I don't really do the short stuff usually, but this was one of those ideas that wouldn't leave me alone on a pretty bad day.
Disclaimer: Don't own SGA, never owned SGA, unlikely will ever own SGA. Enough said.
MAJOR beta credit to fififolle. Odds are, the final version of this wouldn't have been coherent without her kind help. :)
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\/\ .. Silly and Stupid : Part I .. /\/
It really is silly of me.
If that's the right word for it.
It's just that it's always his IDC.
Of all the things about that man that should get to me, that's the habit that gets under my skin the most.
It's not his arrogance or his need to complain about the most minute detail regarding the most trivial of matters. It's not his habit of voicing every impulsive thought, good or bad, at break neck speeds. It's not even his abrasive attitude towards everyone and anyone who isn't him...and maybe me...
Those habits I can tolerate. Hell, I've even gotten used to them. And on those days when I need it, I maybe even find them entertaining and perhaps a little... adorable.
It's just this routine of his IDC being announced whenever his team is overdue that gets to me. The immediate reminder that something horrendous has happened, or is happening, or will happen and he is right in the stunner-blasting, Wraith-enzyme-doping, Genii-nuclear-weapon-deploying middle of it.
I feel guilty enough that I worry most about him when it's an entire team that is offworld. I didn't need him to go and develop a habit to hammer in that point. The insensitivity and rudeness of it is almost too damn ironic considering it is just so very Rodney.
Sometimes, while coming off the adrenalin of the latest crisis, I wonder if he does it on purpose. Whether he actually rushes ahead of everyone during an offworld disaster just to enter his IDC. I imagine it would be like the many times he's bounced into my office practically in mid-sentence, all eager to share his latest findings. Does he do it just to immediately let me, us...know he's OK?
Forget silly, it's just downright absurd...
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Rodney's POV is next. Feel free to bet against one another as to what you think Elizabeth does that bothers him. :)
Feedback regardless of what kind in relation to the fic is welcomed. I don't usually write shorts so I eagerly await what some of you think.