CHAPTER 2
Monday morning was a bright sunny day that reflected Rodney's mood. They headed towards the SGC and couldn't help smile to each other the whole time. They made it down to the jumper bay and boarded with the rest of the relief staff that were on their way to Atlantis. They sat next to each other holding their hands tightly. The jumper landed and when the door opened Ronan was standing there with a neutral look on his face, he was waiting to see what Rodney's face was like and from that he would know what her answer was, although it was going to be an easy question for her to answer, they were mad about each other.
Rodney smiled his goofy smile and Ronan ran up to him and spun him around in the air.
"Yeah man, that's my boy" Ronan said as they laughed together.
"What did she think of the ring, I was right wasn't I" Rodney and Ronan were talking over each other so fast that Jen couldn't help chuckle, they were like a couple of excited school boys.
Teyla came into the jumper room and looked at the two men and shook her head at their silliness. She saw Jen but her eyes were immediately drawn to the ring on her finger. She walked over to Jen and grabbed her hand. Teyla wasn't normally a girly girl so when she opened her mouth in shock and looked all excited Jen felt great.
"Jennifer is this what I think it is" Jen nodded and the two woman jumped up and down like schoolgirls.
"I would like to know all of the details please" The held hands and started to walk out of the jumper room.
"Hey" Rodney said and puckered up his lips.
"Sorry Teyla I just need to give my fiancé a kiss goodbye" She ran up to him and kissed him.
"Do you want to wait or" he asked hoping that she wouldn't mind him telling people, in fact everyone he saw he wanted to tell.
"No you can tell whom ever you like," she said grinning at him.
"Ok, see you later my fiancé"
"Okay, my fiancé" Ronan groaned.
"Okay I don't know if I can take lots of this mushy stuff"
Within the hour most of their friends and staff had heard the wonderful news. Sam came to see Rodney in his lab.
"Rodney, what wonderful news, congratulations" she walked forward and hugged him
"Thanks Sam" he said as he returned the hug. There was a time that he would have been ecstatic to get a hug from her but he soon realised that it was just a crush, and with Jen it was true love. Sam, like everyone else, had seen the change in Rodney since he and Jen had been together, she had brought out the best in him. She had helped him to see situations from other peoples points of view not just his own, he had started to listen to his staff more other than just dismissing their ideas straight away.
"I'm so very proud of you Rodney, I've come to think of you as my brother over the years and I am so happy that you have found someone special"
"Thank you Sam, I don't know what I have done to deserve such a special person but I am never letting her go" Sam smiled at her friend.
"Right I had better get a look at the ring, see you at lunch later"
Life at Atlantis carried on the same over the next few weeks. Jen, Sam and Teyla had been engrossed in wedding preparations. Rodney let her do it all; he wanted her to have what ever she wanted. The wedding date was set for late August, which gave them 4 months to prepare everything.
One morning when they were on shore leave Jen left the house early, she was going to meet Teyla and Sam and go shopping for bridesmaid's dresses, she closed the door quietly as not to wake Rodney and walked to her car. She noticed something on the windscreen. They were on the outskirts of town and their house was set back a bit off the road with a lovely driveway, so she thought it couldn't have been a flyer from the town so she though it must be a note from Rodney, he was always doing that, leaving little notes in her doctors robes or little "I love you" notes wrapped to her stethoscope. She took it off her windscreen and opened it with a smile.
Her smile began fade as soon as she read it.
"DON'T BOTHER TO MAKE ANY MORE ARRANGEMENTS FOR YOUR WEDDING AS YOU WONT BE AROUND TO SEE THE DAY ARRIVE"
It was written in what looked like blood as when Jens fingers touched the writing it smudged. Jen dropped it on the floor and ran back into the house.
"Rodney, Rodney wake up" she shook him and when he turned over she started to cry. Her hands were over her face as she sobbed.
"Jen, what's the matter?" he said as he sat up and hugged her tightly. He couldn't imagine what had happened to get his fiancé so upset.
"There, was a note on my car, I thought it was from you but it wasn't it was, it said, oh Rodney it said something horrible, why would some one say something like that" She covered her face again and he held her tight.
"Where is it?" he said and she told him she left it outside by the car. Rodney gave her a final squeeze then headed outside to retrieve the note, he picked up a tissue on the way out and picked it up off the floor with it. When he read the note he was furious. How dare someone threaten Jen like this, it was a sick joke that someone was playing on her and he was determined to find out who it was.
He walked back inside and placed the note on the table then headed to his phone and dialled John's number.
"John" John rolled over in bed and put his covers over his head.
"Rodney do you know how early it is, this is my first break in a month and I was planning."
"John, something's happened" John threw back the covers and sat up.
"What's happened" John was alert now.
"Jen was left a note on her car, a threatening note John, it looks like it was written in blood, what do I do John"
"Don't move I will have a team over with everything we have" John said and put the phone down then dialled Jack.
Rodney put down the phone and looked at Jen who had red eyes.
"John's on the case honey, don't worry, if there is anything to find, John will find it, and god help the person who did this when I get hold of them" he held her tightly and within 20 minutes a jumper arrived in their garden, clocked. Ronan came charging out with a look that would stop any man in their tracks.
"Don't worry buddy, we will catch the scum that did this" John smiled at his use of words; he was really starting to pick up the slang.
They went to Jen's car and used all sorts of equipment on it and the surrounding area, and then they did the same to the note. The found no trace of DNA other than Jens and nothing around the car. The words were written in blood but it was animal's blood.
After 30 minutes of tests John came in to Rodney and Jen and hung his head.
"We haven't got anything Rodney, no trace of anything and nothing to go on" Rodney who was sitting down with Jen jumped up and began to pace the room looking at the data.
"That's impossible, there has to be something" Jen looked upset at his reaction so he softened his approach to everyone.
"Sorry John, I appreciate you all coming out so quickly, I'm sure that it was just a prank and that we have nothing to worry about" he tried to reassure Jen but when he looked at Ronan and John they had the same look on their faces, this was serious.
Rodney decided to tag along with the girls that day until he was kicked out of the clothes shop with the bridesmaid's dresses in them. Teyla and Sam promised that they would keep her safe; he knew that she would be safe with them. Rodney was looking around at everyone trying to see if anyone was watching him or Jen.
In the shadows far away a tall figure smiled in the darkness. Soon Rodney you will suffer soon. This is just the start.
A few days past and Rodney had made a point of getting up before Jen, sneaking outside quietly without waking her and checking out her car just in case. So far there had been nothing else. As the second week passed without incident he started to think that it was just a prank.
The morning was beautiful. Jen opened up the patio doors and walked outside onto the veranda. She returned to the kitchen and poured herself a cup of tea and went to look out at their lovely view. Rodney came into the kitchen and looked at his lovely fiancé on the veranda, she was standing in front of the sunlight and it was like she was glowing, she had a pair of thin linen shorts on and a thin linen white shirt on that Rodney could see through in the sunlight. He poured a cup of coffee and headed up to her. He placed the coffee on the side and put his arms around her.
"You look extraordinarily beautiful this morning Mrs. future McKay. Especially when I can see straight through your shirt to that lovely lacy bra underneath" he kissed her neck and she turned around and kissed him passionately.
"Breakfast" she asked
"Oh I have other ideas," he said as he picked her up and started to carry her to the bedroom. The phone rang and Rodney groaned.
"Leave it, leave it," he said as he placed her down gently, she laughed at his puppy dog expression.
"Hello" she answered the phone. It was Sam; she was hoping to meet up later to go over the shoes that she had found
"Sounds great, see you soon" she put down the phone and smiled sweetly.
"Sorry babe, wedding plans call, Sam and me are going to look at some shoes, unless you want to join us" Rodney laughed and shook his head.
"I love you with all my heart but even that can make me go shoe shopping" he said with a smile and he headed into the kitchen.
"What do you fancy this morning" he pulled out some cereals and some croissants, Jen nodded and got some plates out of the cupboard.
"Would you get the post for me please" Jen said as she placed their drinks of the table.
"Anything for you my love"
"Yeah anything but shoe shopping is that right" she laughed at his silly expression and put the rest of their breakfast on the table.
Rodney came in a few minutes later with a few items of post.
"Oh, big one for you"
"Oh great I bet that's the new bridal catalogue I have been waiting for" she said as she hurriedly opened it.
"Another magazine, don't you have enough of them things" he said and started to butter the toast as it popped out the toaster.
Jen opened it and pulled out the contents, it wasn't a magazine it was photos.
"What's this?" she said, as she looked them over. It was photos of herself, Teyla and Sam from their shopping trip the day before. Each photo was taken from every shop they had been at. Jens face had a bulls eye on each of them with the words bang bang your dead on each one.
"Oh my god" she said and dropped them on the table.
"Jesus" Rodney said as he picked them up off the table.
"Is this from yesterday" Jen nodded.
"Rodney look how close he was to us, who is doing this, why, what have I done to deserve this" she backed away from the table and started to pace around the room.
"I don't understand why Rodney, Why is someone stalking me" Rodney had only one thought and that was to get Jen to Atlantis as fast as possible.
"Jen its going to be okay but I think that its best for a while if we go and stay at Atlantis for a while just until the boys can sort this out"
"Your worried aren't you, do you think I'm in real danger Rodney"
Rodney tried to mask his feelings as best he could but he was scarred, someone had stalked her all day yesterday, he was able to reach her at anytime so he just wanted to get her off the planet.
Conner watched all this drama unfold in his van, which was parked around the corner. What Rodney and Jen didn't know was that he had been in their house and installed cameras all around it. He had watched them eat dinner, shower, make love, have friends round and talk about work, it was from this that he learnt that Atlantis was on the moon. He was nearly ready to make his move. He had just been out and cut the lines and in the night he had sneaked in and disabled their mobile phones. He loved the way that Rodney was scarred and helpless. He readied the gun with a silencer.
"I will phone John and Ronan and get them here with a jumper and take us to Atlantis" Rodney picked up the phone and looked at it.
"What's the matter"?
"Its dead"
"But Sam's just phoned so they can't be dead"
"Lets try the mobiles"
They weren't working either; Jen was starting to get really scarred now. Rodney moved to the cabinet and pulled out the zat gun from the safe, he handed it to Jen who placed it on the kitchen counter.
"Okay, lets get changed and get in the car and get to the SGC" they headed into the bedroom.
Conner entered the house without a sound. Thanks to his cameras he knew the layout of their house. He walked straight down to their bedroom where they were about to get changed. Jen looked up to see a masked man standing in her doorway with a gun pointing straight at her. She froze.
"Jen are you nearly." Rodney stopped talking when he saw what she was looking at. She was on one side of the bedroom and he was on the other, he would never get to her in time if he shot at her.
He raised his hands up and slowly walked towards her, Jen was frozen still looking at the masked man and the gun pointed at her chest. Rodney wanted to get between he and the gun, he would prefer himself to get shot than her.
"Okay I don't know who you are or what you have against Jennifer but please aim that at me not her"
"No Rodney" Jen shouted, she felt the same as he did and couldn't imagine him getting hurt.
"Come" was all Conner said to Jen. She didn't move she looked at Rodney for help.
"Are you crazy, she's not going anywhere with you" Conner cocked the gun.
"COME" he aimed it at Rodney's head.
"NO, NO, stop please I will come with you, look I'm coming please don't shoot" she slowly started to walk towards him. Rodney's heart was pumping hard in his chest, he couldn't let this man go anywhere with her.
"No Jennifer don't move, you want someone, you take me do you hear me, I am more valuable to you" he pleaded hoping that he could save her.
"But I cant have as much fun with you" Rodney realised what that could mean and ran towards Jen to cover her but the gun went off and Rodney's world went black.
"RODNEY" Jen screamed, she heard the gun go off and saw Rodney fly backwards through the air and land on their glass side table smashing it around him. She forgot all about the man with the gun and ran to his side.
She knelt down beside him, all she could see was blood, and she couldn't tell where he had been shot. Conner grabbed her hair and pulled her up off the floor. Jen felt such anger in her and she balled her fist and span round and punched him in the neck. She ran out of the room and ran for the kitchen to get the zat gun.
Conner stumbled backwards at her punch and was momentarily fazed but then he snapped out of it and chased after her into the hallway, he lunged at her legs knocking her into the table, they both fell to the floor, she tasted blood in her mouth but knew she couldn't stop. She grabbed the plates and coffee cups off the floor and threw them at his head, she caught him good as he grabbed his head and she saw blood. She scrambled up and made it to the counter and grabbed the zat and then she heard another silenced gunshot. Looking down at her stomach she knew something was wrong, she could see the blood coming out of her side and realised that she had been shot. Then the shock went away and the pain kicked in, she turned around and found him standing right in front of her.
"Bitch" he said and punched her to the floor. Jens world went dark. Conner didn't think it would have been that hard to get her, she didn't seem much of a fighter. He went outside and drove his van up to the door. The opened the back doors and went inside to get her. She was lying on the floor, a patch of blood surrounding her. He lifted her up and threw her in the back of the van, just in case of any trouble he decided to bind her hands and feet. Just in case Rodney didn't die he placed a note inside the door then drove off.
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