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"If you say so," said Janet, smiling. "So where do you think the best place would be, then?" Janet stuck her tongue out at Liz. "So I'd be a civilian scientist and we'd have some very relaxed frat regs. And lots of meetings about medical issues."

"Well, the issues with the rec areas was that there tended to always be people there," Elizabeth looked thoughtful. "Which wouldn't be much good if we were discussing sensitive material. So, I guess quarters perhaps." Elizabeth stuck her tongue back at Janet in return. "That sounds like a universe I could live in quite happily."

Janet nodded seriously. "Would we ever talk about anything but medical issues, though?" she asked. "I'd be fascinated, but I'd expect you might be bored after a while."

"Well, I'm sure I can just let you talk about medical issues for a while," Elizabeth said. "But I expect our conversations would start to vary."

"They probably would," said Janet, nodding thoughtfully. "I'm sure there would be a lot else to talk about."

"Well, considering the variety our conversations here have, I'm sure our alternates could also come up with different topics," Elizabeth agreed.

"Probably," said Janet. "I might even get to know you well enough to tell you about my ex-husband." She grimaced. "Jerk."

Elizabeth smiled sympathetically. "And I'm sure I can tell you about the string of losers I've gone through, but thankfully never got quite as far as marrying them," she said.

"So we'd probably be very glad for each other," said Janet. "I could imagine that."

"Yes, I never really had a close female friend in Atlantis," Elizabeth said. "I'm pretty certain your presence would rectify that."

"It's hard being in charge," said Janet. "Even a lowly CMO of a top secret base in a mountain can empathize over that one."

"I'm sure we could do lots of empathizing together over that," Elizabeth nodded.

"I'll bet we would. For hours at a time, maybe." Janet just smiled. "I don't know about you, but I think I'd get hungry after a while."

"Alas, we would have to suffer the Atlantis mess for food," Elizabeth sighed. "But we could always keep each other company whilst we ate."

"We'd be keeping each other company a lot," said Janet. "I hope it wouldn't bother anyone. And I hope the food is decent too."

"I'm sure they'd understand friendship," Elizabeth said. "It's likely we wouldn't be the only ones pairing off, um, like that. The food varies. It depends on whether or not the Dedaleus has been recently, or not."

"There are a lot of very close friendship pairings on Atlantis?" asked Janet teasingly. "How about food from Pegasus? Is any of it any good?"

"There were several on their way when I was last there," Elizabeth said, considering for a moment. "What we've found so far has been edible. Not great, but there's no chance of us starving as long as we can get access to it."

"So everyone understands how these things work, then? The city grapevine must go nuts." Janet grinned. "And some of it is even caffeinated, so the scientists won't revolt."

"I sincerely hope that they understand that," Elizabeth's eyes widened slightly. "Grapevine? Nuts? Whatever gave you that idea?" she laughed. "The grapevine is hell. And thankfully yes. We'd be doomed if we hadn't found that."

"Yes, but would we understand we had more than friendship, or would it take us six or eight months to realize it?" Janet giggled. "The grapevine is always hell. So we'd be mostly well-fed and have caffeine. It doesn't sound like a bad setup."

"That? Is a very good question. And unfortunately, I think the answer would probably be that it would take us six or eight months to realize," Elizabeth said, grinning sheepishly and ducking her head slightly. "It sounds pretty good to me when you put it like that. Although I can see a lot of dragging each other away from work."

"That short a time?" asked Janet. She shook her head. "My history of emotional repression says the average is longer than that." She leaned back against the Collections Desk and smiled at Liz. "I suspect I'd be doing most of the dragging. Though you'd have your moments."

"There's lots of iminent death in Atlantis. All sorts of peril. Hopefully that might speed up some realizations," Elizabeth smiled, glancing across at Janet as she leant. "At least it would give me a motivation to actually spend time in my quarters. Especially with my office walls being made of glass."

"It just might. And as it would be an alternate version of us, maybe my track record for these realizations isn't quite as horrifically bad." Janet blushed a little at the glance. "Glass? I'm sure that would make private--um, conversations difficult. If there were lip readers around."

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