Work Text:
“Unbelievable!” Rodney stomped into John’s quarters and tossed his tablet onto the desk. “And after everything I’ve done!”
John looked up from where he was lying on the bed and put his book to one side. “What’s up, buddy?”
“The ingratitude! I’m off saving the city and no one gives a single thought to my welfare…”
John lifted an eyebrow. “You been saving the city without me?”
“Well, no.” Rodney looked a little chagrined. “Not specifically today, but obviously I have in the past – on numerous occasions – and no doubt will again in the future. You’d think that I deserved a little consideration…” He sank down onto the side of the bed with an unhappy huff.
John swung his legs around and sat beside him, bumping shoulders. “So what’s up?”
Rodney sighed mournfully. “It’s Cupcake Day in the mess, and they’ve all gone…”
John hid a grin. “Wow. That’s pretty serious. It’s not like you to miss out – what happened?”
“I told you – life or death, saving the city and um, what-not,” Rodney blustered, unconvincingly.
“Uh-huh?”
“Oh, all right – I was playing Tetris and lost track of time, but is it really too much to ask for them to save one lousy cupcake for the finest mind in the galaxy?”
“I don’t know, Rodney. You’d think the ‘finest mind in the galaxy’ would remember something as important as Cupcake Day.”
Rodney slumped dejectedly against John. “I know, and now I have to wait a whole week for a cupcake – and they were chocolate, too.”
John smiled and reached for the nightstand drawer. “Maybe not. Someone’s got to look out for that finest mind.”
And chocolate-flavoured Rodney kisses were John’s favourite kind, after all…
