After hours of sitting and watching Riska's hand motions Sheppard finally learned what she was saying. He called the team together along with Dr. Weir to show them what he had learned.

He ran his hand through his hair, "Alright after sitting and watching the close up of her hand, I've learned what it is she's saying to us. Now before I tell you all just remember all I had a chance to teach her was very little…"

"What did she say?" Ronon asked with a stern look on his face, he still hadn't gotten over seeing Riska as she was in the video. He had hardly gotten any sleep since then and when he had gotten some sleep all he did was dream of her.

Sheppard looked at him with a heavy weight in his heart, what he would say next would not help Ronon's feelings, "She's telling us to wait."

"I'm sorry but are you sure it's not getting confused with something else?" Teyla asked with confusion written all over her face.

Ronon hadn't even waited to hear what anyone else had to say he got practically knocked over his chair rushing out of the room, Mckay of course was sitting next to him almost yelping at the sudden change. "Maybe from now on unless we're going somewhere we shouldn't tell him anything."

Dr. Weir shook her head in agreement, "I think you're right Rodney but it's not as though we can hide everything from him I mean realistically we'll have to keep him in the loop with some things."

"At this point I think it's safer for everyone if he wasn't involved but to be honest I don't think that's something we can do." Teyla responded looking at where Ronon had been sitting, "Ronon hadn't felt so alive in a long time to find that was taken so quickly from him…He knew she was still out there…still alive so really he wasn't too broken because there was always that chance of working things out, but now there is that possibility that we may never find her alive and that kills him."

Sheppard slowly sat down, he knew Ronon was going through some things since Riska left but hadn't realized how bad it may actually be. "He told you all this?"

"You know as well as I do that just looking at him you can see that John." The sorrow in her eyes hit them like a boulder to the chest, everyone had been denying the truth that was clear as day on his face because they couldn't break down like he slowly was.

"For now you all are to stay in Atlantis until we know more." Dr. Weir stated as she started to gather her papers.

That was when everyone was surprised to hear what came next. "But we have to help her…we can't leave her like that and especially with those people." Mckay stated with frustration in his voice. "You can't be serious that you just want us to sit back and wait. What till they send a body part or another video….maybe a whole body."

Dr. Weir was taken aback by Mckay that she sat back down in her seat, she knew there would be some debate on this but not from him. "Rodney I'm sorry but we can't go in just yet we have to wait, obviously we have to do what's logical here. Even Riska wants us to wait because she knows there is something else she could tell us. We have to give her time though to send us another message…just please don't fight me on this. It's killing me to know what she could be going through but I have to think of everyone else on Atlantis also and she knows that, that's why she's telling us to wait also."

The four of them just sat there in silence for a few moments, the realization of how hard this was on everyone was just as hard to take as knowing what Riska was going through. Mckay had then decided to go to his lab, he had mumbled about going over the video again to see what he might learn or maybe he'd find something he missed, slowly the others left the room with no real destination.

By the time Sheppard had realized where he was walking to he wondered if it was even worth trying. He walked into the gym to find Ronon punching a bag so hard he could see the bag crying out to be taken out of its misery. "Hey… umm…so you wanna go walk the pier or something?"

"If I wanted to talk about my feelings I wouldn't be punching a bag now would I?" Ronon stated with a slight hint of laughter to his voice.

He didn't know what to say back, it had been the first day that he had made any kind of joke. Small or big this was something at least, hopefully this meant that even though he was hurting he knew why Riska didn't want them coming after her right away. "Who said anything about feelings…"

"Listen I understand why we are waiting, if it were me I wouldn't want to put you guys in danger either but that doesn't mean I have to be happy about it…I just need some time to myself.."

"Alright well if you need anything I'll be with Rodney apparently he thinks maybe he missed something. I don't know but it's worth a shot, at this point I'd do anything just to learn anything new." He stated giving Ronon a slight pat before he turned and walked out of the room.

As Ronon went back to punching images ran through his mind, some were the most horrible images he had ever imagined to some where there were the most glorious of all. But they were just day dreams for now but he would find a way, no matter how long it took or what lengths he had to go to he would find a way to get her back.