Cigarettes, Whiskey and Wild, Wild Women

Dr Elizabeth Weir looked around the mess hall on Atlantis; she noticed Dr Lindsey Novak and Major Emma Cooper from the Daedalus sitting with Dr Kate Heightmeyer and Lt Laura Cadman. She headed towards them, hoping they wouldn't mind her joining them; she really missed female company,

"You're kidding, he insulted you then came on strong" said Cadman to Dr Lindsey Novak "what did you do to the jerk then"

"Well I said 'I may have no control of my diaphragm but at least I don't faint when confronted by Ronan Dex' then I kicked him in the knee and left the deck" she replied, smiling. The four women laughed.

"May I join you?" Weir asked them

"Of course" said Cadman

"What's so funny?" remarked Weir

"Lindsey was telling us about how see managed to shut up Kavanaugh" said Cadman, Weir grinned, having spent a year on the end of one of Kavaunagh's vicious hate campaigns she was glad to see him get knocked on his ass. She looked around the mess again, while the women were only slightly outnumbered by the men, the male population seemed to have taken over what recreational activities there were on Atlantis and geared it towards their pleasure. Weir hunched forward, conspiritally

"How about a girls night in, I got a fresh supply of chocolate from my mother this morning" she said, the other women looked at each other and nodded

"If you're not too fussy about alcohol I maybe able to persuade Dr Zelenka to part with a couple of bottles of his bootleg whiskey," said Cadman, Cooper grinned at Novak

"I'm sure you can get the cook to part with something nice, you've been giving him goo goo eyes since we left Earth" said Cooper, Novak blushed and Weir wondered if she'd start to hiccup

"I...er...um" she breathed in deeply and out slowly "I'm sure I can find something to bring"

"Ok 8pm my quarters, I'll see if Teyla and Dr Kusanagi would like to join us" said Weir

In the science lab, a grumpy Zelenka was plotting his next move against Kavanaugh. The weasely little runt had dropped him in it with Sheppard and thanks to him telling Rodney he'd had to spend 3 days on M7G-677.

"Hi Radek" said a female voice, he turned to look

"Go away" he grouched, Cadman dangled a hand grenade in front of his face

"Two of these for two bottles of your whiskey" she offered "I heard all about what happened with Kavanaugh", Zelenka looked at the grenades and allsorts of ideas started to form

"Done" he said

"My quarters 7.30" she said and then left.

By the time 8pm arrived they had amassed a bit of a banquet, Cadman had produced two bottles of Zelenka's best and Novak had managed to get the Daedalus' cook to part with some ice cream. The women of Atlantis had produced chips, soda, wine; some Japanese sugar cookies and large quantities of chocolate. By 9.30 PM, the sound of giggling could be heard all over the corridor.

"Come on Lindsey tell us all about that episode on the Daedalus with you, Kavanaugh and Hermoid" said Dr Heightmeyer, Novak almost spat her whiskey out of her nose as she laughed

"Well it started when..."

To Be Continued