I got a little stuck with these chapters, sorry for the wait!
Disclaimer: I don't own SGA, the characters, etc.
"Please tell me you have location," John says to Rodney.
"Working on it."
"Need it now, Rodney," he pressures.
The scientist looks up from his tablet. "Oh, I'm sorry, do you want to do this?" Rodney snaps. "Because if you know of a faster way to remotely turn on a GPS that's been disabled, be my guest."
John bites back a retort and takes a deep breath before saying. "The faster we find her, the better."
"I get that," Rodney doesn't look up from what he's doing. "But things like this take time, I can't just magically press a button..." he pauses. "Got it!" His fingers move in a blur and then, "The coordinates are being uploaded annnnd—"
"You're a genius," John says as a blinking dot appears on screen.
"Don't mention it."
There's silence and it starts to eat away until Rodney finally clears his throat. "I have to ask, what exactly is going on between you and Teyla?"
"Nothing." John answers. He doesn't owe Rodney anything, especially not an explanation. Maybe it's because he's never talked about it. Maybe it's because he denied it for so long. He doesn't know what makes him continue. But he does. "Look, Teyla and I, the thing in the armory, it didn't exactly stop there."
"I didn't think so."
"We had a casual relationship. Then she went undercover and we had to stop, it was too dangerous."
"And after?"
"You saw her, McKay. She was…different." He can still remember when she first returned to his team. She had hidden it well, for a while, but it wasn't long before he figured it out. Before he started noticing the little things. The way that her hands would shake, the way that she would take off early, the way that she started letting her paperwork pile up.
The aggression. The arguing.
He remembers the time that she went off on Weir during a meeting. The way that she had gone off on him.
"What about when she started going to meetings and stuff. Got clean."
He remembers that too.
He also remembers the first time that they had finally had a night out together, just the two of them. Remembers thinking that maybe they could get back what they had lost. "We're just friends."
The blinking dot is slowing. Twenty-minutes out. "Whatever we had, it's not going to get in the way."
"I didn't say it would."
"You were thinking it." They're all thinking it. The Chief, Bates, Dex. "I'm going to get her back."