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Prompt 80.03
Five ways Jack is subtle
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Five ways Jack is subtle
Falling in Love With Carter
1.Watching her six
OK, so he’s not always subtle.
Hey, he’s a guy. He has eyes. And Carter’s not exactly hard to look at on a bad day – and he pushes the memory of seeing Carter lying on a floor almost dead.
But revealing alien dresses and sweet tank tops aside, Jack can be subtle.
Like right at that moment.
She’s briefing Hammond on some Tok’ra thing and her attention is on the star-map. Jack is positioned strategically behind her. His eyes drift downward momentarily to her ass. The BDU is fairly shapeless but she isn’t and there’s enough of a hint to conjure up images of what’s beneath.
Oh, yeah. He’s definitely a guy.
She looks behind her and Jack quickly averts his gaze. He figures if Carter caught him staring at her ass, she would so kick his.
2.Hearing her babble
Carter is hot when she techno-babbles.
Really hot.
It’s the way she lights up; hands gesturing, body in motion, agile mouth forming all those complicated multi-syllabic words in between flashes of brilliant smiles, and her eyes become this molten electric blue that spark every time they meet his.
Did he mention hot?
Jack knows he’s safe because he cuts her off enough in the field for her not to catch on. He asks another question about the wormhole to get her going again and she even picks up an apple to demonstrate. He simply stands back and enjoys the show.
3.Holding her close
Jack doesn’t get a lot of excuses to hug Carter – keeping warm and Daniel dying are really the only ones readily available to him as her CO.
But never let it be said he lets an opportunity go by. Carter’s confused from being hit with Hathor’s hand beam thingy and he’s cold after a second round of freezer treatment.
He holds her tightly. He can smell her; feel her; touch her.
And, God, he needs this, needs her.
It takes him a moment to realise she’s holding him back just as tightly. And suddenly the thought occurs to him that maybe he’s not the only one who needs the hug.
4.Confessing her importance
He has only just admitted the whole truth of it to himself in a kind of abstract, possibly, maybe he feels feelings kind of way.
He planned on telling Carter never. She has a great future ahead of her: one that he very much doubts involves her hooking up with an old beat-up flyboy with more baggage than she should have to deal with.
He certainly never expected to tell her by refusing to leave her.
Jack stands with a blue force-shield between them, imminent death marching around the corner, and he’s telling her he loves her without saying a word.
And maybe it’s subtle but he knows she gets the message because he can see quite clearly, and with no small amount of shock, that she loves him back.
5.Tasting her lips
Jack likes to think he’s subtle in how he finally gets to kiss Carter without alternate universes or alien viruses having something to do with it.
OK, so the yellow sweater is not subtle.
Neither is the resignation.
Making his move in front of General Hammond is probably the very definition of unsubtle.
Yet Jack does it with the knowledge of the time loop; in knowing he can kiss her without consequences for either of them.
When his lips meet hers and – oh God, she’s kissing him back and he can taste Carter with the merest hint of Jello – Jack really doesn’t care whether it’s subtle or not.
Stocking little blue Jello pots in his refrigerator just so he can remember that kiss though: that’s subtle even for Jack.
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He figures if Carter caught him staring at her ass, she would so kick his.
so true.
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doesn’t get a lot of excuses to hug Carter – keeping warm and Daniel dying are really the only ones readily available to him as her CO
I feel so bad for Daniel, but this made me laugh so much. I think it's hilariously pathetic that Daniel's death is a matter-of-fact excuse for a hug lol. excellent :)
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To Jack O’Neill, subtle is an excuse.
Jack O’Neill is a direct man, accustomed to speaking his mind. But when his mind is filled with emotions he usually finds he cannot express them in words, although he often wants to thinks he should. So he finds subtlety his only recourse, and unfortunate is the friend who is no master at reading between the lines.
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1. Jack didn’t know exactly what Kynthia’s cake was when she gave it to him, but he knew it meant more than food. He knew it signified some sort of emotional bond.
So when he looked at Daniel and said,
You should have some.
what he really meant was,
I missed you while you were on Abydos. I’m sorry about your wife but I’m glad you’re here. I love having you around and getting to know you better.
2. Daniel found four languages and some elements in a crumbling building: the key to understanding everything, he’d said. It was exciting, it was wonderful, it was more important to Daniel than anything, obviously.
He told Daniel his opinion of the discovery:
None of which will mean squat if we don't get out of here.
But he needed Daniel to hear him say:
I know this is important to you, but you are important to the SGC, and to me. And you are going to die if you stay here, and I can’t live with that.
3. Daniel got addicted to a sarcophagus. He told Hammond he resigned, and requested to go back to that woman and her drug.
Jack said,
Request denied!
but what he meant was,
Daniel, I love you... please don’t leave me.
4. And then Daniel was dying. Stupid, stupid planet with their bomb and their radiation and Daniel was dying.
Jack sat beside the infirmary bed and said:
Despite the fact that you've been a terrific pain in the ass for the last five years, I may have, might have, uh, grown to admire you a little, I think.
and what he meant was:
Daniel, I love you... please don’t leave me. I don’t know what I’ll do without you.
5. But Daniel did leave, but then he came back, and his memories were gone and Jack wanted so much to have his own real Daniel back but this was so much better than not having him here.
He tried to explain and hoped Daniel would remember:
You were a member of my team, SG-1. You're a friend of mine. Last year, you died.
And he hoped that later, someday, he could tell Daniel:
You are a member of my team, and a friend, and I care about you more than I have ever been able to put into words. Daniel, you took a piece of my heart when you died, and I hope you still have it around with you somewhere. Please let me love you and take care of you, and don’t leave me again.
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But Daniel... Daniel is indeed a master at reading between the lines. He will gladly pretend, for Jack’s sake, that he doesn’t know how loved he is. That he doesn’t understand that Jack will do anything for him, wants to hold on and never let go, and is terrified of having to let go. He knows that Jack and strong emotions don’t mix well, so Daniel doesn’t push.
But Daniel knows that he’s not really fooling Jack. Because Jack can read between Daniel’s lines, too, and both of them are okay with the things that do not need to be spoken, but are instead expressed in touch, in glance, and in deeds.
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*makes pathetic whimpering noises*
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And I like it very much that they are both able to read between the lines and know what the other means, without words.
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Dialogue from:
1. Brief Candle -1.09
2. The Torment of Tantalus - 1.11
3. Need – 2.5
4. Meridian - 5.21
5. Fallen – 7.01
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