#101 - Obstacle and Opportunity [A:tS/SG-1]
title: Obstacle and Opportunity
word count: 200
fandom: Stargate SG-1
challenge: #101 - paperwork
disclaimer: The words are mine; the worlds are not.
notes: Set in the same 'verse as " Moonfall".
summary: When the news came from the Alpha site about 'Dr. Fred Burkle' reappearing, Daniel Jackson was in his office, reworking his nth application to join the Atlantis Expedition.
When the news came from the Alpha site about a long-lost scientist reappearing, Daniel Jackson was in his office, reworking his nth application to join the Atlantis Expedition. Third time was the charm, wasn't it? Or whatever iteration he was on after hijacked spaceships, mystical bonds, a pressing war, and an inconvenient injury had repeatedly trapped him in the Milky Way Galaxy.
Atlantis' temporary relocation to US waters had seemed the perfect opportunity to try again. And thus, of course, an equally perfect opportunity for another obstacle to materialize.
'Dr. Fred Burkle' might well be worth it, though. He vividly remembered her bizarre behavior and disappearance on a science-related mission off-world; her final words to him had been, "You will do."
He still wasn't sure what she'd meant by that-- but she reached that curious, knowledge-hungry part of him that had been slumbering for years. The Ori war, the Nox withdrawal, and the self-destruction of the Asgard had left the galaxy's second-born races with only the dregs of the Ancients' long-ago failures as legacy. But the Furlings were still a mystery.
And she'd claimed to be one of them.
He sighed, smiled wryly, and tore up the paperwork. Maybe someday.
word count: 200
fandom: Stargate SG-1
challenge: #101 - paperwork
disclaimer: The words are mine; the worlds are not.
notes: Set in the same 'verse as " Moonfall".
summary: When the news came from the Alpha site about 'Dr. Fred Burkle' reappearing, Daniel Jackson was in his office, reworking his nth application to join the Atlantis Expedition.
When the news came from the Alpha site about a long-lost scientist reappearing, Daniel Jackson was in his office, reworking his nth application to join the Atlantis Expedition. Third time was the charm, wasn't it? Or whatever iteration he was on after hijacked spaceships, mystical bonds, a pressing war, and an inconvenient injury had repeatedly trapped him in the Milky Way Galaxy.
Atlantis' temporary relocation to US waters had seemed the perfect opportunity to try again. And thus, of course, an equally perfect opportunity for another obstacle to materialize.
'Dr. Fred Burkle' might well be worth it, though. He vividly remembered her bizarre behavior and disappearance on a science-related mission off-world; her final words to him had been, "You will do."
He still wasn't sure what she'd meant by that-- but she reached that curious, knowledge-hungry part of him that had been slumbering for years. The Ori war, the Nox withdrawal, and the self-destruction of the Asgard had left the galaxy's second-born races with only the dregs of the Ancients' long-ago failures as legacy. But the Furlings were still a mystery.
And she'd claimed to be one of them.
He sighed, smiled wryly, and tore up the paperwork. Maybe someday.