Title: Doctor
Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Characters: Rodney/John
Word Count: 246
Rating: PG
Summary: I'd always wanted to be a doctor
Notes: Sorta AU. Feedback is greatly appreciated.

Doctor

'I'd always wanted to be a doctor. Well up until the age of 10.'

'What made you change your mind Rodney?'

'I didn't change my mind so to speak I just, I guess, got tired of a being a wonderful pianist and wanted a change. The summer when I was 9; I spent it all reading a Medical Encyclopaedia, cover to cover.'

'Wow.'

'What? Reading?' Rodney asked incredulously.

'Uh that… and the fact that you were ten.'

'Yeah, my parents found it a little strange too. That I'd give up a great… skill for reading. But then when I was ten, one of my aunts gave me a chemistry set and well, hooked to Science ever since.'

'You still haven't told me why.'

'Nothing to tell.' Rodney said as he ran his hand through John's messy hair.

Rodney lay on his back and John had his head comfortably resting on Rodney's chest.

'Please, just tell me.' John lifted his head and used his eyes to plead silently with Rodney.

'I guess I realised that I could never trust myself ya know, like Beckett does. He's a genius, we get into scrapes and he just patches us up and saves us.'

'You save us.'

'It's not the same.'

'Yes it is Rodney and you know it. If you weren't here then we'd all be dead.'

'I can't trust myself sometimes John. What makes me think that I can, protect, you all.'

'Because you do that all ready.'

-fin-