Word Count:
669
Rating: PG
Category: Humour. Crossover
with SG1.
Story Status: Complete
Summary: Carter and McKay (sort of) friendship.
And bots?
Written for the SGA_flashfic Animal
Challenge - sga_flashfic contains gen, ship and slash fics.
Author's Notes:
Set
during latter part of Season 3 but no real spoilers for
Atlantis.
However, there are spoilers for SG1’s episode ‘The
Road Not
Taken’, in the latter half of Season 10.
Beta:
Thank you to Jayne Perry for the beta-reading.
The Animal Series
Part 1: The Cattiness of
Samantha Carter
By Leesa Perrie
Sam couldn’t believe she was doing this. Really,
she
couldn’t. It was all the fault of one Jeannie
Miller, of
course.
She’d kept in contact with McKay’s sister, who had
come up
with a few interesting theories about various aspects of physics, and
who was also a gold mine of interesting, and occasionally embarrassing,
stories about a certain Meredith Rodney McKay. Unlikely
though it
might seem, Jeannie and Sam had struck up a friendship, much to a
certain astrophysicist’s disgust, she was certain.
Of course, in amongst the embarrassing stories were a few that had
given her a little bit of understanding of how McKay had become so,
so…McKay-like. It would seem his little confession
to her
all that time ago about a not so comfortable childhood had been an
understatement. Not that she was going to feel sorry for the
guy.
Absolutely no way was she going to do that.
She sighed. So why was she doing this?
Jeannie had mentioned that whilst Rodney was visiting her at Christmas,
he had talked about his cat. He’d confided, after a
few too
many drinks to be sure, that he missed his cat badly, and that he, the
cat, had been the best friend Rodney had ever had for a long time,
before finding a home on Atlantis.
That was somehow very sad; that a cat could have been his best
friend. But she refused to feel sorry for him. It
was his
own fault for driving everyone away in the first place. For
being
such an arrogant jerk, an ass, a sarcastic egotistical pain in the...
So why was she building him a cat-bot? And not just any
cat-bot,
but the best cat-bot ever built on Earth, using all her knowledge of
alien technology, to make it as lifelike as possible?
She couldn’t answer that question, and that was even more
annoying than McKay himself.
Though it was she was sure in part to do with her recent trip to
another universe. That
McKay she had felt sorry for, once she had gotten over the shock that
her counterpart had been married
to him. Something she truly hoped McKay didn’t find
out, or
he’d be even more insufferable than he already was.
But she
was to blame for the situation that the alternate McKay found himself
in before she’d returned to her own universe, and she still
felt
guilty for that. So maybe that was why she was doing this.
Of course, when she sent the bot, she wasn’t going to let him
know it was from her. Oh, sure, he might suspect it, but she
would never confirm it to him.
She grinned. That would probably drive him crazy.
Good.
----------------
Two
Months later, Atlantis
The label had been printed, and there was no note or letter in the
parcel, so he didn’t know who had sent this to him, but he
could
guess. He suspected that Jeannie had said something in
passing to
a certain blonde Lieutenant Colonel back on Earth, and for some unknown
reason said Colonel had built him this. He grinned
smugly.
So she did like him, after all.
Of course, he couldn’t prove she had sent it to him, and he
just
knew she was going to deny all knowledge of it if he brought it up with
her. And wasn’t that just so frustrating.
At least he knew that she liked him. Okay, not in the way he
wanted, despite his dreams, despite his hallucination even.
So, what was he going to call his new toy? A sly grin
grew. Oh yeah, now that
would drive her crazy if she ever found out, and somehow
he had a feeling that someone
would tell her. All he had to do was drop it into a
conversation
next time he had too much to drink at Jeannie’s…
He took the cat-bot out of its box, placed it on the floor of his
quarters and switched it on.
“Hello, Sam-Bot, welcome to your new
home…”
The End
