The Ancient History Boys by bergann [Ancient History Challenge]
Title: The Ancient History Boys: A Snippet
Author: bergann
Rating/Characters: PG-13. Kind of John/Rodney.
Summary: "For you or for the rooms, you heard what Elizabeth said about the Ancients."
Warnings/Spoilers: none
Notes: Unbeta'd and a sort of fusion with the movie The History Boys. If I was actually writing this, then a variation of this scene would be likely to appear. Oh, and it's silly.
Word Count: ~500
"Could you look anymore excited?" McKay asks sourly, once Sheppard falls back from sucking up to Teyla.
"Well unless you plan to take me into the next room we come across that we don't have to break into, and give it a try, I think this is as excited as I can look," Sheppard drawls, amused like McKay hasn't been perfecting his murderous looks on Teyla's back for the past half hour.
"Wouldn't be the first time," Dex says from behind them, arms flung across their shoulders as he grins. "For you or for the rooms, you heard what Elizabeth said about the Ancients."
"Elizabeth said that they were open-minded, not that they had some weird sexual urges that could never, not ever be quenched." McKay informs him - all of them, and shrugs Dex's arm off.
"Ah, but we cannot be sure they are not the same thing," Zelenka says, drowning out Sheppard's offended 'hey!', and grinning like a fool as he shoves his shoulder against Lorne.
"Ma'am," Lorne says loudly, and hides his grin as Teyla looks over her shoulder. "This part of the city was for the men only, right? So there was a lot of the same sex stuff going on, weren’t there?"
Teyla waits until they're done groaning and laughing respectively, before she patiently answers with, "The Ancients were not unlike other cultures in their...relationships. Once the men had fathered children, they were free to see whomever they wished - and it was in this part of the city that they could so choose to live. It is only your planet that seems to have it different. Of course, now, there are now other ways, rules, for two people of the same sex who wish to live together - the slumber of the Wraith has not made the necessity of babies so big."
"So," Dex concludes, slapping Sheppard on the back. "You can have at McKay anytime and anywhere you want. The Ancients would approve. He might be your road to enlightenment, Sheppard."
"Hey," Grodin says suddenly, voice so curious that it has all of them anticipating either a really bad joke or an interesting question. "Has anyone from Canada ever actually Ascended?"
"I will be the first," McKay snaps, head thudding lightly against Sheppard's shoulder, but his fingers are slowly connecting with Sheppard’s -"if it means getting away from you morons."
Which is exactly when Sheppard reaches out with his other hand to a panel and the city (the city of Atlantis that has stood dead and empty for over ten thousand years, according to all their books, and all their teachers) lights up all around them.
"Cool," Sheppard says as McKay fights the urge to say ‘holy crap, gay love can do that?’, "I found the on switch."
Author: bergann
Rating/Characters: PG-13. Kind of John/Rodney.
Summary: "For you or for the rooms, you heard what Elizabeth said about the Ancients."
Warnings/Spoilers: none
Notes: Unbeta'd and a sort of fusion with the movie The History Boys. If I was actually writing this, then a variation of this scene would be likely to appear. Oh, and it's silly.
Word Count: ~500
"Could you look anymore excited?" McKay asks sourly, once Sheppard falls back from sucking up to Teyla.
"Well unless you plan to take me into the next room we come across that we don't have to break into, and give it a try, I think this is as excited as I can look," Sheppard drawls, amused like McKay hasn't been perfecting his murderous looks on Teyla's back for the past half hour.
"Wouldn't be the first time," Dex says from behind them, arms flung across their shoulders as he grins. "For you or for the rooms, you heard what Elizabeth said about the Ancients."
"Elizabeth said that they were open-minded, not that they had some weird sexual urges that could never, not ever be quenched." McKay informs him - all of them, and shrugs Dex's arm off.
"Ah, but we cannot be sure they are not the same thing," Zelenka says, drowning out Sheppard's offended 'hey!', and grinning like a fool as he shoves his shoulder against Lorne.
"Ma'am," Lorne says loudly, and hides his grin as Teyla looks over her shoulder. "This part of the city was for the men only, right? So there was a lot of the same sex stuff going on, weren’t there?"
Teyla waits until they're done groaning and laughing respectively, before she patiently answers with, "The Ancients were not unlike other cultures in their...relationships. Once the men had fathered children, they were free to see whomever they wished - and it was in this part of the city that they could so choose to live. It is only your planet that seems to have it different. Of course, now, there are now other ways, rules, for two people of the same sex who wish to live together - the slumber of the Wraith has not made the necessity of babies so big."
"So," Dex concludes, slapping Sheppard on the back. "You can have at McKay anytime and anywhere you want. The Ancients would approve. He might be your road to enlightenment, Sheppard."
"Hey," Grodin says suddenly, voice so curious that it has all of them anticipating either a really bad joke or an interesting question. "Has anyone from Canada ever actually Ascended?"
"I will be the first," McKay snaps, head thudding lightly against Sheppard's shoulder, but his fingers are slowly connecting with Sheppard’s -"if it means getting away from you morons."
Which is exactly when Sheppard reaches out with his other hand to a panel and the city (the city of Atlantis that has stood dead and empty for over ten thousand years, according to all their books, and all their teachers) lights up all around them.
"Cool," Sheppard says as McKay fights the urge to say ‘holy crap, gay love can do that?’, "I found the on switch."