A/N: First in a set of three holiday one-shots, first two based on BiteMeTechie's "100 first lines" last one not. It's the holidays, and the team is relaxing (or not relaxing, as the case may be) with a Christmas party. Chapter One, Presents! and line #085, "Aren't you going to open it?"

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"Aren't you going to open it?"

The movie room was seemingly packed with brightly colored boxes and parcels. John Sheppard, Elizabeth Weir, Rodney McKay, Radek Zelenka, Ronon Dex, Teyla Emmagan, Laura Cadman, and Carson Beckett were all sprawled on the floor with a few gifts in front of each person.

Rodney was holding a large box wrapped in pink and gold, and was glaring at it suspiciously. The question had come from Laura Cadman, who was sitting in Doctor Beckett's lap and seemed to be enjoying herself immensely.

Rodney glanced up at her, glowering, and snapped, "Yes, yes, of course I'm going to open it, I was just checking for . . . uh . . . any signs of . . . tampering."

Snorts from Ronon and John. "Why would someone tamper with your Christmas present, Rodney? Who's it from anyway?" chuckled the Colonel.

Rodney sighed and rolled his eyes, then explained as if to a two-year-old, "I don't know, Colonel, that would be why I was checking for a booby trap of some sort. I'm a very important man to this expedition, you know. I could have enemies."

Years of diplomatic training enabled Dr. Weir to hide her laughter, but others, like John and Ronon were not so controlled, and burst out laughing. Laura did not even try to hide her amusement, but retorted sarcastically, "Enemies you say, wow, I wonder why that would be?"

"Sure, sure lad, we believe you, you're really integral, but who would want to bother booby-trapping your Christmas present I'd like to know?" Carson chuckled.

Rodney glared at the world and set about opening the present. After he had gotten the gaudy wrapping paper off, he was left with a black box the size of a large book. He opened it and the color drained from his face. His eyes widened and his mouth dropped open. He stuck a disbelieving finger into the box and his eyes got even wider, if that were possible.

"What, what is it?" everyone asked, noticing his behavior.

He stuttered aimlessly for a while, then gave up and passed the box to Radek.

The Czech looked into the box, poked its contents and started to giggle. When pressed for information, he shook his head, still laughing, and passed the box to Teyla. She was also overcome with mirth when exposed to the mystery of the box, and passed it on to Elizabeth.

The box made the rounds of the room, with every person laughing by the time it got back to Rodney. When Marc Lorne popped his head into the room to give his report to Weir, he asked them what the hell was going on, and finally, amidst fits of guffaws, Elizabeth was able to shout out, "Rodney got a box of rubber lemons for Christmas!"

At this point everyone collapsed in laughter again and Major Lorne wisely left, shutting the door behind him.

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A/N: Next stop, the games begin! OMG I'm doing a multi-chapter 'fic! THE APOCALYPSE IS NIGH!!!!