So How Did I Meet Your Mom Again?11

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Summary: When the team discovers McKay's future daughter living with their trading partners, the search is on for the mother because his daughter will have to be conceived in 16 months or cease to exist. No pressure, right?

Rating: PG for language.

Warnings: Possibly some adult situations or at least ideas.

Category: Friendship/Romance/Humor

Author note: Let's see what Alex is thinking, shall we?

Alex was pissed off. She wasn't sure what had gotten into Col. Sheppard or Rodney McKay, but ever since that awkward not-conversation in the gate room the day before, both had been acting psychotic in her opinion. The Col. would just keep grinning at her as if he knew something she didn't and it was unnerving her. Rodney on the other hand had suddenly developed the worst case of nerves she had ever seen, apparently overnight.

Just passing him in the hallways would often cause him to walk into things or people, and he was suddenly so tongue-tied when she tried to talk to him about his bizarre behavior, he would stutter out a sentence that made no sense and practically flee when he realized what he had said. It was damn frustrating.

So far, they were the only two people on base acting weird towards her, although she had seen Beckett staring at her when he thought she hadn't been looking, so she didn't think the base was playing a practical joke on her or anything. But still, it was enough for her to decide to confront Col. Sheppard, since she couldn't understand Rodney's ramblings.

She waited outside the room he was stick-fighting in, until he came out sweaty and another man went in to train.

"Col. Sheppard? Do you have a minute?" She asked politely.

The instant he laid eyes on her, the same infuriating grin broke out on his face and he replied, "Sure Lt. What can I do for you today?" as he began to slowly walk down the corridor.

"Well, sir. The thing is, you and Dr. McKay have been acting, well, weird around me the last two days and I was wondering if it was something I did?"

"Who knows," said Sheppard flippantly, "Maybe we're acting weird cause of something you're going to do."

"Sir?" Had she missed something here or had that made no sense whatsoever?

"I'm sorry, Lt. It's just that you remind me of someone I guess. I'm not sure what Rodney's problem is, but I'll be sure to talk to him about it." He promised.

Alex nodded her thanks, made her excuses and left. It can only get better from here on out, right?

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"Rodney!" John yelled. The astrophysicist turned to look at him before ignoring him completely. "We gotta talk Rodney."

"Bout what?" Rodney asked surly.

"Alex came to see me today about you."

Rodney suddenly focused all his attention on his friend. "She did? What did she say?"

"That you're acting weird! This is not the way to court a girl. You're making her feel paranoid and wary instead of taken with you. You need to snap out of it buddy!"

"Oh, like you're any better with your stupid grin all the time. Kettle, meet pot. Could you be any more obvious?" Rodney said scathingly.

John sighed. He knew this wouldn't be easy. "Look, we have a mission tomorrow that I'm going to assign her to later today. Get over whatever it is that has you so uptight or you're going to lose her forever." John gave him one last look before leaving.

Easy for him to say.

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P4763 was a very damp world. The MALP reported it rained every afternoon very heavily for about an hour and every visible surface was covered in green. The planet was mostly trees and grass, but thick vines and moss covered the ground so completely that the landscape looked like just varying shades of green.

Col. Sheppard surveyed his team, taking in Rodney's pasty appearance. Is it really that hard for him to talk to a girl? He wondered. He'd never seen a man get so worked up just to talk to a girl before. Taylor was standing as far away from McKay as possible, probably tired of his stuttering and nervous looks. Well that won't do.

"Ronan, Teyla take point. Taylor, you're with McKay. I'll watch our six. Move out."

John stayed far enough behind Taylor and McKay that they could talk quietly and he wouldn't be able to hear, figuring they'd talk easier without an audience. The planet was supposed to be uninhabited, and the only reason they were there was to do a quick check of some ruins about half a days walk from the gate to make sure they weren't Ancient in design. It was an easy, time-consuming mission that John had volunteered his team for, hoping it would give the two lovebirds a chance to talk. Lovebirds. Yeah right!

McKay kept his eyes glued to the life signs detector for the first hour and tried to look like he was concentrating deeply so he would have a reason not to talk. Taylor didn't seem to mind. Rodney tripped, but Taylor's quick reflexes caught his arm and pulled him upright before he even realized what had happened.

"You okay there McKay?" She asked and Rodney couldn't help but wince at her sudden use of his last name.

"Fine." He mumbled.

Alex frowned. "Well, maybe if you were paying a little closer attention to your surroundings instead of that damn device, you wouldn't have tripped at all." She said hoping for a reaction from him. Whatever was going through Rodney's head right now, she knew anger would overtake it.

Rodney was about to retort with something about it being her job to pay attention for him when her foot suddenly caught on a vine and sent her catapulting forwards. Rodney acted on instinct, dropping the LSD and jumping forwards to catch her in his arms, seconds from hitting the ground.

They both froze, realizing exactly how close they both were, looking each other straight in the eye for a change. Alex broke the moment first, when she slowly got her feet under her and backed away, murmuring a quick thanks to Rodney. He still had a deep look of shock on his face at what he done. Then, suddenly, without warning, Alex started to laugh.

McKay was confused for a moment until he remembered the last thing she had said before almost taking a header because she had been focused on him, and he too started to laugh. The tension between the two suddenly disappeared like it had never been. They were both so happy to be on normal speaking terms again, that they were both extra polite and considerate of the other so as not to risk it.

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John almost barked out a laugh of his own as Rodney took her forearm and helped her over a vine, as if the ground wasn't covered in them. At least they're communicating now he thought as Alex teased him about her being able to walk over vines on her own without difficulty until she met him. John smiled. There's hope for you yet Rodney.

Just as Rodney had suspected, the ruins were a bust, but the rest of the trip was not. He was now able to speak to Lexi again without fear of impending fatherhood immediately overwhelming his head. He still wasn't able to ask her on a date, but given another week or so of their flirting and he thought he might just have the courage to. No, not a bust at all.

Author's note: Aren't they sweet? Awwww.