A/N- Thanks to my beta Indemaat you rock. Please Review guys, this has also been fixed up, So please re-read chapters 1 and 2 again or it will not make much sense.
Kayleigh had told her Martial arts teacher she was going to be indisposed for a long while and that she would most likely not be returning. Kayleigh had been pissed but realized that it was for the best and that she would be better off with family. The gym was full of ten off duty female scientists all looking apprehensive and slightly out of their comfort zone. Kayleigh smiled at them all and sat her PDA on the bench by the window before turning to them and introducing herself.
"Ladies, I'm Kayleigh McKay…No, I'm not like Rodney," Kayleigh stated as some of them groaned at them name and others giggled.
"I'm not like him, so don't judge me just yet…Now, today we'll start off with a stretching session, then we'll go through blocks and basic punches and kicks."
The women nodded with smiles and Kayleigh set them up in two lines of five. She ran them through all of the stretches and basic blocks, before giving them a drinks break.
The session lasted an hour and each woman left with a smile and thank you. Kayleigh sat on the bench next to her PDA and looked up the next session she'd have. The women she had trained earlier had been quick to pick up on the blocks, kicks and punches. She spent half an hour relaxing and searching through the PDA until she found Solitaire. That kept her occupied until her second group walked in smiling and chatting away.
"I hope she's not like Rodney."
Kayleigh's head snapped up and she looked at the woman. "And if I was like him?" she questioned walking over to her.
The woman looked at her with a glare and turned to join the other women.
Kayleigh organized the class and ran the same one as before. She performed the same routine as her last class and was happy that most of them had picked it up pretty quickly.
"OK, that's all for today. If anyone has snide remarks about my brother get them out of your system now, because the next one I hear in another lesson will be used as a test dummy for the moves," Kayleigh stated looking at the woman from before. "None, good see you all next time."
They said their goodbyes and Kayleigh turned back to her PDA. She sat quietly looking over her schedule until a woman stepped in front of her.
"I'm sorry about Jenna. She over heard something and is jealous of how quickly you've been accepted, especially by Sheppard's team. She has a thing for Ronon and seems to think you and him have a thing going on from the scene in the mess. Anyway I was wondering if you were able to work me through some of those things again I didn't quite pick them up and I don't want to be behind in the next class"
Kayleigh smiled and nodded "It's OK. I may not like my brother a lot but I do defend my family. I didn't even know it was Ronon holding me back. I didn't care who it was, that and I barely know him. When did you want to run over it all?" she asked.
"I have some time now, about half an hour. I'm Katie Brown by the way." Katie smiled offering her hand. Kayleigh shook it and stood from her seat.
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Sheppard and Ronon walked towards the gym talking about the new girl and how different she was from Rodney. Weir had told them about the defense class and they were heading to check it out seeing as the mission to the planet they had planned had been cancelled due to hostiles attacking the MALP.
"Wonder how they're taking to her, a lot of them can't tolerate Rodney," Sheppard wondered out loud.
"She's mainly the opposite of Rodney, isn't she?" Ronon replied waving his hand in front of the panel for the gym door.
They looked in the room and found Kayleigh working with Katie brown, trying to explain the elastic motion of a punch and the proper way to do a front kick. Ronon watched amused at the way Katie was kicking and smirked at the frustrated Kayleigh, who was still trying to explain it.
"Want some help?" Sheppard asked walking into view and raising an eye brow.
"Yeah, put on the chest protector I want to do a demo" Kayleigh handed him a chest protector and continued explaining things to Katie.
"Done" Sheppard stood in front of Kayleigh with the protector on and a smirk on his face "Take your best shot" He knew about her martial arts history and he wanted to see what else she could do other than pack a nice punch.
"OK, if you say so"
Ronon watched on with amusement as Kayleigh front kicked Sheppard in the stomach and watched him stumble backwards and try and catch his breath.
"Did I mention I've been doing this since I was ten" Kayleigh smiled, and motioned for Sheppard to step back up so Katie could have a go.
Twenty minutes later Katie had a nice front kick and side kick going. Sheppard removed the protector and looked at his stomach.
"Thanks, Kayleigh. I'll see you tomorrow with the group and I'm sorry about Jenna again." Katie waved and left the gym.
"You have a nice kick on you. What belt are you?" He had a feeling that she was at least a brown or black, something Rodney had failed to mention.
She sat on the floor in the centre of the room and looked at both of the men with a smile. "Black belt in two different forms…that includes weapons and hand to hand combat." She stood from the floor and walked toward the door. "See ya later guys." She left.
Ronon and Sheppard looked at each other. Both had taken a liking to the girl and Sheppard thought perhaps he would want to get to know her better.
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The hope of avoiding her brother vanished as soon as she left the gym. Avoiding him now was going to be hard seen as he was waving her down as if she were a car, his arm loaded with his PDA and a stack of papers.
"Kayleigh…"
She stopped and stared at him with a pain glowing in her eyes.
"Huh…can we talk?" he asked.