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Summary: After the events of the Shrine and experiencing Second Childhood, and the Kirsan Fever, Rodney becomes even more of an hypochondriac then he was before. This leads to some poor decisions with consequences. Rodney abuses pills. Hallucination Palooza! Sam helps Rodney get through it.
Ship: Sam/Rodney and Rodney/Hallucination Sam
Mentioned Ship: Jennifer/Ronon

Rodney has always taken his health seriously. From big concerns to even the smallest. Whether it was the dangers of the exposure of radiation, to getting a sunburn on his fair skin. Even getting a splinter was infirmary worthy. So it was made all the more horrible when the realization came to him that he was sick and dying, slowly loosing his memories, and during all that, everyone had in the beginning, thought he was perfectly fine. Nicer even. Even though he had fallen unconscious in the cold. Everyone was okay with that, and somehow he was? It must have been the sickness in his brain at the time not to have been more diligent and concerning about it... Well not any more. He had learned his lesson.

He still had nightmares about the whole ordeal. It was such a horrible, and beyond frustrating experience to loose yourself with nothing you could do nothing to stop it. He had a new found sympathy for the elderly with alzheimer's disease. There was no way he wanted to go back to that and felt pity for those with no hope.

In response, Rodney had stepped up his game when it came to his health. He took many pills to keep him healthy. It had started to just get medicine to have a dreamless sleep at night due to all his nightmares waking him up. Then once during to late night, when he went to the infirmary to ask for more pills, he had found that Dr. Keller was busy with a patient of a late night sparring training incident. Ronon and some new transfer marine. He guessed that he shouldn't bother the annoyed, sleep-deprived, Doctor as she ranted at her patient about safety. Obviously she was pissed at being awoken at the ungodly hour just to tend to some bruises and cuts he could have done himself or at least a nurse. He didn't want to get into that. So instead he decided to get the pills himself. He knew where the medicine cabinet keys where. He was best friends with Carson after all and had seen him put them away before so he got them and went to the cabinet and opened it up.

Rodney's eyes roamed over the various names and types of pills, looking for the sleep medicine. Some of the pill's where rather interesting but he kept looking.
"Ah!" He found it and pulled it out. He smirked to himself and started to close the cabinet when something in his brain stopped him. He looked back into it and eyed the pills inside once again. As he gazed at what the pills where for he got an odd feeling.
Rodney had felt fine when he first got Second Childhood.. How did he know if he didn't have any strange alien disease that just had no symptoms?
He went to planets all the time... Sure their was the check ups after the missions but who's to say they just couldn't detect it like 2nd Childhood?
Hey, even the planet they where on now was an alien planet for crying out loud! It had gotten them sick too that one time with Kirsan Fever and Everyone forgot everything too!
Rodney reasoned with the small voice for in the back of his subconscious telling him this was a bad idea as he reached in too the cupboard once more.
No, No. He thought to himself. This is a logical idea! Just being a little preventive is all.. Better safe then sorry is the reasonable saying.
Rodney picked out some that he thought he needed.
Then once he heard the footsteps of the nurse coming back he quickly stuffed the other medicine bottles in his pockets. He shut the cabinet with a thud, relocked it and turned around to see the sleepy Doctor staring at him.

"What are you doing McKay?" She asked puzzled.
Rodney's fingers fidgeted and showed her the sleeping pills. Pointing at it for more emphasis nervously.
"Just getting my refill for my sleep medication. I uh.. Noticed you where busy so I didn't want to bother you."
Jennifer smiled. "Well at least one person didn't want to bother me with something trivial."
She then frowned. "But you know you're not suppose to go in there. Only the medical staff."

Rodney nodded but she was already looking away from him towards the infirmary beds. Eyes gazing to Ronon, who looked between the injured marine and her. Rodney knew the two where dating. So he knew it was best to leave now before Jennifer had a argument with her scary muscular boyfriend for being the reason she had to wake up so early. Rodney used the time that Jennifer wasn't paying attention to him to quickly slip out of the infirmary hoping she wouldn't be able to know just how much pill bottles where actually there before he had arrived to how many where taken. He decided when he got home to his laptop it was probably best to hack into the infirmary's servers and update the real amount of piss bottles where left so no one would notice.