"Doc is she gonna be okay?" I drowsily heard Sheppard's voice somewhere in the room. It must be a room right? I was so sore and souped up on pain meds I didn't care at the moment.
"She'll be fine lad" Beckett's voice said "She just lost a lot of blood. I patched her arm up easy peasy"
"Why'd she get so mad at me?" Rodney's voice floated above my head somewhere too. "It's not like I got Farin all riled up." There was a pause. Maybe Sheppard or Beckett gave him a look.
"Don't you remember the report that came through a year ago about an SG team getting into hot water off world, the one where the entire team got killed?" Sheppard's voice was grim. "That was her team. She was pretty badly wounded when they brought her back from the planet, but everybody else was gone." There was complete silence. Even McKay was speechless. I took that opportunity to make some noise. I moaned and tried opening my eyes. I was in the infirmary and I could see Beckett hovering above me.
"How do ye feel lass?" He asked me his blue eyes full of concern.
"Like I got hit by a bus." I mumbled. I tried lifting my arm that hadn't been shot and found that it was very heavy. "How much pain killer did you pump into me?" I asked hoping that I was being understood. From the small smile that was on Beckett's face I think I was.
"Enough to help you not feel anything." Beckett said checking the monitors I was hooked up to. "You should be fine in a couple of days" Sheppard's face came into view above me.
"You gave us a scare Darrow" he said giving me a smirk, but his eyes were still worried. "but without you dialing the gate we might still be paling around with the Genii" I gave him a weak smile.
"Is McKay all right?" I asked trying to turn my head to look for him, but that made my head throb.
"I'm fine" McKay's voice said as he too came into view above me. "but I didn't get shot. Well not this time." I laughed a little and winced as my head continued to throb. Beckett noticed.
"C'mon lads let the lady rest. I'll let her go when she feels better." He started shooing them out of the infirmary. I tried to thank him but my body decided sleep was better than manners.
I ventured out of the infirmary two days later with my arm in a sling. Beckett had made sure I rested as much as possible, much to Sheppard's frustration as well as my own. McKay had emailed me earlier that morning to tell me that the team was going off world and would be back later. I followed my nose to the commissary. I grabbed some food and sat down at a table to eat. Moments later I was joined by Ronan. It struck me as funny that I had been transferred to replace Ronan since he'd been shot in the arm and managed to be shot in the arm myself during my first week. Ronan however wasn't wearing his sling.
"Did Beckett clear you for duty?" I asked. Ronan looked up from his potatoes.
"Nope" he went back to eating. I kept looking at him. "Sheppard took Lorne with him" Ronan supplied as an answer. I nodded.
"So you're still stuck in the city?" I said starting to eat my own food. Ronan didn't answer but he started stabbing his meatloaf harder. Then as if he wanted to change the subject he asked me a question I'd been hoping to avoid.
"Why'd they move you out here? We already have a Colonel" I shrugged.
"I was rotting away in the SGC mourning people I couldn't help any more." I said.
"Why not?" Ronan said in between bites.
"Cause they were dead." I said bluntly. If anyone would be able to deal with that Ronan would and apparently he did because that was the final word on the matter.
"McKay doesn't hate you, Sheppard respects you so I guess you'll fit in here fine" he said wolfing down the rest of his food and standing up.