One Hundred Sparkified Drabbles (11-20) by AndromedaMarine
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Where's My Kiss? (11)
Mistletoe. Elizabeth's office. Rodney's fault. It's not that she didn't want to kiss him, in fact that was so far from the truth. But in her office? In front of everyone meandering around the gateroom? They'd be gossip within a nanosecond! Especially if Rodney was the one who was watching to make sure the kiss did happen.
"Where's my kiss?" John asked quietly, giving her a stunning smile.
"Not here," she said, barely keeping a straight face. "Balcony. I'll meet you out there in a few minutes."
Ten minutes later Rodney walked in on their very serious lip-lock.
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Alone? (12)
"I need answers, John," Elizabeth asked as a request rather than a demand. "I can't keep living in a lie." She sighed heavily, leaning on the railing of the Balcony of Sanctity. "Every time you go I get worried sic, because I don't know what will happen to you off-world, or if you'll even come back at all. I don't want it to be too late." She closed her eyes. "I love you."
She thought she was alone there.
"I love you too," John said, stepping out of the shadows to gather her into a hug and a kiss.
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Desperate Measures (13)
"No excuses, Elizabeth. It has to be done," he said as he flew the cloaked Jumper toward the hive attacking his home. "Desperate times call for desperate measures."
Elizabeth watched in horror as the blinking dot faded and the radio went to static. "John?" she called, terrified, over the radio. No answer.
After a minute of silence came: "Miss me?" John teased, waltzing into the control room.
Without concern over who saw Elizabeth drew the major into an embrace and kissed him. "Don't ever disappear like that again!!"
After he rid himself of the immobility her kiss caused he smiled. Then kissed her back.
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No! I Prefer Jumpers (14)
"You. Must. Be. Joking," John whined, staring at her with wide eyes. "NO! I prefer Jumpers!"
Elizabeth chuckled as she placed her hands on her his. "And no, you cannot just have Colonel Caldwell simply beam us there. Honeymoons should be normal, unlike our jobs. We are taking the old-fashioned Boeing 787 Dreamliner to Hawai'i. Not a Jumper, and not an Asgard beam." She smiled and leaned in to kiss her new husband. "But we can take a Jumper to the mainland when we get back, if you really want to."
John gathered her in his arms and agreed with a kiss.
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Infinity (15)
Author's Note: Despite what you might think, Andromeda is a galaxy.
Infinity. It stretches beyond their grasp on the world – what hundreds they've been to – past even the galaxy of Andromeda and that of the Ori. Its tendrils grasped at the nothingness beyond their comprehension and wound between time itself and the things that have not yet come to pass. Yet what they knew of the universe paled in comparison to the depth of their love, which was destined to last for that aforementioned length of time.
And pained as they were after many-a-war, the two grew even closer than many thought possible. And in their end they shall not end, but live in the hearts of they who loved them, and also as ascended ones. John and Elizabeth live in infinity.
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After Silence (16)
After the Iratus bug, she was silent. After the storm, she was silent. After the siege, when he flew the Jumper into the belly of the hive, she was silent. After Kolya, and the Wraith dubbed Dorian, she was silent. After epiphany, she was silent. After the long goodbye, she was silent. After Carson died, she was silent.
But it was in her silence that she spoke. She internally screamed at the fact that she could've lost him so many times. Finally the time came when silence wasn't enough.
He'd been ambushed and he barely made it out alive. So after her initial silence Elizabeth went to John and told him the truth: she loved him.
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I Am Alive (17)
He didn't feel the same. In a way he felt dead, although that made no sense whatsoever. Who could blame him? He'd just been fed upon – but his life had been given back – a gift he did not expect to receive for even knew existed. He leaned against the balcony railing and inhaled deeply, trying to feel remotely alive. Nothing worked.
"You okay?" Elizabeth asked, joining her second in command.
He shook his head. "I don't feel...alive," he said after a few moments. "It's like my life is still with – what'd I name him? – Dorian, the Wraith."
She looped her arm through his. When he turned to look down at her she took his cheek and reached up, kissing him. "Feel alive yet?" she asked, pulling back. Smiling, he shook his head and kissed her again.
"I am alive..."
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Athosian Tea, Part Two (18)
Author's Note: Extended into a 10-parter after seeing sparklyshimmer2010's review on the first part. Enjoy!
Rodney took another sip of the tea and spotted John and Elizabeth across the field in a serious liplock. He sputtered (which probably wasn't his best choice) and began to laugh hysterically.
Teyla and Ronon (who was downing his third cup of Athosian tea and eyeing Teyla with a slightly feral expression) followed Rodney's pointed finger and began to laugh as well.
John had his hands tangled in Elizabeth's hair, and although he hadn't drunk any tea, the substance on her lips was intoxicating. Soon he heard his team laughing at him and he pulled away, smiling down at the slightly off leader.
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10,000 Year-Old Dead Plants (19)
"And can we lose the ten thousand year old dead plants?' she asked no on in particular as she stared at the distinctly dead tree.
"Yes, ma'am," said a technician whose name was Chuck.
John came up behind her and resisted the urge to wrap his arms around her. "Oh, why not keep them? Remember, they were here with the Ancients." He stressed the last word.
Elizabeth suppressed a laugh. "I suppose, but they're dreary... It reminds me that the Ancients are probably all gone too."
"So we're the new seeds of civilization," John observed, not realizing the implications of his words.
Elizabeth smiled. "Go plant a tree."
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Fatherless (20)
"Where is daddy?" my daughter, Nara, asked. She was four years old, and very curious. But this time I didn't want to indulge her.
"He's gone, Nara. He's not coming back this time." Ten days ago Colonel Lorne had confirmed my husband's death off-world. Tears clouded my vision and I felt my daughter come to hug me.
"I miss daddy," she said softly.
"I do too."
She was fatherless for twelve years. The ne was found as a nomad on another planet, having no memory of is life. I didn't care how or why; Lorne brought him home.
As John came to know himself, Nara came to know her father.
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Sorry it ended with a sort of sad drabble... Athosian Tea will continue through the last chapter. And chapter three (21-30) is on its way!
