Carson was irate, somehow Dex had gotten hold of a Wraith stunner! Without Lt. Colonel Sheppard or Teyla present he had not been able to wrangle the stunner from the injured man for fear of causing his patient harm. Stepping out of Ronon's private room he radioed for SFs to the infirmary.

Major Lorne upon hearing they were to guard Ronon, sent four and immediately contacted his superior, meeting with Dr. Weir or not!

En-route to the infirmary, Elizabeth called for Dr. Heightmeyer whilst John called for Rodney and Teyla.

John having run arrived in time to hear one SF asking the doctor about allowing Ronon to the bathroom. Carson's brogue was full tilt during his refusal, under no circumstances was Ronon allowed to leave that room! The SFs glanced at each other than heard Sheppard, "Isn't that a little harsh, Carson?"

"Nay. It's a private room, no shower but it has the essentials. He shouldn't even be out of bed let alone roaming the city fetching stunners!"

"Stunners plural, you mean he has more than one?" John back pedaled as the doctor stepped towards him.

"One's enough, Colonel. What might ye know of it?"

John grinned and thumbed over his shoulder, "You might want to ask Elizabeth that question."

The rest of his team was arriving along with Drs Weir and Heightmeyer. They stopped dead in their tracks seeing four guards in front of Ronon's door and between the guards and their position one very angry Scot and John still grinning. "Elizabeth, you want to tell Carson why you gave Ronon a stunner?"

Now Elizabeth and Carson were glaring at the Colonel, "I'm not daft son, certainly Elizabeth wouldn't..."

With a loud sigh Elizabeth admitted, "I gave him the stunner." All heads whipped to stare at Elizabeth, she shrugged. "It got him to let me in and I figured it was the safest alternative for all involved." While speaking she had been backing up and beckoning the others to follow. Once Dr. Weir believed they were far enough away to make it impossible for Ronon to overhear she whispered, "It's a placebo. The stunner's broken."

"A placebo stunner?" the men's faces where aghast at their leader's sneakiness.

"A wonderful idea, Elizabeth!" the ladies smiling and nodding.

Elizabeth crossed her arms over her chest and beamed at the military commander, quite proud of her ploy. "Not only will he not scare anymore nurses, he'll stay in bed and possibly even rest. But the best part is, he trusts me again."

Simultaneously the men spoke: "What if he tries to use it and finds out it's broken?" from Rodney, from Carson, "Why didn't you tell me lass?", and from John, "I wish I had thought of that."

"I'm sorry Carson, I didn't think anyone but Ronon would know; obviously he told John... but you reacting the way you did just reinforces to Ronon that it's real and I did him a favor." Still grinning Elizabeth turned to Rodney, "He won't use it, I made him promise he wouldn't use it on any of our people. He agreed as long as he is notified of any life pods being brought on board or Wraith incursions." Elizabeth looked like she could pat herself on the back as she addressed John, "Plus, I told him it was my personal weapon so he'll return it to my office never the wiser."

With the ladies congratulating Elizabeth on her excellent strategy, Carson sighed and looked to the Colonel, "I suppose then the guards aren't really necessary... I best go apologize to the Big Man."

Lt. Colonel John Sheppard accompanied the doctor to dismiss the guards, then deciding his meeting with Elizabeth was effectively over, he gave Carson a minute with Ronon, before entering.

Ronon had raised the stunner immediately when the door began to slid open, his head cocked in question as John just stood there grinning, lowering the stunner Ronon grunted a 'Hey.' before basically ignoring his leader whilst Carson scurried around him.

John leaned against the wall, out of Carson way. "So, guess you're pretty bored if you're learning to play chess with Elizabeth?"

Ronon rolled his eyes, "Nothing else to do."

"Yeah, about that... I'm really sorry..."

Ronon cut him off, "You already said that."

Ok, no more apologizing. "Right. Anyway, I can commandeered a laptop for you."

Dex gave him a wary look, "Can't read your language."

"Not a problem. I'll have Rodney put chess and some other games on the desktop, with a wireless mouse you can have the computer on the table and lean back and play. Plus, you can watch movies too, I'll show you how to put them in and they'll play automatically. I can even put some music on it for you."

Ronon just shrugged. Then grimaced. John took that as his cue to leave, "I'll be back."

-OO-

Teyla entered Rodney's lab to hear an exasperated Colonel, "Just do it McKay."

"I can understand these lesser games, but chess takes skill."

"It's strategy! Very military minded and Elizabeth's teaching him."

"She is?"

"I should have asked Zelenka."

"No, no... look I've put it right there and have set it to beginner, easy, level one. The computer will automatically shift to the next level as he gets better."

"What are you doing?"

Both men smiled at her, "We're stocking a computer with things to occupy Ronon during his recovery." John said.

"Actually, I'm stocking the computer." Rodney grumbled.

Pointing to his chest, John beamed. "But it was my idea."

Teyla ignored them both to look at the computer, "What is this?"

"Ah, that's what we call a musical note... it's an icon for the mp3 player we installed."

"I installed."

Ignoring Rodney and then excitedly pushing him out of the way, John continued. "See he clicks on this and then he sees various expedition members faces, anyone that has donated music. If they donated more than one playlist there are additional icons like a planet to mean it's their national music, party hat for upbeat, bed for restful... you get the idea." John clicked back to the desktop, "These are game icons: the usual Minesweeper, Mahjong, Solitaire, Hearts... these are preloaded movies, I even uploaded Jaws for him! Course, he can put a disk in and watch a movie too."

"May I contribute something as well?"

"Like what?" from Rodney and a "Sure." from John.

"I have a film of Athosian life, a documentary I believe."

"Really?"

"Yes, Rodney. When Amelia was here she recorded various aspects of our daily lives for Dr. Jackson. Once she had edited it she sent it to me in one of the data exchanges. We have been corresponding, Dr. Huston has been helping me."

"Who's Amelia?"

"You met her once, when Ronon first arrived and Dr. McKay had merged with..."

"Yes, yes we don't need to talk about that. Let me finish up here and then I'll link the laptops. You can have the music too, if you'd like."

"That would be appreciated, Rodney. Let me talk with Dr. Huston to gather everything together. If you'd excuse me please."