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bluflamingo.livejournal.com posting in sg_five_things Sep. 16th, 2009 09:49 pm)Five planets that the SGC wish they had never sent a team to
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He would sit and stare at it, thinking for hours of what they’d lost.
The others offered to help, but he had to do this – take this final step to making it real in his mind – alone.
It should have killed him, when Teal’c shoved his head into the path of scalding gas. Except instead of blood, bone, and burnt-off flesh, Jack was made of metal and wires.
When he finally lifted his hand to the control panel of the machine that would pick up the gate and deposit it in a massive hole to be buried like so much else, Jack thought that he might never again stop wanting to die.
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It was actually Harlan’s one-too-many “com-traya!”s that pulled Jack out of his initial funk. Not that he felt any better about losing his life, but at least avoiding insanity due to Harlan’s incessant annoyance gave him a goal to focus on.
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After a while, they settled into a routine of fixing old things around the complex, adding new improvements, and saying “com-traya” at each other in various degrees of sincerity/sarcasm, depending on the speaker. None of the newcomers were doing okay, exactly, but Carter distracted herself by becoming very involved in the work, and Teal’c’s level nature helped him deal.
One day Daniel asked Harlan if their bodies were “fully functional.” All five of them were sitting around one day after a brief but rather intense emergency with some pipe or another; they had just fallen into their chairs with a collective sigh of relief. Before Harlan could open his mouth to chatter away Daniel asked his question, and to a few stunned looks he continued, “cause, you know, I could really use some sex.”
That was when Jack realized that Daniel was most likely just as depressed as he was.
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Their mechanical bodies were indeed fully functional.
After Harlan had blinked at them a lot in response to Daniel’s question and muttered something that nobody really heard, Jack went to one of the little hidden-away cubbyholes he often used when he really just needed to be alone.
He tried jerking off and found that yes, things seemed like he remembered. Funny, though – he hadn’t thought about sex since he got here, hadn’t been having the wet dreams about Daniel that he normally had when he went too long without sex or in emotionally stressful situations like this one.
Maybe sexual arousal was available in these bodies to be accessed when you told it to be, and not before? Or something. Jack didn’t pretend to understand the mechanics of what he now walked around with. Some things were obviously different, like strength and mental alertness, and maybe this was just one of those different things.
But maybe... when things were really bad, when they went beyond emotionally stressful and moved into life-shattering, maybe the sexual part of Jack just... went ignored for a while.
It had, after all, happened once before.
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