So How Did I Meet Your Mom Again?21

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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 enjoy some well-deserved drama!

Alex had sat on her bed with her mouth hanging open for nearly two minutes, before Rodney could take it no longer.

"Lexi?" He asked tentatively. "Are you ok?"

Her head snapped in his direction with a glare. "How long have you known?" She demanded.

"Since the mission." Rodney said confused. Did she not catch that part?

"No. I mean, that I was the mother. How long have you known?"

Rodney shifted his weight uncomfortably. "Uh, a little over a week after the mission."

He could see she was thinking back to what else had happened around then. Her eyes got wide. "That day in the gate room! You and Col. Sheppard were acting so bizarre! That's when you knew?" Something else seemed to dawn on her. "Wait, if Col. Sheppard knows, who else does?"

"Errr…that would be, lets see here, uh, Carson, and Elizabeth. Oh and probably Teyla and Ronan too, although no one told them, I'm sure they figured it out once we started dating."

Her eyes filled with hurt now. "That's what this whole thing was? The dating, all of it, because you needed to have a child with me?"

"NO!" Rodney shouted, afraid she might draw this conclusion. "If you remember back to when we first started hanging out, it was before I knew you were the mother. I would have asked you out eventually. Finding out about Isabel just made me do it sooner."

"Isabel? Is that the name of our daughter?" She asked distantly. Rodney was in front of her in an instant.

"I love you Lexi. I would have loved you no matter what. But as you probably figured out, I'm not so good with the ladies." He said blushing slightly. "The only thing the situation with Isabel did, was give me the confidence to ask you out."

"But you were really cheating."

Rodney had no idea what she was talking about.

"You knew that we would work out when you started this. I didn't know that! I had to go through all the doubts and fears while you were just kicking back cause you knew we'd eventually work out!" She said angrily. "How could you not have told me! Didn't I, of all people, deserve to know?"

Rodney stood ramrod straight as he too was filled with anger. " 'Kicking back?' Do you have any idea how nervous I was? You don't think it was harder for me to ask you out, knowing that it would one day result in a kid?" He looked at her astonished.

"I wouldn't know how it feels, Rodney. No one bothered to tell me!"

"Lexi," he started, reasonably. "I love you. And I know you love me or you wouldn't have said 'yes' tonight. So we know that we have a kid in under a year, so what? Lots of couples plan it like that. And so we were one of the few couples that had a daughter before we even started dating, but it's not like we both didn't have to try really hard to make us work. If you remember correctly, there was a time when you were so afraid we wouldn't work, that you broke up with me." He took her hands. "I don't see how this new information changes anything. More than anything, I want to spend the rest of my life with you." He finished softly.

He could see the turbulence in her eyes when she looked back up him. "I need some time, Rodney." And slowly pulled her hands out of his.

Rodney nodded slowly and left, praying this was just another hurdle they had to get over.

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Rodney was staring off into space in his lab, when a hand on his shoulder brought him out of it. He turned and saw the one person he had not been expecting to see: Lexi. She hadn't talked to him for three days. Three days in which he was a nervous wreck, terrified she was going to dump him.

Quietly she asked, "Can we talk?"

Rodney's heart filled with dread as he led her to his office.

"I've been giving this whole situation a lot of thought and I think I've reached a conclusion." Rodney couldn't breathe. "I think…I think you were right, about us. I look at you, and I can see the love the love in your eyes. And I know that you're not manipulative enough to have orchestrated this whole thing because of some strange desire to have a kid with me. Mostly because I know you don't like kids." She said with a small smile. Rodney released the breath he'd been holding. "I guess what I'm saying is, I don't want to give up on us. It's going to take some time to get used to the idea of having a kid, since I wasn't planning on it for a few years if ever, but I'll get there, eventually. Most of all though, I want us to be okay again. And I think I can manage that on one condition."

Rodney smiled, relieved. "Anything."

"Good," she smiled back, "Cause I'd like to meet my daughter."

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Author's note: I know this is a really short chapter, but I wanted to see if everyone was okay with the approach I was taking before continuing. I want Alex to meet Isabel. I have the perfect meeting planned, just waiting to see how you guys liked this chapter.