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11 Looking Back

3 weeks later John had been released from the infirmary now and he was signed back onto light duties. Elizabeth on the other hand was still twiddling her thumbs in the infirmary; she had started to become a worse patient the John.
She had now been moved from the critical care unit to a side room. John had been into see her all the time since his release, he now sat in the chair next to her with his feet on her bed. They had been amusing them selves by catapulting cotton wool balls into an empty pot at the other side of the room, most of them were all over the floor only five had managed to land in the pot.

John turned to Elizabeth. "So, what are they going to do with you next?"
"I have another operation tomorrow; Matt says they can take the pins out of my arm now."
"So that's a good thing right?"
"Yeah but I'm still going to be in a cast for at least six weeks. But they are letting me out of here at the end of the week."
John looked away and smiled. "Well at least I'm not going to be the only biff around here then we're both going to be stuck on light duties." Both of them sat for a little longer talking about what had happened.

John stopped joking and started talking seriously. "Elizabeth you handled yourself good back on the planet."
Elizabeth looked away for a second.
John stood up and put his hand on her un-injured shoulder forcing her to look at him. "Elizabeth I mean it, you were badly injured some people would have given up. Hey you managed to beat the crap out of a couple of soldiers, and you took a bullet for me that's gotta say something right?"
"You would've done the same thing for me John. So I guess were even now" she smiled.
After a couple of minutes of silence John spoke up again. "I'm gonna let you get some rest ok, but I will be back before you go into surgery tomorrow."

As John was leaving the infirmary he bumped into Teyla. "Colonel it is good to see you how is Elizabeth?"
"She's ok Teyla she's resting up she has surgery in the morning to take the pins out of her arm, but they said she will be out of here by the end of the week."
Teyla told John that she would let Elizabeth rest and that she would visit her tomorrow, but she had to still drop off some paperwork to Carson. John asked Teyla if she wanted to grab coffee and something to eat she nodded and told him she would just be a minute. John waited for Teyla outside the infirmary when she came out they headed off to the mess.

Just like John said he was with Elizabeth before she went into surgery. He was sat by her bed when she was brought out of the recovery room he looked over when he saw Dr Jenkins still in his scrubs coming out of another room.
Jenkins looked up from what he was writing on his data pad he walked over to Elizabeth's bed "Hey colonel."
John cleared his throat. "Alright doc? How did the op go? "
Matt lent against the wall and put his hands in his pockets. "She came through good, we took the pins out there doesn't appear to be any nerve damage so that's good. Her arm is gonna hurt and she's gonna need some physio on it, but I don't see it causing her any problems."

John let out the breath he didn't realise he was holding. "That's good to hear doc, thanks for the update."

"Colonel she's not gonna be awake for a while, if you want to go to the mess or anything I will contact you when she wakes up." Jenkins said as he was heading to his office.John sat back down picking up his war and peace book he left in the chair. "Thanks doc I'm good waiting here."
"Ok then." Matt smiled at him then left to carry on with his work.

John had been sat next to Elizabeth reading waiting for her to wake up for nearly 2 hours when he noticed her starting to stir.

Elizabeth woke up to the sound of the heart monitor beeping, it took her a few seconds to open her eyes and adjust to the blinding bright lights she looked around and found John watching her. "Hey how are you feeling?" he asked.
"Not to bad, arm hurting" she said groggily as she tried to reach for the water.John stood up and gave her the cup.
"Not surprising really you have just had a long operation on it."
"How long was this one?" she asked, she tried to sit up and get more comfortable.

John picked up the pillow from the empty bed next to her and helped her sit up whilst he put this pillow on top of the other one. "Nearly 4 hours. The doc said your arm will be ok. But..."
"But, what?" Elizabeth tried to hide the note of panic in her voice.
"But because you have a cast you do know we all have to sign it" john joked.

John had to go he could see the nursing staff were about to kick him out so he jumped before he was pushed. Before he left he promised her he would come back to see her before they were planning on releasing her.

The day after her operation Dr Jenkins had decided Elizabeth was fit enough to be released earlier than he had planned on light duties and half days only, as per her doctors orders he warned her if he caught her doing more than half shifts to quote the good Dr Jenkins 'he would haul her arse back in there'.

John and Teyla laughed as Elizabeth told them this, they were walking down to the mess to meet up with McKay and Ronon.
"Is that what he really said?" Teyla asked, she couldn't quite believe that would be what the mild mannered Dr would say.
"What you don't believe me?" Elizabeth almost got the wrong idea Teyla saw the look on Elizabeth's face.
"Oh no, no it's just he doesn't look like the type of man who would say something like that."
"He did Teyla, I was almost shocked when he said it"Elizabeth nodded.
"Yeah I know what you mean." John added
"I am sure that Dr Jenkins is just being cautious" Teyla added.

By the time Teyla John and Elizabeth had arrived in the mess Rodney had almost finished his dinner, he looked up when John interrupted him eating his pudding.
"Kinda defies the point of meeting for dinner don't it McKay?" John asked.
"You guys took forever getting here, what was I supposed to do go hungry?" Rodney rambled trying to defend himself.
"Elizabeth has only been released from the infirmary" Teyla stated. Ronon got to his feet and took Elizabeth's tray and sat it on the table he then offered her his seat. "It's good to see you back on your feet Dr Weir." He smiled and told them he had to go and sort out a combat training session with some marines Elizabeth didn't even get the chance to thank him before he left.
Ronon quickly turned on his heel ashe got to the door as though he forgot something. "One more thing Dr Weir." He smiled and quickly signed her cast with a big 'RD' he threw the pen to Teyla and ran out of the mess.
Whether it was shock or something else the rest of the team sat in silence as they ate their meals.

Later that evening John walked out onto the balcony he wasn't surprised when he found Elizabeth there. This was the spot she would come out to think at, the place they would always meet even if it was unintentional. "Hey."
"Hey" she turned around and smiled at him. John walked up and stood next to her they just stood and chatted about nothing in particular whilst looking out over the moonlit ocean. Neither of them knowing how long they had been there.

Time had no meaning in this place, well at least not now.

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A/N—Sorry about the lame ending, I think I lost my creative edge here.
I have started working on my new story 'Sports day in Atlantis' the first chapter will be up soon.