Ronon strode into the infirmary, this was ridiculous! Looking around he didn't see Dr. Beckett or Cole nor the nurse, Marie; he stood in the center of the infirmary with his arms folded and a scowl on his face, now what was he supposed to do?

A man approached him somewhat skittishly, "Do you need any help?"

"No."

"Ah...ok, if you change your mind just let me know."

Once the man had retreated, Ronon looked around again before he left the infirmary.

-OO-

John was about to scream, Dr. Beckett had called him on the radio ... no Ronon; which of course meant he was also late for his appointment with Dr. Heightmeyer, as John had chickened out and decided Carson should send Ronon to the shrink.

He rang Ronon's entrance chime once more before toggling his radio, "Rodney!"

"Guess you haven't found him yet."

"You said he was in his room..."

"I said his radio is in his room."

"Just, open his door so I can confirm he's not in there."

As John waited impatiently, Rodney mumbled as he worked, "I'm not supposed to do this you know, did you look in the gym or the commissary?"

"Of course I did!"

"How about Teyla's?"

"Just open the door." The door slid open, but the room was empty, "Darn!"

"Check the bathroom."

John was mumbling to himself about how unhelpful Rodney was being when Teyla opened her door, she stopped in surprise, "John?"

"Teyla!"

"Oooo busted."

John ignored Rodney's chatter in his ear and turned towards Teyla, how to explain why he was standing in Ronon's open door when obviously Ronon wasn't there... "Rodney did it."

McKay's "What?" was so loud that even if Teyla hadn't believed him, she would certainly now.

John grimaced as he went deaf, but quickly smiled at Teyla; "You seen Ronon?"

"I believe he is exercising, so that he might sleep better in the evenings."

"I've checked the gyms and he forgot his radio."

"Did you scan the city for him?"

"Rodney?"

"It's not like he's got a subdermal transmitter, I mean after what he's been through it's understandable..."

Teyla who had her radio on by now, interrupted; "Dr. McKay, as Ronon might feel boxed in why don't you just scan for an individual life sign towards the outskirts of the city."

A little bit later, after a lot of grumbling, Rodney responded. "Nothing. Of course not all the city's sensors are working - he could be running through a dead zone."

"Ronon is not running until his leg is completely healed."

"Then what's he doing?

"I do not know."

"I loaned him swimming trunks... Rodney - scan outside the city like you did when we found Ford."

"You think he's swimming, why wouldn't he be outside the city? Nothing ... why don't you call him over citywide like you did when we couldn't find Jinto?"

Teyla was shaking her head, even John knew that wasn't a good idea, "I'll take a jumper and fly over the city - scanning the dead zones, why don't you come with me and then you can map the areas that still have sensors down." turning to Teyla, "Could you stay here and if he comes back radio me?"

"Of course."

"Rodney, meet me in the jumper bay with whatever you need to run a survey in 15."

-OO-

"You flying too fast and not in a regular pattern ... I can't scan like this!" Rodney complained.

"No time, obviously he's outside. We saw his towel but the sensors say he's no longer in the water."

John was doing a visual sweep of the city as they flew overhead, they had already found a towel, blue like the ones they had given Ronon. Between the city's sensors and the jumper's he was pretty sure Ronon was no longer in the water, but wanted to check the city as quickly as possible in case they had to move the search back to the ocean.

"Well, it isn't exact. I mean, I have to account for other life signs that live in the ocean ... if he had a transmitter it would be easier..."

"So, he still could be in the water?"

Rodney's fingers where flying over his tablet faster than John had ever seen them go, "What insane person would swim outside the city? We have a perfectly good swimming area that Bates cleared in the center of the city ... there, I've calibrated it to look specifically for someone whose Ronon's size, temperature, and weight; going by Carson's latest scans..."

"You have access to medical scans?"

"Possible man drowning and you want to harang me over a few measly peasly medical scans?"

John flew back to where they had spotted the towel, "Ok, start scanning again and I'll fly around the city. Widen your range as the city's scanners didn't pick him up maybe the current ..."

"No way! There he is!"

"Where? I don't see him... Rodney?"

"He is insane, certifiable ... not sure Heightmeyer will be able to help him..."

"Rodney!" John had reversed the jumper and was hovering where he thought Rodney had first yelled, "Where the hell is he?"

Rodney pointed, "There."

"That's not in the water, you were supposed to be looking in the water."

"I was looking at the scanner, you were looking at the water ... why are you complaining we found him. How are you going to get him down? Actually, maybe now that we found him we should just go home. I mean if you just fly up to him you could startle him and..."

"That would be bad, very bad." The jumper was still hovering as if sensing John's indecision, "We should watch him, that way if he..."

"Don't say it! You want to jinx him?"

John took a deep breath, having just realized he was holding it; "Well, this is good to know."

"What? What's good to know?"

"That the city's towers are scalable, could be useful."

"Useful! For what insanity anonymous meetings? When would you ever need to free climb the city? You know what, this kind of stress is not good for my blood pressure. Elizabeth?"

"Yes, Rodney?"

"We found Ronon, he's doing a Spiderman impression and should reach your balcony any second."

"Very funny Rodney, but I'm actually in a meeting right now..."

"No, Elizabeth, I'm not kidding! Do me a favor and order him inside, tell him we'll get his swimming towel incase he goes possessive like with his coat."

"Dr. McKay, I..."

"Elizabeth, Rodney is not making this up. Ronon is currently free climbing the central tower in the swim trunks I loaned him. You know this is Beckett's fault..."

"I'll get him." With that Dr. Weir excused herself and ran out of the conference room in such a panic that Major Lorne immediately joined her as she bolted towards the balcony.

"Ma'am?"

"Ronon's out there, John wants us to order him onto the balcony so he doesn't try to climb back down."

Evan just shook his head, as they stood on the balcony waiting.

"Ah, this might be a bit obvious, but don't startle him."

"I'm not going to startle him Rodney."

"He has a point Ma'am; we should make conversation so Ronon knows we're on the balcony."

"Right. What would you like to talk about Major?"

"Ma'am?"

Elizabeth sighed, "I'll start. How is your day going Evan?"

"Well, Ma'am..."

"Elizabeth."

"Yes, Ma'am; Dr. Weir, my day has been rather uneventful until now."

"Ronon!" Elizabeth gasped, she was actually surprised to see him; having been hoping against hope that Rodney had today of all days decided to become a practical joker.

"Dr. Weir." Ronon greeted her and nodded to the Major as he continued to climb.

"You can't climb the tower! You need to get on this balcony right now!"

Ronon paused, "Why?"

Elizabeth had apparently been ok to give the order but now looked as if the world had just become surreal and she would wake at any second; so Evan decided to calmly take over. "Rules. No climbing the tower, no running in the halls - except the cleared track area, no swimming around the city - just the designated swimming center ... you know I'm surprised Lt. Colonel Sheppard didn't go over the list with you. He must have forgot."

Ronon looked indecisive, "I'm breaking the rules?"

Elizabeth found her voice, "Yes! Not to mention scarring me to death. Please Ronon, get on the balcony. I'm sure Major Lorne has some sort of wall climbing thing you can use in the military training area."

"Actually we don't but I guess we could rig..." Dr. Weir's glare caused Evan to change track in midsentence, "Just swing over onto the balcony and we'll pretend this didn't happen. I won't tell anyone you broke the rules, Dr. Weir won't tell... it'll all be good."

Ronon nodded and swung onto the balcony, Elizabeth thought she would faint with relief. "How am I supposed to get to my room?"

"What?"

"I'm not dressed."

Evan looked at Ronon, his dreads were still dripping slightly and the swimsuit, which on Sheppard would have been board shorts looked like trunks on Ronon, where still wet. "Ah, you can just walk; you look fine for someone who just went swimming."

Ronon looked at him like he was nuts and turned towards Elizabeth before repeating, "I'm not dressed."

Elizabeth took a calming breath and reminded herself that there were cultural differences and that Ronon would be seeing Kate today, "Like Evan said, you look fine for someone who has just been swimming."

"I don't want people to see me undressed." Ronon was adamant and began moving to the edge of the balcony making to climb down.

"Wait! Major Lorne will go and get your coat. Will that be ok? You can wear your coat back to your room."

Ronon looked at Evan, "Right. I'll go get it now, your room's besides Teyla's?"

"Across."

With Evan gone to get the coat, Elizabeth was afraid to leave the balcony for fear Ronon would grow tired of waiting and climb back down, apparently her fear or disbelief was still visible on her face as Ronon sort of squirmed where he stood, crossing and uncrossing his arms; visibly unsure of himself.

"I didn't know the rule."

"It's ok Ronon."

Silence.

"There's a lot of rules."

She smiled at him, more silence.

"Ask me."

"What?"

"You have a question."

"I was just wondering," Elizabeth's face reddened, "I'm a culture buff and I was just wondering what you where saying when you where in the holding room, when you cursed the guards."

Ronon just looked at her and for a moment she didn't think he was going to answer then with obvious humor in his voice he said, "Satedan nursery poems."

Elizabeth grinned at him. "Our secret."

More silence.

"You have another question."

She nodded, "If you are so concerned about people seeing you in bathing clothes; why did you climb the central tower? Why not another tower that wasn't occupied or one with less windows?"

"You Atlantians don't look out windows, you all want to be near them or have them in your rooms; but you never look out." Elizabeth contemplated this and Ronon continued. "Central tower's the tallest."

"What?" she was realizing that Ronon was right, she never looked out her windows, she might occasionally step out on the balcony but...

"The central tower is the tallest, makes it more of a climb. Dr. Beckett doesn't want me to run yet so I thought swimming and climbing would be ok, didn't know about the designated areas."

Elizabeth nodded as John strode onto the balcony with Ronon's coat; "Met Lorne on the way, here's your coat. After you're dressed you need to see Beckett."

"Why?"

Elizabeth slipped off the balcony, she would let John handle this and just go back to her meeting.

"You were ordered to the infirmary."

"I went."

John rolled his eyes, "Did you see Beckett?"

"No."

"Did you see anybody?"

"Yes."

John was not going to scream in agony, "Who did you see?"

Ronon just shrugged.

"Did you talk to anybody?"

"Yes."

"Who did you talk with?"

Ronon shrugged again.

Exasperated John physically calmed himself before speaking, "You know what? It doesn't matter. The visit doesn't count unless you saw Beckett and just to be clear he has to see you too. Actually, do doctor stuff to you. Now come on and let's get you dressed and to the infirmary."

Ronon had pulled his coat completely closed and didn't seem to care that his dreads where dripping all down the back giving John a thought, "You can keep the bathing suit."

"What?"

"The swimming shorts, they're yours."

"Ok."

The door to the transporter was closing when the techs heard, "You didn't tell me about the rules."

"What?"

"Major Lorne said..."