Debbie418uk2 - LOL Oh yeah, I never thought of that. I'll have to keep it in mind. I finished 'Rodney's Revenge' now I'm just waiting to post it (the next update ;) ) I'm glad you liked it. I've got more coming and more ideas hitting me all the time. :) At least 14 more chapters written and ready to post already, and about 4 more in the works, and ideas for about 6 more on the sidelines. LOL.

Godsdaughter77 - I do like to involve them now and then, just for a bit of a change.

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(Off World, John's POV)

Hell hath no fury...

Frowning from my position behind a pile of thick, odd-looking bushes with purple leaves, I raised the binoculars to my eyes and looked down over the village before me. From here, it looked like your average off world village. Stone and wooden huts, a few stalls for people to market, some women dancing in the square, around a sparkling fountain.

"I'm gonna have Lorne's hide for this." I muttered as I glanced to Ronon and Teyla. "Who brings our base commander to a village we haven't even scouted yet? 'The people seem nice'. 'They're really friendly'."

"John, I am certain they seemed that way at the time." Teyla admonished quietly.

I nodded, allowing that. "He still didn't do a thorough job scouting." Staring through the binoculars, I checked through the town, finding Lorne and his men easily enough, standing at the edge of the square, obviously enjoying themselves. "Ok, I think we can go with probably drugged or under some alien influence."

I tried to find out what the Major was looking at, and carefully scanned the square for signs of Elizabeth. "The doc's ready back at the jumper with Rodney?"

Ronon nodded, having backtracked to check on their progress. "Yeah, he's got the jumper cloaked, thanks to McKay, and he's got the sedatives ready."

"Good. I have a feeling we're gonna need them." Pulling the binoculars away from my face, I smiled grimly. "Think you can grab them quickly?"

He nodded and flashed a toothy grin before turning and darting silently through the woods, disappearing in seconds.

Turning to Teyla, I raised an eyebrow. "He's really gotta teach me how to do that." I put in before turning back to the village. "I've located Lorne and his men. No sign of Elizabeth yet." Looking over the square one final time, it hit me what he was looking at. "No sign of Elizabeth, and Lorne's ogling a local dance-oh." I felt my eyes widen. "Oh. My. God."

"John? Is something the matter?" Teyla was at my side, frowning as she gently touched my arm.

"I finally found Elizabeth." I cleared my throat, trying to ignore how strained my voice had come out. "Uh, she was there, all along." I felt kind of bad, like a peeping tom, but at the same time I couldn't tear my eyes away. "Damn! She can dance!"

Dressed in an outfit that resembled an all leather, many slitted version of a belly dancer's outfit, Elizabeth twirled and whirled with the best of them, her hips swaying to a music only the dancers seemed to hear. She had a smile, and several beads braided into her hair. All in all, she was stunning.

"Elizabeth is dancing?"

"Yeah." I swallowed heavily as Lorne grinned and nodded at her.

Several men approached her, but she shook her head and they backed off. I watched as a few of the girls were also approached, and when they nodded, the men escorted them off, though they weren't even clear of the square before I realized why they were being escorted off.

"Damn it!" Getting up, I pocketed my binoculars and grabbed my P90.

"John?"

I looked at Teyla a moment. "They're not just dancers, they're earth's equivalent to..." I paused, realizing she wouldn't understand. "Um, the men who approach her, if she nods the tiniest bit to one of them, they'll think she's allowing them to... Uh..." Shaking my head, I frowned. "She's in danger, ok?"

Nodding, Teyla grabbed her P90 and checked it before we raced off

It didn't take us long, and I quickly reached Elizabeth's side. Glancing to Lorne, I watched as a dancer approached him and held out her hand. He seemed to stare at it a moment, as if struggling with himself, before reaching out and taking it. Gesturing for Teyla to follow him, I turned to find Elizabeth staring at me with a downright naughty smile.

"Uh, hi." Wow, was it me, or did it just get ten times hotter?

She looked about to nod, but instead raised an eyebrow, still keeping a beat to the music only she could hear.

"Listen, Elizabeth... How about you come with me, ok?"

Stopping, she glanced at me a long moment and I had the oddest feeling she was eyeing me up like a piece of meat. Her eyes scanned my body, seemingly ignoring the weapons I was carrying and that naughty smile was back.

"Alright." She slowly and carefully nodded, before holding out her hand.

Feeling my face heat up, I cleared my throat before reaching out and taking her hand. I was just moving to head back to the forest, when I felt her tug me in another direction. Turning around, I saw her look melt to one of confusion.

"Is something wrong? The rooms are this way."

"The rooms?" Damn! Why did my voice squeak at all the wrong times. Swallowing heavily, I tried not to look at her scantily clad body. "Um, I think you have the wrong idea."

Now her look hardened and she pulled me harder. "Well, I don't. Come. Let's go."

Shaking my head, I pulled my hand away. "Whoa! Wait a minute, I'm not going to any 'room' with you!" Was it me, or did that just come out really badly?

Apparently it came out really badly. As her eyes narrowed, Elizabeth whipped her hand away and quickly reached down to her leg, where I now noticed a knife tied to a band around her thigh.

Her very nice thigh.

Ok, not now, John. Focus! Slipping my eyes up to her face, I almost took a step back as she glared hatefully at me.

"You dare to turn me down? Here, no man turns a woman down!"

"Uh, turn you down?" Then I could really get used to this place, once we get passed all the drugs, or parasites, or whatever the hell was wrong with my people. "Elizabeth, calm down." I raised my hand.

Stepping forward quickly, she slashed at me and I had to duck to avoid getting my throat slit. "Do not tell me to calm down!"

"Ok, ok." Backing off quickly, I slipped off my P90 and tack vest, knowing that in a hand to hand fight, Elizabeth had some major skills and I'd need all the flexibility and speed I could get. "Listen, I just want to take you home."

She dropped down and swayed again, but this one as more of a battle sway, as if she was deciding which way to lunge. After a moment, she launched herself forward and slashed at me again.

Here I come, trying to save her ass. Now it's my ass I need to worry about.

Ducking again, I grabbed her free arm, and yelped as she cut me deeply with the knife, without even breaking off her movements. I couldn't help but drop her arm again. Right about now, I wished I had some form of weapon, but I didn't want to risk hurting her. "I'm just trying to help you!"

"Like I believe that!" she hissed, lunging forward.

It went on like that for a little while, actually. I got the deep gash in my arm, and a few more minor cuts and scrapes, and she was still going strong. Suddenly, she lunged again, and I tried to duck, as my strategy seemed to have been working so far. Only this time she seemed to be waiting for it, and she lashed out in a way I hadn't expected.

Crying out in agony, I gripped the knife handle, pushing her away from me, and staggered back, stumbling and yelling in pain as agony shot through my body. Staring down, I saw the blood coating the handle of the knife in my upper thigh, rolling down my leg and staining the leg of my pants, and stared incredulously at how close it was to my...

"John!"

Oh, there's Rodney.

"Colonel! Oh, mercy!"

...And Carson. Good I had a feeling I was going to need a doctor right about now. Hearing Lorne's voice shouting angrily, I sighed, knowing Teyla was back, and Ronon was here, too. Oh great. Just what I needed. An even bigger audience.

I must have been in shock. Despite the blood rolling down my leg, and the agony running through my body, I was more aware of what was happening around me. I was staring at the knife in my thigh, and thought to myself about how only moments eariler, I'd thought Elizabeth might have been in danger.

There was the sound of an air gun, and I glanced up, seeing Elizabeth's eyes roll back in her head as a dart stuck from her neck. I wanted to catch her, as she fell, but luckily, Ronon was there to do that for me.

At the moment, I didn't think I could have held her up if I wanted to, anyways.

"Oh my god." Rodney came racing over, looking torn between laughing and being utterly mortified for my sake. Grabbing my arm, he swung it over his shoulder.

"Don't. Say. A word." I managed to grind out from between my teeth, glaring at him as I limped along behind him.

"Here, Colonel." Carson stuck a needle in my arm, and I think I almost cried as the burning agony faded from parts of my body south of the border. "We'd better get you back to Atlantis and get that checked out." He, too, gave a torn look, but strangely managed to do a pretty good job at looking sympathetic, despite the laughter in his eyes.

Obviously it couldn't have been that bad, if they were trying not to laugh.

I nodded, tears in my eyes, more from the sense that the blade had come all too close to a certain part of me, than anything else.

(Atlantis)

"Ohhhhh." Elizabeth's eyes slowly opened as she groaned. "What happened?"

"You were drugged." I put in, in a low voice, from my bed next to her. Shifting a little, I winced and decided that comfort be damned, I wasn't going to move for a while. "And you danced, and some guys propositioned you..." I was trying to recall what Lorne had said, once the drugs wore off from his system. "And you turned them down."

Her eyes were wide with horror. "And what happened to you?" She slowly sat up and winced.

Gazing at her steadily, I wanted to be light about it. I had to be honest, I could have just said I got stabbed. Then again, either way, I was sure Carson was going to put all of this in his report, as was Rodney, once he stopped laughing.

Elizabeth's eyes suddenly widened and she glanced low on me before her eyes shot back up.

Oh, never mind. I think she just remembered. "We got into a little fight." I stated in as calm a tone as I could manage.

Opening her mouth a moment, she promptly closed it again. "I stabbed you. I mean, I was trying to stab you..." She made a gesture, her face turning a deep red. "And... I stabbed you! Oh my god!"

I nodded. "Yes. I was trying to save your dignity, and you were trying to cut mine off." I put in, determined to ignore the heat in my face. "You were drugged."

"Are you alright??"

"A few stitches, not allowed on duty for a while..." No 'excitement'. I shrugged. "Lots of bed rest, and several examinations... Not as bad as I'd thought, but I've been better."

Elizabeth's face showed such horror as she slid down in her bed and covered her face with her hands, I swore the look would never fade. "Oh my god! I'm so sorry, John!"

"Look, if we can just promise to never mention this again, and maybe find a way to leave it out of our reports to the SGC, we can forget about it." I stated as I pressed the button to call Carson.

She kept apologizing, however, and after getting Carson to come over, I quietly asked him if he had anymore of the sedative. He mentioned it wasn't safe to give Elizabeth any more until the stuff in her system worked it's way out.

I had to point out, it was for me.

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