Dear Diary,
Oh yeah, I know how to choose good friends. Haha, kind of a funny story anyway. So Elsa and I were playing cards and we were on the topic of men. We came to the conclusion that although Major Sheppard as a little old for us, we wouldn't mind being in bed with him. Him being my commanding officer, that was really awkward to admit, but it was just girl talk. Seriously, it was like really weird, I didn't like saying it. But, It's not like I'm going to act on that. Too old. And I have my own interests. Which is exactly what Elsa backed me into a corner about!

"And what about that Lieutenant Ford?" She asked with her strong German accent, and a smirk. I tried really hard to hide my shock about the question.

"What about him?" I asked like I didn't care.

"You two have been spending a lot of time together."

"What?" I asked, drawing out the 'A', "No we haven't." And then she laughed like she knew something that I didn't.

"You two have been spending a lot of time together," She stated again.

"No we haven't," I said a little more strongly this time. Also, wondering what her definition of a lot was.

"Oh yes you have," She mocked me, "I saw you two jogging. And I heard about a particular pie incident?"

And then I couldn't help but blush. Yeah. I guess we were spending some time together. When we could. We were generally busy people, we had a lot to do what with being military on the base. "Is it just you who has noticed this?" I asked, scared of the answer.

"No, a few others." She admitted and dealed out cards for another round of Kings in the Corner. I groaned. Damn the Atlantis grape vine! Did people honestly not have anything better to do?

"Who?"

"A few scientists. We've all been secretly keeping up on the developing relationship." When she said this my jaw dropped. How could that be? Was it that bad? Or…good? Haha, whatever.

"And what do you think?" I asked.

"I like him," She said with a nod, "And I like the idea of you and him together." I took my cards and stared at them.

"Don't count on it. We're both military."

"Romeo and Juliet," She said and so we played our game.

It was a good conversation, and even though it's like yeah, too bad, I liked having her approval for what it was worth. Funny to think about scientists sitting around talking about something other then nerdy stuff. I'm still having a hard time not thinking of every scientist as a geek. Does that make me conceited? I hope not, because I really do appreciate those people. They've saved my ass more then once.
-Chris

Diary,
If you can die of being scared I think I will. I honestly do. I'm sitting here, literally being so anxious, nervous, and upset that I am making myself sick. Major Sheppard and his team went offworld and were captured by the Wraith. I don't really know what happened, but it doesn't look good. Apparently some Hiveship has them and it went off to hyperspace and we're doing everything we can to find them. And when I say 'we' I mean a team Dr. Weir assembled that didn't include me. Luckily we had intel about where this Hiveship was headed, and that's what they went to go inspect anyway. There's a team of two jumpers going on a planet close to where they think the ship should be. I should be flying that jumper. I should be one of the pilots. I have just as much experience as anyone else! DAMNIT. I don't want to just sit here and wait. This sucks! This sucks real bad! I need to go walk this off.

LATER: Still no signs. I don't like how long they have been gone.

Diary,
Managed to get to sleep last night for like…only five hours. It's five in the morning. I'm going to go to the control room and wait there for a little bit. Maybe Dr. Weir needs some comforting too.

Dear Diary,
They're back! And they're alive! I'm going to write what happened while it's still fresh in my mind before I go to see Lt. Ford in the infirmary. The Wraith set up a trap for them and they walked right into it or something. So they were questioned and all that and as soon as the wraith figured out that they weren't going to give any information and they were going to start to feed, the teams Dr. Weir sent showed up. They started all sorts of havoc on the ship. Then one of the teams got caught and so only four men were left to free everyone. Everything was alright in the end. As they all managed to escape back to the jumpers quite a few people were hit with the stun weapons. Ford was included in that. I don't really know, that's what I heard, but I am going to go visit him. Not out of the woods yet. I'll update later.
-Chris

Dear Diary,
Things are looking much brighter. I ran down the infirmary after I last wrote. I practically shoved people out of the transporter so I could get there faster. When I got down there, there was a lot of hustling about and doctors trying to nurse the five injured men. I looked around and saw Ford's unmistakable face in a bed. He was unconscious as he laid there. It was really not what I wanted to see, but at least he was home and in relative safety. There was also a big bruise on his face. I asked him when he woke up what happened, and he said a Wraith hit him as he protested to them taking Major Sheppard away. Anyway, this is what happened while I was down there:

"He was his by a Wraith Stunner," Doctor Beckett told me.

"I heard," I admitted, not taking my eyes off the Lieutenant.

"Why don't you take a seat if you're going to be here?" Dr. Beckett kindly offered and pulled up a chair for me. I took it and I sat in it.

"We took some scans and determined he has a concussion as well, must have fallen down when the blast hit him. He's going to have quite a big head-ache once he wakes up, but he'll be fine. He's a tough kid." He re-assured me, patted me on my back and walked away to tend other patients. Even if he was going to be okay, I knew I wasn't going to stop being worried until he was awake, and even then until he was out of that bed. Major Sheppard came and waited with me most of the night, and Dr. McKay and Teyla visited as well, but I stayed. I actually fell asleep in that chair too. I only woke up when I heard a groan.

"Morning," I said softly and with a small smile as the Lt. came to. I looked at my clock and noted it was about three AM, so it was the morning. He looked around, using just his eyes, and then shifted his eyes towards me. I stood up and stood over him so he didn't have to strain.

"My head is killing me," He said sloppily.

"I can imagine," I said, making sure to keep my voice low. There was a brief moment as he tried to gather what happened to him.

"Why can't I move?"

"Doc says you were hit with a stunner and the paralysis will only be temporary."

"Great," He said dryly. I couldn't help but chuckle.

"Good to have you back, Lieutenant," I said.

"Sergeant," He grabbed my attention.

"Yeah?"

"You can call me Aiden."

The grin that came on my face was seriously uncontrollable. I nodded and sat back down. He was under serious sedatives and drifted back to sleep almost immediately. I stayed for a little while longer and fell asleep once more, but only for a short while. I was hungry and got breakfast. I came back though and saw him wake up once more, far more lucid and aware. I can finally sleep now, so I think I will do just that. It'll be one of the best nights of sleep in my life, I think.
-Chris

Dear Diary,
Lt. Ford…Aiden…was given a clean bill of health and is back to his normal self. Even his great big purple bruise on his cheek has stopped swelling and I can't tease him as much anymore. He's been catching up with Major Sheppard so I haven't had much time to talk to him. He seems really into his work at the moment anyway, so I won't bother him. Things can finally get back to normal. Whatever normal is. What happened wasn't exactly out of the normal anyway. But that's what you get for living in a different galaxy.

Dear Diary,
Went offworld today, as usual. The natives were nice and all, but it was weird. I got one of those weird vibes, you know? Turns out they not only farmed but had their own little version of the mafia. So the team I am part of high tailed out of there because we don't trade with…mobsters? Haha. Once we got back to Atlantis we all kind of chuckled because it was funny…in a tragic sort of way.

Dear Diary,
On my way to take a shower today, I ran into Aiden. It was awkwardly funny. I had a towel, bar of soap, 2 in 1 shampoo and conditioner, and flip flops because I don't shower in bare feet when the shower isn't mine. He just kind of looked at the supplies I had in hand and said "Shower?" and I was like "Yep." And then he let out a chuckle. It's good to see him back to normal. Before I left he asked me what I was doing tomorrow night. I told him I would probably take another shower because there was an offworld mission tomorrow. He smiled and asked me to meet him in one of the vacant rooms the city had. I agreed. Wow. I wonder what he has in store. Is there anything? The way he told me about it leads me to believe there was something up. He was hiding something. Oh man. Now I have to go through the whole damn day tomorrow wondering what's up. (!)
-Chris