A/N Thanks for reading! Hope you like chapter 2. Chapter 3 is taking on a darker side a the moment but I am working on it!

As usual MGM own everything

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Chapter 2 – The Seduction of Jennifer Keller.

Jennifer woke the next morning then realised where she was. She groaned and looked at her arm. They had taken the drip out over night and she didn't feel as light headed any more. Her arm hurt though. She sat up in bed and looked around. She was in one of the private side rooms. Her door was open and she could see her office from where she was sitting. She put her legs over the side of the bed and tried to stand. She was pleased to see they were able to take her weight and stood up for a moment. She swayed slightly but everything soon righted it's self. She was dressed in medical pyjamas and she grabbed her cardigan which someone had left laying across the foot of her bed. She carefully put it over her hurt arm first then headed out. She looked in her office and was disappointed to find Carson wasn't there. She then went to the bathroom and looked at herself in the mirror. She was still pale. She made her way to the staff room to grab the bag she left there in case of an overnight stay with a patient. She opened the door to find Linda drinking coffee. Linda looked up and smiled at her.

"Hi honey. You feeling better?" she asked her. Jennifer nodded.

"I'm a little light headed but other than my arm hurts like crazy, I'm ok." Linda nodded.

"I'll ask for some pain meds for you." Linda told her. Jennifer grinned ruefully.

"Any chance you can make it the really good stuff – I wouldn't mind being out of it so I don't remember what a mess I got myself into yesterday!" she told her. Linda grinned.

"Sorry honey. It will be the normal type! Now you need to get back to bed." Linda told her. Jennifer nodded.

"I'm just going to get cleaned up first. I look a mess." She said. Linda nodded.

"Ok but back to bed in 10?" Jennifer smiled at her and left.

She went back to the bathroom and managed to wash her face and clean her teeth. After that she tried to brush her hair which wasn't easy considering she now had to do it with her left hand. She managed to get it under control and headed back to bed. Just a little time out of bed had taken it out of her and she was grateful to climb back in. She settled back against the pillows and closed her eyes. She was woken a little later by the arrival of Carson. He smiled at her when he saw she was awake.

"Hello love. How are you feeling?" he asked her. She smiled at him.

"Tired and embarrassed but otherwise I am ok. My arm hurts." She told him. Carson nodded.

"It will do love you hit an artery. It was quite a mess. You have some deep stitches and you have a couple where we had to remove some glass. You did a good job on it. I will write you up for some pain meds and we will need to check the wound later. But for now I just want you to rest and if everything goes well you should be out of here tonight." Jennifer nodded.

"Did you give me a transfusion?" she asked. Carson nodded.

"We had too. You had lost a lot of blood." Jennifer nodded.

"I don't really remember much about it." She told him. Carson smiled sympathetically.

"You gave me a bit of a fright for a while but you pulled through quickly. Now take these." He handed her a couple of tablets. "And try to get some more sleep. It's still early. We will wake you for breakfast." Jennifer nodded, took the meds and was back asleep before Carson had got out of the door.

Carson was filling in paperwork later when Rodney nervously entered the infirmary. He smiled when he saw his old friend. Rodney was balancing a breakfast tray and a bunch of flowers. He came out to meet him.

"Rodney." He said. Rodney looked at him and managed a small smile. He looked like he was going to the torture chamber rather than visiting the girl he loved.

"How's Dr Keller?" Rodney asked.

"She's asleep at the moment. She's had a good night but her arm is still rather sore." Carson filled him in. Rodney looked disappointed at the news that Jennifer was still asleep. Carson smiled at him.

"You can take the tray in. You can sit with her until she wakes if you like but I would like for her to sleep for a little longer if she can." Rodney nodded.

Jennifer was dreaming. She dreamt that something was crushing her arm. She was trying to get away from it but it wouldn't let go. She jerked herself awake and was instantly aware of someone else in the room. Her eyes opened in surprise when she saw who it was.

"Hi." Rodney said.

"Hi." She replied.

"It looked like you where having a bad dream." He told her. Jennifer was beginning to wonder if she was still dreaming but the pain that shot through her arm as she tried to move it made her realise she was indeed awake and Rodney McKay was sitting at her bedside. She looked at him in wonder for a moment. She tried to move to sit up and cried out when she put too much weight on her hurt arm.

"Ow!" she said through gritted teeth. Rodney was immediately on his feet and put an arm around her to help her up. Jennifer felt an electric shock run through her at just this simple contact and took a deep breath. She smiled at him.

"Thank you." She said. He smiled an easy smile at her and moved to put the table over her bed with breakfast on it. She looked at it. Just at the moment she didn't have much of an appetite but felt that had more to do with the closeness of Rodney than the arm. She looked at him. He smiled.

"I wanted to apologise for being such a jerk yesterday. No excuses. I was a complete idiot and I am sorry." He said to her. Jennifer looked at him in amazement, speechless for a moment.

"Thank you." She managed. All her power of speech seemed to have left her! Rodney stood and smiled down at her.

"I've bought you some flowers too. Linda has taken them to find a vase. You eat your breakfast and I will see you a bit later ok?" He held her gaze for a moment and Jennifer felt her body react in a way it should have really been incapable of given the circumstances. She nodded her head and Rodney left.

Jennifer gazed at the spot in the doorway immobile for a moment. Linda walked through with the 'bunch of flowers' they were huge. Linda grinned.

"I guess he was really sorry." She commented. Jennifer just looked at them in amazement. Linda laughed.

"Hello? Anyone home?" she asked. Jennifer burst out laughing.

"Sorry but the most surreal thing that has just happened to me." She told her. Linda grinned at her.

"The great Dr McKay apologising? Yep that's one for the history books." She agreed. Jennifer shook her head in disbelief.

"Please tell me I am awake and not dreaming." She pleaded with Linda.

Linda looked at her curiously for a moment.

"Yes, you're awake honey, that really did happen." Jennifer relaxed back against the pillows and smiled.

"Wow." She said. Linda studied her friend. Ok so that was the way the wind blew. That explained a fair few things, although she couldn't see what Jennifer saw in him, she noticed her bright eyes and flushed face. Oh the poor girl! Rodney McKay of all people! Linda smiled a motherly smile at her.

"You going to eat some of that breakfast?" she asked. "Dr McKay brought it up with him from the mess hall. He must have had it made up for you." Jennifer studied the tray in front of her. Yep it definitely wasn't the standard issue medical one! Jennifer sat up at bit more and tucked in. Not easy with her right hand out of action. She managed some toast and some of the cereal. Linda nodded with approval when she came back.

"Well done. You need to keep your strength up." She took the tray leaving Jennifer to her own thoughts for a while. Jennifer relived the visit and couldn't through the memory of the direct look Rodney had given her before he had left. What was going on? She didn't have much time to think about it.

Linda returned to do her obs. Her blood pressure was a little high and she looked at Linda. Linda grinned.

"Someone affecting your blood pressure?" she asked her. Jennifer blushed and Linda went away laughing. Jennifer told herself to stop it. He was probably just feeling really guilty about what happened to her. She mustn't get her hopes up.

Carson put in appearance a little later.

"I need to check that wound." He told her. Jennifer nodded and Carson undid the bandage, smiling gently at her.

"Is it still sore?" he asked her. Jennifer bit her lip and nodded. He took the dressing off and looked at his handiwork. She was going to have a scar. Not a big one but it would scar. Jennifer looked at it as well.

"Damn!" she commented. Carson laughed.

"My stitching isn't that bad is it?" he asked. Jennifer laughed.

"No! I mean I really did make a mess of my arm!" she told him. Carson looked serious then.

"Yes you did. You can't go around punching computer screens." He told her. "Well it looks infection free but I am going to give you an antibiotic jab just to be on the safe side." Jennifer looked at him.

"I don't think it needs it." She told him. Carson raised an eyebrow.

"I know doctors make the worst patients but no arguing with me!" He told her. Jennifer looked at him.

"I don't like needles." She told him. Carson laughed at that.

"You're in the wrong profession then!" He told her. Jennifer managed a small smile.

"I don't mind giving injections, its receiving them I'm not too keen on." She told him. Carson sat back and looked at her holding her gaze.

"You have never had an injection administered by me. You won't feel a thing." He told her. He changed the dressing and bandaged the arm back up. Jennifer watched him work. He was such a compassionate sole. He really was the best Doctor she had ever worked with. He smiled at her when he had finished. "I will be back in a moment." He told her.

Jennifer seriously considered doing a runner for a moment. She really did hate injections that much. She was interrupted out of it by a soft knock at the door. She looked up to find Rodney standing there. She smiled at him. He walked in.

"How you doing?" he asked.

"Ok thank you." She replied. Her power of speech had seemed to have left her again. Rodney, ignoring the fact that she seemed incapable of talking at the moment sat down next to the bed and handed her a box of chocolates, which also happened to be her favourites.

"Oh Dr McKay thank you, they are my favourites!" She smiled at him. It was Rodney who was incapable of speech for a moment but soon recovered himself and cocked one eyebrow and smiled at her. They were interrupted then by Carson coming back. He smiled when he saw Rodney. That could be very lucky timing on Rodney's part.

"Hello Rodney. I've got to give Doctor Keller here an injection and she's not too keen on needles." He told him. Jennifer debated killing Carson for a moment but eyed the needle in his hand instead with something close to terror on her face. Rodney put his hand on her arm and called her attention back to him.

"I was never that keen on needles but as I am so accident prone I have got used to them over the years." He told her. He held her gaze firmly with his own. Jennifer was caught in his eyes not able to look away. The spell was broken by Carson stepping back.

"There you go, all over now." He told her. She looked at him in confusion.

"I didn't feel a thing!" she said to him. He grinned gently and left them to it. He had a feeling that her lack of feeling had more to do with Rodney than him!

After Carson left Rodney leaned back in the chair and smiled at her again.

"Doctor Beckett tells me you should be getting out of here later on." He told her.

"Yes hopefully. My arm is doing fine so I should get to sleep in my own bed tonight." As soon as she said it she blushed. The last thing she wanted to be talking about with Rodney was beds! She had a sudden image fly through her head about what she would like to do with him in a bed and flushed even more.

Rodney eyed her discomfort with interest. He had a fair idea what had just flashed through her mind and that gave him the confidence he needed. He suddenly felt in control of what was going on and stepped everything up a notch. Jennifer was looking at the bed clothes trying to get back some composure. Rodney moved, leaning in slightly.

"I was hoping you would let me join you for lunch?" he asked hopefully. "I will bring a couple of trays up later if that's ok?" Jennifer looked at him.

"Dr McKay you don't have to do that. I accept your apology. This was my fault. I shouldn't have hit that screen." She told him. She had to know if this was just his way of apologising to her. Rodney held her gaze.

"This has nothing to do with apologising. I want to spend time with you. And call me Rodney." He told her. Jennifer held his gaze back, almost hypnotised by him. He smiled gently at her and got up.

"I'll see you at lunch time Dr Keller." He said to her. Jennifer just managed to whisper out.

"Jennifer." Rodney smiled holding her gaze again.

"Jennifer." He repeated and turned and left leaving her stunned in his wake. What on earth? What did that mean? Jennifer was thrown into total confusion. What was going on? Linda reappeared to check her obs again. Her eyebrows shot up when she caught sight of Jennifer's blood pressure. She turned at looked at her.

"I think I'd better come back and double check that reading." She told her. "And next time I'd better catch you before Dr McKay arrives." She grinned with a twinkle in her eye. Jennifer looked at her.

"Oh Linda, I don't know what's going on! One minute we are screaming at each other, the next he his acting like prince charming!" she looked at her friend. Linda smiled gently and pulled up a chair.

"Do I take it you rather like our formidable Dr McKay?" she asked her directly. Jennifer blushed and nodded. Linda smiled and shook her head.

"You poor kid, you could have found someone easier than that to fall in love with!" she told her.

"I'm not sure you get a lot of choice in the matter." Jennifer told her. Linda grinned.

"No you're right there. So what's next?" she asked her. Jennifer looked at her.

"I don't know. He's coming back with lunch." She said. She looked at Linda. "Could you help me wash my hair? I'm a complete mess!" she told her. Linda laughed again.

"Ok come on. Let's get you presentable." She agreed. Jennifer then had a busy rest of the morning while Linda helped her get cleaned up and dried and brushed her hair for her. Jennifer studied the results in the mirror. Her hair looked much better and she certainly wasn't pale now – just the opposite in fact! It was getting on for half eleven by then and Jennifer was feeling tired. Linda looked at her.

"No matter what's going on I don't want you to have a relapse. You need to get some rest now or you won't be out of here tonight." She told her. Jennifer nodded and curled up in bed to dream of Rodney as it turned out. She woke out of the dream about him to find him sitting next to her eating his food. He smiled when he saw she was awake and she hoped she hadn't talked in her sleep! He put down his tray and walked over to her.

"Good sleep?" he asked her. She nodded. He helped her sit up again, and again just his touch was sending electric shocks through her. He noticed this time but didn't react. He was busy getting his own reaction under control. He pushed the table over to her and uncovered the tray. As luck would have it, it was some kind of meat today. Jennifer looked at it, then at Rodney. He frowned.

"Don't you like it?" he asked. She smiled at him.

"Yes I do but cutting it up is going to be a bit of problem." She told him. He grinned at her and picked up her knife and fork and cut everything up into bit sized pieces. He sat back down with his own tray and smiled over to her. She picked up the fork and did her best to eat. Not helped by the close proximity of Rodney. He started to fill her in on his morning.

"I had great fun explaining to the tech crew as to why I needed a new monitor for my computer." He told her. "The best part was that they are so used to me breaking things that they didn't believe me when I told them it wasn't my fault this time!" Jennifer laughed.

"I'm sorry Rodney." Jennifer said looking at him beneath her fringe. He smiled over to her.

"Don't worry about it. I don't give a damn what they think about me." He told her. He then filled her in on what was going on with the rest of the city making her laugh a couple of times more. She managed most of her dinner then had a go at opening her pudding. Rodney had finished his by then. He got up and came over.

"Let me." He said brushing her hand as took the cup from her. She visibly reacted to his touch this time and he caught her eyes holding them in his intense gaze again. For one heart stopping moment she thought he was going to kiss her but he smiled gently and returned his attention to opening the yoghurt. Jennifer soon found that eating yoghurt with her left hand wasn't going to work so she gave up. Rodney looked at her in concern.

"Do you want me to help you with that?" Jennifer looked at him. The thought of Rodney trying to spoon feed her yoghurt was doing things to her that meant she didn't have a hope of eating.

"Thank you but I'm full now anyway." She told him. He smiled at her.

"Carson tells me that he will be releasing you around five as long as you rest this afternoon. Why don't I take these out and leave you to get some sleep?" he said to her. She looked momentarily disappointed and Rodney held her gaze again.

"I will be back at five to help you back to your quarters." He told her. She looked back caught in his eyes again. She smiled and Rodney headed out with both the trays. Jennifer lay back against the pillows. Wow. Her life had certainly taken a different direction! She felt herself getting sleepy and closed her eyes.

She was woken sometime later by Linda checking her obs again and was shortly followed by Carson.

"Well I am happy for you to go. You're doing fine. I need to see you back here tomorrow for a check-up on that arm but otherwise just make sure you get lots of rest, keep up the pain meds and take the antibiotics ok?" he said to her. She nodded and he left her to get dressed. Luckily she kept some spare clothes in her overnight bag just in case she was up all night with a patient. She got out the jeans and t-shirt and Linda came back.

"Would you like some help?" she asked her. Jennifer nodded and between them they managed to get Jennifer dressed. It was getting on for five and Jennifer was beginning to get butterflies in her stomach at the thought that Rodney would be there soon. She managed to pack her bag and Linda came back with a sling and fitted it for Jennifer.

"You will need to keep that on for a couple of days to make sure those stitches hold." Linda told her. Jennifer grinned and Linda laughed.

"Sorry it's habit, fit the sling tell the patient why!" she told her. They heard a knock at the door and Jennifer looked up to see Rodney standing there. He smiled at her.

"Ready to go?" he asked. Jennifer nodded and Linda gave her a quick hug and whispered in her ear.

"Good luck!" With that she was out the door. Rodney came across and helped her down from the bed. He then swung her bag up onto his shoulder.

"Have you got everything?" he asked. Jennifer did a quick check around the room.

"Yes." She said.

Rodney smiled at her.

"Ok let's get you out of here then." Rodney stepped beside her and keeping a hand on the small of her back guided her out of the door. He kept the conversation light on the way back. They got some curious stares from people they past but neither really noticed. Jennifer was trying to keep her body under control from the heat that Rodney's hand was causing her on the small of her back. John Sheppard caught sight of them from a distance and smiled to himself. He walked away and left them to it. Jennifer was having trouble trying to work out what she was going to do when they got back to her quarters. She wanted to invite him in but was having an overwhelming attack of shyness. Rodney saved her from making that decision. When they got there he waved his hand on the door sensor and guided her through the door. Jennifer stood uncertainly looking around her quarters. At least they were tidy! She thought to herself. Rodney swung the bag down off of his shoulder onto a chair and turned to look at her.

"I'm going to go down and get us some dinner. I leave you to settle back in." Jennifer nodded. She watched him go and sank into the nearest chair. She was struggling to get her breathing under control. She had never been affected so deeply by another person and this was breath taking. She went to the bathroom and checked her appearance again. She was still flushed and her hair was behaving. She went back out into her room and settled down to wait for Rodney to come back.

Rodney returned with the trays and laid them out on the table. He cut hers up without a second thought and bought a chair over to the table for her. She sat down and looked at the food. This time her appetite had deserted her rather than her power of speech. She picked at the food. Rodney looked at her worriedly.

"Are you feeling ill again?" he asked her. She smiled at him.

"No a little tired I think." She told him. He nodded and quickly finished up his food and some of hers too. She grinned to herself. He obviously wasn't affected in the same way as she was. He caught her look and called her on it.

"What?" he asked with a grin.

"I was just thinking what a good appetite you have." She told him. He smiled.

"You know I have to eat." He said to her. She nodded. He was Hyperglycaemic and had to eat regularly. When he had finished he looked around her quarters.

"Is there anything you need a hand with?" he asked, she grinned at his accidental pun and looked around herself.

"Could you loosen the top on the coffee jar for me?" she asked. She had a feeling that opening that with one hand would be fun and she was a coffee addict. Rodney nodded and walked over to her little kitchen area. He also took the kettle and made sure it was full of water. He smiled over to her.

"Anything else?" he asked. Jennifer couldn't think of anything for a moment and shook her head. He then produced a DVD from his jacket pocket.

"I wondered if you would like to watch a movie?" he asked her. She looked at it and smiled. It was the movie she had missed at the last movie night.

"Yes please. I wanted to watch it but was with a patient and couldn't get through in time." She told him. He nodded and set up her laptop on the coffee table across from the sofa while Jennifer put everything away from her bag. She then stood frozen to the spot when Rodney spoke to her again.

"I need your password to get into the desktop." He told her. Damn! She thought to herself. She turned slowly trying to be as casual as she could.

"It's Jennifer23568." She told him. She could see his lightening brain working as he typed it in. He looked at her.

"That's my birthday." He told her. Jennifer tried to look casual.

"Is it?" she asked. He smiled at her.

"That's probably not the safest password to use." He told her. Jennifer let a breath out she didn't know she was holding.

"I just used some random numbers." She told him. "I'm never any good at remembering passwords so I kept it simple." Rodney studied her hard for a moment something belatedly dawning on him but didn't say anything. He got back to loading the DVD and called to her.

"It's ready to go." He said. Jennifer sat down next to him, wrapping her bad arm in front of her. The sofa wasn't big enough for her to sit too far away from him. Rodney relaxed back and crossed one foot over the knee of his other leg and casually stretched out an arm behind her on the back of the sofa. Jennifer was trying hard to concentrate on the film but kept stealing glances at him from under her fringe. Rodney admittedly seemed to be engrossed in the film. Jennifer relaxed a little more and gradually she was leaning on his arm. Rodney shifted position slightly and moved a little closer to her. Jennifer could feel herself getting sleepy. With all the pain of her arm and the heightened state of sexual awareness she had been in was taking its toll. She felt her eye's drifting shut. Rodney noticed her breathing change and glanced down at her. She was asleep and he adjusted his position so she was resting her head on his shoulder. He could smell her shampoo and was having a physical reaction to having her in such close proximity. He gently stroked her face to wake her. She opened her eyes and he smiled softly at her.

"I think it's time for you to get to bed." He told her. Jennifer nodded sleepily. Rodney looked uncertain for a moment.

"Do you need a hand?" he asked her. She shook her head.

"I should be ok now." She told him. He nodded and stood up helping her up as he did so. He walked over to her bedside table and put the radio link unit there.

"If you need anything during the night call me ok?" he said to her. She nodded and he turned to walk to the door. She followed him and he stood just in front of the closed door. She spoke softly.

"Thank you for today Rodney." She said to him, looking straight into his eyes. He held her gaze and smiled back.

"I'll see you tomorrow." He said to her then waved his hand and exited out of the door. Jennifer turned and looked around the room. Did today really happen? She got herself ready for bed then realised she had a major problem.

John had been keeping a look out for Rodney from his quarters and grinned when he saw the other guy. Rodney had rounded the corner out of sight of Jennifer's door and was now doubled over taking deep breaths. John walked over to him and clapped him on the back.

"You ok there buddy?" he asked him. Rodney shot him a look from his bent over position. John grinned at his friend's obvious discomfort. Rodney managed to straighten up. He looked at John.

"Well?" John asked impatiently.

"Well what?" was the unhelpful reply.

"What happened? Did she throw you out? Kiss you what?" he asked. Rodney shook his head. John seeing his friend still wasn't capable of speech guided him down the corridor and back to his quarters. He grabbed a beer out of the fridge and handed him one. Rodney sank gratefully into a chair and gulped the beer down. John laughed at him.

"The strain of being nice all day got too much for you?" he asked gently teasing him. Rodney glared at him.

"No but the strain of having Jennifer sleeping on my shoulder for the last hour has!" he retorted. John getting it raised his eyebrows.

"Oh!" he said knowingly. "So how did it go?" he asked.

"Well I think." He replied. John looked at him.

"I am seeing her tomorrow." Rodney filled in for him. John grinned.

"I will try to keep you off duty for as much as I can." John told him. Rodney grinned.

"Thanks." Rodney finished his beer and got up.

"I'm heading to bed." He informed John and excited leaving a grinning John behind him. John then wondered down to the infirmary to fill Carson in.

Jennifer was standing in her quarters not sure as to what to do now. There was no way she was going to sleep without her pain medication and she couldn't get the lid off with one hand. She opened the door in the hope that someone would be passing but no one was. She sighed in exasperation and headed towards the radio link. Then everything went black.

TBC

A/N Let me know what you think. Chapter 3 is a w.i.p so it may take me a couple of days!