Dr. Carson Beckett strolled into the conference room, once the doors were closed he joined Lt. Colonel Sheppard, Dr. Weir, and Dr. Heightmeyer at the table. "What did ye want to talk about?"

John couldn't hold back any longer and blurted out, "Ronon has Wraith DNA."

"Possibly." Amended Elizabeth.

"Has he now? I haven't had the need to study the lad's DNA but..."

John broke in, "I told him it was no big deal if he does, but I'm thinking to Ronon it's a huge deal! He wants to be tested right away and I was sort of thinking he might need to see you."

Dr. Heightmeyer nodded, "I think maybe we should all be there when he gets the results, but if the results are positive I'll insist on private sessions. Ronon never should have been given the choice to continue therapy, he needs it regardless of how well he seems to be adjusting."

"I agree. John you'll have to order him to see Kate."

John shook his head at Elizabeth and Kate, "Ronon told me he was done and it's hard enough to get him to see Beckett. I can't force him so I offered a compromise, I told him he'd have to go if anything traumatizing happened. I'm thinking him having Wraith DNA qualifies. You got to remember he didn't even know what a psychologist was, he thought Dr. Heightmeyer was an Ancestral Priestess going to do who knows what to him."

Kate flushed red, she hadn't informed Dr. Weir or Carson about what had happened in Ronon's session just that it hadn't gone well, of course Elizabeth had seen Ronon take Teyla as a hostage and herself having to literally pull him back into the office; apparently from John's remark Teyla and Ronon hadn't explained much either.

Kate studiously ignored the questioning looks she was receiving and after some silence, Elizabeth closed the meeting. "Let's wait until we see the results before we plan a course of action. In the mean time someone needs to talk to him about his abilities and his cultural history. Can he connect mentally with the Wraith? Does he know of Satedans being taken and returned like in the stories that Teyla's people told, Teyla's abilities helped save her people and was deemed a gift... "

"He has to see Dr. Beckett to be tested, maybe Carson can get the information out of him under the guise of medical questioning."

Carson didn't look to thrilled with the idea, but John thought it was great and gave Kate a nod of acknowledgement as he stood to go, "Radio me when you want him in the infirmary and I'll send him down."

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"Come in lad."

Ronon came in but stood by the door.

"Why don't ye close the door and have a seat. Let me just finish up here and I'll be right with you."

Moments later Carson looked up, "There now, what's this about wanting a test done?"

Ronon couldn't remember the words John had told him to use when requesting the test so he asked what he himself desired to know, "Wanted to know if there's Wraith in my ancestry."

"What makes ye think ye might have Wraith DNA?"

"Teyla has it."

"Aye, she does."

"Ford said I had it too, that's why we had the same reaction to the enzyme."

"The last time I saw Lt. Ford he wasn't a geneticist and being on the enzyme he wouldn't have been thinking clearly; so I wouldn't take much stock in what he said.

The enzyme acts like a powerful steroid so the Wraith's victim's organs can withstand the feeding process; but it was never meant to be used constantly and just like any other drug people's reactions will vary.

Disregarding Lt. Ford's unscientific trials, do you Big Man have another reason to expect that ye might have Wraith in ya? Have ya heard stories about your forefathers being taken by the Wraith and returned? Can you sense or contact the Wraith with your mind?"

Ronon shook his head no, "The guy in charge of the enzyme and who studied the Wraith, Jace, he said it could be because I'm male. Teyla being female like a queen would have more ..." he couldn't think of the word so pointed to his head. "I'm fast too."

"You've got long legs and have had over seven years of marathon training."

"You said I was a fast healer."

"Aye, I did; but ye certainly don't heal like a Wraith."

"I'm pretty strong..."

"Ye've had to be."

"I don't go unconscious unless I've been stunned several times, like a Wraith that has just fed."

Carson nodded, "That's certainly unique from what I've seen, but not conclusive evidence of anything. I'll do the test for ye son, but you need to understand that even if there is a wee bit of Wraith in you, ye're still human.

I've been working on that retrovirus that Ellia took and we're real close to a final product. On a Wraith the retrovirus will rewrite the Wraith's DNA to make it human, but it won't work on Teyla because there's nothing to rewrite, she's already human."

Ronon nodded and held out his arm.