The Law Is An Ass by Derry 667

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Show: SGA

Rec Category: Rodney McKay
Characters: Rodney McKay, John Sheppard, Ronon Dex, Teyla Emmagen, Elizabeth Weir
Categories: Gen
Warnings: None
Author on LJ: derry667
Author's Website: Derry667 on LJ

The Law Is An Ass

Why This Must Be Read: Although this is a team fic, it's mostly Rodney who gets them in trouble so for me, it fitted the rec category. I'm reccing it because parts of it made me LOL, something I sorely needed today. Again, apologies if it's been recced before. It's not always possible to find a fic among the myriad tags and memories this comm has accumulated over the years.



"And what about the 'events' that occurred during the mission? Events that could have put our trade agreement in doubt, perhaps?"

John cleared his throat. "Well, there might have been a slight misunderstanding or two, after a certain incident, but we saved their precious ass in the end and that's really what counts."

"You saved their ass?"

"Well, we got them a new one, anyway."

Elizabeth blinked. She had a decade's worth of experience in high-powered brinkmanship and they had once again managed to get her to blink first. And what was worse, she found that she now had to ask the question that he was obviously setting her up for.

"You got the people of M4S-291 a new ass? You're going to have to elaborate for me, Colonel."

A half-smirk momentarily lit John Sheppard's face before his features resettled into a 'just the facts, ma'am' military expression, but surprisingly, it was Rodney who once again jumped in with an attempt to explain.

"Well, you see, it all started when I detected some quite distinctive energy readings which were in what I thought was some kind of zoo or something. I mean, there in the middle of their city was this stone building with livestock in it. What was I supposed to think?"

Elizabeth looked over to John. "Not a zoo, then?"

"Not a zoo," he confirmed. "More like a temple."

Her gaze swung back sharply because Rodney and organised religion were always a potentially explosive combination. "What did you do to their temple?"

"I didn't do anything to their temple!" He protested indignantly, but his voice became noticeably quieter as he added, "I was just trying to help out, move some of the, y'know, livestock to a safer place while I took the readings."

"He groped their ass," John explained in that 'helpful' way of his that wasn't really helpful at all.