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?"

[mrodneymckay.livejournal.com]

"Oh, this is way beyond religion. This is about science fiction," he said like a true geek. "It's a well-known fact in Galaxy Quest, especially the original series, that the guy in the red shirt is the one who would get killed in any given episode."

[elephantgadget.livejournal.com]

"So in the made-up stories on the TV box, wearing red shirts is dangerous, and therefore you won't wear them?" she asked, carefully examining the directions on the laundry detergent.

[mrodneymckay.livejournal.com]

"Yep," he replied as though this made complete sense. "Put on a red shirt and it be like I was just asking to get eaten by dinosaurs. Which, you know, we've had here."

[elephantgadget.livejournal.com]

"Oh yes, we have those on my world as well," she said calmly.

[mrodneymckay.livejournal.com]

"Permanently? Because, when they were here, it was only for a few days. I can't imagine living with those creatures around all the time," he didn't seem overly affected by this as he continued eating the casserole.

[elephantgadget.livejournal.com]

"Oh yes," she said easily as she distributed his clothes between several machines and began adding detergent. "Well, from what Jamie told me they are a sort of a mix between what you call dinosaurs and dragons, though they do not exactly breathe fire. Their breath is nearly hot enough to roast you, though. They stand, well, about 2 and a half times as tall as your street lamps."

[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.

[mrodneymckay.livejournal.com]

"They sound fascinating," Rodney said enthusiastically. "Unless they eat people," his excitement plummeted. "Do they eat people?"

[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]

"Only if you're stupid enough to let them catch you," Helen said dismissively.

[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 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.

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

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

[elephantgadget.livejournal.com]

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

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

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

[mrodneymckay.livejournal.com]

"Oh, well, I'm sure I'd be fine in that case," he tried to sound confident. "I am a genius, after all. Though, I don't have a lot of experience evading giant predators."

[elephantgadget.livejournal.com]

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

[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!"