Laura looked at Evan and smiled.

"What?" he asked.

"Nothing. Just smiling." She said smiling even more. He looked at her and said, "What?" Laura looked at him as innocently as she could.

"Will you stop that?" he asked her.

"Stop what?"

"Staring. Its very unsettling." He replied as he put their clothes away. They had just arrived in Sydney and Laura had been acting very strange since they had landed. Laura just sat back and watched him. Smiling. Stop it.

Stop what? I can't help it if I find you putting clothes away sexy. Evan turned and looked at her in disbelief. "Are you kidding?" Laura shook her head, "Nope." She said and grinned wickedly. He looked at her and turned back to the unpacking. She was now fidgeting. What?

"Huh?"

"You're fidgeting. Now what's wrong?" he asked her.

"Nothing. I'm just…I don't know. I wanna go back to Atlantis and tell everyone our good news. That's all. I wonder how Mia is going to take it?" she mused.

"Mia's fine with it. And everyone on Atlantis knows…" he suddenly straightened and turned and looked at Laura sheepishly.

"What do you mean? They all ready know? Mia's fine with it?" she said slightly annoyed. Lorne looked at his feet and shifted uncomfortably.

"Well…I asked Mia what she thought about me asking before I asked. She's very protective of you, you know. And McKay for some reason." He said shaking his head and then ploughed on, "I also made the mistake of telling John that I was gonna ask and how I should go about it and all that. He told Teyla…Teyla told Elizabeth and then it was right round Atlantis. I'm surprised you didn't find out before I asked to be honest." Laura sat there in silence for a little while watching Lorne squirm. She took a deep breath and said, "Well…contrary to what men seem to think not all women are gossipers…" she trailed off when she saw the look Evan was giving her. Rolling her eyes she continued, "That explains a lot actually. Many people kept coming up to me and saying congratulations, which I didn't understand. It also explains why you and Mia were being so secretive." She narrowed her eyes at him and then said, "And why Teyla wasn't allowed to talk to me for any length of time without John being present." She stood up suddenly and pounced on Lorne giggling. "Well…" he stammered. She looked at him and kissed him passionately.

Back on Atlantis McKay was getting annoyed.

"Mia. Leave me alone." He snarled at her.

"No. You have to eat now." She said. He sighed deeply. He turned and looked at her, "Mia. I know you mean well but you have to let me work. Do you understand?"

"Yes." She said sadly and left the lab. Zelenka and Sheppard had walked into the lab to hear him snapping at Mia.

"You know McKay. She's only looking out for your best interests." Sheppard said. McKay scowled at him. "I am well aware of that. I just thought she would get bored after a week. In fact I think she is bored."

"You know…" Zelenka started but stopped when he saw the look on McKay's face. Sheppard left Zelenka and McKay to bicker about their new project and went to find Mia. He soon found her in the rec room watching Farscape.

"What you watchin Mia?" he asked her. She jumped, as she hadn't heard him come in. "Something called Farscape Would you like to join me uncle John?"

"Yeah why not." He said sitting down next to her. He was soon lost on what was going on. He cleared his throat, "Er…Mia? What season is this?"

"Three." She replied without taking her eyes off the screen.

"Oh. How long have you been watching this?"

"About three weeks. I'm bored and there's nothing else to do." She muttered sadly.

"What do you mean?"

"Well I'm not allowed to spar with anyone coz I'm too little. I'm not allowed in the labs in case I break something. I'm just bored. The only thing that I do is make sure uncle Mer eats properly and even he's getting fed up of me."

"Hm…well don't take it personally from McKay. He's just grumpy coz he knows your right. As for the sparring…wait here don't go anywhere ok?"

"Uncle Mer is a frelling idiot. Ok uncle John." John smiled and hurried out of the rec room.

He soon found who he was looking for. "Ah Teyla. How young are the Athosians when they start to learn to spar?"

"Er…around eight. Why John?" she asked him confused.

"Do you think you would be able to start teaching Mia? She's getting bored and she's watching Farscape."

"Certainly John." She said and then thought for a moment before she added, "What is a Farscape?"

"I'm not sure. Some Earth TV programme. I really don't know to be honest. Ask Mia." He said laughing and going out of the gym and headed towards the labs again. He walked into McKay's lab and pulled him out by the sleeve of his lab coat.

"What the hell are you doing?" he demanded trying to pull his arm out of John's grip.

"You are a frelling idiot. You know that right?" John stated.

"What? Have you been watching Farscape?" John stopped suddenly. He turned to McKay angry. "You gave Mia that show didn't you?"

"Yes. It was the only thing that could keep her occupied. She was bothering me." John looked incredulous.

"She was bothering you! She's just trying to help you. Let her. It's not a bad thing you know McKay. Jesus. Look at her." He pointed through the window of the rec room. McKay looked through and saw that Mia was so engrossed in the TV that she hadn't noticed a bunch of marines go in and watch it with her.

"So?" he asked.

"She's miserable because you wouldn't have tea with her. How hard is it to have tea with the one person on this base who actually wants to be around you?"

"What do you mean? The only person on this base?" McKay asked offended.

"McKay at the best of times people rarely want to be around you coz you're sarcastic and arrogant. This little girl wants to learn from you and help you. Now I can choose to leave if you start ranting at me. But that little girl sitting there watching Farscape only wants to be around you. Instead you choose to snap at her and upset her. Now I want you to go in there and say your sorry and go and have tea with her." John finished pushing Rodney towards the door.

"But…but…"

"But what?"

"What if she interrupts me when we're in the middle of a crisis? Just for food."

"She won't. She's not stupid McKay. Now go. Oh and tell her she starts stick fighting training with Teyla on Monday. Tell her you set it up." Before Rodney could reply John pushed McKay into the room. He walked back to the window to watch. As soon as McKay had entered the room Mia had stopped watching the TV and was listening to Rodney tell her the news about the sparring. She jumped into his arms and he carried her out towards the mess hall.

John had waited for a little while before heading to the mess hall himself. He was halfway there when the alarms started going off and Chuck announced "Offworld activation!" John hurried towards the control room knowing that there was no-one offworld at the minute. Fearing the worst he jumped down the steps and took a P-90 off the nearest marine and taking the safety off ready to use.

"IDC?" he shouted to Chuck. Chuck waited a couple of seconds before answering, "It's the SGC."

"The SGC? Why?" he asked Elizabeth as she came down the steps and stopped just next to him.

"Everyone is coming back early. As I am to understand it Laura and Lorne got bored and wanted to come back and announce some news." She said chuckling. John sighed and gave the P-90 back to the marine and waited. Lorne, Laura and Beckett came through the gate grinning like Cheshire cats. Laura walked up to John and Elizabeth and gave them a big hug. "I've missed you both." Before waiting for a reply she held out her left hand and went, "Look. Look." John grinned at Lorne over the top of Laura's head as Elizabeth looked at the ring.

"Very nice." She gushed. Laura grinned again. She turned to John and said, "Where's Mia and Rodney? I want to ask him something."

"Mess hall." John answered and Laura headed off towards the mess hall.