508 words. A little sequel to theicemenace's Playlist Challenge chapter "Killer Queen" done with her permission.
Rodney shook his head and repeated what Sheppard had told him. "She's summoned," he stopped and gave Sheppard a look of incredulity and asked, "Summoned? Really?" When Sheppard nodded Rodney grunted in amusement and said, "She's summoned me to her hive to repair her iPod." Rodney took a second, then gave Sheppard a suspicious look before returning his attention back to the project he'd been working on. "Tell her I'm a physicist, not a repairman."
Sheppard smirked and said, "Well actually you do…" Rodney gave him an icy glare and his smirk disappeared."According to Todd she's quite insistent."
Rodney looked up at Sheppard, and after so many years of being the brunt of Sheppard's antics he could tell the Colonel was serious. "Crap."
"Wait here," ordered the Wraith that had escorted them through the hive to the Queen's chambers. "My Queen will be here soon."
"Thanks, Jack," replied Sheppard.
The Wraith growled and flexed his right hand but simply turned around and left the team alone. When the door closed behind Jack, Rodney asked, "Why 'Jack'?"
Sheppard gave Rodney a half shrug. "He reminds me of Nicholson."
Rodney turned to stare at the door, and after a moment of thought he had to admit Sheppard had it right. "Yeah, okay."
Rodney turned and walked up to the throne. The iPod was sitting on the arm of throne so he picked it up and turned it on to find that it was fully charged. When he heard music blaring from one of the earphones he said, "Son of a…"
A door behind the throne opened and the Queen breezed through it. She spared Sheppard, Teyla and Ronon only a cursory glance before her yellow eyes settled on Rodney.
"There's nothing wrong with this!" grated Rodney loudly. "It's working fine."
The Queen ignored Rodney's little outburst and moved to sit in her throne. She settled into it and gave Rodney a look that neither he nor his teammates had ever seen on a Wraith Queen before.
"I am pleased to see you, McKay," she said with what passed as a smile for a Wraith. "I wish to thank you for your service. This… iPod… has given me a great deal of pleasure, more than I had thought possible."
"You dragged me all the way out here to say thanks?" said Rodney in a huff. "A call would have done it."
"I have called you here to give you a gift, McKay," said the Queen. "In… gratitude."
Rodney shot a glance at Sheppard, whose mouth was hanging open in shock.
"Okay," said Rodney warily, "what's this gift?"
The Queen smiled and leaned towards Rodney. "My affection."
The Jumper veered right as a shot from the Hive whizzed by.
Sheppard cursed as he righted the Jumper. "You could have at least let her down easy Rodney! She's the Queen of a Hive ship!"
"Well now she's the queen of the broken hearts!" Another blast from the Hive shot by the Jumper and Rodney added somewhat excitedly, "Now get us out of here!"
A/N: "Queen of the Broken Hearts" was written by Mike Reno and Paul Dean of the group Loverboy and released on their 1983 album Keep it Up.