Fic: "Starlight, Starbright" for eureka_tag (Jack Carter, PG-13)
Fandom: EUReKA
Title: Starlight, Starbright
Rating: PG-13
Summary: An overheard conversation and skyward thoughts.
Disclaimer: Not mine. Property of SciFi/SyFy, Andrew Cosby and Jamie Paglia.
Pairing/Characters: Jack Carter, mentions of Nathan Stark, Allison Blake & Henry Deacon
Spoilers: Spoilers for 3x09 - 'Welcome Back Carter'
A/N: Written for Week 1 of the Season 3.5 challenge at eureka_tag, Alternate Scene/Post-ep tag for 3x09 - "Welcome Back Carter''.
Henry: “We’ve been having trouble with our NavSat antenna array.”
Allison: ”Yeah, some kind of interference, but we couldn’t pin it down before the array was destroyed.”
Henry: “Yeah, and I ran the output and it wasn’t interference. It was a radio signal.”
Allison: “Man made.”
Henry: ”No. I mean, we don’t have anything out that far.”
Allison: “Henry, what are you saying?”
Henry: “I’m saying there’s something out there and it’s heading straight for us. Straight for Eureka.”
Jack frowned as he listened in from nearby as he walked across the room, helping Vincent clean up after the ‘goodbye that turned into a welcome back’ party. Something coming at us? Not again, he thinks. We’ve done the gravity thing, the science fair thing, the extra sun thing. What’s next? Aliens?
Henry and Allison keep talking but he moves outside to take one of the trash bags out and pauses to look up at the stars. Maybe, just maybe that interference is Nathan, turning the energy or whatever hanging around him up there into radio waves to interfere and get their attention back down on earth. Trying to get us to help him come back home, even if he’s still incorporeal.
He figures Nathan was never above causing chaos when he was living, and surely his dissolution into… whatever… wouldn’t stop him from taking every chance he could get to continue. Always done with a cunning smile and the intent of saving the world, it still drove Jack up the wall. Jack’s pretty sure Nathan relished every minute of his frustration too.
Nathan’s gone, but not forgotten, living on in the corporeal world in the form of Ali’s baby. Jack steadfastly refuses to call his loss death to this day. Death is trauma and bleeding and bodies-- pale, heavy, still. Not dissolving into a bajillion little gold bits. He’s seen too much of it, felt it himself. Known the heavy and bleak blackness for entirely too many brief moments in his life. What Nathan did wasn’t die… he’s not sure what exactly it was, but it wasn’t death. He knows it.
Plus, the bastard didn’t even have the balls to say goodbye. So he can’t really be gone, right? He had the chance and didn’t say it. Not everyone gets the chance, and it’s a crime to waste it. Nathan would know just as well too.
Jack always watches the sky at night, even for the briefest moment, hoping just a little bit that Nathan’s watching back. He likes to think so, that Nathan’s floating up there somewhere, annoyed as hell and waiting for them to come up with some crazy time-bending invention to bring him home.
He figures one day he’ll get a call from GD filled with panic because some GD scientist has pointed a death ray at the sky and suddenly Nathan Stark materialized out of nowhere. He doesn’t know if he’d laugh, cry, or beat the shit out of him- probably all of them at the same time.
He puts the trash in the self-compacting dumpster and listens absently to the mechanical whirr of the hydraulics as it works, looking back up at the starry sky. One bright star twinkles distinctly and he lets a smile tug at the corner of his mouth.
We miss you too, he thinks, as he heads back inside to help finish the cleanup.
Fin
7/09
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Title: Starlight, Starbright
Rating: PG-13
Summary: An overheard conversation and skyward thoughts.
Disclaimer: Not mine. Property of SciFi/SyFy, Andrew Cosby and Jamie Paglia.
Pairing/Characters: Jack Carter, mentions of Nathan Stark, Allison Blake & Henry Deacon
Spoilers: Spoilers for 3x09 - 'Welcome Back Carter'
A/N: Written for Week 1 of the Season 3.5 challenge at eureka_tag, Alternate Scene/Post-ep tag for 3x09 - "Welcome Back Carter''.
Henry: “We’ve been having trouble with our NavSat antenna array.”
Allison: ”Yeah, some kind of interference, but we couldn’t pin it down before the array was destroyed.”
Henry: “Yeah, and I ran the output and it wasn’t interference. It was a radio signal.”
Allison: “Man made.”
Henry: ”No. I mean, we don’t have anything out that far.”
Allison: “Henry, what are you saying?”
Henry: “I’m saying there’s something out there and it’s heading straight for us. Straight for Eureka.”
Jack frowned as he listened in from nearby as he walked across the room, helping Vincent clean up after the ‘goodbye that turned into a welcome back’ party. Something coming at us? Not again, he thinks. We’ve done the gravity thing, the science fair thing, the extra sun thing. What’s next? Aliens?
Henry and Allison keep talking but he moves outside to take one of the trash bags out and pauses to look up at the stars. Maybe, just maybe that interference is Nathan, turning the energy or whatever hanging around him up there into radio waves to interfere and get their attention back down on earth. Trying to get us to help him come back home, even if he’s still incorporeal.
He figures Nathan was never above causing chaos when he was living, and surely his dissolution into… whatever… wouldn’t stop him from taking every chance he could get to continue. Always done with a cunning smile and the intent of saving the world, it still drove Jack up the wall. Jack’s pretty sure Nathan relished every minute of his frustration too.
Nathan’s gone, but not forgotten, living on in the corporeal world in the form of Ali’s baby. Jack steadfastly refuses to call his loss death to this day. Death is trauma and bleeding and bodies-- pale, heavy, still. Not dissolving into a bajillion little gold bits. He’s seen too much of it, felt it himself. Known the heavy and bleak blackness for entirely too many brief moments in his life. What Nathan did wasn’t die… he’s not sure what exactly it was, but it wasn’t death. He knows it.
Plus, the bastard didn’t even have the balls to say goodbye. So he can’t really be gone, right? He had the chance and didn’t say it. Not everyone gets the chance, and it’s a crime to waste it. Nathan would know just as well too.
Jack always watches the sky at night, even for the briefest moment, hoping just a little bit that Nathan’s watching back. He likes to think so, that Nathan’s floating up there somewhere, annoyed as hell and waiting for them to come up with some crazy time-bending invention to bring him home.
He figures one day he’ll get a call from GD filled with panic because some GD scientist has pointed a death ray at the sky and suddenly Nathan Stark materialized out of nowhere. He doesn’t know if he’d laugh, cry, or beat the shit out of him- probably all of them at the same time.
He puts the trash in the self-compacting dumpster and listens absently to the mechanical whirr of the hydraulics as it works, looking back up at the starry sky. One bright star twinkles distinctly and he lets a smile tug at the corner of his mouth.
We miss you too, he thinks, as he heads back inside to help finish the cleanup.
Fin
7/09
Feedback always welcome.
Link to all of my stories