WHERE IS HE?
Elizabeth stood on the balcony overlooking the gate room, and looked at her watch again. "Where is he?" she mouthed at Rodney
He just shrugged in a "I dunno" sort of way. The rest of the team were stood around waiting, geared up, sweating slightly in the warmth of the gate room.
Elizabeth waited 5 more minutes, then threw her hands up in a gesture of pure frustration."Well", she said, "Go get him."
Shooting his boss a look of dislike, Rodney dropped his pack where he stood and huffed out to the transporter…
..which dropped him at the end of the corridor nearest Sheppard's quarters. Disdaining politeness, he banged on the door loud enough to wake the dead.
Getting no answer, he heaved a sigh of put-upon-ness, and used his own gene to effect entry.
The door opened, and revealed Sheppard, in full gear sitting dejectedly on his bed.
"Where the hell have you been?" snapped Rodney at the slumped figure.
"Friendly, Rodney" responded Sheppard, looking at the scientist wanly
"Everyone's waiting for you in the gateroom, and Elizabeth is having kittens, and you're here catching up on forty winks?"
"I can't do it, Rodney, I can't go out there." Rodney's expression softened.
"I know" he said, "It scares the shit out of me too, but it's what keeps us in takeout Pizza"
"But she's writing again, and you know what that means...bullets, whips, unfriendly natives taking out their frustrations on us, well me really"
Rodney shuddered. "She gives me some too."
"Yeah, but yours is never as bad as mine. You just have to do the worrying thing"
"True." Both men sat in quiet contemplation for a moment.
Then Sheppard spoke up again. "And Carson never gets any sleep, then he gets cranky and brings out the big needles. And when I escape to give him some time off, he shouts..."
Rodney shuddered again in sympathy
And Elizabeth is on the way to getting an ulcer because of...her...
"And her friends," put in Rodney, "they egg her on, you know..." he put on a high, effeminate voice. "Why don't you have a snake bite him?"
Both men sat quietly for a few more moments Rodney took off his tac vest. "I…er know of a place out by the West Pier where the scanners don't work"
"You do?"
"We could take my portable dvd, some of those chip things the Athosians made...Teyla left the last lot in my room."...
Elizabeth paced the balcony overlooking the gateroom. "What's keeping Rodney? she asked the remaining members of the team.
Ronon shrugged.
"Well...go and find him then..."
FIN
