A/N: I actually have read Kushiel's Dart; it's my one of my favorite books.


.LV.

Part 2:

People Are Just Careless With Their Books

By Lady Valmar


Song Inspiration: Hey Ya! By OutKast


Sheppard shifted in his bed, clutching the book close to his chest. He murmured "mmm," while rolling onto his side.

He dreamed of a beautiful woman with a red mote in her eye, caressing his body in fresh water, while another woman played with his hair, kissing and nibbling on his ear.

He dipped his hand into the water, it was smooth and he had never felt something so pure. The one woman licked his cheek, while the other woman with the red mote began to fling her hair down his body, making him laugh.

Sheppard awoke to his hand sitting in a glass of water; he had left on his bedside table. Moaning softly Sheppard pulled his hand out and wiped it on his sheet. Rubbing his eyes, Sheppard sat up.

Funny he hadn't remembered falling asleep.

Sheppard checked his watch and realized he had missed his daily run with Ronon. He rather reluctantly sat his book down to clean up. After a good long, warm shower to rise off the warmth of the dream, he towel dried and dressed in his usual attire of black shirt and sweat pants. After bookmarking his book with a string he had found, Sheppard left, seeking out Teyla for a practice session.

As Sheppard entered the practice room he found Teyla was not there. So he treaded down to the mess hall, thoughts of food drifting into his mind. After grabbing some breakfast Sheppard noticed Teyla and Ronon at a far back table both in deep discussion, their heads were bowed towards each other, and they were sitting rather closer than normal.

Sheppard smiled once Teyla caught sight of him, and he waltzed on over to them. He soon found himself eying The Path That Is Not Always Clear novel.

"Colonel is something wrong?" asked Teyla while trying to cover the book with her hand.

"No, I just wanted to apologize to Ronon and you for missing our run and practice," said Sheppard, eying Teyla's hand on the book.

Flopping down in front of the two of them, Sheppard began to attack his food with his fork, gobbling down the hash browns first.

"Yes, we were rather concerned when you didn't show but Lt. Cadman came by and said you were probably busy reading. So we thought not to disturb you," explained Teyla.

"Oh really? Well as a matter of fact I was. So Ronon you enjoying that book so far?" garbled Sheppard through bouts of his egg chewing.

Ronon looked distinctly unpleasant and said, "No I am not. This man has no sense of honor whatsoever and the woman he meets, she is no woman I would ever trust to help me, were I in the position that he was in."

"Oh well. I'm sorry to hear that," said Sheppard as Teyla slid another book underneath the one Ronon had been reading.

"Well Colonel, I must be going. I have many things to attend to," said Teyla as she got up to leave, still clutching the books in her hands.

"Um yeah, got some stuff to do," muttered Ronon as he sauntered off after Teyla.

"Weird," said Sheppard, after eating the rest of his bacon.

It wasn't until almost 3 in the afternoon that Sheppard had the opportunity to return to his room. He plunked himself down on his bed, while yanking off the com and picking up the book.

Flipping open to where he had dozed off last night, Sheppard continued.

"You will kneel in my presence, whore," he said nonchalantly…

Sheppard grinned, this was getting good.

…Ah, if only he had known! I accepted him eagerly, lips and tongue working frantically putting into practice at last the knowledge of a thousand hours' of study and more. He groaned as he climaxed, shoving me away and tearing the…

Sheppard felt the heat rise under his skin, he had never thought Romance novels could be so spicy!

Another beep from his com, stopped Sheppard mid sentence.

"Hello, Sheppard?"

Groan

"This is Dr. Beckett, you need to get down here now!" yelled the excited voice of Carson.

Sheppard growled out his frustration and yet again book marked his book with the string. Giving the book a longing gaze Sheppard clomped out of his room.


Meanwhile…

"Hm. oh…Relativistic Astrophysics (Cambridge Contemporary Astrophysics)" by Bernard J.T. Jones, sounds good," said Radek, as he picked the book up and eyed it's cover.

Shuffling off to one side, his assistant nodded and picked up another book along the same nature.

Flipping open the cover Radek, read, "Techniques on the art of lovemaking, by Koi Matrix."

"Wait, a minute this isn't a astrophysics book…" said Radek, while glancing once around to make sure nobody had heard him.

Flipping a few pages he read,

Some couples find it… when the insertive partner…extra pressure upwards when withdrawing to involve her… It might also feel good to her for you to use your thumb…

Holding the "penetratee," gliding your hand all over her body. Depending on your mutual comfort levels with these sorts of things, you might also experiment with one or more of the following…

Radek didn't notice when his assistant had left or when Rodney came sauntering in, but he soon found his feet carrying him back to his room.

Hm I could use this book for research…yes research, thought Radek.


Rodney ran towards the stack of books, after seeing Zelenka saunter off, nope his book was not there.

How could he have been so careless?

Rodney frantically moved the books in the stack, hoping he had missed its cloud covered page, but still he found nothing. Then his eyes saw a book sitting off to one side of the bin, its covers ragged and torn. Reaching for it Rodney, saw it was not just any book but someone's diary?

As if on cue two female techs began their journey towards where Rodney stood. Rodney quickly backed out of his passing fantasies of getting a woman's journal full of dirty secrets, enough to take the nearest transport to his lab.

Once in his lab Rodney, paced back and forth his hand still clutching the diary, his eyes searching the lab tables for any sign of his own book. After a time, Rodney sat down on a stool, and began to curiously open the cover.

It read, "property of sagefan, please return if found. Thanks"

"Who the heck is sagefan and return it to who?" thought Rodney, while skimming some pages outlined in pink,

Men on Atlantis

Dr Rodney McKay – irritating, annoying, sensitive, squishy, egotistic, complainer, whiner, hypoglycemic, beautiful blue eyes, nice strong hands, cute sometimes. Makes me want to tackle him and kiss him and then tickle him. He is just so dog-gone cute. Note: had a dream of us having…

Rodney's eyes widened, and he grinned while reading onward.

Lt. Colonel John Sheppard – Handsome, headstrong, determined, proud, leader, ­Sexy, nice lips, crazy but nice hair, drives me wild, I want to just rip his clothing off and kiss him passionately. Very internal like me. Nice sense of humor and his silly facial expressions make me want to squeeze his cheeks (face or other cheeks.) Sometimes I get these dreams about Sheppard hunting me like he would if he were tracking a Wraith and then aiming his gun at me and telling me to kneel, then he gets cord and ties me up and proceeds to torture me by undressing in front of me…

Rodney had had enough, he shut the diary and grumbled about why did Sheppard always get fans that were obsessed with doing 'it' with him. Then Rodney found himself opening the diary again to read another entry.

Sheppard is turning into something and I don't know if he will be all right. I've asked Dr. Weir but she refuses to tell me anything other than that he will be okay etc. I'm tired of people telling me what they think I can handle. Jeez! Then I found out that Rodney almost got killed by the very same bug that Sheppard is mutating into. I cried in my room, I almost ran at Rodney that day he came back through the gate, and held him close. Sure there has been incidents in which he has faced dangerous situations but I don't think I felt as strongly then as I do now for him…

Who in the world is sagefan and more importantly is if it's a woman than why hadn't he seen her in the gateroom that day?

Rodney eyed some funny drawings of a girl kissing a cartoon drawing of himself, though the girl had a mask on, making Rodney frown. As he flipped through a few more entries Rodney found one in which he saw a cartoon drawing of himself, Sheppard and Dr. Beckett all dressed in various SNM costumes while the character stood off to one side saying in a word bubble, "So who wants some action first boys?"

Rodney nearly dropped the book, he had to find out who it was and more importantly was this person somebody he knew?


A/N: Don't worry more is to come. Hehehe so did you think Rodney will find out who sagefan is? LOL!