Tiril and Jannickie Nordlie – Thanks for the review, I want to hurt David too though nothing quite that brutal has to come to mind lol. I'm glad you liked the last chapter and I hope you enjoy this one too.

Fyd818 – I'm glad you liked Ronon's line about the cat and the friendship scenes in the last chapter, I thought the story needed one big friendship chapter in it before the end which sadly is fast approaching. I hope you enjoy this chapter and thanks for the review.

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Belanna30 – Thanks for the review, glad you liked the last chapter and I hope you enjoy this one too.

Whirlwind-2005 – I hope things work out too lol, thanks for the review and I hope you enjoy this chapter.

Jeanette – I'm glad you liked the scene at the café, thanks for the review and I hope you like this chapter.

Izzles – Thanks for the review, I'm glad you liked the friendships in the last chapter, I thought it was needed before the fast approaching end to this story. I hope you enjoy this chapter.

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Chapter 20

Teyla's car was parked in the driveway indicating that she was home. Ronon approached the door suddenly wanting to turn around and run away. He couldn't though, this was too important, he had to do this. He knocked on the door and waited the few moments it took Teyla to answer it. Her face became ashen the moment she opened the door to see him standing there.

"I think we need to talk," he informed her quietly and she nodded her head slowly as she turned and walked back into the house. Ronon followed her silently closing the door behind him. She stopped and a few moments later turned around to face him.

"Look, I know that with everything that's happened lately our emotions were up in the air and things happened," Teyla started rambling.

"Teyla," he said cutting her off as he suppressed a small smile "What happened in the park… I meant it and as far as I'm concerned it wasn't a mistake."

"Ronon, we can't do this. After everything that's happened… I can't go through it again. I can't go back to just to fail again."

"Who says we'd fail again?" Ronon asked her.

"Who says we wouldn't?" she countered and he could see she was fighting to hold back tears.

"I love you," he told her.

"Maybe love isn't enough, it wasn't enough before and nothing's changed since then."

"Everything's changed, I hate being without you Teyla, we're both miserable like this and all I can think is that I should have fought harder. I never should have given up on us. What do we have to lose by trying?"

A tear finally escaped Teyla's eye and rolled slowly down her cheek. Ronon stepped forward and brushed it away with his thumb leaving his hand on the side of her face.

"I love you too," Teyla whispered and Ronon lowered his lips to her, catching them in a desperate kiss.

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Elizabeth turned the lights in her office off and put the box of files she was carrying on the floor as she locked the door. Picking the box back up she headed down the corridor to where she almost ran into David. Fortunately he sidestepped her before she could hit him however she was knocked slightly off balance. He grabbed the box in her hands helping her to steady herself before taking it from her.

"Sorry," she apologised smiling in amusement at herself.

"That's okay," he replied.

"Thank you," she said as he gestured for her to precede him down the corridor. He followed her out of the university and to her car. He placed the box in the passenger seat for her before turning to look at her.

"About what I said the other day, I'm sorry it was none of my business," he stated.

"That's okay, I told you to tell me and I suppose it gave me something to think about," she explained and he nodded his head.

"Have you thought about it?" he questioned.

"Yeah, a lot actually."

"Did you come to any conclusion?"

"Not yet," she told him "There's a lot of history between us, I don't want to throw it all away by deciding anything too quickly, we've worked hard to stay together this long."

"Well, at the risk of talking out of place again, the only thing you seem to be doing by staying together is hurting yourselves," he said before leaving and Elizabeth watched him go. His parting shot once again echoing in her mind as she got in her car to drive away.

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John arrived at work to find Ronon in a clearly much better mood than he had been yesterday. He sat down opposite his partner and stared at him though Ronon just stared back.

"Are you going to tell me?" John questioned in frustration.

"Tell you about what?"

"So I'm guessing from your mood it went well yesterday afternoon," John stated.

"We talked and we decided to try again," Ronon replied finally giving John his answer.

John grinned "That's great."

"Yeah, we're taking it slow though, we don't mess this up again."

"I really am happy for you, both of you deserve this," John told him glad his two friends were figuring things out at last. Now all he had to do is figure out his own marriage, if there was anything left of it to save.

"You and Elizabeth deserve it to," Ronon stated suddenly.

"I'm beginning to think we've just been avoiding the inevitable," John replied sadly at the thought of his marriage ending.

"You still love her, the biggest mistake I ever made was giving up on my relationship with Teyla. You give up now John and you'll regret it, I can promise you that."

"Why does it have to be so difficult?" John asked sighing.

"Wouldn't be worth it if it wasn't."

"I suppose not, I should talk to her," John said.

"Yeah."

"I'll do it later."

TBC