A/N: Standard disclaimers apply. R&R.

Hello little boys, little toys We're the dreams you're believing Crawling up the walls
Running down your face Razor sharp, razor clean Feel the weapon's sensation
On your back With loaded guns Now hold onto me pretty baby If you want to fly…

Max tapped her feet to the beat of the music as she finished entering grades into her grade book. Setting the pen down, she glanced at her watch and saw that it had been a little more than an hour and a half since they had become "stuck" on the mainland. Standing up, she stretched and started to gather up all her stuff.

Slinging her bag onto her shoulders she walked outside and saw that the sun was starting to set. As she walked to where they'd be staying for the night, Max couldn't help but smile at her surroundings. She felt that despite the fact that they were in a different galaxy and were next to Atlantis, the settlement could be any small town in Mid-Western America; something that Max missed terribly.

Sure she was from the suburbs, but she had spent her summers on a ranch in North Dakota so she knew what wide open spaces were like. Max had loved the feeling of the wind whipping around her when she was on the back of her uncle's bike. And it was little things like this that made her homesick for her family and Earth, but then she saw things like the Stargate and the Puddle Jumpers and the feeling was gone.

Reaching the tent, she walking in and stopped; eyebrows rising. There was only one sleeping bag to be found.

"Ok, this is going to be interesting." Max thought as she slowly walked in.

"Hey, you're here." Evan said, coming in behind Max. "Just get here?"

Max turned around and bit back a smile. Evan's uniform was covered with dirt and grass stains and he had bits of leaf and twig stuck in his hair. Nodding she said, "I thought that there were at least two sleeping bags in the Jumper."

"Whoever used one of 'em last time didn't put it back." Evan stated.

Max raised an eyebrow, a silent question being asked. She wasn't entirely sure that this wasn't some lame attempt by Evan to get into bed with her. Max wasn't stupid, she knew about Evan's reputation.

"Honestly, they're not there." Evan said.

"Then you won't mind if I take it then, will you?" Max commented, taking off her bag and setting it on the ground.

"Not if I'm in it as well." Evan replied, grinning.

"I highly doubt that." Max said, laughing and playfully hitting Evan. "So," she said looking straight at Evan, "are we finally gonna have that date or what?"

"Well I'd like to have the date, considering I went to all this trouble to get us on the mainland for the night." Evan said, moving in to kiss her but she stopped him, holding up a hand in front of his chest.

"Clean up first, I don't want to kiss a tree from 'The Wizard of Oz'." Max teased.

"Oh c'mon, I'm not that bad." Evan said, moving closer to Max.

Max pushed him away and laughed. "Yes you are. If you went into the woods now you'd blend in perfectly."

"Well that was the idea." Evan quipped, as Max moved towards the door.

Max paused at the threshold and turned back towards Evan. "I'll be waiting." She said, smiling. Max then walked around the corner of the tent and disappeared.

Evan stood still for a few moments, smiling.

They were finally gonna have that date.