One Hundred Sparkified Drabbles (21-30) by AndromedaMarine
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Mensa? (21)
Rodney suppressed a laugh when Elizabeth did a double-take.
"He passed what?" Her eyes were as wide as dinner plates and her jaw was resting comfortably on the floor.
"Mensa. He passed the Mensa test."
"Did...did he join?"
Rodney shook his head. "I don't know why, though..."
Elizabeth paid no further attention to Rodney and she went to find and tease John.
"Mensa?" she said when she found him. He glared at her and before she could tease him further he drew her into a kiss that successfully shut her up.
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Athosian Tea, Part Three (22)
For a number of what seemed to be very long minutes Elizabeth had a silly smile on her face as John kept her steady.
"Mo...more teea?" she slurred, having difficulty pronouncing even monosyllabic words.
Before John could reply Elizabeth's eyes rolled back and she fainted. She became limp and without thinking, he picked her up and carried her back to where Ronon and Teyla were now kissing and Rodney was trying (and failing) to flirt with an Athosian woman.
The coherent part of John's mind told him that when Elizabeth woke she'd be regretful...but he'd just kissed his crush.
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Clichés, Clichés (23)
"It's not what it looked like. She kissed me! I didn't mean for it to happen! Wait, let me explain. I live for only one woman: I love you, and I can't live without you."
That's basically what he said after Elizabeth caught him with another alien woman. One who was too young for him. Her face had hardened (along with her heart) at the sight, and she stalked away, vowing never to fall for him again. Fat chance.
Then she thought it over. He had seemed surprised about the kiss, and most of Rodney's Kirk tales were drastically ballooned.
But her mind turned to mush and she didn't care anymore when he gently kissed her instead.
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Al Natural (24)
"Why do women wear makeup?" John asked, sitting across from Rodney for lunch.
Rodney blinked at him, lowering the fork from his mouth. "You're asking me?"
"Well, I mean, you have a sister, Meredith, and unless Dave is lying, I don't. So?"
Rodney blinked again. "Um...to make themselves look prettier?" He groaned. "You should be asking Elizabeth or Cadman, not me."
"Elizabeth doesn't wear makeup. I was wondering why the others do."
Rodney coughed, laughing. "Only you, John."
John later learned that it was to attract men, but the women don't realize they're prettier without it, and John thought Liz was beautiful.
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One Hundred Times (25)
She was doomed to die as a machine – not as a mortal.
If she'd had a choice perhaps her decision would have been influenced by a certain male figure in her life, but when her time came, he wasn't there. And because he wasn't her death felt one hundred times more painful. She didn't know that he would have died himself if it meant her life was to continue. When she finally succumbed to the endless mental torture her last thought was of him. From his smiling face and unruly hair – to his lips and hazel eyes.
Her captors – tormentors – were perplexed that she died with a smile on her face. They would never learn, even after reviewing her memories a hundred times, that her smile was the result of her love.
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Hamster (26)
John, Ronon, Teyla and Radek sat around the lunch table. "Should've seen him," John said as he grinned at Radek. "Like one of those little hamsters in those tubes..."
"Yes, yes," the Czech said with annoyance. He looked up and saw Elizabeth approach with Jennifer, who had her eyes fixed on Ronon.
John stared at Ronon with a smirk. "What?" Ronon said fiercely to John.
"Nothing," the colonel replied, his eyes wandering to Elizabeth. He stood and walked past the Czech to Elizabeth. "Hamster," he whispered, and joined his wife to discuss what had happened. John would also learn that there was nothing worse than being stuck in a transporter for three hours with Radek "Hamster" Zelenka.
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Breakdown Part One of Three (27)
"No, John! I cannot do this anymore! I have sacrificed so much for this galaxy, so much for Atlantis! Too much death – too much betrayal. I – I feel like I'm losing my mind, like I'm losing my will to live!" Elizabeth pressed her palm against her chest as she took in deep breaths.
John seized her shoulders. "Breathe, Elizabeth," he said softly. "I understand perfectly."
She sniffed. "You do?"
"You'd be surprised to know how many breakdowns I've had over this expedition...over almost losing you." He said the last part in but a breath of a whisper.
She stared at him.
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Pegasus Puppies (28)
"Aren't they adorable?" Elizabeth cooed, scratching the puppy's floppy red ears. John twisted his head so he was staring at the "abomination" from a different angle.
"It's plain weird, Liz. Where did Teyla say she found them?" He was standing a good ten feet from the small dog that resembled a Dalmatian apart from the red ears, blue body, orange spots, and bright green paws.
"Reminds me of Sedge," she commented, completely ignoring John's question. Her expression melted from happiness to sadness in the blink of an eye.
"If it makes you feel better, I can put in a request to bring him out here," John said, kneeling behind his wife. He wrapped his arms around her. "But I'm not letting that on base." He felt her chuckle beneath him.
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Inevitability (29)
Fate had her own plans. Elizabeth could try (and fail) all she wanted to keep herself from falling in love with John. Just like death, their destiny was inevitable and unavoidable.
Try hard as he might John couldn't avoid Elizabeth. Rodney's technobabble failed to take up sufficient amounts of his time and the colonel found himself, more often than naught, wandering towards Elizabeth's office.
All it took was their eyes meeting with unrequited attraction raw in the distance between them.
Inevitability had caught up with them, resolving itself with a kiss.
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Overcome (30)
Atlantis seemed to be overcome with a lot of things lately. Wraith attacks. Replicator strikes. In the midst of it all, John Sheppard and Elizabeth Weir were overcome with emotion. Death rained down on the city week after week, each day bringing the odds to a higher number that the next ones would be either John or Elizabeth. As if destiny wasn't kind enough, the one mission came where he didn't return. At least, not immediately. He survived, and after he stumbled through the gate covered in caked blood and the smell of death, Elizabeth was overcome and took him into her arms.
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