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.
Present Day (February 22, 2009):
"Hey so you wanna tell me what happened?" John asks Ronon as they get ready.
"Nope." Ronon answers.
"You're gonna leave me hanging?"
"Yup."
"Fine." John says as he fastens his cuff links. "Then I won't tell you what happened with me last night.
"What happened to you last night?" Rodney asks.
"I won't say unless you tell me who you had sex with last night." John says, turning to Rodney.
"Why should I go first?" Rodney asks.
"Both you guys are acting like a bunch of girls." Evan comments as he straightens his bowtie. Mike snorts at that.
"I know what happened with the two if you." Ronon says as he sits down, throwing his hands behind his head, crossing one ankle over the other. Turning to John he says "You and Teyla finally made up. Torren is your son. And maybe you got lucky, or maybe not. But that's really nobody's business."
"Did you know Torren was – is my son?"
"Nope. But I always wondered."
"How can you not know?" Rodney asks. "Next to Teyla, you're the one who sees him the most."
"Torren's only two. He doesn't look anything like John now." Ronon points out. "I've never seen any of John's pictures from when he was around Torren's age."
"Oh." Rodney says.
"Yeah, oh." Ronon mocks him. "And I know that you guys made up because you wouldn't be all smiles this morning. In fact you would be nursing a hangover."
"That is true." Evan agrees.
"Okay, wise guy, you're right on all accounts." John says, leaning against the wall. Nodding his head towards Mckay. "What about him."
Ronon chuckles, shaking his head. "You're right, he did get lucky."
"But with whom?" John challenges.
"Yeah, who?" Rodney adds, confident that Ronon won't guess right.
"Laura."
"Hahaha!" Evan laughs.
"Laura?" Mike asks, shaking his head.
"Nooo." John says disbelievingly, then looks at Rodney with a smile. His smile soon fades when he sees Rodney's flushed face. "No way!" John says, turning back to Ronon.
"It explains the sock on the doorknob." Ronon says.
"What sock on the doorknob." John asks. "I know there was a necktie hanging on our doorknob."
"I put the necktie on the doorknob. Probably around one or two in the morning." Ronon tells them.
"So you did have sex." Mike puts in.
Ronon just shrugs. "We're not talking about me."
"Okay, so why Laura?" Evan asks. "It could be anyone, like a random girl."
"Yeah, come on, Laura?" John asks.
"Why not Laura?" Rodney says, looking offended.
"Coz she's hot." Mike says simply.
Ronon laughs out loud. "But see that's what makes her hot. She likes the underdogs." John laughs at this, while Ronon looks at him with a frown. "Besides, I saw you guys at the rehearsal last night."
"Oh yeah, the dinner." Rodney says with a dreamy smile.
Flashback to the night before (February 21, 2009):
"Who would've thought, huh?" Laura says as she takes a sip of her wine when Teyla rushes out to follow John.
"So, they were having an affair?" Rodney asks no one in particular.
"I think that it's really none of our business." Elizabeth warns them.
"You knew, didn't you?" Rodney asks.
"Not til Christmas last year."
"You mean this past Christmas?" Rodney asks.
Elizabeth nods her head and then turns back to Mike.
"So you didn't know?" Laura asks Rodney.
"I only saw Torren after she had given birth to him. After that I got so busy, didn't have time to visit Teyla." Rodney tells her.
X
An hour later, Rodney and Laura have already finished a second bottle of wine. "Cadman," McKay starts to say. "how come you're still single?"
"I dunno." Laura says as she leans back on her chair, twirling the wine glass by the stem. "All the guys I've dated in the past are the macho manly man man."
"So?" Rodney presses on.
"So, as much as you think –"
"I don't think of them." Rodney says in defense.
Laura snorts. "As much as other people think that manly men men are over confident and macho – their egos can be easily deflated. Especially when it's a woman who beats them."
"So?' Rodney asks again.
"They're vain. And boring. There's usually nothing up here." She says, tapping on her temple. "At least the ones I've met so far."
"Hmmm, kinda like the caveman over there." Rodney says, gesturing to Ronon."
"Ahh, lover boy?" Laura says with a smile, looking at Ronon and then back to Rodney. "Exception to the rule. He's a man of few words, but I hear that he's pretty sharp. And I doubt if he's boring. I betcha, in bed he can –"
"Okay!" McKay says, holding up his hands. "Don't really want to know what your thoughts are on him."
"I'm just saying… if he wasn't so head over heels with Jennifer, I'd jump –"
"Not listening!" Rodney says, tapping his fingers on the table.
"Rodney McKay, are you jealous?" Laura asks, two of her fingers walking up his arm. Rodney shivers. "You shouldn't be."
"What do you mean?" He asks her.
"I mean that you shouldn't be jealous." She tells him.
Rodney frowns. "I thought you said that we wouldn't work out."
"I said that we wouldn't have worked out. In high school." Laura says, leaning closer. Rodney takes in the tiny puffs of her sweet breath, laced with wine.
"What makes you think that we would work now?"
"Well, for one thing," Laura begins to say as she sidles up to him. "we're both attracted to each other."
Rodney swallows the lump in his throat. "We are? What makes you say that?"
"Well I know I am." She says in a husky voice. "And I think you are too." Rodney just nods. "And then second, we're more mature. I don't think you're gonna yell at me to go away again, are you?"
"No." Rodney says as if hypnotized.
"Well, then, so what are we gonna do about this?"
X
Half an hour later Rodney walks into the darkened Villa. Laura grabs him and pulls him into her room.
Back to the Present:
"Okay, no details please." John pleads, throwing his hands up in the air.
"Yeah, like I would tell you about it." Rodney says.
"Like the time you told me when you lost your virginity in college. I think I didn't ask a girl out for a week after that." John says. Evan snorts.
"At least you got to rest from your skirt-chasing for awhile, right?" Mike says. John shrugs, a smile on his face.
X
"So who were you with last night, Laura." Jennifer asks.
"You were with someone?" Marie asks, and then turning to Jennifer. "She was with someone?" Jennifer nods, a big smile on her face.
"Who says I was with someone?" Laura asks innocently. "And how the hell would you know, since you and Ronon were shacked up since after ten this morning."
"Am I missing something here?" Marie asks.
"Have you and Ronon settled your differences?" Teyla asks.
"Well, the good doctor has finally come to her senses." Elizabeth comments.
"I thought you left with Nick." Jamie says.
"No. That's what Ronon thought, too." Jennifer explains. "Nick just invited himself. And we're not talking about me." She says, hands on hips. "We are talking about Laura's mystery man."
"Maybe it's Nick." Jamie suggests.
"Nah. Couldn't have been. He's into Jennifer." Marie points out.
"Maybe after Je –" Jamie starts to say.
Laura cuts her off. "Hey, I don't like being second choice!"
"So it's not Nick. Then who is it?" Jamie asks with a smirk.
"Paul?" Teyla asks.
"No, I saw him flirting with a girl by the pool." Marie says, her face still scrucnched up.
"So that leaves John and Rodney." Jennifer says. "And I know for a fact that he didn't come back to his room last night."
"Yeah!" Laura yells with a teasing smile and a clap of her hands.
"Oh sweetie, don't give me that, you're not off the hook yet." Jennifer says as she applies mascara. Janie snickers.
"And I know for a fact that John wasn't your mystery man because –" Teyla says with a grin.
"Shit!" Jennifer says, missing her eyelashes and then turning around to face Teyla with wide eyes. "You and J –"
"– he was with me, and –" Turning to face Laura "and that story is for later, because we want to know who it was. you were with"
"Well it's for me to know and for you to find out." Laura teases. "I'll tell you when I'm ready."
"So did you guys work it out last night?" Jennifer asks Teyla.
"Yes." Teyla replies as she fixes a curl on the side of her face.
"And?" Jennifer presses.
"And I think we'll finally get our happy ending." Teyla answers.
"You mean, beginning." Elizabeth corrects her.
"Beginning." Teyla concurs.
TBC.
Note: For Cadman and McKay fans, I'm sorry, no love scene. Although I love McKay, I just can't seem to see myself describing a love scene for him... I'm not attracted to him.