Title: The Mating Instinct

Date: 15th June 2007
Author: Kazavid
Chapter: 4/6
Rating: M
Pairing: John Sheppard / OFC Alexandra (from Doppelgänger)
Archiving: None
Warnings: Sexual Content
Spoilers: None
Feedback: Yes
Disclaimer: Stargate Atlantis and it's character do not belong to me.
Summary: Can Alex cope with Sheppard's darker side, when he can't control his passion for her.

A/N: This is a one-off story written for Debby, who wants to see a slightly out of control Sheppard.

THE MATING INSTINCT

CHAPTER 4

ATLANTIS

"So, Marks can you tell us what happened." Doctor Beckett asked, looking at Marks.

Doctor Weir stood beside Marks' bed, and waited for him to answer Beckett's question. She watched as he closed his eyes and dropped his head back on to the pillows behind him. He looked embarrassed, his face was slightly flushed, and when he opened his eyes, he looked right at Doctor Weir, but quickly looked away when she looked right at him.

"Come on son, this is no time to be embarrassed." Beckett told him.

"Major Lorne and I were just checking the area out, when the Major stepped on to a metal plate. Some kind of gas cloud was released and enveloped him, I grabbed him and pulled him back out of the gas."

"Did you actually stand in the gas cloud?" Beckett asked.

"No, but I did inhale some of it in." he told him.

"Go on what happened next?"

"Major Lorne started to feel dizzy and fell unconscious, as I tried to help him I got dizzy myself and fell unconscious too. Later when I woke up I felt fine, so did Major Lorne, but when we met up with Lieutenant Peters and Garcia..." he trailed off, his face flushing again.

"We know you attacked Garcia, but can you tell us what you were thinking at the time?"

"Thinking...uh..." he stammered, and then coughed, "I was thinking about...sex..."

"Is that all you were thinking about?" Beckett asked.

"Well...no, for some reason I kept thinking about getting her..." he gulped as his throat dried up.

"Just spit it out son, were all adults here." Beckett sighed.

"About getting her Pregnant." Marks told him.

Beckett drew Weir aside to speak to her.

"This is the first time he's been able to recall what happened."

"Why do you think that is?"

"I'm assuming the gas induces some kind of short term memory loss. Were doing some tests now which will confirm that. But Marks only had a small trace of the chemical in his system. And I'm just wondering how a larger dose, that Marks indicates that Major Lorne had, will be affecting him."

Weir looked at her watch.

"It's been over four hours since Colonel Sheppard went to get Major Lorne. And we've had no contact from him yet, so I'm assuming they may have run in to a problem. I'll have Ronon and one of the teams ready to go." Weir stated.

"Just don't send any females along, and it should be alright." Beckett told her.

"Do you think Alex is alright?" Doctor Weir asked him.

"I don't think Colonel Sheppard would let anything happen to Alex, do you." Beckett said, knowing how much the Colonel lovesd Alex.

"No, he wouldn't." Weir agreed.

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As Alex got closer to the building she could still hear the bellowing voice of John in the distance, he'd woken up to find himself in restraints, and didn't like it. She wondered how long it would take him to get out of them. If only she'd been able to tie his hands behind his back, he wouldn't have been able to free himself, or at least it would have taken him longer. But if she'd tried to tie his hands behind his back she'd have woken him up.

She entered the building and cautiously walked along the narrow corridor, which lead to another narrow corridor and another. They seemed to go on forever, almost like a maze.

Alex found herself in what she would call an inner chamber, the huge square like room, had a raised platform at one end. On the platform she could see two metal plates like the one John had activated.

Along the walls she saw drawings and carvings of men and women. For some reason it reminded her of the Roman temples back on Earth, where people went to worship their mythological gods.

She looked around but there wasn't much to look at, no furniture except for stone slabs, which she concluded, were meant to be seats. She looked up and saw a walkway going around the chamber, so there must be stairs to get up there, but she hadn't seen any yet.

So far she hadn't found anything that would help her, and by the look of it she didn't think she would. She went looking for the stairs. As she left the chamber she heard a noise, quickly hiding behind the wall, she waited to see who, or what, it was. She peeked out and saw Lorne, standing in the middle of the room, looking all around. She pulled back, and quickly moved along one of the corridors, as she reached the end of the corridor she looked behind her.

Lorne had spotted her and was running up the corridor, she ran along the next corridor and saw the stairs as she ran passed a doorway, she backed up and headed up the stairs. She didn't have a chance to check the rooms, Lorne was too close behind her. She ran in to one of the rooms hoping to find another door to exit from, but there wasn't one.

She found herself trapped with nowhere to go, with a very irate looking Lorne standing in the doorway. When he started to walk towards her, Alex moved back towards the pile of rubble that was in the middle of the room. She got to the other side of the rubble, and managed to keep her distance from him.

When he moved one way she would go the opposite way, effectively keeping them opposite each other. Lorne was really getting worked up, he kept cursing and threatening her, and Alex was beginning to feel very nervous. If he caught her she wasn't sure she'd be able to get away from him, especially since he'd be more wary of anything she did or said now.

"Don't make me chase you Alex." Lorne bit out, as she kept moving around the rubble.

Luckily for Alex he couldn't climb over the rubble as it was too jagged and awkward. She ignored his threats and kept her distance, but he never strayed far enough from the door for her to make a bolt for it.

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John couldn't believe she'd tied him up, he'd woken a short while ago and found that his feet and his hands were tied with restraints. He shouted for Alex to come and take them off, but she didn't show up, he hadn't really expected her to.

He reached the knife he had secreted down his boot and managed to cut the tie around his ankles easily. But the one around his wrists was going to be more difficult, because he couldn't put any pressure on the knife.

"Damn it!" he shouted, when the knife slipped again and nicked his arm. When he caught Alex he'd make sure she couldn't get away from him again.

He cut through the restraint and jerked it off his wrist and threw it away. He looked around for his t-shirt but he couldn't find it. He went back to the clearing to see if Alex was there, but there was no sign of her. He looked out to where Lorne was, but he wasn't there either. Then he noticed the restraints on the floor, he picked one up and saw that it had been cut. Lorne must have gotten loose, if he touched Alex he'd...

He saw the tall grass flattened, a trail leading through it, so he followed the trail.

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"Come on Alex, I'm not gonna hurt you." Lorne told her, his voice sounded hoarse.

"If John catches you..." Alex tried to tell him but he interrupted her.

"John's not gonna catch me, you tied him up. Didn't you hear him shouting before, asking you to come and cut him free." he said smiling smugly.

"You managed to get free, what makes you think John won't get free too."

"I used the knife that you dropped on the floor, so unless he can find his own knife, which I doubt, there's no way he's getting free." Lorne told her.

He decided to chance it, he moved further around the rubble, leaving a clear field to the exit. Alex ran for it, but Lorne was already moving back to intercept her. He stuck his foot out causing Alex to trip, as she fell she rolled over then scrambled up on her hands and knees. She tried to scramble away from him, but he grabbed the back of her pants at the waistband and dragged her back.

Alex turned over on to her back and started to kick her feet at him, pulling herself backwards as she did so.

"You really don't want to do this Lorne." she said trying to get through to him.

"Oh yes, I do." he told her, Alex shivered nervously at the lust in his eyes.

She kicked her foot at him, but he just grabbed it and held on. When she started to kick with her other foot he grunted in pain when she connected with his thigh. But he managed to grab her other foot as well.

Alex tried to twist her feet out of his grasp but he pulled her towards him and dropped down to lie over her, releasing her feet, and grabbing her wrists as he did so, pinning them to the floor.

"Get off me!" Alex screamed at him.

"Oh god,...I need you..." Lorne told her, as he kissed her face and neck. He tried to kiss her mouth but Alex kept moving her head so that he couldn't.

He started kissing his way down to her breasts, getting frustrated because he couldn't let go of her to lift her t-shirt up. Instead he pressed his mouth over her breast, through her t-shirt and clenched his teeth on her nipple. Alex moaned in pain and he immediately stopped, moving across to her other breast.

When he started pushing his hips against her, rubbing his erection back and forth between her thighs. Alex felt feel how hard and hot he was, and she was fearful that she wouldn't be able to stop him.

He grabbed both her wrists in one hand and Alex tried to pull free, but he was too strong. He grabbed her face and held her still while he crushed his mouth over hers, kissing her forcefully. Letting go he moved his hand down her body to push her t-shirt up then he began fondling her breasts.

As he moved his hand down from her breasts, towards her stomach, Alex tried to think of any way to stop him, distract him. He reached her pants and undone them, he pushed his hand inside to reach for her and she tensed. When she felt his fingers stroking her, she started thrashing about trying to free herself. But she was getting nowhere, finally, she relaxed and tried to talk to him.

"Lorne, please don't do this." she pleaded with him, but he was too far gone to hear her.

He started to drag her pants down and Alex decided to try one more tactic, she just hoped he was worked up enough, so that he wouldn't question her actions.

"Let go of my hands, I want to touch you." Alex told him, turning her face so that he could kiss her mouth. She heard him groan, and hoped that he was falling for it. He hesitated, but he seemed to be thinking about what she'd said, then he let go of her hands, his eyes watching her closely.

Alex wrapped her arms around his neck, and kissed him as if she were desperate for him. It seemed to work, because he kissed her back, and began moving his body against her. His hands went back to tugging her pants down, but Alex pushed his t-shirt up and placed her mouth on his muscled chest and kissed and stroked her tongue across the smooth sleek skin.

"Oh, yes..." he moaned when Alex used her mouth to caress his chest.

He didn't notice or realise that he'd rolled over on to his back, and that Alex was now astride his hips. All he could feel was Alex's mouth and tongue against his skin, he held on to her hips and pressed her down on to his throbbing erection.

Before he knew what had happened, Alex had rolled backwards, down his thighs and was up and running, he swore, jumped up, and followed her.

He was quickly gaining on her, he saw her dart in to a room, so he sped up.

Alex saw him behind her and increased her speed, but he was still gaining on her. She darted in to a room, and almost fell in to the gaping hole that was in the floor. With her speed and agility she was able to jump across, but only reached so far. She ended up with the top half of her body on the floor and her legs dangling down in the gaping hole. She got her legs up and rolled across the floor away from the hole.

Then she heard Lorne running, he did the exact same thing as her, he spotted the hole and tried to jump across, like she had done, but he only managed to grab the edge with his hands. He couldn't pull himself up and fell in to the room below. Alex looked over the edge of the hole to see what had happened to him, Lorne was lying on his back and groaning.

"Lorne, are you alright." she asked, wanting to know how badly hurt he was.

"Why don't you come down and find out." he told her his voice rasping.

"Sorry, I had that little trick played on me earlier, by John. I'm not falling for it again." she told him.

"It's no trick." he told her.

"No, I know you're probably hurt, but I can't do anything about that yet. So you'll just have to wait it out till someone from Atlantis comes for us." she told him, then she left him.

She started to make her way back to the entrance of the building, surely Weir had sent someone to check on them by now, she thought. She turned the corner and saw John coming along the corridor, he spotted her and started running.

She needed to hide quickly, she pressed her hands against the sides of the wall and lifted her feet up, doing the splits, she pressed her feet against the wall and moved her hands up, she repeated this motion until she was at the top of the wall, where there was a slight overhang. She pressed her body up against the ceiling of the corridor and waited for John to pass by.

She could hear the pounding feet as he got closer, he slowed and looked in any open doorways to see if she was there. Then he tensed and stopped in the middle of the corridor, Alex held her breath, so she wouldn't make a sound.

"I can wait here all day, Alex, until you either drop down, or fall down." he told her, with his back to her. He then turned and looked right at her. "So which is it to be?" he asked.

"You want me to catch you? Or shall I just come up there and drag you down?" he said.

Maybe if she jumped down, she could knock him over and get away, she went for it. She inched down a few feet then dropped, John was below, already wary of what she might do, but he was still taken by surprise. Not expecting her to drop from so high, he'd tried to break her fall, but she'd knocked in to him, knocking the breath from his chest.

While he groaned, and rolled around the floor drawing in some much needed oxygen Alex had vanished. He swore he'd make sure she didn't escape the next time.

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Alex looked in to the pitch black room, she didn't want to go in to it, didn't see any reason to. She started to walk away when she heard the sound of footsteps behind her, she stepped in to the open doorway of the pitch black room, and peeked out to see who it was.

John, he was looking for her, he was standing along the corridor deciding which way to go, left or right. He chose left, which meant she would have to enter the pitch black room to avoid him. She turned around and grimaced, she really didn't want to go in to it, she didn't like the feel of it.

He was only a short distance from her, so she steeled herself and backed in to the room, wondering how far she would have to go so he wouldn't see her. She moved to the side and then stopped as she saw his shadow in the doorway. She could see him hesitating as to whether to come in to the room.

"Alex!" he shouted, and waited.

Alex didn't move didn't even breathe, she was sure he would hear her heart beating, because to her, it sounded like a huge drum thumping away in her chest. She heard a very low noise at the side of her and almost gasped with fright, but she managed to control herself. The only trouble was, John had heard it too, and was assuming it was her who'd made the noise.

"Come on Alex, I'm not moving until you come out." he told her, leaning his shoulder against the wall of the open doorway, as if he were preparing to wait.

Something fluttered against her leg and Alex froze with fear, she swallowed the scream that threatened to erupt. She edged away from whatever it was that had touched her, probably a frightened insect, she tried to tell herself.

She heard John say something and then watched as he came in to the room. He vanished as he entered the room, swallowed up by the blackness, but she could hear his footsteps and his breathing. She was trying to keep silent and still, but when something stroked across her face and then her arm, she couldn't stop the frightened gasp that left her lips.

"Alex...you alright..." he asked.

She turned around as something touched her back, but it was too dark to see anything. Then something dug painfully in to her arm and she cried out, she rubbed her hand over her painful arm and touched something, something that was alive. She quickly pulled her hand back and shook her arm, trying to shake off whatever it was.

She backed up and screamed when she backed in to something much bigger.

"Alex, what's wrong?"

She'd backed up in to John, feeling relieved she wrapped her arms around him, and pressed her face against his bare chest. He was a little surprised by her actions, and also a little wary, he knew how cunning she was. But at least he had hold of her, he thought. He rubbed his face over the top of her head and kissed her.

"There's something in here." she announced out of the blue.

"What?" he asked, he wasn't listening, he was too interested in loving Alex.

"I said there is something in here, and it has a vicious bite, more vicious than yours." she told him, mockingly.

"Yeah, that would be you." he told her, wincing as he flexed his shoulder.

"I mean it, I'm not joking..." Alex tried to tell him, but there was a sudden noise and then all hell seemed to break loose.

It was like a hurricane had suddenly appeared in the room, John pulled her towards the doorway and they exited through it in to the corridor. All they saw was what looked like a stream of black cloud swirling out of the room. But it wasn't a cloud that was escaping, it was a small creature, it's behaviour could only be described as being similar to a bat.

But these creatures weren't at all bat like, they had nasty sharp teeth and claws that where razor sharp, and they continually attacked. They had to escape from the corridor, find a room that had a door on it, when they managed to find a room with a door on it they slammed the door shut, blocking the creatures access to them.

John moaned and bit out a curse, he spun around and Alex saw one of the creatures stuck to his back, she quickly knocked it off, and John stood on it before it could fly away.

He had a nasty looking gash on his arm, and quite a few cuts on his chest and back where they'd either bitten him, or clawed him. Alex had been lucky, she only had a cut on her arm and one across the back of her hand.

"Do you think they'll go away, or stay outside?" Alex asked him.

"I don't care where they go, just so long as they aren't in here." he told her.

She grabbed the bottom of her t-shirt and bit a tear in to it, then she ripped a section from around the bottom.

"Is that my t-shirt you're ripping there?" he asked her, watching what she was doing.

"Yes it is." she said, placing the piece of t-shirt around his arm.

"Where's your own t-shirt?" he asked her.

"I don't know, you took it off me and dumped it." she told him, she tied the material around the cut on his arm.

"So you pinched mine." he stated.

"Yes. So if you find mine, you're welcome to wear it." she told him.

It didn't take long for Alex to see the sudden change in him, she looked around the room, seeing if there was another way out. But the only thing she came across, was a doorway that was blocked by an iron barred gate. She tried to open it...

"Where do you think you're going?" he asked coming over to her.

She looked at him groaning inwardly, when she saw his eyes darken with passion, surely he'd had enough by now.

"You said before 'one more time' won't make a difference. Well you've had your 'one more time' you ain't getting any more." she told him, backing away.

"Who's counting?" he said smiling, as he advanced towards her. "Besides, the more we do it, the more chance there is that you'll get pregnant." he told her.

Alex stood still. "What did you say?" she asked, not quite believing what he'd just said.

"I don't know, what did I say?" he asked confused.

"You mean you've been trying to get me pregnant." she asked incredulously.

"Yes." he answered, frowning because he couldn't understand it himself.

"Well it's a waste of time. I have a contraceptive implant, you can't get me pregnant." she told him bluntly, wondering why he didn't remember this fact himself.

"Yes I can." he suddenly announced.

"Oh, you think you're some kind of superman, do you?" she asked.

When he grabbed for her, she moved out of the way. He grabbed for her again, and she batted his hand away.

"Right that's it, I've had it with chasing you." he shouted loudly. Gripping her arm he proceeded to drag her over towards the door, where the iron gate was.

"Let go of me." she snarled at him

"When I'm ready." he bit out. Reaching the gate he pushed her down to the floor and sat on her, he pushed her hands beneath his knees and then he dragged his belt from his waist. He took hold of one of her arms and tied the belt around her wrist.

"What do you think you're doing?" she asked, alarmed by how mad he had gotten in just a few seconds.

He didn't bother answering her, she could see what he was doing. He threaded the belt through the bars and then tied the other end around her other wrist.

"You take this damn belt off me now!"

"No!"

"I should have hit you over the head with a rock, when I had the chance." she told him.

"Yeah, and maybe I should have just tied you up in the first place, it would have save all this running around."

He suddenly stood up and started to pace around the room, Alex wasn't sure what he was thinking, but something was bothering him, she knew that.

TBC...

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