CHAPTER 5
It hadn't gone well. Dr Weir was stood with commander Kolya, knife to her throat. John Shepard was once again pointing a gun at them.
"We've been here before Colonel and you both know what I'm capable of. And you don't even have a clear shot this time." Kolya mocked. "She will die if you do not tell me why the device doesn't work."
"It doesn't work because it doesn't do what you think it does." John said in a slightly patronising voice. "It taps into the subconscious of the person using the device and shows them who they're supposed to marry. And even then, they have to be identified by the machine first."
"I don't believe you." He said coldly, digging the point of the knife into Elizabeth's throat. A small trickle of blood slid down her neck. "What did you do to the..."
His words cut off abruptly as a bullet hit him in the back of the head. Teyla, as planned had gone around the edge of the village, but she wasn't fast enough. There was a cut, only a few milimetres wide but very deep, in Elizabeth's neck.
As she dropped to her knees, the colonel rushed over and supported her. She looked like she was in shock but she had no idea why. She wasn't the one who had to point the gun or take the shot. She just stood there, staring at John. Which she was still doing, she was looking up at him past her drooped eyelids.
"You're going to be fine. We'll get Dr Beckett to stitch you back together and you'll be good as new." He said to her while she breathed heavily. "I wouldn't have been able to do it you know."
"Do what?" She asked him, unsure of why he would suggest such a thing.
"Shoot him. You were way too close and the thought of losing you... Well, I don't even want to think what life would be like without you." He started, completely sure that it was time to tell her the truth.
"I love you." She whispered to him. She straightened up to look directly into his eyes. "Probably more than is healthy."
"I believe that was my line." He joked before capturing her lips in a kiss. Oblivious to everything that was around them, they stayed in their little piece of paradise, light encompassing them.