Sorry, it's been awhile but I had so much work to do I have no had time and the next update may not be for awhile as I have exams coming up so I apologize for that in advance.
Chapter 'I can't remember:' New beginnings
It had been a week since Elizabeth and John's first night together and things were going pretty perfectly. Their first time hadn't exactly been the best, as Elizabeth hadn't, you know, in a while and was nervous and John hadn't, you know, in awhile and was, well gagging for it, but they soon made up for it in the week. Not only were they happy in the bedroom department, but they were also happy in each other's company as well.
John didn't mind doing family trip stuff with Bob and Julie because 1, Julie was being a hell of a lot nicer and 2, it didn't feel weird because Elizabeth was there. He had taken her to the movies, to a posh restaurant, to a baseball game and done all the romantic things he wanted to do with some girl in high school, while still being able to argue with the woman like they had been married for decades. He had never been that happy doing these sorts of things with other women and he hoped that Elizabeth had never been as happy doing these things with other men.
His fears were effectively squished on the plane to Hawaii. The holiday with Bob and Julie was over and they were off to Hawaii to visit Elizabeth's father and his family. John was, to say the least, scared. He did not want first contact with this side of the Weir family to go as sourly as it did with Aunt Julie and the fact Elizabeth had gone abnormally quiet did not help.
She was staring outside of the window, a first class window, of course, as Julie would have nothing less, and so he nudged her with his elbow. She turned around to face him and gave him a small smile.
"You okay?" He asked concerned.
She nodded. "Yep, you?" John raised a sceptical eyebrow. Okay my ass, Elizabeth.
"Don't lie. It doesn't suit you." He said smirking.
She sighed before answering. "I was just thinking, that's all."
"About?" He asked, starting to get slightly worried.
"About me, you, us, our future. Caldwell is going to have a field day over this." She said smiling softly.
John looked down collecting his thoughts before looking up and giving her one of his lopsided grins. "You could easily make the President allow us to be together."
She smirked. "That's not the point. Yes, I could cash in on one of the many favours that the President and the Joint Chiefs owe me, but what would everyone on Atlantis think." She said regretfully.
He smiled and took one of her hands in his. "I think they would think that you deserved to have a relationship with someone you wanted to be with and that I was one lucky son of a bitch and as for Caldwell, screw what he thinks."
She laughed. "Just…screw him!" John nodded eagerly. "Alright fine! He will just have to get used to the fact that I am with the man I love and if he can't handle that he'll just have to take it up with the President who, of course, will be on my side because he thinks I'm fabulous." She said grinning.
John smile stretched across his face, ear to ear. Elizabeth narrowed her eyes at him. "What?"
"You said the man I love."
Elizabeth blushed. "Oh…well, I was just…."
"It's okay, I love you too." He said before kissing her deeply. She pulled back slightly.
"You know technically I didn't actually say I love you…" she said smirking.
"Minor details, miss Weir, minor details." He said before pulling her in for another kiss.
They had got off the plane and were waiting for Elizabeth's brother Ben, when an older man got out of a car and walked up to Elizabeth smiling.
"Dad!" Elizabeth said somewhat surprised before letting him pull her into a hug.
"What are you doing here? I thought Ben was picking us up." She said puzzled as she loaded her luggage into the back of the car.
"Change of plan, Lizzie." He said before taking John's luggage for him. John saw Elizabeth immediately tense slightly and saw it was obvious she was not happy to be called by that name. The dad seemed completely unaware.
"Sorry…John, this is my dad, Jimmy Weir, dad, this is John Sheppard." Elizabeth said doing the introductions before climbing into the back of the car. The men shook hands before John climbed in the back with Elizabeth and Jimmy took the wheel. The drive home was fairly quiet and awkward as Jimmy tried to bring up conversational topics and Elizabeth gave fairly short answers. From John's point of view, Elizabeth was a lot more comfortable in the company of her Uncle Bob then her own father. When they drove up the house, Jimmy took their luggage up to the guest room before telling the rest of the family he was going out. John walked into the kitchen and was introduced by Barbara, Jimmy's wife, to Amy and Noah. Noah was at the kitchen table on a laptop while Amy was casually eating cereal from the bowl pretty messily.
Elizabeth walked into the kitchen as Jimmy shouted goodbye from the front door. As soon as he had left, Elizabeth threw her arms in the air and looked at the rest of her family in total confusion.
"What is with that?"
"With what?" Noah said, his eyes never leaving the screen.
"The whole attitude with dad."
Barbara, who was doing the washing up at the time turned around somewhat confused again. "But he's being really nice."
"That's the problem!" she said, as if I was obvious. "He picked us up from the airport, people!" She said throwing her arms in the air again. "Doesn't anyone else find that strange?"
"Oh yeah, real strange."" Amy barely managed to say sarcastically with her mouth full.
Barbara sighed before turning back to her washing up. "Your father just wants to take an interest in your life, that's all."
Elizabeth sat down at the table and scowled. "Well, it's a little late for that after over 30 years of being completely ignored.
"Can I get you anything John?" Barbara asked John who was watching Elizabeth amusedly from the kitchen door. God, I can't imagine what she was like as a teenager!
"Huh? No I'm fine, do you want me to dry?" He said picking up a dishcloth.
"Yes, thank you very much." She replied as she continued washing.
"That's why Ben's not here." Noah said, carrying on their conversation. "He said he couldn't wait to see you, but he wanted as little time with dad as possible beforehand."
"Really?" Elizabeth said, grabbing a handful of cereal from the packet and popping the cereal into her mouth.
Noah finally looked up and smiled. "Yeah, his precise words were 'I cannot cope with getting attention from him.'"
"Ironic that while you two are finally getting the attention you two deserve, we are now not getting any…and so the vicious cycle begins." Amy said before dumping her bowl in the sink.
Barbara pulled off her rubber gloves and turned around sharply. "Would you leave him alone, he's just going through a bit of a midlife crisis at the moment!"
"Well, he's twenty years too late." Amy muttered and Barbara glared at her.
Elizabeth got up from the table and put the cereal back in the cupboard. "Well, why can't he deal with it like every other man. Buy a fast sports car, or a Harley or sleep with a woman half his age. Why does he have to be…nice?" John sniggered before trying to cover it up with a cough.
"Because our mother would kill him if he tried any of the above, especially the last one." Noah said, smiling at the thought.
"Well, that's great, but-" Elizabeth stopped as they heard a manly bellow from outside. Everyone, apart from Amy who just rolled her eyes, went outside to investigate.
What the hell happened here! John thought as he saw a very angry looking Jimmy and a black-eyed postman on the front lawn. Noah shook his head in disgust while Barbara sighed.
Elizabeth smiled sadly before walking back inside. "A new beginning, huh?" She said cynically.
TBC
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