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"We need an occasion." Amanda Jones declared as she poured herself a cup of coffee. Teyla looked at her.
"An occasion?"
"A reason for the dance." Renée Metz supplied before Elizabeth could do so. Teyla nodded.
"Well it is coming up to a month after my people left this city for the mainland." The three other women in the room stared at the Athosian and grinned.
"You may be on to something there, Teyla." Elizabeth said. "If your people wouldn't mind coming back to the city for a night we could hold the dance in their honor."
"Kind of killing two birds with one stone ... but that isn't right. No, just forget I said that."
"Forget you said what?" Amanda jumped as lieutenant Ford appeared right behind her. Sheppard and McKay were also with him.
"Don't do that!"
"Do what?" Ford asked in confusion as he sat down next to the nurse.
"Sneak up on people, it's not nice!" The blonde glared at him before turning to face the opposite direction. Sheppard raised his eyebrow at his second in command who just shrugged.
"Any way gentlemen, this is a private meeting." Weir instructed, making all three males look at her in surprise.
"You know, you've all been acting really suspicious recently." Sheppard walked to stand in between Teyla and Elizabeth, shooting looks at both of them.
"Are you suggesting something Major?"
"Yes, are you suggesting something?" McKay repeated Elizabeth except with more eye contact with Sheppard. Ford suddenly jumped up, making Amanda jump again.
"Let's just say, that you're not the only ones who can plan something." John nodded at Ford and McKay who smiled and left. Sheppard followed them to the door, looked back and gave all four women a mischievous grin before leaving.
"So what are we planning, sir?" Aidan asked as they walked away from the room the women had been in.
"I don't know ... yet." He added after receiving looks from both of the men beside him. "Let's go see the good doctor, see if he's got any advice." It took them less then five minutes to get to the infirmary. When they got there they found Doctor Carson Beckett drawing on a spare piece of paper, the beds in his ward all empty.
"Hey Beckett." The Scottish CMO looked up and grinned.
"Are any of yeh hurt? Need medical assistance?" When they shook their heads he sighed.
"I'm not complaining really, it's nice not doing anything. But it seems that people on this base only get hurt after someone else has got hurt. It can get dull when nobodies in here."
"You mean when you can't poke anyone with really big needles?" McKay corrected as he sat down next to the Scottish man.
"Ha ha, so with none of yeh hurt how can I help yeh?"
"Well, we just caught Weir in a room with Teyla and two of your nurses discussing something that doesn't involve us." Sheppard explained. "And it's not the first time either. They're always discussing things in private and they always change the subject when we go near them. It's very suspicious."
"We think that they're planning something." Aidan added at the sight of the dazed look on the doctor's face.
"Yeh might be right, major. I've heard some of meh nurses whispering and going on about some 'dance'."
"'Dance'?" Sheppard repeated. Beckett nodded.
"And they have been meeting with Doctor Weir and Teyla a lot recently." McKay frowned.
"Why would they want to have a dance?"
"Well if it lets me dance with some pretty women, I'm not complaining." Ford smiled suddenly and turned to his commanding officer. "You might get to dance with Teyla, sir."
"Now what are you suggesting, lieutenant?" Sheppard stared at Ford, who stared right back with his grin still in place.
"Come on, major, everyone's noticed." McKay stated making John turn towards him.
"Noticed what?"
"This dance would be a good excuse to ask her to dance." Beckett added.
"What are you all on about?" Ford suddenly jumped up, shocking both McKay and Beckett.
"I got it!"
"Got what? Please tell me it's not contagious." Ford just grinned at Sheppard.
"I'm guessing the reason that the girls don't want to tell us about this dance is because they don't want us to ruin it." Ford glanced round to make sure that he had all their attention. "Well, how about we don't ruin it but ... improve it. With little ... surprises." John grinned.
"What kind of ... surprises?"
"How about ... confetti when you go through a doorway or ... or surround sound music?"
"I like where you're going Ford." Sheppard grinned as ideas came to him. Beckett and McKay looked between the two military men.
"Yeh wrong, major. I think it is contagious." Carson watched as McKay's face light up with an idea.
"We can use the ancient technology to help us! With yours and Beckett's genes as well as my artificially imposed gene we could ... rearrange some of the systems functions for the night."
"And we have to keep it to ourselves, just like they're doing." Sheppard instructed and the others nodded. He grinned.
"I can't wait to see their faces!"
A/N – Hope you like it, I thought I did quite well on that one. I will be updating again soon so stay tuned folks!