For those of you trying to follow along…
1st chapter: Rodney's Really Bad Days (RRBD) chapter #45 "No Good Deed Goes Unpunished"
2nd chapter: John's Really Bad Days (JRBD) chapter #14 "Rodney's Revenge"
3rd chapter: RRBD chapter #51 "Buttons"
4th chapter: JRBD chapter #19 "Monkey Madness"
5th chapter: RRBD chapter #58 "Buttons Returns"
6th chapter: JRBD chapter #21 "The Revenge Of Buttons"
7th chapter: RRBD chapter #61 "Stuck In The Middle" (The Funk Begins...)
8th chapter: JRBD chapter #25 "Funky Week 1:Monday"
9th chapter: RRBD chapter #63 "Funky Week 2: Monday/Tuesday"
10th chapter: JRBD chapter #28 "Funky Week 3: Wednesday"
11th chapter RRBD chapter #64 "Funky Week 4:Thursday"
E. Nagrom - Yeah, I didn't want to make it easy to get rid of the smell. I was definitely going for cute pompom monkeys, myself.
Debbie418uk2 - I was going for cute, but I was also going for awkward with the in heat thing. LOL Well, I see your 'Funky Week 4: Thursday' and raise you 'Funky Week 5: Sunday'. I left off with no one knowing what happened to the Daedalus, so I'm looking forward to where you go with this one.
Snow'sLuckyCat - Huh, I didn't even think of the green eyes like John/Elizabeth, or blue eyes like Rodney/Carter. That was completely random. LOL, thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed the little jokes. Well, if Lizzie wants to go get sprayed by some angry monkeys on one world, she's welcome to go see the monkeys on another world. I think she'd get a kick out of the pictures, though. I was going for funny, but at the same time, the three sleeping monkeys would be adorable. A chance for John to be John and not only impress the girls of Atlantis with the cute pic, but make fun of Rodney with the other one.
x Varda x - Yeah, that's why I put it like that, to stick with the incoming supply of solvent and lemon on the Daedalus.
Puddle-Jumper38 - Don't worry about it. I did the same thing and hit the 'add story to favorites' button by accident, then went 'what the…?' when it told me the story was already added to favorites. LOL!
Jasminesmommy - They….should. LOL. It depends on how Debbie418uk2 goes with her chapter. LOL
Yes, I did skip a couple days. ;)
Thank you all for sticking with this and I'm glad you like the chapters. Sorry for the late update, I had my wisdom teeth out Monday, so I'm only now beginning to get back to feeling like me again after wards.
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(John's POV)
Stalking down the hall, I was determined to ignore the whispers and looks on peoples' faces. You'd think after a week, they'd have gotten used to it, but we were pretty much banished from the lunch room after what we pulled after the skunk fiasco on the Mainland. At least, during regular meal times. I guess it was kind of nice for Elizabeth to let Rodney and me know when we had the lunch room to ourselves, and all the extra coffee was a bonus.
"Colonel."
Turning, I nodded to Rodney as he trotted over, and gave a small smile. "How's it going?"
He rolled his eyes. "How's it going?? It's going terrible! They've kicked me out of my own lab! Me!! Out of my lab!" Sulking as he walked, Rodney suddenly seemed to brighten momentarily. "Wait, what day is it?"
Counting on my fingers, I sighed. "Well, lets see… Monday we got insulted left, right and center by our own people. Tuesday you had a date that ended up with poison pollen from a flower." I winced, remembering that a giant bouquet of flowers had been my idea in the first place. "Wednesday we met those little pompom monkeys." I wasn't about to tell him why I called them that, though I was fairly sure he'd gotten a copy of the picture in his email by now. "Thursday we got kicked out of Atlantis to…" I made air quotations. "Let the place air out, and got sprayed by skunks..."
"Yes, yes…" Rodney made a face. "Thank you for reminding me of all that."
"And the last two days have been surprisingly quiet." Thinking about it I shrugged. "It's Sunday, Rodney."
"Took you long enough to answer a simply question." He muttered darkly, before brightening again. "Wait, if it's Sunday…" He checked something on his computer tablet that he was always carrying around with him. "The Daedalus is due in a few hours!"
That brightened my day considerably, as I'd practically forced myself to put the arrival of the Daedalus out of my mind. "Really?" Picking up my pace, I altered my course and began heading towards the nearest transporter.
"Where are you going??"
"I'm gonna go check on the Daedalus' status." I called over my shoulder, raising an eyebrow when I found Rodney trotting to keep up with me.
"You know you can use the radio for that, right?"
Stopping a moment, I turned to Rodney, made a show of carefully pulling my radio out of my ear, dropping it into my pants pocket, then gave him a mock innocent look. "I'd love to, but..." I tapped my ear pointedly. "I seem to have forgotten my radio." Giving him a grin I knew was bordering on evil, I turned and walked over to the transport. "Feel like joining me?"
Rodney looked a little shell-shocked, but over came it easily, practically ripping his own radio out of his ear and running over, dropping it into his vest pocket as he went. "I'd love to." As he stepped into the transporter and I hit the button, he turned to me. "Is this anything like what you pulled last nigh? Ordering Major Lorne to spar with you?"
I couldn't help but bust up laughing. "He lasted one round before he fell over unconscious." I knew I should've felt bad for that, but Carson checked him out and after giving me a royal lecture about knocking my own men out in a sparring match, he couldn't wipe the grin from his face for the rest of the night. Lorne was fine. Besides, it's not like I meant the smell to knock him out, I was just looking to use it as an advantage to kick his ass.
"Really, Colonel, you shouldn't be laughing at the misfortunes of others." Rodney couldn't wipe the grin off his face as he said it, though, so his scolding came out a lot less severe than he'd probably intended.
Turning, I called him on it. "This from the guy who assigned Wilson to recapture all the skunks on the mainland and return them to earth, personally..." I turned and raised an eyebrow. "After hiding all the tomato juice on Atlantis."
Shrugging a little, Rodney grinned as he led the way to the control room. "That'll teach him to just let them go any old place."
"That involves you getting sprayed." I finished, watching as he looked ready to protest, only to shrug and grin again. Turning to the control room as we entered, I raised an eyebrow at Elizabeth, who was talking on her radio. She wasn't facing us, but I watched as she stopped, lifted her nose to the air, sniffed hesitantly, then coughed and covered her nose, turning to us right away. "Awww! There goes the element of surprise!" I groaned with a pout as she raised her eyebrow at me. Waving, I sighed. "We came to see the progress on the Daedalus."
"Well, their sensors are picking up some strange readings, so they're making a detour-"
"No!" Rodney glared almost dangerously. "We've been waiting for a week for this stuff! They can go check it out, after dropping off the solvent!"
I paused for a moment. "How far out are they?"
"Two hours away." She stated, glaring right back at Rodney. "And I'm allowing the detour. It should only take an extra twenty minutes, and they'll still make it today." She folded her arms over her chest. "Why didn't you guys just radio in? I could have told you all this over the radio."
I bit back the grin as Chuck pulled his shirt collar up and hung it over his nose, Radek winced and stuck a clothes pin on his nose, and Elizabeth just pinched her nose shut, ignoring how nasally her voice was coming out. "Well..." Taking a second to get my reaction under control, I tapped my ear and widened my eyes a little. "I think I forgot my radio in my room."
Her eyes narrowed slightly. "Well, I suggest you go get it. Don't you have lockers to inspect?"
Now I couldn't fight the grin as two female marines exchanged wide-eyed looks and turned, taking off down the hall. I knew they were on their way to warn the marines, and probably gather as many clothes pins as they could find. "Yes... Yes, I do." Turning to Rodney, I paused. "You wanna stay here and help them monitor the Daedalus' progress?"
"We've got it covered, Colonel." Elizabeth warned darkly, coughing a little before tapping her ear and returning to her discussion with, I assumed, Colonel Caldwell.
"I'm sure you do." I tossed back. Hearing a noise behind me, I spun to watch as Dr. Burns walked in. His eyes widened and watered severely before he began backing away. He coughed and covered his nose, and I struggled my hardest to look innocent as I followed him, backing him into a corner. "Dr. Burns? Are you ok?" He was one of the scientists who'd taken it upon themselves to make fun of us every chance they got, so being able to gross him out like this... "Oh, come on. What's wrong?"
Suddenly, his eyes rolled back in his head and he keeled over sideways. I lunged forward and caught the small man before he hit the floor and lowered him, grinning as I patted his cheek.
"Huh, that was easier than I thought." I tapped his cheek again. "Come on, buddy. Time to wake up." He didn't move and my grin faltered. "Dr. Burns, time to wake up." I tapped his cheek harder as my grin faded. Crap! I must've really knocked him out! "Dr. Burns...?" Checking his pulse, I felt my eyes widen in horror.
"What's going on?!" Elizabeth was at my side, covering her nose firmly and trying to see through her watering eyes. She placed her fingers on Dr. Burns' neck and her eyes widened before she turned to me.
"Oh my god..." Turning to Rodney, I stared at him in shock. "He's dead."
Rodney's eyes widened, even has the rest of the personnel in the room gathered their equipment and moved even farther away. "What?! You're saying we're lethal?!" He didn't even seem to notice as Radek ducked out of the room with his gear, and Chuck quickly followed suit. The two other marines working the consoles just stayed as far away from us as possible, without leaving their stations.
"Alright, you two." Elizabeth was glaring, her eyes stuck on Burns' body. "I want you both in the infirmary, stat!" She tapped her ear and informed Caldwell she was going to have to get back to him but at the moment they had a medical emergency. Tapping her ear piece again, she kept her nose covered and almost lunged away from us as she pointed with her free hand towards the hall. "Go!"
Standing up slowly, I opened my mouth to explain it had all been an accident, but closed it again and turned, heading down the hall quickly and all too aware that Rodney was right behind me. We made the trip to the infirmary relatively quickly and quietly, neither of us really knowing what we could say in this situation.
(Infirmary, Normal POV)
Carson was standing across from John and Rodney who were each sitting on a gurney. He wore a medical mask and a clothes pin over his nose, over it, and stared at them grimly. "I've finished analysing Dr. Burns' body." He sighed. "It looks like his body was weak from recovering from a very nasty flu. I found strong evidence of infection in his heart."
Elizabeth was standing next to the door, Ronon standing beside her and actually looking a little green.
"I didn't know we were lethal!" John cried loudly, his eyes wide and almost pleading. "I was just trying to bug him the way he's been bugging us all week!"
Shaking his head, Carson shot Elizabeth a look. "You didn't kill him, lad." His voice sounded awefully funny the way it came out with the clothes pin. "The infection in his heart was remains from pneumonia. Your smell..." He seemed to wince behind his mask. "The smell caused his asthma to act up, putting a lot of pressure on his lungs and his heart rate went through the roof."
"Then I did kill him." John's face was almost white.
"No... He shouldn't have been up, and he should have had an inhaler on him. The fact that he was straining himself, and he didn't have an inhaler is what killed him."
"But the smell triggered it." Rodney sighed loudly.
Now Carson paused. He looked to Elizabeth before looking back and sighing again, nodding hesitantly. "Aye, the smell caused the asthma attack. You're not 'lethal', got it? But until the Daedalus gets here, I'd feel better if you both stayed in your rooms. Just to keep any further..." He hesitated and seemed to resist the urge to roll his eyes. "Casualties to a minimum."
"'Casualties'?!" Rodney's eyes went wide. He opened his mouth to argue, but then sighed. "Well, when's the Daedalus gonna get here? We've been here over twenty minutes, already, so they should be here soon, right?"
Now Elizabeth winced and sighed. "Not necessarily. I'm not entirely sure what happened, but during the fiasco with Dr. Burns, we lost contact with the Daedalus. I'm not sure where they are, or what's going on. I've got Lorne's team standing by to take a jumper out there."
"Wait, why not send us?" John realized the answer to that as soon as he opened his mouth and winced, closing it and waving a hand. "Never mind."
"If there's any sign of foul play, we'll send you and Rodney to the enemy ship to...talk." Elizabeth's lips twitched a little. "Otherwise, I'd also like you both to stay in your rooms for now. We'll keep you updated, alright?"
"Not like we've got much of a choice." John muttered darkly, staring at the gurney. He found himself wondering what happened to the Daedalus and if everyone was ok. Part of him wanted to resist his orders, but recalling Burns' face, he bit back a wince and got up, carefully heading towards his quarters.
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Ok, so this is NOT the end, I'm just going to wait and see if Debbie418uk2 can do anything with it. :)
Hope you like it
Written November 12, 2008
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