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Warning: SPOILERS. CHAR DEATH.
Laura Cadman was sitting in her temporary room on board the Daedalus staring at a picture of Carson Beckett and crying. She used her free hand to wipe away her tears, which came flooding back. It hadn't been long since Beckett died. It hadn't been long since she heard about it. With the McKay-Carter bridge still not in full operation, the Daedalus was the first alternative, since Earth could not be dialed from Atlantis.
She could hear talk outside her bunk, so she decided to clear her face of emotion and tears and got up. A roll of her eyes showed how much she wanted to see McKay again.
"Cadman," McKay spoke unable to say much more.
"Rodney," she replied.
"John," Sheppard smiled smugly.
McKay looked back at Sheppard and turned to walk away leaving Sheppard and Cadman behind.
"He's still uneasy with me, isn't he?" Cadman asked.
"Yeah, it's kinda creepy," Sheppard said. "You'd think after a year and a half, he'd be over it."
"I think he's just trying to displace his emotions onto me for the loss of Carson," she mentioned.
McKay entered engineering with his tablet in hand quite annoyed with current readings on the hyper drive. He could feel Hermiod staring him down, but chose to ignore it. He began hitting keys on the pad of the hyper drive computer trying to find an anomaly.
Finally, Sheppard and Cadman entered, giving McKay an even more uneasy feeling. "Does she have to be here?" McKay asked rudely.
"It's a ship, McKay," Sheppard replied. "There's not many places to go, so she can go anywhere she wants."
"Well, can't she go somewhere else?" McKay questioned.
"Apparently, I'm not wanted here," Cadman said heading out.
"You should be ashamed of yourself, McKay," Sheppard told him. "Pretty girl like that. . . Is bound to just get stuck in your head."
Looking up from his tablet with a tightened jaw, McKay glared at the colonel. "Do you always have to bring that up, hm?"
"Do you continuously have to ask questions?" Sheppard asked. "Now, shut up and find the damn anomaly you're looking for. The same anomaly you wouldn't shut up about for the last fifteen minutes."
McKay moved his lips to speak, but decided against it and turned back to get to work. "Somethings not right," he said poking the screen on his tablet.
"I have checked over the hyper drive several times, I assure you, Dr. McKay," Hermiod told him. "Nothing is wrong with it."
"Put the diagnostics up on the screen," McKay told him as he pointed to the large screen seated behind the Asgard. He moved to it trying to read the language. "There. What's that?"
"Nothing," Hermiod said in a monotone.
"There it is again," McKay pointed out. "Is that what I think it is?"
"Indeed," Hermiod stated after finally realizing what it was.
To
be Continued. . .
A/N: I know its similar to SGA ep 2x02 "The Intruder", but what's in store is quite different. I hope you enjoyed. . .
