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Korilian
Whirlwind-2005
leliana McKay
witches prose
I'd tweak it but realistically I have no time nor drive. My babies (plural as there are two of them) have the flu
this week and are allergic to the flu VAX. I'm to crazy to rewrite it.
Please let me know if you have any ideas or Sam/Rodney plot bunnies!
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Miriah aka Sam Carter-McKay
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Three more weeks passed by, Rodney McKay was on the mend and had been released from the
infirmary the week before. Yet Samantha Carter had yet to confront him with her news.
As of yesterday she had reached her 15th week and her pregnancy was now noticeable as she stood
nude in front of the mirror in her quarters. Her hand caressed the slight swell protruding from her
middle and for the first time it really hit her. She was someones mother. Until now she hadn't quite
decided what she was going to do. Gazing at her reflection now she realized how much she had
always wanted this. She was nearly 40, would she ever be able to have this again? Glancing at the
time she realized that it was still late enough to catch Rodney in his lab and likely he'd be alone.
She dressed quickly, throwing on a slightly lose black sweater and pulling her hair into an elastic.
Within minutes she was on her way out the door, not quite sure what she was doing, but knowing
it had to be done.
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Rodney McKay, at present was sitting in front of his laptop. His gaze was not set on the screen but
instead the blank space at the back of the room. Absent mindedly sipping at a cup of coffee that had
long ago lost it's heat, he sat deep in thought at the odd turn of events his life had taken lately. Who
needed hot alien women now, Katie Brown the quiet woman who had been a passing interest once
now had his attention in full. So rarely did he find a woman who looked past his faults, he wondered
if this was it. Did she really find him as fascinating as it seemed. Surely there had to be something to
drag this all down.
This thought led to another. His heated encounter in the the lab with Sam. Ever since it had happened
he had mixed feelings about it and she avoided him quite a bit these days, never seeing him longer
than necessary. She had even taken to not being available for anything as simple as lunch with the
most senior staff.
He wasn't sure what to feel about it all. He'd done what he always wanted to do with the beautiful and
brilliant blonde and at the same time he knew if they had been aware of everything it would have never
happened. And to top that off he was risking his relationship, a very promising relationship, with an
equally beautiful woman. But he couldn't bring himself to tell her, couldn't bring himself to mess
anything else up, he'd already lost enough friends in this lifetime.
The soft sounds of footsteps in the corridor outside the lab pulled him out of his thoughts. It was after
midnight, the only one ever in this lab that late was himself or Zelenka and he had gone nearly two
hours ago. The sound stopped right outside the door but before his line of sight and stayed stilled
for a few moments before he called out. " As fascinating as I am I'd prefer for you to enter, do whatever
it is you forgot and quit disturbing my few quiet and idiot free hours." Glancing toward the door he saw
Samantha Carter enter, a pained look across her face. She swallowed glanced around the room and
then spoke. " McKay, we need to, um... talk. Can we go somewhere? I really don't want this heard."
The look on her face told him everything he needed to know, she was finally ready to talk. He stood
and snapped the laptop screen shut. " Of course, what did you have in mind, because theres a quiet
balcony at the end of this level that's good for privacy." He strode across the room and out the door,
Sam followed him and for a few moments as they walked all was quiet save for the sounds of two sets
of footsteps in an otherwise empty hall. The door to the balcony slid open and they both stepped out
into the night.
Someone had placed a few chairs an a small table on the balcony and Sam took the liberty of seating
herself in one. She looked down and without raising her eyes to Rodney she whispered, "I'm so sorry.
I didn't know how to tell you..." A tear ran down her face and glancing up to his confused face she
finished. " I'm pregnant, 15 weeks."
His face suddenly colored with several looks, shock, horror, anger. When he finaly was able to speak
it was with a raised voice and slightly strangled tone. " Pregnant? 15 weeks pregnant? I'm just finding
out about this now? You can't be pregnant, I can't be a father, we don't even speak anymore, did we
ever speak before?" Her sudden sob and hiccup shut him up and he moved to stand next to her unsure
of what to do. He settled for putting his arm around her awkwardly in hopes that she would stop. He was
no good with women, even worse with crying women and twice as bad when it was his fault.
For the next several minutes they sat in an awkward silence. Sam's tears dried and she regained
composure somewhat. Rodney on the other hand was slowly driving himself mad, several scenarios
played out in his head, each one worse than the last. In the end he broke their silence and spoke.
" What do we do now?" Then another realization hit him," Oh god, Katie" The look of horror once again
on his face and again they didn't speak for a few moments.
" Rodney," Sam's voice was quiet, " This pregnancy, this baby is perfectly healthy and at my age I...
I think I want this baby Rodney." Her words made his gaze hold fiercely to her. " How could you think
I'd suggest otherwise? I... I know I can be difficult but..." He couldn't finish the sentence, he hadn't
even considered in the few minutes he'd known that he could ask her to not have her child, his child.
Though he could see why someone would assume he'd rather not have children. He'd never pretended
to like screaming, messy, sticky, needy, miniature people, But he'd always imagined if he ever did
have one that it would be much more tolerable.
" Rodney, I'm sorry. I was hoping it wasn't true but now that you know, I'm going to have to file the
paperwork, Theres a good chance that I'll be asked to step down because of the baby and because
of the incident. I can't imagine the IOA would let me have a child here in Atlantis. People are going
to find out, theres going to inquiries and I don't know what to say. I'm sorry."
Rodney shook his head at her. "Please don't apologize to me. If it was anyones fault it was mine,
who can resist me?" The joke fell flat but Sam still smiled anyway. "I don't know what to say about
any of this. We've never gotten along much, I'm not good with people."
Sam smiled again and looked into his eyes. " I was working in the lab last year, working on Merlin's
device to be able to bring large objects out of phase and long story short I pulled myself into a parallel
universe." He interrupted her, " Yes I think I heard about that, had some experience with an alternate
self myself recently." She nodded and continued. " I was the only survivor, my alternate was killed when
I came though. I spent two weeks there and eventually your alternate helped me get home. I've met
several versions of myself over the years and mostly I'm the same in any universe though in several I
was married to someone in the SGC. I had been married in this particular one, and this one was
different. In this one we were married Rodney, and after meeting him I can see why. You were the same
,forgive me, jerk I met all those years ago at the SGC but what was different was that you never joined
the program. You were so much like the Rodney McKay I've seen here in Atlantis. The one who sits at
the bedside of injured teammates, who fights for what he really believes, who has gained friends and
respect and a woman who loves him. I can understand how that universe played out."
"Pffft!" McKay's reaction nearly priceless. "Jerk?" ... "Married? Really? I didn't see that coming." A goofy
grin crossed his face. " Thank you for sharing that, I know that we don't do allot of talking, mostly fighting.
I'm competitive and well arrogant." Sam didn't argue that point. " McKay,... Rodney I don't expect anything,
and I have no idea what I'm going to decide about anything. I can't decide everything at once, but you
deserved to know and you deserve to make your own decisions, I won't force anything on you that you
don't want." He nodded and they sat there for what seemed like hours, each not speaking, only thinking
about the day ahead of them and what battles would be in store for them in the coming future. And not least
of all, how to break it to the beautiful redheaded woman McKay found himself loving.
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