Sophie had now been on Atlantis a little over a month, splitting her time between teaching self-defense and helping in the infirmary. It hadn't been her first choice, but the infirmary needed help so she had agreed to give some.
That night, Sophie had offered to cover one of the other doctor's shifts in the infirmary, because they weren't feeling well. However this night it was empty. Sophie was sat on one of the beds reading a book. Her mind however was not on the book; instead it kept wandering to back to the events of the last month.
A brief smile crossed her face as she reflected on the first self-defense lesson, that fight with Ronon had been exhilarating.
Ronon had invited her to run with him and Sheppard, which she had the very next day. She was just going into her room when Ronon came out of his and asked if she felt like joining them.
Sophie joined them, wondering if she would be able to keep up. She had said she could, but she had begun wondering if she would. The run had been fun and she had kept right up with Ronon the entire time, unlike John who lagged behind most of the time.
When they had left an out of breath John, they had walked back to their respective rooms together, although in silence, when Sophie turned to her door Ronon's low voice sounded behind her.
"You know…you were really good. I mean you kept up no trouble. I'm impressed."
To this Sophie smiled and said.
"Thanks I enjoyed it. I would like to come with you again so if you don't mind me tagging along just say when you're going."
Ronon gave a small smile and answered
"Sure, you're welcome any time!"
He then disappeared into his room.
The opening of the door to the infirmary opening snapped Sophie out of her thoughts, her thoughts being of how she enjoyed the company of Ronon. Through the door Sheppard was helping an angry and injured Ronon into the infirmary. Sophie jumped up and helped Sheppard get Ronon on a bed. All the while Ronon grumbled that he was fine and didn't need any medical attention.
"What happened? I thought you were off-world…were you attacked?" Sophie asked curiously, addressing Colonel Sheppard.
"We weren't made quite as welcome as we would have liked. When we were escaping from our lovely jail cell Ronon took a few hits." This caused Ronon to grunt in annoyance.
"Well I want to see the rest of your team in here when you have some time ok?"
"Sure thing Doc!" Called Sheppard who on his way out added to Ronon "Behave yourself Ronon, I wouldn't want to upset her she's got skills to match yours"
With that Sheppard left.
"Okay, let's take a look at you then." Sophie said as she turned to Ronon. On observing him she noticed blood on his right arm and left leg.
"Ronon, would you mind taking your shirt off please?"
"I really am o…"
He began to say, until Sophie cut him off with a look that stated simply 'Do what I say, or else.' This managed to silence him, and without another word he took off his shirt.
Sophie had to stifle a gasp, he was… well hot! No wait better than that he was…CONCENTRATE! She shook her head and glanced at him to see if he had noticed her staring, luckily he wasn't looking.
Sophie turned her attention to his arm right, just below the shoulder there was a deep gash. As Sophie examined the injury she noticed that the wound looked like it had, at one point, a weapon of some sort lodged in it. It probably had been some kind of throwing star.
"Ronon it looks like this wound was made by the sort of weapon that is thrown. Am I right?"
"Yeah it was like a star thing."
Furious she looked him straight in his dark eyes and said,
"Are you telling me you removed it? Before I got a chance to look at it? Do you realize how dangerous that is, if it had struck you in a major artery and you just removed you could have bled to death!"
All Ronon did was shrug, Sophie felt a wave of anger bubble up inside her.
"If you do that again I will inform Colonel Carter that you will be unable to go off-world, until you can prove that you have some respect for yourself. If you don't I for one certainly won't be treating you!"
"Well I shall leave then."
Ronon began to stand on his good leg, when Sophie's strong arm pushed him back down on the bed and this time it was her turn to growl.
"Stay there! That arm needs stitches!"
Sophie went over to the other side of the infirmary to pick up the stuff that she would need and walked back over to where Ronon was. As she looked at him she wondered 'How could I have been so mad at him? and then felt her cheeks flame as she realized that she was staring at his naked chest, and this time he had noticed. A small smile was playing on his lips.
Blushing even more she prepared an injection to numb the wound ready for it to be stitched up. After it had been injected, while waiting for it to take effect she cleaned the wound.
"So…how come you were the only one injured? I mean no-one else from the team are here so it must have just been you, right?"
Ronon just looked at her and gave her a one shouldered shrug.
The way Ronon reacted gave Sophie the impression he didn't want to discuss it any further. So she left it and prodded the wound to see if it was numb yet.
"Does this hurt? Can you feel anything?"
"Nope it's completely numb."
"Okay I am going to start stitching it up now, so if you can just lay down."
Sophie began stitching the wound up carefully and neatly in silence.
When she had finished she moved to his leg. As she was examining the wound there she grew bored of the silence.
"So…what else do you do when you're not off world, besides going running?"
Ronon smiled slightly and said "I like to spar."
"Is that it, you run and spar? Don't you get bored? I mean isn't there other things you like besides fighting?"
"Nope, Sheppard tried to teach me golf, but it was kinda pointless, you just hit this little ball. I prefer sports that are a little more violent and fun, but I do like films, I have watched many from your world."
Sophie smiled, glad that Ronon was finally opening up to her a little bit more, or at least becoming a bit more talkative.
"Yeah golf is one of our more boring sports. So, do you watch films often?"
Sophie asked as she began cleaning the wound on his leg. It wasn't too bad; it just needed cleaning and a bandage putting on.
"Yeah there are movie nights, but usually McKay sets it up when where here, the team and a few others go, and we watch them together…" Ronon paused for a moment, considering something. "…Would you like to join us we are having one tomorrow night, I mean you don't have to it's just a thought…" Ronon trailed off and looked at Sophie who was stood looking at him with a smile on her face.
"Sure I would love to join you!"
Ronon gave her a warm smile and Sophie felt herself blush again. Sophie attempted to hide it by busying herself with bandaging Ronon's leg.
When she was done she told Ronon he could sit up and then she began explaining to him that staff at the A & E department, where she had once worked, had deemed her riot act. This was because she took it so seriously and if a patient had not listened, well let's just say they only ignored her once.
"So if your stitches bother you at all come and see me. You are ok to train just be careful and if you are in pain stop immediately. Do not just ignore any pain you are in, it's your body telling you it's not ok. Right, take these painkillers and anti-inflammatory pills, and you better take them, ok?"
Sophie ordered as she handed them to Ronon.
. He began protesting straight away saying he was fine and his injuries were nothing. But Sophie was not finished speaking so she just ignored him and continued,
"If I find that you are in anyway ignoring anything I say to you. You will not know what hit you; I'll be so fast on your back. Oh and one last thing tomorrow night just come to my quarters when your going, ok, right any questions?"
Ronon was clearly taken aback with her speech and just shook his head and said that he had no questions.
Ronon stood up, but, Sophie didn't move, they just stood staring into each others eyes.
Ronon and Sophie had been standing there staring at each other for while. If it wasn't for the infirmary door opening and a rather loud McKay walking through it, followed by Teyla and Sheppard, Sophie and Ronon would still be staring at each other. Sophie noticed for the first time how close they had gotten to each other. She felt herself furiously blushing this time, sneaking a glance at Ronon she saw that he was to.
McKay and Sheppard were to busy bickering about whose fault it was the mission had ended so badly, to notice, but Teyla stood in front of them, arms folded with raised eyebrows.
Sophie decided it was best to ignore her questioning look and turned to Ronon and told him he could go. After he had left she told the rest of them to sit on a bed each so she could check each of there health.
By morning she was glad to get out of the infirmary, Sheppard and his team had all left hours ago each with clean bills of health. After they left the infirmary fell silent, this left Sophie to think about her past...
(A/N: Thanks for reading! Hope you still like it, gets a little more interesting in the next chapter. Which will be up asap. PLEASE REVIEW!)