1. There was a period where Daniel stole. A lot. He was fourteen, in a group home that was over crowded and under staffed, full of a few too many boys who knew the system enough to know they’d be moved in six months anyway.
It had been mostly stupid things, at first – a bag of chips, a soda, gum, bargain-bin paperbacks. Then, when no one seemed to notice, he got a little bolder, moved up to tapes and books he actually wanted to read, to new issue comic books… things he could trade, to get out of dish-washing or garbage duty. He was good at it, quick, observant enough to know when he was being watched and when no one was paying attention, clever enough to never get caught.
It was good they moved him upstate when they did, because Daniel was starting to get bored, and Eric, two years older, was a damn good pickpocket.
2. The first roommate Daniel had at UCLA thought it was hilarious to get his skinny 16 year old roommate completely baked. Daniel had never smoked pot before, and he spent a great deal of his fall semester weekends in a blurry hazy, but by finals he had learned how to make it look like he was smoking a lot more than he was, how to keep himself the most sober person in the room without tipping his hand if he wanted to – a skill that served him very well in grad school.
3. There’s a district in Chicago where it’s illegal to sit on the curb and drink beer from a bucket. Daniel can’t remember how they found it out, but he does vividly getting completely shit faced one night with Steven and making the mistake of mentioning it, so of course they had to catch a cab and try it. Nothing happened, except the hangover was horrendous and Sarah was not amused the next day.
4. There is a policy – a policy, not technically a law, he will point out at great length to increase the odds of whomever raised the issue forgetting what the original question was – about proper procedure for bringing alien artifacts back to Earth, classification policies, proper tagging, storage regulations. Daniel follows it – generally. Once in a while they’ll bring something back that has no incorporated technology, no significant associated text, really nothing of value academically or scientifically, but for some reason it’ll pique his interest. He looses the storage registration paperwork and puts whatever it is somewhere in his office and, if questioned (which he almost never is), insists it originated on Earth. The system works.
5. Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell doesn’t technically apply to civilians, and Conduct Unbecoming an Officer certainly doesn't, but as a member of a field unit, the fraternization regs definitely do. The copy that Daniel read didn’t explicitly forbid sleeping with one’s supervisory officer, but he’ll concede that it’s a fairly logical implication.
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Five laws Daniel broke
Date: 2007-02-18 08:53 am (UTC)It had been mostly stupid things, at first – a bag of chips, a soda, gum, bargain-bin paperbacks. Then, when no one seemed to notice, he got a little bolder, moved up to tapes and books he actually wanted to read, to new issue comic books… things he could trade, to get out of dish-washing or garbage duty. He was good at it, quick, observant enough to know when he was being watched and when no one was paying attention, clever enough to never get caught.
It was good they moved him upstate when they did, because Daniel was starting to get bored, and Eric, two years older, was a damn good pickpocket.
2. The first roommate Daniel had at UCLA thought it was hilarious to get his skinny 16 year old roommate completely baked. Daniel had never smoked pot before, and he spent a great deal of his fall semester weekends in a blurry hazy, but by finals he had learned how to make it look like he was smoking a lot more than he was, how to keep himself the most sober person in the room without tipping his hand if he wanted to – a skill that served him very well in grad school.
3. There’s a district in Chicago where it’s illegal to sit on the curb and drink beer from a bucket. Daniel can’t remember how they found it out, but he does vividly getting completely shit faced one night with Steven and making the mistake of mentioning it, so of course they had to catch a cab and try it. Nothing happened, except the hangover was horrendous and Sarah was not amused the next day.
4. There is a policy – a policy, not technically a law, he will point out at great length to increase the odds of whomever raised the issue forgetting what the original question was – about proper procedure for bringing alien artifacts back to Earth, classification policies, proper tagging, storage regulations. Daniel follows it – generally. Once in a while they’ll bring something back that has no incorporated technology, no significant associated text, really nothing of value academically or scientifically, but for some reason it’ll pique his interest. He looses the storage registration paperwork and puts whatever it is somewhere in his office and, if questioned (which he almost never is), insists it originated on Earth. The system works.
5. Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell doesn’t technically apply to civilians, and Conduct Unbecoming an Officer certainly doesn't, but as a member of a field unit, the fraternization regs definitely do. The copy that Daniel read didn’t explicitly forbid sleeping with one’s supervisory officer, but he’ll concede that it’s a fairly logical implication.