"Ok if you were invisible what's the first thing you'd do?" Elizabeth finally broke the silence.
# Did she really just ask that question? I mean there is only one answer to that question. #
"Easy I'd go camp out in the nearest women's locker room I could find." John answered with out hesitation, getting a sly grin on his face. Elizabeth of course wasn't very pleased with his answer and showed it by whacking John's arm. "Ah, hey, ow…what you wanted an honest answer and I gave you one. Besides no guy in his right mind is honestly going to answer that question with anything but that answer."
/ Doesn't mean I have to like it. /
"Now my turn if you could have any superpower what would it be and why?
"Either telepathy so I could know what someone is thinking, and when someone is lying or premonition so I'd be able to know what's going to happen." After answering Elizabeth took a second to think about her next question. "What is the funniest thing you've ever gotten in trouble for?"
# Damn, where to begin? There are so many possible answers to that question. #
"Uh let me think…Um I'd probably have to say it was back when I joined the Airforce and was assigned to my first posting. The guys in my unit had this initiation right of sorts and let's just say it end with me being drunk, butt naked, and duck taped to the top of a light post on base. The base CO was not one happy camper after that."
/ Oh my God! /
Elizabeth couldn't help it she burst out laughing she could clearly picture the whole incident in her mind. It was several long minutes before Elizabeth was able to finally stop laughing. John just stared at her, not believing that she was actually laughing at his humiliation.
"Nice to know my humiliation is so funny."
"I'm sorry John, you can blame it on the moonshine, but come on butt naked that had to hurt like hell when they pulled the duck tape off."
"Like you wouldn't believe."
"Thanks I needed that. I can't remember the last time I had a good real laugh like that."
# John Sheppard at your service, if you need a laugh I'm more then ready to provide. #
"No problem. Now for my next question what is the meanest punishment your parents ever gave you as a kid, and what was it for?"
"The time they grounded me for three months, and took away my phone and car privileges. All because I snuck out of the house and then tried sneaking back in a few hours later."
# No way. Elizabeth, my Elizabeth sneaking out of the house. #
"I'm shocked, here I am thinking that one Dr. Elizabeth Weir was a perfect little angel, only to find out she was a little devil in disguise."
"Right like you never did anything like that when you were a kid."
"Me? Never." John put on his best innocent look, which didn't fool Elizabeth for a minute.
"Right. Since we're moving into childhood questions tell me what did you really want to be when you grew up?"
"With out a doubt I wanted to be a pilot."
"Really, you've always wanted to be a pilot?"
"Yup, I wanted to be a pilot just like my granddad. You see when I was a kid we lived right down the road from my grandparents and my granddad had this small old beat up four seater plane, it still amazes me to this day that, that thing was actually able to fly. My granddad took me up in that plane every single day for as far back as I can remember. Growing up I probably spent more time up in the air then I ever did down on the ground. Everything and I mean everything I know about piloting I learned from him, not from the Airforce or anywhere else. Now what about you, what did you want to be? "
"Honestly I wanted to be an astronaut or anything that would allow me to travel to the stars. I remember spending hours in my back yard just staring up at the stars…I guess in away we both got to be what we wanted. Alright tell me how old were you when you had your first real kiss? Tell the tale."
Taking a moment to think back a huge cocky like grin spread across John's face and he began to get a far off dreamy look in his eyes.
"Missy Cook, the It girl in every fantasy of every guy in my school. It was the summer before my freshmen year and her dad had hired me to help out with some yard work and things like that around their place. I was putting some tools away in the tool shed when Missy just showed up out of nowhere and the next thing I knew she was kissing me, it couldn't have lasted more than a few seconds, but if God himself had decided to strike me dead in the moment I would have died a very, very happy man."
"That good and unforgettable uh?"
# Oh God was it good. I mean geeze to this day I can't think about her and not get this dopey look on my face. #
"Hell yeah it was good. When your fifteen years old and the hottest girl around kisses you, that's something you'll never forget."
After that revelation the two friends fell into silence each thinking about the things they'd learned about the other.
"Ok I got one, what qualities does your ideal partner have?" John broke the comfortable silence between him and Elizabeth.
"They have to know how to make me laugh, be caring and kind not only to me but to other people in my life as well, be willing to show me how they feel, oh and charming can't forget charming. What about you?"
/ Did I just basically describe John? ……Nah, couldn't be he's like an annoying brother… right? /
"They have to be able to get my sense of humor as well as have one of their own, have a nice personality, be passionate about things in their lives, and be independent yet willing to depend on me when the need arises."
# Wait did I just describe Elizabeth? ……Nah, couldn't be she's like an annoying sister… right? #
Once again the two feel into silence thinking. John's last question had been asked innocently, but after answering they both realized they had some thinking to do. While thinking Elizabeth noticed that the sun had started to rise and if she listened carefully she could hear the city starting to come alive with activity.
/ I don't want this night to end this is the first time in a long time I can remember having so much fun, but it's like that old cliché all good things must come to an end. /
"We should probably call it a night and head back to our rooms before too many people wake up. We don't want to give the rumor mill anything to gossip about now do we?"
Elizabeth stood up and started picking up the empty moonshine bottles. Nodding his head John stood as well and started helping to clean up the evidence of their night. Looking out over the water watching as the sun began rising higher, one last question popped into John's head.
"Hey Elizabeth one last question, if you could know one thing from the future what would it be?"
"Simple, how exactly we make it back to earth, because I know we will make it back to earth someday of that I have no doubt, I just don't know how."
"Yeah my thoughts exactly. You know I had fun, we should do this again some time."
"Any time."
With that both friends left the balcony and parted to return to their rooms to hopefully sleep off the hangovers they both knew they would have after all the moonshine they drank.
A/N: Ok this will most likely be the end. Unfortunately life has decided to rear it's ugly little head and give me a case of writer's block, must have something to do with the holiday rush and what not.
If after the holidays my writer's block goes away I may or may not come back and work on this some more, but I doubt I will because I think where I ended this is as good a place as any to end.