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A/N "no one can deny his own heart, only postpone the inevitable"

Despite the fact that it was long past nightfall doctor Rodney McKay sat in his lab behind an Ancient device that his team found in de city, earlier that day. He was trying to figure out what the purpose was of the mysterious device.

"Hmmn" he sighed. He just couldn't seem to concentrate at the task at hand. The image of a certain pair of brown eyes kept popping into his head. The way they had looked at him when she asked him to join her for a beer…

"Uch get a grip McKay" he said to himself. "What are you thinking anyway, that a woman like her could be interested in a guy like you?" He thought to himself.

He didn't feel like working anymore so he stood up and grabbed the four empty coffee cups of the table. He walked to the door and tossed the cups in a garbage bin next to the door.

He was going for a walk, to try to erase the image of the pretty brown eyes in his head so that he could finally get some work done.

After walking for a while he suddenly came to a halt. "Where am I?" He asked himself. He had been walking aimlessly for about 20 minutes now and he had lost track of the way he was going. He looked around and suddenly he saw exactly where he were. "The infirmary." Or to be specific he was in the hallway leading to the infirmary, the doors were still a few feet away.

"Oh nice going" he grumbled to himself "trying to forget about her and where does it lead you?" His heart was beating a lot faster now and even though he was trying to ban her from his mind, he felt the sudden urge to enter the infirmary. He happened to know that she had her shift tonight. "I could say that I'm suffering from insomnia again" he thought "she would definitely buy that."

After hesitating for a few seconds he moved closer to the infirmary doors. He stopped in front of the infirmary doors and he raised his hand to knock on the door, only to let it drop to his side again a second later. "This is silly" he thought "of course she would find nothing wrong with him and then what? All of the sudden he heard muffled sounds from inside the infirmary which made him spin on his heels and walk away fast, his heart still beating like crazy.

TBC