In the end
Author: wanderingsmith
Aug 2008
Summary: if this is really the end...
Rating: PG13
Disclaimer: I ain't got no money, and nobody'd be daft enough to pay me
for this.
AN: short. silly. done many times over. image just *appeared* and had to be written
"That's it. The shield is up, the explosion will be contained
and utterly destroy Atlantis," McKay looked around bleakly, "Destroy
everyone *in it* too."
"And all its secrets will be safe from the Wraith." Elizabeth's voice was quiet, resigned.
"Yeah. Excuse me."
John watched the beaten scientist walk away to stare out at the ocean
as they all waited through their last minute of life. Looking
back at Elizabeth besides him, he could feel the time flying away from
him, taking the hopes he'd barely entertained for his life with
it. "I.."
Elizabeth looked up as John spoke, lost in her own thoughts of despair. Losing the city after everything they'd done...
He could see the emptiness in her, was helpless to ease it in these
last moments. "I know this isn't... won't help. But I love
you. I want you to know that before..."
Elizabeth blinked, suddenly focusing again on the present. There
was literally no time to *think* as the sands slipped away, she stepped
up, refusing to hurt him with futile silence, here at their last,
touching the unhidden affection in his expression tenderly. "I
love you too, John."
With a sad grin, he pulled her into a gentle hug, closing his eyes as
he felt her head come to rest on his chest and her arms wrap around him
too.
And together, they stood in the control room, waiting for the end coming in less than 10 seconds.
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He hadn't known what to expect, but the chill and smell of an Earth-made spaceship.. wasn't what he thought death would be like.
John tensed, opening his eyes and looking around, eyes wide as he saw Hermiod blink alienly at him.
It wasn't until Elizabeth stirred in his now-tight grip that the spell
of shock was broken and he loosened his hold, focusing on her as she
took her turn looking around, his arm still around her shoulders.
He started grinning as it dawned on him that they were alive and likely
to stay that way. But when Elizabeth turned back to him, smiling
with the same wonder... then he remembered the words they'd just shared
and froze.
It was one thing as they were about to die but what about-
Elizabeth wasn't sure where to start asking questions, but when she saw
sadness creep over John's features again, felt his arm start to leave
her shoulders, she realized he was assuming she would want to take back
their words to each other and *that* was the more urgent thing at this
point. She shook her head, ignoring the people around them;
stepped back in his arms and reached up to cup his jaw to lower his
head into her reach.
And kissed him, gentle and caring until he wrapped his arms tight
around her and opened her mouth for insistent, slow exploration.
It took some loud throat clearing nearby to make Elizabeth pull back,
still staring at John, trying to silently convey the fact that they
were going to find their way *together* from here. She assumed he
got the message when his grin popped out and he bounced lightly on his
heels, landing in a posture she recognized as her lt. colonel-ranked
puppy.
"That was more like 11:59th hour, colonel. You enjoy scaring us a
little too much." John refused to be cowed by the usual scowl he
got from the Daedelus' captain, not when he had Elizabeth in his arms
giving him a *look* that just about gave him the strength to leap tall
build- "Atlantis!"
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