X Marks the Spot: the drabble
My prompt for the Alphabet Soup challenge was the letter 'X'; the story and prompt ended up hiving off a drabble. So here's the drabble.
X Marks the Spot
MacGyver stared in fascination at the symbiont pouch on Teal’c’s bared stomach. The huge X seemed to have been carved in flesh by a sadistic monster, but the mutilated man walked and talked, laughed and fought, smiled and lived with it.
“You’re sayin’ there’s a real alien in there? An actual sentient creature from another world?”
“It is indeed. And I am also from another world.”
“Whoa.” Mac’s eyes were shining. “Cool.”
Jack had been studiously looking away from Teal’c. He glanced at Daniel. “See? I told ya he’d say it was cool. I told ya he was a nutcase."
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