SGA snippet for Celli and her bad day...
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out_thereA snippet that came to me while walking to the train station last night, but I'm hoping it'll make you smile, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
celli.
King of the Geeks
"Well?" Rodney demanded, taking a half-step back from the bench and setting one hand on his hip. He was staring at John, eyes squinting up and mouth pulling down, like hearing 'I'm sorry' was the important thing here.
It wasn't a pose that induced fear, but John did manage not to grin.
"Okay, okay," John placated, turning his empty hands palm up, "I apologise for having ever doubted you. You were right: the gizmo worked. You are now, and ever will be, King of the Geeks."
Rodney huffed, turning back to the gizmo's smoking circuits. "Like the science team would ever acknowledge a power structure as fundamentally backwards and nepotistic as a monarchy."
From the other side of the lab, Zelenka looked up from his computer and caught John's eye. He gave a small nod, supporting Rodney's complaint, then went back to reading the graphs on his screen.
This time, John did grin. "What's your preferred title?"
Rodney's fingers were busy untangling half-melted wires. "I have a certain fondness for God Emperor."
"Because a planet full of water is so similar to deserts and sandworms," Zelenka muttered, just loud enough for John to hear. He didn't look up, and neither did Rodney, so this was porbably a conversation they'd had before.
Geeks in their natural habitat. It was the best free entertainment Atlantis had to offer.
"So if you're God Emperor of the Geeks," and that made Rodney glance at John, if only for a moment, "what does that make Zelenka?"
"My second-in-command."
"He doesn't get a fancy title?"
Zelenka raised his head, his perfectly serious expression framed by messy hair. "Grand Vizier."
"Grand Vizier?" Rodney echoed and then cursed as two of the wires sparked.
"As in," Zelenka gave a small smile, "the power behind the throne."
celli.King of the Geeks
"Well?" Rodney demanded, taking a half-step back from the bench and setting one hand on his hip. He was staring at John, eyes squinting up and mouth pulling down, like hearing 'I'm sorry' was the important thing here.
It wasn't a pose that induced fear, but John did manage not to grin.
"Okay, okay," John placated, turning his empty hands palm up, "I apologise for having ever doubted you. You were right: the gizmo worked. You are now, and ever will be, King of the Geeks."
Rodney huffed, turning back to the gizmo's smoking circuits. "Like the science team would ever acknowledge a power structure as fundamentally backwards and nepotistic as a monarchy."
From the other side of the lab, Zelenka looked up from his computer and caught John's eye. He gave a small nod, supporting Rodney's complaint, then went back to reading the graphs on his screen.
This time, John did grin. "What's your preferred title?"
Rodney's fingers were busy untangling half-melted wires. "I have a certain fondness for God Emperor."
"Because a planet full of water is so similar to deserts and sandworms," Zelenka muttered, just loud enough for John to hear. He didn't look up, and neither did Rodney, so this was porbably a conversation they'd had before.
Geeks in their natural habitat. It was the best free entertainment Atlantis had to offer.
"So if you're God Emperor of the Geeks," and that made Rodney glance at John, if only for a moment, "what does that make Zelenka?"
"My second-in-command."
"He doesn't get a fancy title?"
Zelenka raised his head, his perfectly serious expression framed by messy hair. "Grand Vizier."
"Grand Vizier?" Rodney echoed and then cursed as two of the wires sparked.
"As in," Zelenka gave a small smile, "the power behind the throne."
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Date: 2005-10-14 01:41 am (UTC)you da best. *hugs*
Who da man? I'm da man!
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Date: 2005-10-14 08:25 am (UTC)Bwah! Oh, that's so true. The entire science team would have all this entertainment brought with them, and the poor military guys would be bored beyond belief. (And the scientists say they're "running simulations" or "checking the maths", and in reality, it's mass screenings of SciFi shows.)
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Date: 2005-10-14 11:07 am (UTC)i'm trying to think of other fandoms to do it in!
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Date: 2005-10-14 11:08 am (UTC)oh wait it *is* what I do!
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Date: 2005-10-14 07:30 pm (UTC)Um... you could probably make a decent case for Crossing Jordan, or any of those CSI "tech geeks are cool" shows.
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Date: 2005-10-18 05:40 am (UTC)hmm, i can think of a few were geeks flirt with science but the other party doesn't get it cause they're not quite geeks.
mind you i could do a buffy variant: jonathon/andrew (and maybe warren): geeks flirt with gaming (even andrew/spike could do that)
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Date: 2005-10-18 06:45 am (UTC)*nods like a bobblehead doll* That pretty much describes every time Nigel gets into his lecture mode and wants to show off about how incredibly cool whatever-it-is that he's just done really is.
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