Title : Love Under Pressure
Date : 03 June 2007
Author : ElaineDex
Chapter : 4 of ?
Rating : M
Pairing : Lt. Col. John Sheppard/Lyssa Hunter/Ronon Dex/Dr. Ellie Harrison-Dex
Archiving : None
Warning : Some sexual content, possible swearing.
Spoilers : This story follows on from Love Can't Hide.
Feedback : Yes
Disclaimer : Only Ellie is mine, Stargate/Atlantis and all their characters are not. Lyssa Hunter belongs to Kazavid and comes from her stories Behind The Mask and Reunions.
Summary : When an accident causes Ronon and Lyssa to forget the past few years how will Ellie cope seeing her husband, Ronon, loving Lyssa and how will Sheppard react when he sees Lyssa kissing Ronon?
Thanks to Kazavid for her help and ideas.
Ellie and Sheppard entered the mess hall and joined the breakfast food queue.
"How did it go?", Sheppard asked as he took in Ellie's glum expression.
"He groped my breasts and called me Lyssa", she announced grimly and Sheppard winced.
"How did it go for you?", Ellie asked.
"She kissed me when she woke up this morning but only because she thought I was Ronon", Sheppard replied.
"Marvellous", Ellie said dryly and Sheppard nodded.
They sat at the table behind Lyssa and Ronon so that they could observe them less noticeably. Rodney and Teyla were already sat with Ronon and Lyssa anyway.
They watched as Ronon turned to Lyssa and leant toward her, kissing her cheek and nibbling on her ear. Lyssa giggled and Sheppard threw his fork down into his scrambled egg as he suddenly lost his appetite.
Ellie bit her lip as she watched Lyssa turn her head and kiss Ronon's mouth.
"I can't watch this", Ellie said standing abruptly and Sheppard agreed. He followed Ellie from the mess hall, neither of them looking back.
As Sheppard and Ellie passed their table, Ronon and Lyssa glanced at them, both of them having mixed feelings about their earlier separate incidents.
"So…what are you two planning on doing today?", Rodney asked them suddenly and both Ronon and Lyssa turned to look at him, surprised by his question. Normally Rodney was only concerned with his own life.
"I'm not sure…I'm feeling pretty tired, what about you?", Lyssa said turning to Ronon who grinned at her, picking up on her meaning.
"Bed sounds good to me", he said throwing an arm around her shoulders.
Rodney and Teyla exchanged a look of panic.
Teyla excused herself and quickly found Sheppard and Ellie.
"I think you'll have to come up with a plan very quickly. Ronon and Lyssa are talking about retiring to bed." Teyla told them.
Ellie could feel the ache in her heart at the thought of Ronon with Lyssa. Even knowing that they weren't aware of what they were doing to her and Sheppard, didn't lessen the pain she felt.
"What if I got Lyssa to my office somehow and Rodney could cause a partial lock down. That could keep them apart. I mean it doesn't have to be much just a certain section, that's always happening, and Rodney could easy pull that off. That is if you can keep Ronon away from him." Sheppard suggested, looking at Ellie who nodded tiredly.
ooOoo
Back in the mess hall Ronon and Lyssa were stuck with Rodney.
"Are you alright Rodney?" Lyssa asked, noticing the panicky look on his face, as he kept glancing at the door as if he were expecting someone to walk in.
"Me! I'm fine, peachy." he said, his voice sounding a little high.
"So what are you eating? I hope you didn't touch that so called peach pie they had on display. If you ask me, I think were being used as guinea pigs, some of the stuff they try to feed us tastes nothing like it's supposed to..." Rodney waffled on, as Lyssa had a fit of laughter against Ronon's chest. Ronon wondered why the hell Rodney was still there, normally he would have been out the door right after Sheppard and Teyla.
"Lyssa I need you to bring your reports to me. I'm getting ready to send them through the gate and yours doesn't seem to be here." Sheppard's voice sounded in her ear.
"Damn it, I gave them to him yesterday." Lyssa said, trying to think if she actually had or not.
"Just go see him and I'll meet you in my room when you're finished." Ronon told her.
"Alright, see you later." Lyssa said, placing a kiss on his mouth.
"Mmm, yes I think I should be going now too...I'll er...see you...yes...", and with that bit of mumbling Rodney seemed to run out of the mess hall like a scalded cat.
Ellie and Teyla grabbed Rodney on his way out of the mess hall and told him he had to lock down Sheppard's office as soon as Lyssa was in there.
"What?! How do you propose I do that, wave a magic wand over it. Besides Ronon will kill me if he finds out. And he will find out, because he'll be expecting me to fix it, what do you think will happen then, hmm?. Any of you ever seen a scientist disembowelled by a Satedan?" Rodney moaned and sulked as Ellie and Teyla dragged him to Sheppard's office.
As soon as they saw Lyssa enter the room they dragged Rodney over to the door and got him to disable it.
"Where do you think we can hide him?" Ellie asked Teyla.
"Hide who?" Rodney asked.
When they both looked at him, Rodney realized they were talking about him.
"Oh, no! No, no, no, I am not going to hide from Ronon, he will definitely kill me, if he finds me and he is very good at finding things" .
"Alright, we'll send you over to the Athosian camp. Ronon doesn't have to know." Teyla told him.
Rodney pondered this and agreed to be hidden in the Athosian camp until the next morning.
"But I need my own stuff with me..." he told them then started to rattle off a list of the stuff he wanted to take with him.
Ellie and Teyla exchanged looks with each other as Rodney added even more to the list of things he wanted to take.
Before they bundled him into a jumper headed for the mainland they made Rodney show Teyla how to disable the door to his and Ellie's lab so that when Ronon entered, as he would inevitably look for Ellie to help him if he couldn't find Rodney, she could lock him in with Ellie.
"I hope this is worth it", Teyla said and as she and Ellie parted company Ellie nodded worriedly.
ooOoo
As Lyssa entered Sheppard's office he saw Rodney move to the panel on the wall and slowly the door to his office slid shut.
"I gave you the reports yesterday", Lyssa said and Sheppard looked at her, confusion crossing his face briefly as he struggled to get his head around the lies he had jumbled in his head.
"Oh, yeah, sorry I found them", and he waved the papers at her.
"You could have told me, I was just off to bed with….", Lyssa was cut off as Sheppard suddenly dropped all the reports all over the floor.
"Damn", he cursed and Lyssa frowned and bent to help him pick them up.
"Are you sure you're ok?", she asked, sitting back as Sheppard glared at her.
"I'm fine…would you stop asking me that".
"Sorry", Lyssa said, surprised by his harsh tone. "It's just that, well, you're not the same Colonel Sheppard I remember".
"Why? How do you remember me?", Sheppard asked, his gaze softening and Lyssa relaxed a little.
"I seem to remember you were quite happy go lucky", she said and Sheppard frowned.
"You mean I'm not like that now?".
Lyssa shook her head. "You seem…….unsettled".
Sheppard stood and dropped the papers back onto his desk in total disarray.
"Well, I guess I am unsettled. You and Ronon are two of our best people and things are kinda not right at the moment".
"Not right….?", Lyssa trailed off as she suddenly the image of herself and Sheppard making love right here on his desk flashed before her eyes and her mouth opened but she couldn't speak.
"Lyssa?", Sheppard said, looking at her as she seemed to pale visibly.
"I have to go", she said turning away. "Ronon is waiting for me".
Sheppard frowned as Lyssa tried to make a speedy exit. He had seen the look of shock cross her face as she'd looked at his desk and wondered what was wrong.
Lyssa passed her hand over the panel that would open the office door but nothing happened. She tried again and again and again and then finally had to turn back to Sheppard.
"Your door won't open", she said sounding tense.
Sheppard ambled over to the door, trying to sound casual as he said,
"Why not? Let me see".
He waved his hand across the panel, knowing full well that nothing would happen.
He looked at Lyssa and shrugged. He tapped his ear-piece.
"Rodney this is Sheppard, come in please".
ooOoo
Ronon paced back and forth in his room waiting for Lyssa. What was taking her so long? It seemed an age since they had made love and he wanted to re-acquaint himself with her body.
When a few more minutes passed and she still hadn't arrived he decided to go and see what the problem was. If Sheppard had given her something to do he'd…….
He left his room and made his way to Sheppard's office only to find the door was closed. Frowning he wafted his hand over the access panel but nothing happened.
Inside, Sheppard had just informed Lyssa that Rodney was not available until tomorrow as he was on some unexpected leave time.
"Well that's just great", Lyssa said, turning as someone banged on the other side of the door.
"Lyssa?!", Ronon's voice bellowed and Sheppard groaned inwardly as Lyssa pressed herself against the door.
"Ronon, we're stuck in here. The door malfunctioned and Rodney is not around until tomorrow", Lyssa explained. She heard Ronon curse and understood how he felt. She had been looking forward to an afternoon of making love with him, not being stuck in here with an unusually glum Sheppard.
"I'll go see if I can find Ellie, she should be able to get you out", Ronon said, heading off.
"Yes….you do that", Sheppard called out as their plan began to fall into place.
ooOoo
Ellie forced herself not look up as Ronon entered the lab. She remained focused on her computer screen, trying to ignore the fact that she could see Teyla just outside the lab door, trying to remember what Rodney had told her to do.
"Hey", Ronon said and she then had no option but to look at him.
"Oh, hi", she said smiling at him and Ronon was struck at how lovely she was when she did smile.
Pushing the strange thought to the back of his mind he said,
"Sheppard and Lyssa are stuck in his office, the door won't open. Could you take a look, Rodney's not around?".
Ellie's eyes flicked to the door which was still open and she tried to think of something to stall him with.
"I er, I don't really know that much about the door systems, that's more Rodney's area", she said and Ronon folded his arms against his chest.
"You could take a quick look though couldn't you? I sort of had plans with Lyssa this afternoon and…….", Ronon trailed off as Ellie looked away.
After him groping her breasts this morning he maybe shouldn't go on about his love-life with Lyssa.
"I'll have a look", she said dully, hopping off the stool she was sat on.
Just as they approached the door it slid shut.
"What the?", Ronon said, trying to open it again without much success.
Ellie offered up a silent thanks to Teyla but her heart sank as Ronon cursed and thumped the door. He obviously had no desire to be here with her.
"The malfunction must be happening all across the city", she offered and Ronon turned and looked at her.
"Can you not do something?" he asked and Ellie looked around. "Not from in here, no".
"Damn it", Ronon swore, swinging away from her and leaning against one of the counters, his back to her.
Suddenly an image popped into his mind. A very alarming image.
He had Ellie on the counter in front of him, her legs wrapped around his hips as he pushed her backwards and thrust into her.
He blinked and the image was gone.
He spun to face her only to see she was tapping away on her keyboard.
"Have I….we….", he trailed off unsure what to say and Ellie looked at him, her face expectant.
"What?", she asked and he cleared his throat.
"Have we ever been alone in here before?", he forced out, watching as Ellie looked down.
"We're not supposed to discuss things you don't remember", she said and Ronon moved closer to her and Ellie shifted uncomfortably as his bare arm brushed hers.
"But I'm asking and I want to know", he said and as Ellie looked up their eyes clashed.
"But I'm not going to tell you", she replied, her breathing growing shallower as Ronon's eyes flicked to her lips.
"Why not?", he asked and Ellie closed her eyes, all but convinced he was going to kiss her.
"Because Dr Beckett said….", she trailed off and opened her eyes as she felt the heat from his arm disappear and she saw he had moved away from her.
"Dr Beckett said you need to remember on your own", she finished, feeling foolish to have even thought that he would kiss her. Why would he?
This was going to be a long night and she wondered how Sheppard was fairing with Lyssa.
End of Chapter 4