Trust Once Broken | SGA John Sheppard

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Season Two
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The Siege Pt. 3

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Kai flew the Jumper away from the city. It had taken all of her skills as a pilot to avoid the darts that were making a run at the city. She cloaked the jumper immediately knowing no matter how badly she wanted to engage them she had to get clear. Only destroying the Hive ships could end this.

It didn't bother her. She should have died on the planet her people dumped her on for the Wraith. She had been living on borrowed time every day since that day. Weir and Sheppard and Teyla and Zelenka; they had shown her another life and she would forever be appreciative. She was following Sheppard and that combined with knowing everyone back on Atlantis would live was enough.

Her radio activated. "Jumper Two come in," the Major's voice came through. She glanced at the display and saw he was contacting her on a private frequency rather than the one that ran through the control room.

"This is Jumper Two," Kai replied. The only reason she could think he would be contacting her privately was to talk her out of it and she was determined to do this. They had to destroy both Hives.

"I know I'm not a highly trained super assassin like you, but typically you're supposed to run away from danger," Sheppard joked wryly.

Kai snorted, somehow even in this situation he was able to make her laugh. She would never understand how he managed to do that. "You're one to talk."

"What can I say," he said. "I like a little excitement in my life."

"Same here Major..." she told him, and she nearly bit her own tongue when she realized she was flirting with him. Not that it mattered anymore. They would both be dead in less than ten minutes. "I volunteered." She wasn't as good at this as he was, and their old joke fell flat as the reality that this would be the last time she spoke to John Sheppard hit her like a crushing weight.

She could hear him sigh through the comm. "Anyone ever tell you that you have a death wish Zian?" he asked seriously.

Kai forced herself to snort. "Only every commander I ever had," she told him.

There was a long moment of silence when all Kai could hear through the radio was the Major's breathing. According to her screens he was closing in on the first hive. "The bay doors are open," he said and his voice was back to the shrewd tone of The Major. "That's going to be our best bet."

"Understood Major," she fought to keep her tone as business like as possible so he would know she didn't regret it and she wasn't afraid. She didn't want him to feel responsible or guilty. It had been her decision to get in the second jumper.

"Kai-" he started to say but stopped. It was maybe the first time since they met that he called her by her first name. He had always called her by her last name, using it to keep distance between them. There was a long pause before he spoke again. "Thank you." His voice was rough and pained.

Kai didn't know what to say to that. There was so much she felt like she should say but couldn't, or didn't know how. So much she wished she convey to him. She owed him everything. "It's been an honor," her voice was almost a whisper. She closed her eyes and tried to think of all the things she wanted to say and there was that familiar hard nudge in the back of her mind. She reached down and touched the center of her chest. It felt strangely tight and for the first time in as far back as she could remember her eyes burned with unshed tears.