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Why do I always end up writing for three of the five prompts? And next time's going to be the same, probably, even though I picked the prompts. It's strange.
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Five times Sam almost walked away from SG-1 (spoilers up SGA 5.01 Search and Rescue and SG-1 s10)
1. When she realized that it was the best opportunity she was ever going to get in, but that the only way she’d ever get to fly again would be to give it up. It wasn’t like she wanted *more* than a place on the premier team of a top secret program visiting other planets, it was just that she’d always wanted something else, and maybe she wasn’t ready to give that dream up quite yet.
2. When Daniel came back to them after they’d accepted he was dead and started to move on. She was thrilled to have him back again, of course, more than she’d ever be able to put into words. But one of the basics of her life for as long as she could remember had been that once you died you were gone. She’d wished for different beliefs, sometimes, but at least she’d been able to let go and move on. With Daniel in front of her again, though, she could almost feel the shift in her head to the belief that if he could come back, other people could. And if dead didn’t mean dead, with all the people they lost at the SGC, how did anyone ever let anyone else go?
3. When Janet died, and Cassie slept in Sam’s spare room for a week after the funeral, curled up next to her on the couch in the evening and said, “Promise me you’re not going to die as well, Aunt Sam. Promise me, please,” through tears. There weren’t any guarantees that she’d be any safer as a civilian, or even back in the regular Air Force, but it had to be safer, and she’d sworn to Janet that she’d look out for Cassie if anything ever happened. Except that the things that came through the gate, or appeared in the sky, were more dangerous than anything else on Earth, and Sam was one of a very small number of people who could protect people like Cassie from them. And she owed it to Janet’s memory to save everyone she could, not just Cassie.
4. When she woke up in the infirmary after being shot by the Ori soldiers. Not that she could walk away, right then, but the thought of the recovery, the physiotherapy, the sheer struggle just to get up and keep going, was exhausting. She’d given ten years of her life, nearly died more than once, and surely that should be enough? And maybe it would have been, if not for her team, hovering round her bed, bringing her macaroons and books and DVDs, doing their level best to keep her spirits up as though they thought that if they just smiled enough she wouldn’t notice how exhausted they looked in turn, the way they all left a Daniel-sized gap that couldn’t be filled. They were doing it for her, of course, but they were doing it for themselves as well, trying to hold together, and in the end, she couldn’t leave them. Not yet.
5. When she was pulled back from Atlantis, command taken away from her, and offered her spot on SG1 again. She fumed, for days, at the slight. As if it wasn’t bad enough to have her one chance for command taken away from her, just as she was starting to feel at home there. To be offered SG1 again, a gate team member, and not even a team leader, was an insult almost too strong to bear, whatever Landry said about needing her expertise. She took a week’s leave and woke up every morning telling herself she wouldn’t go back, they could struggle on without her.
And then, on the day she’d meant to call and give her resignation, she put on her uniform instead and went back. Because she wouldn’t give them the satisfaction of seeing her leave, and because she was still a colonel in the United States Air Force, and a scientist on the stargate program, and she wasn’t going to give either of those up in protest. And because, even if wasn’t where she should be, she still loved her job, and it still needed her. She’d joined the Air Force to try to save the world, and no-one on any world was going to stop her from doing that.
Five times someone on SG-1 said "We will never speak of this again"
1. The time they got Daniel drunk, not long after Vala joined the team, and he proceeded to explain at length about the sexual practices of the Pavarians, who they were set to visit the next week. And then act some of them out. With Cam. Who was stone cold sober.
2. The time Sam said that she thought, overall, science had probably been of more use to them than archaeology. Not that archaeology hadn’t been useful on many occasions, but statistically speaking. Which would have been more or less fine if Daniel hadn’t taken it as a challenge and gone through every single mission report to do an accurate comparison. The throwing of files was kind of amusing. The week long silence between the two of them was less so. Jack’s still not sure what Teal’c said to resolve it, which is probably for the best. Whatever it was, there’s now an agreement: no comparing of team members’ responsibilities or roles in saving or nearly destroying the world. It’s just easier for everyone involved.
3. The time the people of P7T 451 decided that Teal’c was their god in human (Goa’uld) form, and took him off to the temple for three hours to properly anoint him. Teal’c, it turned out, did not look good in purple body paint. Especially since it had been used to anoint him with hundreds of small, fluffy bunnies.
4. The time Vala got into a disagreement with a mall security guard about whether or not she’d been stealing a small gold cat (she hadn’t, she’d just wanted to look at it in better light) and Cam came to sort it out. No-one’s quite sure how he got mistaken for a wanted drug dealer, but he did. So Sam and Daniel fished out their old fake FBI ID and went down to sort them both out, only to be arrested for impersonating FBI agents. Everyone was grateful that Teal’c was off-world, not least Landry, who had to go downtown at 3am and bail them all out.
5. The time on M8G 126. Everyone agreed that it was an accident and no-one could have known what would happen. That no-one’s to blame, or responsible for it. It doesn’t change the fact when SG1 arrived on M8G 126, it had a population of 3 million, and when they left, five hours later, it had a population of zero.
Five things Teal’c remembers from the 50 years on the Odyssey, which he’ll never tell anyone
1. Colonel Mitchell admits with more equanimity that Teal’c would have expected from him, to knowing that he would not have done well “cooped up” on the ship. And so it is not precisely a secret that on more than one occasion he ran to the point of collapse, usually at Teal’c’s door. Regardless, it does not seem right to share the memory of what Colonel Mitchell will likely see as weakness, when it can surely serve no purpose.
2. It took ten years to teach all four of them, but he has several memories of sitting in peace and harmony with his team at kel’no’reem. Although General Landry, perhaps rightly, would never join them, the calm seemed to extend to all of them, for several days. Teal’c is unsure why he does not suggest they resume the practice on Earth, when he is certain that they would all agree to it. He does not like to think it is nothing but fear of ruining the memory.
3. Colonel Carter was the one to wonder what would happen at the SGC once their disappearance was confirmed. “Do you think they’ll bring Jack back?” she asked, her eyes clear of any of the longing Teal’c had so often seen there when she spoke of him. “Perhaps,” he said simply, which seemed to satisfy her. He wishes quite strongly, when they return, to tell her that she would be happier if she was to let go of the last of her hope, but it is not for him to say such things. Besides, it is clear, when she returns from Atlantis, that she has already arrived at the same conclusion.
4. Dr Jackson and Vala mal’Doran’s relationship is something which he suspects they would not be surprised to learn of, and Teal’c spends some time contemplating whether he would tell them of it, should they ever find their way there again. He will never tell them of the argument he overheard about the right of bringing a child into the contained world in which they lived. Neither will he tell them that it was Vala mal’Doran who spoke of a child as hope, despite what transpired for her previous child.
5. He knows that Colonel Mitchell sleeps on his back when he sleeps alone, and with his back pressed to his partner when he is not. He knows that Colonel Mitchell does not like to be held down, and that he will happily spend many hours simply in kissing. He knows that Colonel Mitchell does not cope well with being alone, and that he does, in some way, love Teal’c. He will never tell Colonel Mitchell any of this, because he also knows that, given the chance, Colonel Mitchell would not have chosen him with whom to grow old and almost die.
Anyway, three short fics originally posted to
sg1_five_thingsFive times Sam almost walked away from SG-1 (spoilers up SGA 5.01 Search and Rescue and SG-1 s10)
1. When she realized that it was the best opportunity she was ever going to get in, but that the only way she’d ever get to fly again would be to give it up. It wasn’t like she wanted *more* than a place on the premier team of a top secret program visiting other planets, it was just that she’d always wanted something else, and maybe she wasn’t ready to give that dream up quite yet.
2. When Daniel came back to them after they’d accepted he was dead and started to move on. She was thrilled to have him back again, of course, more than she’d ever be able to put into words. But one of the basics of her life for as long as she could remember had been that once you died you were gone. She’d wished for different beliefs, sometimes, but at least she’d been able to let go and move on. With Daniel in front of her again, though, she could almost feel the shift in her head to the belief that if he could come back, other people could. And if dead didn’t mean dead, with all the people they lost at the SGC, how did anyone ever let anyone else go?
3. When Janet died, and Cassie slept in Sam’s spare room for a week after the funeral, curled up next to her on the couch in the evening and said, “Promise me you’re not going to die as well, Aunt Sam. Promise me, please,” through tears. There weren’t any guarantees that she’d be any safer as a civilian, or even back in the regular Air Force, but it had to be safer, and she’d sworn to Janet that she’d look out for Cassie if anything ever happened. Except that the things that came through the gate, or appeared in the sky, were more dangerous than anything else on Earth, and Sam was one of a very small number of people who could protect people like Cassie from them. And she owed it to Janet’s memory to save everyone she could, not just Cassie.
4. When she woke up in the infirmary after being shot by the Ori soldiers. Not that she could walk away, right then, but the thought of the recovery, the physiotherapy, the sheer struggle just to get up and keep going, was exhausting. She’d given ten years of her life, nearly died more than once, and surely that should be enough? And maybe it would have been, if not for her team, hovering round her bed, bringing her macaroons and books and DVDs, doing their level best to keep her spirits up as though they thought that if they just smiled enough she wouldn’t notice how exhausted they looked in turn, the way they all left a Daniel-sized gap that couldn’t be filled. They were doing it for her, of course, but they were doing it for themselves as well, trying to hold together, and in the end, she couldn’t leave them. Not yet.
5. When she was pulled back from Atlantis, command taken away from her, and offered her spot on SG1 again. She fumed, for days, at the slight. As if it wasn’t bad enough to have her one chance for command taken away from her, just as she was starting to feel at home there. To be offered SG1 again, a gate team member, and not even a team leader, was an insult almost too strong to bear, whatever Landry said about needing her expertise. She took a week’s leave and woke up every morning telling herself she wouldn’t go back, they could struggle on without her.
And then, on the day she’d meant to call and give her resignation, she put on her uniform instead and went back. Because she wouldn’t give them the satisfaction of seeing her leave, and because she was still a colonel in the United States Air Force, and a scientist on the stargate program, and she wasn’t going to give either of those up in protest. And because, even if wasn’t where she should be, she still loved her job, and it still needed her. She’d joined the Air Force to try to save the world, and no-one on any world was going to stop her from doing that.
Five times someone on SG-1 said "We will never speak of this again"
1. The time they got Daniel drunk, not long after Vala joined the team, and he proceeded to explain at length about the sexual practices of the Pavarians, who they were set to visit the next week. And then act some of them out. With Cam. Who was stone cold sober.
2. The time Sam said that she thought, overall, science had probably been of more use to them than archaeology. Not that archaeology hadn’t been useful on many occasions, but statistically speaking. Which would have been more or less fine if Daniel hadn’t taken it as a challenge and gone through every single mission report to do an accurate comparison. The throwing of files was kind of amusing. The week long silence between the two of them was less so. Jack’s still not sure what Teal’c said to resolve it, which is probably for the best. Whatever it was, there’s now an agreement: no comparing of team members’ responsibilities or roles in saving or nearly destroying the world. It’s just easier for everyone involved.
3. The time the people of P7T 451 decided that Teal’c was their god in human (Goa’uld) form, and took him off to the temple for three hours to properly anoint him. Teal’c, it turned out, did not look good in purple body paint. Especially since it had been used to anoint him with hundreds of small, fluffy bunnies.
4. The time Vala got into a disagreement with a mall security guard about whether or not she’d been stealing a small gold cat (she hadn’t, she’d just wanted to look at it in better light) and Cam came to sort it out. No-one’s quite sure how he got mistaken for a wanted drug dealer, but he did. So Sam and Daniel fished out their old fake FBI ID and went down to sort them both out, only to be arrested for impersonating FBI agents. Everyone was grateful that Teal’c was off-world, not least Landry, who had to go downtown at 3am and bail them all out.
5. The time on M8G 126. Everyone agreed that it was an accident and no-one could have known what would happen. That no-one’s to blame, or responsible for it. It doesn’t change the fact when SG1 arrived on M8G 126, it had a population of 3 million, and when they left, five hours later, it had a population of zero.
Five things Teal’c remembers from the 50 years on the Odyssey, which he’ll never tell anyone
1. Colonel Mitchell admits with more equanimity that Teal’c would have expected from him, to knowing that he would not have done well “cooped up” on the ship. And so it is not precisely a secret that on more than one occasion he ran to the point of collapse, usually at Teal’c’s door. Regardless, it does not seem right to share the memory of what Colonel Mitchell will likely see as weakness, when it can surely serve no purpose.
2. It took ten years to teach all four of them, but he has several memories of sitting in peace and harmony with his team at kel’no’reem. Although General Landry, perhaps rightly, would never join them, the calm seemed to extend to all of them, for several days. Teal’c is unsure why he does not suggest they resume the practice on Earth, when he is certain that they would all agree to it. He does not like to think it is nothing but fear of ruining the memory.
3. Colonel Carter was the one to wonder what would happen at the SGC once their disappearance was confirmed. “Do you think they’ll bring Jack back?” she asked, her eyes clear of any of the longing Teal’c had so often seen there when she spoke of him. “Perhaps,” he said simply, which seemed to satisfy her. He wishes quite strongly, when they return, to tell her that she would be happier if she was to let go of the last of her hope, but it is not for him to say such things. Besides, it is clear, when she returns from Atlantis, that she has already arrived at the same conclusion.
4. Dr Jackson and Vala mal’Doran’s relationship is something which he suspects they would not be surprised to learn of, and Teal’c spends some time contemplating whether he would tell them of it, should they ever find their way there again. He will never tell them of the argument he overheard about the right of bringing a child into the contained world in which they lived. Neither will he tell them that it was Vala mal’Doran who spoke of a child as hope, despite what transpired for her previous child.
5. He knows that Colonel Mitchell sleeps on his back when he sleeps alone, and with his back pressed to his partner when he is not. He knows that Colonel Mitchell does not like to be held down, and that he will happily spend many hours simply in kissing. He knows that Colonel Mitchell does not cope well with being alone, and that he does, in some way, love Teal’c. He will never tell Colonel Mitchell any of this, because he also knows that, given the chance, Colonel Mitchell would not have chosen him with whom to grow old and almost die.
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for never speaking: 1 is my favorite, though I like 5 and think 2 is very believable
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