Title : Love Cant Hide
Date : 20th May 2007
Author : ElaineDex
Chapter : 9 of ?
Rating : M
Pairing : Lt. Col. John Sheppard/Lyssa Hunter, Ronon Dex/Dr. Ellie Harrison-Dex
Archiving : None
Warning : Some sexual content, possible swearing.
Spoilers : This story follows on from Love After Love.
Feedback : Yes
Disclaimer : Only Ellie is mine, Stargate/Atlantis and all their characters are not. Lyssa Hunter belongs to Kazavid.
Summary : Following her second reunion with Ronon, Lyssa realises that maybe her wasn't her 'one true love' after all.
Thanks to Kazavid for her input with this Chapter.
Jones had been biding his time, watching and waiting, formulating his plan.
He was a good fighter. That was why the SGC had thought he was the ideal choice for Major Lorne's new team. The team that was supposed to have been just as good as Lt. Col. Sheppard's team was. And it would have been, if it hadn't been for that un-naturally fast healing creature that passed for a human being. He could have put up with the Dr. She'd have gotten better in time but Hunter….she didn't belong on the team.
It was her fault he was in here now. Hers and Ronon Dex's.
Everyone needed to learn that he was not a man to be crossed.
He stood as two marines approached his cell, ready to escort him to the Daedalus.
ooOoo
Sheppard had no idea the blow to the back of his head was coming, there was no way he could've defended himself against it.
As he crumpled to the floor Jones smiled.
One down, one to go.
ooOoo
"Colonel Caldwell, what's the status on Captain Jones?", Weir asked from the Gate room.
"We thought the delay was with you, he hasn't arrived on board yet", Caldwell replied and Weir frowned.
"We have no delay down here that I know of. Standby and I'll get an update from Sheppard", she replied.
Tapping her ear-piece several times she tried to contact Sheppard but with no luck.
Trying another tack she said, "Major Lorne, come in please this is Weir".
Immediately Lorne replied, "Yes ma'am?".
"I can't reach Lt. Col. Sheppard and Captain Jones and his escort haven't made it to the Daedalus yet. Can you check it out for me?", Weir responded, an uneasy feeling settling in her stomach.
"I'm on it now ma'am", Lorne replied and Weir sighed and folded her arms.
After five minutes, Lorne's voice buzzed in her ear.
"We've found the marine escort unconscious and there's no sign of Lt. Col. Sheppard. No-one's seen him".
"Keep searching Major", Weir said as she moved back to her office.
"Come in McKay", she said tapping her ear-piece but all she got back was a very loud snoring noise.
"Rodney?", she said again warily but when she only got the same sound again she tried,
"Dr Harrison are you there".
"Yes, I'm in the lab", Ellie replied.
"Is there something wrong with Rodney?", Weir asked and Ellie frowned.
"He's on a rest break why?".
"Never mind, can you locate Sheppard by his tracking device?", Weir said and Ellie spun around on her chair and faced another lap top.
"Sure, just give me one………..", but then her voice trailed off.
"Dr Harrison? Ellie?…….", Weir had now had enough.
"What the hell is going on here?", she said to anyone who was listening.
"What's up?", Ronon said as he appeared behind Weir.
"Oh, Ronon. Get to the lab. Something's going on, Jones, Sheppard and now Ellie have all disappeared", she said and Ronon took off toward McKay's lab.
ooOoo
Ellie stopped mid-sentence as Jones pressed a gun to her temple.
"Get up……slowly", he said, then added, "Take off your ear-piece and leave it on the side".
Ellie did as she was told, trying to inch her head away from the end of the gun but he just followed her with it.
The next thing Jones cracked the barrel against the side of her head and caught her as she slipped into unconsciousness.
Now for step two.
ooOoo
Ronon reached the lab and even though nothing was out of place he knew something wasn't right.
"Ellie's not here", he reported to Weir.
Just then Lyssa appeared in the doorway.
"What's going on? I heard Jones, John and now Ellie have all disappeared", she said and Ronon nodded, looking around the lab as though the place would tell him something.
Both he and Lyssa spotted the ear-piece at the same time and Ronon said,
"We need to get McKay here fast. He can track them".
"We can track them", Lyssa said looking at him as though he forgotten what it was they did, where they had come from, their pasts.
Ronon nodded briefly and they left the lab, reporting to Weir that Rodney needed to get to the lab to start up the tracking on the lap top.
ooOoo
Ellie awoke with a throbbing in her temples and a sore arm?
'How did that work?', she wondered, trying to make her eyes focus enough so that she could look what was wrong with her arm which was inexplicably tied to her other arm at the wrists.
"You alright?", Sheppard's voice broke into her thoughts and she looked up and squinted at him.
"Peachy", she replied.
He looked to be in no better condition than she was and she noticed his arm was bleeding.
She glanced back down at hers to see it was also bleeding.
"He's removed the trackers", she said and Sheppard nodded.
"Where is he now?", Ellie asked and Sheppard shrugged.
"He stepped out a while ago, he's not been back since".
Ellie looked around the dimly lit room and frowned.
"Where are we? I don't recognise this room".
"I think we're on the far side of the city. This part hasn't really been looked at properly yet", Sheppard replied and Ellie nodded.
"I tried the door", Sheppard said as though reading her mind and Ellie smiled wryly at him.
"I knew that", she replied.
Just then Jones re-entered and Sheppard and Ellie glanced at one another when they saw he was holding C4.
ooOoo
"McKay, how's the tracking coming?", Ronon asked as he and Lyssa ran through the corridors of Atlantis following the faint lead they had on Jones.
"I've got a lock on them but they're not moving", Rodney replied and it was Lyssa and Ronon's turn to glance at one another.
"Where are they?", Lyssa asked, her heart thumping in her chest and not from their run through the city.
"Well…..it looks like….but it can't be….", Rodney mumbled and Ronon grimaced. They didn't have time for his usual 'I know I'm right but I like people to prove it to me' games.
"McKay, just tell us the location", he barked into his ear-piece and Rodney flinched at the other end.
"Alright. No need to get shirty. According to this, Sheppard and Ellie are in the ocean".
"What?!", Ronon and Lyssa looked at one another before looking around at the huge window behind them where on the other side they could see the choppy water surrounding the city.
"John", Lyssa murmured and Ronon glanced at her.
"Jones has removed their tracking chips. That's what's in the ocean, not them", he muttered as he strode away and Lyssa didn't know who he was trying to convince, himself or her.
ooOoo
"Get up", Jones said to Sheppard who did so very dubiously as he eyed the C4.
"What are you planning on doing with that?", he asked, not sure he really wanted to know.
"I'm going to attach it to you", Jones replied, setting up the connections into the block of C4 he then proceeded to attach it to Sheppard's chest using a huge roll of Duck tape.
As Jones moved over to Ellie, Sheppard asked,
"Then what're you planning on doing? Blowing us sky high?" and he looked at Ellie as he added, "I always wanted to go out with a bang".
Ellie shook her head at his innuendo, then she watched as Jones knelt down in front of her and tied her legs together at the ankles.
"You can take a seat again Sir", Jones said to Sheppard who eyed him warily.
"What are you up to Jones?", he asked but sat down as Jones waved the switch at him that could detonate the C4.
"I'll be back for you", Jones said to him as he grabbed Ellie behind the knees and put her over his shoulder.
ooOoo
"Ronon, come in", Lorne's voice crackled in his ear.
"What is it?", Ronon asked as he and Lyssa stopped to listen to what the Major had to say.
"You may want to get up to the highest level, one of my men just spotted Jones up there and he's with Ellie.
"On my way", Ronon replied, heading for the level changer, closely followed by Lyssa.
They reached the outer walk-way in record time and saw Jones up ahead, Ellie in front of him, his arm around her neck.
"That was fast..you must have had a tip-off as to my location", Jones said, then pointed a gun at them as Ronon went to move forward.
"Stay where you are", he said and Ronon stopped despite his better judgement.
"Are you ok?", he said to Ellie and she nodded, her eyes glued to his. She had a very bad feeling about this and she had no idea what Jones' plan was.
Suddenly Jones began to pull her backwards toward the railings and Lyssa spotted the loose fittings at the same time Ronon did.
"Jones!", Ronon growled, his tone holding a warning that the Captain chose to ignore.
"Sorry about this Doctor but needs must", he said in Ellie's ear.
In one quick movement Jones swung Ellie around and she lost her balance and was unable to correct it as her feet and hands were tied. As she fell, Jones shoved her hard and she crashed through the loose barrier and began to fall toward the rocks and the ocean below.
Ellie's scream was lost on the wind and as Jones took off at a run around the corner, Ronon raced to the gap where the barrier had been and dived off.
Lyssa stood momentarily stunned as Ronon disappeared and then she followed Jones.
Lyssa was a fast runner and caught up to Jones in no time at all.
She was about to pounce on him when he spun to face her, waving the detonation switch at her.
Lyssa skidded to a halt.
"What's that?", she said even though her heart told her she knew exactly what it was. Question was, where was it's other half?
"You're going to do exactly as I tell you", Jones said and Lyssa glared at him.
"Or what?", she asked defiantly.
"If you don't Lt. Colonel Sheppard will be in a million tiny pieces and you don't want his death on your conscience now do you?", Jones replied.
Lyssa shook her head, thankful Jones didn't seem to know that she and John were involved. To be fair there was only really Ronon and Ellie who knew as far as she was aware. They had kept things pretty quiet up to now. She vowed to rectify that if, no when, they all got out of this alive.
"Turn around", Jones said and Lyssa did as he asked.
He tied her hands behind her back and then dragged her along with him.
They entered the room where Sheppard was sat and Jones propelled her forward so that she landed on her knees in front of him.
"Hi", Sheppard said brightly and Lyssa bit back a smile. He had a knack of easing tension but this time she was too distracted, too aware that he could die, that they both could.
"Come to join the party?", Sheppard asked and she nodded.
"Captain Jones insisted", she replied.
"I see you're wired for sound", she added and Sheppard glanced down at the C4 on his chest.
"Oh yeah, ready to rock and roll", he answered wryly and Jones sighed.
"Enough chit-chat", he said and Lyssa moved to sit next to Sheppard but Jones kicked her so she fell on her side.
"Hey", Sheppard grumbled and Jones turned to stare at him.
"You don't want her anywhere near you Sir, she's not like us, I told you".
"I don't want you anywhere near me Captain. You're a disgrace", Sheppard said angrily, watching as Lyssa managed to sit back up.
"You ok?", he asked.
"Don't ask her if she's alright", Jones shouted angrily and Lyssa looked at Sheppard as if to say 'just go along with him'.
Sheppard frowned but silently agreed. He looked back at Jones and said,
"So what exactly are you trying to do?"
"I'm going to get out of here and you're going to help me. There is no way I'm going back to Earth to face a Court Marshal over her", Jones replied.
"So what do you want with Lyssa?", Sheppard continued with the questions.
"She should never have been allowed to set foot on Atlantis, she's not good enough. So I'm going to make sure she ends up like Ronon Dex", Jones answered smugly, thinking he sounded clever.
"What have you done to Ronon?", Sheppard asked, his hackles rising.
"Oh didn't I tell you he's dead?" Jones told him, then he started to laugh, "He followed that foolish wife of his down onto the rocks and into the ocean".
"How did Ellie end up in the ocean?", Sheppard asked.
"I pushed her…..she was really a traitor. She married Dex, she's on their side, she couldn't be trusted", Jones explained.
Lyssa watched as Jones put the detonator down, and took the opportunity. She got up whilst he was distracted and moved closer to him.
Jones suddenly turned around, his face murderous as he realised that she was about to attack him.
Lyssa rammed her whole body into his and knocked him back against a desk sending items scattering across the floor. Jones grunted as his side hit the desk at just the wrong angle, causing him great pain.
He recovered quickly and stood pushing Lyssa back. She managed to keep her balance as she fell back. Jones moved towards her his face full of hatred.
Lyssa knew he probably had an advantage over her being as his hands weren't tied behind his back like hers but she was determined not to give up.
As he came closer, she waited till just the right moment, then she saw his body leaning in towards her as he was about to hit out at her. She quickly moved to the side and he punched in to thin air and when his body was right beside her, she lifted her knee up and rammed it into his mid section, causing him to bend over at the pain.
She quickly pushed her foot in to his calf bone attempting to break his leg. She spied a knife he had hidden in his boot and knew she had to get it.
She changed tack and kicked him a few more times in the stomach, giving her time whilst he was winded to twist and pull the knife out.
Giving him one more kick for good measure, she moved over to Sheppard and turned her back to him, dropping the knife into his lap.
"You're pretty good", he said casually and Lyssa had to smile.
"Hurry up and cut through this tape", she replied and Sheppard did as he was told, enjoying being rescued.
Once her wrists were free she went to grab for the detonator but Jones' hand closed over it before hers could and they jumped apart as their hands brushed.
"Why couldn't you just do as you were told?", Jones hissed as he moved away from her and Lyssa glanced at Sheppard who was furiously trying to cut through the mountain of tape that was securing the C4 to his chest.
Lyssa looked back at Jones who held the switch up for her to see as his thumb slowly flicked it to one side.
"Noooo……….", Lyssa cried as the other side of the room exploded and began to crash down around them.
End of Chapter 9