1. He has a 19 year-old-daughter living in Knoxville, TN.
Elsie Jones never told him she was pregnant. She told her parents that she’d been raped coming home from school. If they known their granddaughter had been conceived consensually in the backseat of Cameron’s momma’s car, she’s sure her daddy would have shot him.
She had options, of course, but her parents did what was done in their day and sent her to an aunt in Tennessee immediately after graduation.
Cameron went off and joined the Air Force and was at basic training when his baby was born. Elsie wanted to include his name on the birth certificate, but she didn’t dare.
Carolina Michelle Jones looks just like her daddy. Elsie has almost sent letters to Cameron hundreds of time, especially after she caught him on TV in his flight suit. She’s a grown woman, now, and not afraid of her parents, but she still hasn’t done it.
Carolina is tall, like her daddy, and she has a basketball scholarship to play for the Lady Vols. Elsie wonders if Cameron watches the women’s teams like he used to watch the men’s. She hopes so.
2. He’s the reason his father survived the amputation of his legs.
Cameron’s never seen the face of his child, so he doesn’t know how it feels to watch a smile from the little person you’ve created. Let alone, to get that smile when you feel like half a man with no reason to live.
3. His father wanted him to resign his commission, even as he talked him out of it.
It had nothing to do with the convoy accident. There was nothing he could say or do about it, nothing that would undo it.
He wanted Cameron to become a civilian pilot because civilian planes rarely crash, are rarely in the crosshairs of anti-aircraft guns, and civilian pilots come home to their families with far more frequency.
It would have been incredibly hypocritical to say any of that, and it wasn’t what Cameron was torn up about, anyway. So, he said nothing about it, and just said what his son needed to hear.
4.He could have lived with the paralysis.
Cameron doesn’t think he could have handled losing his mobility for any longer than it took get 95 percent of it back in physical therapy.
He had a plan, too, involving an overdose of his pain meds. And he thinks he would have used it.
He never got to find out for sure, but Cameron Mitchell will never go out like that.
5.He can do this by himself.
It’s true that Teal’c, Carter, and Jackson have been at it a lot longer. He’s only really in charge somewhere on the paperwork, and has none of the authority or experience to order any one of them to do anything.
But, he’s gradually figuring out what he’s supposed to do to keep them all alive and Earth free. The Ori aren’t the Goa’uld, and it’s a whole new ball game.
He’s learning, as fast as he can, because he has no other choice.
Eventually, he’s going to lose somebody, maybe two, maybe all of them, and he’s got to keep going, because someone needs to re-form SG-1 again and keep up the fight.
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Elsie Jones never told him she was pregnant. She told her parents that she’d been raped coming home from school. If they known their granddaughter had been conceived consensually in the backseat of Cameron’s momma’s car, she’s sure her daddy would have shot him.
She had options, of course, but her parents did what was done in their day and sent her to an aunt in Tennessee immediately after graduation.
Cameron went off and joined the Air Force and was at basic training when his baby was born. Elsie wanted to include his name on the birth certificate, but she didn’t dare.
Carolina Michelle Jones looks just like her daddy. Elsie has almost sent letters to Cameron hundreds of time, especially after she caught him on TV in his flight suit. She’s a grown woman, now, and not afraid of her parents, but she still hasn’t done it.
Carolina is tall, like her daddy, and she has a basketball scholarship to play for the Lady Vols. Elsie wonders if Cameron watches the women’s teams like he used to watch the men’s. She hopes so.
2. He’s the reason his father survived the amputation of his legs.
Cameron’s never seen the face of his child, so he doesn’t know how it feels to watch a smile from the little person you’ve created. Let alone, to get that smile when you feel like half a man with no reason to live.
3. His father wanted him to resign his commission, even as he talked him out of it.
It had nothing to do with the convoy accident. There was nothing he could say or do about it, nothing that would undo it.
He wanted Cameron to become a civilian pilot because civilian planes rarely crash, are rarely in the crosshairs of anti-aircraft guns, and civilian pilots come home to their families with far more frequency.
It would have been incredibly hypocritical to say any of that, and it wasn’t what Cameron was torn up about, anyway. So, he said nothing about it, and just said what his son needed to hear.
4.He could have lived with the paralysis.
Cameron doesn’t think he could have handled losing his mobility for any longer than it took get 95 percent of it back in physical therapy.
He had a plan, too, involving an overdose of his pain meds. And he thinks he would have used it.
He never got to find out for sure, but Cameron Mitchell will never go out like that.
5.He can do this by himself.
It’s true that Teal’c, Carter, and Jackson have been at it a lot longer. He’s only really in charge somewhere on the paperwork, and has none of the authority or experience to order any one of them to do anything.
But, he’s gradually figuring out what he’s supposed to do to keep them all alive and Earth free. The Ori aren’t the Goa’uld, and it’s a whole new ball game.
He’s learning, as fast as he can, because he has no other choice.
Eventually, he’s going to lose somebody, maybe two, maybe all of them, and he’s got to keep going, because someone needs to re-form SG-1 again and keep up the fight.