Only A Question

John stood in the middle of the gate room looking up to Elizabeth when she walked over the catwalk out of her office. He smiled at the woman he loved. She turned around and smiled back at him and then nodded when the gate was dialed.

He turned around and followed his teammates. Before he took the last step through the Event Horizon he turned around and shouted through the whole room. "Will you marry me Elizabeth Weir?"

He didn't wait for an answer and stepped through the gate. On the other side Rodney welcomed him. "What?"

"What what?"

"What? …no, wait..stop it!" Rodney was confused.

"Then what do you mean, Rodney?"

"What did you do?"

"Nothing," he looked innocently at his three friends, "Why?"

"Because you have this look."

John looked at him silently for a few seconds. "Whatever…," and with that he started to walk off.

Ronon and Teyla shared a look, silently agreeing with Rodney.


They were heading back to the Stargate and John couldn't help himself and started to grin when he dialed the gate. He remembered Elizabeth's face before he stepped through the gate and grinned more. He definitely shocked her.

They stepped through the Event Horizon and were expected by what seemed the whole population of Atlantis.

"What the…?!" Rodney started.

His gaze wandered around and he caught Elizabeth who was walking slowly with one of her diplomatic faces directly at him. He couldn't read anything out of her face not even from her eyes.

"Five minutes after you left everybody knew it," she told him when she approached him.

"Apparently."

They both stared at each other. Neither of them starting to say or do something. Everyone else in the gate room was silent, observing the two leaders. John gazed in Elizabeth's green eyes trying to identify what she was thinking but she didn't make it so easy for him. Feeling the tension between them building up more and more and the silence creeping around them would have driven him crazy. When he opened his mouth to say something Elizabeth nearly jumped him and gave him a breathtaking kiss. He grinned happily and pushed her closer to his body.

And that was the moment when all hell broke loose. Everybody in the gate room was cheering.

Ronon and Teyla were confused but they were smiling. Whatever happened between John and Elizabeth must be good when everyone in Atlantis went crazy like this.

Rodney on the other hand was more than confused. "Can somebody tell me what the hell is going on?!"