Title: Stages of Love
Fandom: Stargate: Atlantis
Genre: Romance
Rating: K+
Characters: McKay/Cadman
Disclaimer: I don't own Stargate, or McKay, unfortunately. Please don't sue.
Summary: The five stages of love for Rodney McKay and Laura Cadman.
Author's Note: This chapter takes place about…six months after the last one.
Chapter Four: Intimacy
Rodney wasn't quite sure when it had first began. He thinks it started when she had forgotten a tube of lipstick on the sink. Then a brush had arrived, followed by a shirt, then pajamas, and before he knew it she had her own drawer.
It wasn't just clothes and toiletries. As the months passed other things began mysteriously appearing. A blanket, a vase filled with flowers from the mainland, a picture frame.
He began to notice things appearing more and more frequently. They had never discussed moving in together(they rarely talked about anything involving defining their relationship) but he soon realized she had arrived with all of these things.
He tried to remember the last night she had not slept in his room. Even when he was offworld, when he came home he could tell she had been there. And the thing that surprised him the most was that he didn't mind. In fact, the touches of Laura to his room had turned what had been merely a place to sleep into a home.
Weary from the disaster that had been caused by the newest arrival to his Team of Incompetents, Rodney stepped into the room and was surprised by the smell of…roast beef? He eyed the small table for two set up in his living room, realizing that both plates had been untouched. Shifting his gaze to the bed, he saw her petite form sound asleep, her blonde hair spread out underneath her.
Stripping down to his boxers as quietly as he could, he pulled the blankets up and slid in, doing his best not to disturb her. Settling into what had become over the months "his side" of the bed, his arm instinctively fell over her waist. The action caused her to shift, throwing her arm over him as she snuggled into the crook of his arm.
Placing a light kiss on her head, I could live with this was the last thought in his head as he drifted off as well.
Harper's Pixie-LOL! Now every time I think of that scene I hear romantic music. :) That's been a scene I wanted to write for months now, I'm glad someone thought it was cute besides me.
Dwparsnip-Like I've said before, writing Rodney has been the most challenging thing about this story. Wait till you see the next chapter and the epilogue(especially the epilogue) though, totally new,fluffy Rodney hehe.