I hear a 'whap' then someone say, "Ow, that hurt."

"Well you deserved it."

"No I didn't. Now shut up, you're gonna wake her."

"So are you."

"Shut up, geek."

"You first, soldier boy."

"No you."

"No you."

"Do I have to separate you two?" I ask, opening my eyes and looking to see Marc on my left and Logan on my right. Ok, so I won't need to actually separate them but you get the point.

"Great now you woke her up."

"No you did."

"No you did."

I sigh and pinch the bridge of my nose. I may have to bribe someone to give me duct tape so I can shut them up. "What are you guys doing here anyways?" I ask before the fight can reduce their maturity even further.

"Same as you. Sick." Logan replies, sneezing.

"With what?"

"Apparently some kind of flu, at least that's what Carson says." Marc comments, putting his hands behind his head. "You guys must have picked it up when you were on the mainland and brought it back with you. So far everyone who was there is sick."

"If that's true then how did you guys get sick?" I ask, raising an eyebrow.

"Maria gave it me."

"From you."

Gee, I feel so special. I'm about to say so when Carson come walking in and smiles saying, "Glad to see you up, lass."

"Are they always like this?" I ask.

Carson smiles and says, "They're almost as bad as Rodney and John."

"Hey, I resent that."

"Me too."

I just shake my head and wonder what I did to deserve this. "I get extra ice cream for this, right?" I ask while Carson just smiles.

"I take it that you're feeling better Evan." Carson says, making some notes on his clipboard.

"Evan? Who's Evan?" I wonder, trying to think who's here that could be an Evan.

"A bit." Marc replies, clearing his throat.

"An' how about you Logan?"

"The same."

"An' you Max?"

"Still a bit foggy." I admit.

"Good, good. I'll keep you here for a few more days, then release you." Carson says, making some final notes on his clipboard. "Now you two behave."

"Or what? No ice cream?" Logan asks, sniffing.

"I'll give it to Max." Carson says walking away with a grin.

Logan shoots daggers at Carson's back and I smirk. Hey, there's gotta be some reward for not killing them.

"So, first name's Evan huh?" I say to Mar-I mean Evan.

"Yea. A mix up on my records switched my first and middle name. It didn't get noticed until after everything had been processed and they've never changed it. Everyone knows that my name is really Evan but for some odd reason they continue to call me Marcus, although everyone's starting to call me Evan more." Evan says, reclining his head on his pillow.

"Why didn't you tell me? I've been calling you Marc all this time."

He shrugs and says, "Dunno, never thought about it."

"Whatever." I reply yawning. Right now I just want to curl up with the biggest, softest pillow I can find and sleep for a week. How I can still feel so sleepy is beyond me but at the moment I'm not gonna fight with it.

Closing my eyes I shift around until I feel comfortable and start drifting off to Logan and Evan arguing. I sigh, it's gonna be a long two days.

-If I leaned and tried to kiss you Would I be wrong, after so long to kiss you Would you pretend, we're only friends, If I kissed you…-

It's evening and I've got the munchies. Since the cafeteria is closed by now I'll have to sneak into the kitchen itself and raid the freezer. I hope that they have double chocolate chunk cookie dough ice cream. I throw a grey hoodie over my pj top; I don't think people want to see a worn out Oscar the Grouch, and slip into my blue sandals. Since it's late, the hallways are empty and I make good time to the kitchen. I test the cafeteria doors to see if they're locked and find that they're not. So I enter through those and make my way to where the kitchen is. After feeling around for the light panel and turning it on, I begin my midnight raid. I quietly hunt around for a bowl and spoon.

It takes a while and several averted crashes but I find the items and set them on a table. I then go into the freezer and, after making sure I don't lock myself in, hunt around for the ice cream. I finally find it; it's in the back and hidden behind a package of frozen peas. I brush the ice crystals off of the package and look to see what kind it is. It's Rocky Road. Not double chocolate chunk cookie dough, but it's a close second. I then make my way out of the freezer and take the lid off. There's over a half left. I pick up the spoon and start to scoop it into the bowl.

"I never thought you for a Rocky Road kind of girl." I hear Alex say behind me.

Whoops, busted. I turn around and give her a guilty smile. "Sorry." I say, sheepishly.

Alex smiles and sets a bowl and spoon down across from me while saying, "That's ok, just leave me some."

"Ok." I say, adding one last scoop to my bowl. I slide the container towards her and after catching it, she begins to scoop the rest out. After she's done Alex throws the container out, heads into the pantry, and brings out whipped cream, cherries and butterscotch syrup. "Want some?" She asks, setting the stuff down.

I shake my head and say, "No thanks, I like mine plain."

"Suit yourself." Alex says, adding the toppings to her ice cream. When she's finished she asks, "Get any packages from home?"

I shrug and say, "Not yet. I'm hoping that when the Daedalus gets back in a few weeks it'll have stuff from Christmas."

"Me too. Too bad you weren't able to go home, although I did hear something about what Logan did for you." She says, smiling.

I feel myself start to blush. "It was nice for Logan to do that for me, but he also got the kids and Laura to come along." I say, swirling my spoon around my melting Rocky Road.

"Only after you mentioned something. If I didn't know any better I'd say that Logan has a crush on you."

"What?" I ask, looking at Alex like she belongs in a nice padded room. "We're just friends. And I have a boyfriend back on Earth."

"And how many times has he written you?" she asks, raising an eyebrow.

I'm silent for a minute and suddenly find my ice cream very interesting. "None." I mumble, poking at my late night snack.

"I'm sorry I didn't hear you."

"None, ok? He hasn't written me one single time. But doesn't mean anything, alright? He's busy with his construction and other things. He simply might not have time to write."

"Uh-huh." Alex says, unconvinced by my arguments. She moves her stool closer to me and says, "Take it from one who's been cheated on, sweetie. If he doesn't do what he says he'll do, he's most likely chasing skirt."

"He's not like that." I say, defending my boyfriend. "He loves me."

"They all say that they do honey. And half the time they don't mean it."

"Well he does."

"Whatever." Alex says and I know that the subject's dropped.

We sit in silence for a bit until I remember what I've been meaning to ask Alex. "I was wondering if you could tell me something." I say, picking out a chunk of chocolate and eating it.

"It depends on what it is."

"Well, you've been here a while and know everyone pretty well."

"And this has to do about..."

"About the McKay's and Beckett's."

"What about them?"

"Well the first day of school Elizabeth, Rodney, Laura, and Carson ran into each other and if looks could kill Rodney would've been dead five times over, judging by the way Laura was glaring at him. Carson hardly said anything and was really formal with Rodney while he keeps insisting that I call him Carson."

"And you want to know why the death glares from Laura?" Alex asks before I can. I nod my head and she sighs. "I guess that you'd have to know eventually. It's something that we really don't talk openly about. It's a touchy subject for all four of them."

Ok, now that's got my attention. "Go on, what went on between them?" I ask, wanting the full scoop.

"Well during the second year of the expedition Laura and Rodney got stuck inside the same body."

I raise my eyebrows at that. That's one mission report I haven't read. "How did that happen?" I ask.

"Something involved with a Wraith Dart, the beaming technology, and shooting the Dart down. I don't know the specifics; it was before I came here. But anyways, they were able to separate the two and Laura and Carson began to date shortly after that. What she didn't tell him was that she was seeing Rodney at the same time."

"No." I say in a 'you've got to be kidding me' tone.

"Yup." Alex says, nodding her head. "And then she finds out she's pregnant and Carson thinks that it's his. He asks her to marry him and she agrees because she knows that she's really in love with Carson and she has no idea whose kid it really is. So she breaks up with Rodney and he takes it pretty hard. They get married and Stuart's born. Life goes along for a bit then at his first birthday party Elizabeth comments on how Stuart looks a bit like Rodney. By this time Rodney's gotten over Laura dumping him and has started to see Elizabeth.

Laura panics but keeps her cool and passes off some joke. Then she goes off world for the first time since getting pregnant and they get ambushed by the Genii. She gets wounded and when she's recovering, she thinks that Carson is Rodney and lets it slip that she has no idea who Stuart's father really is. Carson doesn't know what to think so one day he decided to do a paternity test and finds out that Rodney is really Stuart's father. He's pissed beyond all reason and goes to confront Rodney about this. He and Rodney get into an argument and Carson breaks Rodney's nose because Rodney keeps denying it. Laura tries to stop Carson but he leaves her and she gets really depressed. But they get back together. Later on down the road, Rodney talks to Laura about Stuart and finds out that to him, he's 'Uncle Rodney'. Rodney's never forgiven Laura for the 'Uncle Rodney' bit, Carson isn't over the fact that Rodney was seeing Laura the same time he was, and Laura's pissed at Rodney for not letting the whole thing go."

"So Stuart has no idea that Rodney's his father and that Kelly and Patrick are his half-siblings?"

"None what so ever."

"Wow. And I thought my family was messed up." I say.

Alex nods her head and says, "I know what you mean. Nothing puts your family into perspective like that."

Well, hey now I know why Rodney hardly picks the kids up. I put my spoon in my empty bowl, having finished my ice cream during Alex's story. I then stand and so does Alex. "Thanks for telling me." I say as she reaches for my bowl.

"No problem. Just don't let them know that I told you what happened."

"Don't worry, I won't." I say, crossing my heart with a finger. I start to yawn and realize that I'm ready to knock out for the night. "I'll see you later." I say, covering another yawn.

Alex smiles and says, "Will do."

I then exit into the hallways and make my way to my room. I head straight into my room and flop down onto my bed. I take off the sweatshirt and toss it onto the floor; I'll pick it up later. I can't help but wonder what might happen if they're forced to deal with what happened.

A/N: Would you believe that there was a completly different beginning to the first half of the chapter? 'Cause it's true, but after reading it I found it way too shippy and decided to get rid of all the shippiness and throw in a little Lorne/Logan bitchiness to appease Reefgirl (she's gonna want to kill me later on, I might have to go into hiding for my own protection). I finally caved and switched to the cannon name for Lorne (I had this written out long before they chose a name for him). The second half was a very very quick summary of 'Dark Secret' (go read it if you haven't). SGA belongs to MGM/Wright-Cooper, Alex and Maria belong to Reefgirl, Logan belongs to James Cameron and I own whatever's left (which isn't much when you think about it).Thanks to the three reviewiers for the last chapter (aka Reefgirl, nwfairy, and Nenya). I want you -points finger at reader- to review.