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Aeora

The orange fire burnt quickly and the sparks flew into the air as SGA-1, Elizabeth and the people of Aeroa sat around it. The leader of the Aeroan's had insisted that to make the new alliance they had formed binding, Elizabeth should come to their world to join in the celebrations.

Elizabeth, surprisingly didn't object, she had said that she needed a break and that she would liked to meet the Aeroan's because she was interested in their culture.

As they sat around the roaring fire a ceremonial cup was passed to Elizabeth with the instruction that she drunk from it, to show trusting in their new alliance, Teyla had already drunk from the cup and suffered no side-effects so Elizabeth accepted the cup and took a long sip from it.

The drink tasted of berries, blueberries and something much stronger, perhaps alcohol. Elizabeth handed the cup back to the priest who had given her it.

She continued to sit, to watch the fire as it continued to burn. A few moments later John came over and sat next to her, their arms touching.

"Hey, you okay?"

Elizabeth turned to him and nodded before allowing her head to drop on to his shoulder. John responding by slipping his arm around her and kissing her lightly on the forehead.

Then the two of them sat there. Elizabeth started with watching the fire, but her attention soon fell onto Teyla and Aiden who were sat opposite her. Elizabeth had never really examined them together. She knew they were 'seeing' each other. It had started not long after she and John had got together. A lot of the relationships in Atlantis started after she and John had got together. It was as if they had given the personal an excuse to start relationships with each other. If their leaders could get together why couldn't they? Elizabeth didn't object to this, neither did John. All that mattered was that it didn't disrupt their work and it didn't.

Aiden and Teyla were special though, out of all the relationships in the city, including her own, that was the one she knew would last.

There was a mutual respect and understanding, a friendship that would be impossible to break down, an understand of how difficult it would to be away from their worlds.

Even though Aiden still had some people from his world on Atlantis it was clear that he didn't feel comfortable around a lot of them. Herself included sometimes, but with Teyla he seemed happy and she was pleased to see that.

A few more moments past and Elizabeth began to feel sleepy, it felt like her body was disconnecting from her spirit. It was like she was floating high above them all, but no-one seemed to notice.

And then, there was nothing.

Atlantis

When Elizabeth woke up the next morning it felt like she had the world's biggest hangover. Her head was pounding.

Slowly she rose from the bed but as she sat up she felt something was wrong. She looked around the room, knowing that it wasn't hers. She knew it wasn't John's either.

She stood up and ran to the small bathroom which was in the same position in every one of the quarters in Atlantis.

She opened the door, switched on the light and nearly fainted as she looked in the mirror.

TBC…

I'm pretty sure you've all guessed what has happened.