572 words. I'm using Rodney and Jennifer's secret balcony that I've used somewhere else. :)

Jennifer stood on her and Rodney's secret balcony and looked out into the dark gray sky. It had been pouring monstrous rain drops from thick, slow moving clouds non-stop for two days.

And it was grotesquely hot. And humid. It was so hot that the rain was almost warm and going out into it was like stepping into a lukewarm shower.

To add to the malaise the weather had been causing her, Rodney had all but locked himself in his lab from the moment the rain had started.

She'd always noticed that Rodney became a little… anxious… whenever it rained. He didn't let it show much, just little looks of worry or little flinches, but she'd always noticed. At first it was because she was a doctor and always observing people and their reactions to make sure they were really feeling as well as they claimed to be. Eventually it became more. She noticed because she cared for him.

She'd always meant to ask him about it, but the instances were always fleeting and something always seemed to come up. Not this morning. When she'd awoken to find no sign of Rodney, she'd sought him out to ask him what was going on. He was in the middle of something important, so she'd went to find the one other person she was certain would have the answer: John.

He'd been reluctant to tell her, but he'd eventually caved and told her about the Genii and how they'd nearly taken over Atlantis. And he'd told her about the way Rodney had been tortured and how Kolya'd held Rodney and Dr. Weir captive on a balcony in the middle of a monsoon, threatening to kill them unless Rodney fixed the grounding station.

After processing what Sheppard had told her, she'd gone to find Rodney and forced him to promise to meet her on their balcony. She looked down to her watch and felt a bubble of dread pop in her stomach. He was late.

As if on cue the door opened and she turned to face it. She watched as Rodney appeared and their eyes met.

"Hey there," she said after a moment.

"Hey," Rodney replied after a moment.

She couldn't help but notice how his eyes glanced out onto the outer edge of the balcony where the rain was soaking the deck.

"Have you ever seen the rain fall so hard?" she asked as she walked towards him. He nodded and she took his hand in hers. "John told me about the Genii."

Rodney nodded again, though he never took his eyes off the continuing deluge.

"Do you trust me?"

Rodney looked into her eyes and said with a sure and confident voice, "Absolutely."

"My father always told me," she said as she led him out into the rain, "that the best way to erase a bad memory," she turned to him and started gently pulling his shirt out of his pants, "is to make a new, better memory."

Jennifer pulled the now soaked shirt up over Rodney's head, and when she tossed it onto the deck she could see him shake of his shock. "Jennifer…"

Jennifer quickly leaned forward and kissed him, her hands moving onto his bare, wet shoulders. After a moment she stopped the kiss and leaned back. She reached down to start unbuckling his belt as the warm rain showered them and whispered, "Trust me," before kissing him again.

A:N/ "Have You Ever Seen the Rain?" was written by John Fogerty and released by Creedence Clearwater Revival on their 1970 album Pendulum.