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Five things Daniel did while separated from his teammates in Continuum
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Five things Daniel did while separated from his teammates in Continuum
2. He did physical therapy until he ached. He lifted weights while his mind worked out some aspect of his paper. He walked until his body refused to continue, then took cabs home. He wished he could run. He dreamed of running, running away, but he knew there was only one route that led to escape, and it was filled with insurmountable roadblocks.
3. He drank quite a bit. He was lonely, he was often in pain, and he frequently gave in to despair. And he was in mourning, constantly haunted by images of Jack being struck down, falling, bleeding, dying. Jack was his phantom limb, absent but still with him.
4. He took up cooking. He'd never had the time or the interest in the past. Sometimes he didn't even have the kitchen. Now he had a small but well-equipped kitchen and far too much time, and he quickly tired of having food delivered to him, day in and day out, and had no desire to actually eat in a restaurant and possibly have to talk to people. There were only two people in this world that he wanted to talk to. So he started having groceries delivered instead and started with simple recipes. Before long, he was ordering exotic spices online and cooking things that took half the day to prepare. He found it all unutterably boring. But at least the food was good.
5. He became an addict. It wasn't the alcohol or the food. Not the drugs. Not pornography or gambling. He was addicted to the games on his computer. Free Cell, Spider Solitaire, Minesweeper. All his problems faded away while he played. He could forget where he was, he could forget his leg, he could forget his losses. Hours would pass while he played endless games, his brain both excited and soothed by the click, the slide of the mouse, the patterns and paths and problems to be solved, the jolt of pleasure at the successful completion of a game that impelled him onward to the next game, wanting and needing more, more, more…
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And I can really feel with him on this one:
cooking things that took half the day to prepare. He found it all unutterably boring.
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Brilliant. Utterly brilliant. As always. Ow.
He found it all unutterably boring. But at least the food was good.
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OMG. Kill me, why don't you? I can hardly bear to think of Continuum!Daniel and the others.
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Daniel just can't shut his brain down, but he's found ways to make it disengage from the reality of his situation and give him some measure of relief.
Hmm, you know, #1, #2 and #4 are good for him in some ways. Using old skills to do something he loves, strengthening his body and fueling it well. The only good thing to say about #5 is that it distracts him from #3. :-/
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Jack was his phantom limb, absent but still with him.
Nicely done.
Cheers
L
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2. Bought the Star Wars scripts - when watching The Empire Strikes Back he found a minor difference in the dialog, which thanks to Teal'c he knew by heart. It was one of a very few things that was different. Daniels research revealed that the dialogue he recalled was in the script, but had been altered during recording. He spent weeks researching all the cast and crew lists for familiar names without success. It probably wasn't meaningful, but somehow Teal'c belief that Star wars was a allegory for the defeat of the Goul'd even the minor change felt like a bad omen.
3. Made s'mores - The first s'mores Daniel had ate were in 1969. Not the 1969 he spent as a child in Egypt but during SG1s trip back in time. Jack had reacted with mock horror at Daniels supposed s'more deprivation at the time and they had gone through bags of marshmallows of a late night by the camp fire. S'mores were Daniel's time travel/ alternate reality comfort food.
4. Taught himself basic computer programming - he was not allowed to work or study languages at all according to his handler - and in the first few weeks Daniel thought this restriction would drive him crazy, until he decided that programming language could fill that gap. While learning he planned the pranks he could play on Jack and have the blame fall on Sam, at some time when the Universe had been corrected. Planning pranks on Jack meant he wasn't dead, or a total stranger.
5. Physical therapy - he's been injured enough in the last ten years that the demands of recovery are familiar, the physical therapist is surprised, and a little too disappointed he thinks, when Daniel needs very little bullying to push his body to the limits needed for muscle regeneration. But it's different this time, his team is not here joking and bribing him to finish faster. At his worst, it feels like there is no reason to recover, it's not like he will be able to go through the gate like this and even if he could, there isn't a program to go with. But he doesn't give up, he spent too long on SG1 to do that, the philosophy that if you can't resolve a situation, then sit tight and be ready to fight like hell when something changes feels as much a part of his personality as his language skills or his love of learning.
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