o'neill and sheppard and atlantis
a couple of leftovers from 5 things jack o'neill doesn't talk about
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He understands John Sheppard both more and less than everyone thinks he does. Because although they tick off many of the same boxes on the list of 'bad shit happens to you', the contexts are so different they're not even really the same boxes. Or so Jack figures, because half the time he can predict Sheppard's reaction to something down to the nth detail, and the rest of the time he's just guessing. And every now and then he'll think he knows up until the point when Sheppard does something absolutely insane that either works or really, really doesn't.
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The handful of times Jack visits Atlantis, he leaves wondering how Sheppard's still sane and if maybe he's actually bribing medical to keep signing off on the release forms. Jack almost has to; despite his (uncomfortable, reluctant) familiarity with the Earth variety of Ancient technology, Atlantis is so much more that it feels a bit like jamming his brain into an electric socket. A very chatty electric socket.
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He understands John Sheppard both more and less than everyone thinks he does. Because although they tick off many of the same boxes on the list of 'bad shit happens to you', the contexts are so different they're not even really the same boxes. Or so Jack figures, because half the time he can predict Sheppard's reaction to something down to the nth detail, and the rest of the time he's just guessing. And every now and then he'll think he knows up until the point when Sheppard does something absolutely insane that either works or really, really doesn't.
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The handful of times Jack visits Atlantis, he leaves wondering how Sheppard's still sane and if maybe he's actually bribing medical to keep signing off on the release forms. Jack almost has to; despite his (uncomfortable, reluctant) familiarity with the Earth variety of Ancient technology, Atlantis is so much more that it feels a bit like jamming his brain into an electric socket. A very chatty electric socket.