First was a woman wearing the colors of a scientist who launched herself into his arms when the city rose and kissed him fully and quickly, then spun away with a breathless laugh to the next person within reach; it was the celebration of not dying and it didn't mean anything.

Next it was Cadman, except it was really Rodney and if that wasn't the best indication of a brief and wildly erratic relationship, he didn't know what was.

Then it was Cadman, up against a wall, under his desk, hidden away in a supply closet, full of a fire that reminded him that she was a soldier who liked to blow things up and he was a doctor who put them back together again.

After that it was his mother and she kissed him on both cheeks and both eyelids and once each on his nose and lips and that didn't count either because it was his mother and mothers were supposed to kiss their children after they returned from the dead.

Finally it was the girl across the hall who kissed soft and a little scared and he felt his own heart thumping in response, though he wondered how that could be when it took nothing less than the Wraith and guiding a flying city between galaxies to scare him anymore.