Oh, it's... I'm not sure exactly how I got from your Texas AU to that point, but I did. It's sort of a tangent, in my mind I'm setting it in my hometown, just to see if it works. Mostly I think it's your ideas on Rodney's government work (and the strings he can pull because of it) that inspired it. But trust me, if an idea comes for me for that AU, it shall be written, it's just so awesome not to. Teyla as an Aggie makes me giggle.

...although if he'd also brought him food or coffee, I might have exploded in a cloud of squee

That would've been tragic (mostly because I might have joined you). It was very well done. As much as I'm kinda meh on JM's scripts, it does seem that as a producer, he's trying to give the fans more team interactions and the kinds of friendship scenes we want to see. (I was going to say the kinds of scenes "fans want to see", then I remember how much he loves torturing the shippers). I'm always so flip-floppy about him...