Four weeks later

It had been a month since Ronon had stood holding a distraught Jen in his arms. The days had passed in a flurry of activity for him. A long string of missions followed by keeping his eye on Jennifer had taken all his available free time—which, frankly, wasn't much.

One week after that conversation where he'd learnt more about Jennifer than anyone else on Atlantis, he realised he needed help. So he had enlisted Marie Ko, head nurse and a close friend of Jennifer. So while he was away on missions he didn't have to wonder whether Jennifer had remembered to eat or get some sleep. Marie had been more than happy to keep an eye on her. "I'll look after her. You just remember to come back," she said, with a wink. That had ended Ronon's conversation with her, leaving him more than a little confused, about the wink. Did everyone know how much he cared for Jennifer?

Ronon now stood in Jen's office looking down at her sleeping form. Her head sat in her folded arms on the desk, her laptop in front of her and still turned on. He had just arrived back from four days of long negotiations and had come to see how both Jen and the boy were doing. Acknowledging Marie with a brief nod, he kept his eyes focused on Jennifer the entire time.

"She's ok, just working too hard as always. I made sure she's been eating and getting some sleep. She seems much happier, especially now that the boy is doing well. She missed you though," said Marie quietly, before she went back to work.

Silently, Ronon crept into the office, and he noticed paperwork was also spread all over the desk. Jennifer was sleeping peacefully, her lips curved into a small smile. Deciding that he should just leave her to get the rest she obviously needed, he started heading back toward the door. He'd just reached the doorway, however, when a soft curse came from behind. Turning around, he saw that Jennifer was just waking up. She gave a big grin when she noticed him.

"You're back! When?" exclaimed Jennifer.

"Just now. I, err, just to came to see how you and the boy were doing," he said, smiling slightly back at her.

"I'm fine," Jennifer said, then added, "Honestly!" at his scathing look. "The young boy is showing remarkable improvement. Most of his injuries have already healed or are well on the way to being. He's also starting to show signs of waking up. So things are looking good."

"That's really good…"

"DOCTOR!" Marie yelled as hurled herself through the open office door. "Doctor!" She said, "He's awake but he's terrified and won't let anyone near him. We're scared he's going to hurt himself."

Jennifer raced out of the room, Ronon hot on her heels and Marie not far behind.

When they reached the boy's private room, two nurses where stood in the doorway while another attempted to calm the boy from a position within the room. The boy had pressed himself into a corner of the room. Tears were streaming down his face, and there was blood coming from his hand, where his IV had either come out or been ripped out.

Jennifer entered the room slowly indicating for the other nurses to go out of the way. As Jennifer moved slowly into the room Ronon followed a few feet behind. Jennifer stopped a few feet away from the terrified child and dropped to her knees.

"Hey there, my name's Jen. Do you remember me?"

The boy turned his wide, frightened eyes on her; he looked at her for a while before slowly nodding. Jennifer saw his eyes dart to Ronon behind her. She glanced over her shoulder and saw Ronon step forward. Carefully he moved so that he was just in front of Jennifer, he knelt down and began speaking in a low voice,

"Hey, remember what I said to you." When the boy nodded again Ronon continued. "Well you can trust Jen. She's gonna help you and so am I."

The boy began moving out of the corner; hesitantly Jen stepped forward and helped him onto the bed.

Jen Gently, Jen took the boy hand and looked inspected the area where the IV had dislodged and gave the nearby nurses orders to get the supplies she would need. But, as soon as they entered the room the boy again became terrified, so Ronon took the supplies out of the nurse's hands and dismissed them.

Two hours later

Jen watched as Ronon sat with the boy who was just going back to sleep. She couldn't believe how strong the boy had been when he woke up; he seemed ok apart from a few cuts that hadn't quite healed. But the broken leg, the chest injury had completely healed and he didn't feel any pain. This boy, even though human, was a fast healer. Much like Ronon.

She smiled when Ronon looked her way; the boy had only let her and Ronon near him, despite assurances that the others weren't going to hurt him. One thing that was bothering Jen was that he hadn't spoken, not even to give his name.

Ronon was a natural with him, and even though the conversation was mainly one sided they were bonding well. Ronon had explained to the boy that they where in the city of the Ancestors, to which the boy gave a look of awe. When Ronon questioned the boy about where he came from, and asked where his parents where, the young boy with his bright green eyes and messy dark brown hair, looked sad. Carefully Ronon had tried to get him to answer but the boy soon became upset so Ronon abandoned it, and soothed the distraught boy. While both Ronon and Jen had sat there with the boy holding his hands telling him he would be safe, Colonel Sheppard and Major Lorne had entered the room.

The young boy was terrified and clung to Ronon, who shot glares at both of them; Jennifer had stood up though ordered them out of the room. Jen following them out the room she shut the door behind her.

"Gossip spreads in this place like wildfire doesn't it. Who told you the boy was awake because I certainly didn't?" she asked unable to keep the anger out of her voice.

"Err actually quite a few people did, everyone knows." Said Major Lorne, who had the brains to look worried under her glare.

Jennifer made a mental note to have words with her staff about keeping their mouths shut when it comes to gossiping.

"Right, there is to be no visiting the boy do you understand? He is terrified, and only seems to stay calm with me and Ronon so if I see even one of you within ten feet of this door, you will regret it at your next physical." Said Jen, in her perfected bossy doctor voice.

"Yes Doc. Sorry Doc." Said Major Lorne.

"Suck up." Muttered Sheppard under his breath.

After being assured the boy was doing well and posed to no security threat, they had left, with the promise of stopping any other hopeful visitors. That had been half an hour ago and Ronon was still in there with the boy.

Jen turned back to watch Ronon and the boy who was huddled into Ronon's chest, fast asleep.

"Who'd have thought it?" she said out loud, causing a passing nurse to raise her eyebrows at her.

Sighing to herself, Jen turned away from the scene in front of her and left to go brief Colonel Carter on the status of the boy.

A/N: Ok sorry for the long wait! Hope you enjoyed and review as always please! Thanks to Renisanz for betaing and a huge thank you to everyone who has already reviewed!

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