[Stargate: Drabble] "Wish I May" [team, G]
Title: Wish I May
Prompt: writerverse challenge #16 quick fic #5 (‘wish upon a star’)
Word Count: 269
Rating: G
Original/Fandom: Stargate SG-1
Setting: sometime during Season One (but that’s mostly not important)
Summary: Starlight, star bright…
Note(s): originally posted to the writerverse wv_library
Wish I May
“Hey,” said Daniel, suddenly. “It’s a shooting star.”
They all looked up from their campfire to see the bright glow streak across the dark sky of P8X- 272.
“That meteor must have been about a mile wide,” said Sam. “And probably composed of-”
“Hey, no science after hours,” Jack interrupted, then gave her a lopsided grin. “Make a wish, Carter.”
Teal’c raised an eyebrow. “I was not aware it was your birthday, Captain-Carter.”
“Oh, it’s not,” she said. “Making wishes isn’t just for birthday candles, Teal’c. It’s also an old custom to make a wish when you see a meteor heating up in the atmos- a shooting star,” she corrected, at Jack’s look.
“And to wish on the first star of the evening,” added Daniel. “Although, that’s harder to do on Earth now, with all of the light pollution. There’s even a poem about that tradition, about starlight… and, um…”
“It’s more of a nursery rhyme, isn’t it?” said Sam.
“Probably,” Daniel agreed easily. “Do you know all of it?”
“Well, I…”
“C’mon, Carter. Teal’c never heard it.”
Sam rolled her eyes, but smiled and recited, “Starlight, star bright, first star I see tonight, I wish I may, I wish I might, have the wish I wish tonight.”
“That saying is extremely repetitive,” said Teal’c.
“It’s for kids, T,” said Jack. “They couldn’t make it too complicated.”
“Indeed. We are scheduled to be here when this planet’s sun sets tomorrow. Perhaps I will observe the ‘first star’ of the night and wish for my people’s freedom from the Goa’uld.”
His teammates grinned. “That’s a great idea,” said Jack.
THE END
Current Mood:
nerdy
Prompt: writerverse challenge #16 quick fic #5 (‘wish upon a star’)
Word Count: 269
Rating: G
Original/Fandom: Stargate SG-1
Setting: sometime during Season One (but that’s mostly not important)
Summary: Starlight, star bright…
Note(s): originally posted to the writerverse wv_library
Wish I May
“Hey,” said Daniel, suddenly. “It’s a shooting star.”
They all looked up from their campfire to see the bright glow streak across the dark sky of P8X- 272.
“That meteor must have been about a mile wide,” said Sam. “And probably composed of-”
“Hey, no science after hours,” Jack interrupted, then gave her a lopsided grin. “Make a wish, Carter.”
Teal’c raised an eyebrow. “I was not aware it was your birthday, Captain-Carter.”
“Oh, it’s not,” she said. “Making wishes isn’t just for birthday candles, Teal’c. It’s also an old custom to make a wish when you see a meteor heating up in the atmos- a shooting star,” she corrected, at Jack’s look.
“And to wish on the first star of the evening,” added Daniel. “Although, that’s harder to do on Earth now, with all of the light pollution. There’s even a poem about that tradition, about starlight… and, um…”
“It’s more of a nursery rhyme, isn’t it?” said Sam.
“Probably,” Daniel agreed easily. “Do you know all of it?”
“Well, I…”
“C’mon, Carter. Teal’c never heard it.”
Sam rolled her eyes, but smiled and recited, “Starlight, star bright, first star I see tonight, I wish I may, I wish I might, have the wish I wish tonight.”
“That saying is extremely repetitive,” said Teal’c.
“It’s for kids, T,” said Jack. “They couldn’t make it too complicated.”
“Indeed. We are scheduled to be here when this planet’s sun sets tomorrow. Perhaps I will observe the ‘first star’ of the night and wish for my people’s freedom from the Goa’uld.”
His teammates grinned. “That’s a great idea,” said Jack.
THE END
Current Mood:
nerdy