Disclaimer: Response to Caine B: Maybe if you tell me about your specifications, I'll put you in. Big Maybe.

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Ch. 3 (February 3rd.)

"Have you been able to figure out what's wrong with her?" asked Elizabeth Weir as she, Sheppard, Teyla, and Aidan met with Rodney and Carson in the small laboratory. Rodney sighed from frustration.

"No. Nothing. As far as I can tell, she's in perfect working order." he said, flustered.

"You've had three days." said Sheppard, slightly appalled.

"She has hundreds of subroutines that have to be explored in order to figure out where the problem is." Rodney responded.

"Can't you jump start her?" asked Aiden, shrugging. "You know, do a systems shut down or something?"

Carson looked alarmed at these words and lifted his head from the table to look at them, silently hoping that Rodney would say no.

"It's not something that I want to try unless I have to." said the scientist reluctantly.

"Why not? Sounds like a good idea to me." said John. Rodney looked at him.

"It's not that simple." he sapped, and Sheppard waited for an explanation. "She's not just some computer that you can hard boot whenever it starts acting up. She's complicated. If I crash her systems and then bring them online again, there's a chance that she might lose half her subroutines. mainly the ones dealing with free will, personality—Basically everything that makes her slightly human." he clarified.

There was a moment of silence.

"So what do we do?"

"Maybe she will wake up on her own?" Teyla suggested. Rodney looked at her and chewed his lip thoughtfully.

"She's not supposed to be able to pass out like this in the first place. We don't know that she will wake up at all." he said.

"Well, we can't so anything else, so we'll wait." said Elizabeth, looking around at her friends and colleagues before glancing at Carson, who hadn't said a word but was staring directly at Keda. "In the meantime, I want you back on your regular schedules. SG-4 has reported that they've found a temple on M73-P98. Gear up." she ordered. They all nodded and then Elizabeth turned to Carson. "Doctor Beckett, I want you to go with them in case they need medical assistance."

No, you wan' me t' stop mopin' 'round Keda. thought Beckett, but nodded anyway.

"Yes Doctor Weir."

he said, standing and turning to leave. They watched him go, speculating as to his odd behavior.

"What a love sick puppy." muttered Sheppard to Weir, once the others had left. Weir smirked, shaking her head.

"Just be sure to bring him back in one piece or you-know-who will put you back in one of his hospital beds." she said back. He laughed nervously at that one, glancing back to see Keda was still 'sleeping'. Then Elizabeth sighed. "I wonder what's wrong with her."

"Yeah, I know." said the major. Then he thought of something. "Didn't you tell me that she said one of her robot buddies blew herself up when a Wraith attacked her?" he asked. Weir blinked.

"I beg your pardon?" she asked. He looked at her and shrugged.

"Just a question. It's not like she's gonna blow up or anything." he said. Then they both stopped, looked back at the lab, looked at each other and sighed. Sheppard shook his head. "I need a vacation." he muttered.

"You and me both." agreed Elizabeth, running a hand through her hair and trying not to think of all the bad things that Keda could possibly do to them.

A/N: I think that one was longer than the last couple. Maybe. Anyway, keep those reviews comin'.