Getting To Know Myself

Elizabeth blinked once, twice. But the image was still there. She couldn't help it. Her face broke into a grin. She tried to contain her laughter as much as possible, but it worked its way out anyways. Elizabeth gave up trying and laughed and laughed.

Ronon currently had Carson in a headlock, somehow having freed himself from the IV. Teyla was standing on her bed shouting something while Rodney was looking scandalized. John seemed the only calm one. He was sitting back and enjoying the show, occasionally rolling his eyes at something Teyla or Ronon said.

"Now why can't I be the leader?" Ronon growled to the doctor. Fortunately for Carson, Teyla had stopped shouting long enough for them all to hear Elizabeth's laughter. They all froze, except for Ronon who still glared menacingly at Carson.

"What's going on here?" Elizabeth asked once she got over her lauging fit. Teyla flopped herself back onto the bed in a most un-Teyla-ish way. No one spoke and Ronon did not release his grip on the doctor. Carson struggled to free himself but Ronon was too strong. "Ronon please let Dr. Beckett go." Ronon reluctantly loosened his grip just enough for Carson to scramble away. "Thank you. Now what's this all about?"

"Well," John started. "Dr. Beckett was just telling us who we were. He told me that I was the leader of the team and Ronon said he wanted to be the leader. When Dr. Beckett told him that he couldn't be because I was, he got mad and tried to strangle the good doctor to death." Elizabeth thought that John was acting surprisingly calm considering everything. But she put it to the back of her mind and gave Ronon her best headmistress look.

The look having no effect whatsoever on Ronon, Elizabeth turned to Teyla. "Why were you shouting?" Teyla at least had the decency to blush.

"I was trying to tell Ronon that it wasn't Dr. Beckett's fault that he wasn't in charge."

Accepting her answer but not quite believing it when she caught John rolling his eyes out of the corner of hers, she turned back to Carson and said, "Thank you. I'll take it from here." Carson all but ran out of the infirmary and into his office, making sure to shut the door behind him.

Ronon sat back down on his bed but refused to do anything but glare ahead of him. Elizabeth pulled up a chair and sat across all of them, launching herself into the story about everything that happened on Atlantis and about them. She had only gotten to the part where Ronon joined Sheppard's team when Zelenka barged into the room with scorched eyebrows and burnt, smoking hair.

The scientist looked furious and pointed his finger threateningly at Rodney. Rodney had an absolute horrified look on his face.

"You!" He screamed. He babbled on in Czech for a two full minutes before he switched back to english. "I told you not to touch it! I told you that Dr. Weir had given me full authority over the project but what do you do? You go ahead and mess with the controls on the device so that when I go back to check on it, it explodes and sets me on fire! You hlupák! Zkurvysyne! Well you know what? Polib mi prdel! I'll just take over the chair project. Happy now?" And with that he stalked back out of the room, muttering in Czech all the while.

"I'm sorry?" Rodney called after him, not knowing what he had done. Elizabeth bit back a smile and continued with the story, anxious to get the attention off of Rodney whose face had turned a bright shade of red and was looking down at his hands in his lap.

She succeeded and soon Rodney was back to paying attention to Elizabeth's story. But she didn't get far when another visitor barged into the infirmary.

Lt. Cadman strolled into the room leisurely. She was on her way to Carson's office but slowed down to smirk. "What'd ya do now, McKay?" She grinned cheekily. "I just passed Zelenka in the hall and he looks really mad. I'd watch out if I were you. He's in a homicidal mood." And with that she hopped into the office before Rodney could make any kind of comeback.

Poor Rodney looked absolutely stricken.

"Don't worry." Elizabeth said to the man whose face was completely drained of all color. "I think she's kidding. Zelenka wouldn't hurt a fly."

That made Rodney feel somewhat better. At least some color was back into his face.

In Carson's office, Laura was grinning like a maniac.

"Laura, dear," Carson mumbled, not looking up from his microscope. "What did you do now?"

"Moi?" She feighed innocence. "I have no idea what you're talking about."

"Then why are you grinning?"

"How do you know I'm grinning if you're looking into that microscope?" Laura walked around so she was standing next to Carson.

"When you smile my mood lightens a wee bit. When you frown it's like the whole room is frowning too." At Laura's confused pause, Carson sighed. "I can just tell, love. Now are you going to tell me what you did or not?"

Laura was about to answer when her radio crackled to life and someone spoke into her ear.

"Really? Alright, I'll be right there." She tapped the radio off and turned back to Carson who had looked up for the first time. "I gotta go check something Major Lorne found." She said in a rush and ran out of the room.

Back in the infirmary, Laura ran past the four people in beds without a word. Dr. Weir had apparently left them and gone to work on some paperwork or something and Teyla and Rodney were fast asleep.

She paused outside the door for the briefest of seconds to hear what Ronon and John were discussing because they had conveniently changed topic and talked a little louder than was necessary when she had gone by.

"Seriously Ronon, I don't mind. You can be the leader if you want." Laura heard Ronon chuckle, yes chuckle, and thank John before she went back to running wildly down the hall to the control room.

What, are they playing follow the leader or something? She thought and couldn't help but picture Ronon jumping around and expecting John to follow him.

A/N: I hope you liked it. The third chapter will have them actually getting out of the infirmary. Won't that be fun! Don't forget to review!

Disclaimer: Forgot to put it in the first chapter but I own nothing of Stargate Atlantis or its characters blah blah blah blah blah. Besides, if I did own it, do you really think I'd be writing fan fiction?