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Prompt 62.02
Five times Daniel thought he was going to die
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Five times Daniel thought he was going to die
2. He saw Vala, of all people, helpless and without a plan. He saw the flames rip through her and then watched how the Ori brought her back on a whim. So when it was their turn together, there was no hope in his mind that they could escape. Neither strength, nor reason, nor even luck could stand against the Ori—he was going to die in flames.
3. It was after a visit from the eleventh alternate reality where he wasn’t alive and Jack and Sam were together. The way those two were hinting towards something in this one, he was doomed.
4. Oma took on Anubis, and Daniel was left in complete and utter darkness, without consciousness or memories until he woke with a gasp in Jack’s office. But if one could be sure without thought, he had been certain his time was finally up.
5. He woke from a blindingly hot dream about Sha’re to find himself draped over Sam in their tent, murmuring words that were thankfully in another language, but whose meaning Sam had apparently guessed from the red in her cheeks. The embarrassment and shame burned hot in him, and he couldn’t tell if she was more uncomfortable or pitying, but when he excused himself to take a walk in the cool air, his gasping, dry-eyed cries of disappointment that it was only a dream made him think he was not long for the world.
Five times Daniel thought he was going to die
1. He thought he would die of grief. He thought grief might crush him as surely as the cover stone had crushed his parents, his hopes, his life. He was surprised and discomfited to learn that life went on.
2. He thought he was going to die when he stepped in front of Jack, and Ra’s guard fired his staff weapon. This marked the first time that he was right, but far from the last. He was shocked and grateful and shocked to learn that life went on.
3. Guilt, heartbreak, loneliness. He thought he would die when Sha’re was taken. But he had a purpose, a team, new and exciting discoveries on far-flung worlds. Loneliness still came visiting at night, when he was alone. But his heart slowly healed with time, as hearts do. The guilt will never go away, and new guilts are added to it, one by one by one.
4. He thought he would die of boredom. Somehow (and he has his suspicions), his bag of books never made it into the truck. And Jack doesn’t want him to talk because he might scare away the fish (he likewise has his suspicions regarding the actual likelihood of there actually being any fish, scared or otherwise.) The scenery’s not bad, of course. But he’s not done sulking yet. He’ll enjoy the scenery later, while plotting his revenge.
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5. Sitting on the Arctic ice, watching his friends walk away, a Daniel thought he was going to die. Over a year later, that Daniel never saw death coming when it stopped him in mid-sentence. But thanks to a Mitchell, that Daniel never existed, never suffered. Did he?
Five Times Daniel Thought he Was Going to Die Part 1
“Daniel, it’s alright. Really.”
When Sam didn’t tell the whole truth, her mouth turned up slightly at the corners in a tight, pinched kind of way.
Daniel stared at those give-away lines on her face from his prone position merely inches away from her in her off-world tent.
He’d known her for all of three weeks.
This was their second mission.
It would probably be his last.
“Um. I’m so … It happens sometimes. When I’m stressed or working too hard. It started after my parents died. I haven’t done it for years.” He edged a little further away from her sleeping bag as he spoke. His gaze flicked around the tent. He looked anywhere but into her eyes. He didn’t want to know what was written there in blue; sympathy, anger, irritation.
“Daniel, I said it’s okay and I meant it,” she spoke gently, sincerely. That almost made matters worse. “Why don’t you go and get some sleep …”
“Sleep. Yeah. That’s the problem. I really am … I’ll just …”
He tried to orient himself, scrambled to his feet and almost fell out of the tent into the alien night.
He hadn’t sleepwalked in years.
The time Daniel thought he was going die (of fear)
He was 14 and had been invited to Rosie Travis’s house to watch a movie and eat popcorn.
He hadn’t really wanted to go. It would inevitably lead to embarrassing kissing (he wasn’t very good, this he knew because Kellie MacDonald told him so) and fumbling (he was good at fumbling but that was bad thing) and then awkward looks and apologies.
But he went and was delighted when he managed to put his arm across Rosie’s shoulder while sitting on the couch and she didn’t object.
Then she got up and slid the movie into the VCR and Daniel froze.
Zombies. Out of all the movies in the video store, she had to pick a zombie movie.
Zombies terrified him. The walking dead, eating flesh. It was the stuff of his adolescent nightmares for reasons he could never quite fathom.
Since then, he’d faced down System Lords, serpent guards, metal bugs and more. But nothing frightened him like zombies.
Go figure.
The time Daniel thought he was going to die (of laughter)
Karaoke at O’Malley’s to mark Sam’s birthday was a riot. Thankfully, not the kind that gets you thrown out and banned. They’d already done that and bought the T-shirt.
After countless beers and Southern Comfort chasers, off-key singing to a crowd who couldn’t have cared less suddenly seemed like a good idea.
Sam (who had recently broken up with Pete) offered a creditable I Will Survive.
Jack looked embarrassed at first but later right at home as he did a passable Born to Run. He somehow acquired one of Daniel’s bandannas for the authentic Springsteen look.
But it was Teal’c’s rendition of Barry White’s Love Serenade (Part One) that had Daniel virtually requiring CPR.
Obviously taking his homage seriously, Teal’c offered up a pitch-perfect spoken intro, a la the Sultan of Smooth Soul. It was when he hit, “Because baby, you and me, heh . . . this night, we're gonna get it on . . .” that Daniel finally collapsed to the floor.
He took a helpless Jack with him.
It was a night to remember.
Five Times Daniel Thought he Was Going to Die Part 2
He’d asked for notepads, pens, ring binders and a stapler three times now, and they hadn’t materialized.
If you want a job doing …
So, Daniel decided to hunt down the supplies himself. Siler pointed him in the vague direction of a small room on Level 17. It was bypassing procedure but what the hell. He refused to fill in any more requisition forms. Or maybe he’d fill them in using Epi-Olmec script. Yeah, maybe he would.
He flicked on the light and began searching the shelves, realizing he was probably in the wrong place when all he could find were mops, toilet cleaner and disinfectant that reminded him a little too much of the toilets in his first school in New York.
Hidden behind a storage unit, he found himself penned in when two men burst through the door, mumbled something, laughed and switched off the light.
Pitched into complete darkness, he could see nothing, but he could hear plenty.
Wet kissing sounds, the frantic rustling of clothing, slurping, sucking noises and then muffled expletives and a long, low groan that sounded as though it was stifled behind a hand.
Ragged breaths, then “No, no time, just jerk me. Fast. I’m so fucking turned on. Yeah. Oh, fuck, yes, yes … nnggh.”
And more kisses and a series of endearments, which surprised and, he noted, moved him.
More rustling of clothes, whispers, a final long kiss and the door opened and closed.
He stood there for several minutes, mentally replaying what he’d heard.
His heart was beating fast.
He was so aroused he couldn’t breathe.
He absently touched himself through his BDUs.
Hearing two men make out had made him hard.
Who knew.
The time Daniel thought he was going to die (for real)
The wormhole looked the same as the hundreds he had walked through in his five years with the program.
But it wasn’t and he had no idea where this one was taking him.
He could close his eyes and step through into … nothing.
He didn’t know. It was with some surprise that he realized he didn’t much care, either.
Oma was offering him Ascension. The chance to do more; the chance to escape from this broken life and this broken body.
It wasn’t a choice at all.
But if Oma turned out to be merely a construct of his desperate, pain-ridden mind, which is precisely what he believed at this last second before stepping though, then he was about to die.
He turned at the top of the ramp, and there was Jack, hands in pockets, already looking sad.
In his heart, he whispered, “Ask me stay. Ask me. I’d die for you … but I’d live for you, too.”
But Jack just stood there, waiting for Daniel to make the move.
So he turned, faced the shimmering pool and took his giant leap of faith.
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And apparently, GMTA when it comes to Sam and Daniel in a tent.
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*hugs*
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Thanks for reading and glad you enjoyed. :-)
*hi and hugs*
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1 - ::giggles:: for the Lanteans naming skills.
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::rushes back to reread 3::
All better! Love it. Very creative take on ways to die. :)
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But Team Karaoke is hilarious!!
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Glad you enjoyed!
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Deeds xx
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I love my Team when they party together!!
And I sooooo wanna see Jack in one of Daniel's bandanas
Deeds xx
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Deeds xx
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Thanks for reading. :-)
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Thanks for reading. :-)
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Awesome.
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Oh, poor Daniel.
Love the karaoke.
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Thanks for reading. :-)