Drabble: Obstacle and Opportunity (SG-1/A:tS, gen)

[jedibuttercup]

PG; Stargate SG-1/Angel. Challenge drabble, 200 words; tag for Moonfall.

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.

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Title: Obstacle and Opportunity
Author: Jedi Buttercup
Disclaimer: The words are mine; the worlds are not.
Rating: PG
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.
Notes: Double drabble; post-series for both. Set in the same 'verse as "Moonfall".

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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.


(x-posted to tthdrabbles)

Comments

[jedibuttercup]

She'd probably even have fit in while being Illyria-channeling-Fred. But I found Fred-at-SGC a less compelling story to write.

Glad you enjoyed this! Yeah, there'd be some mutual fascination there, I think.

[magicamethyst80.livejournal.com]

Fred at SGC would have to be done carefully. Perhaps something pre Pylea, set during the early seasons of SG-1, Daniel is interested, but then she goes back to school. After she comes back she is Fred/Illyira during the later seasons of SG-1.