Anita didn't get the chance to tell the other two all of the details about the night before. Fate seemed to be stopping her. Well, only if fate's name happened to be Rodney McKay.
It seemed like every time she got around to telling Danielle and Genna what had happened, Rodney would have somebody come get Danielle. Genna didn't want to hear the news without her, so they would decided to meet up at a different time. After the fifth time, Genna suggested that it was intentional.
"I highly doubt that. It's just very inconvenient. Do you want to meet up in another hour?"
"Yes. Come to my room. You guys can help me get ready for my date!"
"That outta be fun!"
"Rodney! Do you realize that that is the fifth time you have interrupted our meeting?" She slapped the desk he was sitting at, causing him to jump and look up at her.
"Really? I have the worst timing." He shook his head. "Oh well."
"Are you doing this on purpose? Is there something you don't want us to find out?" She gave him an evil glare, insinuating that if it happened to be bad, she would personally kick his ass.
"NO! It's just that this is a very important project!" He insisted, pointing toward the project in question.
"Building a Star Wars Lego set is not important!"
"That's not it! It's what we're going to do with the ships!"
"What would that be?" She put her hand on her hip and looked at him with a slightly less evil glare. Slightly.
"We're going to test the new transporting device on them!" She paused to think about it. The device it's self was important. However, the techs hadn't even got to that point yet, they were still working on the Legos. She voiced her thoughts.
"True. But I need your help tweaking it."
"We fixed it the last time you called me back. What happened?"
"A few of the Techs started a fight over who got to build the biggest one. They knocked my desk and it fell off." She sighed and sat down. A few minutes later, a message was delivered, telling her of the next get together. She sighed and looked at her watch. She still had forty-five minutes of hell to endure.
They all sat in Genna's room, Anita was telling about her date (FINALLY!) and the other two were listening.
"When he told me goodnight he kissed me!" Her news was met with squeals of delight.
"He kissed you? Surprising!" Danielle poked her in the arm playfully, only to receive a slightly less playful one in return.
"Very! It was wonderful though. The perfect ending to the perfect date!" She sighed, thinking about it again.
"How sweet! I hope my date goes just as good!" Genna finished brushing her hair and turned toward her friends. Since her hair curled naturally, add her beautiful auburn color and there wasn't much that she couldn't do with it.
Today it hung down naturally, framing her face in the front. She was wearing a blue t-shirt and a pair of cut off shorts. (A accident off world had ruined the right pant leg, so she cut them off to make shorts.)
They gave her a big bear hug as she left. She walked to the jumper bay to meet John.
He waited in anticipation. He wanted to make a good impression. He knew that Rodney had already taken Anita to the beach and Genna knew about it. He decided on a different spot than Rodney had. Very few people actually knew about it. It was a little island off the shore of the mainland.
He caught sight of her walking down the hallway. As always, the sight of her astounded him. He noticed her shorts and laughed. He remembered being panicked that day when he saw her come through the gate, one pants leg chewed off by something with red saliva. He had thought that she was hurt and had rushed to her side.
She smiled as she reached him, slightly nervous that he was laughing. She gave him a questioning look and he pointed at her shorts. That was all that needed to be said. They headed off to Jumper 1 and toward their destination.
"John, this is beautiful!" the water at the edge of the beach was crystal clear. She could see all of the strange fish that swam by. He sat out a blanket and they sat down.
"So John, what is your master plan for this date?"
Genna giggled as he gave her a grin and said, "Wait and see." He jumped up and went back to the jumper, bringing back a basket and a bag.
"This," he said, holding up the basket. "is dinner. This however," he held up the bag, "is fun."
"What do you mean by 'fun'?" He pulled the bag open and dumped a bunch of beach toys on the sand. She couldn't help but laugh. It was incredibly simple, but incredibly sweet at the same time.
"How in the world did you convince the Deaudelus to bring these back?"
"I do believe that it was a few of the scientists and group of Marines. The ganged up on a few of the crew. In the end, they brought back more than enough to spare." He sat down beside of her and picked up a long wall shaped mold.
"Bet you that I can make a better castle." She laughed even harder at this. She grabbed the other wall mold.
"You're on."
An hour later Genna let out a triumphant "FINISHED!"
"Took you long enough." She looked behind her to see John standing triumphantly over a beautiful castle. He had finished at least thirty minutes before she had. His castle looked exactly like what you would think a castle would look like back in its hay day. She had to admit, she was impressed.
"Looks good, too bad it can't beat mine." she stepped sideways and he smiled. Her castle was ten times better than his was. It was covered in multi-colored shells and leaves. She had made a real drawbridge and everything. He walked up closer and looked inside of it, only to find that she had a miniature courtyard on the inside.
"All too true. How did you manage to do that in an hour?"
"I'm just good that way. What do you want to do now?" He gave it a moments thought before he replied in a cocky voice.
"I want a rematch."
"Really? Okay, what do you want to build now?"
"You pick this time."
"I can do that. I think we had better step it up a notch. Best modal of Atlantis wins." He gave her this baffled look but quickly accepted the challenge.
Two wins and three losses later Genna was exhausted. They had taken a break during one of the contests to eat dinner and were now looking at the stars. They talked about everything and then again, nothing at all.
"So, did you have a boyfriend back in your reality?" This question caught her off guard. She had expected him to ask, but she had not expected it to be then. She looked over at him and then back at the stars.
"No. He broke it off with me a few days before we came here. He said that I was to into my work and didn't pay enough attention to him. In normal words, I didn't fit into his busy schedule the way he wanted me to. That's okay though, he didn't have much of a sense of humor." She gave a giggle that slowly turned into a laugh. John just smiled.
"What about you? Did you have someone before you came here?"
"No. I didn't want anything serious at the time. So I decided to stay away from the serious ones. The problem was, those were the ones I managed to keep getting myself into. I broke it off because I didn't want her to get the wrong idea." She looked over at him and gave a smile.
"Where does that leave me?" He looked at her, startled.
"We made it to the second date didn't we? I say you have got wonderful odds." she gave him a small kiss on the cheek.
"Good." They quietly decided to end that discussion. They went on to talk of other things well into the night.
It was late by the time that they made it back to Atlantis. It was still busy as always, but just a little less noisy.
They chatted pleasantly as he walked her back to her room. She was having such a good time talking to him that she hardly noticed when they reached her door.
"I had such a great time tonight John. Thanks."
"Your very much welcome. Thank you for coming." He gave her one of his trademark smiles, which happen to be contagious.
"You only need to ask. Goodnight John."
"Goodnight." He leaned down and kissed her. She was so happy that she had to remind herself to kiss him back. She was more than a little disappointed when he pulled away.
"Sweet dreams Genna. See you tomorrow." He walked away toward the transporter. What she could not see however, was that when he was inside, he yelled "YES!"
She shut her door and took a deep breath. He had kissed her. She danced around her room as she got ready for bed. She lay down, but after ten minutes, she realized that she wasn't a bit sleepy.
Jumping up she ran to Danielle's room. She rushed in, and was happy to find that Danielle wasn't sleeping well either. However, she was disappointed upon finding that Danielle refused to get up out of her warm bed.
"DANIELLE! Come on," She pulled the covers off of the bed. Danielle shrieked.
"Give that back you vile, wicked woman!" She jumped up out of the bed and began to chase Genna around the room. She didn't even notice as Genna led her out of her room.
Danielle managed to get a hold of one end of the blanket, not to far from Anita's room. "You let go! It's MINE! PLEASE! I'm cold!"
"No way hosay." She was shocked when Danielle sat on her end of the blanket.
"I'm not going to move until you give me my blanket!" Genna giggled and shook her head. Danielle gave a annoyed "FINE!" but stayed in her spot.
This didn't phase Genna any. She jerked her end of the blanket and began walking down the hallway, dragging Danielle behind her. Danielle gave another shriek as she toppled backwards. When she popped her head, she saw the people who were watching from their doorways, and quickly ducked her head back down.
"Genna Marie you can count on getting your ass kicked when we get... hey where are we going?" Her question was quickly answered when they turned the corner to Anita's room.
They came to a halt just inside of her door. Danielle hopped up and launched herself at Genna, causing them to topple onto Anita's bed. Danielle began to tickle Genna, making her squeal.
"THE HELL?" Came a voice from under the covers. Anita poked her head above her covers to find her two friends have a tickle match on her legs. She gave them a hard push, sending them off the edge of the bed. She smiled as she heard the thumps and groans, and then snuggled back into her covers.
Her comfort was interrupted as she was attacked by the two most annoying tickle monsters in the universe, make that two universes. This, however, woke her up.
"What do you want?" She said stressing the last word.
"I've got details!" Genna announce happily, bouncing on the bed.
"OH! SPILL!"
"Well he took me to the beach..." And so the recounting began. It was met with giggles, shrieks, and sighs. Needless to say, none of them got that much sleep that night.
A/N: I am so sorry for the delay! I was having some computer problems. This is my longest chapter yet! Yay! So what do you think? Review!
