Disclaimer: I do not own Stargate Atlantis whatsoever as awesome as it would be.
Summary: One of the Atlantis teams get kidnapped while on another planet and it is up to Sheppard, Ronon, Teyla and Rodney to save them from the trouble that they've gotten themselves into. Ronon ended up saving one of the girls that were on the kidnapped team and the two start to develop an attraction towards one and another and maybe into more. While they are getting used to being in a relationship with one and another after not being in one in so many years, things happen and tradgedy strikes. How will they overcome the obstacles in the path of their love? Ronon/OC
Chapter seven
~~~~~Atlantis: 6 Days later~~~~~~
It's been days since Natalie was brought back to Atlantis by Ronon and she has been unconscious for every single one of those days, all of her friends visited her and talked to her even though she wouldn't be able to respond to them, hoping that maybe she would wake up to the sound of them talking but so far there hasn't been any luck.
"You Know," Emilia said from next to Natalie's bed in the infirmary. "I'm starting to think that I'm gong to have to take drastic measure's to make you wake up from your beauty sleep. I know you like to sleep and everything Nat but sleeping for a week is a bit much don't you think?" she asked rhetorically.
"And I know you're in pain, we're all in pain, but you more so then everyone else because of James but you can't keep yourself locked up in your mind forever." Emilia stated after pausing for a few moments. "Plus everyone is worried about you here, Lorne's visited, so have Sheppard, and Teyla, Ronon which was kind of freaking me out with his whole intense stare thing, and surprisingly Rodney came even." she said and sighed heavily."If you don't wake up from this I'm gonna have to kick your ass."
"You wouldn't be able to," Natalie said hoarsely from not using her voice for so long and looked up at Emilia who had jumped out of her chair in surprise when she heard Natalie talking for the first time in almost a week.
Once Emilia recovered from seeing Natalie up and awake she practically threw herself at Natalie and hugged her friend tightly, "Thank god you're awake, I was beginning to lose hope." she said to her.
Natalie patted her friend on her back, "Thank Emi and I'm happy to see you and everything but you're hurting me. Injured here." she said tightly.
"Sorry," Emilia said and quickly let Natalie go. "I'm just so happy that you're finally awake."
That made Natalie give a half pained smile, "Me too Emilia, me too." she replied as she tried to shift herself into a sitting position without paining herself too much.
Emilia gasped suddenly, "I should go get Keller or Carson or someone, they told me to tell them the second you woke up." she said and started to head for the door but Natalie stopped her.
"Don;t interrupt them, they're probably at lunch." Natalie said to her. "I'm sure I can wait until they get done with what they are doing to be seen by them." she said to her reasonably but Emilia would hear none of it.
Turning towards Natalie, Emilia put her hands on her hips. "I'm not surprised Natalie I can see that you are in pain, you need some pain meds which means I need to go and get Keller or Carson for you." she said to her. "So stop being such a tough guy, I'll be right back. Don't go anywhere." she said as she quickly left the infirmary.
"Yeah, not like I'm goin' anywhere." Natalie said to herself and hissed in pain when she shifted the wrong way.
Ten minutes passed of Natalie staring at the infirmary walls boredly when Dr. Keller finally made an appearance and rushed over to Natalie's side, surprisingly Emilia was no where to be found. Natalie figured that Keller probably wanted to look over Natalie without Emilia being there to disturb them, not to mention the whole patient/doctor confidentiality thing.
Keller took the chart that was hanging off of the foot of Natalie's bed and sat down in the chair that was next to her bed and looked at her with a half smile, "So how are you feeling?" she asked.
At that Natalie laughed dryly, "Emotionally or physically?" she asked but cut Keller off before she could answer that. "Emotionally I'm numb, I can't believe that James is dead but if you are referring to physically I hurt but it's bearable at least." she said to her with a pained shrug.
"Nat," Keller said at a loss for words.
Natalie waved off her friends concern, "Don;t worry Keller I'll be fine." she said to her with a sigh.
Keller looked at her doubtfully, "Natalie. IF you need to talk at all, about anything. Just random girl stuff, about what happened on that planet, about James, anything at all I'll be here for you." she said to her seriously.
"Thanks Keller," Natalie said with a smile. "I know you are but I'm not the really share my emotions kind of person, I'm more of a deal with it in solitude." she said to her.
That made Keller look at her sadly, "I hope you don't Natalie, you'll need to talk to someone." she said to her.
Natalie shook her head, "Can we change the subject?" she asked in annoyance.
Giving in Keller nodded and went over to the medicine cabinet so that she could give Natalie something for the pain that she knew her patient was feeling, "Here this should take the edge off of the pain but it wont get rid of it completely." she said rolling her eyes at her friend.
Natalie refused to take anything that would completely numb her, she said that you needed to be alert at all times in case something happened that you weren't expecting. She thought that you always needed to be ready for a fight and be able to hold your own against them instead of being half dazed because you took some pain meds.
"Thanks," she said as she watched Keller inject something into her IV. "So does that mean I can leave?" she asked her hopefully.
That made Keller laugh, "Don't even think about it Natalie, you're staying over night for observation just to be on the safe side." she told her.
Natalie groaned, "C'mon Keller, I feel perfectly fine." she whined at her.
"No, you're staying here and that;s that." Keller said sternly, "Deal with it."
pouting Natalie tried to cross her arms but her cast covered arm hindered that so she opted to just have an annoyed look on her face, "How's Lorne? Is he okay? Not injured seriously or anything?" she asked.
Keller shook her head, "Nothing as bad as you, he got a slash on his arm but otherwise he was like Emilia and only have a few scraps and bruises on them." she said to her as she wrote a few things down on her chart. "Look I'm gonna go and do some research and check on my other patients but I'll be by to check on you later. That okay?"
"Yeah," Natalie answered with a nod. "thanks Keller." she told her sincerely.
Keller just smiled and left, once she was gone Natalie sighed heavily and laid her head back down against the pillow on her hospital bed. All she wanted to do at that moment was leave the infirmary, she hated hospital's and anything to do with them ever since she was a kid and every time she got stuck in them when she got back from a mission she got restless and antsy and now was no different.
"Natalie?"
Shaking herself out of her daze Natalie looked up and saw Teyla, "Teyla! God it's good to see you. It's been so long." she said to her long time friend, Teyla was the first person Natalie became friends with when she arrived on Atlantis and was one of the people who didn't doubt her fighting ability just because she was a girl.
"It has my friend," Teyla replied as she sat down in the chair besides Natalie's bed. "you have been unconscious for almost a week now. We were all getting worried for you."
That made Natalie smile sadly, "Sorry." she said apologetically.
Teyla smiled at her, "It was not your fault, your body needed to recover from what happened on that planet. I am just happy that you are fine now and are on the road to recovery from your ordeal." she said to her.
"Yeah, hopefully." Natalie said and looked down at her hands. "Do you know if we even got the ZPM that we were there for in the first place?" she asked suddenly.
At that Teyla looked at her sadly, "No Natalie, I am afraid we were not able to retrieve it. We were concentrating on bringing you and the rest of your team back to Atlantis. There was no time to go and find the ZPM." she told her with a hesitant smile
Natalie shrugged, "Oh, oh well. There are other ZPM's around." she said trying to hide the fact that she hated that they went through all of that and they still came out empty handed.
Teyla grabbed her friends uninjured hand, "What is important Natalie, is that you and the rest of your team are not seriously injured and that you made it back to Atlantis safe." she told her.
"Not all of us were that lucky," Natalie said darkly, yet again thinking about James when she was trying to make it a point not to do so.
Before Teyla was able to respond to that comment there was a knock on the side of the wall of the infirmary, the two girls glanced over there and saw that John and Ronon were standing in the doorway of the infirmary.
John grinned at Natalie, "Hey Nat, heard you were awake from your week long beauty sleep." he said jokingly.
"Yeah, got what I needed to become beautylicious." Natalie replied jokingly, as much as she was in a dark mood she couldn't help but joke around with John he was just that type of person that always made you laugh or act like a kid again.
"So how you holdin' up then?" John asked as he sat on the edge of her bed.
At that comment Natalie shrugged, "Good other then I'm notg gonna be able to do anything when I get out of here. They're treating me like a caged animal." she said to him with a huff of annoyance. "No fighting, no going off world, no going on any missions, no practicing, no heavy lifting, no helping in the weapons bay, no sparring, no testing new weapons or modified weapons. Basically there's a lot of things I can't do and very little that I can do, so I am going to be bored out of my mind for a long while until I get healed up." she said with a put off expression.
"Wouldn't you rather be healed and able to fight then be a hindrance?" Ronon asked speaking up for the first time.
Natalie blinked a few times before she responded to that, "Well, yeah. I guess but I get antsy after not doing anything for so long." she replied.
"I am sure there are many things here on Atlantis that you can pass your time with while waiting to heal." Teyla replied with a soft smile on her face.
"I hope so," Natalie said with a wide yawn.
John smiled down at Natalie when she did that, "And I think that is our cue to go." he said as he looked between Teyla and Ronon. "See ya Nat, get better." he told her and headed towards the door.
Teyla squeezed Natalie's hand one last time, "We will have lunch together once you are out of here." she s aid and followed John's suit and left as well leaving only Natalie and Ronon.
Ronon stayed for a few seconds longer than the rest, looking at Natalie. "Get some rest." he said to her gruffly and left.
For a few moments Natalie stared after where Ronon left and shrugged, she figured that was the closest thing she would get to him saying goodbye or wishing her to get better soon. It was better than nothing, mostly he didn't talk to anyone but Teyla and John. Shifting a bit in the bed Natalie tried to find a comfortable position so that she could get some sleep, even if she's been asleep for six days straight a person still can get tired easily.
