Hi guys! So sorry for the delay I've having issue's with my internet the past couple of days and it's finally running smoothly again. Thank you all so much for the wonderful feedback you left about the previous chapter! I was honestly so nervous but you guys made it all better! Enjoy this one guys, and just so you know next chapter is when everything really starts to get interesting!

Breaking Ranks - Emergence

"Alright, I'm about ready to call this one. Doesn't look like there are any survivors," John said after we had checked out the village to see it completely destroyed and barren, there wasn't a soul alive anymore.

"The culling's are getting more intense," Teyla said into the radio.

"Well, you said it yourself; too many Wraith woke up at the same time. Too many mouths to feed—or…hands to feed," John replied back to her.

"Well, we're heading back to the gate, meet you there?" Lorne said into the radio.

"Sounds like a plan," John said from behind me. "McKay, Beckett; you having any luck?" John asked them.

"Negative, Colonel, we haven't found anyone," Carson's Scottish lilt came through next.

"Make your way back to the gate," John ordered.

"Will do. Beckett out."

I kicked a nearby branch that was in my way as it went sailing through the air, John and I hadn't spoken since our argument a few hours ago, and it was now awkward, and I think Hansen realized something was up between us but he didn't say anything, but even the Sergeant was quiet on this trip back. I glanced over my shoulder, pretending to look at the foliage around me but I found my eyes wondering over to John who was examining his life signs detector. As if he could sense my stare he lifted his gaze as I quickly turned back around, looking ahead of me.

"We have an incoming dart," I heard a female's voice that I knew to be Cadman as I stopped and turned to face John. He looked equally as stunned as myself as John activated his radio.

"If it's seen us, it will blow Atlantis' cover. Anyone get a clear shot, you take it, understand?" John said as the three of us began running towards the gate. We weren't far; out of the three groups ours was the closest to the gate. John ran ahead of me while Hansen was panting next to me as we came out of the trees and I could see the gate in the distance.

The Stargate activated as John ran up the stairs, aiming his machine gun and scanning the skies. I went to one of the Marines standing at the gate and held out my hands for his machine gun as he passed it to me as I hurried over to the stairs and stood off to the side and aimed up. I heard an explosion off in the distance.

"It is heading towards the gate. We damaged it but it is still on its way," Teyla yelled through the radio.

"Wait!" Carson said breathless and panicked into the radio, "McKay and Cadman have been beamed aboard that dart!" I turned to face John. He looked torn but I knew what decision he had to make.

"We can't risk the dart making it back to the hive ship," John said. The next sound I heard was the buzzing of the dart, I turned back, gripping the machine gun tightly as I opened fired onto it. All I could hear was the loud gunfire of the two machine guns as I had the dart in my sights and I continued to fire on it. It was heading straight for us but after the rain of bullets something behind it exploded as it veered off course and began to nosedive to the ground to the East. Mud and dirt go flying up into the air as the dart crash lands just over a ridge nearby.

"Rodney," I whisper in worry as John looks over his shoulder at me as we both run towards the wreckage.

We follow the burning trail of dart to the cockpit. I can see Carson holding his hand up and it looked like he was speaking to the Wraith. Before I could get a shot off John had fired on the Wraith, it had been reaching for the self-destruct button. John walks closer, I was following close behind. John fires off another round into the Wraith to make sure that he was completely dead.

"What the hell do ya think you're doin'?" Carson yelled angrily at John.

"It was reaching for the self-destruct," John argued with him as we both came up to the cockpit. The control panel was frizzing out, sparks flying.

"He's the only one that can get Cadman and McKay out!" Carson yells.

"I seriously doubt he'd oblige," John snapped back.

"Well, we'll never know now, will we?" Carson muttered bitterly as I hear running footsteps as I look over my shoulder. Teyla is running over to us with the rest of her team.

"Is everyone alright?" She asked, breathless.

"If you count Rodney and Cadman stuck in the Wraith dart ok, then yes," I muttered.

"We're fine," John reassured her. "Hansen, radio Atlantis. We want Zelenka here ASAP. We've got a problem," John ordered the Sergeant as he hurried off back to the Stargate. "Sumner," John calling my name made me jump slightly, I turned to face him. "See what you can do," he ordered as I nodded and walked up to the cockpit.

"Uh…can you get him out of here," I pointed to the dead Wraith as Lorne and Reed came over and picked him out, dumping him in the forest.

I hopped into the cockpit, sitting in the seat as Carson came over to me.

"You have any idea how to work this thing, love?" He asked with concern over Cadman and Rodney.

"No idea, but it can't be too hard, can it?" I said, faking optimism as Carson gave me a weak smile as I looked at the controls. I scanned over the controls, jumping when some sparked. Lights all over the console were blinking at me and then suddenly it all died.

"Dammit," I grumbled.

"What?" John had magically appeared next to me.

"All the powers gone from the Dart, I can't access anything," I said, rubbing my forehead and smacking the console in my fury.

"Mia!" Carson yelled, making me jump out of the dart and running around to the back. Carson was pointing at something sticking out of the dart. In the attack some of the dart had broken off and in this case the cockpit had been severed from the rest of the dart. What I was looking at was the same gross organic material that we found inside a hive. And something else was sticking out of it; it looked like some type of triangular glass chamber. I could see a faint blue light inside it as I crouched down near it. "What do you think it is?" Carson asked me.

"A power source maybe?" I mumbled. "I'll know more once Zelenka gets here with the equipment," I said to Carson with a smile.

"Do you think Rodney and Cadman are still alive in there?" Carson asked worriedly as I sighed.

"I honestly have no idea, Carson," I said truthfully to him as he looked away from me.

An hour later Zelenka had arrived with his escort. About a dozen Marine's had come through the gate with machine guns and equipment that I would need to help get Rodney and Cadman out of there, if they were still alive.

"Zelenka!" I called out to him as he looked nervously around him as he reached me with two bags under his arms.

"Hello, what's Rodney done this time?" Zelenka asked as he set down the bags, he seemed to be looking around for someone, I assumed Rodney and then I realized that no one had told him what had happened, they must have just told him to grab everything and get here.

"He's stuck in the Wraith Dart transporter beam, along with Lieutenant Cadman," I told him, jerking my thumb over my shoulder to the dart. Zelenka looked over my shoulder.

"Oh," he said, I saw his face pale as he cleared his throat. "Well, we'd best get started then."

Zelenka got out all of the gear as we both went about hooking it up to the dart. After almost half an hour I joined him at the computer that we had set up.

"What am I looking at?" I asked him.

"This device here," Zelenka pointed to the glass chamber that I had seen before, "seems to be the dematerializer interface, it has it's own power source which is why it's the only thing left on."

"I checked the systems with my tablet, it's all fried, even if this thing has it's own power source there's no way for us to rematerialize them," I told him. Zelenka nodded.

"Yes, but thankfully the device has it's own buffer system. Before the dart completely died it transferred the remaining power cells into it, ensuring the survival of the occupants in the interface."

"But why?"

"Probably so that if the Wraith found their crashed dart they'd still get their feed," Zelenka said with disgust.

"Charming," I muttered, pulling a face. "How can we get them out without the controls?"

"I've been working on a subroutine to link it to my computer, making the interface think that the computer is the dart's control systems."

"Cool," I said with a grin. Zelenka looked bashful.

"Uh, thank you. I just need a little more time and then we should be ready to try and get them out of there," he said. I nodded.

"I'll leave you to it, if you need anything just yell," I said to him as he nodded and went back to his work. I walked around the dart as I looked around, trying to find John. I saw all of the security team around the perimeter and then spotted Lorne, I headed over to him.

"Hey," I said as I reached him, he looked over his shoulder at me. "Have you seen Colonel Sheppard? I need to talk to him about the dart," I said to him. Lorne pointed over to the Stargate.

"He was heading back to dial Atlantis and brief Doctor Weir on everything so far," Lorne said.

"Oh, good," I said, smiling, "I can tell them both then." This was all fake when in reality I had nothing new to tell John, all I wanted to do was talk to him. "Thanks, Lorne," I said as I jogged over the ridge. I spotted John almost at the gate; I could see a few security officers there as well as I grimaced. How was I supposed to get him alone? I was thinking hard, as I got closer to the gate. John was speaking with the two Marines as I finally thought of something as I reached him.

"Colonel!" I called out. My voice was hurried and John had heard that, he turned quickly, looking at me with worry.

"Major," he replied, meeting me on the stairs. I caught my breath.

"I um—I need to retrace the path the dart took to make sure no parts were lost in the descent, I thought I'd come tell you before I headed out," I explained to him. He frowned slightly, knowing that some Marine's had already done this before, it was another second before his eyebrows rose in understanding of what I wanted that he turned to the Marines.

"Dial Atlantis, let Doctor Weir know that we should be heading back soon. I'm heading out with Major Sumner." The two Marine's nodded in understanding as one of them began dialing. John motioned for me to take the lead as he followed me into the forest.

We didn't have to walk very far before I stopped, the forest here was dense and all the Marines, Zelenka and Carson were in the opposite direction. I turned and faced John who stood a few feet away from me, he placed his hands on his hips and I folded my arms.

"I'm sorry," I said. I feel like I was always apologizing to him, I kept on messing everything up between us. And with what had just happened with Rodney and Cadman, it could've been John and I stuck in there. I didn't want us to be fighting over every single thing.

"Mia," John said my name.

"No, just let me speak," I told him firmly. He nodded and waited. "What I said to you was so mean; I don't know what came over me. It's like whenever Ford's concerned I just…"

"I get it," John said as he stepped closer to me. I could see that he did truly understand, which was a change from how he normally was. "Ford is…your family, you've known him since you guys were kids; I'm just looking out for you, Mia. When I think back to what happened, it very easily could've been you in Ford's position. I just want you to start trusting me when I say that we'll get him back together, you don't have to do this all alone." I was silent as I pondered over John's monologue. I didn't realize that he felt this way; I guess in my head I was always thinking that I had to shoulder this burden alone, that Ford was my responsibility. As I met his gaze, I could see a question burning in his hazel eyes, but he didn't make a move to ask me. Instead I reached out for him and pulled him to me. I latched my arms around his waist, gripping onto his shirt as I felt his arms encircle me as he held me tightly.

"I can't loose anyone else, John. I don't know what I'll do if Teyla or Rodney or you—"

"You aren't going to loose us, I'm not going anywhere." He said firmly as I nuzzled my face into his chest. I felt him press a tender kiss to the top of my head as his hands rubbed up and down my back soothingly. "You aren't alone, Mia; please remember that. I'm here for you." I shut my eyes as I listened to the steady beating of his heart. I could feel some weight lifting off my shoulders. I needed to realize that John was here to stay; he wasn't going to leave me. I was still annoyed about him not letting me even try and talk to him, but I had to accept it and move on; John was trying to protect me, even though I hated being protected and I could handle myself, maybe letting John help a little more would be worthwhile.

"We should head back now," John said to me after a few more minutes.

"Yeah, we really should be figuring out how to save Rodney," I said with a chuckle. I felt a little bad; here John and I were, embracing in the forest talking about our issues when Rodney and Cadman were stuck in the Wraith dart. I pulled away from John, our fingers interlacing with each other, I sighed as I turned and started to walk towards the crash site when John pulled me back.

"Hey," he said, catching my hand again. "For what it's worth, I want to help you get Ford back. No matter what everyone says," he said as I felt a grin spread over my face. I threw my arms around his neck as I planted a kiss on his lips. It had been so long since I had kissed him, I felt the warmth spread through me as he hands ran up and down my back. I pulled away as I felt his cool breath ghost over my face.

"I love you," I told him, "please don't ever forget that," I kissed him again, more tenderly. John brushed my fringe out of my face and behind my ear.

"I love you," he said to me.

"Colonel!" Zelenka called out to John when we arrived back to the crash site. I could see Carson crouching next to Zelenka, as he was looking at the computer that he had set up and probably trying to make sense of everything. As John and I approached the dart the interface machine sparks, causing Zelenka to jump up in terror, looking around and clutching Carson. John looks slightly amused but concerned.

"First time off-world?" He asks the Czech scientist.

"Yes," Zelenka says nervously. I'm holding in my smirk at his apparent discomfort about being here.

"Well, if there were any more Wraith, they would have attacked us by now," John said, trying to reassure him.

"Really?" Zelenka said with relief.

"If it makes you feel better," John said, causing Zelenka's smile to drop slightly. "Did you find what we want?" He changed the subject quickly.

"Uh, well yes," Zelenka said, crouching down to the computer again as I came around and bent down to examine the computer also. "But it's very complex. This interface controls the machine that dematerializes people, stored their information and then rematerializes them again when commanded to."

"Great," John said, pointing at the dart, "command it to!"

"Uh, I can't," Zelenka told him.

"From what we can tell, the materializer is storing two life signs," Beckett said. And I suddenly felt really bad that I had been off fixing my problems with John when I should've been here helping Zelenka with this.

"Which is good," John said positively.

"Yes but there is only enough power in the Dart's energy cell to successfully rematerialize one of them," I see on the screen that Zelenka is now showing John that there are two small dots representing Rodney and Cadman. "Power to the rematerializer has been completely severed and emergency back up power is completely run down," Zelenka explained to John. He looked confused though; I knew strong science like this wasn't exactly his forte sometimes.

"Ok," John said, trying to follow along.

"You have to decide which one we're going to beam out," Zelenka told him as I grimaced.

"That's a terrible choice to have to make," Carson added, crossing his arms and biting his lip in worry.

"It's easy. Beam out McKay—he'll figure out how to get Cadman free," John, said oblivious. I smacked my forehead in frustration.

"No, no, no, sorry I was unclear," Zelenka apologized and motioning to the laptop once more.

"There's no way to tell who is who," I said to John as he looked over at me, and then back at Zelenka.

"They just read as life signs."

"Perfect," John exclaimed, "all right, that one," he said, pointing at the left life sign. "Stand aside!" John called out to everyone near the dart as we moved away from where the beam would come out. Zelenka pressed a button on his computer as we heard the whirling sound of the beam as Rodney appeared in a bright white light. He stares ahead blankly as John steps closer to him. "Rodney, you ok?" John asks.

Rodney drops to the floor unconscious. Carson and I are the first to reach him as I turn him over onto his back and Carson goes for his pulse.

"His pulse is stable but I need to get him back to Atlantis," Carson informs us, looking worried.

"Teyla, Lorne, help the Doc head back to the city with McKay. We're going to stay here with Zelenka—try to bring as much of the dart back as possible," John orders as I stand as Teyla takes my spot.

We got back to Atlantis a few hours after Carson had taken Rodney back. The dart had been spread out in the gate room, as it was too large to fit anywhere else in the city. Zelenka and I had managed to hook up some of our computers to the Wraith console and had tried juicing it up. We didn't get power back to the interface machine, but we did manage to download all of the Wraith data into a non networked computer, we had to take precautions because of what had happened on the Daedalus, we didn't know if it was booby trapped. Zelenka then sent me off into Rodney's lab on the third floor to start going over all the Wraith data as he was going to concentrate on reverse engineering a transformer which had accidently blown during Rodney's release. I was pretty ecstatic to be able to learn about Wraith technology, we had never been able to figure out anything about them except their biology from all of the ones we have killed. Now we actually had a dart in out possession. I felt like a kid in the candy store.

"How's it coming?" I looked up from my computer to see John walk into Rodney's lab. I felt my heart flutter at seeing him walk in with that lazy smile on his face. He strolled in and came up to the desk, hopping up and leaning around to look at the computer screen.

"It's amazing," I said in awe. John met my gaze. "I've been wanting to learn about Wraith technology for so long now, and now that I have it, I can't stop reading," I said with a chuckle.

"Tell me about it then," John pressed as he hopped off the table and stood behind me. He placed his hands on my shoulders as I shivered and tilted my head back to look at him.

"I can't concentrate when you do that," I said to him. John grinned slyly.

"Do what?" He asked innocently as I rolled my eyes.

"Do you want to hear about this or not?" I said playfully as he bent his head and pressed a quick kiss to my lips. John moved back around so that he was leaning against the table, facing me.

"I'm all ears," he said as I gave him a blank look. He chuckled as felt the excitement come over me from learning about the Wraith.

"Ok, well we've been speculating for some time now that the Wraith evolved after the Ancients came here."

"Yes I know that," John said. I grinned.

"Well, I think I just found proof about it." John's eyebrows rose.

"How?"

"The Wraith use Neural Interface to control their darts, exactly how the Ancients used theirs. It's as if they copied them somehow to try and beat them. And we know that the Wraith didn't come before as the Ancients were the first civilization to come to the Pegasus and there haven't been any more records of any Wraith like creatures anywhere else in the universe. And that's not the best part," I told John. He was listening intently. "It's organic."

"What?"

"Well more organic based really," I scratched my head, still trying to wrap my own head around it.

"Your saying that, that thing out there is alive?"

"Not really," I frowned. "According to all of this data, some of the exterior components of the Wraith structures are grown, like a tree or whatever and then they add in all the technology later, but the Wraith are far less advanced then we originally thought."

"How so?" He asked.

"They don't have shield capabilities, their weapons systems are basic at most and from what we've seen their hyperdrive isn't state of the art. It's like they built something just to get it in the air to try and get rid of the Ancients."

"And the Wraith only won the war because of their numbers."

"Exactly, if there had been a lot more Ancients back then, the Wraith would've been wiped out. They're a lot more fragile then we think. I mean, some of these organic materials I've never even heard of, but the disgusting thing is that I've found traces of DNA in it, which is why I think that everything is grown, even hive ships."

"Wait wait wait wait," John said hastily, pulling a disgusted face. "Did you just say DNA is in their ships?"

"Disgusting, I know. I'm still trying to figure out exactly how they can 'grow' ships but that's what I've found."

The door to the lab opened suddenly, causing me to tense up. John wasn't exactly close to me but it was close enough to look suspicious to some people. And it caused even greater tension when Elizabeth walked in, looking at the both of us.

"We have a problem," she said.

"Stop laughing," Rodney ground out through gritted teeth as I held onto my sides; I was laughing so hard tears were coming to the corner of my eyes. John was next to me and was holding in his smirk as I continued to laugh. "This isn't funny! This is a serious matter!" Rodney yelled at me. I finally controlled myself as I calmed down and wiped my eyes.

"Rodney you have to hear how ridiculous this sounds!" I exclaimed to him.

"It's not ridiculous, it's the truth," he grumbled.

"So you're saying," John said hesitantly, "that Lieutenant Cadman is stuck inside your head right now," John stated, looking at Carson for some relief but the Doctor shrugged.

"Yes," Rodney nodded.

"How?" John asked.

"I don't know! Obviously some malfunction with the beaming device! Look where is Radek, I want to know everything," Rodney began spinning in a circle and I couldn't help myself. I burst out laughing once more, Rodney turned and shot me a dark glare and I bit my bottom lip hard.

Zelenka appeared with a tray as Rodney walked over to him and took out some broken parts of the transformer.

"Oh, nice work," he muttered sarcastically.

"We were running out of power. I hardly knew anything about the machine. Who would've thought this could be one of the side affects?" Zelenka explained.

"So instead of waiting to understand what it was that you were doing, you just sort of mashed on the keyboard hoping something would happen!"

"Well, you're alive, aren't you?" Zelenka says grumpily.

"He doesn't know how to fix it!" Rodney shouts suddenly, causing the four of us standing together to give each other concerned looks.

"What?" Zelenka asks Rodney. Rodney pointed to his head.

"Talking to her," he snapped.

"You can hear her thoughts?" Elizabeth asked from beside me.

"No, not her thoughts, thank God. I can hear when she's speaking…or trying to speak."

Elizabeth leans over me to whisper to Carson, "Are you sure he should've been discharged from the infirmary?"

"According to the M.R.I, he's as healthy as he ever was," Carson explained.

"Well we can't all be track stars now, can we?" Rodney yells out, and then turns to all of us once more, "it was her again."

"Maybe there's something wrong an M.R.I wouldn't pick up, if you know what I mean," John whispered to Carson and I had to bite down on my lip once more to stop myself from laughing, Carson was doing the same.

"I'm not crazy—I just have another consciousness in my brain," Rodney hissed with crazy eyes.

"So he just looks crazy," John muttered to all of us.

"I'm sure I do," Rodney said in irritation. Then he gestured over to Zelenka, "but only because Doctor Fumbles McStupid over here was in way over his head!" He yelled as Zelenka rolled his eyes at Rodney.

"Yes, yes, I made a mistake trying to save your life. Now, do you want to try and fix it, or do you want to continue to berate me some more?"

"I'm perfectly capable of doing both at the same time. Now, I assume you've tried to run one of our own generators on it?"

"It's not as simple as that," Zelenka told Rodney. "The trick is having it interface with the Wraith machine in real time. The power fluctuations are, are huge. If we overshoot it just a little, we've screwed up." I glance at Rodney, he seems to be concentrating really hard on listening to Zelenka but he also looked like he was distracted by something.

"Yeah, yeah. Um, I'm sure if we can maybe run an interface program that will take care of all the…" He trailed over, rolling his hand. I glanced over at John and he too was staring at Rodney in concern. Rodney was still looking very weird. "Uh, here's what I want us to try…we'll take a, uh, naquadah generator…and um…and uh…yes! What?" Rodney shouts furiously at the end. I jump in shock from his sudden outburst. "Well stop asking stupid questions!" Rodney hisses to himself.

"Rodney," Carson says with concern.

"I will get you out of here, ok? Now just be a good little girlie and keep quiet," Rodney snaps obviously to Cadman, who was…inside his head…that was still hard to understand. "And do you have a degree in physics, hmm?" Rodney says condescendingly, "Well, what about Mechanical Engineering, huh?"

"Rodney?" Elizabeth calls calmly.

"Yes!" He yells at Elizabeth, but then realizes that he had just snapped at her as he composed himself. "Sorry. I'm sorry. What, please?" He stammers out.

"Why don't we let Zelenka handle this?" Elizabeth tells him.

"I'm fine," Rodney pressed.

"No, you're not," John told him.

"And I'd like you to talk to Doctor Heightmeyer."

"I think I'd be more useful if I was to—"

"Rodney," Elizabeth interrupts him, "I'm not asking you." Rodney glances around the gate room, seeing the entire personnel gaze on him as he turns back to Elizabeth with a sour expression.

"Fine," he mutters as he storms off with a pout.

John made me fill in Elizabeth, Zelenka and Carson on what I had figured out. It turned out that they were all very surprised and impressed with what I had been figuring out with the dart. And then Zelenka asked me to begin helping him with the reverse engineering of the transformer. It took the rest of the day, and when it was around dinnertime Zelenka said that he would be ok for the rest of the night and let me go and do my own thing. He said I had done a lot today for him, what I really wanted to do was go to my room and study over all the darts information again but I decided to get changed and head out for the gym. I wore my sports bra and sweatpants and piled my hair up on top of my head. Flinging my towel over my shoulder I headed down to the gym.

I waved my hand over the sensor as I arrived. I heard noises from inside as the doors opened and I saw John, Ronon and three Marines sparring. I jumped in shock when all three of them hit the mats as I glanced at Ronon. Jesus Christ, I thought. Ronon's piercing gaze went to me as I looked behind him to John, he was smirking.

"Let's try that again," he said. One of the soldiers who was holding his stomach in pain groaned and glared over at John.

"How about you try that again, sir," he muttered as John's smirk grew.

"Maybe that's enough for today then," he dismissed them. John realized I was standing here as his smirk turned into a smile as he walked over to me. The soldiers were picking themselves up off the floor as Ronon was stretching over in the corner.

"He's like a male version of you," John hissed with delight as I gave him a blank look.

"I doubt even I'd be able to take him, look at him, he's like Conan on steroids!" I hissed back at him as I walked further into the room. John followed me as I heard the three Marines leave the room. I threw my towel down onto the floor and faced John. "Do you want to spar, we haven't done it in so long?" I asked him as I quickly looked over at Ronon, he was waiting for John seeing as his guards weren't here. John looked disappointed.

"I can't, I'm taking Ronon to the firing range," he said. I frowned.

"Why? He obviously doesn't need to practice," I stated, motioning over to the Hulk. John fidgeted nervously.

"Uh, just showing him around. Tomorrow?" John said. I continued to scowl at him, was he hiding something from me?

"Fine, tomorrow, four o'clock, don't be late," I told him with my pointed finger as he held his hands up.

"I'm always on time," he said with a grin as I rolled my eyes. He and Ronon left the gym as I practiced my combo's on the punching bag.

I know they kind of resolved it a lot quicker then some people thought that would, but it really just comes down to how Mia feels, she doesn't understand what's happening to her, she's just having some crazy mood swings and get's a little bit too out of control when faced with Ford. I know that when i get mad about someone nothing can literally stop me from saying stupid shit or doing stupid shit until i've calmed down. For Mia she realized how stupid she had been when Rodney was stuck in the dart, but even so John hasn't told her what he knows in fear that she'll snap at him again...i'd be scared of her too if I was John!

Thank you everyone for your wonderful support for last chapter!

REPLIES

Adela - Thank you!

teekee hut - sorry this is coming out a day late, curse my internet sometimes! Yeah well this is just a tiny fraction of the ship drama, there is more to come. It's kind of implied in this chapter but it should come full head in the next one I think? Maybe the one after, but anyone they'll be a lot more drama coming. I'm glad you liked the John POV, I was a bit worried that people might not like it but I will be using it a few more times in this season and just get feedback from readers if they like it or not. I've had my fair share of depression and denial, so I guess I can sort of relate to her. I was in that stage where I knew I was depressed but I couldn't admit it to myself or anyone else as I didn't want to be "labelled" as having a mental illness; but things have worked out and I guess some of Mia's depression is based on my own experience. More will be shown next chapter though, she isn't fully over John and Ford yet. Yum, make up sex hahaha

Guest 64 - Thank you! I'm glad you approve of the storyline I took, I was honestly so nervous but not anymore! I pretty much used my own experience to shape Mia's character so that I could get a more realistic feeling to her. sorry that this is a day late though!

MageVicky - Thank you! Ah her and Ronon...we'll have to see about their relationship in the next few chapters! Thanks for reviewing!

mc arno - Thank you! Yeah nearly everyone is excited that Ronon is finally in the picture, I know I am! He's so much fun to write and interact with the other characters. I'm sorry this is a day late but I hope you enjoyed!