"So, where are you planning on taking Genna?" Rodney asked, fidgeting slightly. It was another hour before he was to meet Anita, but he was already nervous.

"I was going to take her up to a cool place I found in the tallest spire of Atlantis. It's a room where the walls are all glass. It's beautiful up there. You can see the whole city and it has a great view of the…wow." Rodney turned to see what John was staring at. Genna was coming down the stairs.

"I'll just be leaving then. Good luck." All John could do was nod his head. He was still staring at her. She looked beautiful. She was in a light blue tank top and shorts. She had pulled her hair up in a ponytail, but it was curly. He finally came back to reality and walked over to her.

"You look wonderful." She blushed.

"Thanks, you don't look half bad yourself."

"Are you ready?" She nodded. He offered his arm and they were on their way.

"Can I open them now?" Genna laughed. John was leading her to the place where they were going to have dinner, but she wasn't allowed to open her eyes.

"Almost. Just step over this way. Now!" She opened her eyes and gasped. She was standing in a room made of glass. In the middle of the room, there was a table set up. It was beautiful; it had a lace tablecloth, a vase of those purple flowers, and a candle in the middle.

"It's beautiful John! Thank you." She looked at him and smiled.

"It was nothing. Now," he walked over and pulled her chair out. She just giggled and sat down. ", for dinner. Tonight is special, so we have real food. The Athosians wonderful cooks and they agreed to help me out." They settled down to eat. John asked about her past, where she had come from and such, the required questions.

"Well, I lived in Tennessee, but I moved to West Virginia in the sixth grade."

"What did you do once you got you're degree?"

"I taught at a college in Colorado. When I wasn't out on a dig, that is."

"Digs? Where did you go?" He seemed genuinely interested, so she told him.

"Some small countries in South America mainly. I did some research in Africa when I was straight out of college though. What about you, why did you go into the Air Force?"

"My dad was in the Air Force and I wanted to do him proud. I didn't do a very good job though."

"The past is the past. If he could see you now."

"Yeah, if he could…"

The continued to talk about the past, both the bad and good aspects of it. It wasn't until they got to sports talk that they really started getting into it. They discussed how different the turnouts of some of the more legendary games were.

Genna had been on dates before, but is one was by far the best one. She loved his sense of humor and his outlook on life. She learned things about his past that they didn't talk about on the show. She learned who the real John Sheppard was and realized that she liked this one even more.

When the date was over, he walked her back to her room. He realized that night that they had a lot in common, including sports. As they reached her door, he turned to face her.

"Do you want to do this again some time?"

"Absolutely." She gave him a huge smile.

"How about Saturday?"

"Sounds wonderful!" He bent down and gave he a kiss on the cheek. She watched him walk away, the smile never dropping from her face.

As she crawled into bed, she began to realize that maybe her dream really was coming true.