Teyla carefully sipped her tea as John weaved through the morning traffic. He cut people off and yelled out the window as he drove to the Kennedy Building. Almost as soon as he had sped into the underground parking garage, he was pulling Teyla out of the car.
"Come on, we're late."
"Slow down John, I doubt Agent Weir will fault you for getting stuck in traffic." John continued to pull her to the elevator before he realized what she said and stopped.
"I know but…what? What are you talking about?"
"Nothing, just your crush on her." She walked past him into the building and he followed quickly behind her. She got in line for the security scan and smiled warmly at the guard.
"That is ridiculous." He half whispered to her as she walked through the metal detector.
"Alright." Teyla had an amused smile on her face as John continued to talk.
"Really I don't like her." He walked through after her and continued speaking in a harsh whisper.
"I believe you." She pushed the button and waited for the car to arrive.
"Is it that obvious?" She nodded as they walked into the elevator and pressed the button for the 34th floor.
"Yes."
"Damb it." John scowled as the doors to the elevator closed.
John pushed open the door to the bullpen and was surprised to find it empty. The lights were off and the doors were closed to three of the offices, from the fourth they could hear the clicking of computer keys. He walked over to the door and saw Agent Weir sitting at her desk.
"Hey."
"Hello John, Teyla. Please come in I just need to finish this report."
The two detectives sat down in the seats across from her desk and took the time to take a look around her office.
The walls were painted a light brown and there were large windows on the ones facing the bullpen and the city. Under the window that provided a view of downtown New York was a large comfy looking worn in couch. Her desk faced the bullpen with the two chairs John and Teyla were occupying across from it. There were short filing cabinets against the walls that were about the same height as her large wooden desk. Hanging on the walls were various pictures, diplomas and awards. Most of the pictures were of her and Ronon, there was one with the rest of the team. A few were of Elizabeth and a blonde woman John assumed was her sister and one was of a little girl with curly dark hair that looked vaguely familiar.
Elizabeth finished her report, stood up and grabbed her bag.
"You ready to go?"
"Yes we are." The two detectives stood up and walked out of the room. Elizabeth followed behind them turning off her office lights and shutting the door behind them.
"Then follow me." While the three of them were in the bullpen John again took notice of how empty it was.
"Where is everyone else?"
"Oh umm… Lorne and Kate went to supervise the transfer of Lanko to the building and Ronon is already down in the lab which is where we are going."
"Isn't that where the doctor Ronon doesn't like is?" John got an excited smile on his face as he thought of the story Elizabeth and Lorne had told the day before.
"Yes, but he is on medical leave for the week, apparently he got hit really hard."
"Oh." John's face visibly fell and the two women rolled their eyes at him as they walked over to the elevator. They got in and went down a few floors.
The three stepped out of the elevator and entered a huge lab. The ceilings were two stories high and there were large windows on the walls. There were several platforms around the room with scientific equipment on them and people in white coats working. Along one wall, there were two floors each with series of offices on them. Each office had floor to ceiling glass paneling. There was a platform around the edge of the lab on the second story where people could look down and watch the scientists work. Everything was very clean and shiny.
"Well this is it, The New York City FBI Crime Lab." Elizabeth gestured to the room with her arms as the other two looked around in awe.
"This place is huge."
"Yes, it is very impressive." Teyla agreed with her partner.
"Thank you." A petit woman with red hair and a large smile walked over to them and Elizabeth introduced them. "This is Doctor Katie Brown. She is our toxicologist and identifies chemicals and particulates found at crime scenes. Katie this is Detective Teyla Emmagan and John Sheppard from the NYPD." She took her hands out of the pockets of her white coat to greet each of them.
"It is nice to meet you both."
"You as well." Teyla smiled as she returned the other woman's greeting.
"How are you liking it here?"
"It's been great, lot of reading but the people seem nice." John said as he continued to look around the room.
"Most people here are very friendly, just watch out for Rodney when he's mad and Dr. Zalenka after Dr. Rodney has yelled at him." Kate said with a small smile on her face.
"Thanks for the warning."
"Have you seen Ronon?" Elizabeth asked after scanning the room for her partner and not finding him.
"Last I checked he and Jeanie were asking Carson if it was safe to make pancakes with a Bunsen burner."
"Oh God." Elizabeth left in a slow jog with John and Teyla behind her walking.
"They're probably in her lab." Katie called after her.
When they got to her lab, it was empty but there was a large burnt mess on one of the tables. They continued down the hall to her office where they found her and Ronon sitting on the couch drinking coffee.
"Pancakes didn't go well?" Jeanie looked over at Agent Weir as she entered the office.
"No, I think the batter was too runny but no worries I sent the new girl down to the diner." John and Teyla looked at the blonde woman with curly hair in amusement.
"I ordered you the Spanish omelet." Ronon said as he got up to pour himself another cup of coffee.
"You two are ridiculous."
"Fine I'll eat it." He returned as he handed her a cup as well.
"Try and I'll bury you under paperwork for the next year. Jeanie this is Detective John Sheppard and Teyla Emmagan. John, Teyla this is Doctor Jeanie Miller." The two came into the office and sat down on the couch across from Dr. Miller.
"Hi, how are you? You can call me Jeanie. I am the ballistics expert here and I also do bloodstain pattern analysis and some explosion analysis." She rambled on in a bubbly voice.
"And she's Ronon's partner in crime."
"Guilty. So who else have you met? Did you meet Rodney? He's my brother. He was in a pretty good mood this morning." They heard an explosion followed by yelling. "Good mood gone."
"Should we go check on them?" Teyla asked as she stood up to look out the window.
"Nah Beckett'll take care of it." Very soon after, they heard very loud yelling in a thick Scottish accent.
"So do either of you want some coffee?" Jeanie asked as she got up to get herself a refill.
"That would be great." John said.
"I am fine, but thank you." Said his partner from her seat next to him.
"Are you sure if you don't like coffee I can get you some tea from the lounge." She said handing John his cup and putting hers down on the coffee table.
"No, that won't be necessary."
"Are you sure it's not trouble?"
"Really you do not have to."
"Well I'm going to anyway." She gave Teyla a smile before leaving the room. She came back a few minutes later carrying a steaming mug and a few boxes of food, a younger blonde woman stood next to her carrying food as well. Elizabeth got up to help them and she placed the boxes on Jeanie's desk. The other woman quickly left and Teyla got up to get her tea from Dr. Miller.
"Thank you."
"It was no problem. It was also good that I was out there so Dr. Williams didn't have to carry everything in by herself."
Ronon got up to get his food and soon four other doctors were walking in and looking over the boxes trying to find their breakfast. One was Katie Brown and the other three were men John and Teyla had yet to meet. Jeanie took over introductions because everyone else was too busy eating. The three men were Dr. McKay, Dr. Beckett and Dr. Zalenka.
Dr. Rodney McKay was the one they kept being warned about. He was Jeanie's older brother and was engaged to Katie Brown. He was average height with short brown hair. Most of the time when he talked it was about some scientific experiment that most of the other people in the room did not understand. He was a physicist, did explosion analysis, and was an electronics expert. Often, he was the one that got all of the information on people for the FBI team.
Dr. Carson Beckett was the man who had been yelling in Scottish, he was average height as well with short messy dark brown hair. He dealt with DNA analysis and was a pathologist. He had been a normal doctor before he came to the crime lab so he also helped Katie identify some pathogens in the body. Many times, he had also taken care of Ronon after he had been injured and refused to go to the hospital.
Dr. Radek Zalenka had a Czech accent and often would curse Rodney out in Czech after he had yelled at him. Zalenka did crime scene recreation on his computer and with materials taken from the scene when it was possible. He was the one that rebuild devices they recovered, like bombs. He also did fingerprint analysis and data retrieval on computers and other damaged pieces of technology.
When breakfast was finished Katie, Carson, Rodney and Zalenka went back to work. Jeanie sat on the couch chatting for a few more minutes before grudgingly she went into the lab to work as well. Ronon, Liz, John and Teyla sat on the couches in silence drinking their coffee or tea until Agent Lorne and Dr. Heightmeyer came in.
"Hey guys." Kate said as she perched herself on the armrest on the couch next to Ronon.
"Hey Kate. The transfer finished?" Elizabeth asked while Kate stole Ronon's coffee and took a sip.
"Yup, we just left him in interview room 12." Evan said as he poured both himself and Kate coffee so she could give Ronon his back.
"Good. Let me go over his file again and then Ronon and I will go up there." Liz said as she searched through her bag.
"Actually Elizabeth, I was wondering if, since Teyla and I made the arrest, one of us could go in with you." John said quietly, while staring intently at the mug in his hands.
"Ummmm…" Liz looked over at her partner wondering what she should do. They almost never did interviews without each other. They had a system, Liz would ask the questions and Ronon would glare at them from the corner. Then if they were not cooperating, Ronon would take over and try to get them to talk using intimidation and his surprising intelligence. The system had been working nicely for the past five years and Elizabeth wasn't sure how an interview would work with John. He didn't seem like the kind of guy who would sit back and let her do all the talking.
"That sounds good, Liz why don't you take John with you?" Ronon said and Elizabeth looked at him momentarily stunned. She couldn't believe that he didn't want to interrogate someone, other than kicking down doors and shooting people it was his favorite part of the job.
"And what are you going to do Ronon?"
"Rodney should have the phone records for me soon, Teyla and I can look them over." She eyed him suspiciously.
"You are voluntarily reading something. Why?"
"Hey, if you want to look over page after page of phone calls then cross reference them be my guest-."
"No, I'll do the interview." She said, cutting him off. She decided that she would take Ronon up on his offer and question him about the why later.
"Good." He said and looked over at Teyla and John to make sure they were alright with it as well. "Is that fine with both of you?" They both nodded at him.
"Evan, Kate why don't you two go to Lanko's apartment and see if you can find anything useful that the police might have missed." Agent Weir said as she got up off of the couch and motioned for John to do the same.
"Sure." The two nodded and walked out of the room.
"Well, I guess it's time to actually do work." Ronon mumbled as he and Teyla left to go get the records from Rodney.
"Don'tchya hate that." John muttered sarcastically as he followed Liz out of the room.