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Rodney walked towards the door to his quarters with a spring in his step. It had been a long time since he and Jennifer had both had the night off. It had seemed for a while as though Pegasus and Atlantis herself had been conspiring against them, coming up with situations just to keep them apart. Tonight was almost a repeat performance with a failing power conduit in the Jumper bay making him miss his dinner date with his fiancé. They had agreed that he would meet her in her office and then have a nice quiet dinner, then go to their quarters for some alone time. Then the conduit failed, leaving the bay doors unable to open. He'd only managed to get a brief call to Jennifer to let her know he'd be late.

He opened the door to their quarters and barged inside, barely resisting rubbing his hands anticipation at being with Jennifer. He stopped when he saw her. She was sitting on the couch, her head hung low with her elbows resting on her knees and her face hidden in her hands.

He rushed over to her and got down on his right knee in front of her. "Jennifer?" When she didn't respond he put his hands on hers and gently pulled them away from her face. What he saw surprised him. She didn't seem distraught or even upset. Nor did she seem to be angry. If anything she seemed to be… embarrassed?

"What's wrong?"

Jennifer looked into his eyes and her cheeks, which had been red to begin with, flushed even more. Her hands grabbed onto Rodney's as though they were a lifeline and her lips quivered.

"Before you called to tell me you'd be late," she said, her voice slightly hesitant, "some… one… came into my office."

The way she said that sent Rodney's heart into overdrive as his brilliant mind and over-reactive imagination began creating heinous scenarios that fit with the situation.

"I was crouched down looking for something and my back was to the door." She hesitated and she gently bit her lower lip as she was known to do when she was nervous. "I thought it was you so," she stopped for a second. Her cheeks got even brighter and she gave him a small shrug as she said, "So I thought I'd… tease…you."

Rodney felt his eyebrow raise before he could stop it, and his reaction caused Jennifer's eyes to widen and then look away from him.

"What did you do?" he asked.

It took several seconds for her to look back to him, and when she did she said, "I said… 'Right on time for a change. Just for that I'm going…'"

Rodney waited for nearly thirty seconds before saying, "And?"

Jennifer huffed and her lips formed a pronounced pout. "I said… 'Just for that I'm going to kiss you all over.'" The redness in her cheeks spread upward onto her forehead and back into her ears. "Mr. Woolsey wasn't impressed."

Many comments came to Rodney's mind, and in retrospect the one he picked to say probably wasn't the best one because after he said, "Would've impressed me," he found himself sitting on the floor with a pissed off Jennifer vowing it was never going to happen for him.

A/N: "Kiss You All Over" was written by Mike Chapman and Nicky Chinn and released by the group Exile in 1978.