Scene from atlantis

Robin exhaled softly as she settled on top of the balcony. Located across the hall from the main computer room, it had the best view and she often escaped there when her mind refused to cooperate. She leaned back against the support beam and gazed out at the ocean; quickly losing herself in thought.
Ronon walked down the hall, restless. It was calm in Atlantis, and had been for days now. He stopped outside the main computer lab and peered inside. McKay was seated at a computer and was surrounded by several people crowding to see the screen. Curious, he walked in ‘what’s going on?" he asked joining the crowd.
"Sshh!" McKay hissed. Ronon stood with his arms crossed in an eased stance, and raised an eyebrow. "Hard at work?" he questioned
The man standing next to him answered for McKay "He claims he can win this game ten times in a row and we say it can’t be done."
"If I fail it will be your fault." Rodney called out
"How would it be my fault?’ Ronon asked
"You’re distracting me. Go away!" Rodney snapped. Ronon nodded, and turned with an amused look on his face. He walked out remembering the balcony in this hall. He headed across the hall and stepped out on the balcony; closing his eyes against the gentle sea breeze. Taking a deep breathe he opened his eyes and to his surprise he saw Robin sitting on top of the balcony. "What are you doing here?" he asked walking over to the wall and leaned over it, looking down "It’s a long way to fall" he stated. Robin started at his voice "Huh? Oh," She leaned out a little to look down "It’s not that far." She answered with a faint smile "Sorry I didn’t hear you come out; guess I was just lost in thought. I tend to do that when I’m alone." she apologized "what brings you out here?’ she asked
Ronon shrugged "Nothing better to do."
Robin nodded "the sea breeze clears my head." She said "I need to be working on the database, but it was so loud in there; I couldn’t take it."
"Where were you?" Ronon looked at her
"The computer lab right across the hall; they were taking bets on who could play some stupid game the most times in a row without losing." She explained
"It’s quiet in there now." Ronon said, chuckling. "Rodney’s playing now and the rest of the room is clustered around him, watching."
Robin shook her head "they’re so bored."
"What’s wrong?" Ronon asked quietly leaning forward to meet Robin’s eyes.
"What do you mean?" she asked
"You seem sad, like you’re carrying a heavy load."
Robin pulled her knees up to her chest and gazed out at the ocean "Nothing really, I’m just tired."
Ronon shook his head "When you’re ready to talk, I’ll listen OK?" he asked "Or, I could see if Sheppard has time to talk.’ He grinned
Robin glared at him "don’t you dare"
"What? You don’t want to talk to him?" he teased
"If you tell him that I have a problem, I’ll never talk to you again." Robin threatened "I’ll never hear the end of it. ‘Are you ok’ ‘you look like something’s wrong’ ‘lets talk’ Please don’t tell him." she ended "I’ll be fine."
Ronon laughed "I won’t tell him, your secret’s safe with me."
"Tell who what?"
Robin started "Hello sir."
"Colonel." Ronon turned around "what brings you here?"
John glanced at him "Not much really, I need Robin to take a jumper over to the mainland and check up on them. They haven’t radioed in for days now and Dr. Weir is getting nervous." He looked at Robin ‘You up to it?"
Robin nodded "Yeah, who’s my co-pilot?" she asked as she swung her legs over and pushed herself off the edge of the rail.
"It’s only an hour over, do you really need one?" Sheppard asked
Robin looked surprised "I guess not. Is anyone going with me?"
John shrugged "You can pick whoever you want. Take jumper two; they know you have permission to take it out. You should have no problems."
Robin looked at Ronon "Doing anything?" she asked
Ronon grinned "I am now."
"Thanks." Robin followed Sheppard out into the hall ‘Is there anything I’m supposed to tell them over here?" she asked
"Not really. I want you to take a spare radio over just in case their radio died, but other than that, just check up on them then come back." he smiled at her "You’ll be fine."
Robin stopped and watched him walk away, incredulous. Ronon walked up beside her "Something wrong?" he asked.
"I can’t believe him. Just because I ask what I’m supposed to do when I get there, he assumes I’m nervous and need to be reassured." She fumed, arms crossed.
"Relax; I don’t think he meant anything by it." Ronan nudged her arm "let’s go."
Robin sighed "What ever. I’ll go get the radio and meet you in the jumper bay." She took off down the hall. Ronon watched her jog down the hall way, and then turned to leave; shaking his head.

~Several Hours Later~
"Lieutenant, how did it go?" Sheppard asked. Robin flashed a grin at him ‘It was beautiful colonel." She turned back around to the controls.
‘What went wrong out there?" he sat down in the co-pilots hair and stared at the controls.
Robin shook her head "I don’t know, the trip there was fine. The Athosians are ok; their radio had quit working so we dropped off the extra radio and loaded up with some samples of the crops and headed back." She quickly outlined their trip to the mainland "I don’t know what happened, the jumper refused to accept commands for a space of five minutes or so."
"That’s what Ronon told me, was there any warning?" John brought up the controls on his side
"No, not that I saw."
"What all did you try?" he asked
"Just about everything, I really don’t know what all I tried." Robin answered "If there was a command I could think of hat wouldn’t kill us, I tried it."
Sheppard sat back in the sat and looked at her "You probably overloaded the drive." He concluded. Robin stared at him "excuse me?’
"I said- you probably overloaded the system." He repeated.
"Are you saying his is my fault?" she asked
"Yes and no." Sheppard sighed "I shouldn’t have sent you alone."
Robin stood up "right. See you." She walked out.
Ronon leaned towards Sheppard from his seat in the back "It wasn’t her fault." He stated
"How do you know?"
"I’ve watched you, she did nothing out of the ordinary." He explained "And she didn’t over load the system, she waited to make sure the command wasn’t going though before she tried a new one."
"Are you sure?" John asked
"Positive."
"Then why didn’t you say something when I was talking to her?"
Ronon shrugged "Didn’t seem like the thing to do, you know she’s mad at you?"
Sheppard frowned "why? It’s my duty to assess situations like this and come up with an explanation."
"From what I’ve heard, she’s having a bad month; maybe you could be a little easier on her."
John shook his head "If I treat her different, it could become an excuse to not try her best."
"Everybody here is here by choice; this trip was decided for her." Ronon folded his arms "I think there’s something going on that she’s not talking about."
"Like what?" Shepherd looked skeptical
"I don’t know." ronon shrugged "I just think we should give her a little leeway."
Shepherd shook his head "Beckett said she’s just depressed. She’ll be fine in a few days."
"What ever." Ronon walked out.
"See you later." John called after him. He didn’t answer.

Ronon stopped by Robins room and knocked on the door "you in there?" he called "Let me in."
Robin opened the door "What’s up?" her eyes were red and blotchy.
"It’s not your fault, you know." he said, leaning against the door jam.
Robin didn’t say anything, but she moved away from door to let him in. She sat down in one of the chairs in the room and hugged her knees. "What do you think happened?" she asked after a moment.
"I don’t know." Ronon answered honestly "But you don’t need to beat your self up over it."
"Thanks." Robin smiled sadly. "I need to go work on the database." she said "I’m trying to find a patch of stars that match the patch in my mind."
"That sounds hard." Ronon frowned "How do you even do that?"
"I don’t know. I wish aisha were here." robin sighed
"Who?"
"Aisha, my best friend." Robin stared at the wall "We’re linked, you know."
"Wt does linked mean?" he asked leaning forward in his seat
"We have a mind meld, I can always sense where she is and what she’s thinking." Robin explained " at least I used to able to."
"You can’t anymore?" Ronon frown in thought
"No, it’s like she died. There’s nothing but a hole where she was in my mind." Robin tried to explain "It feels like something heavy is sitting on my chest, there’s never any relief."
"Have you told Beckett about this?" Ronon asked
"About the weight on my chest? Yes. He said I’m depressed." Robin grimaced
"You didn’t tell him about the link?"
"No, I usually don’t tell anyone." Robin smiled "they think we’re crazy."
"There might be a connection."
"Probably, the aliens told us we weren’t supposed to be separated for more than a few days." Robin said
"How long have you been apart?"
"At least two months." a tear slipped down her cheek, and robin quickly wiped it away. "Sorry." she apologized
"You’re fine." Ronon stood "Come on, we need to tell Beckett about this."
"I don’t want to, not right now." Robin grimaced as ronon pulled her out of her chair by the arm. "Ronon, stop." she tried to twist out of his grasp
"Come on Robin, don’t fight. This is something the doctor needs to know." ROnon released her arm but put his hand on her shoulder to give a gentle push.
"No." Robin moved away "You can tell him if you want, but I’m not leaving this room."
"Fine, you stay here." Ronon said, leaving the room "But I’ll be back."
Robin sat back down and picked up her laptop."I’ll be here." she said. Robin picked up her head phones and put them on while she waited for her computer to boot up. Once it was running, she opened windows media player. Searching thru her play lists, she found the group she was looking for. Skillet. She laid down and rested her head on the arm rest of the chair, hanging her feet over the edge and turned up the volume. Don’t say good bye. It was her favorite song be this group and she hummed along.
Ronon walked through the clinic, looking for Beckett. "Doc, do you have a minute?" he asked when he found him.
"Sure, what’s wrong?" Beckett set down the clipboard he was holding.
"It’s about Robin." Ronon began
"Major Shepherd was just in here about her" Beckett said
"really?" Ronon frowned "What did he say?"
"He just asked if I could see Robin soon and make sure she’s really ok." Beckett said "what is it you were going to ask?"
"I know she told you about the heavy feeling in her chest, but she told me something this afternoon that I think you should know about." ronon said
Beckett was instantly interested "what is it?"
Did you know that Robin is linked to a girl named Aisha?" ronon asked
"What do you mean by linked?"
"I don’t really know, but Robin said the aliens who gave them this link said that they shouldn’t be apart for more than a few days."
"How long have they been apart? Do you know?" Beckett asked frowning
"Robin said at least three months."
"Where is Robin?" Beckett asked "I’d like to talk to her about this?"
"She’s in her room; or at least she was."
"What?"
"I told her that you needed to know about this, and she didn’t like the idea. I told her I was going to bring you there, and I’m not sure if she’ll still be there." ronon said
"well, let’s go check this out." Beckett said "I need find out more about this link."
"Right behind you doc." ronon said and they headed for Robins quarters. Ronon knocked on the door "robin?" he called
"Come in, it’s unlocked." she called. Beckett opened the door "hey Robin, do you mind if I ask you a few questions?" he asked. Robin raised an eyebrow, she was still laying on the chair with her head phones and laptop "Do I really have a choice?" she asked
"No." ronon answered for Beckett "This is important, Robin, tell him what you told me."
"What all did Ronon tell you?" Robin asked Beckett
"That you have some sort of a link with a girl back on earth." Beckett said "and that you aren’t suppose to be apart for more than a few days."
"That’s most of it." Robin said, sitting up and pulling the ear phones out "We were apart for about two months on earth, but that wasn’t so bad. When I came thru the stargate, that’s when this heavy feeling started. It feels like she died, I was able to sense her, know where she was, what she was thinking or feeling for so long that it seemed like we had never been without the meld." Robin said "When I stepped thru the stargate, it was like she died."
"What did you call it?" Beckett leaned forward in his seat
"A meld" Robin said
"Does Weir know about this?" Ronon asked
Robin shrugged "don’t know."
"I’ll go check doc." Ronon stood up. Beckett nodded "I’d like to take some x-rays Robin"
"You won’t see anything." Robin told him
"How do you know?"
"Trust me, before they knew what was happening to me..they took plenty of x-rays. They couldn’t see anything." Robin said
"I would still like to take some." Beckett insisted
"what ever."
"Beckett?" Shepherd looked confused "I didn’t mean a room call."
Robin frowned "What are you talking about?"
"Shepherd asked me to examine you soon and make sure you were ok." Beckett explained "Did you know about the meld?"
What?" John came in "I don’t think so."
"I could have told you that." Robin said
"Well you didn’t." Beckett said "If you come with us, I think we’re going to go talk to Weir." he said glancing at Robin who sighed and stood "Why don’t I stay here?" she suggested hopefully
"no, you should come with us." Beckett said "I really would like to take some x-rays."
Robin sighed "It was worth a shot." she said.
"Too bad it didn’t work." Shepherd sympathized "but since it didn’t, let’s try to cooperate."
Robin stared at him "right." she said before leaving the room
"That was good." Beckett commented before following her down the hall.
"Did I say something?" he asked, catching up to them in the hall.
"You could try to be a little more sensitive." Beckett said
"I wasn’t insensitive!" Shepherd insisted "Were is Weir?"
"I’m assuming she’s in her office." Beckett answered "That’s where we’re going to check first."
"Right." the three of them hurried along to her office and found ronon and Weir there, ronon catching her up on the details.
"Robin, Beckett, John; I’m glad to see you’re here." she said they entered the office
"We were about to come find you."
"Is there anything about this meld in the files?" Beckett asked
"No, I didn’t find anything." Weir answered "But I did send a message to Earth asking for more info on this." she added
"Good, I’d like to know as much on this as I can; in the meanwhile, dr. Weir, do you mind if I take a few x-rays?" Becket asked
"I told you they won’t do any good." Robin said
"What do you mean?" John asked
"She says they already tried to take photos of this back on Earth and that they didn’t see anything." Beckett explained
"Maybe they’ll send those photos along with the other info." Robin added "We should at least wait until they send the info."
Weir raised an eyebrow "Ok, we’ll wait for the info from earth before I authorize a x-ray." She relented
Beckett looked visibly disappointed
"Sorry Carson, you’ll probably get the chance anyway." weir smiled at him
"Or you could take my word on the matter." Robin said
"Hey, you got your way. I think you could be a little understanding." John admonished
"Sorry." Robin said quickly
"No you’re not." Ronon grinned
Robin shrugged "Yeah you’re right. I’m not. I’ve never been found of x-rays and try to avoid them when ever possible." she agreed
"you’re hopeless." Carson said "Never the less, I would like to do a complete examination today."
"That I do agree to." Weir responded.
"Me too." Robin added "that can’t possibly hurt."
"Neither does an x-ray." Beckett pointed out
"Yeah, but an exam doesn’t have rays piercing my skull." she said as they left the room
"Mind if I come along?" Ronon asked, tailing along behind them.
"No, you’re free to do what ever you want." Beckett answered him over Robin.
"What if I care?" Robin asked
"you don’t." ronon said grinning at her
Robin started to deny that, but stopped "You’re right, why should I care? You know everything else." she smiled back at him. "Just promise you won’t go telling everybody about this yet." she asked
"I won’t." Ronon assured her "if it gets out, it won’t be by me."
"Thanks, that was comforting." Robin rolled her eyes
"I can’t promise what the others will say, or say who has heard us talking and will decide to make this conversation material." Ronon said
Robin stopped walking and punched him in the arm
"Hey." Ronon punched her back. Robin rubbed her arm "Ow." she said "did I even hurt you?" she asked
"It almost stung" ronon tried
"turkey turd." Robin muttered and continues down the hall after Beckett. Ronon turned to john "What does turkey turd mean?" he asked. Shepherd was instantly cautious "Why?"
"Robin just call me a turkey turd." he explained "I know it’s not nice, but what is it?"
"Uh, it’s turkey poop." John answered. Ronon frowned "I believe I’m going to have to do something about this." he said
"Right now?" John looked wary
"Do what rigth now?" Weir asked as she caught up to them
"nothing" Ronon smiled at her "And no, John, not right now."
"Did I miss something?" Weir looked at John
"No." John answered "just robin and Ronon messing with each other and ronon swearing revenge. Maybe we should mount a 24 hour guard around robin for the next few weeks." Shepherd suggested playfully.
"Might not be a bad idea." Weir studied Robin as they entered the lab
"I was joking." John said
"I know, but if these fainting spells she’s been having are related to this bond, she shouldn’t be alone." Weir explained. Shepherd nodded "I don’t think she’s going to like that." he said
"I know." Weir frowned "I’m not sure what to do with this one." she sighed "I’m going to go check to see if the info has been sent." she said "Tell me if they find anything before I get back."
John nodded "Will do."
Weir smiled reassuringly at Robin and left the room, Robin made a face at her back as she left the room.
"Hey!" Carson exclaimed "What was that for?" he asked as Robin sat down in the seat he pointed at.
"She bugs me." robin answered
"Well, the rest of us like her so at least make an effort to be civil." Carson raised an eyebrow.
"Ok, but only for you." she said wincing as he prepared a needle "Don’t you already have enough blood from me?"
"Why me?" Carson sighed " No, I need some fresh samples to test."
"Oh." Robin looked forlorn "‘cause you’re the only really cool person here except for Ronon."
"Well thank you, but there are a lot of cool people here." he smiled
"Right." Robin smiled back
"What are you guys talking about?" John asked, joining them.
"Blood." Robin answered "He insists that the other twenty tubes of my blood aren’t enough."
"You ahev twenty tubes of blood from her?" John looked amazed
"No." Carson shook his head "I only have one, but I need fresh samples for these tests."
"Oh." John shrugged "Dr. Weir went to check on the status of the info from SGC." he said. Ronon stood from the seat he had taken near the wall " What are you doing?" he asked peering at the tube filling up with blood.
"You can’t tell?" Robin asked
"watch it." ronon raised an eyebrow "I know what he’s doing, but why?"
"That’s not what you asked." john pointed out
"Yeah, how are we supposed to know what you really want to know?" Robin added
Ronon stepped closer to Robin and leaned in her face "You’re asking for it." he warned
"For what?" Robin grinned "You wouldn’t really do anything."
"You don’t know that."
"People, please." Beckett sighed "I’m trying to accomplish something here."
"Sorry doc." Ronon backed away "Go ahead and keep pushing Robin, you’ll find out what I’ll do."
"That sounded almost like a threat Shepherd, Is that allowed?" Robin asked. John shrugged "I don’t think so, I’ll have to check on that." he smirked "until then, I suggest you walk carefully."
"Funny sir." Robin nodded "Are you almost done?" she asked Carson.
"Almost, I need one more tube."
"How much are you taking?" Robin glanced at the tube he was inserting into her arm.
"Only two tubes."
"Is that safe?"
"Of course, would I do anything not safe?"
"I don’t know." Robin said "Will I be able to walk straight?"
"What?" John exclaimed "Why wouldn’t you be able to?"
"‘cause he’s taking so much blood." Robin explained "Don’t look at me like I’m crazy, I’m not."
"Sure." Ronon said
"Shut up." Robin didn’t even look at him
"Hey..." he started
"There, I’m done." Carson broke in, pulling the needle out of her arm and pressing a cotton swab on it "Here, hold this on for a moment." he instructed. Robin nodded and followed him to the table, still holding the swab firmly in place. "What are you going to check first?" she asked watching as he entered some of the sample onto a slide.
"Any abnormalities in your blood." he answered sliding the sample into his microscope.
"Oh." Robin hopped onto the counter and grinned at Ronon "Hi."
"You’re strange." he shook his head "watch your back."
Robin snorted "You sound evil."
"I do not."
"Kids." John broke in "don’t make me separate you two." he said
"Sir, yes sir." Robin responded.
John just raised an eyebrow "See anything doc?" he asked Beckett.
Beckett looked up "Not yet, it might take some time." he said
"oh." John nodded "how long?"
"You can leave if you want to John." Beckett said without looking up.
"No, I’m good." Shepherd sat down on a chair. Beckett chuckled "Right."
"Can I go?" robin asked kicking Beckett lightly in the leg
"No." Beckett looked up "I might need more samples."
"I don’t think you can take anymore blood. I need the rest of it." Robin kicked him again
"Your chances of leaving greatly improve if you stop kicking me." Beckett said
"Sorry." she apologized "I can go get you some ice." she added hopefully.
"Nice try, but I think I’ll be fine." Carson pointed to a chair "Why don’t you sit in a chair, it might be more comfortable."
"It was worth the try." Robin said as she hopped off the counter and pulled a chair over where she could see what the doctor was doing.
"Thank you." Carson glanced at her and flashed a quick smile at her "Don’t worry, this shouldn’t take very long. You’ll be able to leave within half an hour."
Robin nodded "ok."
"Shouldn’t Dr. Weir be back by now?" Ronon asked

More to come. Maybe