1. When Daniel was small, lifetimes ago, Mrs. White (his bestest foster mother, ever) told him that "words are wasted on them bullies". But small and asthma-ridden as he was, he could only return their hits and punches with words.
Years later, Jack's Special Ops-trained nose sniffed Daniel's incompetence in hand-to-hand combat and proceeded to address this problem. Daniel had screamed and shouted his way down to the gym, where Jack wasted no time showing him how he could take down almost anyone, even those larger than him, even an army of Tealcs.
So now he could beat those Big Marine Bullies at their own game and then insult them fluently afterwards.
2. Early on in his archeologist life, Daniel learnt to keep his temper in check. Even when he was stumped on a translation or a puzzle, seventy-seven hours in, when the last drip of coffee consumed, when the last inch of bread had gone moldy. Even if he wanted to take out a rubber mallet and pound his translation into submission. Because, he had reminded himself, these are rare artefacts.
And Jack, cunning bastard that he was, found out that there *was* definitely a way to get Daniel all the way through weapons qualifications.
So now whenever he found an Everest standing between him and words that made no sense (but should!), he simply traced his way down to the shooting range and shoot perfect shots.
3. Oh and that shooting thing, helped keep the Archeology Department ahead in annual SGC Inter-Department Games. Which meant scoring the grand prize of a 4-day tax-payer-paid jaunt to the Stargate Destination of their choice. This pleased Daniel to no end, and bothered Jack at the same time (made Daniel feel like he's nailed the *Jack*pot, pun very much intended).
4. Daniel prided himself to be an excellent pupil. So much so that he could expertly apply stealth and deception to sneak up on one unsuspecting Colonel. Payback for all the times (past, present, and definitely future) Jack stepped loudly into Daniel's office, broke his train of thought and made him lose his paragraph.
5. Lying in his own vomit and blood in a dungeon millions of light years away from earth, Daniel remembered what Jack taught him one starry night, on that planet with the Donut moon. It was a long tale of morality, hazy now in his tired brain. But he remembered enough to make him endure, just so he could see Jack one more time.
"Just like Homer and his donut never to be parted," Jack had said, "Nobody gets left behind."
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Years later, Jack's Special Ops-trained nose sniffed Daniel's incompetence in hand-to-hand combat and proceeded to address this problem. Daniel had screamed and shouted his way down to the gym, where Jack wasted no time showing him how he could take down almost anyone, even those larger than him, even an army of Tealcs.
So now he could beat those Big Marine Bullies at their own game and then insult them fluently afterwards.
2. Early on in his archeologist life, Daniel learnt to keep his temper in check. Even when he was stumped on a translation or a puzzle, seventy-seven hours in, when the last drip of coffee consumed, when the last inch of bread had gone moldy. Even if he wanted to take out a rubber mallet and pound his translation into submission. Because, he had reminded himself, these are rare artefacts.
And Jack, cunning bastard that he was, found out that there *was* definitely a way to get Daniel all the way through weapons qualifications.
So now whenever he found an Everest standing between him and words that made no sense (but should!), he simply traced his way down to the shooting range and shoot perfect shots.
3. Oh and that shooting thing, helped keep the Archeology Department ahead in annual SGC Inter-Department Games. Which meant scoring the grand prize of a 4-day tax-payer-paid jaunt to the Stargate Destination of their choice. This pleased Daniel to no end, and bothered Jack at the same time (made Daniel feel like he's nailed the *Jack*pot, pun very much intended).
4. Daniel prided himself to be an excellent pupil. So much so that he could expertly apply stealth and deception to sneak up on one unsuspecting Colonel. Payback for all the times (past, present, and definitely future) Jack stepped loudly into Daniel's office, broke his train of thought and made him lose his paragraph.
5. Lying in his own vomit and blood in a dungeon millions of light years away from earth, Daniel remembered what Jack taught him one starry night, on that planet with the Donut moon. It was a long tale of morality, hazy now in his tired brain. But he remembered enough to make him endure, just so he could see Jack one more time.
"Just like Homer and his donut never to be parted," Jack had said, "Nobody gets left behind."