"Are you content now?" Rodney exquired in a highly unnerved way.

"Y-yes, thank you", Zelenka sighed knowing that one day he would pay for occupying this bit of his colleague's time.

But at least he was safe for the moment, since Dr Beckett returned just now and of course Rodney practically jumped at him trashing him with all the complaints he had to keep to himself for the past ten minutes.

Carson tried his best to stay calm while Rodney kept on wailing and complaining with no end in sight.

"All right, Rodney. Are you finished now?", no reaction, just an angry glare. Carson thought for a moment, then started anew:

"How about having some dinner?"

"Dinner?" Rodney nearly sprang into the air, his eyes suddenly glowing in a craving way, practically screaming out the word FOOD, "Let's go, I'm hungry. Haven't eaten for..."

"Half an hour?" Carson retorted.

"Right", he spun around at Zelenka having picked up his strange gaze, "What are you staring at? That's a really long time for a pitiable, always misunderstood genius like me. My brain needs carbs unlike your tiny lump of gray cells..."

Radek rolled his eyes skyward and turned away muttering some curses in Czech.

"Ignorant small-brained nit", McKay growled to himself. He pulled Carson's sleeve and dragged him out of the lab heading for the cafeteria.

xxxxx

About fifteen minutes after he had begun to eat Rodney had already emptied a big plate of pasta and was now lamenting about the dessert.

"Carson, why the heck, must they decide to serve the rest of lemon ice-cream just tonight while I'm about to starve? Don't they know that I die a painful death as soon as I touch it?"

Carson groaned, "Well, your not the only person who needs food, here and..."

"But I'm the most important one! When I starve to death, you'll all have a serious problem."

"All right. But I don't really think that skipping dessert once would kill you."

"You have no idea", McKay began, but that moment John Sheppard stopped at the table followed by Lieutenant Ford.

(AN: Show time!)

"Hey you two, enjoying the dessert as much as I do?", he shot Rodney a playful glance, "Mjum, lemon ice-cream. I really love it."

Slowly McKay's face became fire red, "Shush, will you?" he fumed.

But the major did not stop, "Of course I know you've got that nasty allergy and would rather prefer chocolate ice-cream..."

"How prudent of you. And now you can finally admit that you've stockpiled all the remaining chocolate bars you could get..."

"Have I?" he turned to Ford.

"Well, Sir", Aidan smirked, "I'd say you have."

"Yeah", Sheppard grinned, "you could say I've made it Rodney-safe."

"Oh, you", Rodney jumped up ready to beat the major. That moment Ford took out a polaroid camera and shot a picture. As soon as it came out he handed it to Sheppard who help it up high into the air so that McKay was not able to snatch it from him.

"Give me that", he called desperately jumping up and down like a little kid.

Now Dr Weir showed up not able to conceal the rather bright smile on her face. "Well, Major, I wouldn't say that this is very nice of you. She took the photo from him and looked at it, quietly whistling through her teeth, "That's funny, really, going to get a copy."

"Yeah, yeah, extraordinarily funny", Rodney retorted, still sour, "How dare you conspiring against me?"

"It's that you've just been too greedy concerning our chocolate supplies", she explained with a slight grin, "But you know what?"

"What?" he yelled.

"For we were fearing that you would beat us up when you'd get to know, we girls have made something for you."

An instant later Teyla came in carry a tray on which sat a kind of huge chocolate cake.

"So this is why the cocoa powder was gone", Carson pondered.

"Yes", Teyla confirmed, "sorry I could not tell you the true reason, for we feared you would tell Dr McKay..."

"Very friendly", he sighed, "and that with me..."

Rodney was equally pissed, "You are an unbearable pack of cunning creeps, daring to deceive me like this...", he took a handful of the cake and threw it right into Weir's face, the next portion he took landed on Major Sheppard who found this really funny:

"Food fight!" he shouted loudly and all of a sudden hell broke lose in the cafeteria and those present began throwing the valuable food resources through the room and at each other.

Meanwhile Rodney licked the remnants of chocolate cake from his fingers. "Good, really", he contently said to himself.

Quietly he lifted the tray and sneaked away to a remote part of the city where he could leisurely feast over his prey.

xx Fin xx

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