Hello everyone! Hope you are all well! I have been working like mad on NaNoWriMo but did take some time to do some editing and get another update out! It ended up a little longer than expected.

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Satedan Cont
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Rutherford looked unhappy as he trailed behind Elizabeth. With Major Lourne and Colonel Sheppard off world, he was left in charge. Although he wasn't sure Doctor Weir remembered that.  "With all do respect ma'am going in blind is a bad-"

"We have no choice. You and your men will be fine," Elizabeth assured him briskly. She couldn't think of a more capable group the Colonel Sheppard, Ronon, Teyla and Kai which meant for McKay to have come through the gate alone and injured something bad must have happened. They needed to get a group of marines on the group on that planet and find out what happened to their people. 

Rutherford looked upset but he was still too new to the Pegasus to argue. His men were geared up and waiting in the gate room when he and Doctor Weir arrived.

Elizabeth looked up to Chuck. "Dial the gate," she called.

Before the marines could move the alarms began to sound. "Incoming wormhole," Chuck alerted them unnecessarily.

The team of marines all raised their guns to aim for the gate.Rutherford took a deliberate step in front of Doctor Weir and raised his weapon.

"It's colonel Sheppard's IDC ma'am," Chuck reported.

"Lower the shield," Elizabeth ordered.

Seconds later Teyla and Sheppard strode across the event horizon. John took in the gathered group of marines. "Someone get us some vests and guns," he ordered one of the young men standing off to the side. The marine nodded briskly once and turned to jog to the armory to do what his commanding officer ordered.

"Colonel, Teyla," Major Rutherford greeted nodding formally to them.

"Major," Sheppard acknowledged, noting the squad of marines in full tactical gear.

"We were just about to come get you," the Major explained quickly.

"Always appreciate a good rescue," Sheppard quipped. He looked up as the you marine ran back into gate room. He shrugged into the new vest, pulling the laces on the side so it fit correctly.

"Where's Ronon and Kai?" Weir asked with a frown.

"Still back there," John said taking the gun. He looked it over, checked the clip, the slid and the safety before lifting his chin to meet Elizabeth's gaze. "Did McKay make it through okay?"

"He's going to be fine. What happened?" Weir asked.

"Ronon bargained for our freedom," Teyla explained pulling on her own vest.

"By sticking a knife to his own throat," John growled. "They wouldn't let Kai go either," he added. For just a second John let the anger he felt show on his face. "They're going to sell her to the Wraith."

Elizabeth pulled back. "Sell her?"

"According to the villagers, Mortii are something of a Wraith delicacy," John said, his voice tight with his anger.

Elizabeth looked back and forth between John and Teyla in shock. Revulsion turned her stomach as she realized the full extent of what John was saying. They didn't leave their people behind, but now there was a question of whether or not Kai would still be alive to be rescued.

"We're going back," John said but he wasn't asking nor did he wait for Elizabeth to agree.

"Dial the gate!" Elizabeth called over her shoulder.

"It took us fifteen minutes to get to the gate, the place could be crawling with wraith by now," John warned the marines. "Let's go get them!"

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Kai came awake, her head pounding. She smelled them before she even blinked her eyes opened. Her stomach rolled at the rotting scent of what was unmistakably a Wraith ship. She was grateful at least for the dim lights, which didn't make her headache worse. Wraith were all around them. The guards were dragging her and Ronon through a hive. She frowned, part of her was surprised to have actually woken up. There were two guards, one on either side of her. They each had a hand on her bicep and dragged her through the ship. Ahead she could see Ronon was in the same position. Although he looked as though he had regained consciousness faster. She wondered briefly if it would make sense for her and Ronon to try and escape now, while there were only four Wraith around them, but then she realized that distantly she could hear the low rumble of the Wraith's engine and hyperdrive. There was no way the two of them could take the entire ship.

The wraith brought they into the throne room of the hive, but instead of a queen, a male wraith sat in the place of prominence. Kai frowned. She had never heard of a Hive not having a Queen. She looked around but there was no evidence of there being a Queen anywhere. She had always believed it was the Queen that held the Hive together. She wondered if it was better or worse for them to not have a Queen here to control them.

The Wraith guards shoved them both to their knees before the Wraith in charge. He climbed slowly to his feet, his eyes glittering with excitement as he looked over the two of them. He drew in a deep breath through his nose and his gaze landed on Kai. Ronon tried to jerk away from the Wraith holding him but they held him easy. The leader threw back his head and laughed. He strode around them and stopped in front of them, flashing his fangs as he snarled excitedly.

"Today we hunt," he growled to the other Wraith.

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The village was only a fifteen minute walk from the gate. But even John could smell the smoke as soon as they set foot on the planet. He hoped he was wrong, that it was just the campfires from the village, but as they got closer, black smoke spiraled up between the trees. It was winter on the planet, and the ground had a light dusting of snow. The snow just made it that much easier to see the devastation the wraith had brought down on the village.

"We couldn't have been gone more than an hour," John said looking around in disbelief.

"It doesn't take long," Teyla said grimly from John's side as the two of them walked up the main path into the village.

Rutherford motioned for his marines to spread out and canvas the area.

Both John and Teyla hesitated near a man's body. He had been fed on by the wraith.

Teyla squatted down beside him. "As we suspected, the deal did not go as planned," Teyla said grimly. She turned away from the gruesome sight. John walked slowly, he didn't want to find Kai's discarded body laying in the snow somewhere. He couldn't feel her, but he didn't know if it meant he didn't know how to turn on Kai radio or if she was gone.

Rutherford returned a few moments later. "There's a few dozen bodies here, at most," he reported. "The rest were culled. There is no sign of Ronon or Miss Zian, but we found these," he said holding out Ronon's weapons belt and Kai's two Blades all wrapped up together.

John reached for them and took the leather belt into his hand. The pain on his face was evident to Teyla as she watched him tuck Kai's Blades in his belt and shoved Ronon's gun belt into his jacket. It was clear the Colonel absolutely blamed himself for what happened.

"We'll find them," Teyla promised him.

John knew as well as the rest of them that if they weren't on the planet anymore the odds of finding them alive were slim to none. Ronon and Kai were on their own.

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The wraith dragged them down into a lab. They put Ronon on a table and held him down. Kai fought against the guards holding her as they sliced into Ronon's back. She remembered being there when they originally took the tracker out of Ronon's back. Ronon had endured the pain then silently too, and he wasn't about to show the Wraith a moment's weakness now. He fought them, but they were so much stronger. He didn't make a sound as they cut into his back.

The head Wraith paced around them. "Once, I fed from the humans of your home world. You were the strongest of them," he growled at Ronon. Then he turned his head to regard Kai. "Now we will see how you measure up against a Mortii," he laughed.

Blood flowed down Ronon's back as they dragged him off the table and jerked Kai forward, Kai tried to dig her feet into the floor and pull back, but the Wraith were so much taller and stronger than her they just picked her up and flipped her over onto the table. Kai fought and more of their cold clammy hands grabbed her as they sliced through the back of her shirt and ripped it open to the bottom of her shoulder blades. The cold of the air hit her skin only moments before a line of fire opened down her spine.

She tried to fight back, but another hand came down, wrapped around the back of her neck and pushed her face down against the cold metal slab. The pain of putting in the tracker wasn't the most painful thing she had experienced, and she didn't make a sound. She wouldn't give them that satisfaction. When they were done one of the Wraith grabbed her and slung her across the room. She slammed into Ronon's chest and he steadied her. They two of them were gasping for breath and shaking from the pain.

The Wraith guards stepped back and there was a tingling in all of her limbs as they were suddenly teleported.

They appeared on the ground of a planet. Kai swung around, her eyes narrowed as she took in their location. They were in the ruins of a large city. There were crumbling buildings as far as the eye could see, most of which were covered in scorch marks. She strained her senses but she couldn't hear anyone other than her and Ronon.

Beside her Ronon went very still.

"Ronon-" she started to say, trying to get her bearings. She had never been there before, she was certain of that, but the look on his face made him think he had been.

"Come on," he said and he turned and led the way deeper into the city. He led the way up a ladder onto the roof of a building. When they reached the top he looked around, his shoulders drooping as he dropped his chin to his chest and his hands tightened into fists at his side.

"Ronon," Kai said carefully. "Where are we?"

Ronon lifted his chin to look back at Kai, the pain in his eyes was enough to take her breath away. "Sateda."

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"They're alive," John said pacing an tense line back and forth across the conference room.

"Don't get me wrong, I hope they are too," Beckett said soothingly. "But how can you be certain?" he asked.

"They made a sport out of trying to kill him in the past," Teyla said crossing her arms over her chest. "And they offered a considerable reward for a Mortii. I believe they will try to hunt to them."

"Ronon and Kai will not go down easily," Sheppard told them confidently. It was one thing he knew for certain. Ronon and Kai would fight with everything they had. The fact that they were together was actually reassuring. If he couldn't be there to fight beside her, there was no one else he would rather have watching Kai's back.

"They must know how dangerous the two of them could be," Weir pointed out. "Especially together. It's not like they would give them a fair chance," she warned.

John put his hands on his waist as he turned to face the room. "Obviously, we don't have much time," he agreed as Elizabeth voiced his fears.

"How do we find them?" Elizabeth asked turning to McKay.

"If the Wraith place a tracking device in him the way they did last time..." Teyla drew off thoughtfully.

John swung around to face McKay. "Can you track it?" John asked, fighting to keep back how desperate he was feeling.

"Oh of course, if it sounds impossible, you look at me," McKay griped.

"We still have the tracking device we took out of Ronon," Beckett said. "I believe Kai put it in storage."

McKay started snapping his fingers as his thoughts raced. "I might be able to tune the long range sensors to pick up any similarly generated subspace transmissions."

"Good," Elizabeth agreed standing.

"But, we are still assuming that the Wraith actually put one in either one of them," McKay said carefully, not wanting to get his friend's hopes up. He peaked at John who was remarkably composed considering what was happening in his opinion.

"I'll take whatever odds I can get," John said grimly.

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Kai looked out over the ruins of Ronon's home world. It was clear the Satedan's had put up a fight. If their military were even half the fighter's Ronon was, it was incredible the wraith had bothered with them at all. Of course, the Wraith did seem to value food that could fight back. She glanced at Ronon. The large Satedan's shoulders were hunched and his hands tightened into fists. There was a fine tremble running up and down his arms. She couldn't imagine what it must feel like to be back here, but as much as she felt for him, now wasn't the time to be emotional. They couldn't stay here out in the open; they needed to move.

Overhead a Dart buzzed past and in the distance its beam shown down on the city. There was no telling how many Wraith had just been dropped into the city to join the hunt.

"Ronon," she called to him. "We have to go," she didn't wait. She turned and headed back to the ladder and climbed down as rapidly as she could assuming he would follow. She looked back and forth at the buildings that lined the street. They were going to need to find weapons. She headed towards a warehouse that was still mostly standing.

By the time she kicked in the door Ronon was right behind her. The two of them split up to search for something that could be used as weapons. Kai found a broken section of pipe that she wrapped in cloth so she could handle it without ripping her hand up. She had just finished tying it off when she heard movement above them. Her head snapped up to track the movement.

Ronon turned to Kai. He couldn't hear what she had, but he trusted her senses enough to know they were no longer alone. Kai motioned across the room and she slipped to one side of the door, stepping back into the shadows as Ronon took the other side.

Out in the hallway Kai could hear the Wraith. He walked past their door, then stopped and sniffed loudly a few times before turning back to the door. Kai held up one finger and Ronon nodded. The two of them could easily take out one wraith.

The Wraith came through the door, a stunner in his hand. Ronon bellowed and attacked. He slammed his fists down on the Wraith's arm, forcing the first shot of the stunner to hit the floor. Then he kicked at the hand and the stunner went flying into the dark. Kai attacked. As the Wraith reached for Ronon, she came in behind and buried her makeshift Blade in the side of it's neck. The Wraith dropped, it's blood spilling out all over the dirty floor. 

"It could smell me," Kai told Ronon. There was part of her that felt guilty. Not only did they both have trackers, but she was in general much easier for the Wraith to find.

Ronon's whole body was shaking and his nostrils were flaring. He was barely containing his rage, but Kai was grateful he at least seemed to have gotten his head in the game and was focused. "Then I guess we better find them first," Ronon snarled.

Kai slit the Wraith's throat just to be sure it was dead and pulled a knife off of it's belt, tucking it into her own belt. Ronon picked up the stunner but it was broken. He threw it aside and stalked out towards the door. He kicked it open and led the way out into the city.

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John was able to give McKay exactly one hour before he headed down to the lab to see what the progress was. He knew he was pressuring his friend, but he needed to find Ronon and Kai.

"Mckay?" He called with a frown when he didn't see Rodney at any of the work stations.

"I'm here," McKay called from deeper inside the room.

John spotted him, laying on his stomach near the servers. John went over to him and sat down on the floor beside him.

"You know, you don't really appreciate the simple things in life, like sitting," McKay griped.

"I don't envy you," John said sitting crosslegged. "It must be a real pain in the ass."

McKay shot John a withering look. "How long were you working on that?"

"Longer than I care to admit," John said with a frown. "How's it coming?"

"Well, I think I'm almost there," McKay said turning back to his screen.

"Is this thing active?" John asked picking up the small transmitter. There was a small green light at the top that was blinking away.

"Don't worry I limited the power," McKay said. "I think," he added.

"Think?" John asked, incredulously.

"Well, I haven't worked on this sort of thing as much as Zian has," McKay said distractedly. "But it shouldn't transmit our location to the wraith, I just needed enough juice to determine the subspace frequency it broadcasts on. And now..." he drew off, his fingers flying over the keyboard. "I need to re-calibrate the city's long range sensors to pick up on it."

"Yeah, but these sensors only cover a small corner of the Galaxy. They could have Kai and Ronon anywhere in the Pegasus by now."

McKay sighed exhaustedly. "Unless they are calibrated to pick up a signal being transmitted using subspace. How about I leave the bad jokes to you, and you leave the brilliant science stuff to me?" The computer loaded and John leaned forward.

"So what are we looking at?" he asked.

"Well, these dots represent transmitters broadcasting from various locations in the Pegasus Galaxy," McKay said.

"So..." John drew off. "There are eight runners out there right now?"

"We don't know for sure that they are runners..." McKay drew off and he zoomed in on one section. "But I will bet you anything that these two are Kai and Ronon."

"Assuming the Wraith would keep them together," Sheppard said.

McKay glanced up at John. "Two transmitters on Ronon's home planet of Sateda. Seems like a pretty safe bet."

John tried not to let himself get his hopes up. If the Wraith had kept the two of them together they stood a pretty good chance of getting out of this alive. The tiny blinking dots on the screen meant they were both still alive for now.

"That's a good enough place to start," John agreed and he pushed himself to his feet.

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Ronon led the way through the city. They were only two blocks from where they dropped the Wraith's body when Kai heard a mechanical whirling. She stopped and turned a slow circle, the knife gripped in her hand. Her eyes flickered to Ronon.

"Do you hear that?" she asked.

He shook his head. He opened his mouth to say something but she held up a finger to silence him.

"It's a tracker!" she whisper yelled to them and the two of them bolted.

"Come on," Ronon called, leaping over a low railing and dropping down into an industrial looking building. "I've got an idea how to lose it."

He crouched down and pulled up on a grating in the floor, the muscles in his arms bulging as he strained against the rusted hinges. Kai turned and found a section of pipe. She wedged it into the grate and jumped down on it, popping the grate up.

"Work smarter not harder," she chided, but Ronon had only grunted and dropped down into the dark tunnel below. He still seemed distracted, but Kai wasn't sure how to get through to him. Being back here had to be horrific for him.

Hoping the black tunnel below wasn't a sewer Kai dropped in after him.

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"We have no choice," Elizabeth said resolutely. "We have been unable to dial into Sateda's stargate.

"The Wraith likely disabled it," Teyla filled in helpfully.

"Which means if the wraith are there hunting Ronon and Zian than there is a very good chance there is a Hive in orbit," Colonel Caldwell filled in, totally unmoved. He felt he should have known they were going to ask him to go off on some hair-brained mission as soon as they called him up to the meeting room. "I shouldn't have to remind you that the Daedalus has not done well in it's last few engagements against Wraith hive ships."

"We drop out of hyperspace, we beam them on board, we get out of there," McKay said exasperatedly.

Caldwell crossed his arms over his chest. "You know damn well we can't come out of hyperspace and get close enough to a planet to beam someone off the surface. We'll be detected."

McKay sighed and looked away. His eyes flickered over to John. He could see his friend clenching his jaw from across the room. He was worried about Ronon yes, but McKay knew how much it was taking for John to hold it together over the Wraith hunting Kai. Without being able to dial in, Atlantis was at Caldwell's mercy to help with the rescue operation.

"Look, you know I want to help," Caldwell said, although no one in the room looked as though they actually believed it. "But I will not put my crew and the only ship that we have in this galaxy at risk for two people."

John's jaw was set, and he kept his eyes locked on the ground so Caldwell wouldn't see the rage that was nearly choking him. "Two people who aren't members of the U.S. military, or from earth," he accused in a dead calm voice.

Everyone else in the room shifted as the tension rose. Despite his tone, John was anything but calm.

"I didn't say that!" Caldwell growled.

John snapped. His chin jerked up and he met Caldwell's gaze and Caldwell took half a step back. John stomped into his space shoving his finger into his chest as his temper roared in his ears. "They are members of this expedition and they deserve the same respect as everyone else here!" John yelled into Caldwell's face.

"We don't leave our people out there Colonel," Elizabeth said calmly as she stepped up next to John. She wanted to reach out and touch his arm, to try and calm him down, but even standing beside him she could feel the simmering rage coming off of him. "Not if there's any chance to bring them home."

Caldwell shook his head. "Don't preach to me about leaving people behind Doctor Weir," Caldwell warned. The tension in the room felt like it was about to overflow when Caldwell took a deep breath. "Look," he said more calmly. He took another step back out of Sheppard's space defusing instead of escalating. "I'm just saying it's a very bad risk to reward situation."

John pressed his lips together. If Caldwell was willing to just hear him out. "Fine then," John said quickly. "Just get us close. We'll take a cloaked jumper the rest of the way."

"I'll go with them," Beckett quickly volunteered. "Remove the tracking device before we get back on board."

"We'll be out of there before the Wraith even know what happened," John said confidently.

Caldwell narrowed his eyes at Sheppard. "I won't bail you out if you get into trouble," he warned.

Sheppard flashed a cocky smirk but he was almost light headed with relief. "You say that as if we're always getting into trouble."

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It wasn't a sewer exactly, but it was for sure a sewer access tunnel and the smell was bad enough Kai pulled the end of her scarf across her face to try and deaden it. Kai trailed behind Ronon watching their backs as he led the way. He moved confidently down the tunnels as though he knew where they were going.

He slowed and Kai glanced forward. At their feet were the skeletal remains of soldiers if the armor was any indication.

"Ronon?" she asked, as he knelt down next to the bodies with a certain amount of reverence.

Ronon reached out and took a triple barrel shot gun and held it back out to her.

"Did you know them?" she pressed. It was the only thing that made his behavior make sense. She missed her friend, the cold, calculating Satedan warrior who let nothing and no one come between him and victory. The only person who could consistently beat her in hand to hand. That was who she needed at her side.

Ronon glanced back at her. There was pain in his dark eyes and he dropped his chin, his hair hanging forward and hiding his face from her. "They were my squad," he said and he jerked the armor roughly off of one of the bodies. He pulled it on, tying the laces under his arm. He reached for the other body and took the armor off as well and held it out to Kai.

Kai looked down at his hand but didn't immediately reach for the armor.

Ronon's jaw tightned. "Keller would have wanted you to us it," he told her.

Kai took it then and shrugged into the oversized armor. She tightened all of the laces down as tight as she could. It was still a little too large, but she would happily take the extra protection. Ronon led the way deeper into the tunnels. He opened a door that Kai would have walked right past. Inside was a weapons cache.

Ronon immediately began opening boxes and stocking up on munitions. Kai waited in the hall, keeping watch. Ronon began handing out supplies to her. It very quickly became almost too much for her to carry. She arranged everything the best she could and then rewrapped her scarf around her head so it covered as much skin as possible.

She paused and stepped back out into the tunnels, straining her senses. "Ronon," she said and she pointed down the way they had come then held up two fingers.

Ronon nodded and pulled the door to the depot closed before he led her down to a junction. He looked up at the overhead pipes. There were plenty of handholds and the junction would confuse the wraith if they were using their trackers to find them.

Kai looked up, following his gaze. "I can't get up there," she said unnecessarily. The Satedan was over a foot taller than her and even he would have to jump to reach the pipes.

"Just need a boost little sister," Ronon said in his low gravely voice. He reached down and wrapped his arms around her legs and lifted her up.

Kai resisted the urge to squeal in surprise. She reached up and grabbed the pipes. Silently she pulled herself up and parallel with the ceiling. Ronon looked up and jumped. He grabbed one of the pipes and pulled himself up. The two of them locked their hands and feet in place and waited. Ronon had a short barreled shot gun in his hand. Kai drew a knife that was almost as big as her Blades. The two Wraith seemed confused as they moved beneath them. Finally one of them began sniffing and the other lifted it's head.

Ronon fired the shot at almost point blank range into the Wraith's face. Kai dropped down, slamming all of her weight behind the knife as she slammed it into the top of the Wraith's skull. It's body dropped and she rode it to the floor. She rolled up onto her feet as Ronon dropped down beside her. The two of them looked back and forth, but didn't see any other wraith. They turned to go when the whirling of the tracker came around the corner.

Ronon stalked up to the tracker and leaning in close to the lens. "You're going to have to do better than that," he snarled. And he stalked away, he reached down to his belt a pulled a grenade, throwing it behind them. The fireball destroyed the tracker and any evidence the Wraith had been there.

"They're going to send more," Kai said grimly as she checked over her weapons.

"Yes, we need to be ready," Ronon agreed and he led the way to an access ladder and up to street level. Ronon had a plan.

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They set up in an abandoned factory. The goal was to draw the next squad of Wraith they sent into a trap. The doorway would force the Wraith to bottleneck and make their smaller numbers an asset. Kai took the high ground, climbing up onto the overhead walkway. Ronon gave her several guns intent on keeping her away from the hand to hand fighting. As he laid out the weapons he glanced back at Kai.

There was a determined glint to her eyes, but he could also see the exhaustion. They had both been awake for almost a full day. Ronon felt a little guilty. When they had first landed here he had lost control and it had been up to Kai to keep them together and get him moving.

Then he had endangered her without thought. He knew she was a capable warrior, but she was also one of his closest friends, and the beloved of his best friend. John would never say anything about his feelings, but Ronon knew John would expect him to take care of Kai in his absence. He had been careless, and he wouldn't make that mistake again. He needed to get his head on straight so he could get the two of them out of this.

The wraith came in as a group. Ronon was crouched down behind some old crates. He lifted his eyes and met Kai's gaze. She nodded once, then she stepped backwards and disappeared into the shadows as she had been trained to do. Ronon drew in a steadying breath and whipped around and fired at the Wraith that was closest to him. The Wraith flew backwards. The other Wraith opened fire and Ronon dove for cover, rolling behind the next crate as Kai laid down cover fire. When the Wraith turned to shoot at her Ronon popped back out and fired at the next one.

Only half of the Wraith took the bait however and one of them fired off a shot directly at Kai.

Ronon heard something hit up above and Kai stopped firing. She had to have been hit. He let out a battle cry and charged the remaining group of Wraith. Firing at each of them as he moved across the room. He had to take them out and make sure she was okay.

Kai threw herself to the side to avoid the stunner strike. She slammed against the metal grating of the overhead walkway hard enough to knock the air from her lungs, but she was okay. She pulled herself up in time to see Ronon charging the group of Wraith screaming like a man possessed. She blew out a sigh, tucked the blaster into her belt and drew her knives. It looked as though they were doing this the hard way.

Kai flipped herself over the edge of the walkway, landing behind one of the wraith and buried her knife up into it's brainstem. The Wraith bucked and went down just as Ronon whirled around and aimed his gun straight at Kai's chest.

He pulled up, breathing heavily. "I thought they shot you," he panted.

"I thought we were going to stick to the plan," she accused.

A blast came from overheard and Ronon rolled back out of the way just in time. Kai drew her gun and fired off a single shot, catching the Drone overhead in the chest. He screamed as he fell from the rafters and landed at their feet.

Ronon chuckled darkly. "Nice shot," he congratulated.

"Lucky for you I was here,"Kai said. Then she went very still as a low and steady beeping started. The two of them turned and stared down at the fallen drone, the self destruct on his chestplate had been activated. They bolted for the door, but it was too late. The warehouse exploded in a fiery inferno.
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Thank you everyone for your continued support. I love writing about John and Kai but it's really your votes and comments that keep this story going. There are so few Stargate fics here, and even fewer that feature John.  I love that we all found each other!