Pray this can't be the way

[sgmitchell.livejournal.com]

He appreciated having a room to himself, even if it was clearly designed for a second party as well. For now, it was his alone. He appreciated that.

The room was about all he really appreciated since the attack of the crew-zombies. The idea was far more cool on paper than it was actually sitting on the roof of the Vatican, mowing down potential crewmates. Still, it was better than mowing down familiar ones. He appreciated that, too.

He appreciated the cute, glowy new look for Stacy, too.

He didn't appreciate the idea of his universe destroyed by something they'd never even gotten the chance to see--let alone fight. He didn't like the idea of being one of the last survivors of his own universe. Whether or not Ronon and Jackson counted as his own universe or another. He appreciated the cute voice. He didn't believe it. He wouldn't believe it, even if she showed him the destruction. None of this was necessarily real. He functioned within it as he needed to, but he wasn't about to fall for something SG-1 already fell for before. The zombies didn't exactly make the place more credible, either.

He frowned, studying the food goop in front of him.

His home-his family. Everyone and every thing he cared about was not gone. He wouldn't leave it to chance and hope that some of the people he cared about might have been alive--he wouldn't accept that their survival meant the deaths of an entire universe were acceptable losses. He wasn't about to accept a 'might' for saving all of them, if they did someone else's dirty work for them. That wasn't how he did things. He wouldn't be manipulated, and...he refused to believe that SG-1 failed. That Stargate Command, and all of their allies failed to protect not just their galaxy, but their universe.

He refused to believe he'd failed to do the one thing that mattered. He couldn't. Not now...not ever.

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[squintybonelady.livejournal.com]

"You do realize that I deal with decomposing bodies almost on a daily basis, well, dealt with them before here. I highly doubt a fictional movie is going to cause me to be afraid," Tempe informed him with one of her 'are you serious' looks.

"Besides, nothing says that I can't be reading a scientific datapad while you're watching one of those badly made movies."

[sgmitchell.livejournal.com]

"Reading a scientific datapad during a movie? You're assuming Stacy will allow such grievious infractions." He shrugged. "Or, the movie could distract you, and then you'd lose all that time you could have been going over the datapad."

[squintybonelady.livejournal.com]

"Why would Stacy care if I'm reading a datapad during a movie? That's just highly illogical," Tempe frowned. "And I doubt the movie would distract me, I'm not easily distracted."

[sgmitchell.livejournal.com]

"It's rude. And also, they're incredible movies. Classics."

[bone1ady.livejournal.com]

"Says who? You?" Tempe scoffs. "I highly doubt they're incredible. They're zombie movies. How does that make them incredible?"

[sgmitchell.livejournal.com]

Really, Doctor Brennan?

He grinned. "How about you judge 'em for yourself?"

[bone1ady.livejournal.com]

"What exactly are you getting at?" Tempe asked, eyeing him suspiciously.

[sgmitchell.livejournal.com]

"Watch them. Decide if you like them."

[bone1ady.livejournal.com]

"I'm not going to watch them just because you think I should," Tempe said shaking her head. Besides, she's not about to watch them alone. They might be scary stupid.

[sgmitchell.livejournal.com]

"You're the one who doesn't trust anyone else's opinion of them, Doctor Brennan. Why not settle it by making your own opinion?" He smiled. If she knew him very well, she'd know he'd made a resolution to ensure she did watch them, now.

[bone1ady.livejournal.com]

"Because I have better things to do with my time than watch bad movies," Tempe insisted. "I have research to be doing, and..." She looked at the soup. "You still haven't touched the soup."

[sgmitchell.livejournal.com]

He nodded to the soup. "You watch the movie, I'll eat the soup."

[bone1ady.livejournal.com]

"How do you know I'd watch the movie?"

[sgmitchell.livejournal.com]

"Would you lie?"

[bone1ady.livejournal.com]

"No, but do you know for sure that I'm not lying now?"

[sgmitchell.livejournal.com]

He offered her a wide smile. "I trust you." He did, to a point.

[squintybonelady.livejournal.com]

"Why? You don't know me from Andrew," Tempe said, not even realizing that she'd once again got a saying wrong. Such was her life.

[sgmitchell.livejournal.com]

"I do, too." He gave a cheeky smile. "Andrew's a good friend've mine."

[squintybonelady.livejournal.com]

See this Cam? You get this look now:


"That's not what I was saying!"

[sgmitchell.livejournal.com]

Oh, she, like most scientists, was cute when she gt flustered. He shrugged, and grinned. "Then I'll make you a deal. I'll extend you free trust credit this time. You hold up your end of the promise, I trust you from now on, no Andrews involved. You don't, I cease to trust you any longer."

She would have to just take the bet if she wanted to know how serious he was about that.

[squintybonelady.livejournal.com]

"You are a very strange man," Tempe pointed out with an annoyed sigh. But really, she did not get him at all or why he was willing to trust someone he'd just met.

"Why do you want me to watch those movies?" She asked, deciding she needed to know more before she made a rational decision.

[sgmitchell.livejournal.com]

"I prefer memorable." She could go with whatever helped her through the night, though. "Because...you just fought off a hoarde of zombies, and you've never even seen where they came from. At the very least, that should be worth some research benefit."

[squintybonelady.livejournal.com]

"I'm sorry but have you done anything within the last ten minutes that could be considered memorable?" Tempe asked quite seriously because she couldn't think of anything.

Again he gets an 'are you serious' look from Tempe. "How can watching a zombie movie be considered credible research?" She eyed him for a minute before continuing on. "That would be almost the same as watching a pornographic movie to research human mating rituals."

[sgmitchell.livejournal.com]

"I'd answer that, but I don't think it's polite to remind you." He shrugged. Hey, if she forgot about the chowder, it couldn't have been important enough to get irritated at him about.

He squinted at the woman a moment. "You know...I once suggested that to my biology teacher."

[squintybonelady.livejournal.com]

Oh don't fret so Cam, Tempe hasn't forgotten about the chowder. She will remember it forever.

"You really don't believe that pornographic movies can be considered good research... Do you?" She tilted her head a little to the side. "I would think that the fact that the actors are obviously faking their sexual attraction to each other and the female more often than not faking her orgasm would be obvious to people watching them."

She shook her head, "And while I understand the voyeuristic appeal of watching such a thing, I honestly don't understand the appeal of subjecting ones self to watching the whole thing."