In the end, they had managed to stay in the room for most of two days before Shisui had been called away by his team lead and Amara had been requested to help in engineering while she was still available for consulting. For the remainder of the trip, he came knocking on her door each night and they would go separate directions in the morning.

'What are you doing during the day anyway?' Amara had asked when they happened to meet in the mess hall two days later.

'We're doing some basic drills with our new commander,' he said as he sat down opposite her, sliding his tray onto the table. 'Getting to know how he does things, want us to follow, what we should expect and think about. Nothing really different from when I started at SGC. We'll be assigned into teams tomorrow though, so that'll be interesting.'

'How are you assigned?'

'Based on skills and rank, mostly. Balanced teams are important and all that.'

'So what are your skills then, captain?' she asked and leaned her elbows on the table, levelling him a heavy look.

He smirked and mirrored her. 'Shouldn't you know by now?'

'I don't think those skills are what they're looking for,' she replied. She paused and ran her tongue along her bottom lip as she held his gaze - he swallowed thickly as he followed the movement. 'Although I am. Especially that thing you did last night.'

The air between them grew thick as they stared at each other, her words hanging between them like a taunt. He shifted slightly in his seat, leaning forward just a little more.

'You really liked that, hm?'

'Mhm. The sounds didn't make it clear enough for you?'

'Can't hurt having it confirmed. Something you liked more than the rest?'

She paused to think. The corner of her lips twitched upwards as her mind wandered and it caught all of his attention. 'I liked feeling you on my back.'

He blinked, surprised. 'Really? I was a bit worried I was hurting you.'

'If you were, please keep hurting me.'

'Jesus,' he snorted. He leaned back and pulled a hand through his dark curls, a small genuine smile tugging on his lips. 'I need us to change the subject before I bend you over the table right here and now.'

Amara laughed brightly and shook her head. 'Fine. Who do you hope to have as your team lead?'

'Best option would be Major Lorne, of course, but my old team lead would still be fine too.'

'Lorne is good,' she nodded. 'I heard he'll be second in command.'

'Why do you think I want to be on his team?' he grinned.

'I see. Well, I hope you get what you want.'

'I'm sure I'll get that tonight.'

'I thought you wanted to change the topic,' she laughed with a shake of her head. 'Are you that bothered?'

'Can you blame me when it's you,' he winked.

'You again,' a familiar, grumpy voice said behind her before they could continue and she didn't have to turn around to know who it was.

'McKay,' she greeted without looking at him. She shook her head when Shisui raised a brow in question. 'No one is forcing you to be here.'

'No, because I belong here. You on the other hand–'

'Has been hired, the same as you. That makes us equals, don't you think?'

'Please. The only reason you're here is to support.'

'Sure, but that's true for everyone, isn't it? Including you. If you have a problem with my position here,' she said and stood, motioning for Shisui to do the same, 'Dr. Weir is probably available for the complaint. I, however, am not. Excuse us.'

Shisui waited until they left the mess hall, throwing a frown over his shoulder. 'Who was that?'

'Rodney McKay, chief scientist of Atlantis. He hates my guts.'

'I could tell. What did you do?'

'Oh you know, I have the major fault of being younger and still being able to grasp the same concepts as him. He doesn't like it when he's challenged when it comes to his reputation, so when I was hired at Area 51 to work alongside him, he took it personally.'

'You worked at Area 51?' he asked as they stepped into the elevator. 'That's cool.'

'SGC was a lot...cooler. Area 51 has its reputation, but it's not quite as exciting as pop culture makes it out to be.'

'I suppose I should have expected that.'

'Are you done for the day or are you going to go and suck up to Major Lorne so he gives you favourable treatment?' she asked as they reached her assigned quarters.

'Sadly that doesn't seem to work on him.'

She opened the door and stepped inside. Turning on her heel, she curled a finger at him. 'Then I want a repeat of last night.'

He grinned and stepped inside after her, locking the door behind him. 'It'd be my pleasure.'

As the Daedalus landed on the east pier, everyone gathered in the 302-bay to wait for their first view of the city of the ancestors. Amara was there with the rest of the scientists, staying clear of McKay as she didn't feel in the mood to have her first view of the city affected by his usual antics. Shisui and the rest of the military personnel arrived a handful of minutes later, and he stopped next to her without a word–Tenten appearing on her other with a big smile.

As Weir made a welcome speech, Amara felt him brush up against her hand. It was a light touch, one that could have easily been a mistake if she didn't know he didn't do things on accident. So she reciprocated, moving the back of her hand against his. Without looking at each other, they lightly entwined their fingers. A small smile touched her lips at the feeling it caused, and she took a small step closer to him. He gently brushed his thumb over the back of her hand in response.

Then the hangar door opened and Amara couldn't stop the small gasp from leaving her lips. It was a brilliant day, and the sun reflected off the buildings perfectly. Next to her, Shisui gave a low whistle.

'Welcome to Atlantis,' Weir said, a big smile on her face.

After the initial presentation, they had been beamed to the gate room, where they had spent another minute gawking at it all. As everyone began to move, finding their individual point people to get shown to their assigned rooms and a subsequent tour of the place, Shisui managed to lead her to a small secluded alcove, where he didn't hesitate to kiss her until she was breathless.

'We'll probably be busy from now on, but I would like to continue this,' he said softly as he hovered over her, a hand on the back of her neck and thumb gently pressing on the soft skin behind her ear.

'Me too,' she replied just as softly, unable to look away from him.

'And I don't mean just the sex, although that's also fucking amazing.'

'Me too.'

He smiled gently and kissed her again, slow and deep. 'Be careful with that expression or I'll have to fend off the whole city soon enough.'

'It's getting a bit easy for you. You could do with a challenge.'

'I like having the sexiest genius look at me and no one else, though,' he chuckled.

She smiled at his words and stood on her toes, capturing his lips in a wet kiss that made him groan lowly. 'Play your cards right and it might stay that way.'

'Try and meet when we know where our rooms are?'

'Already going for that, huh?'

'Gotta know who's room is closer when the need arises,' he winked.

'We'll see if we can find each other again,' she laughed with a slight shake of her head as they reluctantly separated. 'But let's try at least.'

'Amara,' he called softly, making her pause and look at him. He gently brushed his knuckles over her cheek as a look she hadn't seen before passed over his face. 'Be careful.'

She held his gaze for a heartbeat. Then she smiled slightly and touched her fingertips to the back of his hand. 'You too.'

As it happened, the next time they ran into each other was three days later, at the gym. They managed almost ten minutes of pretending they were working out before Shisui caught the moment when no one was looking, took her hand and lead her out of there. They didn't make it to the transporter.

'Are you trying to kill me?' he asked against her neck as he pushed her into a deserted room. 'Three days of not seeing you, no touching you, and you show up in yoga pants and a tank top?'

She laughed breathlessly and ran her hands over his chest and shoulders. 'You're not one to speak. Not with you being all sweaty and your own tank top this... hot,' she breathed.

He chuckled and slid his hands down to her thighs, and picked her up with ease - he grinned when she gasped in surprise. He pressed her against the wall as her legs wrapped around his hips. 'Fuck, I've missed that expression,' he rumbled and attached his lips to her neck again.

'I've missed your hands on me,' she said as his hands moved over every part of her he could reach. 'But we don't have a lot of time, sadly.'

'How much do you want?' he asked as he moved up to her lips, giving her a sweet kiss - a stark contrast to the way he was touching her and grinding into her.

'Oh god, I want it all,' she moaned and kissed him, sliding her hands to his hair. 'But I don't know if we can.'

'We've been dragging it out because we've had the luxury to,' he mumbled against her lips, his tongue flicking out to move over her bottom lip.

She shuddered at the action and pulled herself flush against him. 'Show me how you do it fast?'

He hooked his fingers in the hem of her pants and pulled them down to the middle of her thighs. Some quick manoeuvring and his own pants and boxers slid down his legs as he slipped his arms under her knees.

'What are you-'

'Relax,' he chuckled.

'But I can't move this way.'

He leaned in, pressing her knees to her chest, and kissed her. 'That's the point, sweetheart. Just enjoy and let me do the work,' he said and angled himself with her entrance.

'Oh,' she gasped as he pushed into her slowly. He braced his hands next to her hips against the wall, holding her weight with ease. 'Oh wow,' she breathed as he moved slowly.

He chuckled and pressed a sweet kiss to her lips. 'Another addictive expression. Are you ready?'

She whined lowly and tried to move her hips, which made him chuckle again. 'Come on.'

'You like this, hm?' he asked when he felt her pulse around him. 'We can play with that.'

'Shisui,' she moaned low in her throat and he blanked for a moment.

'Shit,' he mumbled and shifted his hold on her just enough to slide in a little more. 'I'm going to start moving now.'

'Yes,' she breathed, her eyes already fluttering close.

He moved fast and deep from the get-go, each stroke hitting her deepest parts perfectly with this angle. He pressed into her, pinning her against the wall as he moved. Her hands settled on his shoulders, her only way of reciprocating with her legs so tightly restrained between the pants and his hold on her.

'Oh yes,' she gasped as her body shook. 'Right there.'

He grinned almost madly at her tone and made sure to hit that same spot, watching her closely for any change in her expression. Her eyelids fluttered at the same time she clenched around him, a small 'oh' being pulled from her throat. His gut clenched in response, pushing him closer to the edge.

'You're so hot,' he said, his thrusts growing harder. 'I can feel you pulsing around me, gripping me.'

'Give me everything you got,' she practically growled at him, hand curling around the back of his neck to pull him in for a deep kiss that took him by nearly as much surprise as her next words. 'Fill me up.'

His hips stuttered at her words and she smirked at him when she felt it. Not one to be outdone, he slammed his hips against hers harder, faster. When she bit her lip and body stiffened he reached between them and rubbed her clit - and her hips bucked as her mouth fell open with a drawn-out moan. He fucked her through the orgasm, rolling his hips into hers almost fervently as he brought himself to the edge - pushing himself as deep as he could, and spilling inside her as he buried his face against her neck with a groan.

They stayed like that, connected, for a long moment as their breathing calmed down. She nudged his head up and kissed him deeply. As they kissed languidly, he gently lowered her legs to the floor once more, keeping his hands on her hip and lower back until the trembling in her legs calmed down.

'That was amazing,' she mumbled against his lips.

'Did I hurt you? I kinda lost control there towards the end,' he said with a weak laugh.

She pulled on her pants again before responding. 'I liked it. You do this thing...'

'What?' he asked and mirrored her.

'No, it's nothing,' she said, her ears red. She tried to head for the door, but his hand shot out and blocked her way. 'Really, it's nothing.'

He leaned in until his lips hovered by her ear. 'Amara,' he said, his voice low and thick with release, and she did her best to hide her shiver. 'I want to know what you like, so I can do more of that. So tell me.'

'It's not something you do consciously.'

'How can you tell?'

'Well, we have been having a lot of sex over the past few weeks.'

'So tell me,' he grinned.

'When you orgasm,' she sighed in the end and looked at him, meeting his eyes head-on. 'You do this... jerking motion with your hips and it feels really good.'

'Good to know,' he said and kissed her. 'Even if I don't do it consciously.'

She sighed and shook her head at his smirk. 'Come on.'

'Where are we going?' he asked as they left the room, the doors hissing open and close.

'You wanted to know where my room is, right?'

'Absolutely. I've missed our nightly activities.'

'It's been three days,' she said as they stepped into the transporter. She tapped the screen for the east pier before she looked at him. 'And I know you've been off-world already.'

'Is that jealousy I hear?'

'A little,' she grinned. The doors slid open again and she lead the way down the hallway. 'What was it like?'

'Green.' He laughed at her flat expression. 'It was just a lot of trees. We didn't spend a whole lot of time there, just checking the immediate area. Something about getting the new members of the team used to the work.'

'Do you have someone who hasn't been off-world before?'

'Andersen is still pretty new. Just six months since he joined SGC, so they want to give him some time to adjust.'

'And you don't need that?'

'It's not that big of a difference between going off-world here as... back home. That has a whole new meaning now, doesn't it,' he chuckled. 'Major Lorne wanted to get the team in order before we get assigned a scientist too.'

'Oh, so you did get on his team in the end?'

'Didn't I tell you that? Must have slipped my mind because of someone's very naughty hands,' he said and nudged her lightly.

'My hands?' she laughed and indicated the door to their left.

'The day we found out was the day you didn't exactly wait until we made it back to your room.' He paused as the doors slid open, and gave a low whistle. 'This place is like twice the size of mine. Guess the fancy places were earmarked for you geniuses.'

'Perk of being hated by the chief scientist. I get a room of my choice as far away from his as possible. He made an official request with Dr. Weir to not let me stay at the central tower with the real high ranking officers, as he put it. So she gave me free choice everywhere else as an apology.'

'Seriously? What's his deal?'

She shrugged. 'I've learned to not think of him too much, makes life easier. Besides, this room is a lot nicer anyway. Got the perfect view of the Daedalus too.'

'Mine got a view of the central tower.'

'Creeping on people in your off time then?'

'What off time?'

'True,' she laughed. 'Got somewhere to be today?'

'I think my schedule just opened up.'

'I need a shower and,' she said and walked over to a drawer, 'I believe I have some of your clothes here from when we were on the ship.'

'Perfect,' he said and swiftly picked her up, throwing her over his shoulder with ease. He grinned when she laughed brightly, and lightly slapped her ass as he walked to the bathroom. 'Absolutely perfect,' he hummed.