Well it's a little over and a double song fic.

I suppose it's a little late to explain just who Delilah is. Sorry. For those of you who don't know, she's a creation of theicemenace and her origins can be found in Ice's Playlist Fic, the Chapter entitled "Killer Queen". And thanks to Ice for letting me use her idea for the first song. :)

Delilah looked down upon the human for whom she had developed a deep and genuine respect. He had indeed brought her much joy and entertainment over the years, first with the iPod and music and then with videos Rodney called "movies".

She exhaled excitedly as she recalled Colonel Cadman mentioning Jaws, a movie that Rodney had told her many years ago that she might enjoy, and he was quite correct.

Her eyes moved up to view the monitors next to his bed and she softly hissed at them. The humans were so dependant upon machines to tell them what was so obvious. Her eyes fell down to Rodney's face again. She needed no machines to know that the one human she respected- and yes liked- would soon die.

She looked about the room. The other humans, Sheppard, Cadman, Stone and Jennifer were watching her. She could sense and easily see distrust, anger and fear in the eyes of the soldiers. Yet from Jennifer all she could sense was intense grief.

Delilah felt grief as well, though she would admit it to no one. She thought of her interactions with Rodney, from their first meeting to the time he bestowed upon her the name 'Delilah' to Rodney and Jennifer's wedding and so on. For some reason, a particular memory surfaced that caused her great delight.

"You're the one who said we should try to stay on her good side," groused Rodney as he entered Delilah's chambers. "It's not like… oh come on!"

Delilah rose from her throne and motioned to her right to indicate the queen of a friendly Hive. "You will supply her with a name as you have done for me and the others."

Rodney rolled his eyes and gave Sheppard a pleading look, to which Sheppard only smiled. "Look," said Rodney as he turned his attention back to Delilah, "we're very busy people who can't just drop everything and come all the way out here every time a horse with no name suddenly decides she wants one."

Delilah's eyes narrowed dangerously. "What is this thing, a horse?"

Rodney engaged in a small coughing fit making him unable to respond.

"Another word for important friend," supplied Sheppard with a sidelong glance to Rodney who quickly agreed by nodding his head.

"Ah," said Delilah as she stepped off the dais and once again indicated the visiting queen. "Proceed."

Rodney and Sheppard shared a look and both men looked to the queen. She looked almost exactly like the other three they'd recently named with some minor exceptions that didn't particularly help them in the naming area.

Rodney shrugged his shoulders and said, "Why don't you, I don't know, tell us about you or your Hive, or something."

"We are allied with Delilah," the queen said, "and I have been intrigued by her tales about you… Rodney."

Rodney gulped but otherwise kept his cool. "Nikita."

"Nikita," the queen repeated, allowing the unfamiliar word to slip off her tongue. "Why did you choose that name?"

"Your voice," replied Rodney. "It sounds like it has an accent and that name is a common name from where that accent is spoken."

The queen turned to Delilah and after a moment of silence they bowed towards each other.

"That is acceptable," said Nikita before turning around and leaving through the back door.

"Well what a bit…"

"You have my gratitude, Rodney," said Delilah as she stepped towards them. "You may leave now."

Delilah smiled at the memory. "You have been a very good… horse… Rodney," she said lowly, knowing full well that a horse was an Earth animal and also knowing that Rodney knew that she knew.

A/N: "A Horse with No Name" was written by Dewey Bunnell and released by the band America on their self titled 1971 album.

A/N: "Nikita" was written by Bernie Taupin and Elton John and released on the latter's 1985 album Ice on Fire. Oddly enough, the feminine spelling is "Nakita" and the song is about a woman but the masculine spelling remained.