Disclaimer: I don't own Stargate Atlantis
Note: This writing is not planned whatsoever, I'm just going to keep writing and see where it takes me. Set after 'The Eye'. Great Episode.
John slid in next to Elizabeth.
He knows he won't be there long, not long enough to learn her breathing pattern, not long enough to see her wake, not long enough for her to even know he was there. He just needs to be next to her, even if just for a moment.
He'd almost lost her, he was ready to die for her. He killed for her and yet she didn't know, didn't know how he felt, doesn't know that since the Genii attacked he slid into her bed most nights just to know she's there, just to know that he isn't dreaming. He still wakes thinking that Kolya killed her that night.
John placed a kiss on her forehead on slipped out of the bed. He watched her for a few more moments before leaving the room. He stood at the door a moment before turning round to make sure she was still there. When he was satisfied, she wasn't going anywhere he left the room and went back to his own quarters.
Elizabeth knows when John slips into her bed and holds her. She's never told him she knows, she lets him watch her. Lets him think she's sleeping and doesn't know he's there, but she knows. She knows he comes to her most nights when he's not on missions. She knows he still has nightmares about the Genii attack. She knows that when Kolya told him she was dead that he became someone else, he'd taken risks, she knew he was trying to kill himself. She'll never tell him she knows.
She knows he never stays more then a few moments, longest he'd ever stayed was 30 minutes. She knows she should tell him to stop, but she doesn't want too. She needs to feel him there, his arms wrapped around a waist to know she still alive.
When John leaves the room, she always turns to the side he was in and sleeps in the place he's just left. His warmth is there, as is the smell of his aftershave. Doesn't matter how short a time he spends there, afterwards it always smells like him and it always sends her asleep.
Fin…
Just a little something that had no planning. It's very easy to see it had no planning