Wow…it's been so long since I've posted something that I'm not sure what to put here.

Don't own Stargate Atlantis…MGM does as far as I know.

This is a response to Koinekid and DaniWilder's McKeller Flash Fiction Challenge. It comes in at 299 words.

As for the song, DaniWilder knows it. You young whippersnappers may have to Google the lyrics. ;)

Days off were never a guaranteed thing on Atlantis, particularly for them. If it wasn't Jennifer being called away, then Rodney was.

It happened often enough that a routine developed when that happened: Rodney would catch up on the cursed performance evaluations Woolsey was always trying to get him to do, while Jennifer would catch up on reports and personal correspondence.

Today, Jennifer was doing the latter. She sat forlornly at the desk in her quarters, music drifting around the room from the speaker in her laptop as she tried to finish a letter to one of her best friends. She proofread it one more time and glanced at the clock on the screen. Rodney figured he'd be an hour, so she cringed when she saw that he had only been gone for twenty minutes.

She leaned back in her chair and closed her eyes as she concentrated on the voice of one her favorite singers emanating from the laptop, then almost jumped when a pair of hands rubbed along her shoulders.

"Hey," she said happily as she stood up and faced Rodney. "I thought you said you were going to be an hour."

Rodney shrugged as he placed his hands on her hips and drew her closer to him. "I told Radek what to do and left."

He glanced to the laptop with a playful grimace and Jennifer blushed. He never was fussy about that singer. To forestall whatever comment was coming she leaned forward and kissed him.

When they broke apart she said, "I love you."

Rodney's eyes darted towards the laptop as a certain refrain drifted by their ears and he smirked. He leaned into her and just before his lips found hers he recited the lyrics, "You took the words right out of my mouth."