A/N: Time for your regulary scheduled update...

Part 3

One eye was kept on the surrounding area and the other focused on manipulating the ID scanner that controlled who was let in and out of the weapons store room. Their Visitors passes Head Quarters had issued them worked for the elevator, but not for more secure scanners. The little red light kept going off, irritating Lennon to no end. Once the green light lit up, she slipped in the door, ready to let out one hell of a scream. Walking into a two-part worthy situation was not supposed to be happening.

"Charlie!" She yelled into her radio's mouthpiece.

"Can't talk right now."

"You want to hear this."

"Shh!"

"Don't shush me!"

She listened and got nothing but static, worrying her even more than she already was. Were they in trouble?

Rather than search the room in the dark, she fiddled the wall for a light switch. The lights revealed shelves of cases, and upon further inspection, dust. Lots and lots of dust.

"Ugh…haven't they heard of Pledge?" Setting aside worry, she started to open cases in search of the snake-like zats, and ooed and ahhed over the other weapons she found, wondering if she could smuggle a few out. But then she got to the case of C4 explosive and started flailing her arms around in excitement and started making plans to swing by and pick up the whole case before they left.

The zats were along the back wall and she shoved two in her bag for her teammates before really inspecting them. With the right grip, she got it to unfurl and get ready to fire.

"So what were you gonna say?"

"About time, Charlie, what the hell happened?"

"It's a little hectic down here. There are people running around like mad."

"Yeah, when the Gate is charging up to explode, that tends to happen."

"How do you know that?"

"A little birdie told me… erm… McKay."

"Lenny!"

"Yes, Madge?"

"You talked to a canon?"

Lennon gaped, stammered, and froze in shock. The next sound coming out of her mouth was a sharp yell as a pain erupted in her left leg.

"Ow! Damn it!" She immediately reached down and saw an arrow protruding out of her calf. Her eyes followed behind her, catching sight of a fluffy pink bunny. It was sitting on its haunches, still holding the bow in its front two paws, ears folded back along its head, bright dewy black eyes, and a red arrow quiver on its back in between white feathery wings.

If it wasn't for the evil glare in its eyes, it would have been rather cute.

Not having to think about it, Lennon shot it with the zat and continued to swear worse than a sailor as she yanked the red arrow out.

"Lenny!"

"What's going on?"

She eyed the heart-shaped arrowhead and with disgust shot the little pink bunny two more times, vaporizing it. "I just got SHOT by a ship-bunny is what's going on! I'm getting out of here, grabbing some C4 and leaving!"

"That's a little drastic, don't you think?" Madison's eye rolling practically came through the radio.

"No it's not! I do not want, no, I refuse to be shipped with anyone! Not gonna happen. No way. Especially by a fluff bunny!"

"It wears off by itself if the ship isn't completed. Just don't touch anyone for the next few hours."

"Least not me. I like you and everything, but I don't want to find myself in a maintenance room making out with you."

"Thanks for sounding so concerned, especially you Madge. You know as well as I do a slash bunny is needed for that. Did I mention I got shot in the leg with an arrow? I'm not going to be able to climb out of here."

"Ship arrows don't penetrate much."

"But they hurt."

"I know, I'll take a look at it when we get there. Did you kill the bunny?"

"Yes I killed it, what did you think, I was going to cuddle with it?"

Madison expanded on her question, "With a zat or…"

"Zatted and vaporized. I'm still in the weapons store room." Her head started to get fuzzy. "Oh no… it's starting… I need some water." She dug in her pack.

"Fuzzy? Blurry? Want someone to love? Etc?"

"Yeah. I'm going to wipe out every stupid ship bunny in every stupid little fandom with my bare hands! They take perfectly happy canons and make them love-sick little puppy dogs, pairing them with any and everything! It ain't happening to me, nuh uh! And now I'm even out of water!"

"Lenny!"

She ignored Charlotte, "What a day! Didn't HQ know about the crisis here before they sent us out? It's one thing to stroll into a fandom in between stories, but this!"

"Listen, Geek!"

"What?"

"Stay there. We'll meet you in a few minutes."

"Oh, no. I can't stay in this dusty room dehydrating."

Madison offered, "We'll bring you some water."

"There could be another vicious little ship bunny lurking, including of the smut variety." She started walking around, checking under shelves and in corners for any more.

"You're already shot, and you knew this was a possibility coming in here."

"I'd prefer not to get shot again and as for the risk, yeah I knew about it, but a fluff bunny hasn't snuck up on me before! They're worse than horror bunnies, at least you get ominous music with those! I'd take a horror bunny over a ship bunny any day!"

"Don't leave that room. You could bump into someone, and then where would we be?"

"We? I'm the one who'd be shipped with some random person!"

"Deep breaths, we'll be right there, and don't move. I'll make it an order, you hear me?"

"I'm not deaf, I'm almost shipped!" She ripped off her headset, stuffed the zat in the back of her waistband covered by the blue uniform shirt and left the room fuming and vexed.

Though she was careful not to touch anyone, the effects of the arrow affecting her emotions and drew her to people, also causing her to walk with a slightly-off gait because of the wound. Before she knew it, she was down a floor and in the mess hall, grabbing a mug of coffee, glass of water, and a bagel.

No one gave her a second glance, and she thanked the uniform for that. Eyeing a place to sit, she spied McKay sitting quite alone, absorbed in some files.

Smirking, she strolled over and plopped on the chair in front of him. "Hi, Rodney."

"Mallory! Uh… what are you doing here?" He looked around the room as if deciding if it was all a joke.

"No 'hi, how you've been? Nice to see you again?' " She took a long gulp of her water.

"It'd have to be nice for me to say that."

"Be that way, no wonder you're sitting by yourself."

"I have work to do." He hastily opened a file and lowered his eyes to it.

Lennon started on her coffee and bagel, "Shouldn't you work in a lab or an office?"

"Here's fine." He kept his eyes glued to the paper and gestured to the room, "I can concentrate pretty much anywhere."

She looked down at what he was reading and noticed she could read it perfectly, "Is that why that's upside down?"

Rodney's face turned bright red and he slammed the file shut. "Why are you following me?" He crossed his arms expectantly.

"I am not following you, I was thirsty."

"Right. That's it. And you just happened to walk by the infirmary. You knew I was going there. I told you at the gas station."

"Aren't you full of yourself."

"When one's a genius…"

"Why can't you figure out this problem with the Gate then?"

"All in time, as they say."

"You don't have time though."

"There's still hours." He opened the file folder and started reading again.

"What's that?" Curiosity got the best of her and she reached for it.

"No, no," he slapped her hand away, "you don't have clearance for…"

Lennon pulled her hand back, rubbing where he touched it. "Oh no."

His eyes locked with hers and they stared.

"I gotta go." She launched up and left him staring, clearly feeling the effects.

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"She left her pack?" Charlotte half-exclaimed.

Madison kicked it with her foot, "The only other time she did that was at Langly's."

Charlie smacked her forehead, "Oh crap, she really did get shot by a shipper bunny."
"And Langly was all her own willpower, Lenny on a shipper bunny's effects…" Madge trailed off.

"Is not going to be good. We need to find her and keep her away from people for the next couple hours."

"What if she's made skin-skin contact?"

"We'll have to scrub the mission and drag her out of here. Stun her if we have to." Charlotte knelt and pulled out a zat from Lennon's bag.

"This has gone from bad to worse." Madison commented as she thought about her teammate's whereabouts. "She might be in the mess hall."

"Check in out and do a sweep of that floor, I'll stay here in case she decides to follow orders and come back. The door will be closed, so radio me."

Madison shook her head, "I can't believe she left the door open."

"Ship bunnies are notorious for affecting judgment. Never expected one to be in here. Probably a scout."

"The infirmary is close by, a favorite place for them to strike."

Charlotte nodded, "Good point."

"Thanks. Be right back with our lost geek." Madison quietly slipped out of the weapons store room, turned the corner, and ran into a man in a close-fitting army green tee shirt and slightly lighter pants. She stumbled, but he caught her and lifted her back to her feet.

Her face flushed with embarrassment, she looked up at the man, still locked in his arms.

"Are you alright?" He moved his hands to her arms.

"Yes…" She smiled and took him in, it couldn't have been who she thought… Jonas… something…

"Good." He stepped back and gave a huge smile as he held out his hand, "Hi, I'm Jonas Quinn."

"Quinn? Really?"

"Is that a problem or…"

"No, I knew someone with that name."

"Really? I suppose names could carry over to other societies considering the Goa'uld spread humanity through the Galaxy." He gave her one of those smiles again and she felt like she was the one hit by the arrow.

"Right. I really need to be going." She pointed down the hall as much as she didn't want to, but she was getting worried for her teammate.

"Wait, you didn't tell me your name."

She grinned, hoping she looked put together, "It's Madison. Madison… Frohike."

"Until we run into each other again."

"Or I run into you." She smiled and continued on her way.

At the elevators, she waited for them to open, and when they did, a frazzled looking Lennon stepped out.

"Lenny! You look…something you ate disagree with you?"

"No." They started back to the store room. "There are just too many people around."

"Hence Charlie ordering you to stay put. Man are you in trouble." Madison almost hit her lightly in the arm, but stopped even though a ship needed skin-skin contact.

"Blame it on the craziness induced by possible ship."

"That excuse isn't going to hold out for long."

"We'll see." Lennon swallowed, hoping she'd be able to keep the ship a secret, she didn't want to have to scrub the mission.

A/N: Jonas Quinn sequence inspired by Elizabeth Bartlett's review... just couldn't resist.

Ship bunnies, pure evil. Seriously.

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