A/N: Sorry this chap is so short, I promise to post the next chap tomorrow. -pj

Disclaimer: If I owned them, they wouldn't be getting cancelled.

Day Fourty

"I'm going to be late."

"For what?" Ronon didn't open his eyes, Remy's warm breath tickled the bare skin of his chest, his left hand played with the ends of her soft brown hair lazily.

"For whatever it is I'm supposed to be doing today."

Ronon grunted and the vibration of his chest against her cheek made her giggle. "Me too."

She let her fingers trace a delicate path up his chest and rested them over his feeding scar.

"I should go," she whispered, secretly hoping he objected.

Ronon shook his head, pushing his hand into her hair until he was cupping the back of her head, "no."

Remy smiled, she leaned up to kiss, first his scar and then his lips. She sighed and leaned back.

"If you insist."

"I do," Ronon brought his other hand to cup her face, running his callused thumb lightly across her cheek, "Where are you from? On Earth."

Remy seemed surprised at first by the question and then looked away, laying her head back down on his chest.

"It doesn't matter."

Ronon frowned, not expecting this answer.

"To who?"

She sighed deeply and the path of her fingers gave way to tapping, a motion he'd come to recognize as a sign of discomfort.

"To me. Remember that movie from the first night? Well, back home, we got a lot of those. Tornadoes I mean. When I was eighteen an F3 took my brothers and my father. They were all the family I had left in the world," she stopped for a moment and Ronon listened to the heavy silence while he waited for her to continue, " it destroyed my town, my home…everything. I knew Scooter had joined the Marines the year before, but that wasn't for me. But I couldn't stick around there…I stayed with a friend and graduated high school and when I did, I joined the Air Force the next day." She was quiet for a while and then turned to look up at Ronon again, "Earth is nothing to me."

Ronon was watching her closely, he saw the tears she tried to blink back. It explained a lot. Not just the movie night incident, but also why she had been so upset after the whole thing with Alves. She'd been afraid of being sent back to Earth.

"And Atlantis?" He continued quietly, "What is that? To you?"

Remy smiled and all traces of the tears disappeared, "it's where you are."

She leaned in again, wishing to lose the sight of her memories in his kiss. Ronon closed the distance between them without question, understanding her need and more than happy to help.

TBC