McKay woke up, still aching, in the infirmary. The second Weir had seen them, she'd sent him, Sheppard and all the unconscious people to the infirmary and he'd fallen asleep instantly. Now he searched for the source that had woken him up. He could hear Sheppard, Beckett, Weir and Lorne talking, the usual culprits to waking him up, except Lorne, Lorne wasn't usually there. McKay tuned into the conversation.
"… explained how you ended up in Beckett's Jumper from trying to get McKay off a tree?" It was Lorne talking.
Apparently he'd joined the Wake McKay Up Whenever He's In The Infirmary club.
"Basically, I went over to the edge of the cliff, a dart arrived, got McKay, so I shot it down. The stupid thing managed to crash a long way from the cliff. I used a vine to get down the cliff, got half way to McKay only to see more darts shooting at something, Beckett's Jumper then appeared, was shot a few more times, then hit the edge of the cliff and cartwheeled out of my sight. I finally got to the dart and let McKay out of the buffer, he eventually woke up, he set the scanner to look for Ancient tech, we found the Jumper, McKay sort of fixed it and I flew it through the gate," Sheppard explained.
"You flew it through the gate backwards," Weir corrected him.
"Yeah, the engines failed."
McKay scowled at that.
"That was some damn good flying to get through the gate with the engines down," pointed out Lorne.
McKay scowled some more.
"It was incredibly stupid!" grumbled McKay opening his eyes and glaring at the lot of them.
Beckett walked over to him.
"Ahh, Rodney, how are you feeling?" he asked.
"Grumpy and irritated at being woken up!" snapped McKay.
"Same as usual then," put in Sheppard.
"Well I was telling the truth! That little Jumper stunt was incredibly stupid and nearly got us killed!"
"It worked though," shrugged Sheppard.
"That Jumper wasn't even fit to be flown! It had been shot and cartwheeled to the ground!" exclaimed McKay crossly.
"That was bloody scary, that was," muttered Beckett.
"It still worked," repeated Sheppard.
"I don't care if it worked! Flying a damaged Jumper was bad enough but when the engines failed, we should have landed straight away! But, no! I told you to land it but you just had to rush into things and try to get through the gate! I dialled it for , or you probably would have done it yourself! Next thing I know you quite casually announce that we're headed to the gate sideways! You spin the ship again and then tell me that we're going through the gate backwards! That was stupid! I wouldn't have complained so much if we'd at least gone through forwards!" complained McKay, taking a breath.
Everyone was staring at him.
"You finished?" asked Sheppard.
"No, I am not finished, Colonel! I'm never going to let you forget that stupid stunt!" grunted McKay.
"I'm never going to let you forget that stunt when you first woke up from being in that darts buffer," retorted Sheppard, smirking like an idiot.
He's not seriously going to tell them, is he? thought McKay, glaring at Sheppard.
"What did he do?" Weir wanted to know.
Sheppard's smirk grew to a grin. He was going to tell them.
"Well, you see, he'd just woken up, but I didn't know he was awake, so…"
"Shut up," hissed McKay.
Sheppard ignored him completely.
"…I went over to him to find out if he was waking up yet, and next thing I know he's catapulted himself off the ground and straight at me, knocking me into a tree. I then saw him take out him gun, point it in my general direction, then blink in surprise and put it away again. I asked him what he was doing and apparently he thought I was a wraith," Sheppard told them.
McKay gritted his teeth and looked up at Weir Lorne and Beckett, the three of them were definitely trying not to laugh.
McKay glared at Sheppard; oh he was going to pay for that…