Steph7085 – Thanks for the review, I'm glad you liked the last chapter and the scene switching at the end. Hope you enjoy this chapter and on another note, we're going to London tomorrow! Yay for meeting Torri!

Suzotchka1 – Wow, thank you, I'm glad you find the story original and I'm doubly glad you're enjoying it. Thanks for the review and I hope you enjoy this chapter.

Whirlwind-2005 – (joins in screaming) wait I already know what happens lol. Thanks for the review and I hope you enjoy this chapter.

Fyd818 – I'm glad you liked the scene switching at the end of the last chapter; I envisioned it sort of like a movie lol. Also glad you didn't see the cloud taking over coming. Ronon's confession to Teyla was one of my fave parts of the last chapter and I'm glad you liked it. Thanks for the review and I hope you enjoy this chapter.

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Chapter 14

Teyla put the last of her few belongings into the bag just in time for the door to chime. She moved over to it and pressed the small button on the panel to open it. Ronon smiled his greeting to her as she stepped back to allow him into the room. She walked back over to her bed and zipped up the bag, she was about to sling the strap over her shoulder when Ronon took it from her.

"Is that everything?" he asked as he put the strap over his own shoulder.

"Yeah," she replied and Ronon nodded before the two of them left the room together. Ronon's ship had arrived an hour ago and was now awaiting Ronon and Teyla's arrival. She couldn't say she was sorry to be leaving Kolya's ship. He would be far less of a threat to her if he was no longer around.

They arrived at the docking hatch where Ronon's ship had joined up with Kolya's. There was a man there that Teyla didn't recognise and she assumed he was one of Ronon's officers. Ronon handed him her bag with instructions to take it Teyla's room, the officer immediately did as he was told.

"Leaving so soon," they heard Kolya say and they turned to see him walking down the corridor.

"Looks like it," Ronon responded and Kolya stopped in front of them looking at Ronon and then Teyla.

"I'll be seeing you," he told them, to anyone else it would have seemed like a simple farewell but both Ronon and Teyla saw it for the threat it was. Kolya smirked and Teyla resisted the urge to hit him just so she could wipe that smirk off his face.

"Hopefully it won't be anytime soon," Ronon stated before he gestured for Teyla to precede him through the docking hatch to his ship. As she stepped onto Ronon's command vessel she noticed it was exactly the same as Kolya's. She heard the sound of the docking hatch door closing before Ronon walked past her and she almost had to run to catch up with him. He led her through the long white corridors and down a few flights of stairs until they reached what she assumed was her new room.

He opened the door and she followed him through it into a room much better than the one she had been given on Kolya's ship. It was larger and slightly more furnished; there were a few things on the bed that had obviously been obtained for her.

"From now on you are free to go and do whatever you want without escort," Ronon told her and she smiled slightly as she nodded her head. "Don't make me regret it," he added as he turned and left her room to allow her to get settled.

Teyla looked around the room at the large set of draws that were fixed into place on the wall opposite her bed. The bed itself was larger than the one she'd had before and as she sat down on it she realised it was more comfortable too. Her bag from Kolya's ship was sitting on the end of the bed next to the other things that had been left there. She looked through her new belongings; there were several sets of new clothes, toiletries and books.

She picked up the toiletries and took them through the door in her room to the bathroom. She placed most of the in the cabinet above the sink and put the rest of them on the shelf in the shower. Returning to the bedroom she put all of her clothes away before placing all but one of her books on top of the draws. As she looked around the room again she realised it could almost feel like home.

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It took her mind a while to realise that it was conscious again and when she finally managed to open her eyes she found John and Carson staring down at her. She looked around her immediately recognising her surroundings as the infirmary. What she couldn't figure out though was why she was here, she wasn't in any pain as far she could tell, she didn't feel unwell and her body seemed to be working normally.

After a few seconds the memories of her last moments of consciousness came back to her. She'd lost control of her body and hurt several people, including Marcus before John had shot her. Hold on, John had shot her; she sat up in the bed quickly and looked down at her chest where she was sure she was going to find a bullet wound.

"Easy lass," Carson said and Elizabeth was silently relieved when she found no bullet wound though she distinctly remembered John shooting her.

"How long was I out?" she questioned.

"12 hours," Carson informed her.

"What happened?" she asked and John gave Carson a look before the doctor nodded and left. "John, what's going on?"

"The cloud took over your mind," he told her bluntly and she stared at him a moment trying to make sense of that.

"What?" she finally managed to ask.

"We believe, though we weren't entirely sure until now, that you have some kind of mental connection to the dark cloud. We think it's what you gives you your power but… the connection works both ways. Some part of the cloud must linger after an attack and when you were exposed to it… it connected with your mind and took control," he explained as best he could.

"You knew," she said after a moment "You knew this could happen and you didn't warn me." Her voice was angry and he could tell she was upset.

"The council forbid me from telling you, that's what I stayed behind for after the meeting," he stated.

"I hurt people," she told him "I could have killed someone or done God knows what else."

"Elizabeth…" he tried but she wasn't having any of it.

"Carson, can I leave?" she questioned and the doctor who had been stood at the other side of the room approached the bed slowly.

"As long as you take it easy, I don't see why not," he informed her and she nodded her head and pushed the sheet of her. She jumped down from the bed pleased to find she was still wearing the clothes she'd had on earlier. She grabbed her boots from beside the bed and yanked them on before walking out of the room ignoring John as he called her name.

She walked as quickly as she could down the corridor without drawing attention to herself. She soon realised that it was pointless since everyone was staring at her anyway; no doubt everyone on the ship knew what had happened by now. She finally arrived in her room and was relieved when the door swished closed.

How could he keep something like this from her, who knew what she could have done while under the clouds control. If John hadn't shown up and shot her when he did she could have easily killed one of those men or anyone else she came across. Again she found herself wondering why there was no bullet wound from where John had shot her. She sighed in a combination of anger and frustration as she dropped down onto her bed.

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It felt almost as if she was back to square one, except without the cell. Everywhere she went people were staring at her, at least on Kolya's ship everyone had gotten used to the Electus being around. Now though she had a whole ship full of people to adjust to and who needed to adjust to her.

She was currently walking through the ship trying to learn her way around it. If this was going to be her home now than she would need to know where everything was. Unfortunately all of the corridors were the same long white hallways and it was easy to lose track of exactly where in the ship you were. She hadn't seen Ronon since he had left her in her quarters that morning and she found, strangely enough, that she missed his presence. She put it down to him being the only familiar face on the ship but she couldn't suppress the annoying little voice in her head that was telling her there was more to it than that.

Teyla quickly shook that thought out of her head before it led her into dangerous territory and she continued to try and figure out exactly where in the ship she was. She finally passed a familiar looking door and when the door opened to allow someone to exit she realised it was the engine room. She'd passed that an hour ago so she was hopefully heading in the right direction to get to her quarters. If memory served her she had descended a flight of stairs shortly before passing the engine so they should be right around there somewhere.

She smiled triumphantly when she located the stairs and walked up them to the next level and down yet another white corridor. To be honest she was getting a bit sick of the constant white that surrounded her everywhere she went. Why she had decided to go exploring in the first place was beyond her, as far as she could tell the ships design was similar to Kolya's, though she had never bothered to learn her way around his ship.

It took her all of a few minutes to realise she now had no idea where she was going. She new she was going to have to ask for help and just hoped whoever she asked didn't stare at her whilst they answered the question, if they answered at all.

"Excuse me," she said to the young female officer who was passing her by. She looked slightly taken aback and then proceeded to stare curiously at her. "Can you tell me how to get to section 14H?" she asked glad that she had made a mental note of the section her quarters were in.

"Erm..." the woman began before she recovered enough of her senses to give Teyla her answer. "Down the corridor, take the first set of stairs upward, follow that corridor and take the third right."

"Thank you," Teyla replied walking in the direction the woman had told her. She finally found herself outside the door to her room and she pressed the button on the panel to open it. She sat down on the large chair in one corner of the room and pulled her legs up so she could rest them comfortable on the chair. She picked up her book that was currently sitting on the small table beside her and opened it to the first page.

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"She hasn't left her room all day," Marcus stated in concern as he, Laura and John all sat around a table in the ships commissary.

"She has a right to be mad, keeping something like that from her wasn't fair," Laura stated with an accusing glance at John.

"The council forbid me from saying anything, what was I supposed to do?" John questioned. "The only reason they even told me was because I'm the one spending the majority of my time with her and therefore I'd be the one in danger."

"Funny," Marcus began "How you were the one in the most danger yet I'm the one who got my ass kicked."

"You're just upset cos you got your ass handed to you by a woman," Laura responded with a smile on her face.

"Technically it was the cloud that kicked my ass, it just used Elizabeth's body to do it," he defended himself and Laura's smile widened.

"Okay so you got your ass handed to you by a cloud, very macho, you should tell all your buddies that story," she said clearly trying not to laugh whilst Marcus merely glared at her.

"I'm gonna go and try to talk to her," John stated as he stood up and left the cafeteria. Even as he walked out the door he could hear the two agents bickering behind him. It took him only a few minutes to make the short walk between the cafeteria and Elizabeth's room. He hit the button to sound the door chime but received no response; he hit the button again with the same result. He wasn't going to be deterred though, they needed to talk about this and he wasn't going to let her ignore him anymore.

He pressed the button again and then again a few seconds after that. He hit it a fifth time and the door finally opened to reveal an angry Elizabeth. "We need to talk," he stated and she remained in the doorway to block his access to her room. "You're my partner, you going to have to talk to me sooner or later, might as well get it over with."

He could almost see her inner battle over whether or not to let him in and for a moment he thought she was going to refuse but she soon stepped aside and allowed him into the room. He heard the door close behind him and he turned to see Elizabeth stood waiting for him to say his piece.

"I should have told you," he said simply after a moment and when she remained silent he continued. "The council ordered me not to, they thought that since the cloud had already left the planet you'd be safe."

"I could have killed someone John," she said angrily "I could have killed Marcus or you or even myself. The cloud could have had me blow myself out of the nearest airlock so I wouldn't be a threat to it anymore."

John had to admit that possibility had never crossed his mind; he knew she could have killed other people but the thought of her killing herself had never occurred to him. Clearly she'd been thinking a lot about this over the course of the day. "I'm sorry," he said honestly "From now on no more secrets," he promised her and after a moments hesitation she nodded her head in acceptance.

"I do have one question though," she said and he looked at her curiously "I remember you shooting me… but there's no wound?"

"Stunner," he informed her.

"Ah, that would explain it," she replied and John smiled slightly.

"Come on, Laura and Marcus are worried about you and you're missing out on the perfect opportunity to tease Marcus about getting his ass kicked," he informed her and she narrowed her eyes at him. "Seriously, Laura's having all the fun."

"Agent Sheppard, come in," the captain's voice came over the radio attached to John's belt.

"Sheppard here," John replied as he grabbed the device.

"You and the other Agents might wanna come to the bridge," the captain stated and John gave him a quick reply of acknowledgement before contacting Laura and Marcus. They headed to the bridge where the captain was giving orders to his officers, he turned to look at them as Laura and Marcus arrived on the bridge as well.

"Agents," the captain greeted "We're being rerouted, the Vernai are attacking our outpost on Karlas."

TBC

Authors Note: This will probably be my last update for a little while cos I'm going to London tomorrow for a few days. I'm off to meet Torri at the Con (Am I making anyone jealous lol?). I'll try to update before I go tomorrow but no promises. Hope you all enjoyed the chapter.