Disclaimer: Don't own Stargate Atlantis. It would be nice if I did but I don't.
Chapter 11, as promised.
John woke up about four hours later to a big surprise.
"How long you been there?"
"Liz?"
He took his head of her bed but still kept her hand in his. She smiled at him, he could tell that she was still weak but trying to cover it up.
"How long?"
"I've been with you since I found you last night."
Tears fell from Elizabeth's eyes.
"Thank you John. Thank you for being here."
Tears continued to fall from Elizabeth's eyes. John sat on the side of her bed and pulled her into a hug. She rested her against his shoulder and he placed his chin on her head. Tears began to fall from his own eyes. Elizabeth was back.
After about five minutes of hugging and crying, Dr Beckett walked in.
"Holy God."
John and Elizabeth pulled apart and Beckett rushed to Elizabeth's side.
"Elizabeth, God, you're alive."
Unable to resist he pulled her into a hug.
"I thought we'd lost you."
Elizabeth sighed.
"You nearly did."
After about an hour of checking Elizabeth to make sure she was as well as could be expected, John was aloud back in the infirmary, he'd been sent out for getting in Beckett's way, and he brought along Ford, Rodney and Teyla.
Elizabeth smiled when she saw them enter the room.
"Hey"
Rodney was straight at her side hugging her.
"Thank God, you're okay."
"Rodney, you can let go of me now"
Rodney pulled away from her suddenly aware of the public affection he'd just shown for his boss.
"Yes, of course. Sorry."
Elizabeth managed a little giggle.
Ford came to her and kissed her on the cheek.
"It's good to have you back."
He moved away and Teyla came to her, took her hand then hugged her.
"I'm so happy that you're back."
They all backed off to the bottom of the bed and John came to sit next to Elizabeth.
"Liz, I'm really sorry about this, but we need to know what happened."
"Okay... This is what happened."
TBC...
Want to know what happened, tune in too chapter 12, coming soon.
Not a very exciting chapter but just needed to put in all the warm and fuzzy reunion stuff before I start on the next chapter.