Jen whirled around. In the doorway of his room stood Ronon, dressed in only his trousers and with confused look upon his face.
"Hi..." Jen started, but then faltered, unable to think of what to say next. "err... I was just...you know...just popping by to see...how you were doing," she managed to splutter out.
Ronon raises his eyebrows at this, clearly not believing her. "I'm fine," he answers anyway.
An awkward silence fills the hall. Ronon keeps his piercing green eyes focused on Jennifer who in turn glances awkwardly at her sparkly strappy shoe enclosed feet. She could feel her cheeks heating under his unwavering stare.
This was not going well.
"Oh well that's good then...err I'll be going then." Jen said turning away from the door. Already mentally berating herself for sounding so stupid, It was then that she heard it, a female voice. "Ronon! Tell whoever it is to go away. Surely it can wait till morning," the voice said in silky perfection.
Jen turned back to face Ronon, whose eyes no longer met hers. She stared at him and started walking backwards away from the door. "I'm sorry, I didn't realise you had company...I shouldn't have come. I'm so sorry!" Jen turned and fled down the corridor.
Ronon stood expressionless, not knowing what to do, when a hand reached across his stomach and pulled him back into his room. Ronon watched as the door shut with a sense of finality.
Jen managed to make it to the privacy of her quarters before she let the tears fall. It was her own fault, she knew. She had rejected him, and now she had lost him. If only she hadn't been so scared, so weak. That's what he told her during the quarantine. He had thought she was weak, and he'd been right. She had no-one but herself to blame. She had hurt Rodney and now pushed Ronon too far away. He was now so far gone that there was no hope for him coming back.
Jen didn't know what to do. She had tried to convince herself she didn't care for Ronon but had failed and now she was ready to admit it to him, but she had lost her chance. She needed to do something or she wouldn't be able to sleep. Jennifer wiped her eyes and left her quarters, purposely walking in the opposite direction of Ronon's quarters.
For a moment she considered visiting Teyla, but waking the young Athosian mother would be unfair at this time of night, as Torren had recently not been sleeping well. She abandoned that idea and began walking.
Jennifer walks briskly down corridor after corridor, paying attention to neither the direction, nor what lay in her path. That was how she ended up walking straight into the back of Major Evan Lorne.
"Oh my god! I'm so sorry Evan. I didn't see you there." She apologised immediately, cheek's flushing violently.
"Don't worry about Doc," he assured her before taking in her red rimmed eyes. "Jen, are you ok?" he asks her with an expression of concern.
Jen stares at him blankly for a moment, "Me? Oh yes of course I'm fine, just couldn't sleep is all. Thought a walk would help."
Lorne doesn't look convinced but nods and watches as she walks away.
Jen soon looses track of how long she's been walking, she had removed her heels a while ago due to her aching feet. She walks past a particularly large window and pauses to look out. It's then she realises just how far from the main section she's walked. Now absolutely shattered, she begins to search for a transporter. On her search Jen notices the decor of the corridors is different to that of the rest of Atlantis. Instead of the beautiful colours and decoration, it consists of dark and dull colours, and the area gives off an eerie silence.
Jen is just about to give up and use her com-link to ask someone in the control room to help her get back to the main city, when she spots a transporter.
Stepping inside, she reaches to touch the area on the map of her quarters, but stops before she does.
"Weird," she says to herself before looking round the transporter. The only thing different apart from the décor, is the map of the city. The map is not like that of any other transporter; it's a series of dots. After a moment of study, Jen sees that each dot seems to represents one of Atlantis' towers. So she presses the one closest to where she wants so to be, and thinks to herself that she should tell Rodney about it.
But as the door of the transporter shuts, all the hairs on Jennifer's neck stand on end. A voice in her head screams at her to get out. Jennifer reaches for the doors but everything goes dark and she feels herself fall into a black oblivion.
A/N: I know this is short but I didn't want to much to happen in one chapter! Hope you all like it, let me know, I love getting your reviews! Also a big thank-you to Renisanz for betaing!!!