A/N: Thanks for all the reviews I've gotten so far.
soho178 thanks for the heads up about 'Bridge Over Troubled Water' belonging to Paul Simon. I just went to google typed in Johnny Cash lyrics and that's one of the songs that came up. Guess I didn't do my research to well, sorry my bad. You're probably right about Johnny Cash doing it as a cover song.
Walking into the mess hall Elizabeth quickly grabbed a cup of coffe and some breakfast then made here way over to where she'd spotted John, Kilik, and Kate sitting. Taking the seat across from John, Elizabeth stifiled her laughter by taking a drink of coffee, John was busy trying to take Kilik's spoon, which was being used as a mini catapult to fling food over the table hitting anyone who happened to unfortunitly be waking by the table at that moment. Elizabeth could see that Kate was also having a hard time not laughing.
After about five minutes John had more food on him than Kilik had in him and he still hadn't gotten the spoon away from Kilik. Elizabeth was about to take pitty on him and help when Kilik lobbed a large glob of apple sauce past her shoulder. Hearing the distinct splat of apple sauce hitting something soild a lot sooner than it should have Elizabeth turned around to find Rodney standing with a glob of apple sauce dripping down the middle of his face. That was the last straw, she couldn't take it anymore, Elizabeth burst out laughing and nearly fell off her chair.
"Nice to know my misfortune amuses you." Rodney sat in the chair next to Kate, wipping the apple sauce off his face with a napkin.
"Yes, but you have to admit though Kilik's aim is getting better." Kate chuckled.
"I take it this has happened before." Elizabeth stopped laughing for a moment.
"Oh yeah it's pretty much a morning ritual when ever McKay finds the time to grace us with his presence at breakfast." John went back to eating his food. Now that Kilik had given Rodney his morning food splat - as John liked to call it - John didn't have to worry about the kid throwing any more food. "If you actually made it to breakfast more often you'd know that." John directed his comment to Elizabeth. John didn't like the fact that sometimes Elizabeth got so caught up in work that she forgot to eat.
"Well somebody has to keep this city running and afloat." Elizabeth stated her line. They'd had this conversation so many times it was like they were reading from a script.
"That's what the beakers are for. Who cares if nine times out of ten they either blow something up or break it. That's their job."
"Hey!" The mandatory protest came from Rodney.
It wasn't long before Aiden, Teyla, and Carson joined the group at the table. Seeing that Rodney was already there and that Kilik was digging into his food Aiden and Carson slumped down in their seats frowning slightly.
"Dang we missed it." Aiden complained a boyish pout on his face.
"Aye, but no worries we have eye witnesses. So Major were'd the young lad hit today?" Carson turned towards John.
"Bullseye, right in the face." John answered a grin on his face. "Pay up." John held his hand out.
"Can you two collaborate that?" Aiden questioned Elizabeth and Kate.
"Yes." Elzabeth wasn't sure why it was so important, but she gave them the truth anyway.
"Yup right between the eyes." Kate added, grining.
"Damn." Both Aiden and Carson reached into their pockets and pulled out a candy bar each, handing them over to John.
"Great now you guys are betting on this." Rodney couldn't believe his own so called friends would do that to him. "Why must you all encourage this little rodent." That of course earned Rodney another spoon full of apple sauce to the head. The guys laughed right out at that, the ladies on the other hand were at least kind enough to try and hide their amusement.
"Alright, alright enough Rodney tourture." John took pitty on his friend. "Now for the reason I wanted all of you." John gave Elizabeth a pointed look, "here this morning is because I have some good news. Listen to this." John turned to face Kilik. "Kilik where are we?"
"Home!" Kilik spoke while hitting the table with the spoon once. For a moment the others froze, shocked to have actually heard sound of any kind come out of Kilik's mouth. Their shock only lasted a moment before they shook themselves out of it and started talking all at once.
"This is great!" "It's about time!" "When did he start talking?" "This is wonderful news." "Has he said any thing else?"
"He started last night after you left, Kate." John cut everyone off. "I was telling him about how he was staying here and that this was home now. Of course when he said it the first time he was more asleep than awake at the time and I was pretty out of it too, so I wasn't sure if I'd just imagined it. But then this morning he started saying it every few minutes almost like he was trying his voice out to see if he liked the whole talking thing. Home seems to be the only thing he'll say out loud at the moment though."
"That's ok, it's a start. Believe it or not one word is better than nothing and sooner or later that one word will lead to others." Kate assured John. Feeling Kilik tug on the sleeve of his shirt John turned his attention to his young charge.
'Done. Go play now?' Kilik signed while trying to get out of his chair. John picked the boy up and set him on the ground.
"You may be done but I'm not so stay in the mess hall where I can see you and be good." John gave Kilik permission to run around.
"Yeah, I don't need the kitchen staff mad at me again because you instigated another food fight like last week." Aiden added. Giving Aiden a 'Who Me?' look Kilik took off to go find something to play with.
"He started that?" Elizabeth nearly spit her coffee out all over Rodney.
"Wait Aiden you said you started it. If that's not the case then why did you just spend the last week going through hell on beaker duty?" John demanded to know.
When everything had been sorted out after the food fight Aiden had come out claiming sole responsiblity for starting the whole thing and as punishment John had assigned him the task of watching after the scientist - especially Rodney and Radek who loved setting the Lt. up with prime / not prime - as they explored various parts of the city.
"What? You don't actually think I would let him take the fall for it, he's just a kid." Aiden defended himself. "Besides in a way it was my fault I was supposed to be watching him after all."
"Kilik's not much of a perfect little angel now is he, John?" Elizabeth smirked looking at John.
Before John could answer Elizabeth a loud crash was heard shortly followed by some colorful language. Turning in the direction of the noise they all saw a small group of scientists sprawled out on the floor; their shoe laces all tied together and Kilik sitting under a nearby table attempting to look innocent, of course the cheekish grin on his face took away from the effect.
"More like a perfect little devil in disguse." Rodney huffed as the others got up from the table to go do some damage control.
A/N: Ok for the moment this is it for this story. Real life has decided to rear it's ugly little head and I'm not going to have access to a computer to write, but when I do get my hands on a computer again and I come up with some ideas (Feel free to leave suggestions) I will come back to this story, hopefully.