New Home (Stargate Atlantis fanfiction)

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John awoke in the infirmary bed with Elizabeth in his arms. The bed, however, seemed much bigger than he remembered. Then he discovered that there were two beds joined together. Someone must have merged them when he and Elizabeth were sleeping.

"John?" Elizabeth mumbled.

"Hey..." he soothed when he saw her grimace. "It's okay. You're safe."

"My head hurts. The lights..." She tried to cover her eyes, but John willed the lights to dim. "Thank you." She mumbled again and gone back into slumber.

It was a sure sign she was getting her memories back. She just accepted that he dimmed the lights without even moving. She knew that he was able to do that with a single thought when they were both on Atlantis.

He listened to Atlantis' song. The countless and continous sounds of the ancestral city. It seemed a little different from what he remembered. At first he thought it was just his feeling but Lorne seemed to notice the difference too, from what little they talked during the night when the man came to check on him and Elizabeth. The great city sang with joy and... anticipation? The first would be understandable considering Atlantis was 'sad' when Elizabeth was captured. But the latter was a mystery.

"John, what's the sound?" Asked sleepily Elizabeth.

"Are you awake?"

"Yes."

"John, I..."

"What?" John looked at her face with worry. "Is something wrong?"

"I remember..." She closed her eyes and hid her head against his chest. "Not everything, but enough. And I feel that the rest is there, that I just need to give enough time."

"I guess we know now why your head hurts" he joked. He was happy to feel her laughing.

After she changed from the scrubs he took her to the mess hall for something to eat. There was no one there besides them since the hour was really early. The only person that saw them was a man working there and he seemed very happy to see the former leader there. Surprisingly she remembered the guy's name. John didn't. They sat at the table on the balcony overlooking the Golden Gate bridge. Elizabeth looked silently at the view.

"What are you thinking about?" Asked John after a long silence.

"How much happened without me knowing about it..." She said playing with her food on the plate. "Almost three years now and I have only a vague information about the expedition's fate."

He had nothing to say to that. It was a summary, not a question.

"There you are, lass." They heard Beckett's voice. "You shouldn't be out of bed, no matter how good you're feeling!" He scolded approaching.

"Carson..." Elizabeth whispered and threw herself into his arms with tears.

Then there was an awful lot of people entering the mess, each and every one of them greeted in the same way, the name and a powerful hug. There were even some of them that got a hug with a talk.

"My God, Miko Kusanagi..." Elizabeth looked at the little woman with a smile. "The SGC tried to tell me you'll not be able to stay more than a week, that you were too fragile. I'm so glad they were wrong."

"It's not Kusanagi anymore" the little woman shyly said. "It's ..."

"Zelenka. It's Miko Zelenka now." Radek interrupted proudly.

„Ok., what else did I miss?" Elizabeth asked with a smile and tears. Then she saw Jennifer entering the mess. "Jennifer Keller." She enveloped the young doctor in the hug as well.