Laundry Room: Sunday evening [7-20-08]

[elephantgadget.livejournal.com]

So, she'd made dinner three nights in a row, cleaned Rodney's room yesterday, and today she was doing laundry. Which she had to admit she'd never really done before. And certainly never with these machines.

It probably would have been far easier to figure out if Rodney hadn't decided to come along and eat the chicken and stuffing casserole she'd made while 'supervising' the laundry process.

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[mrodneymckay.livejournal.com]

"I just want to make sure you're not going to shrink anything," Rodney repeated. "Or turn it all pink," he added with the shudder of someone who'd experienced that before.

[elephantgadget.livejournal.com]

She turned and looked at him. "Turn it pink?"

[mrodneymckay.livejournal.com]

"Mixing colors has been known to have grave consequences. Not that that's ever happened to me," he quickly lied.

[elephantgadget.livejournal.com]

She looked at the clothes and at the machine. "Then you don't just put them all in together and let it go?"

[mrodneymckay.livejournal.com]

"No, no, no. Lights, darks, and brights all have to go separately," he instructed. "And reds should be by themselves. Not that I'd be crazy enough to tempt fate by actually wearing a red shirt around here," he shuddered at the possibility.

[elephantgadget.livejournal.com]

She looked at him curiously as she began separating out his clothes. "Why would red tempt fate," she asked. "Is this some religious thing?"

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

Dawn burst into the room, dressed in her brand new pirate wardrobe--black pants, a loose white shirt, a corsety thing that laced in front, and knee-high black boots, and brandishing a sword that looked very much like it might have been one of a set of light swords from Space Battles, then ran to a defensible position, still waving it around.

"You'll never take me alive, you scoundrel!"

[elephantgadget.livejournal.com]

"You wish me to kill you?" Helen asked curiously.

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"Not so much, no," Dawn lowered her weapon and grinned at the other girl, then caught sight of McKay. "Hi. I'm Dawn. Nice to meet you, and I'm sorry if I interrupted anything smoochy."

[elephantgadget.livejournal.com]

"Helen Haras-Uquara," she said and then blinked. "Anything smoochy?"

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"Between you and Rodney," she clarified. "Like, if you were having a laundry date, and the mood's getting less and less bleach-scented, and there's about to be smooching, and then wham, invasion of the dorks and the mood is broken. Sorry if I screwed anything up. I didn't mean to."

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

Following Dawn closely, John leaped into the room, light sword replica first. "Ha! You assume I care if you live!"

Dressed all in black, with a black bandana-thing covering the top half of his face, John looked the part of a pirate from meta for Princess Bride.

[elephantgadget.livejournal.com]

Helen put her hands on her hips. "If you mess up Rodney's laundry I may kill both of you."

But, yes, she was secretly amused.

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

John looked Helen over. "Rodney's laundry?"

[elephantgadget.livejournal.com]

She sighed. "It is a very long story."

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"You assume that I care whether you care that I live!" She called, lunging toward him with her sword.

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

John tried to wrap his head around that statement. "Oh yeah?" Lame. "Well, I don't care that you don't care whether I care...hold still so I can hit you!"

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

Dawn rolled her eyes at him. "I don't remember that part of the movie."

[mrodneymckay.livejournal.com]

"Oh, John. It must be so nice for you to be able to act your mental age," Rodney commented.

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

"Rodney, always a pleasure," John smirked. "I see you've coerced this poor girl into doing your laundry. What are you doing for her, not math homework, I assume."

[mrodneymckay.livejournal.com]

"Please, she was begging to do it," he said with complete honesty.

[mrodneymckay.livejournal.com]

"Hey Dawn," Rodney waved with the hand still holding his fork. Luckily, there was no casserole on it at the moment.

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"Rodney, hey!" Dawn waved her sword at him. "We're space battling and buckling our swashes. Sorry for crashing."

[mrodneymckay.livejournal.com]

"Crash away," he invited. "It's not like laundry is all that exciting even if all our clothes look like they belong in a museum."

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"Are you showing her how to use the machines and stuff, since she's new?"