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More Halloween Madness

Nov 21, 2006 01:25

Characters: John Sheppard, Rodney Mckay, Rose Tyler, Jack Harkness
Location: John's Balcony
Time: During the Halloween Party
Semi-Private and InComplete
Summary: Rodney made himself known, much to John's chagrin, and Rose wants to know what is going on, and she's going to make Jack help her figure it out, cuz Jack luffs John.

( So just how crazy are you, exactly? )

rodney mckay, john sheppard, rose tyler, jack harkness

Comments 17

sga1sheppard November 21 2006, 09:24:25 UTC

He let Rose lead him outside because really? By this point, he was pliable as a claymation blow-up doll with C4 strapped to its...armpits. He'd been irritably possessed by one guy, soulfully grabbed by another, drunkenly macked on by a third, and had his own finger pointed at him, shaking with accusation, and most of this had happened in the last hour. Although his natural defenses against unecessary confrontation, especially the emotional kind, remained firmly in place--he wasn't about to start tearfully spouting off about his, well about anything--he seemed to have reverted to the order-following non-person that he had forced himself to be to get through boot camp years and years ago. Besides, Rose had kind of a firm grip on his arm, and the only way to loosen that hold would have involved hurting her, and he wouldn't do that ( ... )

teh_bad_wolf November 21 2006, 09:29:32 UTC

"Do you wanna talk about it?" Rose asked gently, searching his face, trying to see past the blank wall he had up.

sga1sheppard November 21 2006, 09:34:41 UTC

"No."

Even to his own ears he sounded petulant. "Not really. Not at all." He frowned, though he was looking away, and she wouldn't be able to see. "It's complicated," he said, tripping over his own silences.

teh_bad_wolf November 21 2006, 09:37:10 UTC

"Complicated how?" Rose asked gently, ignoring the fact that said he didn't want to talk about it. If he didn't want to talk about it, he should have just said no, and left it at that. But he didn't so she would push.

sga1sheppard November 21 2006, 09:50:24 UTC

There was really no getting around it. John was gonna have to tell, and that was all there was to it. But by God he could call on the honored tradition of all red-blooded men--going back to those sly cave men who took up painting on their dark cave walls to avoid talking about things--and hem and haw as much as he humanly could.

"Complicated like Steve Martin and Lily Tomlin in 'All of Me'," he said, still staring straight out at the silver water.