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[Private to Lorne]

Did it have sparkly blue tentacles?

[Private to Ianto]

No. They were both indistinguishable from humans born on Earth.

[Private to Lorne]

. . . two?

Well. I had not expected that.

[Private to Ianto]

Not at the same time.

But you expected at least one?

[Private to Lorne]

I don't know what I expected. Yeah, at least one, I suppose. I mean, you're out there, and there's opportunity, and . . . I suppose anyone would get curious about the possibilities.

[Private to Ianto]

You make it sound like an experiment or something.

Though to be fair, I suppose it was with the one...oh, hell, this is just vague and confusing. It was Ronon. I don't want you thinking I make a habit of sleeping with random people I meet off-world.

[Private to Lorne]

It's a fault of my big brain. *pokes you hopefully for a smile*

Ronan . . . Oh. The dangerous bloke while you were a girl? Wow.

[Private to Ianto]

I think your big brain is sexy. *smiles*

Yeah, him. He was kind of an experiment, I guess. Do you want to know about the other one, or are you a little freaked out that your boyfriend had sex with aliens?

[Private to Lorne]

My big brain finds you sexy too.

I'm not freaked out. Tell me about the other one.

[Private to Ianto]

*preens*

The other one was Teyla. I've mentioned Teyla, right?

[ooc: I've only just realized that Lorne has slept with both Atlantis' resident aliens. How clueless does that make me?]

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[Private to Lorne]

*kisses your forehead*

I think you have a time or two.

[ooc: HEE.

And Ianto is fighting very hard not saying, Dude, I've slept with Jack. Nothing freaks me out anymore.]

[Private to Ianto]

*grins*

Well, there you have it then. My torrid affairs with aliens. God, that seems weird to say. I don't usually think of them as aliens.

[Private to Lorne]

*kisses your grin*

You've said that they're human--that where you are is basically an experiment, yeah? Somebody seeded the worlds with humans? It's not that unbelievable, really.

The universe is vast. Anything is possible.

[Private to Ianto]

*wraps my arms around you and kisses you back*

I don't think it's weird that I've slept with aliens (well, I sort of do). I just think it's weird that Ronon and Teyla are aliens.

Because I've met aliens. Like Star Trek sort of aliens. I've also met a lot of humans who just happened to be born on another planet.

[Private to Lorne]

*tucks my head under your chin*

I suppose it's just more obvious with the aliens we meet that they're actually alien, you know, other.

[Private to Ianto]

*kisses the top of your head*

If all the aliens we met were human, I might not feel so weird about calling Ronon and Teyla aliens, but some of them are, well, other. And that makes the ones that are human seem so normal in comparison that I forget sometimes how different they are.

[Private to Lorne]

*kisses your neck*

That's mostly a matter of culture, though, isn't it? Not biology.

[Private to Ianto]

*runs my fingers up and down your arm*

Mostly, yeah. Biology is nearly identical.

[Private to Lorne]

*cups your cheek in my hand*

So that's a different kind of alien. Not like, for example, a glowing squid-like being who eats hearts, or a gold-dust-appearing creature who's addicted to orgasms.

Yours actually sounds more interesting.

[Private to Ianto]

*kisses your palm*

No, our glowing squids don't eat anything. And I've never met a creature who was actually addicted to orgasms.

I don't know, sometimes I miss the Milky Way aliens. The Pegasus ones tend to have weird fertility rituals that always seem to involve getting naked, and harvest festivals that never involve enough alcohol to make them interesting.

[Private to Lorne ]

*strokes your face*

Officially we decided to say it fed on them, but considering the lengths it went to to get them, my personal feeling is addiction.

. . . you don't know any Wiccans, do you. Fertility rituals always involve getting naked. It's called being skyclad.

[Private to Ianto]

*smiles and kisses your nose*

I really wish you were making that up.

No, I don't. I can understand why fertility rituals involve nakedness. I mean, it's a fertility ritual. Nudity is kind of necessary for that. I just wish they didn't always insist on having us join them. I'm okay with watching the nudity, but I'd rather not actually be involved in it.

[Private to Lorne]

*nuzzles your nose*

Making things up at this point would be counter-productive, don't you think?

Well. I assume it has to do with diversifying the gene pool . . .

[Private to Ianto]

*rests my forehead against yours*

I suppose it would.

You'd think that, except that there's never actually sex involved. At least, not for us. Just nudity. We have an official "No off-world sex" policy. I think that's been around nearly since the beginning of the program.