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Prologue:
Carson sighed as he leafed through the pamphlet he dared to call a 'menu'. The selection was not very appetizing, but he hadn't eaten anything but chocolate cake in the last three days. Chocolate was still a tetchy subject, both for him and Rodney McKay, their resident lead scientist.
He was still looking through the booklet when his door opened and Kedawen came in, carrying large paper hearts and lots...lots of red, pink, and white ribbon. For a moment, he stared at her.
"Keda?" he asked, and she stopped, grinning when she saw him.
"Time to honor birds." she chirped, and Carson stared for a moment longer, lost within the deep pits of confusion. Birds...she'd finally flipped. Then he looked at his calendar and his eyes opened wide in surprise. It was February! Oh, okay, so she was talking about Valentines Day.
"...Okay." he said, getting up and accepting some of the decorations. He followed her as she walked sown the hall, smiling at everyone she saw and spouting, "Happy pairing of the birds," thus causing much confusion, from which Carson was not excluded.
They spent most of the next hour sticking ribbon to the walls near the ceiling with bits of rubber tack. Where she had gotten it, Carson didn't know. In fact, he preferred not knowing. It just made things easier.
Suddenly, while Kedawen was standing on Carson's shoulders, attaching the last of the ribbon to the entrance of the gate room, the alarms went off, and Keda, startled, lost her balance, her feet sliding down the back of the doctor's shoulders, but the bulk of her body falling backwards, and was saved only when Carson dropped the rest of the decorations and threw out his arms, where she landed, heavily, throwing out her own arms for stability and grabbing the wall that was just 'above' her head.
It was very awkward indeed when Sheppard, Teyla, Aidan, Weir and Rodney came into the gate room to see Keda stabilizing herself by holding onto the opposite wall, with her knees clenched on Carson's shoulders.
Doctor Carson Beckett turned so red that Rodney thought he would explode.
A/N: Okay, the pairing of the birds explanation. Way back when, Feb 14th was usually when doves would start mating, they called it the pairing of doves. I warned you, she speaks mostly in riddles.