Jennifer awoke feeling cold and stiff. She could feel that she was lying on something hard which lacked warmth but wasn't sure what. She could hear voices that she easily placed as belonging to Sheppard, Teyla and Rodney. Just hearing their voices put her at ease as she tried to figure out why she was lying on a cold, hard surface and why every muscle in her body was aching. She remembered being in the tunnels with Kiryk and then gun fire and then,
"Ronon." She exclaimed as her eyes flew open and she tried to sit up, the memories flooding back.
"Easy there doc." Sheppard said as Jennifer tried to focus on her surroundings.
"I'm fine." Ronon said from somewhere to her side.
Ignoring her screaming muscles, Jennifer spun round and located Ronon, who was leaning against a wall. As soon as she saw him she half crawled, half dragged herself towards the former runner.
"You should be resting." She immediately said before asking. "How are you feeling? Any dizziness? Nausea? Does it hurt to breathe?"
"I am resting." Ronon shot back as Jennifer started to examine his multiple wounds. She was so intent on her task she missed Sheppard's smirk and Rodney rolling his eyes. When she was finally convinced that Ronon would not die in the immediate future she looked to Sheppard and asked.
"What happened?"
"Well it appears that our hunter friends have gas canisters that contain knock-out gas. Gas canisters that look remarkably like Atlantis standard issue." He said waving the spent canister at her. "Which means that one of our so called allies are arming other people, but I digress. We were caught off guard and got knocked out cold by the gas, whilst Kiryk manage to transport you out. When we came to we were bound up and had some not so friendly guards. One of the intruders recognised Ronon from his runner days and well you saw the results. Then Kiryk burst in all guns blazing. Took out two of men in here before he was hit by a blast from Ronon's weapon, fortunately it was on stun. Then before we knew it you came in like a Rambo-fied Bambi and launched yourself at Ronon's new friend, a move we are going to have to talk about later. Your intervention did prove a good distraction and allowed us to get the better of the men guarding us, before Teyla took out Ronon's friend. Then you crawled across to Ronon, treated him, then you..." He paused trying to come up with a tactful explanation.
"Fainted." McKay finished for him causing Jennifer to cringe.
"I was going to say, collapsed due to exhaustion." Sheppard corrected.
"Is Kiryk ok?" Jennifer asked
"He is fine." Teyla assured her.
"He is keeping an eye out for trouble." Sheppard added.
"Why are we in here?" Jennifer asked, noticing they were in the small side chamber. "I thought that everything had happened in the main chamber?"
"It did. But the friendly guys on the other side of the energy field were beginning to get annoying. I swear I will never complain about the amount of complaining Rodney does on a mission again. Seriously compared to those guys he is stoic. Anyway we moved in here for a bit of peace and quiet."
"I thought I told you not to move Ronon. Do you have any idea what damage moving him could have done?" Jennifer asked.
"Relax doc, you said not to move him till he was awake and we did wait." Sheppard said, although Jennifer did not look pacified.
"I'm fine." Ronon said taking hold of Jennifer's hand and gently squeezed it.
"There is no way you can know that." Jennifer replied. "Even I can't know that without my equipment."
"Well maybe this will help." Rodney said handing Jennifer a scanner. "I have re-programmed it so it is like your medical scanner, probably won't be quite as accurate, but it works."
Jennifer took the scanner from McKay and said. "Thank you Rodney." Giving him a warm smile.
"You're welcome." Rodney said smiling back causing Ronon to glare at him. Jennifer misinterpreted Ronon's glare as a pained expression and immediately returned her focus to him, using the jerry-rigged scanner to look for signs of internal bleeding. After a few moments she visibly relaxed.
"How is he?" Sheppard asked.
"four cracked ribs, lots of bruising, but no internal bleeding." Jennifer said.
"Told you I was fine." Ronon said. Jennifer half glared in response before she attempted to move so she was sitting next to Ronon.
"How are you feeling doc?" Sheppard asked, concerned by her slow movements.
"Apart from every muscle aching and my leg feeling like it has been replaced by a tree trunk I'm good."
"Well if you do choose to go on unauthorised runs in the woods and try wrestling with someone twice your size what do you expect?" Sheppard replied smiling.
"Umm, what is stopping more of them coming back through the tunnel?" Jennifer asked.
"We blew the tunnel." Sheppard said causing Jennifer to raise her eyebrows. "If we need to get out we can use Kiryk's arm thing. But Ronon is in no state to swim so we are just going to wait for the Daedalus. For now we seem to be safe."
Jennifer looked at Sheppard confused. "How did I miss you blowing up a tunnel?"
"You were out cold." McKay said.
"I can't have been that out of it." Jennifer argued.
"You have been through a lot, your body probably decided it needed some down time." Sheppard shrugged. Jennifer raised her eyebrows and muttered.
"Suddenly everyone is a medical expert." Before leaning her head back against the wall and shutting her eyes again.