Because what I do when I panic is...
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icarusSG-1 Plot bunnies I typed out the other day, because I'm staring at my Japanese homework blankly. Bits and pieces of a story, not a real story, sorry. Just notes and dialogue. Scrapbook-style.
Here's one where Jack and Daniel return to an alternate reality of earth to try to help prevent a Gou'ald attack in that reality - only they get the wrong alternate reality.
Society is vastly different, although events have followed similar patterns in the microcosm, i.e., Jack's son still died, but in the larger picture, Jesus lived to a ripe old age and without the martyrdom, Christianity never grew to have such a following. Sparta won its wars with Greece, absorbed Greek philosophy into its spiritual traditions, and then it was Spartan culture that was assimilated and spread by Rome.
So the military has something similar to the Spartan system, and women and men are segregated. Women run the private sector while men are either in the military or the scholarly priesthood (though by this time it's more science and the arts than theology).
When our Jack and Daniel arrive in that alternate reality, they find there are no women in the SGC, and the Daniel there is in the military and Jack's 'second' (though Abydos and all that happened, it's just that Daniel had abandoned the priesthood for Shar'e and couldn't return to it).
Our boys get their first glimpse of how different this world is.
The Jack O'Neill of this world:
"Well. I suppose you can stay at our place," he said as they walked down the SGC hall, his arm slung casually over Daniel's shoulder.
He pulled Daniel in for a brief kiss. "You get dinner ready, okay?" His thumb stroked the back of Daniel's neck, then he patted his shoulder. "Go on. We'll be there later."
The Daniel and Jack of our world watched, their jaws dropping, unable to breathe as the other Daniel drew back, starry-eyed, then nodded and loped off.
The other Jack noticed their stares and gave them a blank, "What?" Jack spread his arms apologetically. "Look. I know I've gone a little easy on him, but he was in the priesthood for crying out loud."
~*~*~
Our Daniel shut the door to the SGC guest quarters. "That explains the bedroom arrangements last night. They must have assumed that we -"
"We're gating out of here. Now."
"What? No -- okay, obviously this is not the same alternate reality I encountered previously -"
"You think?"
"- but they did blow up Ra, and they face the same consequences." Jack groaned and sank to the doublebed, cheap springs squeaking under him. He ran his hands over his face as Daniel rattled on, pacing back and forth as he theorized. "What must've happened is we're too far down the timeline. There've been so many changes between our world and the other one, maybe we get, um, too wide a field now. We're casting a bigger net in the quantum mirror so we're more likely to pull up vastly differing realities."
"Vastly being the operative word. I was prepared for Mrs. Sam O'Neill. I could deal with that. Mr. Daniel O'Neill on the other hand...."
"Jack - even if we can't help that world, we should help this one. We just have to convince them that they're in danger."
"Daniel. Wasn't the whole reason we came here without Sam and Teal'c because this Daniel and Jack were supposed to be dead? If we stay here we're going to disintegrate like cheap toilet paper."
Daniel blinked. "Nice image, Jack."
~*~
Jack turns out to be very amused by the strict hierarchal system that not only requires the other Daniel to ask to speak freely, but as his 'second' he has to wait on Jack hand and foot. He tries it out on his Daniel.
"Hey, get me a beer."
Daniel spluttered. "What? No."
"How many times have you told me 'when in Rome'...? All those squirmy things I had to eat -? Your turn."
"First of all, you just pretend to eat them, and second -- you're enjoying this way too much."
"I am."
~*~
They have trouble convincing the SGC in this world of an imminent Gou'ald attack, primarly because, due to the social hierarchy, it has to be Jack-the-not-so-diplomatic who passes the message along.
When the other Jack learns of our Jack's squeamishness about his relationship with his Daniel, he wastes no opportunity to rub it in with calculated public displays of affection. His attitude's that the other Jack has a 'stick up his ass.' Both Jack and Daniel from our world are horrified.
"I'm -- my -- this Jack O'Neill is doing you. Or that you."
Daniel made a disgusted sound. "What's worse, I act like some sort of sycophantic.." he runs his hand through his hair "...pet."
~*~
Jack and the-other-Jack finally work it out when our Jack tells him, in response to yet another crude comment, "Now you are yanking my chain." Once he can take it with humor the other Jack stops razzing him.
~*~
The other Daniel apologizes for Jack and the awkward situation, and explains how after Abydos, as a de-frocked priest/scholar he couldn't go back to his community; yet in joining the military he had to start from the bottom with no shot at participating in the Stargate program if Jack hadn't broken tradition and taken him on as second after Kawalski's death. (Moment of horror from Jack that he'd been doing Kawalski).
Usually the second is only a rank or two below, is shown the ropes (with benefits), and then moves up the chain of command till he's of equal rank; then he takes on his own command, until someone further up partners him to be groomed for the next. Usually the relationship lasts from a few months to at most a year. (Sometimes two people partner off and on for years, but that's frowned upon as it limits both officers. The point isn't the sex, but the range of experience the mentoring officer can offer.) Daniel however is so far below Jack's rank he has no chance of ever moving on, so they're stuck together more or less for life, and Jack has basically frozen his own rank. It's not exactly against regulations, more of a letter of the law thing. Daniel's so useful as an ex-priest-scholar on these missions that people don't complain, but the situation's... okay, it's a little weird.
But there may be more to the relationship than this Daniel says:
Daniel watched, mesmerized, feeling like the worst kind of voyeur, but he couldn't look away. His double was backed up against the countertop. The other Daniel dropped his chin to Jack's shoulder in a gesture so familiar he could almost feel it. He knew what was next, as the other Daniel rubbed his face against Jack's, nuzzling as his lips parted and slid along Jack's cheek. Jack's fists closed about the edge of the counter as he leaned forward into the kiss.
Daniel swallowed.
A voice next to him said, "Social hierarchy my ass."
~*~
Two more pages of Japanese homework to do.
Here's one where Jack and Daniel return to an alternate reality of earth to try to help prevent a Gou'ald attack in that reality - only they get the wrong alternate reality.
Society is vastly different, although events have followed similar patterns in the microcosm, i.e., Jack's son still died, but in the larger picture, Jesus lived to a ripe old age and without the martyrdom, Christianity never grew to have such a following. Sparta won its wars with Greece, absorbed Greek philosophy into its spiritual traditions, and then it was Spartan culture that was assimilated and spread by Rome.
So the military has something similar to the Spartan system, and women and men are segregated. Women run the private sector while men are either in the military or the scholarly priesthood (though by this time it's more science and the arts than theology).
When our Jack and Daniel arrive in that alternate reality, they find there are no women in the SGC, and the Daniel there is in the military and Jack's 'second' (though Abydos and all that happened, it's just that Daniel had abandoned the priesthood for Shar'e and couldn't return to it).
Our boys get their first glimpse of how different this world is.
The Jack O'Neill of this world:
"Well. I suppose you can stay at our place," he said as they walked down the SGC hall, his arm slung casually over Daniel's shoulder.
He pulled Daniel in for a brief kiss. "You get dinner ready, okay?" His thumb stroked the back of Daniel's neck, then he patted his shoulder. "Go on. We'll be there later."
The Daniel and Jack of our world watched, their jaws dropping, unable to breathe as the other Daniel drew back, starry-eyed, then nodded and loped off.
The other Jack noticed their stares and gave them a blank, "What?" Jack spread his arms apologetically. "Look. I know I've gone a little easy on him, but he was in the priesthood for crying out loud."
~*~*~
Our Daniel shut the door to the SGC guest quarters. "That explains the bedroom arrangements last night. They must have assumed that we -"
"We're gating out of here. Now."
"What? No -- okay, obviously this is not the same alternate reality I encountered previously -"
"You think?"
"- but they did blow up Ra, and they face the same consequences." Jack groaned and sank to the doublebed, cheap springs squeaking under him. He ran his hands over his face as Daniel rattled on, pacing back and forth as he theorized. "What must've happened is we're too far down the timeline. There've been so many changes between our world and the other one, maybe we get, um, too wide a field now. We're casting a bigger net in the quantum mirror so we're more likely to pull up vastly differing realities."
"Vastly being the operative word. I was prepared for Mrs. Sam O'Neill. I could deal with that. Mr. Daniel O'Neill on the other hand...."
"Jack - even if we can't help that world, we should help this one. We just have to convince them that they're in danger."
"Daniel. Wasn't the whole reason we came here without Sam and Teal'c because this Daniel and Jack were supposed to be dead? If we stay here we're going to disintegrate like cheap toilet paper."
Daniel blinked. "Nice image, Jack."
~*~
Jack turns out to be very amused by the strict hierarchal system that not only requires the other Daniel to ask to speak freely, but as his 'second' he has to wait on Jack hand and foot. He tries it out on his Daniel.
"Hey, get me a beer."
Daniel spluttered. "What? No."
"How many times have you told me 'when in Rome'...? All those squirmy things I had to eat -? Your turn."
"First of all, you just pretend to eat them, and second -- you're enjoying this way too much."
"I am."
~*~
They have trouble convincing the SGC in this world of an imminent Gou'ald attack, primarly because, due to the social hierarchy, it has to be Jack-the-not-so-diplomatic who passes the message along.
When the other Jack learns of our Jack's squeamishness about his relationship with his Daniel, he wastes no opportunity to rub it in with calculated public displays of affection. His attitude's that the other Jack has a 'stick up his ass.' Both Jack and Daniel from our world are horrified.
"I'm -- my -- this Jack O'Neill is doing you. Or that you."
Daniel made a disgusted sound. "What's worse, I act like some sort of sycophantic.." he runs his hand through his hair "...pet."
~*~
Jack and the-other-Jack finally work it out when our Jack tells him, in response to yet another crude comment, "Now you are yanking my chain." Once he can take it with humor the other Jack stops razzing him.
~*~
The other Daniel apologizes for Jack and the awkward situation, and explains how after Abydos, as a de-frocked priest/scholar he couldn't go back to his community; yet in joining the military he had to start from the bottom with no shot at participating in the Stargate program if Jack hadn't broken tradition and taken him on as second after Kawalski's death. (Moment of horror from Jack that he'd been doing Kawalski).
Usually the second is only a rank or two below, is shown the ropes (with benefits), and then moves up the chain of command till he's of equal rank; then he takes on his own command, until someone further up partners him to be groomed for the next. Usually the relationship lasts from a few months to at most a year. (Sometimes two people partner off and on for years, but that's frowned upon as it limits both officers. The point isn't the sex, but the range of experience the mentoring officer can offer.) Daniel however is so far below Jack's rank he has no chance of ever moving on, so they're stuck together more or less for life, and Jack has basically frozen his own rank. It's not exactly against regulations, more of a letter of the law thing. Daniel's so useful as an ex-priest-scholar on these missions that people don't complain, but the situation's... okay, it's a little weird.
But there may be more to the relationship than this Daniel says:
Daniel watched, mesmerized, feeling like the worst kind of voyeur, but he couldn't look away. His double was backed up against the countertop. The other Daniel dropped his chin to Jack's shoulder in a gesture so familiar he could almost feel it. He knew what was next, as the other Daniel rubbed his face against Jack's, nuzzling as his lips parted and slid along Jack's cheek. Jack's fists closed about the edge of the counter as he leaned forward into the kiss.
Daniel swallowed.
A voice next to him said, "Social hierarchy my ass."
~*~
Two more pages of Japanese homework to do.
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Date: 2004-10-27 09:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-27 11:59 am (UTC)Daniel: Uh.. sumimasen? America-jin kara kyimashta.
Jack: Ee-eh, so ja nai des.
Daniel: Eh, so des! Harvard da'igako no New York kara kyimashta.
Jack: Harvard's not American. Penn State, now that's American.
Icarus
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Date: 2004-10-27 10:20 pm (UTC)Eh, sumimasen
Date: 2004-10-31 10:29 am (UTC)Icarus
Re: Eh, sumimasen
Date: 2004-10-31 11:30 pm (UTC)