Disclaimer: I'm only going to say this once: I don't own any of the characters and I'm not making money off of doing this. This is simply for fun.

Note: OT – I think that Starbuck is maybe Col. Tigh and Ellen's daughter. Just a thought. At first I thought that Starbuck was number seven. But then they said that number seven's name is Daniel. And Cavil did mess with Daniel's genetic make-up, at least that's what Ellen said. And that he was an artist. So he could've been boxed and changed into female. But now when I think about it, Starbuck had a dream of being a little girl. So she can't be Daniel. So I think she was Col. Tigh and Ellen's kid since they were able to sexually reproduce.

Present Day (February 21, 2009):

They're still at the coffee shop when Rodney joins them. He takes a seat beside John and says "Stop rubbing your wrists John, It's annoying."

"I still can't find my watch." John tells him.

"Are you sure you brought it with you?" Rodney asks.

"Yeah, I remember taking it off at the airport before I went through the metal detectors." John replies. "I'm sure I put it in my carry on."

Rodney shrugs then reaches over the table to grab an uneaten cinnamon roll. Laura grabs his arm and then rolls up his sleeve a bit more to reveal a nicotine patch. "Aha! What's this?"

He quickly pulls his arm back and unrolls his sleeve. "Shut up!"

"Do you smoke Rodney?" Teyla asks in a disappointed tone.

"I'm wearing the patch, aren't I" He retorts.

"I thought you quit?" John asks as he takes a sip of his coffee."

"Were you not listening? I'm wearing the patch!" Rodney says in an annoyed voice. Laura and Jennifer giggle. "And you know what, this is all your fault!" He tells Laura, his finger waggling.

Laura's mouth drops open, in shock and amusement. "Wha – what?! How is this my fault?"

Flashback to the Post Prom Party (May 13, 2000):

After Ronon leaves Rodney after John soon checks up on him to make sure he's okay. Rodney scratches his head in frustration and weaves his way through the crowd leaving Radek calling after him.

Rodney finds a secluded spot near some bushes along the property wall. He leans back against the wall and slides down and sits on his haunches. He touches his lip and winces.

"That's gonna be a nasty shiner, McKay." A voice says from behind a bush.

Rodney looks up to see Laura come around from the bush. "Oh, it's you, Cadman."

"Don't be mean Rodney. I wasn't the one who put that cut on your lip." Laura says as she takes a drag from her cigarette. Rodney ignores her. Laura opens her purse. "Here." Laura says, handing him a compact.

He takes it from her and opens it, looking at the mirror to inspect his eye. "Ugh!" Laura flicks the ashes of her cigarette and turns it around, offering it to Rodney. "I don't smoke." He says.

"Just try it. It'll make you feel better." She tells him.

Rodney stares at the stick for a few moments, and then hesitantly picks the cigarette from her fingers. He puts the cigarette in his mouth and puffs out smoke. Rodney frowns. "I don't get it. I don't feel anything or taste anything."

"That's coz you're not doing it right." Laura replies. She takes a seat beside him and then pulls out a pack of cigarettes from her purse and takes two sticks out. She plucks the almost finished cigarette from Rodney's fingers and stubs it out on a rock. "You're not just blowing through the filter. You're suppose to inhale." She puts both sticks in her mouth and lights them and hands one to Rodney. "Okay, now you do it."

Rodney puts the cigarette in between his lips and sucks in too hard resulting in fits of coughs. "I…" Cough. "… thought…" Cough "…thought that this was suppose…" Cough "… to make me feel better."

"I said inhale. I didn't tell you to swallow!" Laura says with a laugh. "Try again."

Rodney holds his hand up and then takes a deep breath. Coughing once, and then takes a puff from the cigarette, and this time doing it right. "Hm."

"Good huh?" Laura says. Rodney nods his head and then takes another drag, and then another, and another. "Whoa, slow down. You're gonna get yourself sick."

Back to the Present:

"So you never stopped?" Laura asks with a laugh.

"Obviously, no!" He answers.

"He used to smoke almost a pack a day." John tells them all.

"Look, I'm trying to quit, okay."

"I didn't know I had that much of an influence on you, Rodney." Laura says with a smile.

"You didn't. I just got addicted to it."

"Oh come on Rodney, just admit it." Laura says with a wink. Rodney just shakes his head in exasperation. "I was a big influence on you."

"Whatever." Rodney says as he looks down at the table then surreptitiously look back at her. He stares at her for a few more minutes before he finally realizes that John is giving him a curious look. "What?"

John cocks an eyebrow. "What's going on between you two?" He asks in a low voice.

"Nothing." Rodney replies.

"Don't lie to me." John tells him. "I know when you're lying."

"No I'm not." He denies and then adds "And no you don't."

"Yes I do. You have a tell."

"I do not have a tell."

"Yeah. You do." John says. "Your nose twitches."

"It does not." Rodney protests.

"Fine, don't believe me then." John says, shifting in his seat so that he can switch Torren to sit on his other lap, and then looks back at Rodney. "I still think there's something going on with Cadman, though.

Rodney is silent for a few moments before he leans towards John and asks "You think I've got a chance with her?"

"What do you have to lose?" John says.

"My pride?"

"You lost it back in pre-school when you started stripping in the playground." Rodney reddens at the memory. "Dude, you'll never know until you try."

Rodney leans back on his chair to think. He looks back at Laura and watches her as she talks with Marie and Elizabeth. Laughing once in a while.

X

"Sweetie, Rodney has been staring at you for the past half hour." Marie says to Laura in a whisper.

Laura looks over at Rodney and sees that he is staring at her. He reddens and turns away quickly. The corner of Laura's mouth twitches upward into a smirk. She turns back to look at Marie. "What do you think of Rodney?"

"I don't." Marie simply says.

"Ha ha ha!" Laura laughs. "No seriously."

"I think he's a hypochondriac." Marie tells her.

"Nobody's perfect."

"He's balding."

"My dad was bald, my mother loved him."

"Oh please don't tell me you're in love with Rodney." Marie says in a hushed voice.

"So what if I am?" Laura asks. "I'm not. But there is something endearing about him."

"His whiny voice?"

"What do you have against the man?" Laura asks.

"Nothing. It's just that he was mean to you before."

"We were in pre-school." Laura says. Marie shrugs. "I think I should ask him out."

"You're forgetting one very important thing." Marie tells her.

"And that is?" Laura asks.

"He lives in Texas and is in training for the Hubble Mission." Marie says.

TBC.

Note: Sorry it's short guys, I can't seem to concentrate. I actually had to write this chapter for two days. I was even thinking of adding some other parts for R/K or J/T but I wanted this t be a Rodney/Cadman chapter.