Thank you for the lovely feedback :)

And isn't that interesting, that he graduates to using John's name whereas he never seemed to do that with Samantha's.

Yep ::g:: And deliberate, especially the way that he moves from thinking of John as 'The Major' to thinking of him as 'John' without even realising the shift.

::pets Rodney::

He's so transparent sometimes, and yet so self unaware :)