TWO DAYS LATER

The entire team as well as Brianna were still confined to the infirmary for the moment. They still weren't sure if the toxin was in all their systems, so they were all in for observation.

"How is he lass?" Carson asked Brianna, stopping to check on her vigil by her brother's bedside during his nightly rounds.

"Still the same, he's dreaming now, but he hasn't woken up." Brianna sighed, "I honestly don't know if he's going to make it through this." She rubbed at her eye, and Carson saw a glimmer of tears on her cheeks.

"He'll pull through, he's too much of a fighter to give up now." Carson rested a hand on her shoulder, and Brianna leaned sideways, resting her head against his side. "He'll make it."

On the other side of the infirmary Rodney growled. He'd been pacing for the past hour, not sure who he was more worried for, John or Brianna. He knew that he didn't have a chance with either of them; after all they were together weren't they? But that didn't stop him from caring. Or worrying for that matter. It still hurt to see Carson doing what he wanted to do, to see John touch her, and not get brushed off as many were.

He hadn't realized that he had spoken aloud until Lilah answered from the bed next to him. "It does hurt, but it may help you to know that there's nothing between them."

Rodney looked over at the brunette sitting and flipping through a magazine she had found on one of the infirmary tables. "What?"

"You heard me, unless you're deaf, but you seem to hear everyone else just fine, so I'll assume that you just didn't believe me." Lilah set the magazine down, and sat up, swinging her legs over the edge of the cot. "Let me make this as clear as I can make it. John and Brianna are not a couple and never have been. Nor is there any faint possibility that they will become one anytime in the future. Is that clear enough?"

"I think so." Rodney seemed to be in a slight daze.

"Good," Lilah lay back down and picked up her magazine again; opening it with incredible accuracy to the page she had been on previously.

"So what is it with them then?" He asked, turning to face her, watching her intently.

"I suggest you ask Bri, since she'd kill me if I just told you," she cocked her head to the side as she considered the bed where John rested, and the chair beside it where Brianna sat vigil. "Actually they'd both kill me, so why don't you just ask her."

Rodney turned and looked at the pair. "I think I will." He began the walk across the infirmary.

Lilah leaned sideways to glance around him, she saw Brianna's lips moving as she spoke to John, she knew her lover was trying to talk her brother back into the land of the living, but she also knew that the conversation they were having was NOT one Bri would want Rodney to hear, not before she told him anyway. Lilah settled down on the bed again, and began to whistle loudly.

Bri's head snapped around when she heard the first strains of "Into the Wild Blue Yonder". She was about the snap at Lilah, but then she saw Rodney heading her way, so she settled for warning her lover with a gentle "Lil…"

"Sorry" was the reply, before the brunette continued her ruse by humming softly to herself.

Rodney stopped at the foot of the bed, and cleared his throat awkwardly. "Bri…" he began before losing his nerve and bolting.

Lilah watched him flee into the bathroom, then rose and went to her lover. She stepped behind the redhead and leaned forward, wrapping her arms around Bri's shoulders. Bri leaned her head against Lilahs before asking, "What was that about?"

"The rumor mills have been working overtime, apparently you and John are a couple, oh and according to them Carson and I are together."

Brianna leaned back against her lover and reached up to take one of her hands in her own. She tilted her head back so she could look her lover in her face. Lilah saw Rodney emerge from the bathroom and look over in confusion and shock. Bri saw as well, and murmured softly "Sorry for making this come out this way," before reaching up to cup the back of Lilah's neck. She pulled the brunette down for a deep kiss before releasing her.

Lilah caressed the side of Bri's face and whispered, "You're going to pay for that." Before heading back to her bed.

Bri caught her hand as she turned away, "Is that a promise?" She grinned.

Lilah looked at her and grinned back, "What do you think?"

Rodney watched the exchange, and then grinned as Lilah's words suddenly made sense. He walked back over to John's bed, then he took a seat in the chair next to Bri.

"So I take it the rumor mills are wrong then?" He asked with a grin.

Brianna sighed, "Rumor mills are nothing more than that, they produce rumors, which are not always right, contrary to popular opinion."

Rodney shifted in his seat, then suddenly turned to face the girl sitting next to him. "So tell me the truth, what is your relationship to John?"

Brianna glanced at him, and said, "He's my older brother." She rose and walked over to Lilah, sitting down beside her, and letting her wrap her arm around her.

Rodney sat beside John's bed stunned. Whatever he had been expecting it had NOT been that.