Word
Count: 563
Rating:
PG13
Category:
Friendship.
Story Status:
Complete
Summary:
Missing scene from Season 4's 'Outcast'. Rodney leaves
Sheppard's quarters...and plots.
Beta:
Thank you to Jayne Perry for
the beta-reading.
Plotting
By Leesa Perrie
Rodney
headed for his lab after leaving Sheppard’s
quarters. He needed to
grab some tools before going to M7G-677 with Major Lorne and his
team.
He wasn’t looking forward to the mission, but he
didn’t feel he could
trust fixing the EM field to anyone else; well, anyone else except a
certain Czech scientist who had refused point blank to go.
Not that he
could blame Radek, considering what had happened to him last
time.
Still, the timing sucked.
Sheppard
said he was fine. McKay snorted at that. Right, of
course he’s fine,
he’s always fine, even when he isn’t.
Damn stoic, stubborn, pain in
the ass flyboy, who fully intended to go back to Earth and handle this
alone. He didn’t know what had happened between
John and his family;
he wouldn’t even know that John had any family if
he hadn’t read his file (and no, he was not snooping,
just trying to figure out his team leader - and friend - a
little).
Anyway, whatever had happened, it was clear to him that John was every
bit as estranged from his family as he himself had once been with
Jeannie, and had been with his own parents until their dying days.
John
shouldn’t have to do this alone. Someone should be
going with him, and
that someone should be him. He thought about trying to
persuade Radek
to go in his place, stating that Sheppard needed him, but somehow he
didn’t think that would work. Zelenka truly and
deeply hated that
planet and those kids.
No, he had to go anyway. He needed to
make sure the machine didn’t break down again.
After all, Radek could
have messed something up when he fixed it last time, something that had
made it fail now.
He paused by his lab door as an idea hit him and tapped his radio.
“Ronon, could you meet me in the ready room? Got
something
to discuss before I go off world. It’s
important.”
Hearing a reluctant but affirmative reply he smiled to himself.
Teyla
couldn’t go; John turning up after all this time with a
pregnant woman
would cause too many eyebrows to raise, not to mention all sorts of
rumours to start flying. But Ronon. Yeah, Ronon
would be okay. He’d
been to Earth more than once, and he was good with people who were
grieving. Certainly, Ronon had been a big help after
Carson’s death,
and he’d even tried to help after Elizabeth’s death
had been
confirmed.
Rodney quickly closed that line of thought down; he still
wasn’t ready to go there, wasn’t sure he ever would
be.
Picking
up his toolkit, he headed to the ready room to gear up for his mission
and talk to his team-mate, plotting as he walked.
It’d
probably be a good idea if Ronon didn’t tell Sheppard that he
was going
with him until the gate was dialled. Actually, thinking about
it,
there wouldn’t be time to tell John anyway, as he was due to
leave
fairly soon, so that would work out just fine.
Go to Earth
alone, Sheppard. Like hell you will, he thought to himself, a
bounce
entering his step and a smug smile on his face. Like hell you
will.
After all, this
family looked after its members.
Even when they were being stubborn and stoic and all that crap.
Especially then.
The End