Five ways Jack wishes he was like the rest of SG-1.
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1) There are a lot of things Jack envies about Teal’c. It’d be nice to be taller, to be stronger, to be faster. Maybe not full blown Jaffa skills, but a guy can dream about being just a little bit better, right? Also, he’s not sure, but Jack thinks Teal’c might live forever. And that might be nice, too, as long as the Jaffa health and strength come with. His knees suck at 50, and he knows they aren’t getting better.
But Jack’s only human and he’s pretty content with staying that way.
Putting aside all the awesomeness that comes in the Jaffa package, though, there’s another thing he envies about his friend.
Teal’c’s done a lot of really bad things. First prime of Apophis, yadda yadda yadda. And even the good things he’s done - like joining SG-1 - gets him called nasty names by his people, made him lose his wife, alienated his son. It’s been a pretty shitty decade for Teal’c in a lot of ways, Jack thinks. Freeing the Jaffa nation - well, he’s not even sure that’ll make up for it. Rya’c has a chip the size of Neptune on his shoulder. Drey’auc is dead.
And yet, even with all that, Teal’c goes on. He moves on. The Jaffa nation - which has never seemed all that interested in doing anything but serving the Goaul’d - Teal’c has goals and hopes, concrete plans and ideas for them. And yeah, Jack can see some parallels to humanity. He hates most people, but if Earth were enslaved, he’d want to do something about it. He doesn’t know that he could let some weakling aliens and their silly little space explorer program try to do it their way, though. Doesn’t think that he could let his family be destroyed for the good of the species.
Teal’c did. And he goes on.
He loved his wife, Jack knows. But she’s gone, now. And Teal’c flirts - in a bizarre, fascinating alien way - with women. Someday, Jack fully expects to stand up at some wacko ceremony and eat worms or something to sanctify Teal’c’s marriage.
Rya’c is a punk and Teal’c regrets not being there to beat some of the punk out of him. Well, that’s not exactly what he said, but Jack got the drift. Jack can imagine Teal’c with more bouncing baby Jaffa and it makes him smile. He knows that things will smooth out between him and his son in time - Jaffa have centuries together, after all.
Jack may not have as much time as Teal’c, or as much tragedy, but he wouldn’t mind just a little of that stunning ability to go on.
2) Well, duh, he’d like Carter’s brain. She uses it for good, but he’s damn sure that in the right skull, her skills at math and science could be put to use for more interesting things, like winning the lottery. And…um….well more interesting things which do not reside in a lab, that’s for sure.
3) Once upon a time, a younger Jack O’Neill wouldn’t have wanted to be anything like Daniel Jackson. He was a lot angrier, then. A lot colder, meaner, and less forgiving.
Even now, he doesn’t understand why Daniel is still there. If he were anything like Jack, he’d have spent the majority of the past decade in a military prison for murdering Teal’c.
But no, Daniel is forgiving. He’s lived and worked with the man responsible for ending his wife’s life. And Jack doesn’t care about the context - because he knows it wouldn’t have stopped him. If someone animate had been in the room with Charlie, Jack would have killed them. He knows that.
But Daniel calls Teal’c a friend. He calls Jack a friend, too, even after all the…unkind…things Jack said and did in those early days. And even though it also bugs Jack to no end, Daniel takes that same damn forgiving attitude everywhere.
Natives shoot arrows at your ass? Forgive them. Native lock you up and torture you? Forgive them. Friends interfere with your on-going goal to die and/or get stranded on an alien planet? Forgive them, but not before whining like a four-year-old.
Anyways. Even though he doesn’t understand why Daniel trusts people so much, especially when they so often disappoint and then hurt him, Jack envies him. He doesn’t trust very much to begin with, certainly not enough to forgive and try again.
4) Okay, he’d probably waste her brain, but Jack wouldn’t mind Sam’s heart.
Sure she’s never gone through a divorce or lost a spouse in the ways the rest of SG-1 has, and maybe that’s why she has so much hope for love. Not that he should make light of all the aliens that have waltzed in and out of her life, but it’s not the same.
So, maybe he’d like to have that kind of optimism, that some day everything will just settle, and fall into place, the way she seems to think it will.
5) That leaves Cameron Mitchell. Jack doesn’t know him well, but there is one definite way he wishes they were more alike.
Mitchell is the leader of SG-1. Jack would like that role back.
1) There are a lot of things Jack envies about Teal’c. It’d be nice to be taller, to be stronger, to be faster. Maybe not full blown Jaffa skills, but a guy can dream about being just a little bit better, right? Also, he’s not sure, but Jack thinks Teal’c might live forever. And that might be nice, too, as long as the Jaffa health and strength come with. His knees suck at 50, and he knows they aren’t getting better.
But Jack’s only human and he’s pretty content with staying that way.
Putting aside all the awesomeness that comes in the Jaffa package, though, there’s another thing he envies about his friend.
Teal’c’s done a lot of really bad things. First prime of Apophis, yadda yadda yadda. And even the good things he’s done - like joining SG-1 - gets him called nasty names by his people, made him lose his wife, alienated his son. It’s been a pretty shitty decade for Teal’c in a lot of ways, Jack thinks. Freeing the Jaffa nation - well, he’s not even sure that’ll make up for it. Rya’c has a chip the size of Neptune on his shoulder. Drey’auc is dead.
And yet, even with all that, Teal’c goes on. He moves on. The Jaffa nation - which has never seemed all that interested in doing anything but serving the Goaul’d - Teal’c has goals and hopes, concrete plans and ideas for them. And yeah, Jack can see some parallels to humanity. He hates most people, but if Earth were enslaved, he’d want to do something about it. He doesn’t know that he could let some weakling aliens and their silly little space explorer program try to do it their way, though. Doesn’t think that he could let his family be destroyed for the good of the species.
Teal’c did. And he goes on.
He loved his wife, Jack knows. But she’s gone, now. And Teal’c flirts - in a bizarre, fascinating alien way - with women. Someday, Jack fully expects to stand up at some wacko ceremony and eat worms or something to sanctify Teal’c’s marriage.
Rya’c is a punk and Teal’c regrets not being there to beat some of the punk out of him. Well, that’s not exactly what he said, but Jack got the drift. Jack can imagine Teal’c with more bouncing baby Jaffa and it makes him smile. He knows that things will smooth out between him and his son in time - Jaffa have centuries together, after all.
Jack may not have as much time as Teal’c, or as much tragedy, but he wouldn’t mind just a little of that stunning ability to go on.
2) Well, duh, he’d like Carter’s brain. She uses it for good, but he’s damn sure that in the right skull, her skills at math and science could be put to use for more interesting things, like winning the lottery. And…um….well more interesting things which do not reside in a lab, that’s for sure.
3) Once upon a time, a younger Jack O’Neill wouldn’t have wanted to be anything like Daniel Jackson. He was a lot angrier, then. A lot colder, meaner, and less forgiving.
Even now, he doesn’t understand why Daniel is still there. If he were anything like Jack, he’d have spent the majority of the past decade in a military prison for murdering Teal’c.
But no, Daniel is forgiving. He’s lived and worked with the man responsible for ending his wife’s life. And Jack doesn’t care about the context - because he knows it wouldn’t have stopped him. If someone animate had been in the room with Charlie, Jack would have killed them. He knows that.
But Daniel calls Teal’c a friend. He calls Jack a friend, too, even after all the…unkind…things Jack said and did in those early days. And even though it also bugs Jack to no end, Daniel takes that same damn forgiving attitude everywhere.
Natives shoot arrows at your ass? Forgive them. Native lock you up and torture you? Forgive them. Friends interfere with your on-going goal to die and/or get stranded on an alien planet? Forgive them, but not before whining like a four-year-old.
Anyways. Even though he doesn’t understand why Daniel trusts people so much, especially when they so often disappoint and then hurt him, Jack envies him. He doesn’t trust very much to begin with, certainly not enough to forgive and try again.
4) Okay, he’d probably waste her brain, but Jack wouldn’t mind Sam’s heart.
Sure she’s never gone through a divorce or lost a spouse in the ways the rest of SG-1 has, and maybe that’s why she has so much hope for love. Not that he should make light of all the aliens that have waltzed in and out of her life, but it’s not the same.
So, maybe he’d like to have that kind of optimism, that some day everything will just settle, and fall into place, the way she seems to think it will.
5) That leaves Cameron Mitchell. Jack doesn’t know him well, but there is one definite way he wishes they were more alike.
Mitchell is the leader of SG-1. Jack would like that role back.