MGM still owns SGA. 498 words.
Rodney felt a familiar shiver on the back of his neck and bristled with enough force that Sheppard glanced up and gave him an odd look.
"You okay, McKay?" the Colonel asked as he looked back down to the pre-mission report they had been going over. Teyla and Ronon had already gone off to do their own thing while John and Rodney had moved to the Mess to get some refreshments while they went over some of the finer details, like equipment requisitions.
"Fine," answered Rodney after a few moments. "Just had a chill… or something."
Sheppard's eyes looked back up to Rodney as though he'd caught something in the scientist's voice, but he looked back down to the report without making further comment, much to Rodney's relief.
Rodney closed his eyes for a second and another wave of tingly shivers started out on his neck and slowly moved up onto the back of his head. He gave his head a gentle shake and his eyes found something of deep interest to him sitting on the other side of the Mess. Jennifer wasn't looking at him, and she gave no indication that she even knew he was there but he'd be damned if the fingers of her right hand weren't flexing in perfect synchronicity with the chills he was feeling on his neck and head.
Not for the first time he wondered when it was that Jennifer had developed an invisible touch. He really couldn't pinpoint when it had started, at least not with any absolute certainty. He was fairly certain it was after the Tunney thing, because he really couldn't remember experiencing it before that. The first time he truly remembered noticing it was one day not long after returning to Atlantis after the Tunney debacle. They had been sitting at opposite ends of the table in the conference room doing a debriefing of the event with Woolsey and the senior staff. Suddenly he'd began feeling the oddest sensations on his right leg, almost like a tickling feeling that started at the bottom of his shin and slowly worked its way up to his knee and then moved back down again. It had gotten so irritating that after three attempts at scratching his leg did nothing to stop it, he'd actually bent down and looked at his leg to make sure nothing was going on. It hadn't been until he'd actually looked that he'd realized that no one had even been close enough to touch him. Surprised and a little perturbed, he'd started to straighten up only to stop when he'd noticed Jennifer's legs at the other end of the table. She'd had them crossed at the knees with her right leg draped over the left, and her right leg was slowly moving up and down just like the tickle on his leg was moving up and down.
"You sure you're okay, Rodney?" asked Sheppard.
Rodney nodded and smiled when Jennifer suddenly looked at him. "Very okay."
A/N: "Invisible Touch" was written and performed by the group Genesis on their 1986 album Invisible Touch.