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Dixie11

Forestreject

And now, on wiht the story

Chapter thirteen

The next morning Natalie woke up from a really weird and twisted dream, Ronon and Teyla and James were in it. There were flying sharks, Ninja's trying to cut people's heads off the whole time and floating escalators. Basically Natalie was running and fighting throughout the whole dream, except for the few times that Ronon, James and Teyla appeared in front of her to tell her something but for the life of her she couldn't remember what they had told her.

Taking a deep breath Natalie got out of bed and went into her bathroom to take a quick shower and then she threw on whatever was closest for clothes and headed down to the Stargate room so that she could see Emilia and Lorne off – they were going off world.

"Natalie!" Lorne said with a smile and pulling her into a gentle hug in welcome. "didn't think you were going to get up in time. We knocked on your door but you were dead to the world." he said to her with a shrug.

That made Natalie laugh, "Yeah. Sorry. I was having a pretty weird dream." she answered as she rubbed the back of her neck.

"What about?" Emilia asked curiously.

Natalie shook her head, "Half the time I wasn't even sure what it was about, it was that weird and twisted." she said to her.

Both Lorne and Emilia looked at Natalie, "If you wanna talk about anything, you know we're here. Right?" Lorne said looking at Natalie.

"Yeah I know, don't worry." Natalie said with a smile. "But you do need to worry about yourselves okay. If I find out you got yourselves captured and need me to come in and save your asses. You guys are gonna get your asses kicked and you won't like how imaginative I can be. If I have to I'll even get Ronon to help me." she said to them half serious.

Both Emilia and Lorne looked at each other and then at Natalie and smirked, "Look Emilia they'd be doing something to us as a couple. Isn't that sweet of them." he said and looked back at Natalie and tried to stop laughing but couldn't.

"I bet the two of them would get off doing that and then they'd end up fucking." Emilia said with a waggle of her eyebrows.

Natalie raised a brow at her friend and then before Emilia realized what was happening she was hit up side the head by Natalie, and Natalie can hit hard so it definitely hurt. "Owie! God Natalie what was that for?" she asked.

It was Natalie's turn to smirk, "for being a pervert." she said to her with a shrug.

"We'll come back Natalie," Lorne said seriously once he and Emilia controlled their amusement. "We'll be safe." he said to her.

Glancing at Emilia, Natalie looked at Lorne. "take care of her while you're out there you here. You know how she doesn't pay attention to anything most of the time when she looks down at her computer. Can't go and have her fall and break something because she's blind." she said to him.

Emilia protested but both ignored her, "I'll watch over her, she wont get herself injured if I can help it." he stated.

Smiling at them Natalie threw herself at them and pulled both into a tight hug, "Be safe." she said to them and let go.

"We will mother," Emilia mocked. "Now stop acting so out of character and go and do something more interesting then waiting for us to go off world. I'm sure Carson wouldn't mind if you went and helped him in the infirmary." she said to her.

Natalie laughed, "Okay, I'll leave you alone you annoying little brats." she said to them jokingly and waved one last time before leaving the Gate Room.

The first mission they went on without Natalie she nearly freaked out and had an anxiety attack. Thankfully though Teyla and Ronon were with when that happened and calmed her down before she had a mental break down and made it so she couldn't breathe anymore, that would not have been a good thing.

Once up in the infirmary Carson immediately put Natalie to work, since some of the medical team was off world with Keller helping some kids in one of the villages that they trade with they were a bit short staffed and needed some help. So Natalie went to work in organizing some of the paper work, medicine cabinets and helping patients which Natalie was doing wonderful at. She was a fast learner and picked things up with only a few tries so she was one of the better people to have volunteer their help in the infirmary.

"Okay people listen up," Carson suddenly yelled out the the few people that were in the infirmary. "We got Colonel Sheppard's team coming in with a few injured so get ready." he said and then turned to look at Natalie going to need your help, not everyone can stop what they are doing to help John and the others."

Natalie nodded in understanding, "I'll do whatever you need me to, just tell me what has to be done and it will be done." she told to him with a determined look on her face.

Carson gave her a small smile and patted her on the back, "Thank you lass, I will tell you what needs to be done when they all get up here." he said and just as he finished that sentence John, Teyla, Rodney and Ronon came in – Rodney and Teyla on gurney's.

Rodney was whining like a baby from his gurney saying he was going to lose his arm and die a slow and painful death because he got an infection, Teyla on the other hand was just wincing slightly – apparently she was able to convince Carson and the others to let her go on the mission that morning with the guys.

"Alright lets get to work people," Carson said. "Jamison look over John, Madison take care of Teyla. Alice you're with me and Rodney." he said and then glanced over at Natalie. "You take a look at Ronon." he said and then headed over to Rodney.

Natalie gave Carson's turned back a look, she knew that he did that on purpose. He was teasing her earlier about the 'thing' her and Ronon had going on; shaking her head Natalie pushed the small medical cart over to the bed that Ronon was on so that she could see what the damage was and do what she could for him.

Before Natalie even had a chance to do or say anything to Ronon he glanced up at her with a hard look, "I don't need anything." he said to her gruffly.

"Really?" Natalie asked with a raised brow and an unconvinced voice. "because your bleeding arm is saying different."

Ronon looked at her, "I've been through worse, go help Rodney." he said and acted as if he dismissed her.

At that Natalie clicked her tongue at him and he looked at her, "Don't order me around Ronon, I don't take well to as you know from when you rescued me from that planet." she said to him with a pointed look. "But whether or not you need it you are going to let me look at your wounds. We all know that Rodney is just a big baby and is overreacting like he usually does. So let me take a look at your arm and then you can be on your way."

"No," Ronon said stubbornly. "I'm fine, like I said."

"I don't care if you think or if you say you're fine." Natalie said and crossed her arms, or tried to – kinda hard to do when one was in a cast. "You Ronon Dex, are going to let me, Natalie Vance, look at your damn arm." she said and cracked her neck and raised a brow at him.

He growled at her when she said that, "No."

At that Natalie glared at him, "Don't you go growling at me like that mister, you aren't the only one who can do the whole threatening growling thing." she said to him with her hands on her hips and growled right back at him but he growled once again and Natalie knew that with that evil look in his eyes that he did that on purpose.

Narrowing her eyes at him Natalie strode forward and grabbed the arm that had been shot and dug her fingers into the bullet wounds and smiled happily when she saw Ronon wince in pain, most days Natalie doesn't like to cause people pain but with stubborn asses like Ronon it was fun once in a while.

"Now listen here Ronon, "Natalie said harshly. "You are going to listen to me and let me do what Carson told me to do and look at your wounds and take the bullets out okay. And if you don't let me Ill just keep on digging my fingers deeper and deeper into your arm until you do let me. I don't want to make you angry but you aren't giving me much of a choice here. So Don't piss me off, let me take a look at you and we'll both be happy." she said using her fake cheery voice for the last part.

Ronon just grunted so Natalie took that as an okay to take a look at his arm and fix him up, not giving him the chance to change his mind Natalie immediately started to clean the area up and then started to slowly and carefully take the two bullets out of his arm. Once they were out she cleaned the wound and began to stitch the small wound up, once she had securely stitched both wounds and made sure there were no other injuries that needed to be taken care of Natalie put a small bandage over the bullet holes.

"See that wasn't so hard to do was it?" Natalie asked him rhetorically. "Next time you should actually listen to me so I wont have to injure you further." she said to him with an amused smile.

Ronon smirked at her when she said that, "You wouldn't be able to injure me." he said to her in amusement.

"Yeah no one here in Atlantis has been able to so far," John said hopping off the bed he was sitting on while he was getting looked over by the medical staff.

Natalie looked at John with a smirk, "Maybe most of the men here on Atlantis who try to fight him are just weaklings." she said to him with a joking smile.

That got a laugh out of Ronon, and John just gave Natalie a dark look for that. "Now that Natalie, was just plain mean. Really." he said to her shaking his head.

Smirking Natalie shrugged, "But it was funny." she said to him with a grin.

Teyla looked over at Natalie from the bed that she was sitting in, "Natalie believe me I have seen many people spar against Ronon but none have come close to beating him nor being his equal in fighting." she said to her with an amused smile.

At that Natalie smiled and looked at Ronon, "Hey Ronon, maybe when I get all healed up me and you can go against each other." she said with with a hopeful look.

He laughed, "You wont make it out unharmed." Ronon told her with his deep voice.

"Nothing I haven't been through before," Natalie said to him and looked at Teyla. "Speaking of sparing, you willing to spar sometime in the near future?" she asked.

Teyla looked at her, "I thought you were not able to spar until you were all healed up?" she said and looked at her curiously. "Will you be able to spar with a broken arm?"

Natalie gave her an amused look, "Well the doc said I can't spar as often or as vigorously as I used to nor can I spar against someone like Ronon or even Lorne but you're my size and I've missed sparring against you." she said and gave her the puppy dog face and giving her the biggest pout that she could muster.

"I would more then love to spar with you Natalie," Teyla said giving a small laugh. "It has been much too long since we have sparred my friend. Would tomorrow work for you to spar?" she asked curiously.

Hearing her friends response Natalie grinned, "Great, god you have no idea how much I've been itching to go down to the Gym but so far I've been banned and stopped before I've stepped a foot into that place." she said with a roll of her eyes and glanced over where Rodney was being worked on by Carson, the first of whom was complaining every other seconds.

"Be happy they are letting you spar at all with a broken arm," Ronon said to her. "They could make you wait until you are fully healed before they let you do anything at all."

At that Natalie grimaced, "That would suck majorly." she replied with a unamused face and pushed her braids out of her face.

After almost twenty minutes of waiting Rodney was finally released and then the five of them left the infirmary and decided to head down to the mess hall to get some food; Sheppard and his team didn't get much food to eat while on the mission and Natalie hasn't eaten yet that day she's been distracted by helping in the infirmary.

"See ya Carson," Natalie said as she waved at the Scottish doctor, he gave her a smile and waved back before looking at the computer once again.

"Okay question," McKay said looking at Natalie, breaking the silence as they all walked towards the mess hall.

Natalie looked at him carefully, "Yes, what is it?" she asked.

He gestured to her outfit, "Why is it that even though you are from Earth that you get to wear whatever it is that you want to and don't have to wear the Atlantis uniform like the rest of us." he said looking a bit put out that she could wear civilian clothing.

"I don't have to," Ronon said.

McKay sighed at that, "Yeah but you're you, not to mention you're not from Earth." he said and looked at Natalie expectantly.

That made Natalie shake her head at Rodney but she answered him nonetheless, "Well Rodney, can you manipulate, create and fix almost any gun and or weapon that you get your hands on? Can you alter a normal to make into something different or to work better?" she asked him with a raised brow, when he shook his head Natalie smirked. "And thus, that is the reason why I, Natalie Vance, am one of the best Weapon Specialists in North America and parts of Europe. So because of that Stargate Command really doesn't want to piss me off so I get to wear whatever the hell I want to."

"Oh, okay." McKay said to her and then turned away from her.

Natalie laughed and looked to Ronon, "I think I scared him off." she said in a stage whisper which resulted in him looking at her in amusement.

Hearing that comment McKay turned to look at her, "You did not scare me off thank you very much, if you want to know you answered my question and now I don't see why I should ask you anything else that pertains to the subject." he said to her and crossed his arms acting very much like a child and stalked over to the table with the food on it.

"Seriously does he always act like a high school girl?" Natalie asked as she grabbed a tray and started to load food onto it.

"We usually try to ignore him when he starts acting like that," John said with a half smile as he and the others sat at a table that was away from Rodney and Zelenka were sitting at.

With that the three sat down and Natalie began to hear about the mission that that went on, how things didn't exactly go as planned and how Rodney had 'saved' the day according to him and was injured while saving everyone. Natalie just smiled and listened to what they had to say about the mission and the people on the planet that they had saved from the Wraith and in doing that saved the plant that could be of medicinal purpose.

A/N: Hope you guys liked the chapter, i promise it's gonna get more interesting now. I already have maore then half the story written up but i didnt like how everything flowed so i am rewriting the whole thing and let me tell you this story is around 270 pages so it's gonna take a bit so please bare with me.