Everybody Falls in Love!
Listen, flist, I'm going to tell you a secret:
I'm a big fat mushy sappy ROMANTIC.
There, I said it! So I think I should try the Everybody Falls in Love meme (as gacked from sunsetmog). Give me a pair (or a trio, or a foursome *eyes SGA*) and I will pick some and tell you how they fall in love ( Read more... )
I'm a big fat mushy sappy ROMANTIC.
There, I said it! So I think I should try the Everybody Falls in Love meme (as gacked from sunsetmog). Give me a pair (or a trio, or a foursome *eyes SGA*) and I will pick some and tell you how they fall in love ( Read more... )
And it was Rodney who said quietly (one night, sitting in Teyla's quarters, holding her sleeping kid), "I think maybe I'm kind of in love with you. Um."
He glanced at her. She was sitting curled up in her favorite chair, holding a tea cup, and her mouth was open a little as she stared at him.
"Sorry," he said, looking blindly down at Torran. "I mean, you don't have to - it's okay. I just. Sorry." He looked at her again. "It just slipped out. I've been - I didn't mean to say it. Out loud."
She closed her mouth. "Rodney," she said softly.
He stood up - he was getting good at standing while holding Torran, he didn't even stir - and carried Torran into Teyla's room. The baby was all wrapped up like a little burrito, and when Rodney lay him in his cradle and set it swinging, Torran's face scrunched up for a second, but he didn't open his eyes, and a moment later he was still again.
"I'll leave," Rodney said, coming back into the living space.
Teyla was standing, waiting for him. "Wait," she said.
"No, no," he said, sidling past her, toward the door. "Can you just -" He looked at her, imploring - "Forget I said that? I really. I didn't. I mean." He stopped and shrugged helplessly. She moved to stand between him and the door, and she was standing very close, and he felt like an idiot. Not his favorite feeling, seriously. "I need to -" He pointed at the door. "Go."
"Rodney," she said again. Her voice was scared, and soft, and that made him look into her face.
"Yes?"
"Don't go," she said. And then she lifted onto her toes and kissed his mouth, and he kissed her back, and - wow. It was like, it was like - he didn't know what, and before he knew it she had her arms around him and he was cupping her face and kissing her mouth, her cheeks, her chin, her cheek again, her ear.
She laughed and pushed her face into his shoulder, holding on tight, and he wrapped his arms around her and said "Okay - I. God. Good." He bent his head and kissed her ear again, then the top of her head. "Oh wow," he said, "this is so good," and he meant it with all his heart.
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A week later, after a lot more kissing, and some other stuff that was so amazing Rodney wasn't sure his head was still connected to his body, and Ronon glaring at him murderously for two days, and John looking really uncomfortable and saying "Oh Christ, just - don't talk to me about it, okay? I suck at that stuff" and Ronon finally subsiding into mumbled resignation with only the occasional squinting scowl at Rodney (with accompanying rumbled threat to Rodney's safety should Teyla express even minor dissatisfaction with Rodney), and some other stuff happening - after all that, Rodney was sitting in Teyla's quarters, again, holding Torran.
This time Torran was awake, and turning his head back and forth, face scrunching up a little. "He's hungry," Rodney said, and stood up to hand him over to Teyla. She had him tucked into her arms and chowing down in a minute, maybe less - she was good at this stuff - and Rodney flopped back onto the sofa. He just sat there for a minute, watching Torran breastfeed - it was hilarious, his little eyes actually rolled back in his head with ecstasy, and Rodney could totally relate - and feeling sleepy and contented and like maybe he'd open his laptop again and work on those stupid personnel reviews in a minute.
Teyla looked up and caught him watching them. She smiled mischievously.
Rodney turned red - he could feel his face heat up - and sputtered "What? What? I was just zoned out, I wasn't - I mean. Um." She was laughing at him. "What?" He started smiling. He couldn't help it!
"You may look, now," she said, and he turned even redder, and choked, and finally lay his head back against the couch and laughed.
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...but I can't help but think that Rodney would be so much better for Teyla!
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But UNTIL WE DO: Rodney/Teyla FTW!
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