Brothers in Arms

By: nekoanima

CHAPTER 1: THE MEETING

He felt a hand brushing his hair off of his face. Then he felt cold water running down his cheek. He reached out and grabbed the hand and his eyes started to come into focus. He saw that it was a human female, she had raven black hair and he looked her in the eyes and saw that they were a very bright green almost as dark as his own.

She looked in his eyes and he looked back. She very carefully gently pried his hand from her wrist.

"Shhhhh, its OK your safe here." she says before going around the corner of the curtain that hid the wraith that was in her care.

"Colonel he's awake."

"Great" colonel Shepard said

The female came back but this time there was a familiar face with her. Of all the humans in the galaxy he considered this one a brother.

"Shepard"

He tried to sit up but before he could even think he was being pushed back down onto the bed. The female that had been hovering behind Shepard had pushed him back down by his chest. He sat back up, this time to see what would happen. The same thing happened.

"Colonel are you sure you two aren't really brothers, cause you act the same. Bone headed stubborn.

"I'm not stubborn." they both said at the same time. She pushed him down again, Shepard was trying very hard not to laugh but failing miserably.

"I see you met doc" Shepard said laughing even harder at the expression on the wraith's face.

"She is your doctor." he said not sure what to make of this bit of information.

"Yes I'm a doctor. Dr. Rea Maveriks one of many doctors here in Atlantis." then she pushed him back down again but this time he flinched, and she saw blood on her hand.

"Take off your shirt."

At first he thought that she was joking like Shepard did.

" I do n..." then he saw the look on her face and knew that she was serious. So he did as he was told and took off the tank top like shirt that he wore under his trench coat, which had been removed before he had woke up. He was starting to be very glad that they had left his pants.

"Oh my god" Rea said seeing the many scars across his chest that looked suspiciously like burns. But what caught her attention was the swollen, purple whelp on his shoulder.

"OK I'm gonna need you to lay on your chest so i can take a look at this."

He did as he was told and laid face down. he shuddered when she ran her fingers over the whelp. And he screamed out when she put the back of her hand on it to feel the heat coming off of it.

"Shhh, don't worry I wont do that again. John go get dr. Beckett I think this might be why he hasn't been healing"

Shepard went to get Dr. Beckett and he was hurrying to do it. He was worried about him because he thought of that wraith as a brother as much as he thought of him as a brother.

"Carson, Dr. Maveriks needs you. You got to hurry"

Through the corner of his eye he could still see her, she was stroking his hair trying to comfort him. Even through his pain he couldn' help but find it very pleasing. Another human came back with Shepard, it was a dark haired male.

When Carson Beckett had been told he was needed for a wraith, he assumed the worst and that it had attacked Dr. Maveriks. But when he got there he saw the strangest thing, not only had Rea gotten the wraith to lay down willingly and expose his wounded back but he was allowing her to stroke his hair.

"This wraith must be in serious pain" he thought

"Dr. Beckett." Rea said as she stopped stroking the wraith's head.

"Take a look at this, be careful the skin around the wound is very tender."

"What did this?" Beckett asked gently touching the whelp on the wraith's shoulder. The purple whelp stood out brilliantly against his pale skin. the wraith's muscles tensed up and he let loose a swear word in his own tongue.

" Cora! "

"An insect." he mumbled as his muscles relaxed again.

"Look here doctor see the center to it" she said pointing to the middle of the whelp. But then they heard something fall on the floor with a heavy thump.

" Colonel!" Dr. Beckett said seeing Shepard on the floor. He was covered in sweat and there was a bloody spot on his side. They sat him up in a chair and had taken his shirt off. Shepard swore when his shirt rubbed the swollen area on his side.

"Well now we know what Cora means" Rea muttered, walking back over to the wraith that was now sweating as bad as Shepard did.

"Bug stung me, shot it." he said.

" That is what I did as well" the wraith told them.

"Ugh, men." Rea said iritatidly

"OK Rea, lass you take care of him. I'll take care of the colonel. But we have to move them to another room they swear a wee bit much, and i have a full infirmary.

" Aright"