FOUR (Sunday)
Wake up or go back to sleep? That was the one hundred dollar question. John had a dilemma, it was late enough for some of the Iories to be up already by the sounds coming from outside but it was still early enough for him to not need to be awake before another two hours had passed.
Lying there in the warm and very comfortable bed John weighted his opinions. It did not matter how he looked at it or twisted the matter, in the end he still came to the same conclusion, going back to sleep. Being able to just lie down beside Evan in the morning was not something he could indulge in very often and so John tended to savor the times when he could.
That was the reason to why he did not feel bad at all, when he turned to spoon up against Evan, his chest against Evan's back. Their bodies fit well together, Evan's smaller form against his slightly bigger one. Closing his eyes John gave a content sigh, his nose pressed against Evan's neck.
It did not feel longer than perhaps a minute or two at most but the next time John woke, Evan was already awake and the sounds coming from outside had picked up in volume. When John opened his eyes, he found himself looking straight into Evan's.
"Good morning, Ev," mumbled John.
"Morning to you too," whispered Evan.
A peck on the lips was all John got, before Evan got up from the bed. He was not wearing anything and John took his time to admire his lovers beautiful body. Or as much of it before it was hidden underneath all those annoying clothes Evan insisted on wearing.
"Are you going to get moving or are you going to lie there all day staring at me?" asked Evan, turning to look at John, "I mean I do like it when you look at me but we don't have that much time left here before we need to be back on Atlantis, right?"
"We're supposed to get back around noon," noted John playing with the sheets on the bed.
"Stop lazing around John, I'm hungry and if I'm hungry then I know you're hungry," said Evan.
John let himself be pulled off the bed by Evan, dressing in a pair of BDUs and one of his black t-shirts. Of course, it did not go that fast or that effortlessly, in between getting up from the bed and getting all his clothes in place, there were a lot of kisses and groping going on. In fact there was so much of it that it took all of their willpower not to just fall straight back into the bed.
Giving Evan's ass a playful slap, John made a dash for the door and the stairs, closely followed by Evan. Just as John was taking the last step down the stairs he felt a hand glide over his ass. He actually had to steel himself not to make yelp or make a sound when Evan pinched his ass hard.
"Payback's a bitch," whispered Evan as he slunk past John.
Stargate: Atlantis
"I must admit that I am sad to see them go already."
"Well Aeron, you are not the only one."
Aeron and Tharan stood by the Stargate, they had made sure that Colonel Sheppard and Major Lorne got back to Atlantis and to see them off. It was about two minutes past noon and neither of the two elderly men were in any hurry.
"I am glad they accepted the invitation," said Tharan.
"Me too, they really had interesting characters, if we are to go by Colonel Sheppard, Major Lorne then we should have no problems dealing with the people on
Atlantis," said Aeron.
"Aeron…" groaned Tharan.
"What? I did not do anything, except for observing, and was it not sweet watching them," said Aeron wistfully smiling at Tharan, "ah young love…"
"Why am I even surprised? But well you are right, both the colonel and the major have quite the characters, very noble men. They are those kinds of men we need to fight this war against the wraith," said Tharan.
They stood quietly by the Stargate for a moment, just looking at it. It was an amazing thing, and to think that there was hundreds of these gates throughout at least two different galaxies. Hand in hand Aeron and Tharan made their way back to the village; there was people to see and things to be done.
Stargate: Atlantis
"Welcome back Colonel Sheppard, Major Lorne."
John and Evan were greeted by Weir when they stepped through the gate. Not that she was the only one, Rodney, Ronon, Teyla, Zelenka and Carson was there too, to greet them.
"How cute, missed us?" teased John.
"No we didn't miss you Sheppard," said Rodney.
They certainly did not waste any time when it came to squabbling not that anyone really cared, it would be odder if John and Rodney did not squabble.
"So how was it there?"
"Ah the big question, you really could not hold yourself longer than this?"
"Cut the crap, we've all been dying to hear how it was," snapped Rodney.
John and Evan grinned at each other, before they answered.
"Well?"
"Well Rodney to be honest with you, it was better…," started John.
"…than a roman bath," finished Evan.
There was nothing in the world that could make them want to change what happened that weekend, especially when they watched the others jealous faces, muttering about how they too could do with a vacation. Just because John and Evan were the ones making sure everyone else were floating did not mean the rest of them did nothing.
Smiling happily, both John and Evan were glad to be back home, though it was nice getting away for a few days, it was always nice coming home.
-The End-
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