Here are the results of the best man job poll:
For the bachelor party: Carson:2, Aiden:11, Rodney:0
To stand with John: Carson:6, Aiden:2, Rodney:5
Give the speech: Carson:5, Aiden:0, Rodney:8
Once breakfast was over Elizabeth decided to make a quick run to the SGC to make sure everything was going ok in Atlantis. Since both Elizabeth and John along with a majority of the senior staff were all taking some long over due vacation time it had been decided that someone with similar command experience would take of command until Elizabeth got back. Elizabeth knew that Atlantis was in good hands and it wasn't that she didn't trust General O'Neill – who had jumped at the chance to get away from the all bureaucrats and off world for awhile – but Atlantis was her city.
"Ok who's first?" John asked, holding out his hand in a fist with three straws in it. The guys had decided it would probably be a good idea to get back to the whole best man issues.
"I will, I guess." Aiden stepped forward, hesitantly picking a straw. Seeing that it was the long one he let out a relieved sigh a smile grin forming on his face. He could handle the bachelor party, no problem.
Looking a bit nervous Carson went next. Picking the medium straw Carson had a similar reaction as Aiden had, had. He much rather would have done the bachelor party, but he could stand with John at the wedding. With a look of horror on his face Rodney took the last straw already knowing he was doomed.
"You guys cheated some how!" Rodney accused the others." I demand a redo!"
"Sorry lad, but you lost fair and square." Carson stated refusing to give into Rodney's demands.
"Oh come on, this is me we're talking about here. Do you really think this is really such a good idea? I mean do you really want me to be the one to give the speech?" The last part was directed at John.
"Uh…you know maybe we should rethink this." John didn't like all the possible scenarios of what could happen if Rodney gave the speech that were flashing through his head.
"Sorry sir, but like that doc said, Rodney lost fair and square." Aiden, Carson right behind him, replied, moving towards the door hoping to make a quick retreat. Realizing that the two were trying to make a break for it Rodney was right on their heels all the way out the door, trying to get one of them to trade him jobs.
'You always did have a talent for picking odd ball friends.' Alexis signed as she passed John, shaking her head in a silent chuckle.
'You're one to be talking.' John shot back. 'Or have you forgotten about Axle's kung-fu chicken act?'
'Ok so there's Axle –'
"And Aimee, and Max, and Ashley, and –"
'Alright you've made your point, my friends are just as odd as yours.'
'Thank you. And now that we're on the topic how's everybody back home doing?'
'Everybody's doing well. Mr. and Mrs. Jenson miss you and can't wait to come down for the wedding to see you.' Kendra Jenson and her husband Mark had been the ones to take Alexis in while John was doing his service in the Air Force. Their son Mike and John had been best friends growing up and the Jenson's were like a second family to John and Alexis. 'Of course Mike couldn't stop laughing when he found out that you Mr.-I've-never-had-a-girl-friend-for-more-than-a-week were finally tying the knot.'
The two spent the rest of the morning catching up with each other. Alexis told John all about how things were going back home with school, with her friends, and anything else she could think to tell him. John told Alexis all about everyone else he'd met since going to Atlantis – although he left out the actual Atlantis part.
Later that afternoon Elizabeth arrived home to find the house eerily quiet. Worried about what kind of trouble John might have gotten himself into Elizabeth started searching around the house trying to find John and/or Alexis. Walking past the sliding door that led out back Elizabeth paused for a moment taking in the scene in front of her, before opening the door and stepping out side. There was John and Alexis sparing.
Both had a set of fighting sticks – Elizabeth figured John had brought them with him from Atlantis – and were busy concentrating on each other, completely ignoring Elizabeth. The backyard was filled with the sound of wood against wood and wood against flesh – mostly John's flesh Elizabeth noted amused.
The two were circling each other waiting for the other to make the first move. Finally John getting impatient made the first move. He Arced one of his fighting sticks around at waist level, almost clipping Alexis' stomach before she spun out of the way bringing one of her fighting sticks around to connect forcefully with both of John's, pushing them aside and using the other to smack at the back of one of John's knees. Already off balance John easily went down when Alexis used a leg to sweep john of his feet.
"Damn it! It's bad enough I'm always getting my ass kicked by Teyla, but know I'm getting my ass kicked by my sister, my baby sister at that." John laid on his back panting. Elizabeth couldn't help that laugh that escaped as she moved over to help him up, only to find herself being pulled down into John's lap. "You think that's funny, do you?" john attempted to tickle Elizabeth but was stopped when she distracted him by pulling him in for a kiss.
"Is this what you guys have been up to all day?" Elizabeth questioned pulling back from John's lips, before the kiss could get too heated – there was child present after all.
'Naw, first we got Rodney, Aiden, and Carson all sorted out about who would do what best man job. Then we chatted for awhile, then we started doing this cause we were both bored.' Alexis answered.
"So neither of you has had lunch yet?" Alexis and John shook their heads no. "Good neither have I, we can go out to eat." And that's exactly what the three did.
A/N: Ok my next few updates may not be for awhile. I seem to have slammed head first into a wall of writer's block. It took me three days just to get this chapter figured out and I'll be honest I'm not really all that happy with it, but I couldn't seem to come up with anything better and I didn't want to keep you all waiting too long. But know I'm out of ideas.