Title: Brief Encounters.
Rating: K.
Spoilers: None.
Pairings: Lindsey Novak/Radek Zelenka.
Summary: Lindsey and Radek meet in an airport terminal.
Disclaimer: I do not own any characters I just borrow them.
Authors Notes: This is for Falcon Horus who wanted a story with Lindsey Novak.
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Doctor Lindsey Novak was bored, her connecting flight to America had been delayed and she was stuck in the terminal at London's Heathrow airport. She got up and headed towards the newspaper stand to see what else they had that she could read. She saw a copy of New Scientist that would do, she had heard that there was an interesting article on quantum physics. She was searching her bag as she reached over to pick it up just as someone else reached for it; she grabbed his hand instead of the magazine.
"Oh goodness, I...I'm sorry, I...I 'hic'...oh not again" she breathed deeply and tried to speak again
"Um... if you let go of my hand you could pick up that copy and I will take the one underneath," said the man. Lindsey blushed as she dropped his hand.
"Oh God I...'hic'...I'm sorry" she breathed in again and picked up the magazine "Thank you, I'm not usually like this...'hic'...oh who am I kidding". She paid for her magazine, left the stand and then went to get a bottle of water. When she got back to her seat she found the man from the newspaper stand sitting in the next seat, she sat down and hiccupped
"Have you tried water?" said the man
"I've tried everything, water, holding my breath, sudden shock, even hypnosis but nothing works" she replied
"I have an idea, it's something my grandmother used to do for my sister when she got hiccups," he said. Lindsey looked a little worried
"Don't worry it won't hurt" he said, smiling. He has nice green eyes behind those glasses thought Lindsey; she wondered if he ever wore contacts, she felt her face redden again.
"My...'hic'...name is Lindsey...'hic'...oh give me a break" she said,
"Mine is Radek" he said, he picked the water bottle from her bag and unscrewed the top "please put your fingers in you ears" she looked at him.
"You're kidding" she said, he shook his head
"It works, believe me" he replied,
"At this point I'm willing to try anything," she said smiling; she had a very pretty smile Radek thought and pretty blue eyes too. Lindsey did as she was asked and put her fingers in her ears; he pinched her nose and raised the water bottle to her lips, her eyes widened in alarm.
"Drink" he said, she took a large gulp and swallowed it down "and again", she took another large swig and some of it spilled down her top, she took her fingers out of her ears and began to wipe the water from her shirt.
"Well that was one of the most unusual hiccup cures I've ever had," she said with a giggle,
"Don't laugh too much, that's how my sister gets hiccups" Radek replied
"With me its nerves, some people shake, some people throw up, I get hiccups it's really embarrassing," she said. They carried on talking for a while until they heard a flight call came over the loud speaker
"Delayed flight UA-884 to Denver is now boarding at Gate 10," said the voice
"Oh damn that's my flight, it's been a pleasure meeting you Radek...unusual but a pleasure" she said with a grin
"Flight CZ-593 to Prague is now boarding at Gate 4," said the voice again
"And there is my flight, it was a pleasure to meet you too," he said with a sigh, life wasn't fair, she was going to Colorado just as he was leaving "and I'm glad my cure worked for you". Lindsey tilted her head on one side and realised she hadn't hiccupped once.
"Oh, wow you did didn't you, thank your grandmother for me" she said. As she picked up her bag, she thought life wasn't fair, he was going to Prague just as she was leaving to go back to Colorado. She smiled sadly
"Goodbye Radek" she said
"Goodbye Lindsey" he replied.
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That hiccup cure does work; I use it on my daughter. Thanks for the reviews and suggestions, keep 'em coming.