John's Point of View:
The air was thick with tension, thick enough that you could cut it with a knife. It didn't help that Tegan was sat ramrod straight in her chair like Ronon, I only needed one of them so alert because the both of them were just making me nervous. Keller had proposed her new gene therapy; we were hoping to cure the wraith of their need to feed on humans. Michael had delivered the hoffan drug to so many humans it was making it damn near impossible for the wraith to feed, and although we hated to admit it we did kind of owed Todd a solution. Todd had originally laughed the idea off and we had all grew rather agitated, until Keller used some of her persuasive techniques to get him to think it over at least. Tegan was shifting uncomfortably now and had swallowed down only a few bites of fruit at Rodney's insistence. She looked tired again but otherwise kept her face blank. The room smelt of citrus and death, a strange combination that made me feel queasy. Tegan was rubbing her temples as Todd stood up,
"We shall think of your proposal, feel free to enjoy more of the fruit." he said before leading his second out of the room. Frowning I looked at Tegan,
"You okay?" I asked, letting my eyes trace every feature in her face as she looked at me.
Her unique grey eyes met my gaze and she gave me a tentative smile, plump pink lips tugging up at the corners. Damn, I wondered if they were as soft as they looked, as soft as they had felt in my dream. No, focus John keep your head in the game.
"Yes, just a headache, I think it's this light." she said quietly. Rodney gave her shoulder a squeeze. That's when Ronon spoke up, just as Rodney reached for another banana,
"This is a bad idea. We've been trying to get rid of the wraith for how long now? There's still huge numbers of them out there and this is our chance to really decimate their numbers." he insisted. Keller sighed, even Teyla looked unsure.
"This isn't for them Ronon, it's for the humans in this galaxy. If the wraith accept this drug then it means they no longer have to live in fear." Tegan reminded him. Ronon grunted slightly and we remained silent for a while. Keller was nervously twisting her thumbs around as we waited, the only noise was the humming of the ship around us as the purple glow in the walls pulsed. Tegan groaned, "Jesus christ, they really ought to try bloody energy saving bulbs." she grumbled, shielding her eyes. Smirking slightly, me, Rodney and Keller struggled to hide our smiles. She raised an eyebrow at me, arching it gracefully. I shrugged trying to look innocent,
"The way you say bloody..." I tapered off, she rolled her grey eyes and elbowed me in the ribs as the doors slid open to allow Todd and his second back in. She'd just sounded so British it was funny.
He surveyed us for a moment before sitting back down at the head of the long wooden table.
"This gene therapy, I think it is a good idea. It is a solution with promising results and I would be willing to test it. I will send your proposal to the wraith alliance, however even if they agree only a small percentage of wratih are a part of the alliance. In order for any wraith to be given this drug, we must convince the main queen, our Primary, supreme queen...but she will only listen to another queen...my own hive lost our queen during battle three weeks ago, the Primary does not yet know this." Todd explained, his voice the usual hiss I was accustomed to sadly. Teyla frowned slightly, as did Keller. Ronon kept his face blank,
"You better find a new queen then, fast." he said gruffly. Todd shook his head,
"It's not that simple." Todd replied, his eyes drifted towards Teyla and I straightened in my seat, Tegan shook her head. The air was sucked out of my lungs, he wanted to use Teyla!? My team was my family, they meant everything to me, there was now way Teyla was going through with this, at least not while I was still breathing. "Teyla Emmagan's wraith DNA will allow her to pose as a queen without being detected. She could persuade the Primary-"
"And I could shoot you right here right now." Ronon growled, standing up,
"Ronon! Stand down!" I ordered. Ronon exchanged a look with me and I gave him a curt nod to tell him it was okay before he slowly lowered himself back down.
"Look, as much as we would like to get this drug out I am not willing to risk one of my team in order to-"
"I will do it." Teyla agreed, cutting me off in the process.
We all looked at her in shock, surely she knew this was ultimately my decision? As team leader I had to say yes or no to this, not her! Teyla looked at me and gave me a confident nod, she was sure of herself but I wasn't. Shaking my head I started to protest but Teyla didn't listen, she ended the meeting with Todd and began to walk back to the jumper. Ronon had practically leapt after her, Keller not too fair behind as I yelled for her to come back. Tegan put a hand on my arm but I shook my head, there was nothing she could say to make this better.
"John! Look at me!" she cried, frustration lacing her voice. Turning I looked at her, my anger blazing in my eyes but she didn't flinch or back down as I roughly pulled my arm out of her girp. "Don't get angry at her. Getting angry at her won't solve anything, you need to listen to her John, not shout at her." she said calmly. Sighing exasperatedly I stalked away, still to angry to listen to her. Teyla was risking her life, my friend for the past four years, risking her life for the very thing we had been fighting. It made me feel sick to the stomach. Swallowing, I sat in the pilot seat of the jumper, vaugley aware of Tegan trying to be diplomatic and thanking Todd for his time before joining us in the jumper and standing between Ronon and Rodney behind me. The ride back to Atlantis was awkwardly silent, and the silence continued with Teyla ignoring all of us as we headed to the infirmary for post mission check ups. She was first in and first to head back to the armoury. She had done this on purpose and was probably planning on avoiding me for the rest of the day so I couldn't talk her out of this plan.
After I'd been cleared I hurried after her, dumping my gear in the armoury for some one else to sort out instead I quickly followed her down the corridor as she hurried away from me.
"Teyla! Teyla wait up! I need to talk to you!" I called after her, jogging to catch up. Reluctantly, she stopped and turned to face me.
"There is nothing to discuss John." she said with a sigh. I shook my head defiantly,
"There's plenty to talk about Teyla. You agreed without consulting the rest of your team back there to a really bad mission. This is risky, really risky and I don't want to risk you, think of Torren." I tried. She shook her head,
"I have thought it through John, and although I may not be able to rid the galaxy of all the wraith I can still help save many many people." she argued.
"No no no no no Teyla, the wraith are still more technologically advanced than most! What if they just start a quest to dominate the galaxy like the Goa'uld did back in the Milky Way?" I countered. She shook her head,
"And how many planets will continue to be culled during the wraith civil war? How many humans will have to die before it ends? I can help put an end to that John. I have to help if I can." she said softly. We remained silent for a moment, just letting people walk by us as we thought things through. Teyla was dead set in this, she wanted it and she was confident she could do it, so I needed to be confident in her. "But I cannot do this without the support of my team." she added, seeing my pensive look. Groaning slightly I ran a hand over my face, nodding shortly.
"Then you have it. I'll give the idea to Woolsey and convince him to say yes. But Teyla...be careful." I warned before turning to do exactly as I had promised. I heard her say 'thank you' quietly as I walked away with a heavy heart, I still wasn't convinced this was a good idea but I had to support Teyla. She'd supported me through my really stupid ideas, it was time I returned the favour, especially when she was so confident about this. Sighing, I knocked on Woolsey's office door. He motioned for me to come in and I forced myself to perk up, and look a little more like my heart was in this mission.
Teyla was in surgery, she had been for the past four hours. I was pacing again, unable to stand still as we watched through the observation window. Ronon sat silently but he had a face like thunder and was tense, his glare showing he didn't approve of this either. Tegan was sleeping off her headache and Rodney was expecting her to wake up soon, he looked as white as a sheet as we watched the plastic surgery continue. Todd was in there too, advising Keller on how to make her look after having arrived an hour before surgery started to help. My stomach was in knots, if this went wrong... I didn't even want to think of that but this mission was just so dangerous. The positive was that me and the rest of the team were allowed to come in a jumper to oversee things, Teyla wouldn't be alone and if necessarry we could get her out of there. Tegan stumbled in, still looking sleepy as she rubbed her eyes with the heel of her hand.
"Lorne said I'd find you here." she mumbled, seating herself between me and Rodney. I could feel the warmth radiating from her, it must have been damn cosy in that bed of hers. Not that I wanted to be in the same bed as her...maybe a little...oh this was ridiculous! Nothing like that could ever happen anyway!
"How's your head?" I asked, wanting a distraction from what was going on below. She gave me a smile,
"Better thank you." she replied, her grey eyes scrutinising my face. Her slender eyebrows rose slightly, as if she was questioning me. Her eyes flickered to Teyla and I could almost see the gears of her mind working as she connected the dots. Her hand reached out and squeezed mine, "Hey, she'll be okay. Teyla's strong and we'll be with her every step of the way." she said it reassuringly and it did help calm me down, which I thought was rather strange seeing as how if I became any more tense I was pretty sure someone would be able to snap me like a twig. Tegan had struggled at first to open up but you couldn't deny it, once she was open she was a damn good friend.
Nodding my head once in reply, we waited in a comfortable silence for another three hours, during which time I became aware that Tegan had a few habits. Though she kept her emotions off her face it was easy to tell she was nervous by the amount of times she shifted position in her chair, she also tended to chew her lip a lot as well and had taken to drumming her fingers against her thigh. Finally though, the drumming got to much for me, and without thinking I grabbed her hand and held it by my side to try and stop her. Her hand fit perfectly in mine, our fingers interlocking easily as if they were two halves of the same puzzel.
"She's all done, just...resting." Keller said as she walked in. Her eyes flicking down towards our hands. We both quickly pulled away, me coughing awkwardly and rubbing the back of my neck as Tegan cleared her throat. Rodney just smirked as he walked past us and followed Keller out of the room. We followed them, me and Tegan staying at last six feet away from each other, what the hell was I thinking? Holding her hand like that was a stupid move! But I wasn't holding her hand, I was trying to stop her drumming her fingers! Oh hell! I stopped abruptly, brought up short by the new Teyla in the bed infront of us. Swallowing, I opened my mouth to say something but no sound would come out. Every instinct in my gut was screaming wraith at me and telling me to shoot, but the more rational side of my brain was reminding me this was Teyla, not just some other wraith.
Tegan thankfully saved the day by putting a hand on Teyla's shoulder with a grin,
"Wow, you look good Teyla...you know, for a wraith. Right guys?" she prompted us all with a look that said play along. We nodded, forcing smiles onto our faces, but even I had to admit that it was a little creepy to see this. Teyla visibly relaxed though and smiled,
"Thank you. I pass for a wraith queen?" she asked, her voice was the same hissy tone that all the wraith used and it made me jump slightly. I hadn't expected that. She was dressed in leather like most wraith were, and her hair was long and black instead of it's usual soft shade of brown. Her skin was a sickly pale green colour, with rotting sharp teeth and beady little eyes. It really was quiet a dramatic change. Tegan laughed,
"Well you look better than Todd." she teased with a shrug as Todd frowned at her and bared his teeth a little. Todd turned to Teyla,
"You do look the part, but you have a lot to learn about impersonating the wraith before we can meet the Primary. Come." he gestured to the door and we all took a deep breath, heading to the armoury I tapped my earpiece to let Wolsey know we were moving out.
After quickly gearing up we headed to a jumper and flew up to the hive ship together. It was quite boring really, not that I was complaining because it beat being shot at. We had nothing to do except watch as Todd taught Teyla the ways of being a wraith, or in leymans terms, to be ruthless and cruel. Teyla looked uncomfortable with the whole thing as Todd left three hours later to give his proposal to the Primary, with the promise that she would soon be contacting Todd's hive. We waited on the bridge of the hive, uncomfortably watching all the wraith on the console as they watched us. Tegan was getting antsy, though I knew she wouldn't admit it, instead she shifted from foot to foot and her hand kept clenching around the handle of her sidearm. Finally, whoever or whatever had been bugging her pushed her over the egde.
"For gods sake! Stare at me again and I will put a bullet between your eyes so fast you won't be able to blink!" she threatened. All eyes shot towards us then and she seemed to realised what she'd done, swallowing and stepping back she mumbled a quick apology. The second in command hissed something inaudiable and they all snapped their eyes back to their consoles. When I moved a little closer to her I felt Tegan relax slightly, the air became less tense as Teyla sat up in the wraith queens throne thing. The consoles started to bleep and the second looked at Teyla,
"Are you ready?" he asked her skeptically. She nodded her head once, her face blank of any emotion as the screen flickered to life infront of us.
There was some sort of greeting exchanged before the Primary chuckled,
"I was beginning to think you did not exist." she hissed.
"I assure you I'm quite real." Teyla replied, keeping her cool. The Primary had bright yellow eyes in her pale green skin, her face was almost heart shaped but it just made her look bony instead of pretty. Her hair was black like Teyla's and there was an amber pendant hanging around her neck.
"Then let us meet in person. I will have my crew send the docking instructions. I expect to see you immediately." the Primary said in a harsh voice. Teyla didn't have time to reply before they cut the communication. Teyla looked at the second in command as Todd walked in and chuckled,
"She likes you." he commented. Teyla just nodded her head, standing and walking over to us. I found myself itching to throw her over my shoulder and drag her back home, but I rememebed I had said I'd support her and forced myself to stay still,
"Well the introductions went well...I must go now." she looked nervous and Tegan pulled her into a hug, something that shocked us all as it was out of character. Her cheeks flushed and she cleared her throat,
"Be careful Teyla." she said, looking around nochalantly as Rodney smirked at her. His grin was so smug she slapped his arm with a glare.
"Good luck." was all I could think to say. Teyla gave me a soft smile and nodded before turning to walk away. We watched her and Todd leave and an uneasy feeling settled in my stomach. Finally I looked at tegan, she had an uncanny abiity to have a spot on gut instinct and although it felt like I was jinxing the mission in some ways, I had to ask. "What's your feeling on this one?" She grimaced and that was all the answer I needed, but still she said it anyway,
"That it could either go very well or very badly. I'm leaning towards the latter." she admitted.
I felt like groaning, but apparently there wasn't anything I could do about it anymore because the second in command informed us the scout ship had landed. We watched the hive ship dissappear into hyperspace and my stomach dropped. We'd just lost Teyla. It took me a moment to realise that Tegan and Ronon were already in a stand off with the wraith crew, weapons raised and glares being sent like daggers toward the wraith.
"Hey you pair, stand down!" I barked, quickly stepping forward. They reluctantly lowered their weapons. "Did you know about this?" I demanded as the second stepped forward, glaring heatedly first at Ronon and then Tegan. I felt my blood boil, seeing him glare at her like that, I wasn't going to let him and I quickly stepped infront of her, feeling the need to protect her from him. The second slowly shook his head,
"No! We were not informed of this, we did not know it would happen." he hissed. We had no evidence to contradict that but we had no evidence to prove it either. Swallowing harsly, I slowly relaxed my posture.
"I guess for now we have to believe you, is there any way to track them?" I asked. The second walked over to a console, tapping a few buttons before shaking his head,
"No. We cannot." he said finally. Running a hand through my hair I took a deep breath in.
"Okay, we'll stay out of your hair and see if either of us can come up with a way to find them." I said finally, leading my team back to the room we had met Todd in in the first place.
Pacing back and forth we waited for a good hour for Rodney to figure something out, but even he was coming up short.
"Rodney you're the smartest guy in two galaxies, figure it out already!" I groaned. The second in command came in...you know what he needs a name, because this is getting ridculous. Let's call him Kenny. "Kenny, you better have good news." I said, frustration in my voice. He stopped, momentarily confused by his new name but it got a snort of laughter from Ronon.
"I have managed to locate them above a nebula, thanks to the subspace locator implanted in...Todd." he said the name carefully so we'd understand who we were talking about. Tegan nodded,
"Well that's good then isn't it? We can go and fetch Teyla." she said, sounding confused. I was too, he looked hesitant to leave but the stench of death on this ship was starting to drive me insane, I had to get out of here soon if I could. These pulsing purple lights were making me feel like I was in a drug induced haze, my worry for Teyla was growing by the minute and I needed a helpful solution now because I was coming up with nothing and my head was starting to spin from thinking so hard.
" If we arrive there, that hive will fire on us and destroy this ship." he hissed. Tegan furrowed her brows over her grey eyes, I noticed they had turned stormy. I stepped back and gave her a small gesture that told her she could take over from here, knowing she'd put him in his place.
Tegan took a few steps forward and Kenny looked her over like she was something below him. Tegan however didn't flinch, she didn't back down, and she instead found herself right infront of him.
"Here's the thing. The wraith may not care enough for their own to find them in the middle of space, but we are not wraith. We don't leave people behind. Our teammate, no, our friend, she needs us right now and we are not going to stand around and do nothing while she may or may not be in danger. Now you can either give us the co-ordinates and we go their ourselves, leaving your friend to rot while we bust out ours, or you can come with us and we can save both of them, together, and save this alliance we have, because so far, you're making a mess of it." she said, her voice a shade darker than I thought it would be. She stood as tall as she could at five foot five and pulled back her shoulders, rippling authority. Kenny and her kept up their staring match and we awkwardly stood in the background before Kenny finally nodded,
"We shall go to the nebula together." he said reluctantly, and Tegan, ever the diplomat but one of the first to draw her weapon if she thought her friends were in danger, smiled sweetly at him.
"Thank you, see, we're all friends here." turning away from her, Kenny lead the way out and she turned to us with a wink, "What can I say, diplomacy is my strong suit...or is it threats? I can't quite decide." she shrugged innocently and I chuckled as I clapped her shoulder on the way out.
"Well it might be threats, considering you just basically threatened to end our alliance with each other." I pointed out with a smirk. She rolled her eyes slightly as we walked side by side to the bridge. "But it worked so...nice job Lieutenant. Now let's go save Teyla."I kept my tone upbeat to keep my team confident as the ship jumped into hyperspace. I just prayed that as we travelled, Teyla wasn't getting in trouble.
When we dropped out of hyperspace, there was nothing but the nebula before us. I took a moment to admire it's beauty, finding a strange moment of peace even though I was getting agitated...my chest felt tight and my stomach was writhing. The swirling mass of yellow and other neutral colours was calming as I turned back to Kenny.
"They have moved, they are now over a planet far away." Kenny informed us. Tegan frowned slightly,
"Is there a stargate?" I asked, a plan forming in my mind. Rodney clicked a few things on his tablet as Kenny nodded,
"On both planets, yes." he said.
"We could take the jumper and get to Teyla's hive ship." Rodney realised. I nodded,
"Bingo, think you can give us those address's?" I asked Kenny, who nodded once, even though he was as reluctant as ever to do us a favour. Rodney gave me a nod to tell me he had the adress and we said a quick goodbye before heading for the jumper. We moved like there was fire chasing us, we didn't know how long Teyla would be there for so we had to move fast. Tegan dialled the gate with a grin as we flew down to the planets gate. "Oh hey! First time you dialled a gate, congratulations!" I cheered teasingly. Tegan rolled her eyes at me but laughed none the less.
"Thank you, thank you, I'd like to thank General O'Neill for this...this life changing opportunity. Oh, and for looking past the fact that I am a raging bitch and letting me come to the Pegasus galaxy." she spoke as if she were accepting an award and we all had to laugh at that. A moment of normalicy in our hectic mission to save Teyla.
Flying through the gate as fast as it was safe to go we headed back up into space. Once we had passed the atmosphere we saw there were two hives engaging in a battle
"Holy crap, Rodney which ones Teyla on?" I asked, cloaking the ship and doing a few evasive manoeuveres to make sure neither hive ship could pinpoint us as we hid and watched the battle. The shockwaves registering against the ships shield didn't jolt us thankfully, but the explosions were bright and made us all squint. Bits and pieces of wraith hive ship were foating about in space.
"One on the left." Rodney informed me after a tense moment of silence. So I flew up, dodging the wraith darts and the debris to fire a few drones at the main parts of the ship, disabling weapons and engines and such the like so that Teyla's ship could finish them off. Cloaking us again I flew out of the way, and we waited with baited breath as the enemy hive exploded. The shockwave was enough to jolt us this time, and Tegan fell straight into me. Swallowing, I tried to ignore the fact she currently had a hand on my thigh in order to balance herself and that when she she looked up and swallowed she was so close I could have kissed her. Her breath was warm and tickling my lips and her grey eyes looked up at me from under her lashes. Shaking my head out of the daze I seemed to be in, I cleared my throat and helped her up. Her cheeks had flushed bright red with embarrassment as she slowly sat back in her chair.
"I hate being so small." she grumbled under her breath. It was true, the smaller you were the easier it was to get thrown about, especially with her willowy, thin frame.
"We can get in with those darts." I voiced my thoughts and got a few nods before flying the jumper into the belly of the hive with the darts. Setting it down after I was sure we wouldn't squash any wraith I looked at the others. "Okay, so we fight our way in if necessarry and we bust Teyla out. Try and keep a low profile though if we can." I told them. Tegan and Ronon shot each other a grin so similar it was almost scary, they were far to alike when it came to wanting the wraith dead, though I knew Tegan was only happy to kill these wraith like she was because they had taken Teyla. Opening the back of the jumper, I was shocked to see we were surrounded. "Open fire!" I ordered, crouching to get into a better position as I unloaded my P-90 on the hoardes of wraith infront of me. My heart was beating rapidly and my stomach twisted nauseatingly...I couldn't see a way out of this other than to fight but there was so many of them. I heard Tegan call Rodney's name and heard a thump, realising he'd been shot. I shuffled back to try and get him out of the way and found a sharp sting in my side. I went down, trying to fight the electricity running through my body as it slowly took me under. I could feel my body being dragged backwards but I didn't get to see by who because I blacked out, vaugley hearing Tegan's muffled shouting to Ronon.
Something warm was on my chest, I couldn't quite tell what but it was warm and...sort of soft but also kind of hard. Forcing my eyes to open, I squinted at the light that invaded my eyes, throwing my arm up to shield my eyes for a second. I groaned before letting my arm back down once my eyes had adjusted a bit. My side seemed extra lumpy and it was concerning me. Frowning, I felt up along my side, feeling tac vest and, was that an arm? Looking down, I saw it was Tegan. Still unconcious as she lay ontop of me. Her face looked peaceful, young, well she wasn't yet thirty, of course she was young. Ronon and Rodney were still unconcious too meaning I was the first one to wake up, so it fell to me to wake up everyone else. Unsure of where to put my hands I hesitantly put one on her waist, the other hand going on the arm she had draped across my chest. Swallowing slightly I shook her lightly. Tegan gave a slight moan and shifted, burying her face in my chest as I shook her again.
"Tegan...come on Tegan, wakey wakey." I muttered. She moaned again,
"Alex fuck off." she groaned. Raising my eyebrows I chuckled,
"I'm not Alex Lieutenant, come on, get up." I said firmly. Her hand clutched my jacket as her grey eyes fluttered open. She blinked, looking around in a confused kind of daze,
"What? Where's...oh...shit." she whispered, looking at me wide eyed as I gave her an amused smile. Placing a hand either side of my head she went to push herself up, and I gave her a small push to help her out and sat up myself, rubbing my head slightly. Damn those stunners had some pretty strange side effects.
"Who's Alex?" I asked curiously.
Tegan looked at me with a frown,
"How do you know Alex?" she asked. I raised an eyebrow as I went to shake Ronon awake.
"You said his name as you woke up."I replied. She smiled slightly,
"It's a her, Alexandra Withers. She was er...part of my old team, back on earth...She was my best friend really, a pilot. She died during an extraction from Afghanistan. They were loading on the injured and she was shot through the door. She managed to fly them back to base but the internal bleeding was too bad, by the time they got her ready to operate on she was dead." she said quietly. Frowning slightly, I murmered a quiet apology but she just shook her head, "It's okay. she died a hero. She'd have wanted it that way." looking out the door I left Tegan alone to her thoughts as I woke Rodney. Just as he was getting up, the door opened to reveal wraith Teyla. I frowned in confusion as she ordered the wraith guards to leave. I opened my mouth to ask a question but Teyla hushed me.
"I do not have time to answer your questions. But you must know that I am the queen of this hive now. Todd set me up, now the wraith follow me. I cannot leave until I have solidified my position as queen." she explained quickly, glancing over her shoulder incase anyone should over hear her. Tegan frowned,
"Are you okay?" she asked. Teyla nodded and gave her a small smile. I had feeling those two were good friends now.
"I can get Todd to try and get you out of here." she said, before turning and walking off again. Sighing, I sat back against the wall and looked at the others,
"Get comfy, this could be a long wait." I informed them. Tegan raised and eyebrow,
"Anybody up for thumb war?" she asked. Rodney shuffled closer with a nod and I spent at least half an hour seperating them as they bickered over who had actually won.
"Okay I've had enough!" I cried finally. Tegan and Rodney fell silent. "Okay, okay...I spy with my little eye something beginning with c." I sighed, knowing I'd really regret that later,
"Carbon dioxide!" Rodney guessed. Tegan raised her eyebrow incredulously at him.
"You can't see that Rodney, it's a gas! It's invisble to the naked eye and it doesn't count." she informed him."Cells?" she guessed. Smirking a bit I nodded,
"Yeah, how'd you guess?" I asked teasingly. She giggled, she actually giggled and I think even she was suprised that she had because her eyes widened and she looked at Rodney in disbelief. The giggle, however short it was, had been a melodic sound, one I was almost desperate to hear again. Tegan never giggled and her laugh was...saved for certain occasions.
"Wow Tegan, you haven't giggled like that since you were what? sixteen?" Rodney asked, looking impressed with me. Tegan frowned,
"Christ." she muttered under her breath. I raised an eyebrow,
"There's nothing wrong with letting loose a little." I pointed out. She shook her head and smiled, though it was a weary one,
"I spy with my little eye something beginning with...uh...w." she said, clearly trying to divert attention away from her. That was when Todd entered the room,
"Wraith?" Rodney guessed bitterly. Tegan smirked a little as we stood up to face him.
"Come, you are being transported back to my ship." he said, unlocking the door to let us out. Nodding my head once, we walked in an awkward silence towards the ship. Teyla came with us in the jumper and Todd stayed behind. Teyla told us what had happened on the way back to the stargate, since we wanted to go straight home.
"Todd and I came to an agreement. Now that they think I am their queen, Todd can stay behind and convince them to take the gene therapy drug. He is now the commander of the wraith alliance." Grimacing, I tried to debate in my head whether that was a good or bad thing. Seeing my troubled look, Tegan (who had been dialling the gate beside me) completed the address and waited until we were docked in the jumper bay before she placed her hand on my arm comfortingly and said,
""Hey,whatever happens next, we'll figure it out together. Okay?" For a while I just stared into her eyes, she really did seem sure that whatever happened, we'd be okay. She knew she didn't have all the answers, but she was confident she could get some. Nodding my head I patted her arm,
"Okay. We'll figure it out...together." I agreed.