Two Wrongs, No Right

[sg_wonderland]

Title: Two Wrongs, No Right
Author: Sg Wonderland
Rating: Gen
Prompt. Daniel and Steven Raynor. Daniel talks to Raynor after he wakes up after surgery.

Comments

[sidlj]

Ouch! That was always going to be an awkward conversation, considering the men and the circumstances. Well done! Daniel stood firm, although he must have hated doing it.

[sg_wonderland]

My take is that Daniel is the only person who could have convinced him to keep quiet.

[goddess47]

Yes... ouch!

Poor Daniel, having to be that person...

Nicely done!

[sg_wonderland]

I do believe that falls under the category of 'damned distasteful' that Jack mentions. Glad you liked it.

[sg_wonderland]

Yeah, Sam could have done it but Daniel knew just where Steven was most vulnerable: he wanted the attention for himself.

[maria_priest]

Very plausible way for this conversation would have happened. How characteristic of Daniel to push his friend into the lesser of the inevitable two evils that awaited Steve. Nicely done.

[sg_wonderland]

Thanks.

[sg_fignewton]

“I’m already there, Steven.”

Oh, OW.

Yeah, it probably played out like this. I do like to note that Raynor did have a good side to him - he admitted flat out that Daniel was right, even when he was lying half-dead - and you, too, have that here. But the aftermath from such a disaster could never be pretty.

Poor Steven. And Daniel. And Sarah.

Thanks for contributing. :)

[sg_wonderland]

I don't think anyone is all good or all bad. Steven, as Sarah points out, had been living in Daniel's shadow for years. And, yes, I know you could argue that was just Osiris stroking Daniel's ego to garner his cooperation.

I always thought Steven was acting like the petulant child who was tired of being upstaged yet again by his golden boy older brother. But his acknowledgment of Daniel's theories proved a surprising maturity. I think a different Steven emerges from this incident. He's lost all his anchors: Dr. Jordan, Sarah and his beliefs in everything he knew to be true.