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Coma White Chapter 1: Daniel "I'll miss the winter
"Daniel go home! Do I have to make that an
order?" Colonel Jack O' Neill nearly shouted at Daniel
Jackson....excuuuuse me, DOCTOR Daniel Jackson. Had been for
the past fifteen minutes without any sign that the younger man had any
intention of following that suggestion. 'If ONLY he was military' Jack
thought, I could MAKE him go.
"You can't order me Jack remember....although I think you MAY be
going a little senile because we've been over this for years now." Daniel
shot back.
"I could always have one of the other SG teams
"accidentally" forget to report artifacts to you......for a month or
two."
"You WOULDN'T!" Daniel narrowed his eyes behind his glasses.
Then again, he knew Jack would. He HAD spent the last
six years learning lessons like that the hard way. Even less than six months
back from the dead Jack was still being a bit of a mother hen about Daniels not
falling into bad habits like not getting enough sleep.
Jack gave him a look with that face turning challenging and smug.
"Wanna test your theory Doc?"
Deciding to think up a proper method of revenge that didn't threaten his
job.....or his freedom, Daniel narrowed his eyes at Jack but started gathering
up things anyway. Papers, books, and files shoved with more force than necessary
into a black bag, and while Jack watched him carefully, he defiantly snapped
closed his laptop and shoved that into the same bag.
"Don't even Jack...." Daniels patience was running thin.
Taking away his ability to work from home was one straw too many, and Jack
silently agreed to the compromise. But he DID escort the slightly seething
archeologist all the way to his car.
"Satisfied mother?" Daniel groused. He had a ton of work to
do, and didn't appreciate the interruption.
"Look Daniel, I know you'd rather work yourself into a coma on your
desk, but it’s been less than a week since you came down with a bad case of the
schizoids on that stupid stranded ship. Hell it’s been only six months since
your glowy ass got back here...." Jack stopped, turning to look at the
skyline behind them over the huge mouth of the
"I....I mean....WE can't take the chances we used to....."
Jack sighed, and Daniel forgot any irritation and anger he was feeling. He
forgot sometimes what he'd put his friends through, and it was easy to fall
into his old routines without realizing that while they may be old to him,
while he was gone, pain and loss had gripped his friends, and made up some new
ones for them. Including watching him like a hawk.
"I'm...sorry...."Although what Daniel was apologizing for he
wasn't sure. He just looked into the warm brown eyes of his best friend, and
saw the ghost of the grief that was still there reflected back at him. Daniels
eyes stung. Although being forced from his obsessive work was annoying, facing
the agony his friends still dealt with on a regular basis was infinitely worse.
He didn't remember a thing, but they did, so a decrease in his stubbornness was
a small sacrifice.
Jack just gave him one of his patent sideways smiles and opened Daniels
car door for him. Swallowing any sort of pride, Daniel just got in and started
the car.
"Jack...." He started.
"Just get some sleep will ya? Briefing at 0730 on
Wednesday." Daniel nodded and drove away. To
his credit, Daniel HAD tried to sleep. He'd gotten into his jammies and tucked
himself in like a good little boy, but he couldn't sleep. He'd worked until
Getting up, he grabbed for his glasses on the nightstand, and looked at
the time. 3:30. Great, juuuuuuust great. Jack was
going to love this. A walk. Maybe a
walk. Daniel went to his closet and replaced his sweats with jeans. It
was warm out, not exactly On
nights like this, you could see every star, every tiny little star, and it made
him smile. He was thinking about every star in the sky he couldn't see, but
that he HAD experienced. Not that it hadn't cost him.
His wife, home, his happiness, his LIFE....that one he was getting tired of
really. He
seriously hoped he hadn't gotten that jaded, but it seemed inevitable. He
missed his innocence. He could barely remember a time when his eyes didn't walk
into something with a sense of stiffness and wariness. If he wasn't careful, he
was running the risk of ending up a lot like Jack. And even Jack would say that
wasn't something he would want for Daniel. So
lost in thought, he didn't realize when he'd walked out of his own neighborhood.
In fact, he'd wandered past his block considerably and now was in another
world. Run down buildings, broken neon signs, people that were walking around
him as if he didn't even exist to them.
That’s when he heard it. In his life, he'd heard women talk with less
than ladylike words. Sam on occasion got quite vocal when she was working on
something and it wasn’t going according to plan. But the yelling voice that
came out into the night right across the alley from him was unlike anything
he'd ever seen out of a female mouth. End of Chapter One of Coma White This story along with all original characters and situations were created
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by
Ryanne
a world of fragile things
look for me in the white forest
hiding in a hollow tree (come find me)
I know you hear me
I can taste it in your tears..."
By Ryanne
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