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Prompt 16.07
Five surprising things the original deep-background check on Daniel turned up (and who knows about them now).
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Daniel’s told this story many times, but the people to whom it holds the most interest are those who would be charged with finding him if he tried to do the same thing, now.
Because they don’t think they could catch him if he did it again.
2. Daniel has an aunt named Linda Ballard, now aged 87, living in a retirement community in Florida. She was the older, illegitimate daughter of Nick Ballard, and thus Daniel’s mother’s half-sister.
Daniel doesn’t know she exists, or that she was once offered guardianship of her nephew.
Jack has never told him, because like his grandfather, Aunt Linda didn’t want Daniel either.
3. At 16, Daniel spent three days in juvenile lock-up for choking one of his foster mother’s boyfriends unconscious.
The records were sealed when he came of age, and many of the details were lost by the time the military opened them.
No one knows what provoked Daniel, and those that know the story have never asked.
4. Daniel had a Bar Mitzvah at the Temple Beth-El, while living with his foster family the Meyers, from the ages of 10 to 14.
He doesn’t appear to have shown interest in any form of organized religion since then, beyond his academic concentration in it.
Teal’c, oddly enough, is the only one who knows this. Daniel was explaining the major human religions to him, in the early days, and it came up.
5. Melbourne Jackson fathered two children with another woman before he married Claire Ballard and had Daniel.
Archaeologists aren’t particularly good at fidelity, evidently. Claire had been Professor Jackson’s research assistant and they spent nearly two years together in the field while his first wife Elaine remained in the United States, raising Daniel’s half-brother Aaron and his half-sister Susannah.
The divorce was quick, and Daniel’s father sent alimony and child support annually until his death.
Daniel was too naïve to realize that his meager inheritance had already been twice divided when he eventually got it. It never occurred to him that either of his parents might have had previous marriages, and frankly he didn’t have a high opinion of families at the time.
The only person who knows about Elaine, Aaron and Susannah Jackson besides the background check team is Elaine herself. Because the state asked her, her of all people, if she would take the orphaned Daniel Jackson.
And of course she wouldn’t. She hated the thought of him, as strongly as she had hated his mother. Aaron and Susannah didn’t know their half-brother existed, and she kept it that way.
Eventually, Aaron – a lawyer – is probably going to look at the family’s papers and wonder where a third of his father’s estate went, and then she’s probably going to have tell him.
She doesn’t know what happened to her ex-husband’s boy, but she presumes he was happily raised by the family of Melbourne’s slutty TA, and has no need to talk to a woman who once loved his father, or to know the two adults that grew from the children that were abandoned so Daniel could be born.
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This was my prompt, so extra super thanks for writing this one, and writing such interesting possibilities for Daniel's background.
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Poor Elaine. I imagine her kids would be pretty much poisoned against Daniel without her ever having said a specific word that would have established his existence. They would hate him on sight, even today.
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