Date : 13 July 2007
Title: Love's Jealous Way
Author: ElaineDex
Chapter: 1 of ?
Rating: M
Pairing: Lt. Col. John Sheppard/Lyssa Hunter
Dr. Ellie Harrison-Dex/Major Lorne
Archiving: None
Warnings: Sexual Content/Possibly Some Swearing Later In The Story
Spoilers: This story follows on from Love's Passionate Revenge
Feedback: Yes Please
Disclaimer: Ellie Harrison-Dex, Major James Reece, Lieutenant Franks and Carly are mine. Lyssa and Caleb Hunter belong to Kazavid, the rest of Atlantis and the SGC, unfortunately have nothing to do with me.
Summary: What will happen when everyone on Atlantis seems to get a touch of The Green Eyed Monster?
Ronon Dex was frustrated in every sense of the word.
Ellie was still driving him crazy even after all this time and after everything that had gone on between them.
He had been dropping their daughter off at Ellie's quarters and she had asked him to come in for coffee so that he could put Hope to bed with her and they had ended up talking properly for the first time in months.
But now he was on his way back to his own room trying to dampen down his ardour by thinking of mundane things like writing up his report on his last off-world mission with Sheppard, McKay and Teyla.
He was almost at his own door when Carly, the woman Sheppard's team had rescued along with Lyssa and her brother, approached him.
She sidled up to him and smiled.
"Hi", she said and Ronon leaned against the wall and folded his arms and looked at her.
"Hey", he replied.
"Did you have fun with your daughter?", Carly asked, her fingers playing with the top button on her shirt, the movement drawing Ronon's eyes to her breasts which was of course her intention.
"Yeah", Ronon answered, trying to ignore the fact that there was something about her that turned him on. He regarded her closely as she licked her lips.
"And what about your wife? Did you have fun with her too?", Carly said and Ronon twigged what it was about her.
Carly reminded him of Ellie. She was short, had the long dark hair and small frame. Carly wasn't as curvaceous as Ellie or as cute but hell, she'd have to do.
Ronon moved forward, not answering her question. Instead he pulled Carly to him and she gasped as he crushed his mouth over hers.
He wasn't interested in foreplay or any kind of decent love-making. He wanted sex, it was as simple as that.
He bundled a compliant Carly into his room and shut the door behind them.
They surfaced the next morning, Carly wearing a huge grin and Ronon not feeling overly pleased with himself.
A while later Sheppard nearly announced the news to the entire mess hall and Lyssa had to stamp on his foot under the table as he began,
"You and Carly slept………ouch…..ow, Jesus Lyssa.."
"Keep your voice down", Lyssa said as she turned to glare at Ronon once again.
"What the hell were you thinking?", she asked and Ronon shrugged.
"I felt horny", he replied and Lyssa tutted then stamped on Sheppard's foot again as he tittered.
"Ouch!", he said again glaring at his better half.
"Of all the women here though Ronon, you had to go with her?", Lyssa said and Rodney who had been sitting quietly up to now piped up.
"Well it's obvious really isn't it?".
Sheppard, Lyssa and Ronon all looked at him expectantly and he sighed, giving them his usual 'I'm so clever and you lot can't work it out without me' look.
"Carly is just like Ellie……sort of. Ronon still wants Ellie but she's with Lorne so Ronon has to sleep with Carly…..", he trailed off as he caught the murderous look Ronon was giving him and he snapped the lid of his lap top shut and fled.
Sheppard and Lyssa stared at Ronon for a moment until Lyssa said,
"Is that true?".
Ronon looked away and feigned interest in a passing nurse.
"Of course not", he said.
Sheppard and Lyssa exchanged a glance though that said they didn't believe him.
OOoOO
Ellie was missing Lorne. In the three weeks he'd been gone on his journey back to earth she had physically recovered from the incident with Jones' men and Weir had all but forced her to have a few counselling sessions with Kate Heightmeyer of all people, just to be sure she was psychologically ok too.
But she felt fine apart from the fact she felt like her right arm was missing.
She missed Lorne's cute smile and his jokes, she missed the way he touched her hand or her waist without realising and then coloured up if anyone saw.
She wished now that she had told him that she loved him before he'd left. He had been acting very strangely though but she'd put it down to that fact he'd told her he'd blamed himself for what had happened to her.
As soon as he got back she would tell him. She didn't blame him for leaving her on Atlantis, he'd obviously had an issue of his own to deal with and was handling it in his own way. What she did blame him for was him not kissing her senseless before he'd left.
She smiled to herself as she thought of their last-lovemaking session, before the Jones' men incident and her heart quickened as she remembered how it felt when Lorne pushed his hard body into hers…
Someone clearing their throat made Ellie gasp and she blushed and pulled her lab coat together to cover her suddenly hardened nipples that were pushing against her shirt. She turned to see Ronon watching her from the doorway of the lab.
"Are you alright?", he asked gruffly, noticing she looked…….aroused? No, that couldn't be right.
Ellie sucked in some much needed air and nodded.
"Uh-huh", she managed to say then smiled a him. They had talked last night for the first time in months and she was glad that he finally felt he could be like that with her.
"I was thinking….about what happened to you", Ronon said, cursing under his breath as he saw her smile waver so he ploughed on quickly, "I was wondering…if you felt you needed some refresher training….I would help you out….if you wanted?".
Ellie had been thinking of asking Teyla for a bit of extra training to boost her confidence but Ronon would be better to show her because he was the type of man you would need to know how to get away from.
"That would be great…..thank you", she replied and he nodded.
"Just let me know when", he said before moving away.
Ellie sighed as he left. It was bizarre how life could change in such a short space of time.
OOoOO
Lyssa and Caleb were sat on hers and Sheppard's balcony, Caleb holding baby Conner in his arms and Lyssa smiled at them, hardly believing she had her brother back after all this time.
But she sensed he wasn't happy about something.
"Okay…..tell me what the problem is. Is it Carly? You're better off without her. You do know she has slept with three marines and Ronon since she's been here don't you?", she said and Caleb glanced at her.
He'd known about the marines but not about Ronon Dex.
Lyssa sighed.
"Caleb you can do so much better than her….I never thought you would end up with a woman like her".
Caleb passed Conner back to her abruptly and stood.
Carly wasn't his problem. They had an agreement about their relationship, if you could call it that and he was happy with it…..sort of.
No, his problem was John Sheppard.
He looked down at his sister and said,
"I could say much the same about you".
"What do you mean?", Lyssa asked, confused.
"John Sheppard is hardly your kind either is he? But, here I find you've had a baby with him and you're planning on marrying him. Our father wouldn't have approved of him, you know that don't you?", Caleb said and Lyssa felt her insides deflate as she realised he was right.
Not that it changed anything.
"I love John", she said and Caleb ran and hand through his hair and sighed.
Now that their father was gone, he was head of the Hunter family and he had no intention of letting Lyssa marry John Sheppard. All he had to do was figure out how he was going to stop it happening.
OOoOO
Ronon's smile froze on his face as Ellie entered the training room closely followed by Rodney.
"You don't mind if Rodney joins us do you?", Ellie asked and Ronon shook his head reluctantly as Rodney said,
"I felt I could use a little refresher course too".
"Right", Ronon said flatly.
He had wanted to get Ellie on her own….while Lorne was away Ronon could play. Rodney had ruined that idea…for now.
Feeling disgruntled, Ronon put Rodney through his paces and by the end of their session the Dr left grumbling about how he never intended doing physical exercise ever again.
Ellie laughed and touched Ronon's arm.
"That was great, thank you. I feel a lot more confident already", she said and Ronon was about to say something when Carly entered the room.
"Not interrupting am I?", she drawled and Ellie shook her head.
"No…our session has just finished".
"Gave you a good workout did he? He's soooooo good at that isn't he?", Carly replied and Ellie glanced at Ronon who looked like he wanted the ground to open up and swallow him whole.
"Yes…..he is", Ellie answered scooping up her towel from the floor.
"Ellie…", Ronon began as she began to leave but she smiled at him and said,
"Thanks for the lesson….same time next week?".
Ronon nodded and turned to glare at Carly.
"You like to cause trouble", he muttered.
"And you don't?", Carly queried and Ronon looked at her quizzically.
"I know she's your wife, but you're not together and she's with someone else so why are you trying to seduce her again?", Carly said and Ronon couldn't believe she had seen straight though him.
Carly grinned at him as he reached for her, cursing under his breath as they tumbled onto the padded training mats.
ooooooo
Two Weeks Later
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Caleb had formulated a plan. All he had to do was get Carly to help him out but she seemed too pre-occupied with Ronon Dex.
He had to do something to get Ronon away from Carly.
He knew that Ronon was separated from his wife, who was Lyssa's friend, but Carly had told him that Ronon wanted to get her back. Maybe if he showed some interest in the wife, Ronon would leave Carly alone.
He spied an opportunity one afternoon when he saw Ellie walking along balancing a huge armful of books.
Conveniently for him, not only did Ellie drop the books all over the floor , but Ronon was walking along the same corridor but further down, headed toward them.
Caleb pretended he hadn't seen Ronon and he rushed to Ellie's side to help her pick the books up.
"Thanks", Ellie said, smiling at Lyssa's brother whom she hadn't really had any dealings with as of yet.
"No problem", Caleb said as they stood.
He knew Ronon was getting closer and so quickly cupped Ellie's cheek and rubbed an imaginary smudge from her cheek with his thumb.
"There you go…you had a small mark there", he said and Ellie blushed.
"Oh….", she replied, feeling even more confused when Caleb leant a hand on the wall at her side and said,
"I Like you Ellie. What are you doing tonight?".
Ellie gawped at him and Caleb hid a satisfied smile as Ronon's gruff voice said,
"She's training with me".
"Right. I'm sorry", Caleb said straightening. He turned to see Ronon glaring at him in a territorial kind of way and he backed up.
"See you around then", he said to Ellie who was still a bit shocked.
"I never really fancied a toy boy", she said, referring to the fact that Caleb was a little younger than her and Ronon frowned.
"A what?", he asked and Ellie smiled.
Ignoring is his question she asked,
"So, what am I going to learn in tonight's lesson?", and they walked away together back to the lab.
End of Chapter 1