Tiril Nordie – Thanks for the review, I'm glad you liked the Ronon and Teyla scene, they're my absolute fave couple. It used to be DanJan but now it's Spanky and Sparky! I hope you enjoy this chapter.

Fyd818 – I want to hug John and Elizabeth too, I feel like I'm being mean now lol. Things are looking up for Teyla and I'm glad you like the friendships in this story and I hope you like this chapter, thanks for the review.

Steph7085 – Thanks for the review, I hope you like this chapter.

Izzles – Thanks for the review, I'm glad you like the Ronon and Teyla scenes and the John and the John and Elizabeth ones too.

LizzieNova66 – I love Ronon and Teyla too, they are so prefect together. Michael comes into the show late season two, I won't say anymore cos I don't wanna spoil it for you. Thanks for the review.

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Chapter 17

Elizabeth had finally been given the go ahead to return to work so long as she didn't overdo it. She had two classes to teach today but she was sure she could manage it. As she walked into the university she was met immediately by her colleague David. He had taken over most of her classes whilst she'd been gone and had spent the better part of the last 24 hours on the phone with her catching her up on everything.

"Hey," he greeted as she arrived and she smiled her own greeting.

"Hi."

"You sure you're up for this cos I think everyone would understand if you needed more time," he told her.

"I'm fine, I'm going nuts at home with nothing to do," she replied with a small smile as they walked toward her office. He opened the door for her and she walked through finding it almost exactly the same as she had left it. Clearly it had been cleaned regularly and there were several files on her desk which hadn't been there before.

"Your students know what happened so I'm sure they'll go easy on you for a few days at least," David stated humorously.

"Well that would be nice," she replied smiling.

"How's John?" he asked and the question threw her slightly wondering why he would ask about her husband.

"He's fine," she replied quietly.

"I'll leave you to it," David told her and walked out of the room. Elizabeth glanced at the clock, she had arrived a little later than she wanted to which didn't give her much time to prefer for her first lesson. She located the text book she would need and the lesson notes she had drawn up before heading to the class room.

The students were already inside waiting for her and the room fell silent as she entered. She ignored the curious glances and whispered conversation that suddenly filled the room as she put her things on the desk.

"Miss Weir," one of the students called and she turned to look at her. "Welcome back."

Elizabeth smiled gratefully and nodded her head slightly. "It's good to be back, now open your text books on page 33, we're going to be starting political history today."

There were several murmurs across the classroom as everyone did as they'd been instructed and Elizabeth smiled to herself; it did feel good to be back.

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Teaching her morning class had been fairly easy, they had all done everything she had said and since they had been starting a new topic it had been a lot of her talking and them listening. She had a couple of hours before her next class and was going to head down to the cafeteria for lunch when David walked into her office.

"How'd it go, I trust they weren't too brutal."

"They were very well behaved actually," she told him with a smile.

"Well how about we skip the cafeteria food which I warn you has got worse in your absence and go get something from the diner down the road?" he asked her.

"Sure," Elizabeth replied after a moment as she put her files in her desk and grabbed her jacket and bag. The headed out of the university and walked the short distance to the diner. She had been there many times before with various colleagues and a couple of times with Teyla since the museum wasn't too far away either.

"You can tell me to shut up if this is none of my business," David began, "But how are things at home?"

Again Elizabeth was thrown by his question and she looked at him silently for several moments. "What do you mean?"

"It's no secret that you've been having…problems, I was just wondering how things were," he told her quietly.

"Every relationship has its bad moments, this is just one of ours," she replied somewhat uncomfortably.

"It's lasting a little longer than a moment don't you think," he stated before ordering his food. Elizabeth watched him converse with the waitress wondering exactly what he had meant by that. He had always been a little too personal with her, in fact the only people she felt comfortable talking that personally with was John, Teyla and possibly Ronon - well usually John, at the moment she didn't feel comfortable talking to him at all.

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Teyla decided to use her lunch break to take a walk and clear her head. She had finally managed to convince Adam that Michael was gone so he had let her leave alone. She walked through the park trying to sought through her thoughts when a familiar voice drew her back to reality.

"Teyla."

She turned to see Ronon standing behind her and she looked at him curiously. "What are you doing here?" she asked.

"Well if you want me to go then I'll just be on my way," he said humorously and Teyla smiled in amusement.

"That's not what I meant, shouldn't you be at work?" she questioned.

"I get lunch breaks too you know," he teased.

"So you thought you'd take a walk in the park?" she asked as he walked to her side and they both continued to walk together.

"You did, besides we used to come here all the time," he stated a note of sadness in his voice.

"Yeah we did," Teyla replied and they fell into silence for several minutes as they continued to walk. They were approaching the gate at the back of the park that would lead them to the street near the museum when Teyla stopped and turned to Ronon finding herself closer to him than she had realised. "I have to get back to work," she told him but made no move to do so.

Ronon leaned his head down towards hers catching her lips in a hesitant kiss. Without thinking she responded kissing him back as he deepened the kiss. It was hungry, desperate and so full of passion it made her mind go completely blank. She surrendered to the familiar feel of his lips on hers, his hands on her back and the side of her face, all of the things that she knew so well and had missed more than she had realised.

As if switching itself back on her mind suddenly caught up with what she was doing and she broke off the kiss. "I have to go," she said breathlessly and turned to walk away. She had barely gone more than a few feat before she started running and she didn't stop until she reached the museum. She slowed her pace to a walk and headed straight to her office locking the door behind her and collapsing against it letting her body slide to the floor. A quiet sob escaped her lips and she finally allowed herself to cry.

TBC