AN: I'm sorry this is so super short, but i really wanted a seperate chapter for this bit. I thought it was a sweet scene to add. Hope you're enjoying.
Chapter Three
They'd been missing now for a couple of hours. Unfortunately, he hadn't told anyone where he was going. He'd woken up plate that morning (there were no missions planned today) and had briefly visited Elizabeth before heading out to a secluded balcony. He'd spent a few hours there (not realizing so) and from there had stopped at McKay's lab, whom he figured had been there for a long time as well.
But now Elizabeth and Teyla and Ronon had realized that Rodney was missing as well, soon after he didn't show up in the control room. So that helped. They were looking at video feeds now. If they didn't see him, they'd go back to the last number of hours. In the meantime, Rodney was working on the device.
To get away from Rodney's incessant complaining about food (thank god he'd found that power bar in his pocket) he'd gone to see what Elizabeth was doing. After a few minutes of observing her getting nothing done on some reports, she moved out to the connecting balcony to clear her head.
She just stood watching the ocean and he couldn't read her eyes. She'd been like that for a few minutes before she sighed and dropped her head.
"John where are you?" she whispered. "Why did this have to happen to you?" she placed her head on her arms. "I hope you're alright."
His heart swelled at her words. And he didn't fail to notice the use of his name, and not Rodney's. He knew she was the most caring person one could ever meet, so he knew it meant something that she was thinking of him only. He hovered his hands just above her arms, wishing he could rub them up and down.
Suddenly, as if she could sense him, and he thought maybe that wasn't so odd, she looked up and turned around. But when she saw the empty space, the mask that she had brought up fell down. She looked so unguarded. He liked to see her like that. But he didn't want her to worry.
"I'm ok Elizabeth," he whispered.