Ronon made a show of looking straight at John and they just stared at each other for a moment, before finally Ronon's eyes skittered away, "I knew they were following us."

To say that John was shocked was an understatement, he barely managed to stammer out, "You did?"

"You didn't?" when John shook his head in the negative it was Ronon's turn to sigh, "Yeah, I figured that out when they pulled the sacks off our heads."

"Why didn't you say anything?"

"Thought you knew. Figured they were making sure we were alone and following us for that privacy thing Teyla was talking about. You said they were contacts, never thought they'd stun us."

John grinned at Ronon to soften his forthcoming reprimand, "Neither did I. Listen Ronon, obviously you have better hearing then we do, I need you to tell me about anything you see or hear whether you think I've got knowledge of it or not. Rodney as you know is distracting and as bad as it sounds I had no clue. If you don't want them to know we're aware just key your radio and whisper it to me."

Ronon nodded but didn't say anything.

John cleared his throat, time to dig into Ronon's thoughts. "Ford told me, you and him were cool. Something about saving your life?"

Ronon actually rolled his eyes, "He thinks he saved me from the Wraith that was hunting me, but I was leading it into a trap and he messed it up. Didn't think he was a worshipper, didn't have the look and they've never been on a hunt, didn't shoot because my gun was on kill."

Shrugging nonchalantly as if he was just talking about everyday stuff Ronon continued, "If you shoot a Wraith and it's not an instant kill they can call others. You lead a hunter into a trap and his pride won't let him call for help, you get a clean kill." Ronon finished by stating the obvious, "Only works with single hunters not hunting parties."

John was just staring at Ronon, things would have been so much easier if he had known about Wraith Worshippers before the little drama performance on the hive.

Oblivious to John's thoughts, Ronon rumbled on. "Was gonna use his legs for swords to sell at the Rukshaw, didn't always have time to strip a kill..." that last little bit seemed to dumbfound John even more so Ronon changed the subject, "Ford did save my life though, met you and Teyla ... if that hadn't had happened..."

"Yeah." John cut him off, "So you really were ok with Ford? Because at first... you know."

"I was angry. They jumped us, then they drugged us, and you wouldn't make the call to take care of things, said to play along."

Now they were getting to it.

"In retrospect that probably wasn't the best plan. Honestly, I never thought they'd give you that much and I certainly didn't expect it to take McKay that long to fix the dart."

"You wanted to bring Ford home."

"Yeah." what else was there to say.

Ronon broke the silence, "When you and Teyla went to secure the C4, Ford talked to me, wanted to spar, then took me to see their Wraith. They were just sitting there and Ford just walked up to one and took what he wanted, said it was time to take what God had provided and use it to obtain victory. Said to look around, where they running from the Wraith? Waiting to be culled, no, they were gonna take 'em out."

Realization hit John and he gasped, "They won you over!"

Ronon shrugged, "They were feeding off Wraith to kill more Wraith."

John interrupted, "We kill Wraith too, Ronon, we just take a more sane approach."

But, Ronon continued as if John hadn't said a word. "Except for Ford everybody on the enzyme looked ok, but it wasn't working on me and Teyla the way it was supposed to." Ronon pointed to his ear, "I heard them talking, they never lessened Rodney's dose just didn't keep increasing it, said it worked on him the same as them. Me and Teyla, we just got sick at first.

Heard Ford tell Jace that he didn't understand, I would have taken him down when we met if it hadn't been for you and now on the enzyme I was being kicked around by some guys he had just started training. They tried stunning us too, to see if we were immune, I was going down with just one stun...

Jace thought it might have had something to do with Teyla having Wraith in her... the Wraith don't have the enzyme in their system they inject it into their feed. Ford said it was like a snake and venom."

Ronon paused to see if that reference made sense to John, Sheppard nodded and Ronon continued. "Jace wanted to give it up and not waste any more enzyme on us, but Ford said to just keep upping our doses, it would either work or we'd die - he wasn't gonna pull the plug. Then he looked up and knew I was listening to him, he grinned and pointed his finger funny at me" Ronon demonstrated and John realized Ford had flipped him the bird, but he didn't comment as Ronon was still talking. "Jace finally hit a dose that would work on us, but Ford never offered to spar with me again."

Oh crap! Ronon was trying to tell him, that Jace and Ford had implied that Ronon had Wraith DNA like Teyla; in fact they had almost proved it since Teyla and Ronon had responded to the enzyme in an identical fashion. To make matters worse, Ronon apparently believed that Ford had then shunned him because he was part Wraith. John of course knew the truth: Ford wasn't stupid, on an effectual enzyme dose Ronon would kill him - apparently for all Ford's talk he wasn't so concerned about his guys.

Although silence hung in the room John's brain was screaming at him, Ronon who hated Wraith more than anything was part Wraith, this was so Heightmeyer territory! Deflection time.

"Look Ronon, just because you and Teyla both had a different reaction to the enzyme doesn't mean anything. Not enough people have been on the enzyme to even suggest what a normal reaction is. If you're worried we'll have Beckett run some tests. But who cares anyway? Half the people here have funny genes, Rodney even had his modified to fit in. As for Ford not sparring with you, that was a matter of self-preservation."

"Self-preservation?"

"He soooo knew you'd kick his ass."