Fic: Two More Minutes
Title: Two More Minutes
Author:
blue_underwing
Rating: PG-13
Category: Gen
Character: McKay
Spoilers: Storm/Eye
Series: Two Minutes
Word count: ~750
Challenge: Secret Superpower
Warnings: THIS WILL MAKE NO SENSE UNLESS YOU HAVE READ TWO MINUTES
Author's Note: In the comments for Two Minutes,
diane_mckay asked when in the Storm/Eye eps. McKay used his power. Thus, this ficlet came into being.
Summary: The radio was silent for a moment, then Major Sheppard’s voice came through. “……Weirs alive??!”
Two More Minutes
“Say goodbye to Doctor Weir.”
This is insane. Kolya is going to shoot Dr. Weir just to prove a point. McKay could still hear Major Sheppard protesting over the radio. “Kolya!! Kolya! Don't do this!!”
“How is this going to help you get what you want?” And how can Elizabeth sound so rational with a madman about to shoot her?
“Sheppard put you in this position, not me.” Ah, yes. Trust the gun toting maniac to disclaim all responsibility for his actions. Just because he’s the one with the troops, the guns, the goons in the room and that girl who looks like the second coming of Goldilocks you think she’s going to ask which way to grandma’s house any second only she’s on the wolf’s side and my what big teeth does Kolya have…
“She's right, Commander.” So maybe Goldilocks is on our side, not the wolf’s, but wait, wasn’t the wolf little red riding-
STOP IT!
Come on. Focus, Rodney, focus. Say something. Do something. What do I…
The gun. Get between Dr. Weir and the gun.
McKay moved.
Good. Now SAY SOMETHING, DAMMIT! “You can't do this. I won’t help you if you hurt her, and I’m the only one who can save this city. You hurt her and I’ll just let us all drown. I won’t-“
“Oh, I think you’ll to everything I tell you to, Doctor.” God, he’s looking at my arm. The knife-crazy bastard is smirking and…
Think of something else. “Well, I’m not moving. If you want to shoot her you’re going to have to shoot me first.”
He’s laughing? What he hell? And he’s aiming; talk faster. “I mean it. You’ll have to shoot me first and you can’t save the city without me so you’d better just-“
!!!!!!!BANG!!!!!!!
McKay felt something warm splash his face, and then heard thump from behind him.
He turned.
Elizabeth. Oh God, Elizabeth. The psychopath must have shot her over my shoulder. The angles. I didn’t think… Oh God, her head!
He raised a hand to cover his eyes, and jerked it back immediately when he felt something squish.
The hand came away with blood and…other things on it.
Elizabeth. There are bits of Elizabeth on me. He almost giggled.
He could hear Goldilocks yelling at the Big Bad Wolf in the background, but that didn’t matter. He had to focus. He had to fix this.
What should I have said? What should I say? Think, Rodney, think. You have to focus, have fix this. There’s no more time. You’re a genius, now THINK of something!. You have to fix this. You have to fix this You have to fix this Have to fix this have to fix this have tofixthishavetofixthishavetofixthishavetofixthisfixthisfixthisfixthisfixthisfixthisfixthisfixthisfixthis
“Sheppard put you in this position, not me.” Move NOW! Watch the angles!
McKay stepped between Weir and the gun. “You can't do this. This is crazy. You need her.” He needs HER. That’s good. Go with that.
“She's right, Commander.” Goldilocks again. Won’t be enough. Keep talking.
“I'm not kidding. There are codes required to activate the shields. Codes that only she knows! You can't do it without her.” He’s still pointing the gun, try again.
“Well you can't do this without me either. I mean… we're a package deal… You take us out of the equations and… and… and… and you don't have an endgame.” Oh, like they’ll understand that! Not Earth, Idiot! Fix it! Think faster!
“Erm…granted…that's a chess term… I'm I'm…my point is…we're the only ones who can fix the grounding station, we're the only ones who can activate the shields, we're the only ones who can solve problems that I can't even think of yet…!! You kill either one of us and you don't get what you want!! That's how important we are! Its impor---“
“Rodney…Rodney he gets it.” Elizabeth. That’s Elizabeth. She’s still here and her head is still here and Kolya put the gun down and he’s leaving…
“Oh.” FIXED IT!!! Now breathe.
Weir looked at Goldilocks and started “I appreciate-“
She cut her off. “You're an asset we need to complete this mission,” she said, then walked out.
Seems like Elizabeth isn’t going to bring Goldilocks over to our side anytime soon and oh she’s talking to me now.
“You stood in front of a gun for me.”
“Don't thank me just yet. We have two and a half hours ‘til the storm hits and unless our luck changes drastically? The city is going to be obliterated.”
And we don’t have two minutes anymore.