Once again, MAJOR beta credit to fififolle for all her kind help.
Also, some of the readers of the first chap had some pretty neat guesses. :)
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/\/ .. Silly and Stupid : Part II .. \/\
It's stupid, plain and simple.
There's no other word for it.
Of all the things I should be worrying about first when I gate back, I find myself mentally cringing at the sight of her rushing down the stairs.
It's not that I worry about her falling or tripping or something like that, Lizabeth's far too graceful for that to happen but...OK, yeah, I do worry about that as well, but anyway, what bothers me most is that she doesn't always wait for the gate to shut down first.
In a galaxy that seemingly tries to develop a new way to extinguish my genius every week, she goes and runs right down the flight of stairs that leads right to the doorway of the multiple dooms. We have defense teams that barely want to be next to the thing when we come back, and she actually sometimes gets ahead of them to greet us.
Now I'm all for her being the first thing I, we… see when we get back, but there was a reason the SGC had things called "blast doors". Just because someone sends back an IDC with no other words of caution doesn't mean there isn't something monumentally bad on our tails and … well it's stupid but I worry.
I really wonder sometimes whether I should actually talk to her about this habit of hers, I really do.
I sometimes almost work up the nerve to do it until I play it out in my head. I'll bumble through what I'm trying to say, she'll smile in that way she always does, I might go numb for a second because of the smile and then she'll convince me that she "can take care of herself" and I'll realize how stupid I was in bringing it up seeing how she is absolutely right because well… she can.
Stupid, dumb, dopey, they all fit. Still doesn't stop me from wishing there were a couple of blast doors between her and the gate though.
Or at the very least a banister.
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