Five laws Daniel broke.


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From: [identity profile] 6beforelunch.livejournal.com


Five laws Daniel broke

1. The speed limit

He broke a lot of laws the night Cassie called to say that she'd gone to this party and her friends had ditched her and this guy was making her really uncomfortable and she couldn't get in touch with of Jack or Sam or her mom and could Daniel please come get her, like, right now. He blew six red lights and went fifty-two in a thirty-five. Then, when he got there, and found Cassie struggling to get away from a drunk college student...well. It's a good thing Jack plays poker with the local cops, because if it had happened off world, Jack would have just nodded approvingly when he decked the guy, but the civilian authorities call that sort of thing misdemeanor assault.

2. The laws of statistical probability

Beating back the Goa'uld once against overwhelming odds he could deal with. Coming back from the dead once, maybe even twice, he could accept. But after they more or less completely wiped out an enemy that had superior numbers, technology, and fire power...after Daniel survived certain death so much that it became a joke...

Deep down, Daniel is pretty sure they're going to lose this battle with the Ori. You can only play the odds for so long before the odds come back to bite you.

3. The law of gravity

"Carter."

"Sir?"

"Why is Daniel on the ceiling?"

"Localized anti-gravity field."

"...Okay. I'm going to the commissary. Bring you anything?"

"Jello."

"Hey, Sam, think I can drink coffee like this?"

"...Let's find out!"

(The answer was no. The cleaning staff never did figure out how Major Carter got coffee all the way up there.)

4. The Law of Ra

It's called a lot of different things, actually, but Daniel always thinks of it as the Law of Ra. It's the first law of every Goa'uld occupied world and says that anyone denying the divinity of the Goa'uld will be killed. Daniel breaks that law a lot, though not quite as often as Jack and Teal'c.

5. Section 72; subsection 5 the Kelownan penal code

Section 72; subsection 5 of the Kelownan penal code deals with the unauthorized use of weapons on government property. To be fair, Daniel didn't know he was breaking the law when he shot out the observation window, but then he wouldn't have cared anyway.

From: [identity profile] niamaea.livejournal.com

Five laws Daniel broke


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.

From: [identity profile] whimsicalwhims.livejournal.com


Number two gave me chills and number three made me laugh. Thanks for sharing!

From: [identity profile] whimsicalwhims.livejournal.com

Re: Five laws Daniel broke


These are all fantastic.

The copy that Daniel read didn’t explicitly forbid sleeping with one’s supervisory officer

::grins:: And I'm sure that Daniel could definitely exploit that loophole, should ever the need arise.

From: (Anonymous)


2 was brilliant, I have to say. It's like that moment, in Origin, when he says that he's scared... Thank you for that. And I liked the way you did 1.

Dunvi

From: (Anonymous)

Re: Five laws Daniel broke


3 I love those idiotic what-the-hell laws. I think there's one somewhere for some random state where it's illegal to tie your pet alligator to a fire hydrant or something. And 4 seems very... Daniel-esque to me... anyone else?

Dunvi

From: [identity profile] niamaea.livejournal.com


I really love number one - because I love any mention of Cassie, and also because I love sensing them staying involved in her life. Three is very, very funny; four and five are spot on. And two - eep!

Nicely done. :)

From: [identity profile] 6beforelunch.livejournal.com


Thanks! Daniel seems darker in seasons 9 and 10 and I think it's because deep down he doesn't think they can pull off another miracle and beat back the Ori. I have much love for that final scene in Origin.

From: [identity profile] 6beforelunch.livejournal.com


Thanks! :) I always think of Daniel, Teal'c, and Jack as protective older uncles. Anyone who tries to hurt her when they're around is in for it.

From: [identity profile] niamaea.livejournal.com

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Because let it never be said that Daniel doesn't follow regulations to the letter. O:-)

Thanks very much!

From: [identity profile] niamaea.livejournal.com

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I think there's one somewhere for some random state where it's illegal to tie your pet alligator to a fire hydrant or something.

What, I'm supposed to leave Claude at home?

Thanks for the feedback! :)

From: [identity profile] piratefanatic.livejournal.com

Re: Five laws Daniel broke


Oh, very nice! I love the possibility that perhaps, in some universe, Daniel's a street-wise pickpocket. And the swiping of artifacts for office decoration? So very Daniel. And of course, #5. Hey, if it doesn't really say he can't... Much love.

Also, we have almost matching icons!

From: [identity profile] starglyph.livejournal.com

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Whee! More excellence. These are so Daniel, #5 sounds exactly like him!

(In my city it's illegal to ride on a bus with a bowl of goldfish on you lap.) I love drunk Daniel. :)

From: [identity profile] wishfulaces.livejournal.com

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Re: #4: You just know Daniel helped formulate that policy, argued very strongly for it, and that if anybody else doesn't follow it? They get their ass chewed out every single time he finds out about it. Older teams use it as another way to terrorize the new recruits, particularly the fresh-out-of-grad-school archaeology geeks who are just grateful to have a job that pays subsistence level.

From: [identity profile] niamaea.livejournal.com

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All hail teddy!Daniel.

I'm glad you liked them! And your comment on #1 - hee! Like 'Oliver and Company' only way, way hotter.

From: [identity profile] niamaea.livejournal.com

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Hey, if they didn't want their civilian consultants sleeping with their supervisory officers, they should have spelled it out clearly.

"No more beer for you!"

Thank you for the feedback, as always :)

From: [identity profile] niamaea.livejournal.com

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HA! Absolutely. Because keeping artifacts of another culture for your own purposes is wrong</> and departmental policies are not a suggestion. Usually.

From: [identity profile] piratefanatic.livejournal.com

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Oh ,jeeeeez! I went from Oliver and Company to Oliver to Little Orphan Danny. I think I'm going to essplode from cuteness.

From: [identity profile] wishfulaces.livejournal.com

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These objects need to be studied for the good of humanity! Etc etc etc.

From: [identity profile] 6beforelunch.livejournal.com


Me too, actually. That whole sequence from Meridian breaks me.

Thanks for the feedback. :)
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