Date: 9th June 2007
Title: Love Prevails
Author: Kazavid / ElaineDex
Chapter: 3 ?
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 3
They waited for it to get dark enough for Lyssa to start disabling the proximity defence system, without being seen. It didn't take long to disable the three proximity devices, so she got to work on the guards. The first one was easy, she moved up behind him and placed her hand over his mouth, she slid the blade lightly at the side of his neck, causing the slightest cut to appear, within seconds he was out cold. She propped him up to look like he was asleep.
Then she moved on to the next one, again this was easy, and again she propped him up in a sleeping pose. The third one was a little more difficult, he was very suspicious of every one. Lyssa found herself having to wait around for just the right moment to get him.
She started playing with her knife, and bragging how sharp it was, when the guard laughed at her, she said she'd show him. She grabbed his hand and lightly slid it across his palm before he could pull his hand away. Another one down.
This last one was the most difficult, he was friends with the man she'd stabbed earlier in the day, the one who had attacked Ellie.
"What do you want Sylas.?" he asked angrily.
"Just checking everything is alright, I thought I heard something." she said, moving past him.
She carried on walking and waited for him to settle down. Then she slowly and quietly reached his side, as she tried to cut him with the blade he knocked her hand away. Before he could shout she stuck the blade in to his leg and watched as he fell down unconscious.
"Ellie you have to go, now. I'll make sure no one follows you."
"Aren't you coming with us?" Ellie asked.
"Yes, but I have to make sure Sean isn't compromised first, I have to send him a message. It will only take a few minutes, now go." Lyssa told her.
"Alright, but hurry." Ellie told her then left with Rodney.
"I will." Lyssa told her.
"All your stuff has been shared among everyone, but I managed to get one of your IDC's" Lyssa gave the small device to Ellie.
ooOoo
Ellie and Rodney managed to cut Sheppard and Ronon free, then quickly made their way to the Stargate. Ronon kept looking at Ellie and asking her if she was alright.
"I'm fine," Ellie told him abruptly, wondering if he was truly worried over her, or just being his typical macho self.
Everything had happened so fast, that no one had time to ask, or find out, how Ellie and Rodney had managed to get free. All that could wait till they were safely away from this place.
Rodney was ahead of everyone, with Ronon and Ellie following behind, Sheppard hung back to make sure no one was following them. He saw something moving and pulled behind a tree and waited. When he saw Sylas pass by, he immediately pounced, running behind him and tackling him to the ground. Lyssa's knife fell from it scabbard, and landed on the ground.
"What are you doing? Get off me." She shouted at Sheppard as he tackled her. She punched her fist in to his mid section and knocked the breath from his lungs. She pushed him off her and stood up, she saw him grab her knife and come towards her.
She knew as soon as she saw his eyes that he didn't know who she was, she still had the hood on and obviously Ellie and McKay had forgotten to mention who Sylas actually was. But before she could remove the hood or say anything he had pushed the knife in to her left side, at waist height.
"That's for Ellie and McKay." he told her, then he pulled the knife out he stood there and watched as she fell down, her arms wrapped around her waist. Then he took off towards the Stargate.
ooOoo
They were all standing around, waiting and watching, Sheppard began to dial Atlantis and Ellie frowned at him.
"What are you doing?" She asked Sheppard.
"Dialling Atlantis, why?" he asked confused by her question.
"You can't dial yet, we have to wait for Lyssa." Ellie informed him.
Sheppard froze at Ellie's words, he wasn't sure he'd heard her right.
"Wait for who?" he asked her, just to make sure.
"Lyssa!" she repeated the name. Before he could ask her the question that was on the tip of his tongue Ronon beat him to it.
"Lyssa? What are you talking about?" Ronon asked, just as confused as Sheppard.
"I thought Rodney had told you." Ellie said.
"Me, why would you think I'd told them, I thought you had." Rodney admitted.
"Will one of you tell us what the hell is going on, what are you two talking about?" Sheppard shouted.
Ellie noticed the knife that Sheppard still had in his hand, the intricate design of it was unmistakable, it was Lyssa's knife.
"Where did you get that knife?" Ellie asked him, dreading his answer. McKay looked at Sheppard's hand with the knife in it, his skin covered with blood.
"He's killed her. He's actually gone and killed her." McKay said in disbelief and horror.
Sheppard looked down at his hand and frowned, he tried to wipe the blood off on his pants, but some of it had already dried.
"Sylas was following us so I..." he didn't finish, because the look, Ellie and McKay gave him, suddenly turned his stomach.
"Sylas was Lyssa." Ellie said in a choked voice.
As soon as Ellie said what she did about Sylas being Lyssa, Sheppard found he couldn't keep the contents of his stomach down. He started retching and heaving until there was nothing left in his stomach to bring up.
"Why didn't one of you tell us who Sylas was?" Ronon asked Ellie and McKay harshly, glaring at them.
"We each thought the other had said something." Ellie told him.
"We have to go back." Sheppard said turning back towards where they had come from.
"We can't, they already know were missing, can't you hear them." McKay shouted.
In the distance they could hear voices approaching. McKay dialled Atlantis and sent the IDC, then Ronon grabbed Sheppard and dragged him through the Stargate, followed by Ellie and McKay.
ooOoo
Lyssa managed to get up but she wouldn't be able to make it to the Stargate, the men had already found her, luckily they thought she was just another victim like the guards. She was helped back to the camp and decided she had to get away before the guards woke up and mentioned her. Luck was on her side, Sean came back early and when she told him what had happened he quickly got her off the planet and back to his place.
When he couldn't stop the bleeding, which wasn't normally a problem for Lyssa, he knew he needed help. So two days after the accident happened he contacted Atlantis and went to see Weir.
ooOoo
"Sean, what can we do for you?" she asked, looking at him sitting across from her in her office.
"I need Doctor Beckett to look at a friend of mine." he told her.
"Can't you bring this friend here?" she asked him.
"Sorry they can't travel, too weak." he told her.
Eventually Weir gave her permission for Beckett to go with Sean, so long as Sheppard and Ronon went too.
"Sorry, but I don't want Sheppard anywhere near me. Ronon is fine, but you have to pick someone else." he told her.
"Alright, Major Lorne can go." she told him, she was well aware of Sean's friendship with Lyssa and knew he'd taken what Sheppard had done to her, personally.
Sean went to see Doctor Beckett and explain what he wanted. Weir informed Ronon that he was going to be accompanying Beckett along with Major Lorne to Sean's home.
Ronon looked at Sean, the only reason he would be here now was if there was a problem with Lyssa. Ronon waited for Sean to finish speaking to Beckett.
It had taken Ronon over twenty four hours to find out if Lyssa was still alive. He'd had problems contacting Sean, and then there had been delays with Sean and his people, finally though, he'd gotten a message telling him that she was being taken care of and should be alright. Ronon hadn't told Sheppard where Lyssa was, just that she was alright.
Sheppard couldn't get over the fact that he'd used the knife on Lyssa, and to make matters worse, hearing that the chemical on her knife had interfered with her ability to heal quickly, had positively made him suicidal.
When Ronon got to speak to Sean his suspicions were confirmed, they couldn't stop the bleeding and needed Beckett to see if he could do something.
"How is she?" Ronon asked Sean.
"Fine, but very weak, she's lost quite a bit of blood. And she's not used to being injured for this length of time."
Ronon saw Sean stiffen and when he turned around he saw Sheppard coming towards them.
"Sean, I didn't know you were here." Sheppard remarked.
Sean just grunted, he didn't say much, but Sheppard knew something was up, the atmosphere around them felt positively charged.
"Right I have everything, so lets go." Doctor Beckett said coming to stand next to Sean and Ronon.
"Where are you going?" Sheppard asked.
"To.." Beckett was just about to speak when Sean cut him off.
"A friends young child is sick and I just wanted Doctor Beckett to have a look at him." Sean told him, but Sheppard didn't believe him, especially when Beckett frowned at Sean's explanation.
Sheppard followed them to the Gate room and saw Lorne waiting to escort Beckett. Once they had left Sheppard went to Weir's office.
"Why was Lorne escorting Beckett. Normally I would be doing that.?" he asked her.
"Sean requested that I send someone else, he didn't want you doing it." she told him.
Sheppard stormed out of Weir's office and headed to the infirmary. He asked one of the nurses what Sean had been after. When she told him he'd been asking Beckett about chemicals that stopped the blood from clotting he knew what was going on.
ooOoo
"I need a favour." Sheppard told Weir. She raised her eyebrows at his request, although as she looked at him, she had a pretty good idea what the favour was.
"What is it?" she asked.
"I know Lyssa is staying with Sean...I need to see if she's alright." he told her, and watched Weir sigh.
"Sean specifically stated that he doesn't want you there. And are you sure you'll even get past the perimeter of his property if you do go?" she asked.
"I don't care what Sean wants..."
"No I can see that," she knew he'd probably go without her permission anyway, so she told him he could go.
"Thanks." he said and vanished out of the office.
ooOoo
Sheppard made his way to Sean's place, he'd been here a few times so he knew which way to go. When he reached the outer wall of Sean's, fortress like, place he hesitated, and wondered if they'd let him in. He didn't dwell on that, he just wanted to see Lyssa and make sure that she was alright.
He walked to the entrance which was guarded by two men, the men greeted him warmly and let him pass by. Obviously Sean hadn't gotten around to telling his people not to let him on to the premises. He pushed the door to the main building open, and stepped inside, it was pretty quiet. He had an idea where Lyssa would be so he headed towards there.
He could hear Beckett and Sean talking further down the hall, he approached the stairs and glanced up the hall. He caught a glimpse of Beckett's back, he slipped up the stairs and started checking the bedrooms. He found her in the third bedroom, she was lying face down on top of the bed. Lying beside her on the bed was Jake, a huge dog, which gave a low growl as he entered.
"Quiet Jake." Lyssa mumbled.
The dog moved off the bed and came over to him, sniffing his hand, it started to wag its tail, then moved to lie on the floor.
The shutters on the windows was half closed against the heat of the midday sun, so the light in the bedroom was dimmed.
Lyssa wasn't wearing much, just a short t-shirt and what looked suspiciously like a pair of his boxer shorts. As he moved closer to the bed he could see a thick white bandage around her waist, she was also attached to a drip, one was a clear fluid, and the other one was obviously blood. He carefully sat down on the side of the bed, near her hip and just watched her.
She had her arms wrapped around the pillow and kept moving her head to find a comfortable position. His eyes ran from her bare feet up the length of bare legs, resting on the boxer shorts she was wearing, which were definitely his, finally stopping when his eyes came to the bandage. He turned away and looked at the floor. When Jake came over and sat by his leg, he stroked the dogs head, as soon as he stopped stroking though, Jake gave a low whine.
"Jake..." Lyssa moved her arm and reached back to stroke the dog, who she thought was sitting next to her on the bed. But instead of her hand touching soft, warm fur, she found her hand stroking a warm, material covered, muscle thigh. Her hand stilled, she went to pull it back but John grabbed hold of it, she didn't need to turn around to know who it was.
It seemed ages before she turned around to look at him, when she did, she noticed how nervous he looked, which was pretty unusual for him. He looked like he was just waiting for her to tell him to go.
"Does Sean know you're here?" she asked him.
"No." he said, his voice was barely audible.
When she turned on to her back, he let go of her hand, she noticed his eyes seemed to be glued to the bandage around her waist. She had an idea of how he must be feeling, she'd feel the same way if where the other way round.
"As you can see, you didn't kill me. I'm still here." she said.
As soon as she said it, he groaned and turned away, he lowered his head down as he rested his arms on his knees.
"Sorry, I didn't mean to make things worse. I was only trying to lighten things up." she said, realising she'd said the wrong thing.
These past few weeks away from Atlantis had given her time to think, about what she wanted, and she'd realised that she wanted John. And considering his reaction, she hoped he still wanted her, and wasn't just here to check up on her, as a concerned friend.
"I'd get up and kiss you but I don't have the energy." she said, cautiously then waited to see what he'd do. He'd heard her because she'd seen him tense as she'd spoken.
"What are you saying, exactly?" he asked, turning his head to look at her, his eyes full of longing but also wary.
"I'm saying, I've missed you, and I'd like to be with you." she told him truthfully.
"You're sure? I mean you're not going to turn around and change your mind about this. Because I don't think I could cope with much more." he said, looking less wary and more like his normal self.
"I'm very sure." she said.
He didn't move, but continued to just stare at her, she took hold of his hand and pulled him towards her, moving over on the bed so that he could lie down beside her. He seemed a little hesitant when he saw how pale she was, and at the drips attached to her hand.
Lyssa leaned towards him and kissed him, and that was when he lost it, pulling her as close as he could, he started kissing her, feverishly and hungrily. His mouth, lips and tongue moved over her caressingly, as he tasted and teased her. All his fear over losing her was slowly fading as he held her and kissed her.
When he calmed down, and realised that she was still his, he felt more relaxed than he'd felt in weeks. He even teased her about pinching a pair of his boxers.
Leaning lightly against her side he had his hand on her waist, his thumb rubbing across the bandage where the cut was.
"How bad is it?" he asked, quietly.
"The wound isn't that bad, it's just that they can't stop it from bleeding."
"If Ellie or McKay had said something...anything..." he said.
"It's not their fault, it was just an unfortunate accident."
He rolled on to his back and pulled her with him, he laid with his back against the pillows. Lyssa was against his side with her head on his shoulder, her arm across his chest, and she had insinuated one of her legs between his legs, and she laid there against him and fell asleep.
The bedroom door opened and Ronon loomed in the doorway, as soon as he saw John and Lyssa he backed up and pulled the door closed, and John could hear the heated voices outside. He knew that Sean was arguing with Ronon, he didn't blame the guy, he was only looking out for Lyssa.
He was reluctant to move, but knew he'd have to. Before he got up the bedroom door opened and Sean came striding in, glaring at Sheppard as he approached the bed.
"What the hell are you doing here?" he snarled.
"Making sure she was alright."
"Well now that you know, you can go." Sean told him.
"Not without Lyssa."
"She's staying here." Sean told him.
"Then so am I." Sheppard answered.
"You're not invited."
"Lyssa invited me."
"What's going on?" Lyssa asked, waking up to all the loud arguing.
"Nothing, Sean was just inviting me to stay here with you." John said.
Sean was just about to deny this, but the look on Lyssa's face stopped him.
"You don't mind?" she asked Sean. He took his time answering.
"No, I don't mind." he eventually answered her.
"If everyone's finished, I'd like to asses the patient." Doctor Beckett said, looking around at everyone.
Sean looked at Sheppard as if waiting for him to leave the room, Ronon pushed Sean towards the door muttering something to him.
Doctor Beckett assessed Lyssa and decided that he wanted her back on Atlantis, in the infirmary, as soon as she was able to travel.
TBC...