Title: Little Things
Author: Cindy Ryan
Category: Angsty fluff. Is that a Category? :)
Timeline: They're still dating.
Summary: John has to figure out why Jennifer's mad.
"Colonel."
Uh oh.
"Jen."John called after the young blonde woman as she reached the end of the Mess line and faded into the crowd.
Crap.
She was mad.
John scrambled to think of what he'd done recently to make Jennifer mad.
He came up empty.
Damn.
John turned to the last place he'd seen Jennifer in the crowded Mess only to find the space empty.
John rubbed a hand over his face and sighed.
When she wanted to the woman could move faster than the Flash.
John headed toward the door his brain in overdrive. He'd been on six missions in the last two weeks.
Barely home long enough to tick her off.
John stopped dead in the hall.
Was that it?
Between briefing Woosley on missions, the missions themselves, eating and sleeping John had barely had any time these past weeks.
John shook his head and started walking.
No that couldn't be it.
She'd been as busy as he was.
Jen understood.
John rounded a corner and keyed his radio to a private channel.
"Sheppard to Keller."
Silence.
John sighed and tried once more. "Sheppard to Keller. I know you're mad, but you could at least tell me why."
Silence.
John flexed and unflexed his right hand in frustrations. He mentally checked the schedule of the SGA teams.
Yep, Lorne should be back from MV-243.
If anyone would know why she was mad, it'd be Evan.
Jennifer closed the door of her office and leaned back against the wall facing her desk. She felt tears starting to form and blinked them away.
Crying was silly.
Jennifer closed her eyes and rested her head against the wall.
She should've known.
But she'd been hoping.
The tears escaped and this time Jennifer didn't fight them.
It'd been a long couple of weeks.
She was tired.
Too tired to argue.
Which was part of the childish reason why she hadn't answered John's radio call.
Okay, it was the full reason she hadn't answered it.
Jennifer opened her eyes and wiped away the tears.
She had every right to be mad.
The fact that John had no idea why she was angry hurt Jennifer even more.
With a weary sigh Jennifer turned to her desk and walked around. Sitting down Jennifer picked up the stack of files and began to attack her paperwork.