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[scientificsnark]

It had been exactly a month since the...weekend debacle, and everything seemed to be fine with Jill, which meant Rodney McKay didn't have an excuse to stay hidden in his hut for much longer. Avoiding Sheppard and everyone else seemed a little immature, and Rodney did not want such an unflattering adjective attached to his name

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[mayko_tran]

Mayko tries to be good, she really does, but she's earned this moment.

"It's all right," she says. "The banana's not gonna make you put a ring on its finger."

[scientificsnark]

"Go boil your head- Oh, Mayko, it's you," Rodney said as he turned, plastering on a huge fake smile. "I thought you were someone else. Someone with no sense of humour whatsoever."

Jill would probably kick him for talking to her best friend like that, but really, it was sarcasm in self defense.

[mayko_tran]

"That was my first thought, obviously," says Mayko, reaching over and grabbing a banana for herself, hovering by the table as she peels it. "So what did the fruit do to you, anyway?"

[scientificsnark]

"Not fruit, citrus," said Rodney grumpily, turning back to the bowl. "I'm allergic, if you must know. To lemons, especially. So much as a drop of lemon and I swell up like the Goodyear blimp. Now you have to tell me your Achilles heel so it's fair," he pointed out.

[mayko_tran]

"I'm invulnerable," quips Mayko, scouting through the fruit bowl on his behalf, pushing a bunch of bananas aside to see what's lurking beneath. "No lemons. No oranges either. Looks like you're safe for today."

[scientificsnark]

Rodney tried not to look relieved, and failed. "Of course," he said, "I wasn't that worried. I used to fight aliens on a daily basis, you know." He paused. "And nobody's invulnerable." Except him that one time.

[mayko_tran]

"Well, apparently lemons are scarier than aliens, then," says Mayko, finally taking a seat with the half-a-banana that she has remaining. "Okay, I might have some vulnerabilities. Like bombs. I also apparently can't say no when offered a pet, which is ridiculous because I didn't have any back in Toronto. Feel better now?"

[scientificsnark]

Rodney got an idea. "I have this...dog," he said slowly. "It's very cute. Energetic. Named Cash. I don't think he likes it in New Atlantis. I could bring it over any time..."

Provided Cash wasn't with Sheppard when he kidnapped it, that is. Dognapped. Whatever.

[mayko_tran]

Mayko laughs as she looks for somewhere to get rid of her banana peel. "Okay, it's not quite that easy," she says, "but you're warm. Huh, I don't remember Jill mentioning you had a dog."

[scientificsnark]

Rodney shrugged, trying not to look too devious.

"She doesn't like it very much," he lied.

[mayko_tran]

"Try harder," Mayko encourages him, enjoying the conversation probably more than she should be. "Evoke some sentimental feelings in me."

[scientificsnark]

"Um..." Rodney tried to think. "It might escape and get eaten by a dinosaur if it doesn't get a good home? And then the dinosaur might get heartburn. Think of the dinosaur," he said.