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[childofathos]

It's not Valentine's Day in Atlantis just yet, and Teyla has never understood the tradition anyway. It seems strange to her that a man's death is celebrated by giving gifts to loved ones

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[works_in_space]

"Teyla?" Jim says this softly, thinking that maybe she's asleep.

[childofathos]

Teyla opens her eyes slowly, blinking up at him. She smiles when she sees who it is. "Hello, Jim."

[works_in_space]

"I'm not interrupting, am I?" He knows that sometimes he's wanted to just come here and nap, and that's without a child at home. (Not that Jim naps.)

[childofathos]

"Not at all," she answers, still smiling. "It is always a pleasure to see you."

[works_in_space]

Jim takes a seat. "Thanks. I would say the same. How are you and your family?" Mainly her child.

[childofathos]

"Fairly well," Teyla says after considering her answer. "Torren is sleeping through more of the night now." Not the whole night, yet. She still has a look about her of someone who is not getting quite enough sleep.

[works_in_space]

"How many months is he?" Jim remembers, with some sadness and some fondness, being told by Carol Marcus about David never letting her sleep. As much as he wanted to be there, then as later Carol kept him out.

[ooc: Need to sleep - will pick up tomorrow]

[childofathos]

"He is nine weeks," Teyla says. Such is the magic of Milliways that it has been significantly less time on her side of the door than on this side.

[ooc: sleep well!]

[works_in_space]

"Nice weeks..." Jim absorbs that. It does explain why he hasn't seen Teyla much, doesn't. "And how is everything else going?"

[childofathos]

"Relatively well," she says after a brief pause. "We have a new commander in the city, and he...takes some getting used to."

[works_in_space]

"Yes, I know about that." Albeit from the other side these days. "You're back on duty?"

[childofathos]

She makes a slight face at the question. "I have not yet decided if I will rejoin my team. It is...a much more complicated decision than I had originally thought."

[works_in_space]

"The pull of parenthood and the pull of exploration have you caught in the middle." As he has before, Jim finds himself wishing that he at least had been caught in that, instead losing David to his mother immediately.

[childofathos]

"Yes," Teyla admits. "I feel an...obligation to my team and to the other people in the city to continue my work, but how can I when I know that each time I leave, I may not come back. That my son may grow up without a mother."

She knows what that's like, after all, and though she loved her father very much, she can't help wondering how her life would have been different with both parents around.

[works_in_space]

"I've told you about David, right? And how his mother basically decided not to have me around, so that they would be spared some of that?

"I can't tell you what to do. But I can suggest that not rush to a decision. Because I regret not making a better one." How long will David's death, and life, haunt him?

[childofathos]

Teyla nods. "I am trying not to rush things, but I am beginning to feel the pressure to decide."