Prompt 81.02

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



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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

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

[thothmes.livejournal.com]

Well, my husband talks in his sleep, and one night he came out with "Categorize the day! Discuss [indistinct mumble]" Now, he was taking a philosophy course and studying Wittgenstein at the time, so that may have had some effect on what he said, but other utterances have been similarly...odd. I figure if Bill manages to wrangle that German conference, he may be a tad disappointed, or at least come away at least as puzzled as he arrived.

I once was camping with a girl who sat up in her sleeping bag, clearly unaware of her surroundings, shouted "Hi-oh, Silver!" and lay back down, leaving the rest of us pondering what could possibly have brought the Lone Ranger into it...

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

[lilyleia78]

♥!

Favorite line - 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. LOL

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

[thothmes.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I kind of envision a wave of head-ducking and shoulder hunching following Jack around the room, like that wave of speed-limit observance that occurs as a State Trooper cruises by.

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

[rebeccavoy.livejournal.com]

I liked this, Bill doesn't get a lot of exposure, so it was nice to see him featured - and not featured as nothing more than a weird nerd.

I particularly liked #2, I'd love to know what Daniel was saying in his sleep lol

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

[thothmes.livejournal.com]

As to what Daniel was saying, yeah, I'm just as curious as Bill Lee and everyone else. My brother used to mumble in his sleep. The only time he ever said anything intelligible, I was sitting under a single bulb in a large dark room with deer heads and deer feet on the walls, the house was creaking in the wind, and I was reading Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None, and my brother suddenly yelled "Look out!" But the rest of the time he might as well have been speaking in Unas. So yeah, I know that curiosity.

Geeks are people. They are just people who focus a little too well and too narrowly.

Glad you liked!

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

[rebeccavoy.livejournal.com]

People only ever talk legibly in their sleep at the worst times lol.

I'm all for the geekiness (like I can talk), I just like seeing him portrayed a little deeper, you did it well.

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

[aurora-novarum.livejournal.com]

2. Cracks up at Bill making this big plan to take Daniel to Germany to find out what he says in his dreams.

Aww, they will definitely get a great steak dinner. :-)

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

[thothmes.livejournal.com]

And if Daniel is lucky, Bill will bring the kids, and he'll not only get to see the relationships he helped save in action, but the adorable next-gen geekiness.

Icon is because your marvellous one has Bill Lee in the MothLook (tm) glasses, and this is the only icon I have that has even a whiff of that!

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

[aelfgyfu_mead]

I like the last one especially, but they're all good.

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

[thothmes.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! :)

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

[colls]

I like these!!! #2&3 especially.

What was Daniel saying in his sleep?

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

[cesy.livejournal.com]

I loved these.

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

[thothmes.livejournal.com]

So glad you enjoyed them!

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

[gategremlyn.livejournal.com]

Number two is clever! And number five says so much about Daniel.

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

[thothmes.livejournal.com]

What can I say? I live surrounded by people who talk in their sleep, most unintelligibly!

Glad you liked it.

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

[sid]

Love Bill's plans for a conference in Germany!

Fascinating thoughts about Daniel needing to examine artifacts in situ. No, he definitely wouldn't be concerned about his own safety, at all. We saw that on Ernest's Planet. Knowledge is everything.

But clearly he was a cockeyed optimist who had a worryingly misplaced sense of trust in his team leader. Five Things Bill Lee Learned About Daniel (and one he learned about Jack O'Neill.) *g*

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[thothmes.livejournal.com]

I am an archaeologist by training, and siting and provenance is everything. There is so much lost when an item is taken out of context before it can be studied, and you just can't understand the pyramids from pictures and measurements. You only really understand how massive they are when you can be there.

The show does pretty well at capturing that facet of what archaeologists are like. A professor of my mom's once refused a rabies shot after being bitten by a dog in a region where rabies is endemic, because she just couldn't spare the time in the middle of a dig! Lucky for her, turns out it wasn't rabid.

One of my daughters was an impressionable teenager when we discovered Stargate as a family, and she was very taken by Daniel. I admitted that Michael Shanks is a handsome man, but just couldn't really join in her gushing. It took me a while to realize why. The character was far too much like most of the guys I knew from grad school and my own family, and I would never want to be involved with someone who would only notice me when he emerged from his artifact-or-theory induced haze for necessary food and air!

Bill, I have a feeling, is going to be disappointed when his German conference plans succeed, and Daniel turns out to be discussing something dull, like the necessity to find an espresso bar. :D