the rewards of the doomed villages.

Whenever we did this normally, we would dress to blend in, but that time we went just as we were. Alex in his typical Wraith fashion and I in a mid-thigh black silk dress with shoes that were literally tied to my feet. Alex had shifted his appearance so he looked human, all except for the hair which kinda gave him away.

When we entered the first village, everything was running just the way it was suppose to, everyone was minding their own business. Then the young woman say Alex and the young men me, and everything went sideways. But out of them all, there was one woman who refused to pay attention to Alex, she glared at her friends but wouldn't look at him. This didn't bother him much, he had plenty, but I noticed.

She was attracted to him like the others but she thought he was a phoney, to good to be true. Ironically, she was technically right.

Her friends brought Alex over and introduced him, she finally had to pay attention and it bugged her big time. I remember that after that the two of them disappeared and I saw no trace of them for the next two hours. When I did see them they were holding hands and... showing their affection.

As it turned out, those two hours they had gone, they found a Elder and had him pair them. Just like that their fates were enter twined. Alex knew that it would be hard to take her with us, at least conscious. On his request, I approached her from behind and bit her on the back of her neck, injecting a mixture of numb and a venom that causes sleep. We took her to where our Dart was hidden and I scooped them up and headed back to the Hive as the first wave approached the planet.

I tell you now, when Kara woke up in my quarters, in my bed, with me standing over her, I discovered that she possessed a healthy pair of lungs. And, so did the rest of the Hive. Of course, the look on her face when my Wraith came rushing in on the off chance that I was hurt, that was priceless.

It got even better when Alex arrived in his normal form, granted it took some time for Kara to except it all and the fact that she basically had a free pass. She didn't enjoy the others company but as long as it was just Alex's little family Kara seemed to be happy.

Six months later, Kara visits me and asks me to turn her, she didn't want to ask Alex on the off chance that he said no. As it turned out, Alex had been planning a nice little get away for just the occasion and had come to me asking if any of the Wraith characteristics would transfer to her. They didn't, I knew they wouldn't because that was a part of his genetic make up, the vampirism technically wasn't.

Anyway. The two of them lived happily together and I was happy and my Wraith was happy that I was happy. Everything would have ended a lot better if Kara just hadn't been so curious. We were passing a planet who's sun was dying and the planet was going a lot quicker than the sun. There was a culling planned for the few inhabitants left but Kara wanted to go down first a see how they were taking the end and what they were like. She insisted on going alone and there wasn't really anything wrong so we couldn't stop her.

Not even an hour after she left, the planet's core went critical and imploded. The Hive, luckily, had been a fair distance away so there was only minor damage, but when the shock wave reached the sun it too exploded. By this time we had jumped into hyper space and were a few thousands light years away. Kara had sensed the pressure in the core and had been on her way back, Alex and I knew this but we didn't know why.

It took close to seven hundred years for Alex to start getting over her, I was pleased when he started living again."

The Jumper was quiet, everyone had been silently listening to my tale and I could feel the mild regret emanating from the stiff form of Teyla next to me. I glance at her and smile softly, " Don't worry. That happened five thousand years ago, I've long gotten over Kara's death, as Alex's."

The pilot cleared his throat, " Ah, you may be able to get a signal through."

Ford activated his radio, " Major?"

" Ford?" Sheppard's voice sounded slightly garbled.

" Yes, sir."

" Your timings perfect."

" We're still two zero minutes out."

Gun fire entered the cabin followed by, " Well then, your timing sucks. Just get here as fast as you can."

Ford looks at the pilot, " Can you make this thing go any faster?"

The hum of the engines revved around me and I felt the Jumper accelerate forward, even as we approached I knew what had happened. I could feel the slight pulse of the distress signal coming from the planet we were heading to, and I could tell that there were only three people down there, and only two of them were human.

" Okay, we're picking you up on the HUD, sir."

A moments pause, " Target the biggest life sign and fire!"

" Your to close, sir."

"Fire Lieutenant, that's an order."

Ford sighed and pointed at the growing dot on the screen, " Fire on that target."

I heard the drone launch and saw the golden streak race for the planet's surface, looking up at the HUD I see the growing dot disappear.

" Sir?"

" Nice work."

" We got here as soon as we could. We'll be there in a few minutes, sir."

" We can wait."

I sigh and bump my head against the seat back, " Darn, missed all the fun."