Date : 04.09.2007
Title : Loves' Past and Present
Author : ElaineDex
Chapter : 15 of 15
Rating : M
Pairings : Lt. Col. John Sheppard/Lyssa Hunter
Major Evan Lorne/Dr Ellie Harrison
Warnings : Angst/hurt.
Spoilers : This story is part of a series and follows on from Love's Dance With A Stranger.
Feedback : Yes
Disclaimer : Dr Ellie Harrison, Major James Reece, Lt Franks & Heather Russell are mine. Lyssa Hunter belongs to Kazavid. Stargate & Stargate Atlantis, unfortunately, have nothing to do with me.
Summary : Find out how Sheppard and Lyssa's wedding plans cause chaos on Atlantis and what happens when tragedy strikes for Ellie and Lorne?
The morning of Lyssa and Sheppard's wedding was not going to plan.
Firstly there had been an un-scheduled gate activity which Rodney and Ellie immediately had to look into so Ellie was behind in her task of hooking up the MP3 players to the lap tops so that they had music for the wedding.
Because of the same problem, Franks had had to keep the gate area clear and had not been able to set out the chairs as he was supposed to.
The Athosians had managed to set out some bunting but not in the gate room as of yet.
Teyla had discovered that she had a sore throat and was fearing she might not be able to sing at the ceremony.
Lorne was having difficulty tracking down the Athosian priest on the mainland who was supposed to be marrying Sheppard and Lyssa. There was no sign of him and everyone was saying they hadn't seen him for days.
Beckett, who had gone with Lorne to the mainland to gather the flowers he needed for the wedding had ended up performing a burst appendics operation and then couldn't find the flowers he needed for Lyssa and Ellie's bouquets.
Ronon had lost his well prepared speech and was quite disgruntled about the fact as he had gathered all sorts of information about Sheppard's past which he had intended to use as blackmail……in a friendly sort of way of course.
Sean, Lyssa's friend, who was giving Lyssa away had still not arrived and there had been no word from him either.
As everyone ran around in a state of panic, Rodney smirked from his position at one of the gate room consoles, knowing he had absolutely nothing to worry about.
"This is a living nightmare", Sheppard commented as he stood in the gate room looking around and Rodney looked over at him.
"Isn't it", he agreed and Sheppard threw him a look that said 'I hate you' to which Rodney merely shrugged and bent to check his diagnostic results.
OOoOO
"I can't believe everything is going so wrong", Lyssa said as she watched Ellie stressing over the fact that the MP3's weren't co-operating with the lap tops.
"It'll all come right….you'll see", Ellie said trying to be comforting but then promptly having a hissy fit as the lap top began to shut itself down and basically told her that it wasn't playing.
"Oh you piece of crap", she cursed reaching for a different lap top and Lyssa sighed.
"We need to start getting ready soon. Do you know if Lorne has tracked down the priest yet?", she asked and Ellie's head jerked up.
"He can't find the priest?", she said in surprise and upon seeing the look Lyssa sent her that resembled 'would I joke about that', she tapped her ear-piece.
"Evan? Did you find the priest yet?", she asked as she hooked up a lap top to an MP3 and promptly deafened them all as music blared out.
"No! And now I'm deaf too!", Lorne replied and Ellie frowned as Lyssa covered her face with her hands.
"Sorry about that, just keep looking", she told Lorne before turning to Lyssa.
"Why don't you head to your room and I'll follow you shortly".
"Okay….but don't be long", Lyssa said and Ellie nodded.
OOoOO
A while later and Ellie still hadn't shown up and Lyssa was getting tetchy.
She tapped her ear-piece.
"Ellie where are you?", she asked impatiently and Ellie quickened her pace as she headed for her and Lorne's room.
"I'm just going to collect my dress then I'll be right with you", she replied and Lyssa tried to take deep, calming breaths as she sat down on the bed next to her wedding dress.
When Lorne entered his and Ellie's room a few minutes later he was greeted by the sight of Ellie half in and half out of her pale pink bridesmaids dress and he grinned as he approached her.
Ellie caught the gleam in his eyes but shook her head.
"Oh no, no way…..I don't have time. Lyssa is already on the war path because I'm running so late……".
"Shame", Lorne said, slipping his hand inside the back of the dress and Ellie giggled but stepped away.
"Seriously Evan, I have to get going…..zip me up will you?", she said and Lorne sighed and went to pull the zip up but it would only go up so far and he frowned as he realised the dress was too small.
"Um….Elle……", he trailed off as Ellie twisted to look at him.
"What?", she asked and Lorne didn't reply, merely tugged on the zip and Ellie realised the problem immediately and grabbed at her own breasts.
"Oh my god! Have my boobs gone bigger?", she said in shock, turning to face him and Lorne tried to look serious as his eyes roamed over her ample bosom and she groaned as he licked his lips.
"I'm not joking! Have I put weight on since we got back?", she cried and Lorne folded his arms as he looked her up and down.
"No, I wouldn't say so. Are you sure you got the right size?", he said eventually and Ellie frowned and pulled up the hem of the gown so that she could read the label that was sewn into the lining of the skirt.
"I don't believe it", she said. "They gave me a size too small……what am I going to do?"
"Don't look at me….I have to get changed", Lorne said backing away as Ellie threw him a panicked look.
"Did you find the priest?", she asked as she grabbed her lab coat and pulled it on over the dress.
"Yeah….eventually…..", he replied, trailing off as Ellie headed for the door.
"Great, look, I need to sort this dress out….if you see Lyssa tell her I'm on my way".
As she opened their door Ellie gasped as Lyssa stood before her, her wedding dress hanging on her and was obviously a couple of sizes too big.
Lorne watched as the two women stared at one another and he dove for the bathroom as he heard Lyssa begin to sob.
Ellie threw her arms around Lyssa and shushed her, stroking her friends back as she cried.
"This is fixable…..trust me", she said and Lyssa sniffed loudly.
"Everything is going so wrong", she said and Ellie shook her head as she grasped Lyssa's hand.
"Come with me. We've got plenty of time…..we'll sort this out okay?", she said and Lyssa nodded.
Ellie took Lyssa to the Athosian part of the city where one of Teyla's friend's room was.
"Tara is a seamstress….she'll have us fixed up in no time", she told a still sniffling Lyssa who looked at her sharply.
"You said 'us'", she accused and Ellie gulped.
"Ah….well…..", she trailed off and removed her lab coat, revealing the fact that her dress was too small.
Ellie thought Lyssa may explode but in fact she did quite the opposite and burst out laughing.
Ellie smiled, glad that some of the tension seemed to be leaving Lyssa and as Tara ushered them into the sewing room she began to actually believe her own story that everything would be okay after all.
OOoOO
An hour or so later and everything began to fall into place as it should.
Beckett had the flowers sorted, the chairs with their guests on them were all waiting in the gate room, the bunting was up, the MP3's were playing soft music, the priest was in position, Teyla's voice was fine and Ronon had found his speech.
Lyssa's dress had been taken in and now fitted her like a glove and Tara had used the spare material to put two small panels in the back of Ellie's dress, either side of the zip so that hers now fitted and looked like it was meant to match Lyssa's gown into the bargain.
Sean arrived with a little time to spare and he took Lyssa to one side as Ellie went to check that everything was ready for the ceremony to begin.
"You're sure about Sheppard?", he asked her and Lyssa smiled and pulled him close for a hug.
"Oh Sean….I've never been happier. I wish you would consider coming to live on Atlantis", she said as he hugged her back tightly.
"This place isn't for me, you know that Lyssa", he said and she nodded.
Just then Ellie returned and handed Lyssa her bouquet.
"They're ready for you", she said and Lyssa squared her shoulders as she linked her arm through Sean's.
"Oh well….here goes nothing", she said as Ellie began to lead the way down the gate room steps and down the aisle between the chairs to where Sheppard and Ronon stood in front of the Stargate.
Sheppard's breath caught as Lyssa appeared at the top of the steps.
He had never seen her looking more beautiful or feminine than she did right now and he made a mental note that once he was her husband he would have to insist that she wore more dresses.
He thought that maybe he should have a had a pre-nup drawn up to that effect……he grinned broadly as he thought about how Lyssa would respond to that demand.
Lyssa glided toward him gracefully, her happiness on show for all to see as Sean handed her over into Sheppard's care.
The priest began the service and it was as though something magical took over the city and the lights dimmed romantically as Sheppard and Lyssa exchanged their vows.
As they slid their wedding bands onto each others fingers, Teyla began to sing softly and Ellie glanced at Lorne as she recalled their wedding day.
As the priest pronounced them husband and wife, tears of happiness began to escape from Lyssa's eyes and Sheppard took her face in his hands and wiped them away with his thumbs.
"Hey, you're not going soft on me yet again are you Hunter?", he asked her, reminding her of when he'd asked her that same question early on in their relationship when they'd made love in the meadow on the mainland and she laughed as she raised her hands to his chest.
"No…..and it's Sheppard now….if you don't mind", she chided him softly and Sheppard shook his head as he bent to kiss her.
"I don't mind at all", he told her as he sealed their union.
OoOoO
The mess hall was the location of the wedding reception and Ronon was just finishing off his speech by commenting that Sheppard had had some real dodgy girlfriends in the past and that Earth Girls Are 'apparently' Easy, the reference to the old eighties movie landing him in a great deal of trouble and Laura Cadman and some of the other female marines attacked him as he tried to point out that he was only trying to say that Sheppard was better off with Lyssa….who was obviously not an earth girl…….
"Quit whilst your ahead buddy", Sheppard called out as Ronon was surrounded by disgruntled women and he glared at Major Reece who had advised him to put the little comment into the speech in the first place.
Sheppard was just about to stand and make a speech himself when Rodney beat him to it and he stood and clinked his knife loudly on his glass to call for everyone's attention.
"Could I have some quiet please?", he asked haughtily as he clicked his fingers at Ellie and Lorne and they disappeared momentarily, causing Sheppard and Lyssa to glance at one another warily as Rodney continued,
"Since I was not given a task for this wedding by the Bride and Groom" and he looked at them pointedly before continuing, "I decided to take it upon myself to make them a little something which I'm sure you will all agree is truly a masterpiece".
Everyone watched as Lorne pushed a trolley from the lab into the mess hall and Ellie pulled away it's cover to reveal a three tiered wedding cake, fully iced and decorated with tiny edible flowers and bows.
A gasp went around the room and Lyssa and Sheppard could only gawp at Rodney's work of art.
"Rodney…..its…….it's wonderful", Lyssa said, standing and throwing her arms around the Doctor who had the good grace to actually look touched.
Sheppard stood and shook McKay's hand.
"Thanks Rodney…..I mean it….it's fantastic. I didn't even give a wedding cake a second thought".
"I know you didn't. This is why I am the brains of the team and…….", Rodney trailed off as Sheppard passed him to go examine the cake with Lyssa.
"You actually made that?", Ronon asked as he managed to escape from the unhappy women that had surrounded him as they went to admire the cake.
"Yes……..my mother ran the school baking club and every Saturday morning I would take notes and………", he was forced to trail off as Ronon patted his shoulder.
"Nice gesture…..", Ronon said as he too headed off and Rodney smiled to himself and sighed deeply.
OOoOO
Mid-way through the party Sheppard came to stand behind Lyssa and slipped his arms around her waist, pulling her back against his body and she sighed contentedly as he said matter-of-factly,
"You know, you won't truly be Mrs Sheppard until we consummate our marriage".
"Is that right?", Lyssa asked coyly and Sheppard nuzzled her ear as he replied,
"Uh-huh".
"We'd better go do something about that right now then", Lyssa said and Sheppard moved and took her hand in his.
"My thoughts exactly", he said, pausing as he saw her eyes trying to seek out which of their guests was holding their son.
"It's okay, Ellie said she would take Conner for the night", he told her and Lyssa nodded, happy now she knew her baby was being taken care of.
They slipped from the mess hall as inconspicuously as possible and headed for their room.
Once inside they found someone had been in and lit candles and put flowers in the room and all kinds of parcels were piled up in one corner, wrapped in the crude brown paper that was all that was available to the people of Atlantis.
"Wow. I should get married more often", Sheppard said and flinched as Lyssa smacked his arm.
"Hey", he said pulling her into his arms.
"You look so beautiful that I can't believe you're actually mine", he told her and Lyssa blushed as she wrapped her arms around his neck.
"And I can't believe that I actually managed to bag the famous play boy John Sheppard", she replied and it was Sheppard's turn to colour up.
"Those things Ronon said…in the speech….they're not all true…..", he began but Lyssa closed her mouth over his to stop any more talk which suited Sheppard just fine.
He began to undo the lace covered buttons at the back of her dress as he murmured in her ear.
"Did Ellie take you to that nice lingerie store?"
"See for yourself", Lyssa teased and Sheppard worked the buttons a little quicker, sliding the delicate dress down over her body and he groaned as her gorgeous ivory coloured underwear was revealed to him.
"You like it I take it?", she asked as he scooped her up into his arms and placed her gently onto their bed.
Sheppard could only nod in response as his throat was so constricted by passion and he all but tore his Air Force uniform from his body so that he could join her.
He nipped at the tips of her breasts through the lace of her bra and Lyssa gasped and arched toward him, her arms going around his back to pull him closer to her but Sheppard had other ideas.
He moved down her body, kissing every inch of skin that he passed and finally he ran a finger along the edge of her panties, breathing in the scent of her deeply as he closed his eyes.
The smell of her made him rock hard and he clenched his jaw as he fought the urge to just move up over her and bury himself deeply inside of her.
Instead he moved her panties to one side, loath to remove the exquisite garments, and slid his tongue over her silken lips causing Lyssa to buck her hips at the sensation.
He teased her until she couldn't take it any more and when he moved back up her body she surprised him by pushing him onto his back.
He didn't object though as she kissed her way down his chest, her mouth not hesitating to cover his erection the moment she came into contact with it and Sheppard could not help the loud groan he emitted as the feel of her hot tongue dancing with his hard flesh threatened to overwhelm him.
Finally, when enough was enough, Sheppard gently pulled Lyssa up toward him and guided her hips into the right position and then with one hard thrust, joined his body with hers.
Lyssa set the pace, her body moving up and down on him rapidly as she strove for release and Sheppard gripped her hips as he helped her to grind against him for a deeper contact.
Suddenly Lyssa all but screamed as she came and Sheppard threw his head back against the pillows as he let his own body release it's built up pressure in hot jets that shot deeply up into Lyssa's body.
Lyssa collapsed on top of Sheppard and he wrapped his arms around her and kissed the top of her head lovingly.
"Now you're Mrs Sheppard", he said and Lyssa giggled,
"No…..you're Mr Hunter", she said, not having to look at Sheppard's face to know he would not go with that idea in a million years.
But, even though she knew they could never have a million years, they did have the rest of their lives to be Mr and Mrs Sheppard and she couldn't wait to spend her life getting to know the man she lay with now better and better as time went by.
The End
The series will continue with my next story……Loves Price of Freedom