Prompts: #12 of sgchallenges (LJ community) BOOK & FANFICTION

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With a contented sigh, Elizabeth curled her feet up under her. Shifting so that she was comfortable in the hard chair, she quickly surveyed the commissary of the Daedelus from her little corner before popping the disk into her laptop computer. With a click, she opened the first file on the disk, and began reading the words that appeared on the screen.

Just as she got into the well-written story spilling out on the page, she was abruptly interrupted.

"Whatcha reading, Elizabeth?" a familiar voice asked.

A bit startled, Elizabeth looked up to see John standing there, and unconsciously covered her computer screen so that he couldn't see it.

"A book," she answered shortly.

"Mmm," he responded, walking around the table to look over her shoulder at the laptop. "What kind of book?"

She hesitated a long moment before uncovering the screen and answering, "Fanfiction. X-Files fanfiction." She prepared herself to explain what exactly fanfiction was, expecting John to be like all the other people who she admitted her addiction to.

She was pleasantly surprised when he didn't go, "What's that?" but instead said, "Ooh," and leaned in closer to try and read the words. "Is it good so far?"

"Very," she answered.

"Where'd you get it?" Right now, Elizabeth could feel his chest against her shoulder as his eyes tracked over the words on the computer screen. The touch electrified her.

She had to force her thoughts away from directions they tried to run in to answering his question. "Well, when I'm on Earth, I go and download a ton of fanfics to a disk so I can read them on the way back to Atlantis, and whenever I have time back home." She paused, hesitating, then added, "Most of it's Scully/Mulder stuff. The UST gets to me every time."

After giving her a very meaningful glance, John mumbled his agreement.