The mission that Sheppard's team had been called away on was a bust. The energy reading was from some sort of ionized material, not the ZPM that Rodney had been hoping for. He knew how badly they needed one but at the same time, as far as Rodney was concerned, it was a complete waste of his time to go running from one minor planet to another, just to find out that there was no ZPM, not when there was more important work that he could be doing. So after a shower, and some lunch Rodney found himself back in his lab.
Radek had been watching him. He had fully intended on talking to Rodney about the earlier incident that Sheppard had walked in on but one look at Rodney post mission and he knew that the scientist would be in no mood to talk. So he waited until Rodney had finished his lunch, grabbed his coffee and headed down to the lab. Radek knew that they would be alone there and he could, possibly get to the bottom of why Rodney had kissed him.
He entered the lab, to see Rodney running figures on the screen. This was nothing new, when they weren't on the hunt for ZPM's or fixing the various things that seem to break down in the city, there was a plethora of ancient tech that needed to be reconfigured, fixed or just figured out. Radek was no stranger to the fact that all of the scientists and the engineers really wished that the ancients had been better at writing instructions to the various things that they found in the city.
Radek stood by Rodney's desk, unsure how he should start. He was never one for romance and he had a string of broken relationships to prove it. At first Rodney was working and pretending that Zelenka wasn't right behind him, even as the scientist seemed to shift his weight from one foot to the other. Then he waited to see if Radek was actually going to say anything when that failed to happen, he turned around in his chair.
"I'm very busy. What do you want?" He tried to keep the scowl on his face but there was something in the Czech's eyes that made him stop, his own eyes softening.
Radek licked his suddenly dry lips, he knew that this was now or never. "I was just wondering..."
Rodney stood up, so that he was practically in the other man's space. For all his freaking out over their earlier kiss, he could see why he would have done it. Radek, despite all of the yelling and the belittling of the man's intelligence that Rodney did, the man was quite possibly one of the smartest men that Rodney had ever met. He could keep track of Rodney's thought processes most of the time. Before he could think and stop himself, Rodney grabbed Radek by the front of his shirt, pulling the other man impossibly closer and pressed his lips to the other man's.
Radek had opened his mouth to question Rodney's motives and that was when Rodney, before he could completely lose his nerve, ran his tongue along Radek's bottom lip before tangling their tongues together. The kiss ended as abruptly as it had started. Both men were flushed and breathing hard. Radek cocked an eyebrow. "Rodney, that was what.."
Before the sentence could be finished Rodney mumbled something and quickly left the lab. Radek sat on the empty bench, his fingers just brushing his kiss swollen lips. He was even more confused than before and no closer to finding any answers.