battles 2/? Atlantean_three challenge
Title: Battles
Author:
lil_aber_lisa
Charcter/Pairing: Beckett/McKay
Rating: PG/ pg-13
Warnings/Notes: spoiler to michael and a spoiler to a dr who episode from the second series.
Word count: 1,686
Summary: Rodney has to facea number of battles of the heart and of the mind
Beta:
aleana15 All remaining mistakes are mine.
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters or ideas from SGA, nor is any profit being made.
Note: This is a fic for
aleana15 and the
atlantean_three ficathon. My prompt was:
Three sins - Wrath, Pride and Lust .
Specifics- that its on atlantis and is a pg-13 and is a rodney/ carson fic
Chapter 2
Back in Elizabeth’s office, Dr. Weir sat with John, Teyla and Ronon, waiting for Carson to return.
“Does anyone know the reason for Rodney’s outburst? As a member of your team I’m sure you would have noticed a change in him.”
“McKay hasn’t been his usual self certainly,” Teyla offered. “The comments have been fewer and his bickering with Colonel Sheppard has stopped.”
Then the doors opened and Carson rushed in. “I’m sorry Elizabeth but something has gotten to him, his emotions are rising and falling like a rollercoaster. I would like to keep an eye on him, maybe run some tests.”
Elizabeth nodded in agreement. “Carson, thank-you. For the time being I’ll restrict him to the base: no off-world expeditions until he sorts himself out. Maybe some sessions with Heightmeyer would be good for him. But for now we need to plan catching ourselves a Wraith,” she added.
Carson nodded and the team continued to plan the capture; although Carson was participating in the discussion his full attention wasn’t in the room. He knew this was an important mission, but to push aside Rodney’s problem wasn’t something Elizabeth normally did, unless she was under pressure from higher leaders in the SGC.
“Excuse me Elizabeth but I must say something.”
“Yes Carson.”
“All due respect, I know ya want to catch a Wraith and all, but we could do so much better if we had the final member of this team… Rodney McKay; we canna’ push him aside just because he’s against the idea.”
John Sheppard stared at the doctor, trying to see why he was questioning their motives. “Carson you can’t be serious, McKay is just missing the coffee or one of his scientists has proved him wrong; he’s fine, just being the usual McKay.”
“I’m so’ry but I disagree,” Carson said boldly. “Please excuse me, I’m gonna try again with him.” Without waiting for dismissal he left the room again, leaving the team a little shocked at his sudden flare of emotion. Carson shook slightly from the adrenaline that raced through his veins as he walked along the corridors, so he tried to focus on what he was going to say to Rodney. He was concentrating so much he hadn’t noticed that he’d pushed his way past Laura Cadman.
“Hey! Carson!”
Carson spun himself round and saw Laura. “Sorry I canna stop, I’ll see ya later,” he said apologetically as he rushed off, but Laura followed him, wanting to see what had made him so flustered. Soon, without Carson realising he was being followed, he reached Rodney’s door and, after a short hesitation, knocked. Laura simply sighed, she had better things to do then watch those two argue again, so she turned round and left them too it.
“Come in,” came a faint murmur from Rodney’s room.
Carson shuffled in slowly, seeing the lights brighten as he moved further inside the room.
“Rodney?” Carson stared at Rodney, who had curled himself into the foetal position on his bed. “Rodney, ya gonna complain of ya back if you stay like that much longer.”
Rodney tilted his head up to look at the doctor. “Hmmph?”
“Rodney please, I don’t want ya moaning to my staff about your back, they’re threatening to drug you one of these days!”
“Well it’s taken them this long to think of that! Why not just ask a soldier to kill me in friendly fire?” Rodney sulked.
“Och Rodney don’t say that.” Carson edged forward to the bed and sat down. Rodney rolled himself over and uncurled, but as he did a few vertebrae clicked and crunched and Carson could see from Rodney’s expression that he was in pain. Just as I warned him, Carson thought as Rodney sat up fully.
“Carson,” the scientist began, “I know I don’t say this often but, well, I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have shouted at you earlier.” He keep moving his eyes, unwilling, or unable, to meet his friend’s gaze.
Carson sighed. “Rodney you don’t have to; like I said before, I’m your friend and you can talk about anything to me. I just wish you could see how much trust you can have in me.”
Rodney sighed and gave a fake smile. “You’ve seen what happens when trust is involved,” he said, “I’ve disappointed Sheppard on more than one occasion and now, just for an opinion, it’s no longer counted. I know you mean well, but how do I know that I won’t disappoint you too?”
“Rodney you can’t worry about that. We all disappoint someone in our lifetime and we learn from it and move on. You haven’t done anything for me to be disappointed in you.”
“Not even when Laura made me kiss you?” Rodney’s face became flushed. “People didn’t stop talking about that for months.”
“Aye but Laura and I are together now and everyone’s forgotten about it… well a little.” McKay flinched when Carson mentioned Laura’s name and Carson saw the reaction. “You don’t like her do you?”
“Course I don’t! She one, implied that I can’t get a date; two, that I’ve never had a date with a woman; three, she made me run a near marathon; four, saw my body naked and, not forgetting; five, forced myself onto you, not just with the kiss but the flirting late at night as well.” Rodney blushed when he saw Carson gasp at the list.
“She saw you naked?” They both grew uncomfortable and blushed.
“She sleeps like it and so she made me sleep like it too; I woke up in her room. Sorry, I thought she would have told you.”
Carson shook his head. “She said she’d told me everything, that she wanted to be honest with me so I wouldn’t get mad at you for what you did.” He paused for a moment; his hand hovering over Rodney’s hand, before eventually placing it on top of the scientist’s. Rodney didn’t pull his hand away, though a look of confusion had created fine lines on his face.
“It’s all in the past,” Carson said gently, “and I would be grateful if you could help us devise a better plan to catch a Wraith. I know you’re not happy with it, but at least try, for the team’s sake.”
Rodney shook his head. “I won’t do it for them.” Carson sighed dejectedly but then he added, “Carson I’ll try for your sake. I can see how much this would help your research and I’ll stick by my … friend.” They both smiled, forgetting their hands interlocked, Carson’s on top of Rodney’s. When they remembered they both pulled away and blushed profusely.
“Can you give me a couple of minutes to change please?” Rodney said eventually to break the awkward silence. He moved to the bathroom with a new t-shirt and a blushing face to try and get rid of; he felt a tingling on his hand, similar to the feeling on his cheek from earlier, reliving the warmth of Carson’s touch.
“What plans do you have so far?” Rodney enquired, having to shout slightly over the running water.
“Tranquilisers, but they aren’t as effective as we would like. Perhaps we need a trap of some kind.”
“Can’t we catch one like we did Steve?”
“How’d you mean?”
“I’m sure I could rig a device similar to that of Teyla’s necklace, a beacon as such, and use the taser… oh wait no we have a Wraith stunner now, we can use one of them to take them down, bring them back and start the treatment ASAP.”
“Aye ya’ should put forward the idea to the others, I’m sure Elizabeth would agree.”
Rodney came out of the bathroom. “Let’s find out.”
Rodney walked the long corridors puffing his chest out slightly when anyone stared at him too long. He often side-looked at Carson and couldn’t help the smirk that formed on his lips and he turned his head to hide it from Carson. They finally reached Elizabeth’s office and Carson walked in first
“Elizabeth, Rodney has an idea that might…” Rodney coughed behind him and Carson corrected himself, “So’ry, an idea that will get us a Wraith.”
Elizabeth nodded. “And that is?” Carson stepped to the side to allow Rodney to speak to the others. Rodney shifted on his feet and his eyes moved from Elizabeth to Carson and back to the Elizabeth.
“Make a device similar to Teyla’s necklace, to lure the Wraith into a trap and use the Wraith stunner to knock out one of them to bring them back.”
Dr. Weir smiled in agreement. “That was an idea we had in mind. If you can help we would really appreciate it Rodney. Are you sure you can do this?”
Rodney darted a glare at Elizabeth. “It’s not a case of can; it is a case of want to!”
Carson interjected, “Rodney, I’d be so grateful if you built us that device so the plan can work.” Rodney blushed; Carson had managed again to use their attraction to one another to convince Rodney to help, whether he realised it or not. Rodney nodded and left again with no word.
“Are you sure he will do it Carson?” John Sheppard finally piped up.
“I have all confidence in him John and so should you. If ya’ll excuse me I have an infirmary to deal with.”
Everyone seemed to keep quiet around Rodney and he couldn’t quite shake the feeling of uneasiness between them away this just made him feel tense on his way to the lab, and the look of concern from Radek as he entered the lab increased only his nervousness.
“Radek.”
“McKay.”
“Do we still have the schematics for Teyla’s necklace?”
“Yes I believe we do.” Radek Zelenka rustled quickly through a CD case of discs and pulled the necessary one out, handing it straight to McKay.
“Thank-you. I think I’ll design this in my room. Thank-you again Radek.” Now he was even being polite to Zelenka? Rodney shook his head and rushed out the lab to the safety of his room and began to design the device.
hope you enjoy and please feel free to comment
Author:
lil_aber_lisa
Charcter/Pairing: Beckett/McKay
Rating: PG/ pg-13
Warnings/Notes: spoiler to michael and a spoiler to a dr who episode from the second series.
Word count: 1,686
Summary: Rodney has to facea number of battles of the heart and of the mind
Beta:
aleana15 All remaining mistakes are mine.
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters or ideas from SGA, nor is any profit being made.
Note: This is a fic for
aleana15 and the
atlantean_three ficathon. My prompt was:
Three sins - Wrath, Pride and Lust .
Specifics- that its on atlantis and is a pg-13 and is a rodney/ carson fic
Chapter 2
Back in Elizabeth’s office, Dr. Weir sat with John, Teyla and Ronon, waiting for Carson to return.
“Does anyone know the reason for Rodney’s outburst? As a member of your team I’m sure you would have noticed a change in him.”
“McKay hasn’t been his usual self certainly,” Teyla offered. “The comments have been fewer and his bickering with Colonel Sheppard has stopped.”
Then the doors opened and Carson rushed in. “I’m sorry Elizabeth but something has gotten to him, his emotions are rising and falling like a rollercoaster. I would like to keep an eye on him, maybe run some tests.”
Elizabeth nodded in agreement. “Carson, thank-you. For the time being I’ll restrict him to the base: no off-world expeditions until he sorts himself out. Maybe some sessions with Heightmeyer would be good for him. But for now we need to plan catching ourselves a Wraith,” she added.
Carson nodded and the team continued to plan the capture; although Carson was participating in the discussion his full attention wasn’t in the room. He knew this was an important mission, but to push aside Rodney’s problem wasn’t something Elizabeth normally did, unless she was under pressure from higher leaders in the SGC.
“Excuse me Elizabeth but I must say something.”
“Yes Carson.”
“All due respect, I know ya want to catch a Wraith and all, but we could do so much better if we had the final member of this team… Rodney McKay; we canna’ push him aside just because he’s against the idea.”
John Sheppard stared at the doctor, trying to see why he was questioning their motives. “Carson you can’t be serious, McKay is just missing the coffee or one of his scientists has proved him wrong; he’s fine, just being the usual McKay.”
“I’m so’ry but I disagree,” Carson said boldly. “Please excuse me, I’m gonna try again with him.” Without waiting for dismissal he left the room again, leaving the team a little shocked at his sudden flare of emotion. Carson shook slightly from the adrenaline that raced through his veins as he walked along the corridors, so he tried to focus on what he was going to say to Rodney. He was concentrating so much he hadn’t noticed that he’d pushed his way past Laura Cadman.
“Hey! Carson!”
Carson spun himself round and saw Laura. “Sorry I canna stop, I’ll see ya later,” he said apologetically as he rushed off, but Laura followed him, wanting to see what had made him so flustered. Soon, without Carson realising he was being followed, he reached Rodney’s door and, after a short hesitation, knocked. Laura simply sighed, she had better things to do then watch those two argue again, so she turned round and left them too it.
“Come in,” came a faint murmur from Rodney’s room.
Carson shuffled in slowly, seeing the lights brighten as he moved further inside the room.
“Rodney?” Carson stared at Rodney, who had curled himself into the foetal position on his bed. “Rodney, ya gonna complain of ya back if you stay like that much longer.”
Rodney tilted his head up to look at the doctor. “Hmmph?”
“Rodney please, I don’t want ya moaning to my staff about your back, they’re threatening to drug you one of these days!”
“Well it’s taken them this long to think of that! Why not just ask a soldier to kill me in friendly fire?” Rodney sulked.
“Och Rodney don’t say that.” Carson edged forward to the bed and sat down. Rodney rolled himself over and uncurled, but as he did a few vertebrae clicked and crunched and Carson could see from Rodney’s expression that he was in pain. Just as I warned him, Carson thought as Rodney sat up fully.
“Carson,” the scientist began, “I know I don’t say this often but, well, I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have shouted at you earlier.” He keep moving his eyes, unwilling, or unable, to meet his friend’s gaze.
Carson sighed. “Rodney you don’t have to; like I said before, I’m your friend and you can talk about anything to me. I just wish you could see how much trust you can have in me.”
Rodney sighed and gave a fake smile. “You’ve seen what happens when trust is involved,” he said, “I’ve disappointed Sheppard on more than one occasion and now, just for an opinion, it’s no longer counted. I know you mean well, but how do I know that I won’t disappoint you too?”
“Rodney you can’t worry about that. We all disappoint someone in our lifetime and we learn from it and move on. You haven’t done anything for me to be disappointed in you.”
“Not even when Laura made me kiss you?” Rodney’s face became flushed. “People didn’t stop talking about that for months.”
“Aye but Laura and I are together now and everyone’s forgotten about it… well a little.” McKay flinched when Carson mentioned Laura’s name and Carson saw the reaction. “You don’t like her do you?”
“Course I don’t! She one, implied that I can’t get a date; two, that I’ve never had a date with a woman; three, she made me run a near marathon; four, saw my body naked and, not forgetting; five, forced myself onto you, not just with the kiss but the flirting late at night as well.” Rodney blushed when he saw Carson gasp at the list.
“She saw you naked?” They both grew uncomfortable and blushed.
“She sleeps like it and so she made me sleep like it too; I woke up in her room. Sorry, I thought she would have told you.”
Carson shook his head. “She said she’d told me everything, that she wanted to be honest with me so I wouldn’t get mad at you for what you did.” He paused for a moment; his hand hovering over Rodney’s hand, before eventually placing it on top of the scientist’s. Rodney didn’t pull his hand away, though a look of confusion had created fine lines on his face.
“It’s all in the past,” Carson said gently, “and I would be grateful if you could help us devise a better plan to catch a Wraith. I know you’re not happy with it, but at least try, for the team’s sake.”
Rodney shook his head. “I won’t do it for them.” Carson sighed dejectedly but then he added, “Carson I’ll try for your sake. I can see how much this would help your research and I’ll stick by my … friend.” They both smiled, forgetting their hands interlocked, Carson’s on top of Rodney’s. When they remembered they both pulled away and blushed profusely.
“Can you give me a couple of minutes to change please?” Rodney said eventually to break the awkward silence. He moved to the bathroom with a new t-shirt and a blushing face to try and get rid of; he felt a tingling on his hand, similar to the feeling on his cheek from earlier, reliving the warmth of Carson’s touch.
“What plans do you have so far?” Rodney enquired, having to shout slightly over the running water.
“Tranquilisers, but they aren’t as effective as we would like. Perhaps we need a trap of some kind.”
“Can’t we catch one like we did Steve?”
“How’d you mean?”
“I’m sure I could rig a device similar to that of Teyla’s necklace, a beacon as such, and use the taser… oh wait no we have a Wraith stunner now, we can use one of them to take them down, bring them back and start the treatment ASAP.”
“Aye ya’ should put forward the idea to the others, I’m sure Elizabeth would agree.”
Rodney came out of the bathroom. “Let’s find out.”
Rodney walked the long corridors puffing his chest out slightly when anyone stared at him too long. He often side-looked at Carson and couldn’t help the smirk that formed on his lips and he turned his head to hide it from Carson. They finally reached Elizabeth’s office and Carson walked in first
“Elizabeth, Rodney has an idea that might…” Rodney coughed behind him and Carson corrected himself, “So’ry, an idea that will get us a Wraith.”
Elizabeth nodded. “And that is?” Carson stepped to the side to allow Rodney to speak to the others. Rodney shifted on his feet and his eyes moved from Elizabeth to Carson and back to the Elizabeth.
“Make a device similar to Teyla’s necklace, to lure the Wraith into a trap and use the Wraith stunner to knock out one of them to bring them back.”
Dr. Weir smiled in agreement. “That was an idea we had in mind. If you can help we would really appreciate it Rodney. Are you sure you can do this?”
Rodney darted a glare at Elizabeth. “It’s not a case of can; it is a case of want to!”
Carson interjected, “Rodney, I’d be so grateful if you built us that device so the plan can work.” Rodney blushed; Carson had managed again to use their attraction to one another to convince Rodney to help, whether he realised it or not. Rodney nodded and left again with no word.
“Are you sure he will do it Carson?” John Sheppard finally piped up.
“I have all confidence in him John and so should you. If ya’ll excuse me I have an infirmary to deal with.”
Everyone seemed to keep quiet around Rodney and he couldn’t quite shake the feeling of uneasiness between them away this just made him feel tense on his way to the lab, and the look of concern from Radek as he entered the lab increased only his nervousness.
“Radek.”
“McKay.”
“Do we still have the schematics for Teyla’s necklace?”
“Yes I believe we do.” Radek Zelenka rustled quickly through a CD case of discs and pulled the necessary one out, handing it straight to McKay.
“Thank-you. I think I’ll design this in my room. Thank-you again Radek.” Now he was even being polite to Zelenka? Rodney shook his head and rushed out the lab to the safety of his room and began to design the device.
hope you enjoy and please feel free to comment