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Despite her protests Kai did eventually fall asleep. John sat near the entrance with the P-90 resting in his lap. He hadn't missed that she moved as far away from his as she physically could in the small space. She curled up on her side with her back to him and slept.
Things felt so natural between the two of them, but as soon as they were no longer in danger, Kai put the walls back up. He felt like an idiot for not remembering or understanding what had happened on Lodan. He had done something but he didn't know how to bring it up. Normally when he did something stupid he knew what it was. It bothered him though. He liked his easy friendship with Kai and didn't want to lose that. He felt out of sorts and he couldn't quite put his finger on it. He cared about Kai and found her incredibly attractive, but the same could be said for Teyla. They were friends and coworkers and it wasn't a problem. There was no reason things couldn't be that way with Kai.
He huffed and shifted his weight trying to get more comfortable. His shoulder pulled when he moved it but the pain was manageable. It didn't feel like he had damaged the muscle. He popped two antibiotics and some Tylenol he found in the med pack.
They would have to sort through the gear they scavenged in the daylight. He turned off the lantern and settled back into the dark of the cave. Far away he could hear the first rumbling of thunder and outside the cave the wind picked up.
John glanced towards Kai frowning. He pushed himself to his feet and in the dim light pulled an emergency blanket out of one of the packs. Careful not to touch her he draped it over her as she slept. She made a soft noise in the back of her throat and snuggled deeper under the blanket. He settled back down at the cave entrance and watched over her as she slept.
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Elizabeth met the team in the Jumper bay as they worked to load enough supplies for them all for up to fourteen days. As she watched the amount of gear they needed it hit her for maybe the first time how truly dangerous this rescue mission would be. What they might encounter on the planet was nothing compared to facing the empty void of space in such a small ship.
She swallowed and turned back to Rodney. He was squatting over his computer bag, double checking he had all the diagnostic tools he might need. He seemed convinced there was a chance the gate was intact and if so that he might be able to get them through it. As much as the man claimed to be an egotistic coward, he never seemed to hesitated when his friends were in trouble. The friendship between McKay and Sheppard was something she hadn't anticipated or understood, but they were friends and despite their constant snipping they truly seemed to care about each other.
"Are you sure about this Rodney?" She asked in a low tone so the marines working around them wouldn't hear.
"Hmm?" McKay responded distractedly. When Weir didn't repeat herself he tore his eyes off his equipment to look up at her. "What?"
"Are you sure? There are other people who can go..." she offered glancing towards the small shuttle.
McKay frowned at her like he didn't understand the question. "I'm sure there are, but none of them are me," he finally settled on saying and he picked up his bag and headed into the jumper. "Shot gun," he called and began to hook his personal laptop into the systems.
Major Lorne stepped up next to Weir. "We're ready to go ma'am," he reported. "Stevens and Walker will be accompanying us. They both have the gene and can help us pilot and Walker is a corpsman," Lorne explained unnecessarily. It was his first solo mission and for some reason he felt the need to justify his choices.
"Good," Weir agreed but she was distracted as she watched Rodney rearrange one of the other men's belongings to make himself more comfortable.
Lorne followed her gaze. "I'll keep an eye on him ma'am," he promised.
Elizabeth turned to face the young Major. "I have no doubt Major," she assured him. "Just.,." Rodney ended up dumping one of the men's bags into the back of the jumper where half its contents spilled. He didn't bother to pick it up. Weir sighed wearily. "Try not to shoot him yourself."
Lorne smiled. "Understood ma'am."
Weir stepped back out of the way as Lorne turned to close the hatch. "Good luck Major," she called "Bring them home."
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Kai woke to the quiet but insistent beeping from her watch. She could barely hear it over the pounding of rain outside. She silenced the watch with a frown. She had set it half an hour after the Colonel was supposed to wake her to change shifts. She had anticipated his reluctance to wake her. She rolled onto her back and was surprised to find herself tangled in a blanket. The Colonel must have covered her up after she fell asleep.
When she stood he yawned without taking his eyes off the entrance.
"You were supposed to wake me," she accused moving towards him.
John climbed to his feet. He stretched his arms over his head and yawned again. Even in next to no light Kai could see the soft boy-ish expression on his handsome face. It told her exactly how exhausted he was. "You were sleeping pretty sound, and I wasn't tired yet."
Kai nodded and took his place, leaning up against his pack as he had done. She slid his P-90 and the life signs detector closer so they were in easy reach.
Sheppard picked up the blanket and lay in her spot. It felt strangely intimate for him to sleep where she had. She watched as he wrapped the blanket around himself and flopped down on his side. Only instead of facing away as she had done he was facing towards her. Kai quickly banished the thought as a product of her over tired mind.
She was honestly terrified to even consider the possibility of what she felt on Lodan. It couldn't be real. She had made the decision to put distance between them and so far it seemed to be working fine. She hadn't felt any psychic connection since. Problem solved. She scrubbed at her face and turned back to the entrance to watch the rain. Euphor was extremely potent and she had clearly lost her tolerance for it. That was all it had been. Just the optimistic thoughts of a drugged mind. There was nothing between her and Sheppard. There couldn't be. He wasn't Mortii.
She found her eyes wandering back to him as she watched him fall asleep. Despite her own misgivings over their last trip off world together, there was no one else she would rather be stuck here with. The Colonel was the consummate survivor and as much as she was hesitant to admit it, they made a good team.
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Sheppard woke as soon as light began to fill the cave. His eyes snapped open and Kai immediately heard the change in his breathing.
He scrubbed at his face and stood. "So," he said conversationally, "what's for breakfast?"
Kai wrinkled her nose. "I think our only options are MRE's, Powerbars and water," she said standing and stretching.
"All right, I think we should head back to the gate this afternoon and assess the damage," John suggested. There was normally no question that he was in charge in the field. It was the nature of the job. But for some reason he found he was hesitant to order Kai outright. She was just as skilled as he was and he valued her opinion.
John climbed to his feet and moved towards the bags. "We should do an inventory, see what we got. Unfortunately there's no going back to the Jumper for anything we may have left behind," he added meaningfully.
Kai snorted and crouched over the bags. They sorted through everything.
They ended up with a surprising amount of gear. They had the med-pack, 6 MRE's, eight powerbars, three bottles of water, and two packs of water purifying tablets. In addition to the weapons they had on their bodies they had another P-90 with four extra clips, another .9 mm with two extra clips, and three more grenades. There was the lantern and blanket, a small tent and an extra life signs detector. There were several layers of outerwear and flashlights. One of the cases was filled with tools and jumper parts for repairs, which was essentially useless for them but Kai didn't want to leave it behind on this planet if they didn't have to.
They filled a backpack for each of them, dividing up the medical supplies, food and weapons. They repacked all they couldn't carry and tucked it away into the back of the cave. They each took a life signs detector, hoisted their packs and slipped out of the cave.
It was still raining, although the winds had died down around daybreak. It felt further traveling back to the gate, but they went a different way, swinging wide around their crash site which was predictably crawling with Wraith.
If there had been any doubt in Kai's mind that she had done the right thing in destroying the jumper it was laid to rest as she watched their engineers pull apart what was left hunting for scraps. Kai had been thorough and there was nothing left but pieces of charred metal. But it seemed they weren't going to give up until they could be sure.
They took the time to circle around and come at the gate from the opposite direction. The gentle rain would make it too easy for the Wraith to track them back to the cave in the mud.
They avoided the Wraith life signs they saw and crept up towards the gate. John crouched behind a large tree and Kai was right behind him. He reached into his vest and pulled out his binoculars. "Shit," he muttered and he handed them down to Kai. She shifted closer so she could get a clear view and her shoulder brushed against his as she looked towards the gate.
The gate had been damaged. The Naquadah surround was broken, a large chunk of it lay on the ground. There was a group of Wraith working around it and the piece of Wraith equipment. Only a short distance away was the twisted wreck of the three wraith darts.
"Doesn't look like we're getting out that way," he muttered.
One of the Wraith guards stiffened and turned his head slowly in their direction. Kai frowned. She had always wondered how well they could hear. John seemed to have the same thought because he tapped her on the shoulder and the two of them faded back into the growing gloom of the forest.
The two of them worked their way back through the forest. Kai kept her eyes on the sensor but her ears on the forest around them. The rain was making it difficult to hear anything.
They stopped around midday. They sat under an overhang of dense branches although they were already soaked through. John reached into his vest pocket and pulled out one of the powerbars. He broke it in two and handed half to Kai. Neither had eaten anything since the day before and Kai's stomach cramped painfully.
"So," John started conversationally after a few moments. "No gate." Kai had been uncharacteristically quiet all day, and he wasn't sure if it was the situation or something else. He wasn't good at this kind of thing, it was just easier to focus on the mission.
"No gate," Kai agreed, taking another small bite.
"All right," he said nodding, "So, we're one hundred and thirty two hours from the nearest Stargate."
"Five and a half days," she confirmed nodding.
"Right, so the way I figure it we are five and a half days minimum from a rescue, assuming they send one."
"The size of that explosion..." Kai dragged off. "There was an established wormhole. We didn't send the IDC but if they dropped the shield expecting us..."
John pressed his mouth into a grim line. He had considered the possibility that they saw the explosion and assumed he and Kai hadn't survived. He hadn't considered the possibility that there was blow back in the gate room.
"Right..." he dragged off thoughtfully. The new possibility only strengthened his resolve to do something. "If we stretch it we have enough food for both of us for maybe four days...but if we go to that outpost and steal a dart..." he dragged off. "One of us gets beamed up while the other flies to the gate with plenty of food."
Kai scowled as she considered his plan. "Have you ever flown a dart?" She asked.
John shrugged he had flown just about everything there was to fly. "How tough can it be?" he asked rhetorically.
Kai coughed on her power bar. She knew the Colonel was confident but this was a whole new level of ego. "Their systems are quite complicated. I've never flown one, but I do read Wraith."
John shifted his weight. He hadn't considered the possibility of it not being him to fly them out.
"Right, right now our best advantage is that the Wraith believe we died in that crash. We have to hope that they didn't get a chance to radio in a description of the jumper to anyone who would recognize it before you blew it up."
"So if we head in there we risk exposing Atlantis, but if we stay out here and wait for rescue we might starve to death?" Kai clarified sardonically.
"Pretty much," he said grimly.
"Well," Kai said dusting the last of the crumbs off her hands. "I'm not really one to wait around to be rescued," she said with a grim smile.
John nodded appreciatively. That was exactly the answer he had expected. Kai Zian was no damsel in distress content to wait for rescue. It was one of the things he liked most about her.
He handed her the spare P-90 and flashed her a confident smirk. "Let's head towards the outpost, do a little recon. We'll only get one shot at this."
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It took the better part of the day and half the night to reach the outpost on foot. In the jumper it hadn't seemed that far, but the vegetation was dense and rocky and the continuing rain made the ground slippery and difficult to navigate.
They found a hiding place with decent cover one hundred yards from the outpost. They took turns monitoring patrols and the doors while the other catnapped. Although they both tried to sleep that night it was nearly impossible in the rain and neither was comfortable having the Wraith so close.
They were both awake at dawn. Kai broke one of her powerbars in half and shared it with him as they watched for several more hours as the details of the outpost become clear.
The outpost appeared to house several dozen Wraith, but it was impossible to know if there were more inside. From what Kai could tell it was some kind of research base, but now that they had lost their power source things were chaotic. She wasn't familiar enough with their tech to know what they could use alternatively for a power source, but it seemed to be taking time to set it up.
She pointed that out to Sheppard, noting that the sooner they made their move the more likely it was key systems like scanners would still be down.
They circled the facility, creeping together silently through the underbrush until they had enough information to make a reasonable plan. By midday the two of them were exhausted, soaked to the bone, and had all the intel they could get from watching. They retreated in the opposite direction deep into the forest. Once they were far enough away that Kai felt comfortable talking in normal tones she tucked her sensor away. They stopped in a small clearing where the branches overhead were thick enough to block most of the rain.
"Well?" She asked. It had literally been hours since the two of them had spoken. The Mortii never worked in pairs and she found it strangely comfortable to have someone she could move with and understand so completely without ever having to say a word.
John scrubbed at his face. "All right, lets rest, eat some food and get some real shut eye today. We'll make a run at it tonight."
Kai hated the idea of opening one of their precious MRE's but neither she nor Sheppard had eaten much and they needed to be at their strongest for this to work. They mixed onto with water and shared it as they sat against the trunk of one of the huge, ancient looking trees.
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There were no guards outside the outpost which said a lot about the confidence of the Wraith on the planet. It also meant there wasn't likely to be any immediately inside either. Both John and Kai had P-90's out as they crept towards the doors closest to the dart bay. They hadn't seen many Wraith using those doors, most of them went in and out the doors on the opposite side of the compound nearest the stargate.
The external door slid open. Thick ropy tendrils still clung together as they stretched and pulled apart. Kai wrinkled her nose as the stench hit her. She would never get used to the organic construction of the Wraith's structures. She didn't honestly understand how anything with even remotely powerful senses could stand the smell.
Sheppard led the way and she followed. As soon as they were inside the door slid closed behind them. John started heading towards the bay with single minded focus but Kai hesitated. Somewhere she could hear the quiet hum of circuits. She frowned and took a step towards a brightly lit terminal as a bad feeling went over her.
"Colonel, they have power, the sensors are active!" She whisper yelled to him.
"Let's get the hell out of here," he called. The two of them turned to head back to the entrance. They turned a corner and came face to face with a squad of Wraith.
John and Kai took cover behind the corners and emptied their P-90 clips into the squad. They both reloaded and continued to fire. The last wraith in front of them fell just as two more squads came around behind them.
"Get out of here!" John yelled as stunner blasts fired all around them.
Kai ran for the door. She activated the controls but the door didn't open. "It's jammed!" she called back. Stunner blasts hit the walls around her, she flinched, ducking as low as she could to avoid the fire.
John continued to shoot at the Wraith. "Get that door open or we're lunch!" He dropped to a knee in front of her, blocking her from the stunners as he continued to fire. He dropped another clip and reloaded, painfully aware there was only one more extra clip left.
Kai pulled her blade and slid it through the skin of the wall. She jerked out the veins bearing the wires. The fluid was viscous as it coated her fingers, making it difficult to work. Precious seconds ticked by before the wires sparked and the doors opened.
John covered their escape as Kai managed to force the doors open. Once they were open they ran for it. The forest was dark and they ran through the rain as it pelted down on them. Stunner blasts shot over their shoulders. The two of them dodged and darted through the trees.
John grabbed Kai's arm pulling her to the side just as a stunner blast hit the tree where she had been only seconds before. They hit the base of the mountain and a sheer rock wall rose above them. They turned, heading north. Kai was on the lead when a stunner blast came from ahead of them. The Wraith had managed to circle around and cut them off.
She had to throw herself backwards to avoid the stunner shot. She crashed into Sheppard and the two of them tumbled to the ground. They both dropped their packs and swung their weapons up. The mud was thick and soupy and they stood back to back, each firing at the Wraith closing in on their position.
John used the last P-90 clip and drew his handgun.
"I'm out!" Kai called throwing her now useless handgun aside. There were two Wraith left in front of her. She pulled her knives. Two she could handle. She threw a knife at the first and charged the second.
"Shit," she heard John mutter.
She landed a kick at the chest of the Wraith but the mud made it harder for her gain traction and she lost power. She threw another of her smaller knives into the neck of the Wraith in front of her, but the first one had already recovered. It raised it's stunner and Kai kicked it out of it's hands, sending it skidding out of sight into the bushes. It charged her. She ducked it's strike and the second Wraith was on its feet. She moved towards the second wraith knowing she would have to get the stunner.
She tried to knock it out of it's hand but the Wraith was too powerful. The first knocked her flat and she hit the muddy ground. She threw her legs up, locking them around it's neck and tried to flip it off of her. The second Wraith slammed the point of it's stunner down into her thigh, pinning her to the ground.
She shouted in pain and threw another knife at the second Wraith, this one went straight through it's helmet and it dropped to the ground. As it fell it put weight on the stunner and it it barrel broke off, splintering under it's falling weight the end still embedded in Kai's thigh.
Kai screamed a second time and John felt like a fist gripped in his chest. He had to get to her. He fired a last shot into the last Wraith in front of him. He whipped around to help her. "Kai!" he called.
The Wraith was on top of her, one hand was wrapped around her throat while his feeding hand was poised to strike.
Kai couldn't breathe, and the more she struggled the tighter the Wraith gripped her neck. She could see black spots beginning to dance at the corners of her vision. She had to get out of this. The mud surrounding them seeped into every piece of clothing, soaking her. She fought to lift her arm to get to a knife, but it was like her body was no longer under her control. If she didn't get free he was going to feed on her.
She heard Sheppard call out to her, and she knew she had to help him. There had just been too many of them. She was too tired and too hurt. The urge to close her eyes was so intense she shook with the effort to resist.
The Wraith suddenly went rigid and warm, sticky blood spilled down onto her. The body was suddenly ripped away. His grip, still strong in death, lifted her chest up off the ground before she slammed back down onto the soggy ground.
She groaned in pain and suddenly Sheppard was above her. His hair was plastered to his head and his body blocked the rain from hitting her in the face. She gasped desperately for breath and coughed, a weak hand coming up to grasp her painful throat.
Sheppard leaned closer to her. "Are you all right?" he gasped as he fought to pull in another breath. She tried to nod but she was too weak and barely managed it. Seeming to understand Sheppard dropped to his knees beside her.
"How bad is it?" John asked.
Kai's teeth were chattering. "Bad," she said.
"We gotta get out of here," he said his sharp eyes quickly scanning the clearing around them. There was no telling when more Wraith backup would arrive.
Kai hadn't moved yet, it worried him that she was more injured than he had first thought. Her skin was pale and her eyes were wide and shocky. He leaned towards her and she didn't pull away. Blood and mud covered her face, neck and torso so completely he couldn't tell if or where she might be injured.
He pulled a life signs detector out of his pack. There was a large group of Wraith closing in on them. They had to get out of here.
"We gotta go," he said urgently.
Kai tried to push herself up but collapsed back with a pained sound.
John put the sensor down on Kai's stomach they couldn't afford to wait. "Hold that," he said, then he lifted her arm gently and she grunted in pain, but didn't resist as he wrapped it around the back of his neck. "On three okay," he muttered as much for his own benefit as it was for hers.
She nodded but her teeth were chattering so badly it was difficult to tell.
Gritting his teeth against the pain in his shoulder he slid his arms under her knees and around her back and lifted her as he stood. Her grip on his neck was weak, weaker than he had anticipated. He walked determinedly across the clearing, his entire focus on getting the two of them to safety. He had to find them cover and fast.
John moved as swiftly as possible into the treeline. The forest was crawling with Wraith and it would only be a matter of time before they stumbled on them again. The two of them had somehow managed to take out the entire squad but it wasn't something that was going to happen again. John knew himself well enough to know when he had reached his limits and he was just about there. Kai didn't weigh enough for this walk to be taking so much energy.
John moved through the woods. Despite the dense treetops the rain continued to come down and soak them. Kai began to shiver in his arms and he clenched his teeth. He had to find them some kind of shelter and soon. He walked for another twenty minutes before he spotted a small rock formation. He ducked low to get the two of them under it. It wasn't a cave, but it offered them some protection from the rain at least.
John was careful as he lowered Kai to the ground. She didn't make a sound, but judging by the amount of blood that was now covering them both she was very seriously injured and must have been in an incredible amount of pain.
She sat before him, unmoving as she breathed deeply. Blood and mud still coated her face. Looking around for something remotely clean he pulled her scarf out from under her vest and wiped away the blood with the end of it. She winced as his fingers touched her cheek bone and he snatched back his hands. When he met her eyes it shocked him to find her only inches away.
He swallowed thickly and looked down at the scarf in his hand. He flinched and quickly handed it back to her "I'm sorry if I defiled your religion or something," he muttered. "It's the only thing remotely clean," he added.
Kai chuckled once humorlessly as she leaned her head back against the rock wall with her eyes closed.
"Did I miss something?" he asked, scowling. He hated feeling off kilter and no one seemed to be able to knock off his game quite as much as Kai. He was more worried about her than he wanted to admit.
"It's the furthest thing from clean anything could possibly be," she said between clenched teeth. At the confused look on the Colonel's face she continued. "It isn't for my religion. The Mortii don't have a religion. It marks me as an assassin, nothing more."
John frowned. She was still shivering, her teeth chattering so badly it was difficult for her to form words.
"I always wondered, if you didn't want us to find out what you were, why did you wear it off world where you might be discovered? Why not ditch it along with your old life? You could have settled in as Kai the mechanic and no one would have been the wiser."
Her smile was sad, and it worried him. Kai didn't talk about her feelings or her past. Not like this and certainly not with him.
"It was for myself. So I would never forget what I did. What I had allowed myself to be," she leaned back, her eyes drifting closed and her chin drooping.
"Hey, hey," John said urgently, shaking her shoulder to keep her focused. "You are a member of this expedition, and a member of my team. Anyone who says differently has to answer to me. That includes you."
Kai snorted. "Do you really think you could take me?" she challenged, her voice was still weak, but the glimmer in her eyes reassured him. She was a fighter.
"I think I would stand a pretty good chance right about now," John said turning his focus to the vicious slice across her thigh. He grimaced as he realized there was still a hunk of metal embedded in her flesh.
"Whatever you say John," her voice was weak and he cut his eyes up to her pale face.
She was breathing too rapidly and her face was sallow and pale. Her eyes didn't look as shocky as before, but the fact that she had referred to him by his first name was enough to cause him concern.
"That's Colonel Sheppard to you," he growled back authoritatively.
A weak smile tugged at her lips. "Of course," she replied. "Forgive me Colonel."
John nodded sharply like it mattered and looked back down at her leg. "We have to get this out and bind this," he said. "It's going to need stitches but we lost the packs." He could kick himself for not grabbing one of them. "We're going to have to use the granules to stop the bleeding and then wrap it with something."
With trembling hands Kai passed her scarf to him. "Use that."
He nodded and pulled his knife. He carefully set it against the blood soaked tactical fabric of her combats and slit her pants open wider, exposing her leg.
"This is going to hurt," John warned her, bracing himself as well. He hated field dressing anything, but something like this or setting a bone was the worst for him. He didn't mind hurting the enemy, but he was supposed to protect his own people, not cause them more pain.
"I assure you Colonel, I can handle a little pain."
"It was more for my sake. I didn't want you forgetting who was helping you and hitting me. I'm still pretty," he forced himself to chuckle so she wouldn't see how deeply worried he was about her.
Kai snorted and leaned her head back against the cold rock wall of the cave. She didn't doubt his words, she could feel the swelling and dried blood from where the Wraith had hit her in the face.
"I'll pull it out, clean it," he said pulling the small packet of granules out of his vest. "Once they dry and bond we'll wrap it, hopefully that'll be enough to keep you in one piece until we can get you to Carson."
Her eyes drifted closed as she braced herself in anticipation of the pain.
"Okay on the count of three, here we go," John said, "one, two," and he ripped the metal piece from her flesh.
She cried out and he moved quickly, dumping the granules into the open wound to stop the flow of blood.
Kai hissed in pain, her body jerking forward involuntarily. Removing the metal hurt, but the granules felt like he had just poured acid into her leg.
John caught Kai with a hand on her shoulder as she collapsed forward into him. Her forehead rested against the crook of his neck as she shook from the pain. John clasped both her shoulders firmly, holding her as she rode out the pain. He had seen men twice her size, experienced soldiers, pass out from having a whole pack poured into an open wound. Kai's hands came up and she wrapped them around his forearms, holding him firmly against her. The only indication of the pain she was in was her accelerated breathing and the tension in her muscles.
The tension slowly started to fade from her body and she sagged in his grip. John carefully helped her lean back against the wall. She didn't so much as grimace this time. Her eyes were half closed and he sank his teeth into the inside of his cheek as he watched her.
He didn't know how much blood she had lost or how badly hurt she was. She was exhausted and clearly needed to rest but he wasn't sure if letting her sleep was the best thing. She was shivering slightly but both of them had lost their packs so they had nothing but the wet clothes on their backs.
"You get some rest," he told her gently as he wrapped her scarf around her leg. "I'll keep watch." He settled in next to her, his shoulder brushing hers.
Kai grunted and nodded. She was too exhausted to argue. She closed her eyes and fell asleep almost immediately. John shifted his weight slightly and Kai's head drooped, resting on his shoulder. She made a noise in the back of her throat and moved closer to him in her sleep.
John pressed his lips together grimly. Kai was badly injured enough to be cuddling with him. They had lost all their supplies, all their food, and were down to one hand gun with only one spare clip. They lost the element of surprise, the Wraith were hunting them and they were three days away from any possible rescue from Atlantis.
They were in deep trouble.
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