Prompt 81.02

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Five things Bill Lee learned about Daniel while they were in Honduras



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[archersangel (from livejournal.com)]

1. he's not that picky about his coffee.

2. he'll rant about budge if you give him half a chance.

3. daniel talks a lot during airplane rides.

4. women often watch him walk by.

5. daniel swears more than dr. lee thought he did.

[chattycatsmeow.livejournal.com]

Heck, yeah! to #4. :D

[thothmes.livejournal.com]

4. women often watch him walk by.
4b. he notices this less often than you'd expect, but appreciates it when it is pointed out to him.

[lilyleia78]

smart women! ;)

[rebeccavoy.livejournal.com]

Poor Bill, I don't think he'd like being stuck on a flight with Daniel.

[aurora-novarum.livejournal.com]

Hee. I agree with 1 and 2...and laugh at 3-5...a lot. :-D

[gategremlyn.livejournal.com]

Yep, Bill's got it right.

[sid]

As long as the coffee contains caffeine, am I right? LOL

#4 = no kidding!

[colls]

1) Daniel confessed that Spanish isn't "technically" a language he speaks. Bill thought he faked it well enough, but was surprised by the candid comment.

2) Of course, the comment came right after Bill discovered that Daniel carries a flask and spikes his coffee when he thinks no one is looking.

3) Daniel still says an Abydonian prayer for his wife and her family every day.

4) Daniel seems mild-mannered and a bit bookish. Imagine Bill's surprise to discover he's actually a bit of a player. Just ask the ladies at the cantina near the airport. Bill has started wondering if all those rumors about Dr. Jackson having a warm place to sleep on most any planet might actually be true.

5) Bill learned the answer to the age-old question...boxers or briefs? The knowledge could win a poll he knows the cafeteria ladies have going, but he's a little frightened by the proof they might require.

[archersangel (from livejournal.com)]

#3 *sniffle*

#4 to quote jack: "daniel, you dog, if you keep this up you'll have a girl on every planet"

#5 LOL

[chattycatsmeow.livejournal.com]

Ooooh how touching to #3 and LOL to #5

Boxers or Briefs - Going for the Proof

[thothmes.livejournal.com]

Giving a quick glance up and down the corridor, and seeing no one, Dr. Lee slipped quietly through the door. His mouth could not have been drier if he'd stuffed it with talcum powder, and his heart was beating so hard and fast that he was almost surprised that General Hammond hadn't heard it down in his office on Level 27. Scanning the room briefly to be sure he was alone, he moved over to the row of lockers before him. As he reached out a sweating palsied hand for the latch to open the locker marked "Daniel Jackson", a deceptively quiet and calm voice sounded just above and behind his head.

"What'cha doin?" it said.

Oh, Crap! thought Bill Lee, and considered himself lucky that he hadn't done so.

He had never imagined that Jack O'Neill could move so swiftly or so silently, and he had really never considered that he could manage to look so intimidating wearing just a white standard Air Force issued towel.

[lilyleia78]

#5 - Come on Bill, fess up - inquiring minds want to know. :D

[aurora-novarum.livejournal.com]

Awww, three. 1 and 2 are absolutely hilarious. And love the twist of Daniel being a bit of a player. ;-)

[gategremlyn.livejournal.com]

Number three made me sigh. Number five made me laugh out loud.

[sid]

Secret!drinker! Well, #3 might help explain that.

Go Daniel, rockin' the cantina!

Hee, good luck with the cafeteria ladies, Bill. :-D

Five Observations Part 1

[aurora-novarum.livejournal.com]

God I've never done these before, but I can't resist Bill Lee & Daniel! Um, I hope I do this right. Be kind to the five things virgin, y'all.

1. Daniel loves the heat. Bill thought it was just the desert shtick, but apparently humid or dry, Daniel feels very comfortable in hot weather. He told Bill all about some undergraduate digs on the Yucatan peninsula that were some of the most liberating of his early career days. Bill was glad one of them was comfortable, because he was a big fan of the guy who invented air conditioning and actually missed being underground at Cheyenne Mountain.

2. Three days without food or water makes you start dreaming of food. It was probably its own kind of torture, but Bill and Daniel decided to share favorite foods. Coffee was a given for them both--scientists working long hours. But Bill learned more about middle eastern cuisine and something called yafetta flour than he ever thought would sound interesting. He gave Daniel the secret to his award winning barbecue sauce–after swearing Dr. Jackson to secrecy, of course. That brought them to talking about steak, and then restaurants. They dreamed of the feast of takeouts they'd scrounge up as soon as they got home. Savorys and sweets. Favorite candy bar for Daniel was a Fifth Avenue. Bill always thought them too tough and preferred the Mr. Goodbar, himself...although poprocks were great for hard candy. After each of them came back from their "meetings" with Raphael, neither one mentioned fruits.

3. Daniel is a soldier. If you said that to his face, he'd deny it and probably be insulted. He's the one that starts half the natural ribbing that goes in the friendly rivalry between civilians and military personnel on the base. Bill's worked Daniel off and on over the years on various projects where things coordinated, but it's usually been within the confines of the SGC. The few times he'd worked with the guy offworld, it had been with all of SG-1, and Daniel had just been one of the other scientists then too, like Carter. Of course, Bill didn't think of her as military much either, despite her rank.

Even on base, Sure Daniel wears the fatigues, but he wears them as more of a green lab coat than a uniform, and no one who sat through one of his lectures could mistake his genuine academic enthusiasm for military ennui.

But Daniel not only took command during their time in the camp, he kept coming up with strategies and acted more like protection detail for Bill. He knew how to lay a false trail. He knew the techniques their captors would use before they even tried it. He was quoting from the military manuals they all had to read in those orientation courses--but it wasn't by rote. He lived it. Bill wasn't sure Daniel even realized what seven years--or six if you didn't count the year he was a light--on a field team had done to his mindset.

Re: Five Observations Part 1

[colls]

great 5! I especially like the food-focus. ;)

Five Observations Part 2

[aurora-novarum.livejournal.com]

4. For as much as Daniel could focus on the most minute detail of ancient cultures, he really wasn't a detail oriented type of guy. Or at least, details when it involved military paperwork. Granted there was paperwork for paperwork and inefficiency abounded in military work, but Daniel seemed to have made an artform out of avoiding lots of the standard hoops they all had to deal with as part of the job.

Bill still swore Daniel brought up his grandfather to get out of handling all the requisitions before they left the base. Daniel was obviously more familiar with the local currency, but Bill had to handle the money. Of course, this may have been Bill projecting since he hated doing any of the paperwork too, and it felt like he was getting it with more than his share. After he recovered from his pneumonia from that stagnant trap water, he'd discovered while Daniel was laid up with his leg injury, he'd handled all the post-mission paperwork except for Bill's personal report. Bill vowed to buy him a case of those Fifth Avenue bars as a thank you.


5. "Where'd you learn to swim?"

"What?"

They were sitting in the dark, having talked out and worried out everything that could or would happen while in that hut, and probably they should've both drifted to sleep by now, but this question had been bugging Bill. "Where'd you learn to swim? I can't believe how long you held your breath."

"Oh, uh...local Y. I mean, I learned when I was a kid. Made it all the way through lifeguard level on red cross lessons and worked a couple summers at the local pool."

"But...you held your breath for so long..."

"Well, people always say I'm full of hot air, I guess it helped me keep some oxygen in." Daniel nudged him. "It's amazing how often I need to use swimming on missions. What about you? That was a rough haul through that labryinth."

Bill coughed. "I guess desperation brings out all sorts of hidden talents."

Daniel chuckled. "Tell me about it."

Re: Five Observations Part 2

[archersangel (from livejournal.com)]

you did very well! hope you can to some more.

Re: Five Observations Part 2

[thothmes.livejournal.com]

Oh, I liked these, especially #'s 2 & 3. It is my personal fanon that after the whole Khalek(sp?) incident, when Jack in far off D.C. read the report, he sat there for several minutes, totally unable to proceed, because he was so torn between saying "Finally Daniel! This is the lesson I've been trying to teach you for years! Some people are just bad!" and weeping (internally - the only way Jack does weep) for what Daniel has become, a soldier like him.

Re: Five Observations Part 2

[lilyleia78]

I'm so happy you were enticed to play. I love this list. All of it, from the favorite foods to the hidden talents. Four was definitely my favorite - nice little Daniel character study there.

Five Things Bill Lee Learned About Daniel While They Were In Honduras

[thothmes.livejournal.com]

1. Bill Lee didn’t spend any time in the SGC’s gym facilities. Staff were encouraged to do so, but it brought back too many memories of having his glasses knocked off and stepped on back in high school. Several of the graduates of Prentiss High would have made excellent Marines or Airmen, and some days back then it felt like all of them were watching young Master Lee for weakness, and meting out their own rough justice. So it came as a bit of a surprise when Daniel responded to the jungle heat by taking off his baggy overshirt. Bill might not have spent much time in the gym, but it was clear Daniel did.

2. This was the second time Bill had travelled with Daniel, which was weird because he could list the number of times he’d left Colorado for some location on Earth on SGC business with one hand. The other time had been for a conference in Montreal on scientific advances and their implications for archaeology that had required both men’s expertise. The hotel in Montreal had been booked solid, so double occupancy was a necessity. Bill had been a little startled the second night of the conference when Dr. Jackson had started talking in his sleep. At the time he had thought that the fact that Daniel was speaking in French might have been coincidence. It appeared it wasn’t, because in Honduras he switched to Spanish, and locally accented Spanish at that. Bill resolved to keep an eye out for an appropriate conference in Germany. He’d gotten his first PhD from a German university and he knew German. Maybe over there he’d have a chance to find out what Daniel was saying.


3. Sometimes in the lab there were moments where the scientists had to hurry up and wait for a reaction or a test result, and talk often turned to what the various researchers would like to do if they had an opportunity to go through that ‘Gate. Bill Lee had always said that he’d rather stay put, thank you very much, and he didn’t understand why Dr. Jackson, who was a civilian, and could reasonably be excused to stay safely in his lab and study recovered artifacts to his heart’s content, chose to go offworld. But seeing how much Daniel was able to learn from seeing the object in context let Bill know that he was not a nutty thrill seeker, but a man deeply dedicated to uncovering all of the truth. Daniel simply wasn’t content to compromise his view of the truth for the sake of safety, even his own.

4. Bill knew he wasn’t a particularly brave man, and he knew that Daniel Jackson was. After all, when Jack O’Neill walked into a room, Daniel smiled in greeting, instead of trying desperately to remain unobtrusive as most of the base’s scientists would. But maybe that was a bad example. It was a well-known fact that there were only three scientists that Colonel O’Neill respected. One of those he trusted only when he wasn’t actually trapped in her infirmary, and one of the others was Daniel. In any case Bill wasn’t surprised to find out that Daniel was braver than he was when faced with crazed captors and threats of torture. It shamed him to find out just how much braver he was.


5. No, Daniel wasn’t an adrenaline junkie like Dr. Carter. He tried his best to stay safe and teach Bill how to do so. No, he wasn’t a clumsy liability in the field who could thank Jack O’Neill for the fact that he hadn’t died many more times than he already had. But clearly he was a cockeyed optimist who had a worryingly misplaced sense of trust in his team leader. Bill Lee knew this to be so right up until the moment that he learned that Daniel knew his team leader well enough to have a well-placed trust in him. Bill found that Dr. Daniel Jackson was a perspicacious man and a wise one, when Colonel O’Neill, who had faced down Ba’al and died rather than knuckle under to torture, had made a point of telling him that for a “lab guy” he’d done well. He didn’t know what Daniel had told the Colonel, but as his thoughts turned to his kids and how glad he was that he would get to hug them again, and soon, he knew one more thing about Daniel Jackson. He owed him a big steak dinner and all the trimmings sometime in the near future.

Re: Five Things Bill Lee Learned About Daniel While They Were In Honduras

[archersangel (from livejournal.com)]

i wonder what daniel would be saying in #2 myself

[lilyleia78]

Check out the entry by gategremlyn here!

[gategremlyn.livejournal.com]

Very perceptive showing the many facets of Daniel: a soldier, a scientist, and academic, and more. Great job!

[sid]

Hi! You've replied to the entry as a whole, rather than one particular response, and I'm not certain whom you meant to reply to in this case. So if you would like to post this comment again? Just be sure to always click on "reply to this" rather than "post a new comment". :-)