But Who's Counting?, by Denise (PG)
Rec Category: General Hammond
Pairing: none
Categories: General Hammond, gen, episode related
Warnings: none
Author on LJ: skydiver119
Author's Website: Emerald City
Link: But Who's Counting?
Why This Must Be Read: Denise gives us a sobering, moving glimpse of what it means to be in charge of the SGC - to be responsible for the men and women who go through the Gate, and sometimes don't come back.
Set post-Nemesis against the quiet backdrop of the SGC's memorial to its own, General Hammond considers the markers that have gone up, both in memory of those MIA and those that were killed over the years, including some that have thankfully been taken back down. And now, with Jack and Teal'c and Sam gone missing over the Atlantic Ocean, it's time to hang up those white markers... and hope, together with Daniel, that SG-1 will come through and let them take the markers down again.
As Hammond told Daniel in Nemesis, staying behind is painfully difficult. Denise gives us an achingly good vignette that salutes the man who has never stopped waiting for his people to come home.
George's impromptu escort parted to allow him through, then lined the room in respectful silence. He walked up to the back wall and solemnly hung the three items on tiny hooks. Each was a little resin stargate, about six inches across. The inside of the circle was white, symbolizing the people were merely MIA. These stood out in stark contrast to the multitude of circles which were black in the middle. The black, of course, stood for those who would not be coming back.
Since the stargate was top secret, no names were engraved on the markers. But George didn't need names to remember who each and every marker stood for.
Pairing: none
Categories: General Hammond, gen, episode related
Warnings: none
Author on LJ: skydiver119
Author's Website: Emerald City
Link: But Who's Counting?
Why This Must Be Read: Denise gives us a sobering, moving glimpse of what it means to be in charge of the SGC - to be responsible for the men and women who go through the Gate, and sometimes don't come back.
Set post-Nemesis against the quiet backdrop of the SGC's memorial to its own, General Hammond considers the markers that have gone up, both in memory of those MIA and those that were killed over the years, including some that have thankfully been taken back down. And now, with Jack and Teal'c and Sam gone missing over the Atlantic Ocean, it's time to hang up those white markers... and hope, together with Daniel, that SG-1 will come through and let them take the markers down again.
As Hammond told Daniel in Nemesis, staying behind is painfully difficult. Denise gives us an achingly good vignette that salutes the man who has never stopped waiting for his people to come home.
George's impromptu escort parted to allow him through, then lined the room in respectful silence. He walked up to the back wall and solemnly hung the three items on tiny hooks. Each was a little resin stargate, about six inches across. The inside of the circle was white, symbolizing the people were merely MIA. These stood out in stark contrast to the multitude of circles which were black in the middle. The black, of course, stood for those who would not be coming back.
Since the stargate was top secret, no names were engraved on the markers. But George didn't need names to remember who each and every marker stood for.