Authors Note: I'm so happy to see so many people are still interested in this story despite how long it's been since the last part. Thanks to everyone for sticking with me and special thanks to; Mrs Rosemary Weir, Steph7085, belanna30, Emily, Bunnylass, sam'n'jackforever and Kuroima for their reviews.

Chapter 2

"Teyla, get up."

Elizabeth sat down at her dresser and began to dry her hair hoping the noise from the hairdryer would wake her roommate. She'd almost forgotten how much Teyla hated early mornings, actually Teyla had no problem with early mornings, just early mornings where she actually had to get up, she had no problem on weekends. Once her hair was dry she put the hairdryer down and turned to see that Teyla had merely turned over and pulled the cover over her head.

"Teyla, you need to get up," she called to her as she brushed her hair and put a little make up on. She walked over to her wardrobe pulling out a loose knee length blue skirt and a blue t shirt to match it. She'd looked out of the window earlier and the sun was shining, she could already tell it was going to be a hot day. She looked over at Teyla again when she was dressed, her roommate still hadn't gotten up. She walked over to the bed and gave her a push, to which Teyla groaned.

"Teyla if you don't get up now, you're going to have to make a choice between showering and eating," Elizabeth told her and with another groan Teyla's head appeared from beneath her covers.

"I hate you right now," Teyla stated, sending a glare at Elizabeth which might have been intimidating had her roommate not been half asleep.

"I know but you still have to get up," Elizabeth told her and went to get her necklace from her dresser. It was the one John had bought her for her birthday last year; it had quickly become her favourite piece of jewellery. Teyla threw back her covers and disappeared into the bathroom and Elizabeth grabbed her bag from beside her desk, putting her pens and paper into it ready for her classes that day. She was kind of glad her schedule was the same as last year, she liked it the way it was, it was a shame it would change once she became a senior but she supposed it would have to when she picked up her senior classes.

Twenty minute later Elizabeth was knocking on the bathroom door. "Teyla, I really don't want to have to miss breakfast."

It was another couple of minutes before Teyla emerged from the bathroom in a pink towel. "You need to learn patience."

"And you need to learn to get up when the alarm goes off," Elizabeth replied. Teyla managed to get ready surprisingly quick, it helped that she'd picked out her clothes the night before. The two of them headed down to the cafeteria with just enough time to eat before their first class.

"You two are running a little late aren't you?" Jack questioned when the two of them finally sat down with their breakfast. Elizabeth glanced at John, the two of them had talked briefly yesterday and agreed to go for dinner on Friday once their first week back was out of the way, they had a lot the needed to talk about. Things had been a little less awkward since then but Elizabeth had a feeling their date was going to be a different story.

"Blame Teyla, she wouldn't get up," Elizabeth stated.

"That's not a great start is it?" John questioned.

"It's really not my fault, there was a party in our building last night, the music was loud and once that was turned off people were running around the corridors drunk into the early hours of this morning, kept us awake most of the night," Teyla explained.

"That explains where Laura and Janet are then," Marcus stated. "They're probably using our free period this morning to catch up on the sleep they missed."

"Lucky them," Teyla replied grumpily. "I hope whoever it was running around that building last night got detention for the rest of their lives."

Elizabeth finished her breakfast and cleaned up her rubbish before glancing at the clock. "We should get to class."

Teyla hurried through the rest of her food and the group left the cafeteria and went their separate ways in the main building. The spell casting classroom was already pretty full when they arrived but they were able to find four empty chairs together near the front. Professor Penrose arrived only a few minutes behind them and quickly called the class to order.

"Welcome to your second year of Spell Casting. Last year we worked on the foundation of spell casting and you learned the basics of casting a spell. This year we're going to be learning some new spells that you made need to use in your lives and in the second semester you'll be learning how to create your own spells."

Penrose launched into a long speech about their syllabus for the year and what would be expected of them. Elizabeth was already making notes and John was already trying to copy her work because he'd missed parts of it himself. It was almost the end of the class when Penrose had finished and most of the class's attention had long since drifted to other things.

"Alright, I know this has been a bit of a boring information giving class so were going to finish up early," Penrose finally said and the class were packing their bags before he'd even finished speaking. "I'll see you all next lesson."

There was a rush to get out of the door then, Elizabeth saw Kolya push one of the smaller kids out of his way, Laden and Sora following in his wake.

"Some things never change," Jack muttered as he grabbed the guy Kolya had knocked over by the arm and pulled him up from the floor.

The day seemed to have lasted forever; all of their classes were the same introduction to the year stuff. Cameron was glad when he walked out of his last class with Ronon, Teal'c and Vala, they headed straight for the cafeteria for an early dinner. Half of their group were already there having had a free period at the end of the day.

"Considering all I've really done today is sit and listen to teachers talk about what we're going to do this year, I'm exhausted," Cameron stated as he sat down beside John who was half way through a burger. "That looks good."

"It is good," John replied with a mouth full of food.

"I want one," Cameron said and immediately got back up. There was a queue at cafeteria so he took up his place, Ronon joining him a moment later. He looked back at the table to see Sam, Rodney and Radek arriving. Rodney didn't even bother sitting down, he came straight to the queue, glaring at the older student who got there before him.

Cameron reached the front and grabbed a tray, getting himself a burger and fries and looking over the choices of desert. He was about to go without one when one of the cooks brought out some chocolate cake and he quickly grabbed a slice.

"Jack will be up here in a minute for that," Ronon said as the two of them paid for their meals and made their way back to the table.

"That wasn't there when I went up there," Jack said, his fork stopping half way to his mouth as his eyes fell on the cake Cameron was putting on the table.

"They just brought it out," Cameron stated and Jack immediately stood up and joined the back of the cafeteria queue, trying to see around the other students to make sure the cake was still there.

"He'll turn into a cake one day," Sam stated as she watched him go.

"I'm not even sure he'd consider that a bad thing," Teyla laughed.

"Have you guys met the new potions teacher?" Cameron asked and Teyla raised her hand.

"Jack and I had potions today," she said. "Professor Cray is so much better than Trell, he actually seems happy to be teaching."

"And his voice has more than one tone to it so I actually made it through class without nearly falling asleep," Cameron added.

"Yeah, I feel bad for the people who end up with Trell again this year," Ronon stated. "I'm just glad we don't have him."

"With our luck," John looked at Elizabeth. "We'll have Trell."

"If we do, I'm blaming you for jinxing us," Elizabeth replied and John feigned a hurt expression. Marcus, Laura and Janet arrived then, the three of them dropping into the empty chairs with heavy sighs and dropping three very heavy looking text books onto the table with thuds.

"Be careful," Rodney complained from where he had sat down with his food only moments before. "Some of us are trying to eat here."

"All of the teacher are just going through introduction stuff, but no, Professor Antar had to dive right in with the work and handout these things for us all to read this semester, we've already got a reading assignment," Marcus complained as he leaned on the book. "Has anyone else had defence today?"

"We did," Carson replied. "We already took our books back to our rooms, no sense carrying them around when we don't need to."

Jack finally returned to the table and sat down with a smile on his face, cake in hand. "Last piece."

Elizabeth knocked on Carlie's door and waited the few seconds it took her to answer it. Carlie greeted her with a half smile and stepped back to allow her into the room. It was clearly Carlie's room now, there were piles of clothes everywhere, the dresser was covered in makeup and expensive jewellery. The smell of her sister's favourite perfume hung in the air and various possessions were placed around the room.

"Looks like you're all settled in," Elizabeth commented as Carlie closed the door.

"There's not enough room for all my clothes, what am I supposed to do?" Carlie questioned with a sigh.

Elizabeth resisted the urge to tell her once again that she had warned her not to bring so much stuff. Instead she opened her sister's wardrobe, the rail was full, the clothes packed so tightly she'd be lucky to get anything out of there without dragging half the wardrobe with it. The bottom was full of shoes, placed side by side and the shelf above the rail was full as well.

"If you put your shoes somewhere else you can get some more of your clothes in the bottom of here," Elizabeth suggested and Carlie looked at her like she'd gone crazy.

"These are expensive clothes Elizabeth, I can't just put them in the bottom of the wardrobe, they'll get creased. Can't they just bring me up another wardrobe?" she questioned.

"You only get one wardrobe Carlie, and it's already bigger than the ones they have in standard dorms. If you put your clothes in carefully they'll be fine, Teyla has lots of her stuff in the bottom of her wardrobe," Elizabeth informed her. "And they'll get more creased if you leave them lying around the room like that, at least in there they'll be out of the way. Are your drawers full?"

"Of course they are," Carlie replied.

"How was your first day?" Elizabeth questioned, changing the subject while she had the chance.

"It was fine, boring mostly, the teachers were just telling us about their courses, it really wasn't very interesting," Carlie said with a shrug as she sat down at her dresser.

"Did you make any new friends?" Elizabeth asked her.

"I'm nit five years old Elizabeth," Carlie replied indignantly.

"I know that, I'm just asking about the people you've met," Elizabeth told her with a sigh.

"I met a few people, there's one girl who lives here in the tower, she's in most of my classes, Sasha Channing, she's the daughter of an Alteran council member," Carlie told her and Elizabeth nodded her head. She sounded like the perfect friend for Carlie, important but not too important. "I was just about to write a letter to our father, have you written to him yet?"

"I'll do it this weekend," Elizabeth replied and Carlie gave her a disapproving look.

"Surely you want to write to him before then?" she said questioningly and Elizabeth shrugged.

"I don't have much to say to him right now, I'll write at the weekend," she told her.

"I suppose I'll tell him you're well then," Carlie said.

"You do that," Elizabeth replied, they both knew their father wasn't particularly interested in what Elizabeth was up to as long as it didn't reflect badly on him or make things difficult for Carlie. "I just wanted to see how your first day was and make sure you were settled in so I'll get going. You know where my room is if you need me."

"Just one more thing Elizabeth," Carlie stood up and Elizabeth stopped on her way to the door and turned back to her sister, she was already pretty sure she wasn't going to like this. "I hope you've given some more thought to what our father and I said, about those friends of yours. They're just using you Elizabeth."

"I can pick my own friends Carlie," Elizabeth told her and then left the room, closing the door behind her. Teyla was already in their room when she got back there and Elizabeth walked in, locking the door behind her and then dropping onto her bed with a sigh.

"Carlie is her usual lovely self then I take it," Teyla said.

TBC