[SGA] Fic: Requiem For A Dream (Doppelganger fix it)

[falcon_horus]

Title: Requiem For A Dream
Author: Falcon Horus
Category:  angst, H/C
Rating: Teens
Spoilers: Doppelganger
Pairing: Teyla/Kate (friendship)
Summary: How Doppelganger should/could have gone.
Disclaimer: Stargate Atlantis and its characters aren’t mine and will never be mine. But the characters that Kate, my muse, came up with are mine.
Author’s notes: I currently reside in the land of denial, and I’m not alone there. Luckily fan fiction has the power to fix anything.
Beta-work was done by triciabyrne1978, who will receive chocolate in return.

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The ledge was so high and all her strength had disappeared. It had made her will to fight back disappear. She was terrified. She didn’t want to fall. She tried fighting but it wouldn’t let her. It mocked her weakness, her inability to fight back. Her heart was racing. She was going to die.

"Kate?” She watched as Teyla walked onto the balcony. “Kate, what are you doing?”

She forced herself to respond. “Teyla.” She pleaded for the other woman to help her. “I don’t want to die.” She was loosing the battle, loosing her balance. “Please, help me!”

Teyla stepped forward but the entity stopped her. She looked surprised as John Sheppard prevented her from reaching Kate. “What are you doing?” She was obviously confused. “I need to help Kate.”

“Tey-laaaaa!” She lost her footing and fell. The ground closed at an incredible speed and every part of her brain knew she wouldn’t wake up from this one. Her final nightmare.

“Wake up!” There was a jolt going through her body as someone pulled her away from the ground. “Kate, please... Wake up!” It was a familiar voice which pulled her back to reality. Kate jolted awake, screaming, immediately finding herself in familiar arms, holding her for dear life. She was trembling and couldn’t stop, breathing heavily. Her heart racing, hurting.

Kate clung to Teyla, not wanting to let go. Not when Jennifer arrived. Not when the doctor called for a medical trauma team. Not when they took her to the infirmary. She needed the touch to feel. She needed to know she was still alive and not dead. She needed to feel the life. Teyla’s hand slipped from her own and Kate struggled against the hold of Jennifer trying to check her over.

“Can’t ... can’t go back ... go back to sleep.” She shook her head. “Don’t ... want to go back.” Kate curled herself up in a little ball, murmuring about not wanting to go back to sleep.

“She’s in shock.” Jennifer turned to Teyla. “But the entity is no longer present.”

“She will be okay?” The Athosian didn’t seem convinced.

Keller nodded. “Yes, she will. I just... I just need her to rest.”

“I will stay with her.” Teyla dipped her head a little as she closed the distance between the gurney and herself. She pulled the blanket up closer around Kate, who whimpered softly, and tucked it snugly around her. And just like Teyla’s mother had done when she was young and couldn’t sleep after a nightmare had plagued her, she sang a sweet little lullaby. She hoped it would have a similar effect on the distraught woman. After a while the psychologist’s breathing evened out and to Teyla’s satisfaction she had fallen asleep again; a dreamless sleep, or so she hoped.