Characters: Kate Heightmeyer & Evan Lorne
Pairing: Kate Heightmeyer/Evan Lorne
Spoilers: Tabula Rasa
Prompt: local fauna, Kate Heightmeyer/Evan Lorne
"No, you can't look." Evan kept his hand in front of Kate's eyes as he lead her down the hallways and into the lab of the entomologists, whom the marines referred to as the bug- people. "Almost there." Kate giggled a little, curious about why Lorne had come down to her office in the middle of the day, in between sessions, urging her to come with him without actually telling her where they were going in the first place. "And we have arrived." He pulled her along to what she deduced as a table, where they stopped and he pulled his hand away. "Tada..." He said in anticipation.
Kate looked down, finding she was looking at a light green beetle the size of a child's fist, crawling around in a glass bowl. Someone had left him some salad to enjoy and they had even thought of something decorative as they had dropped a stick in there with him.
"Kate, meet the Katarinus Heightmeyerianus." Evan introduced Kate to the beetle, which suddenly shifted his light green to a more darker green as it shifted away from the salad. "It has a whole spectrum of green in that shield."
"You named a beetle after me?" Kate blinked as she glanced from the beetle to Evan and back. He nodded, still smiling. "You named a beetle after me?" She repeated, emphasizing her words even more.
"Yup. Don't you like it? The beetle is indigenous to the main land." He proudly continued.
"You named a beetle after me." Kate continued, still too stunned.
"Katie named a cactus after McKay." Evan defended himself.
"What do you mean by that?" Kate positively glared. "That I'm like a beetle, like McKay's personality resembles a cactus sometimes, if not all times."
"No, it's the green of his shield. It reminds me of the green of your eyes. It shifts too, whatever mood you're in. Light when you're smiling, darker when..." She clasped her hand over his mouth, preventing him from finishing his sentence in front of several scientists entering the room.
"They don't need to know that." Kate hissed, as she tried in vain not to blush too hard.
"So, you like it then?" Evan smiled when she pulled her hand back.
"Maybe." She said. "It's sweet." Evan's smile grew. "But I would have preferred something more fluffy and cute than a beetle, if I may be perfectly honest."
"I promise next time it'll be something cute and fluffy." Lorne grinned.
"But no cactus." Kate quickly added.
"No cactus, I promise."
