Belanna30 – There's a little more of Atala in this chapter so I hope you enjoy it, thanks for the review.

Kuroima – I'm glad you the block fight made you laugh, I am to entertain lol. Elizabeth opens up a little in this chapter, I hope you enjoy it and thanks for the review.

Steph7085 – Marcus really is cute isn't he? A little more of Mathos in this chapter, thanks for the review.

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Chapter 11

"Would you two hurry it up we're gonna be late," Jack called as he stood in Teyla and Elizabeth's dorm room waiting for the two women to exit the bathroom. Elizabeth walked out looking no different then when she had walked in and Jack guessed she'd been in there only to advise Teyla.

"Don't blame me, I'm not the one who can't decide which top to wear," she stated as she grabbed her jacket from the bed and moved to stand between Jack and John.

"Teyla, I swear if you're not outta there in the next few minutes we're leaving without you," Jack called and Teyla finally exited the bathroom, the blue shirt she was wearing when she'd gone in there was now a grey sleeveless top but other than that she looked the same as before.

"Patience is a virtue," she said as she too grabbed her jacket. John and Elizabeth were already on their way out of the door and Jack and Teyla had to hurry to catch up with them.

Lessons that day had been fairly boring but hopefully this meeting would hopefully more than make up for it. It was their first guild meeting and Jack honestly had no idea what to expect. He knew that it wouldn't be anything overly exciting since it was only their first meeting but it was something new. Magic School had been an exciting change but after a whole month there it was all starting to become normal and routine.

They arrived at the great hall to discover they were quite probably the last to arrive, curse Teyla and her love of fashion. The great hall had been arranged for the guild meeting, the hall was always adapted to whatever function it was serving. Currently the chairs were laid out in rows facing the front where the majority of the Atala seniors were stood talking. Another one of the Seniors ushered them to some empty chairs near the front where they realised all the newbies had been placed.

"Okay, looks like everyone's here," Andrew called and the room fell silent. "Welcome back, I hope everyone had a great summer and welcome to all the freshmen. We have some great talent with us this year and hopefully we'll be able to win the inter-guild competition at the end of the year."

"Now," another of the Seniors called "In order to do that we're going to need to work really hard. We have some great talent but so do the other guilds, Corlith won last year, let's not give them the satisfaction of beating us again."

"Right," Andrew agreed "So as usual, you'll all be able to use these meetings as a chance to improve your skills in your areas. Of course the freshman don't know their areas yet but you will be given a temporary area to work in. If we feel at any time that your skills would be better used in another area we'll change it. All of the freshman please remain where you are, the rest of you, go do whatever you need to."

There was a lot of noise from behind the freshmen as the rest of the guild all stood up. Jack turned around and watched as the other students cleared away their chairs to create floor space or simply relocated to another part of the hall.

"Alright freshman, Joseph here is going to read out your temporary areas, you'll then be introduced to the other students that work in that same area. If you don't like where you've been placed please wait until the end and we'll see what we can do," Andrew told them and then stepped back to allow Joseph to read the list.

"Okay, the areas juniors are permitted to take part in are; spell casting, potions, knowledge, sports and defence. Some of you are best suited to one particular area, others excel in all of them, however the maximum number of areas a students is allowed to enter is two, so we've had to pick the ones we feel you'd be best in."

There was a pause as Joseph took a breath before he began reading the list "Carson Beckett, Knowledge. Laura Cadman, Sport and Defence. Samantha Carter, Spell Casting and Potions. Ronon Dex, Sport and Defence. Teyla Emmagan, Spell Casting and Defence. Janet Frasier – Knowledge and Defence. Kate Heightmeyer, Knowledge."

There was another pause as Joseph took a few seconds break from his list reading before continuing. "Daniel Jackson, Knowledge. Marcus Lorne, Sport and Defence. Vala Malduran, Spell Casting and Defence. Rodney McKay, Potions. Cameron Mitchell, Sport and Defence. Teal'c Murray, Sport and Defence. Jack O'Neill, Spell Casting and Sport. John Sheppard, Spell Casting and Defence. Elizabeth Weir, Spell Casting and Knowledge. Radek Zelenka, Potions."

"Thank you Joseph," Andrew began and Jack struggled to remember what his areas had been amongst the mass of names and areas running around in his head. "Alright, those of you with two areas will not necessarily compete in both. Now, obviously we have a senior heading up each area, they'll make decision about who will compete and who won't, they're also here to help you so listen up for your area head."

Great, Jack thought to himself, more stuff to remember.

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John and Elizabeth sat in the cafeteria enjoying a well earned free period. Jack and Teyla had gone into town for lunch but neither Elizabeth or John had felt like making the half hour walk there and then back again in time for Defence. Elizabeth for once was not doing homework or reading and was actually taking part in the conversation which was a good thing since there was no one else there and John would have looked rather insane talking to himself.

"You know it's Jack's birthday on Monday," John stated as he remembered his friend mentioning the date briefly. "We should do something."

"What do you have in mind?" Elizabeth questioned and John thought for a moment, he didn't think Jack wanted a huge fuss making over it but it was the guys birthday.

"There's that new club opening in town this weekend, we can wait until everyone finishes lessons on Monday and go there, we'll make a night of it… or an evening at least, we have to be back by curfew," John suggested and Elizabeth looked at him warily, he guessed night clubs weren't her scene.

"Sounds good," she finally replied, "We'll have to ask the others, see who else wants to come with."

"We shouldn't tell Jack though, it'll be a nice surprise. Oh, oh and we should ask what's her name to come too…. Sam, Jack totally has a thing for her," John rambled as he started to get excited and he noticed Elizabeth was getting slightly caught up in it as well.

"Ya think?" she questioned sarcastically and John paused his excitement momentarily to glare at her.

"Anyway, we should definitely get Marcus, Laura and Janet to come and I was thinking we'd see about getting Ronon and Teal'c to come as well, maybe Cameron and Vala…" John continued and Elizabeth cut him off before he could name anymore people.

"Why don't we just ask all of the first year Atala's?" she questioned figuring that's where he was heading.

"Oh good idea," he said as if it was only just dawning on him and Elizabeth smiled and shook her head. John was about to continue when he noticed the time and quickly reached for his bag. "We have Defence in three minutes," he stated and Elizabeth grabbed her own bag as the two left the table.

"I hope Jack and Teyla make it back in time," Elizabeth said as they left the cafeteria.

"Yeah, I doubt Mathos will be pleased if they're late," John stated with a barely hidden disgust in his tone at the mention of their Defence teacher. They arrived outside the classroom just in time and took their seats at the back of the class. Mathos was just about to begin when Jack and Teyla walked in looking rather sheepish. The Professor sent them a look but didn't say anything as they moved to sit in their seats beside John and Elizabeth.

"You two… are late," John whispered and they both glared at him as they sat down.

"Really I hadn't noticed, thanks for that," Jack replied.

The rest of the lesson passed without incident, Mathos flirted and stared at the girls, everyone took notes and then they were dismissed… well most of them were.

"Mr O'Neill, Miss Emmagan, can you stay behind a moment please," Mathos called and Jack and Teyla both froze in their attempt to sneak out of the classroom unnoticed and winced.

"We'll meet you in History, if you're not there in ten minutes we're sending the guard patrols," John whispered quietly.

"Good luck," Elizabeth added obviously reluctant to leave them there, John put his hand on her back to gently nudge her toward the door. She went without protest only casting a quick glance over her shoulder to her friends.

Jack watched them go and then turned to face Mathos, they'd only been a couple of minutes late, surely he couldn't be that mad.

"Do you want to tell me why you were late for my lesson?" Mathos questioned calmly.

"We were in town getting dinner, it took us a little longer than we thought it would to get back," Jack explained and then stared warily at Mathos when he noticed the professor's attention was entirely on Teyla.

"I see," was all he said as he continued to look at Teyla who was clearly becoming uncomfortable under his scrutiny.

"We're very sorry it won't happen again," Jack said as he took a step closer to Teyla, an action that Mathos seemed to notice as he finally looked at him.

"Next time perhaps you should leave town a little earlier, if it happens again you'll both be in detention, dismissed."

Jack made a point of walking out of the room behind Teyla. He kept his gaze on Mathos as Teyla walked passed him toward the door and then followed after her.

"Creep," Teyla muttered as the walked away from the classroom and Jack put a reassuring hand on her shoulder as they made their way to History of Magic.

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"You may use the text books, the essay will also be your homework so the more of it you get done now, the less you have to do in your own time," the Professor stated and the majority of the class got to work as a quiet chatter filled the room.

"Think they're okay?" Elizabeth asked as she turned to the needed page in the text book.

"I'm sure they're fine," John stated but he noticed Elizabeth seemed to be more concerned than she was letting on. "You're really worried aren't you?" he questioned but she brushed him off.

"No, you're right, I'm sure they're fine," she replied as she started writing on the paper in front of her but John wasn't having any of it.

"Elizabeth I saw your face when we left the room," John stated lowering his voice so they wouldn't be over heard by any of the students who happened to like Mathos, especially the red head sitting on the row in front. "You were really worried, you didn't want to leave them."

Elizabeth put her pen down with a sigh and looked at John, the extent of her worry obvious in her expression. "I just… I don't like him. I think he's capable of more than we give him credit for. I don't know, I just have a really bad feeling about him, the truth is… he scares me."

She'd been more open with him in that moment than in the entire month that he'd known her and he could tell she really meant it, she really was scared of him. He was just figuring out how to respond to that when the classroom door opened and Jack and Teyla walked in.

John had told the Professor that Mathos had kept them behind so she just smiled in acknowledgement and allowed them to take their seats. She obviously assumed John and Elizabeth would tell them what work they were supposed to be doing. Teyla and Jack sat down beside John and took their things out of their bags.

"Everything okay?" John asked, Elizabeth's words had made a little more worried than he had been before.

"Fine, he just told us if we were late again we'd get detention," Jack stated and John nodded his head as he turned to look at Elizabeth. She was still looking at Jack and Teyla who were taking things out of their bags oblivious to their friends gaze. Elizabeth bit her lip for a moment and then turned back to her essay.

"So what are we supposed to be doing?" Teyla asked and John turned his attention back to them as he explained the essay to them.

TBC