Sparklyshimmer2010 - Well, yes, Lorne is definitely a hottie. I can't believe I left him out! :O I like scruffy Shep and clean shaven Shep, myself. The full beard I find a little much, but hey, he does manage to pull it off.

Charlie Blue - Ah yes, that one may be a little harder. Elizabeth I'd just started, so switching one letter was no problem. Teal'c, I was doing for a while. I don't know why. O.o But thank you for pointing it out, I'll keep an eye on that one, too. I think I managed to catch all the 's' in the chapters, and since I've written more, I've kept her name with a 'z'. :) I've seen a lot of the episodes, up to season four's ending, Last Man (?). And on youtube . com, they have some of the season 5 episodes posted, under channels. So I've seen some of them, there, too.

And please, don't worry. I can go on and on about Joe/John's hotness, too. Why do you think I'm writing this fic? LOL! My way of ranting about all the things that are John, only from Elizabeth's POV.

Here's the next chapter, hope you all enjoy it!

(Reads first line and mind dives into the gutter) Hm... O.o LOL

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"Did you see the size of those things?!" Rodney was screaming at John, again. "They're huge!"

Crouching down behind some boulders, I found myself thinking not of the impending doom, but about John's bravery. He had people trapped, Teyla and Ronon, and there were several large bug-like monsters between us and them

Yet, the only thing that phased him was that he really didn't like bugs.

"I hate bugs!" He muttered with a glare, jumping up to throw a grenade at them.

See?

I watched as he ducked back down, and almost yelped when he launched himself at me. I felt his arms circle my waist, and his lean, strong body press flat against mine as he took me down with ease. My hands were pressed against his chest, so I couldn't move. He moved his arms from my waist, to cover my head before I could even formulate a word in my shock, and pressed his palms over my ears.

...Just seconds before a big blast went off.

Shaking a moment, I swallowed heavily as he slowly pulled back, taking my hands to help me back into a seated position.

"You ok?" he asked in concern, wiping off debris from his shoulder as he looked around the rocks we were hiding behind. "Damn! It didn't work! What are these things made of?!" He looked to Rodney.

Glaring at him with big blue eyes, Rodney huffed at the obvious expectancy. "Why look at me? It's not like I know! Maybe you should go ask them." Picking up his computer tablet, he began to type away. "It's-It's... Uh...It's some kind of metal alloy that doesn't match up with anything we have on file, happy?!"

"Not really." John answered with a grimace, eyeing the nearby Stargate.

I felt my eyes widen. "We can't just leave them there!"

For a moment, John looked at me like I was suggesting he cut off both arms and legs. "Who the hell said we were?!"

Blinking for a moment, I frowned, not really in the mood to play with him. Still, it did strike me that things were looking grim. These monsters were obviously meat eaters, the way they picked into a corpse of a dead animal of some kind, and they were made of metal.

Metal!

How the hell were we supposed to get our people out?!

Yet, John still barely seemed phased. He rolled his bottom lip in against his teeth and stuck his tongue out as he eyed the C4 he was carrying, along with his P90 and thigh holstered gun.

"The grenade had no effect, the C4 might, but it'll get us too, if we're too close." Rodney pointed out, glancing briefly from around the rock. "Isn't there... Isn't there some way to get Teyla and Ronon safely around those things??"

Pursing his lips, John eyed the forest. Then his eyes lit up and I was struck by the grin that formed. Tapping his ear, he stayed facing the forest. "Ronon? Teyla? Can you read me?"

There was a moment of silence before I heard Teyla's voice over our comm systems.

"We are here, John."

"Listen, if I distract those things, do you think you and Ronon can make it to the tree line? You should be able to get away from them there, use it as cover."

"I believe so."

Nodding to himself, John turned to Rodney. "McKay, I'm going to be counting on you getting Elizabeth out of here." His tone was grim.

Shivering in fear, I watched the determined look in his eyes as he explained his plan quietly to Rodney.

He was going to act as a decoy.

Brave...but so foolish.

What if something happened? None of us would be able to help him!

Still, Rodney nodded, and before I had a chance to say anything, John was out from behind the rocks, firing his P90 at the bugs and running across the clearing, away from the Stargate. He managed to keep himself between the gate and the bugs, but the farther he got, the closer to him they were getting. They were just too fast.

Then, I felt a hand on my arm and someone tugging me to my feet. "What?" I saw Rodney's terrified face as he dragged me to the gate and began dialing. "No. John!" I called to him, hoping he'd see we were close to salvation.

Teyla and Ronon took that moment to appear out of the trees, relatively unscathed.

"John!" I called again as the bugs closed in.

I saw him raise his gun, I saw him press the trigger, and I saw him curse as he realized the clip was empty. Jumping out of the way of an attack, he dropped his P90 and scrambled to avoid a second attack.

Racing forward, Teyla began to fire her P90 from the edge of some rocks, and Ronon fired his blaster managing to actually take one of the monsters down. Taking this opportunity, John got up quickly and began running towards us, more of those bugs closing him behind him.

The gate whooshed behind me and I jumped as Rodney grabbed my arm and began dragging me to the gate. Now I began to struggle.

He's so close.

"No! Let me go, Rodney!" Looking over, I saw one of the monsters swipe and John. He saw it last second and jumped to the side, getting gashed across his arm, but he kept running, grabbing his hand gun from his thigh holster and firing it at the bugs to slow them down. "John! Hurry!"

I heard Rodney speaking into his head piece about us coming in hot, and felt him tugging on my arm. This time, I allowed myself to be dragged, seeing that John had rejoined us. Running through the gate, I turned as I came out the other side, watching the others come through behind me.

Teyla and Ronon.

A second passed, and I thought my heart was going to stop.

Then there, last second, John came flying through the gate and hit the ground ungracefully. There, he laid, breathing heavily and blinking. The shield of the gate quickly went up and several white blasts hit the gate. It seemed the bugs tried to follow him.

Oh thank god!

Shaking my head, I collapsed to my knees, my mind running over that entire encounter again and again.

"Ma'am? What happened with the trade negotiations?"

"They wouldv'e went better without the uninvited guests." John groaned as he sat up, hissing at the wound in his arm.

"Do you have any idea how stupid that was?" Teyla was in his face, glaring at him. "Ronon and I can take care of ourselves. You almost got killed." Her tone was calm, if a little bit louder than normal, but her look was very irritated.

Ronon nodded grimly. "That was stupid." He agreed bluntly.

Looking at them a moment, John raised an eyebrow. "Gee. You're welcome." Seeing that they weren't kidding, he sighed. "Oh come on. What did you expect me to do?" At the last moment, he began to grin. "Besides, I'd say that was incredibly brave, wouldn't you?"

For that last comment, he was looking directly at me with a slightly smug smile, despite the blood on his hand from his arm.

Glaring darkly at him, I admitted there were a number of things to say. "John, I have a lot to say." His smile began to grow, and my frown deepened. "And I can't say any of them because it wouldn't be polite company." Oh, the look of shock on his face was priceless, but I struggled not to grin and give away how much I was enjoying watching him squirm. Getting up, I ordered Carson to take John to the infirmary and check him over. I also made sure to request a CAT scan, pointing out exactly what I thought of John's deed.

Still, as I walked away, hearing him protesting, I did admit it was brave. Stupid, yes, but brave.

I just wasn't going to admit it to him.

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Hope you like it.

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Thank you

Tenshi