Date: 8th June 2007
Title: Love Prevails
Author: Kazavid / ElaineDex
Chapter: 2 ?
Series: None
Rating: M
Pairing: John Sheppard / Lyssa Hunter – Ronon Dex / Ellie Harrison
Archiving: None
Warnings: Sexual Content
Spoilers: None
Feedback: Yes
Disclaimer: Stargate Atlantis and its characters do not belong to me.
Summary: Can Sheppard and Ellie set things right with Lyssa and Ronon or has fate called time on their love?
A / N: --This story is a collaboration between Kazavid and ElaineDex. The story continues right after Love Under Pressure, written by ElaineDex.
LOVE PREVAILS
Chapter 2
"That guy called you 'fly boy' how does he know you're a pilot?" McKay asked, looking at Sheppard.
"You think he could be one of the Genii?", Sheppard asked, wondering the same thing himself.
"It's possible, I mean he seems to know you." McKay remarked.
"Where's Ellie gone?" Ronon shouted when he finally came to his senses.
"She's er...he..." Sheppard didn't know what to tell him.
"Where is she Sheppard?" Ronon bit out, glaring at Sheppard.
"She's in there." he said nodding towards the tent.
"How long ago did she go in there?" Ronon asked, he was already imagining what was going on.
"Only a short while ago." Sheppard told him.
"You got a plan?" Ronon asked Sheppard.
"Working on one." Sheppard said, giving his usual response when Ronon asked such a question.
They saw Sylas come out of the tent, he came over to them.
"What have you done to Ellie?" Sheppard shouted at him.
"Wouldn't you like to know?" Sylas smirked. He bent down by McKay and took his knife out.
"Where's Ellie?" Ronon bit out, glaring at Sylas.
Sylas stopped what he was doing and regarded Ronon for a while, then he answered him.
"Ellie is fine." he told Ronon, watching as Ronon tensed, his eyes trying to see passed the hood. Sylas got back to cutting McKay free.
"What are you doing?" McKay stammered as the knife came very close to him.
Sylas cut the rope around McKay. One of the other men who was nearby shouted over.
"Hey you've already taken the woman." he told him.
"Have I?"
"Yes, so what do you want with him?" he asked.
"I want him too, you got a problem with that?" Sylas asked him.
"No, but you're always telling us not to mess around with the merchandise. Yet here you are messing around with two of them."
"I'm in a party mood." Sylas told him, laughing.
McKay was literally agog with the conversation, he'd paled considerable and wondered what, exactly, did this man want him for. He was feeling pretty sick at the ideas he was coming up with.
"What do you want with me? I think you have the wrong man, you should probably take Sheppard, he's the one everyone fancies..."
"I don't think so." Sylas said derisively, looking towards Sheppard.
"Thanks for trying to get me screwed McKay." Sheppard shouted.
"Don't worry Colonel there's no chance of you getting screwed in this camp." Sylas told him. Causing Sheppard to get even more angrier.
"Where are you taking him?" Sheppard shouted.
"I promise I won't hurt him, much." Sylas shouted back, as he walked McKay to the tent.
Sheppard turned to look at Ronon who was pretty tight lipped and frowning, his eyes following Sylas as he disappeared in to the tent.
"How does he know I'm a Colonel, you think Ellie told him?", he asked Ronon. "Ronon, you alright" Sheppard asked, but Ronon didn't answer he was staring at the tent.
ooOoo
"Sit down." Sylas told McKay, pushing him towards the chair.
"Alright!...no need to push." McKay told him, he then saw Ellie coming from behind a small curtained off area of the tent.
"Ellie are you alright?" McKay asked her, but noted that she looked fine, in fact she looked very relaxed and didn't look the least bit frightened.
"What is going on?" he asked, sensing that Ellie knew something they didn't.
"You have to show her how to disable the proximity defence system that they have around the camp." Ellie told Rodney.
"Her? Who's her?" Rodney asked, looking around the tent. His eyes were almost on stalks as he focused on Sylas.
"You! But what...how..." He stammered as he stared at Lyssa standing in front of him. He turned to look at Ellie.
"Do you really think she'll help us. I mean she's pretty pissed off at Sheppard after what he did. Not that I can blame her I suppose...But...you know one day he's going to piss off one girlfriend too many and she's gonna turn around and kill all of us." Rodney couldn't seem to stop talking once he started.
"Relax Rodney I don't want to kill all of you, yet." she told him. "Well maybe just one of you." she added dryly.
"See, she's too pissed at Sheppard to be trustworthy." Rodney said to Ellie.
"Well I trust her. Now are you going to show her how to disable the defence system. I couldn't show her, I've never see this design before." Ellie told to him. After some persuasion he gave in.
"Fine, show me where it is." Rodney said resignedly.
Lyssa showed him one of the devices for the proximity system that was situated in her tent, and he got to work on figuring out how she could disable it. It was taking too long and Lyssa knew the men outside would start getting suspicious. She looked at Ellie and grimaced.
"Ellie you'll have to start making some noise, you know as if you're...having sex." Lyssa told her and saw the blush flare up Ellie's face.
"What do you mean?" Ellie asked embarrassed by Lyssa's request.
"The men outside think that I'm...you know...and if they don't hear anything they'll get suspicious."
"Oh, but I don't know if I can." Ellie admitted, her eyes going to Rodney who was all ears, and red faced listening to their conversation.
"Sure you can." Lyssa said as she moved closer to Ellie. Lyssa suddenly pinched Ellie's side causing her to yelp loudly, in shock.
"See you can do it." Lyssa laughed.
Rodney's eyes shot open and he gawped at them waiting to see what they would do next. When Lyssa grabbed Ellie's kneecap and pressed her fingers on either side of it, Ellie took a fit of laughing, and Rodney gulped at the sight of them. He forgot what he was supposed to be doing and just sat there gawping at them, and listening to the sounds they were making.
"Your turn Rodney." Lyssa said looking at him with a mischievous glint. Rodney paled at the look both Lyssa and Ellie gave him.
"What! No! Definitely not, I am not going to start moaning like...no...what are you doing?" he asked when both Lyssa and Ellie stepped closer to him.
ooOoo
Ronon and Sheppard sat there listening to the moans and cries coming from the tent. Sheppard glanced at Ronon, he was very still almost statue like but he could see him clenching his jaw, he really would hate to be that Sylas guy if Ronon got his hands on him.
The sudden shriek from McKay had Sheppard gulping, he looked at Ronon who finally moved, but only to glare at the tent, as if his will alone could kill Sylas. Sheppard didn't know what to say, so for once he kept his mouth shut and didn't put his foot in it.
"Sounds like your buddy's having a good time." one of the men laughed to Sheppard, then moved away.
"Ronon any chance you can get your hands free?" Sheppard asked him.
"What do you think I've been doing all the time we've been tied up? Waiting to be rescued!" Ronon bit out.
"Sorry, stupid question." Sheppard sighed, he pulled at the rope tying his hands around the tree, it still didn't budge, just got tighter.
Sheppard didn't know what made him look up but when he did he saw Sylas coming towards him. He grimaced and glanced at Ronon, who was staring at Sylas and not in a very nice way.
"Something we can do for you." Sheppard asked sarcastically.
"Yes you have something I want." Sylas told him.
Sheppard pulled a face, and wondered what the hell he was talking about. When Sylas bent down by him, Sheppard tried to pull back.
"What the hell are you doing?" Sheppard asked as Sylas started to push his hand in to his pants pocket. The cursing coming from Sheppard made Sylas smile but Sheppard couldn't see this. Perversely, and purposely Sylas took his time searching Sheppard's pockets, and deliberately brushed his fingers very close to his groin. Sheppard swore, and threatened to get revenge on Sylas for what he was doing.
"I'd keep that big mouth shut, if I were you. It may just get you in to more trouble than you're worth." Sylas told him.
Finding what he was looking for he pulled the small gadget out of his pocket, it was similar to a Swiss army knife, loaded with little intricate tools. Sheppard frowned and wondered how Sylas knew he had it, it couldn't have been McKay, because he didn't know he had it.
"Here, will this do?" Lyssa asked Rodney and handed him the small pocket knife device.
"It's perfect, where did you get it?" he asked, amazed by the ingenious little device.
"It's Sheppard's, so you'll have to give it back to him." she said.
"Mm, I never knew he had it." Rodney mused, and started to use it on the defence system.
He showed Lyssa exactly what to do and told her that the system would look like it was still on but would in fact be disabled.
"Right so the plan is to..." Lyssa detailed what they should do and what she was going to do.
All they had to do now was wait but Ellie began asking questions.
"Are you here on your own?" Ellie asked her.
"No Sean is also here, but he's with the boss at the moment. They've gone to pick up some other merchandise."
"What is it you're actually doing here?" Rodney asked her.
"Sean and I are being paid to look for a young boy who was taken a few days ago, we're just trying to find out his location." She told them.
"Are you going to tell Sheppard and Ronon what's going on?" Ellie asked.
"No, there's no time, and it would be too difficult." Lyssa said.
"Sheppard's getting pretty good at articulating himself don't you think? He's actually managing to put complete sentences together, for once. Mind you I'm not sure it could be considered a sentence when it only consists of swear words", Rodney remarked as the sound of Sheppard's voice reverberated around the camp.
"Yes, I'm just surprised it isn't Ronon you can hear cursing", Lyssa remarked and looked towards Ellie, who quickly looked away from her.
"I don't think Ronon really cares about what happens to me", Ellie admitted.
"Why not?" Lyssa asked.
"Because since he's had his memory back, he doesn't want to know me."
"And I don't suppose it has anything to do with the fact that you and Sheppard seemed to get pretty close to each other?", Lyssa remarked a little harshly.
"I told you that was just pretend." Ellie said trying to defend her actions.
"Yeah well it didn't look like pretend." Lyssa told her.
Rodney started to look around the tent, nosing at everything.
"No, I know. We never meant to hurt you. And I know John is very upset by what happened."
"Forget it." Lyssa told her.
"But you can't, can you?" Ellie said.
"Sheppard sounds pretty angry about you being in here." Lyssa said, listening to the curses and threats that Sheppard was still shouting, she saw Ellie blush.
"It doesn't mean we're close, it's just because he feels responsible because he's in charge, and he doesn't want any of his people hurt." Ellie said.
"No he doesn't want any of his people hurt, just his so called girlfriend." Lyssa snapped.
"Don't you love him any more?" Ellie asked.
"I'm not that fickle Ellie, of course I love him, I'm just not so sure about trusting him."
"Just think about how angry you are at him, and realise that's probably how desperate he was to get you back. He wasn't thinking straight, and neither was I." Ellie told her. She turned to Rodney and started talking to him.
Lyssa had gotten over a lot of anger at what they done to her and Ronon, and she sighed, maybe she should try and talk to Sheppard when they got out of here.
Lyssa took her knife out and applied a chemical to the blade.
"What's that?" Ellie asked, watching Lyssa apply a liquid to the knife she held. The handle of the knife had a very intricate design to it.
"It's a chemical that will put the guards out for a few hours. I only have to give them the slightest nick and the chemical puts them out within seconds."
"Is it poisonous?", Ellie asked worriedly.
"To you no, but I have to be careful I don't cut myself with it. It reacts with my blood in a different way, I don't fall asleep but the cut won't stop bleeding, it actually interferes with the clotting of my blood." Lyssa smiled at Ellie's concern. "It's alright I don't intend to cut myself with it."
TBC...