Beating Holidays, Part 9/12
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mayachainTitle: Beating Holidays
Characters: John/Rodney, Jeannie/Kaleb, David, Madison
Rating: PG
Word Count: ~400
Summary: What do you think about where you are in the universe?
Notes: This is the Christmas sequel to Beating Hearts, to be concluded within the next 4 days.
How many stars do you think there are, Madison says, and of course she would wait to ambush him until Kaleb is out of the house. It's been thirty-four years since David had a brother her age, and he feels unqualified and a bit panicked, but he can see why she didn't go interrupt her Mom or her Uncle Mer or John. I never wanted the meaning of Dad's reddest face confirmed,, he thinks, Rodney murmuring top-secret explanations into John's ear just short of not suited for the living room, urging him to give John's sort-of niece all his attention. I don't know, he says, following her to the window to watch the lit-up sky along with her, but it seems kind of too many to count, doesn't it?
You were visiting Uncle John and Uncle Mer in space, she tells him, and David's not surprised Jeannie's daughter has picked up what she shouldn't know. Confidentiality has no life-span around here, but it's not his problem, and he's not going to lie to an eleven-year-old girl, not about a truth she knows already. I did, he confirms, and John took me up in a ship, and there were many more stars to see from there in all directions. What kind of number would you put above the ten, she asks in a tone of voice that tells David she's understood the term 'exponent' since she was eight and heard it lots and lots of times before then, but doesn't expect the same mathematical fluency in others.
I'm not sure, perhaps your Uncle Mer does, he hedges, thinking any guess Rodney might make will likely be as close to the truth as humanly possible. But Madison looks up at him, annoyed, in the same way Rodney had looked at him, What are you doing here, the same way Jeannie had looked at him, A blackberry counts as a cell phone, and she doesn't want the the answer Dr Rodney McKay could give her, she asked him.
Feeling a bit ridiculous, he closes his eyes and remembers the view from the Jumper, the constellations visible at Midway Station. At least a billion, he declares, hoping the others are too pre-occupied with groundbreaking real science to hear, and huffs out a breath when Madison giggles, pleased when the whole little girl dissolves into laughter as he strives to defend himself, Well, there's a lot of universe.
onwards: New Year's Eve - John
onwards: New Year's Eve - David
Feel free to pick one!
Characters: John/Rodney, Jeannie/Kaleb, David, Madison
Rating: PG
Word Count: ~400
Summary: What do you think about where you are in the universe?
Notes: This is the Christmas sequel to Beating Hearts, to be concluded within the next 4 days.
How many stars do you think there are, Madison says, and of course she would wait to ambush him until Kaleb is out of the house. It's been thirty-four years since David had a brother her age, and he feels unqualified and a bit panicked, but he can see why she didn't go interrupt her Mom or her Uncle Mer or John. I never wanted the meaning of Dad's reddest face confirmed,, he thinks, Rodney murmuring top-secret explanations into John's ear just short of not suited for the living room, urging him to give John's sort-of niece all his attention. I don't know, he says, following her to the window to watch the lit-up sky along with her, but it seems kind of too many to count, doesn't it?
You were visiting Uncle John and Uncle Mer in space, she tells him, and David's not surprised Jeannie's daughter has picked up what she shouldn't know. Confidentiality has no life-span around here, but it's not his problem, and he's not going to lie to an eleven-year-old girl, not about a truth she knows already. I did, he confirms, and John took me up in a ship, and there were many more stars to see from there in all directions. What kind of number would you put above the ten, she asks in a tone of voice that tells David she's understood the term 'exponent' since she was eight and heard it lots and lots of times before then, but doesn't expect the same mathematical fluency in others.
I'm not sure, perhaps your Uncle Mer does, he hedges, thinking any guess Rodney might make will likely be as close to the truth as humanly possible. But Madison looks up at him, annoyed, in the same way Rodney had looked at him, What are you doing here, the same way Jeannie had looked at him, A blackberry counts as a cell phone, and she doesn't want the the answer Dr Rodney McKay could give her, she asked him.
Feeling a bit ridiculous, he closes his eyes and remembers the view from the Jumper, the constellations visible at Midway Station. At least a billion, he declares, hoping the others are too pre-occupied with groundbreaking real science to hear, and huffs out a breath when Madison giggles, pleased when the whole little girl dissolves into laughter as he strives to defend himself, Well, there's a lot of universe.
onwards: New Year's Eve - John
onwards: New Year's Eve - David
Feel free to pick one!
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