For my sister who had an ass take off one of her cool bumper sticker.

"Rodney, for the last time, I'm busy."

"But Carson,"

"No Rodney." Carson turned back to what he was doing.

"You are a cruel man, Carson Keith Beckett."

Carson looked over at Rodney and smirked. "After all these years, you're just now realizing this?"

Rodney glared at the doctor from his perch on the bed. "No, I fully realized the depth of your cruelty when you said you needed to think about marrying me."

Carson again smirked from his spot on the opposite side of the room. "I did need to think about it. It would bring about some very big changes."

Rodney just stared. "Changes. At that point we had already been living together for a year. What changes are you talking about?"

"Well, it would mean that I was actually stuck with you forever," the Scot started.

"You already are stuck with me forever! Or did you forget the little detail about these Ancient bracelets?" Rodney asked as he raised his right arm, showing off the bracelet.

"I didn't forget. Little hard to when I can feel your every damned emotion through it."

Rodney grinned. He had forgotten that part; Carson usually kept his emotions more or less to himself since he had a little better control of the bracelet. Across the room Carson turned around and glared. "I'm still busy."

"Carson!"

"You could help you know."

"Really?" Rodney bounced up and was across the room in 1.2 seconds flat. "What do you want me to do?"

"You can wrap that up," Carson replied.

"Couldn't I just put it in a bag?"

"We don't have any bags, luv."

Rodney glared at the offending object. "Why did you give me the most difficult object to wrap?"

Carson looked over and then tossed over a box. "Here, the sooner you finish, the sooner we can get on to other things," he said with a slight glance towards his husband that promised more.

Rodney broke out into a huge grin and started wrapping with earnest. Carson just smiled and shook his head.

A few minutes later Rodney stated, "done!" and started crawling towards Carson.

"I just have to finish up this card," replied Carson, not looking up, but pausing in his writing at the emotion coming through his bracelet. He then decided to screw it and just signed his name as Rodney came up behind him and started placing kisses on his neck.

"Can I get that massage now?" asked Rodney.

"Aye, now you can get your massage."

Rodney crossed back over to the bed, talking of his shirt as we went. Carson just sat back and admired the sight before getting up himself. When he reached the bed, he straddled Rodney's legs and started his weekly massage.

"Oh, I've been looking forward to this all day," moaned Rodney as Carson dug into the tight muscles on his shoulders.

"Have you now?" Carson asked as he leaned down and placed a few kisses on the back of the man under him.

"Oh, yeah." Rodney moaned. "This is really nice. I love you."

Carson smiled. "I can tell. And I love you too."

"That's good. I would hope that you only give these massages to people you love."

"Only you, luv, only you," replied Carson as he started to end the massage.

"Hey!"

"I'll give you a full body massage later, luv. But we have to go to a baby shower," Carson reminded the now boneless Rodney.

"Ug. I still can't believe that John is reproducing."

"The little tyke has some chance, she's going to have Elizabeth as a mum."

"And us as uncles," Rodney stated as he sat up. "We'll be the best uncles."

"Considering we'll be her only uncles."

Rodney waved his hand in dismissal. "Details."

"I can't believe it took them this long to start having children."

"They didn't acknowledge these bracelets until almost a year after they got put on."

"They were pretty stubborn, weren't they?" asked Carson as started gathering the presents.

"Not like us," replied Rodney as he came up behind it soul mate and wrapped his arms around him.

"We lasted all of a week, didn't we?"

"You couldn't resist my good looks and charm," said Rodney.

"Actually, I couldn't stand feeling how horny you constantly were through the bracelet. Who would have guessed that it would get worse?" he teased as he turned around.

"You know what? It's been four years and I still don't know whether I should hate or thank the leader of that planet for putting these on us."

"I know I'll never forget the looks on everyone's face when you placed it on my wrist. Or the look on your face."

"I was a bit surprised when I saw you and you were glowing blue."

"You were surprised? You grabbed me and kissed me, again, I might add."

"Okay, the first time wasn't me,"

"I could tell after you kissed me that second time. Now that was a kiss."

"That's because I am a fantastic kisser," Rodney said before he demonstrated his skill. Rodney pulled the presents out of his husband's hands and started leading him towards the bed.

"We don't have time, luv," Carson mumbled between kisses.

"Uh, huh."

"Rodney? Carson? May I come in?" Teyla asked on the other side of the door, completely running the moment.

"Damnit," Rodney mumbled into Carson's neck.

Carson placed a kiss on the top of Rodney's head and went to answer the door. "Did I interrupt something?" Teyla asked upon seeing Carson's messed up appearance.

"Yes!" Rodney yelled from the bedroom.

"Come in. We were just getting ready to leave. Where's Ronan?"

"He is already there. He wanted to ask John a few questions about our next mission."

"But its not until after Elizabeth has the baby," Rodney said coming into the living room.

"He is trying to convince him to let us go without him."

Rodney snorted. "Like that would ever happen."

"When are you two going to start having children?" Teyla asked as they walked out the door.

Rodney stopped dead in his tracks. "Whoa."

Carson looked back with worry. That was not the reaction he would have liked.

"I think that's a little impossible," Rodney continued.

"Actually," Carson said, a little apprehensive. "In one of the lower medical labs we found something that could make it possible."

Rodney stared at his husband. "Why did you never tell me this before?"

"We haven't tested it yet. And it never came up."

Rodney just stared for a while longer before he started walking again. "We'll talk about this when we get home," he said as he walked past. "And I'm not mad, I still love you."

The baby shower went off without a hitch. Except most people there could tell that there was some tension between Carson and Rodney. And not the usual sexual kind.

"Rodney," Carson started as soon as they walked in the door.

"Don't want to talk about it right now." He grabbed the back of Carson's head and brought their lips together in a fiery kiss. He then started leading they back towards the bedroom where they finished what Teyla had interrupted earlier.

Later, while Rodney was draped across his soul mate's chest, he decided it was time to talk. "When I learned that these bracelets found a person's soul mate, I was excited. I could finally find the person who, for lack of a better phrase, is my better half. On the way back to the gate, I started imaging what our future could be like, living here on Atlantis, raising children."

"Rodney," interrupted Carson.

"No, let me finish. Even then, before we got back to the city, I was picturing this future with you." Rodney raised his head. "Even before I knew for certain that you would be in my future, I was picturing it with you, with the children we would have. They would have your smile and blue eyes," he said as he ran his hand down Carson's cheek. "That's why I couldn't resist kissing you when I saw that it really was you."

"Rodney," whispered the shocked Scot.

"I always thought that we could adopt, but now you tell me that we might be able to have one of our very own…"

Carson smiled. "When we found out what the technology could do, all I could see was wee little ones that had your mannerisms and your charming personality. I didn't want to bring it up in case it didn't work. We're still trying to figure out how exactly the process works."

"But once you figure it out?"

"You'll be one of the first to know."

"We should start looking for new quarters."

"We can start looking by John and Elizabeth's rooms. They think that was the family section."

"We'll look tomorrow after work," Rodney said as he snuggled back into Carson's arms.

"Love you."

"Love you too."