Stargate SG-1 Double Drabble: Looping
Title: Looping
Fandom: Stargate SG-1
Author: badly_knitted
Characters: Daniel, Jack, Teal’c.
Rating: PG
Spoilers/Setting: Window of Opportunity.
Summary: Daniel is finding the whole time loop situation confusing, even though he’s not personally aware of living the same day over and over.
Written For: Challenge 447: Amnesty 74 at fan_flashworks, using Challenge 16: Role Reversal.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Stargate SG-1, or the characters.
A/N: Double drabble and a half, 250 words.
It’s weird telling Jack and Teal’c what to do. Or maybe it’s just weird that Jack’s actually trying to follow Daniel’s instructions and learn what he’s attempting to teach. Still, if Jack is right and they really are trapped in a time loop, then Daniel supposes that would provide ample motivation. Living the same day over and over, with only minor variations… It doesn’t bear thinking about.
Then again, the next time they loop, Daniel will have forgotten thinking any of this, or maybe he’ll think it all over again, after Jack explains what’s happening and convinces him, and how many times has he done that already? Daniel’s getting a headache just imagining what his friends are going through, and he feels a little guilty for being glad he doesn’t have to remember any of it.
Of course, if he DID remember, they probably would’ve broken out of the loop by now, which gives Daniel something else to feel guilty about, so he pushes that out of his head as well and concentrates on listening as Teal’c and Jack tell him how far he’s gotten with the translation.
Never mind time loops, this is more like being stuck in an alternate universe. He translates, then has Jack and Teal’c memorise everything, so on the next loop they can tell him where he got to in the translation and he can start work on the next section. Jack even corrects him when he gets something wrong. Exactly who is teaching who?
The End
Fandom: Stargate SG-1
Author: badly_knitted
Characters: Daniel, Jack, Teal’c.
Rating: PG
Spoilers/Setting: Window of Opportunity.
Summary: Daniel is finding the whole time loop situation confusing, even though he’s not personally aware of living the same day over and over.
Written For: Challenge 447: Amnesty 74 at fan_flashworks, using Challenge 16: Role Reversal.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Stargate SG-1, or the characters.
A/N: Double drabble and a half, 250 words.
It’s weird telling Jack and Teal’c what to do. Or maybe it’s just weird that Jack’s actually trying to follow Daniel’s instructions and learn what he’s attempting to teach. Still, if Jack is right and they really are trapped in a time loop, then Daniel supposes that would provide ample motivation. Living the same day over and over, with only minor variations… It doesn’t bear thinking about.
Then again, the next time they loop, Daniel will have forgotten thinking any of this, or maybe he’ll think it all over again, after Jack explains what’s happening and convinces him, and how many times has he done that already? Daniel’s getting a headache just imagining what his friends are going through, and he feels a little guilty for being glad he doesn’t have to remember any of it.
Of course, if he DID remember, they probably would’ve broken out of the loop by now, which gives Daniel something else to feel guilty about, so he pushes that out of his head as well and concentrates on listening as Teal’c and Jack tell him how far he’s gotten with the translation.
Never mind time loops, this is more like being stuck in an alternate universe. He translates, then has Jack and Teal’c memorise everything, so on the next loop they can tell him where he got to in the translation and he can start work on the next section. Jack even corrects him when he gets something wrong. Exactly who is teaching who?
The End