[For Rodney - September 22]

[jill_langston]

The entire weekend, as far as Jill was concerned, had been entirely fucked up.

To be honest, she wasn't even sure Rodney had noticed that she hadn't been around for the past week and a half, she wasn't sure if he was at all aware that she'd been avoiding him, but that wasn't really the problem. Whether he'd realized it or not, she realized what

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[scientificsnark]

"Gaaahhhh!" Rodney exclaimed, almost dropping his tablet. Thank God he hadn't - while repairing it would have kept him occupied, he had far too much else to do to bother.

Michael's computers - and they were, undoubtedly, Michael's computers - had been keeping him occupied for the last three days, so it was hard to say if he actually even remembered Jill existed. He had explained things to her, hurriedly, while tapping away at his laptop, but he doubted she understood. She had never met Michael and he hoped to God she never would.

That wasn't to say that he hadn't noticed things had been a bit strained between them lately, but naturally he assumed it was because of his work. He was also helping with wiring up the island's pitiful collection of huts, but he considered what he was doing now to be far more important. Hence his surprise when Jill snuck up on him.

"Don't do that," he told her, frowning. "You scared the hell out of me. I thought you were a Wraith." It was just lucky he'd had his hands too full to pull his gun on her.

[jill_langston]

"Not a Wraith," Jill answered, raising her hands in a slightly defensive gesture, although she wasn't smiling. She knew it was a good thing that she'd realized what she was doing, but there was still a part of her that wished he'd noticed. On the other hand, if something like these computers had shown up in her life, she doubted she'd notice very much either.

"Sorry," she added and although she realized he probably wouldn't catch it, it was an apology for more than just sneaking up on him.

[scientificsnark]

"Yes, I know," said Rodney, a little irritably. "On account of you not walking up and sucking the life out of me with your hand. There were a few other clues, too."

He drew in a breath and let it out slowly through his nostrils. "Sorry," he said. "I'm just a little...on-edge right now." Finding out some of the stuff Atlantis's arch-nemesis was doing out there in the big wide galaxy tended to do that. Especially when the stuff was this horrific.

[jill_langston]

Frowning, Jill took a step back, then had to stop herself from turning around and walking away. She'd come here to make things better, not make things worse and for a moment she said nothing. He was definitely a little on-edge right now, he didn't need to say so when it was so terribly obvious.

"You and me both," she murmured finally, pushing her hands into her pockets, her body language a little cooler than she meant to be.