Chapter 5

Soon after Rodney left Mel checking on Ike at the pier, he stormed into Weir's office. "Elizabeth, we have to do something about those two!"

She looked up from the report she was reading on her laptop. "Good afternoon, Rodney."

McKay flapped his hands around as he answered. "Yes, yes, good afternoon and all that. What are we going to do?"

Elizabeth smiled. "Who are you talking about Rodney?"

"Radek and Melody." He collapsed into the nearest chair.

"I see. And what do you propose that we do, and more importantly why."

Rodney looked surprised. "You surely know by now that they were married."

"Yes, Rodney. Melody took me into her confidence and revealed that personal fact to me. But it is between her and Radek."

"Not if it is affecting their work." Rodney said with a smug look on his face.

"And how is it affecting Atlantis?" Elizabeth sat back in her chair, wondering how far-fetched Rodney's proof was going to be.

"Zelenka nearly sent Sheppard's puddle jumper off course."

"But it was corrected in time?"

Rodney rolled his eyes. "Yes, but the point is that Mel is a distraction to him. And he could easily become a distraction for her."

"You are implying that they have some unfinished business?" Elizabeth was challenging him.

"Elizabeth, you didn't know Melody when she first came to Area 51. She's changed a lot over the last fifteen years. She was very dark back then."

"By dark you mean…."

Rodney looked up with a bleak look on his face. "She was very depressed and drinking a lot. She stopped drinking soon after she started at Area 51, but it took her years to shake the depression."

"I hate to get involved into the personal lives of Atlantis personnel."

Rodney smiled. "Let me handle that part."

"What are you planning?" Elizabeth was getting worried.

Rodney grinned. "You just leave that up to me."