A/N: I am trying to keep this slightly serious…... and I'm failing miserably. I think it gets a bit, well, unserious in the chapter.

CHAPTER FOURTEEN: FRAYING TEMPERS

"Stop it, Ronon!" ordered Teyla. "We don't need to start shooting at each other!"

"He's pointing his weapon at me!" growled Ronon, without lowering his gun or turning his gaze away from Mulder.

"And I'm not going to lower it until you bring Scully back here, unharmed!" broke in Mulder.

Mills ignored the conversation and, because he doubted Ronon's weapon was set to stun, he nodded to Sergeant West, who took out the wraith stunner she kept with her in addition to her 9mm and P90.

If he had to get her to stun Mulder, then he would.

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Sheppard woke up again to the sound of his heart monitor.

Beep…. beep…. beep….

He honestly couldn't think of anything more likely to piss him off that he could have woken up to… except possibly McKay. No matter how annoying the beeping could never compare to McKay's constant whining and complaining.

Beep…. beep…. beep…. beep….

That didn't meaning that the monitor wasn't very irritating, though. It definitely needed to be turned off. Sheppard cracked open an eye to glare at it.

Beep…. beep…. beep….

Shame it wasn't Ancient technology, then he could have tried turning it off with his mind.

Beep…. beep…. beep…. beep….

Sheppard tried to move his left arm to turn it off. His arm wouldn't move. Okaaaay, that wasn't good.

Beep…. beep…. beep….

Damn it! If he couldn't move his arm then he couldn't turn it off! Sheppard tried again… and failed to move his arm. Why wouldn't the damn thing just SHUT UP!

Beep…beep…beep…beep...

Oh great. As he got more frustrated his heart beat faster so now the monitor was beeping faster. Stupid, crappy, frikkin' monitor. Sheppard closed his eyes again and realised he could hear someone talking, it sounded like Scully.

"What are his injuries?" Scully was asking.

Well unless someone else had managed to badly hurt themselves, she was talking about him.

"There's quite a list I'm afraid." That was Beckett. There was no mistaking his accent. "He'd dislocated and broken his left arm in two different places and taken a large chunk of skin off his right arm, he's broken one rib on his left side as well as cracking two, one on his right side is also cracked. He's fractured his left leg as well as taking a chunk of skin off. He luckily only had a mild concussion, I think if he hadn't covered his head with his arms he'd be dead."

Sheppard sighed. Fantastic. That was a long list of injuries. He hated staying in bed for weeks.

Beep…. beep…. beep…

The heart monitor was still irritating the hell out of him and if he had broken his left arm then he definitely couldn't turn it off. Meanwhile, Scully was talking again.

"That is quite a long list," agreed Scully. "Will he recover?"

Beckett sighed. "Yes, I believe he'll make a full recovery, lucky little bugger. Problem is a couple of days after I've cleared him for duty I bet he'll be back again."

Sheppard was insulted and now thoroughly annoyed. Which made his heart monitor beep faster again.

Beep…beep…beep…beep…

That was it! He'd had enough. Sheppard opened his eyes and glared at Beckett. "Will…not."

Okay, that hurt his ribs, but it got Beckett's attention.

"Colonel, you're awake!" Beckett sounded surprised.

"Yeah, hi."

Ouch. Sheppard decided that talking was not good. Two words at a time would have to do.

"How are you feeling?" asked Beckett.

Dumb question. "Fantastic."

"Dr Beckett says you've hurt a few ribs," Scully warned him, raising an eyebrow at his sarcasm.

"I heard."

Not that he'd needed to. Cracked ribs hurt. He wondered how long he'd been unconscious.

"How long…?"

"You've been out for twenty four hours," Beckett explained.

"Great," grumbled Sheppard and then wondered why McKay hadn't managed to send Scully home yet. He was pretty sure her partner would want to know where she was.

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Mulder was unconscious and tied up to a tree, after Sergeant West had stunned him Ronon had taken his bazooka. Fortunately Teyla had decided that they would be better off if she had the bazooka and had made Ronon hand it over.

Mills felt slightly safer with the bazooka with her but he knew that their situation still wasn't good. They had no way of knowing if Mulder had already called his superiors and if the FBI were coming to arrest them all. Mills highly doubted the FBI would be very impressed to find one of their agents missing and the other tied to a tree just outside a town where there were dozens of people missing and everyone else claiming that there had been UFOs'.

"Err, Mills?" asked Harris.

Mills turned to face him. "Yeah?"

"What are we gonna do now?" questioned Harris.

"Well," said Mills, thinking hard and deciding that McKay must've not sent Scully back yet because she'd been killed by wraith. "We could take the Starplate and strategically retreat into the forest."

Harris sniggered. "Just leave the FBI man tied up?"

"Yeah… He's gonna be in a bad mood when he wakes up whether we're here or not, and personally, I'd rather not be. Lets take the Starplate and go wait somewhere else for McKay to remember that we're still here," suggested Mills.

"I doubt Tatum will let him forget," snorted Harris.

"Probably not," agreed Mills then turned to the rest of the group. "Listen up. Because we don't know if Agent Mulder here has called for a whole group of his random FBI friends to come and arrest us, Harris and I have decided that we'd be better off if we grab the Starplate and strategically retreat. So, West, grab the Starplate and lets go."

Ronon gave him a blank look. "What are we doing?"

"We're taking the Starplate and running away before Agent Mulder wakes up," explained Harris.

"We're running away?" asked Ronon.

"Yeah, that's right. If we don't bugger off before Mulder wakes up he's gonna start yelling at us and considering the reason his partner isn't back yet, could well be 'cause the wraith have eaten her I don't wanna be here for that," answered Mills.

"Ronon, it may be the best thing to do," stated Teyla.

"Fine," grumbled Ronon.

The five of them ran off in to the forest, taking Mulder's bazooka with them, and leaving Mulder tied up.

A/N: I don't know how I'm going with Lt Mills and his team. Could you please tell me if you like them.