It wasn't until hours later that Elizabeth realised she had done nothing since entering her office. She'd spent the entire time staring at the pen in her hands. She had never been so glad that she had had blinds fitted to her office windows, the expedition did not need to know how she was feeling right now. Once she realised what she had been doing she shook her head.

"You don't get this way when anyone else is injured so why John?" she muttered to herself.

"Because you care about him Liz, more than anyone else on this expedition," a voice in her head replied.

She shook her head again. "No I don't, I can't."

The voice laughed, "Just because you can't doesn't mean you don't. You get jealous when he does what Rodney calls his Captain Kirk routine."

"Do not," Elizabeth argued back.

"Do."

"Don't."

She put her head in her hands realising that maybe she did care about him more than anyone else on the expedition.

She didn't know how long she sat like that but she was glad when she was interrupted from her thoughts by a voice in her head set.

"Doctor Weir, Teyla has dialled in and is asking permission to bring someone back with her and the rest of SGA1 when they return to the city."

Elizabeth touched her hand to her ear, activating her mic, "Permission granted. Put security on alert."

She heard the affirmative from Chuck as she stood and made her way towards her office door. She stopped for a moment, to collect her thoughts, before she opened the doors and stepped out into the control room.

She was met by the sight of Teyla coming through the gate, closely followed by Rodney and a woman she didn't recognise before Ronan came through, bringing up the rear.

The gate shut down and Elizabeth moved down the steps to greet them.

"How is he?" Teyla questioned as she reached them.

Elizabeth shook her head, "There's still no change."

Teyla then looked at her closer and shook her head, "If what our friend Rachel tells us is true then the two of you talking can wait until after you've slept Elizabeth."

Elizabeth shook her head but Teyla was adamant. "I doubt you have slept since we left on the mission and I know before that you hadn't slept for at least fifteen hours." Teyla looked at her watch and then back at Elizabeth, "You have been up for at least thirty hours. This can wait until morning."

Elizabeth was about to argue that she was fine when she caught sight of her own watch. Teyla was right, she had been up for a long time and now that Teyla had pointed it out she couldn't help the yawn that escaped.

Teyla saw the yawn and could obviously see that Elizabeth was still unsure. "I give you my word Elizabeth, John will be fine if you sleep for a few hours," then she added as an afterthought, "I would also think that a well-rested brain would help you believe the story Rachel has to tell."

Elizabeth saw the honesty in her eyes and nodded, "Fine, but you are to sleep too, you've been away and I'm guessing haven't slept for coming up in fifteen hours."

Teyla nodded in agreement while behind her Rodney sighed in relief. Elizabeth looked at the woman beside Teyla and said, "It's nice to meet you Rachel. You are welcome to sleep as well, all I ask is that you don't try and get away from the two security guards I am going to assign you, for your security as well as ours."

The woman nodded, "Teyla has already informed me of your security precautions."

Elizabeth yawned again and Teyla said, "Go Elizabeth, we will handle this." As she spoke to gestured to herself, Rodney and Ronan.

Elizabeth nodded and turned to leave but then she turned back, looking at her watch again, "We'll have a meeting in the conference room in eight hours."

SGA1 nodded and with one last look at them Elizabeth turned and left.

Once she reached her room and had gotten inside Elizabeth had time to remove her jacket, boots and ear piece before she fell onto the bed and fell into a deep sleep.

As she slept she dreamt of John and everything they had gone through, from the look of determination on his face when he planned on flying a nuke into a hive ship to the look of surprise of his face when she had later hugged him on his return.