maryavatar ([info]maryavatar) wrote in [info]sga_flashfic,
2005-03-13 20:33:00
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'Secure', by Moonloon (Enclosed Spaces Challenge)

I'd been working on a longer story, but I think it died. Then I had one of those 'but what about all the stuff on Atlantis that you need a gene for?' thoughts. This was written in around 15 minutes, it's a mini-McShep fic.

One of John Sheppard's least favourite gene-related activities was releasing idiots, sorry, scientists from the secure labs on the lower levels. Zelenka was the worst offender; he and Rodney would go down there, all geeked out over something, and Rodney would open the doors. Then a couple of hours later Rodney would start getting pissy and remember he needed to eat every four hours, and leave Zelenka in the lab. The lab with a door that only opened if you had the Ancient gene.

At which point Zelenka would remember he'd left an important tool somewhere else, and couldn't get out.

Or in this case, he needed to go to the bathroom, and the rooms on this level didn't have any handy balconies to pee off.

"Sorry," Zelenka said, scuttling off down the corridor.

"No problem," John said, with a scowl. "It's what I'm here for."

"Honestly, I was only gone for ten minutes." Rodney was standing at the other end of the corridor eating a granola bar. "You'd think he could have held it for a bit longer."

John grinned. "Ah, but the last time you left him in one of the secure labs, you got distracted by... what was it again?"

"Strange neutrino flux analysis in the solar flare statistics."

"Right, and you left him locked in there for six hours."

Rodney popped the last of his snack into his mouth and nodded. "Oops."

"Don't talk with your mouth full," John said, as Rodney walked toward him.

Rodney grinned suddenly, sending happy little shivers up John's back. "I have around a dozen lines I could use here, but they all sound pornographic."

"Really?" John knew he had the slightly loopy grin on his face that made him look like he had the IQ of an eggplant. Oddly enough, he didn't seem to care.

Rodney walked past him, into the lab. "The good thing about Radek not being able to get out of these labs is that he can't get back into them either."

Sheppard sent a mental 'lock' to the door as Rodney grabbed his shirt and pulled him inside.
Tags: author: maryavatar, challenge: enclosed spaces

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[info]merryish

March 13 2005, 20:48:33 UTC 7 years ago

Hee! Love. This was a huge lot of fun. =)

[info]maryavatar

March 13 2005, 20:49:17 UTC 7 years ago

Thanks!

[info]wildmachinery

March 13 2005, 20:53:40 UTC 7 years ago

John knew he had the slightly loopy grin on his face that made him look like he had the IQ of an eggplant. Oddly enough, he didn't seem to care.

Hee! Love it.

[info]maryavatar

March 13 2005, 20:54:45 UTC 7 years ago

Yay! Thank you :)

[info]ship_recs

March 13 2005, 21:19:42 UTC 7 years ago

hehe, that was fun.

[info]maryavatar

March 13 2005, 21:23:48 UTC 7 years ago

Thank you :)

[info]nel_ani

March 13 2005, 21:40:43 UTC 7 years ago

Haha, so evil!

[info]maryavatar

March 13 2005, 21:44:54 UTC 7 years ago

Evil to Radek, but Rodney and John got laid, so it evens out ;)

[info]spikedluv

March 13 2005, 21:40:45 UTC 7 years ago

That was fun!! I liked John's loopy grin and Rodney reminding him that Zelenka couldn't get back in, lol.

[info]maryavatar

March 13 2005, 21:46:32 UTC 7 years ago

There are so many opportunities for the guys with the gene to play practical jokes on the ones that don't. Just thinking about it give me a case of the muah ha has.

[info]lurkerlynne

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[info]daughtershade

March 13 2005, 23:18:50 UTC 7 years ago

*imagines poor Zelenka standing outside the door going, "Guys? Guys? Hello! Anyone?" like an ignored little brother* Aw! Poor Radek having to put up with these two. Hee! Nice idea.

[info]maryavatar

March 13 2005, 23:31:56 UTC 7 years ago

LOL! Yeah, I had that mental image too.

[info]moonlettuce

March 13 2005, 23:20:52 UTC 7 years ago

Hee! Poor Zelenka being locked away when Rodney gets distracted *grin*

[info]maryavatar

March 13 2005, 23:33:16 UTC 7 years ago

You can just see that happening, can't you? Rodney gets sidetracked for 'five minutes' and it turns into six hours.

[info]ex_danvers514

March 13 2005, 23:45:03 UTC 7 years ago

Heh, excellent ;-)

Also, I could so hear the line:

"No problem," John said, with a scowl. "It's what I'm here for."

And loved the ending a lot ;-)

[info]maryavatar

March 13 2005, 23:48:40 UTC 7 years ago

Thank you :)

[info]kageygirl

March 14 2005, 01:02:35 UTC 7 years ago

Oh, this is so cute! Though I feel bad for poor Zelenka, subject to their whims... *g*

[info]maryavatar

March 14 2005, 01:05:20 UTC 7 years ago

Yep, and I bet all the bathrooms on that level are gene-activated too.

[info]thecomfychair

March 14 2005, 01:09:00 UTC 7 years ago

heh, poor Zelenka. I can just see him just sitting there, forlornly waiting.
very cute, especially the last line :)

[info]maryavatar

March 14 2005, 01:13:01 UTC 7 years ago

Hmmm, I just had a thought... I wonder if the doors are soundproof?

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[info]wickedwords

March 14 2005, 01:18:55 UTC 7 years ago

Very cute! Thanks.

[info]maryavatar

March 14 2005, 07:27:49 UTC 7 years ago

Thank you :)

[info]krabbypatty

March 14 2005, 02:28:51 UTC 7 years ago

Hee, cute.

[info]maryavatar

March 14 2005, 07:28:20 UTC 7 years ago

Thanks!

[info]julad

March 14 2005, 12:36:17 UTC 7 years ago

You just made me laugh out loud at Zelenka and now I feel awful, like I've kicked a puppy. Aside from the lifetime of guilt and anguish it has given me, this was totally great: lively and spicy-sweet from beginning to end. The voices were dead-on for me, and I am weirdly in love with Rodney's line of technobabble. :)

[info]maryavatar

March 14 2005, 17:37:49 UTC 7 years ago

Yeah, it's bad to pick on Zelenka. He's impossible to be mean to. Unless you're Ford, of course.

I'm terrible at technobabble, I did some very basic astrophysics at uni, but can't remember a single word of it. I tend to type things like 'solar flare statistics' into Google and C&P what it spits out ;)

[info]carolyn_claire

March 14 2005, 21:20:04 UTC 7 years ago

Adorable! :)

[info]maryavatar

March 14 2005, 21:32:57 UTC 7 years ago

Thank you :)

[info]celli

March 29 2005, 08:52:46 UTC 7 years ago

*grin*

[info]maryavatar

March 29 2005, 10:23:40 UTC 7 years ago

Thanks :)

[info]kuonji14

April 6 2006, 05:23:26 UTC 6 years ago

haha, so cute! IQ of an eggplant, snork.

"Honestly, I was only gone for ten minutes." Rodney was standing at the other end of the corridor eating a granola bar.

So Rodney, poor Zelenka, thank you.

When you think about it, the SGA team totally got lucky that the Ancients didn't just go ahead and key every last single thing to respond to the gene, cuz, duh, doesn't everyone have one?
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