Fic: Get Over It. Day 2 Prompt 2 Cliff
Title: Get Over It
Author: clwilson2006
Prompt #: 2 Cliff
Prompt Table: F
Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Rating: PG
Character/Pairing: Team
Word Count: 565
Disclaimer: The characters portrayed here are not mine. I intend no harm.
“Oh No, it's huge.” Rodney stared in dismay.
“Why can't we just climb it?” John asked
“What! You think I'm climbing that” Rodney gestured “it's a massive cliff, Colonel, and you want me to climb it” He slumped down on a boulder.
“We'll help you.” John tried to sound re-assuring, but he was trying not to laugh at the same time.
“C'mon McKay, It'll be easy” Ronon slapped him on the shoulder making Rodney grunt.
“Of course we will help you Rodney” Teyla's smile didn't help much either
“I cannot possibly climb that, I will simply plan a route around the monster” he shook the hand-held scanner at them, then started to poke at it.
“I am not some kind of mountain goat, and no amount being forced to run the corridors of Atlantis with you,” he waved in John's direction “And being beaten to a pulp by you two.” his hand moved to Ronon and Teyla. “We have no safety equipment. We need ropes and, and, and stuff. What if I fall?” he trailed off.
The rest of his team were checking out Rodney's Cliff, checking for hand holds.
He jumped up from his boulder and marched up behind them.
“Look it's only six or seven kilometres in that direction, we can go around” Rodney was starting to get into the flow of his rant, so John pulled out the big guns.
“Zelenka could do it.” He drawled at Rodney.
Rodney's mouth snapped shut and the glare he shot John could have felled him where he stood.
“Fine!” Rodney shoved the scanner in a vest pocket. He made an 'after you' movement at John, then stood back with his arms crossed.
John grinned, and handed his P90 to Teyla. He lifted one leg onto a step jutting out at knee height, placed his hands on the top of the head height outcropping and hoisted himself over the top in one fluid movement.
“See?” His head hung over the edge as lay there looking down at Rodney.
Teyla shot him another smile, stood on the same step John had used, and with no help was up and over the top with as much skill as John and a whole lot more grace.
“You go next, I'll stay here, make sure you don't fall or anything” Ronon was grinning at him too.
Flushing pink, but remaining silent Rodney approached the cliff. He put one foot on the step, and his hands on the top. One arm was gripped by Teyla the other by John.
With a loud 'oof' sound Rodney hauled himself up. Ronon helped by putting both of his hands on Rodney's butt and giving a huge shove at the same time that John and Teyla pulled. Rodney was pushed and pulled and eventually rolled over the top of the outcropping. He lie there in the grass, watching the clouds float above him for a while.
“See buddy, no problem” John was sitting cross-legged by the side of him. Ronon and Teyla looming over him.
“You gonna lay in the grass all day” Ronon offered him a hand.
Rodney brushed himself down, squared his shoulders, and looked over the edge.
“Hmm. Doesn't look as bad from this direction” He commented.
Laughing they continued on their way.