Chapter 9 – It's Weird
"I don't know one minute I was talking to Madison and the next I was opening my eyes and I was here." Rodney tells the team.
"So you did make contact? How was she?" Jeannie asks missing her baby girl.
"She's good, told me to tell you she loves you." He replies.
"Ok, Radek, Jeannie, what happened on your end?" Sheppard asks.
"He closed his eyes and then he slumped into the chair unconscious, we didn't know what was happening or if that was meant to happen so we took him here." Zelenka explains.
"Perhaps that is necessary for the connection to occur. With no one else there to witness it you may never have noticed." Teyla hypothesizes.
"I guess I mean I was always sitting down when I did it so it's possible. Did you guys get anything on the readings before you moved me down here?" Rodney asks.
"No it was all normal." Jeannie replies.
"Alright, we've got a mission in five days and Jeannie is scheduled to leave tomorrow, so why don't you three geniuses try to work this out before then and I will go and talk to Elizabeth and explain to her why you passing out from not eating doesn't mean we can't go on the mission." Sheppard suggests.
"Good idea, meanwhile anyone have any idea when I can get out of here, honestly I'm fine I've been through much worse than passing out." McKay asks.
"I will ask Dr. Keller." Teyla promises before walking off to find her and Sheppard leaves to speak to Weir, Zelenka and Jeannie both leave to double check the scans leaving Ronon with Rodney.
"So anything interesting happen while I was gone?" Rodney asks surprising Ronon as he hadn't asked much about what happened in Atlantis while he was stranded.
"Besides Weir and Sheppard's fight not really. We had another scientist on the team for a bit but she was killed on her third mission, Sheppard refused any one else joining the team. That caused their second fight only this one was more public." Ronon explains while thinking about the very public screaming match the two had in the gate room promptly after their return from that particular mission.
"Things really went downhill for those two huh." Rodney surmises.
"Yeah but that's not the interesting part, the interesting part is when you think about what must have happened earlier today to leave them where they are now." Ronon says.
"You know what happened?" he asks Ronon curiously despite knowing it was none of his business.
"Nope, I figured you might, you are meant to be a genius or something right?" Ronon goodheartedly teases.
"Yes because five years marooned on a planet with the Wraith helped my already terrible understanding of human emotions." Rodney replies sarcastically.
Meanwhile Weir has been in her office reading through Rodney's very vague report of what happened on Latus Ad Latus and has found several things that don't quite add up leaving her to assume that Rodney is hiding something, though what and why she is has no clue.
"Elizabeth?" Sheppard asks as he walks into her office having knocked on the doorframe and gone unheard.
"Yes John?" Weir asks while realizing how easy it has been for the two of them to fall back to how they were five years ago, and yet still be so different. "How's Rodney?"
"Actually that's what I came to talk to you about. He's fine he just hasn't been eating enough, you know how he is and then he didn't eat on his way back here from that damn planet so he passed out. Keller says he's fine though." Sheppard explains lying through his teeth and hoping she doesn't notice.
"Should we perhaps postpone your mission, or have him sit this one out? I'm sure Major Lorne's team could handle it if you'd prefer." Elizabeth offers knowing he is lying but unsure about what.
"He's fine Doc, uhh Elizabeth. Keller isn't even keeping him in the medical bay." Sheppard replies hoping that Teyla succeeded in convincing Keller to release him.
"Look Sheppard I want what's best for Rodney too, and if he wants back out there then I want to help him do that. But you've got to level with me here, because lying to me about his health is not going to make any of this happen quicker." Weir says in a calm and level voice. Sheppard gives a very irritated look before taking a deep breath and sitting down across from her.
"Doc he's fine okay, I wouldn't let him out if I didn't think so." John states.
"You would if you thought it would help him. But unfortunately there are protocols and until I speak with Keller about this that mission is gonna get pushed back." Weir replies angrily.
"Oh for god's sake Weir when exactly did you stop trusting my judgement?" Sheppard asks raising his voice.
"When you started lying to me and showing me that it wasn't just you're judgement I couldn't trust but you as well." Elizabeth yelled at him as she stands up and puts her hands on the desk in front of her. "Now I know you Colonel and I know you wouldn't be keeping things from me without a good reason, but I won't risk Rodney and turn a blind eye when I know you aren't telling me the truth!" Weir says slightly quieter but still very fiercely.
"Dammit Weir he's a member of my team! I know how to look after my team, I know what's best for them and keeping Rodney cooped up in Atlantis is NOT going to help! Now you don't trust me fine, but you just remember that I'm the one that kept looking out for him when YOU GAVE UP!" Sheppard yells angrily at her.
"Get out." She says in a calm voice that was more deadly and cold then when she was yelling.
"Gladly." He responds before storming out.
Hey guys, I am sooooooo sorry this took soooo long. It was honestly me just being lazy and not writing, and a little of me not knowing how to write what I wanted. So all of you Sheppard/Weir shippers, I'm really sorry about this. I didn't mean to make them fight it just sorta happened and I mean after five years of them being at odds I doubted things would have just clicked back into place.
Anyway sorry again this took so long but hopefully next chapter will be updated tomorrow sometime and I'll try to make it extra long, I just really wanted to get this chapter out and this seemed like an okay place to end it.
As always I hope you all enjoyed this chapter and please review!
~ Alyxx
