Fic: End of an Engagement

[mayachain]

Title: End of an Engagement
Pairing: Teyla/Kanaan
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: ~540
Summary: Everyone knows Kanaan as Teyla's man.
Notes: non_mcsmooch sequel to Six Improbable Weddings.

Everyone on Athos and Atlantis knows Kanaan as Teyla’s man. They have known to treat him as such since the days following their son’s birth, when everyone had stopped waiting to see if she decided to keep him. Not even when Teyla had been stranded on Earth without Kanaan and Torren had the bond between them been questioned. For a while, Teyla knows, her people had feared that she would chose a Lantean. John, perhaps, or Carson – the first – or Evan Lorne. Not Dr. McKay – that assessment, though correct, had always struck her as unfair to Rodney. Not Lt. Ford, although that, too, had been unkind to Aiden. The Athosians had not seriously eyed Rodney’s scientists, but had their misgivings about some of John’s marines. If she ever considered one of them, it was never more than a fleeting thought. In the beginning, their backgrounds had been too different, and then she had found herself looking forward more and more to see Kanaan again during her next visit. An unplanned pregnancy, an unfathomable catastrophe, a “Hail Mary” accomplished by her team – she had needed the time to think, but she will never, now, willingly let go of him. “You are my heart outside my own heart,” he tells her whenever she needs to hear it and sometimes for no reason at all. The father of her child, her voice on the council when she is otherwise occupied. Their people show him respect both for his own merits and because he is who she, their leader in name, chose. Everyone knows Kanaan as her man. Making it official by Lantean or Athosian standards has never been strictly necessary. He is listed as her “spouse” on all the paperwork she filed on Earth, and as the father of her son in Torren’s lineage. She has watched Rodney propose to Jennifer, observed John finding ever new ways to marry Rodney, aided them to become husbands the Athosian way. Together, they have celebrated Richard binding Ronon and Amelia to each other. Teyla has been a witness to her friends’ happiness, and been happy. Still, ever since she had overcome the first shock and taken stock of the full destruction wrought on New Athos by Michael, she has been waiting for this day. A tiny red fruit on Kanaan’s meìna has matured. Finally. “We can prepare the meìanā now,” she whispers. “Before your next mission,” he murmurs into her ear. Teyla closes her eyes as he brushes her hair over her shoulder, bends down to kiss her neck. She shivers from the damp path his breath draws onto her skin. Outside the tent, Torren shrieks in delight as her teammates play with him. “I shall name our second child after Ronon,” she gasps. “To honor what he said to me when he gave me the seeds. ‘For the future.’” Turning in his arms, pressing kisses onto his cheeks, finding his mouth, she can feel the tentative touch of his mind against hers. Aloud, he says, “I cannot wait to taste how the leaves from yours and mine combine.” Listening closer, she hears, Ours has already begun. My man, she thinks and holds on until only one word resonates between them. Yes. Ronon and Amelia's wedding can be found here.

Comments

[goddess47]

“You are my heart outside my own heart,” he tells her whenever she needs to hear it and sometimes for no reason at all.

Sigh... yes, that's perfect!

Love the Athosian custom with the meina fruit!

[ariadne83]

Oh, this is just so perfect. I have tears in my eyes. I love Teyla/Kanaan so much and I really treasure fics about them but this... *speechless*

[hilde.livejournal.com]

Such a lovely story! I really enjoy glimpses into the Athosian culture, and I absolutely adored the line about John finding new ways to marry Rodney :)

[lunabee34.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow. ariadne83 sent me here and I'm so glad she did. This is beautiful and brilliant and you've made me tear up. *loves*

[livrelibre.livejournal.com]

Oh, this is so lovely!