InsaneJournal

Doctor McKay stepped up to the podium.

He had never been very good at this sort of thing, but according to Weir, he was the one who should say something.

He thought that it should've been Beckett who gave the eulogy, after all, she had been his girlfriend, but Elizabeth had said the Scotsman was too broken up to even be seen in public right now.

McKay's second choice would have been Sheppard, but he was currently offworld with Teyla, Ronon and Zelenka, meeting with a group of natives that absolutely refused to meet the inhabitants of Atlantis at a later date, human funereal customs be damned. They had some kind of month long festival coming up that meant that they weren't allowed

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"Because you're not really here! You're in my head!"

"How can I be sure?"

"I'm not dead, Rodney!"

"Yes..yes you are!" He pointed at her, "I saw the body!"

Cadman paled, "Body?"

"Yes! They just had the funeral and-"

"FUNERAL?" She exclaimed, "They had a-BUT I'M NOT DEAD!"

"This is insane! I'm not dead! I'm right here!"

"No, what's insane is the fact that I'm talking to a dead woman."

"Stop saying that!"

"I dont know..maybe..maybe some kind of...I don't know what! You're the genius here, Rodney, you figure it out!"