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Chapter 3:
Previously
Elizabeth: "...apparently I'm into someone entirely different..."
John: "I had a sex dream about Elizabeth."
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After ten seconds of silence and nothing but blinking from Rodney, John started to get uncomfortable. He shifted in his seat and scratched the back of his neck nervously.
"Come on Rodney, say something."
Rodney blinked again.
...and again.
"Rodney..." John said warningly before taking in his companion's pale complexion. "McKay, you alright? Don't go fainting on me now."
Rodney's eyes snapped to John's, "I'm okay," Rodney whispered hoarsely, "I think I just threw up a little in my mouth, but apart from that-"
"Rodney!" John groaned before slumping back on to his stool.
"THAT IS THE MOST DISGUSTING THING I HAVE EVER HEARD...EVER!" Rodney started typing furiously on his laptop. "Oh my God...I think I need a bucket." Rodney covered his mouth.
John narrowed his eyes. "You better not be insulting Elizabeth here, because I'm sure loads of guys have had a couple of dreams about a certain leader-"
Rodney waved his hand dismissively. "Oh please, I've been partial to one or two dreams about her myself," John eyes went wide as he shuddered at the thought, "but that's different, I'm me and you're...you."
John frowned. "And?"
Rodney sighed. "I would never act on any dream, I mean, Elizabeth is an exquisite example of the female species but she's not my type and-"
"You wouldn't stand a chance with her?" John attempted to fill in with a friendly smirk.
Rodney nodded reluctantly. "Mmmm, fortunately I know that she would let me down so gently I wouldn't even know it was happening."
John smiled wistfully. Elizabeth never hurt people's feelings when she could help it, Radek had attempted to ask her out on more than one occasion and every time she had managed to make him leave the conversation happier than when he arrived...while still not accepting his invitation.
"But you!" Rodney waved his finger accusingly, "You wouldn't ask her on a date, you would just trap her with your flyboy smile, psychotic hair and care-free attitude and BAM!" John jumped slightly as Rodney slapped his hands right in front of his face. "She's just another girl on your long list of Pegasus conquests!" Rodney sighed with disappointment and looked John up and down in disgust. "You and your web of lies."
John frowned in confusion. "Okay, first of all, what web? You know how I feel about bugs and second of all, I have no list and Elizabeth isn't some..."John struggled to find the word.
"Chaya?" Rodney filled in.
"Exactly. No, wait, no examples, she's no-"
"Teer?" Rodney smirked.
John stood up slowly from his seat. "Rodney, I am trying to have a serious conversation about my feelings for-"
"Mara?" Rodney crossed his arms and grinned in triumph, before going wide-eyed. "Wait a moment, you have actual feelings for-"
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"-John. You have feelings for John." Teyla repeated.
Elizabeth sighed inwardly with impatience. After leaving the mess hall, Elizabeth went in search of someone she knew she could trust, having feelings for your military commanding officer was just not normal and Elizabeth felt she needed convincing she wasn't crazy. Therefore, she went in search of Teyla and found her in the gym. Elizabeth and Teyla had sat on the window bench, for the past hour, discussing this and that, before Elizabeth had built up the courage to confess her recent discovery.
But apparently after ten minutes, Teyla still couldn't come to terms with Elizabeth's announcement to her. "Yep, got it in one." Elizabeth assured her in embarrassment.
Teyla nodded slowly. "May I ask why?"
Why? What kind of question is that? "Er..."
Teyla smiled reassuringly, "I apologise, but I merely wonder what brought up these feelings, I was always under the impression you and John were friends but nothing more."
Elizabeth shrugged. "Well, I guess it is similar to your predicament with Ronan."
"Elizabeth!" Teyla hissed, "You promised you would not mention that to anyone."
Elizabeth looked at her in amusement. "Not even you? Teyla, you're the one who told me you liked him...and anyway, while we're on the subject," Elizabeth smirked. "Are you gonna do anything about your feelings for him, like, I don't know, tell him!"
"Do you plan to tell John?" Teyla raised her eyebrow.
Shoulda seen that one coming Elizabeth. "Point taken." Elizabeth lent back, resting her head on the window, closed her eyes and exhaled deeply. The day had started off crappy and it didn't seem to be getting any better.
Teyla laid a comforting hand on her friend's arm. "These feelings have only just surfaced?" Elizabeth nodded. "And you are not sure how truly strong they are?" Elizabeth shook her head and looked down. "Then I believe that, until you are certain of how you feel, you should allow things to continue as they always have. Do not risk your friendship over feelings you do not completely understand."
Elizabeth grinned at Teyla. "You're right, of course." Teyla Emmagen, Queen of Logic, what would I do without this woman.
Elizabeth smiled her thanks and got up to leave before being stopped at the door by Teyla's voice once again.
"But, Elizabeth," Elizabeth turned around to face her. "If you come to the realisation that your feelings for John run deep and true, then you have no other choice but to express them to him."
Elizabeth smiled softly and reached for the door panel. Yeah, that ain't gonna happen. "Sure, and thanks Teyla."
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John picked up Rodney's device and watched it glow an even brighter blue.
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING?" Rodney screamed at him, causing John to nearly drop the device. Rodney grabbed it of off him. "I turn my back for two seconds and you're playing with these sensitive pieces of equipment - something I specifically told you not to do! Is behaving like an adult that difficult?"
"I'm sorry Rodney!" John whined. "But I'm bored out of my mind!!"
"No!" Rodney proceeded to move his Ancient technology devices on to a different lab table out of John's reach. "It's your day off and you usually spend it with Elizabeth, but you're too scared to spend time with her because apparently you have feelings for her! So you've spent the whole day in my lab, cause you are frightened to bump into the woman, and scarred me for life but announcing that your feelings are so strong that you had a sex dream!!" John opened his mouth to defend himself. "No, don't even deny it! It is 9o'clock, 2100 hours whatever, and I am so unbelievably close to hurting you! So, please I beg of you, just LEAVE!!" Rodney scowled before storming into a separate section of his lab. John watched Rodney leave in shock, before narrowing his eyes; Rodney was literally a ticking time bomb. The man would go off at any time. It was as John mused about that, he then realised that McKay's two assistants were staring intently at him.
John tried to shrug casually. "Ah, what can I say, I've got the hots for Liz Davies, you know...er, blode, into biochemistry, totally my type." The assistants continued to stare, John feigned a yawn and looked at his watch. "Wow, McKay was right, huh 2100 hours, way past my bed time...you're doing a great job, you guys, but I'm...going to go." John made a hasty exit.
Elizabeth and John both collapsed on to their beds, both completely worn out by the amount of emotional sharing they did today. None of them were particularly the kind of people who would talk in depth about their feelings. Sure, Elizabeth was happy to help other people to offload their emotional baggage, but the other way round, hell no.
All either of them could hope for was a nice, peaceful, dreamless sleep, but as this was the City of Atlantis, both of them knew it couldn't be that easy, could it.
TBC... Please tell me what you think. xx Kit