Stargate Atlantis Drabble: Partings

[kat_lair]

I'm slow, but I deliver eventually. Last of neppu's birthday drabbles.

Stargate Atlantis – McKay/Zelenka – PG

Partings
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It’s a coward’s way out, but Radek takes it anyway.

He rolls out of the bed and fumbles for his glasses, getting dressed in the dark. His bag is waiting beside the door. Under the blankets Rodney breathes heavy and even, which is how Radek knows that he’s awake.

Neither of them says anything.

The winter outside the hotel hits him in the face like a goodbye, bitter and cold. He takes a cab to the airport, closing his eyes when they pass the turn to the SGC.

Tomorrow Rodney is going home. Radek is just going back to Prague.