A/N: This is my next submission of the dwparsnip FF challenge to do a fic of 500 words or less about Rodney and another.
FYI - ladygris just happened to mention that she was doing this same song so be sure to read her version of "Love Potion #9" too.
Word count: 446
~Sandy
Rodney and Significant Other Challenge
Love Potion Number Nine
Rodney watched his friend John sitting with the doctor that had saved the physicist's life a couple of weeks ago, Amanda Cole. They looked cozy. Well, as cozy as John would allow in public which wasn't very much. But he was smiling and laughing with her. John gave her a bite from his plate and she did the same for him. He'd never seen John do that with any other woman. He's got it bad!
The physicist drifted back to his computer and spent the rest of his meal reading and eating. Mostly he would make sounds of disgust but occasionally he would express surprise by widening his eyes and lifting his eyebrows. His staff had sent him status updates on their projects. Some were good, most were not.
The scraping of a chair caused Rodney to look up just in time to see Amanda drop a quick kiss on John's mouth as she dragged her hand across his chest. A very intimate gesture.
Just as he opened Radek's report, John came to sit in front of him, yanking the tablet from his hands. "Whatcha doing, Rodney?"
"Washing my car. What does it look like I'm doing?" When John didn't make a smart remark in return, Rodney glanced up to see his friend with a goofy smile on his face that indicated he wasn't really listening. One that disappeared when he caught Rodney staring.
"What're you looking at?"
"Nothing. You look like you just drank an entire keg of Love Potion Number Nine."
John scowled. "Why? Because I've finally found someone to make me happy?"
"No. It's more that lovesick expression you've been wearing morning, noon and night for weeks."
Over Rodney's shoulder John saw Jennifer enter the Mess Hall and head in their direction. "Hi, doc."
"Hey, John." She leaned down and kissed Rodney before taking the seat next to him.
With a smirk, John snatched the computer out of Rodney's hands turning it so his friend's face was reflected in the monitor's surface. "Looks like you've had a sip or two yourself, McKay." Rodney looked daggers at John before reclaiming his computer.
"What're you talking about?" Jennifer asked, looking from one to the other.
"Not a damn thing. John was just leaving. Weren't you?"
Laughing, John slapped Rodney on the back as he left him alone with the woman he loved. Checking the time, he calculated that it would be three hours, twenty-seven minutes and forty-five seconds until he and Amanda would be together again. Letting his face grin again, he headed for his office to finish some paperwork Woolsey had been complaining about. Somehow it didn't seem as tedious as it used to.
Fini
A/N: "Love Potion No. 9" is a song written in 1959 by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. It was originally performed by The Clovers.
Story
The song describes a man seeking help finding love, so he talks to a Gypsy, who determines through palm reading that he needs "love potion number 9." The potion causes him to fall in love with everything he sees, kissing whatever is in front of him, eventually kissing the policeman on the corner who breaks his bottle.
In an alternate version of the ending of the Clover's song, they recorded the alternate lyrics:
"I had so much fun, that I'm going back again,
I wonder what happens with Love Potion Number Ten."
That version was used on the soundtrack to "American Graffiti."
