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Prompt 23.08
Five times Cameron calls Jack.
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Five times Cam called Jack pt. 1
1. It wasn’t the first time Cam’s doctor had said the words ‘full recovery’ – the physical therapists had started cautiously throwing that around a few months back – but it was the first time he’d heard it phrased in the past tense. Done deal. He walked out to his car, and his legs still felt strangely light without the braces, even though those had been gone a week. He sat behind the wheel with the engine idling, and called his mother right there in the parking lot.
Once he’d hung up with her, Cam reached without looking for the business card tucked in his wallet, between a concert ticket stub and his youngest cousin’s newest school photo. It was a nice card, heavy paper, bold printed letters raised beneath his fingers, the name and number of some personnel guy; it’d been clean and crisp once, too, but he’d carried it around so long, taken it out to look at it so many times, that it’d worn down. Now the edges were dulled and the corners bent at weird angles, with a skewed crease in the middle that would probably rip, soon. And on the back, the second number scrawled out in blue ink was starting to fade. That wasn’t so important; Cam had it memorized ages ago.
When he finally dialed, the number turned out to go straight to an office line, and the aide who answered the phone patched him through immediately. But then, he’d submitted the transfer request the day he’d lost the braces. General O’Neill had probably been expecting the call.
2. The call came from Teal’c’s number, and the message on Jack’s voice-mail went like this:
“General I – shut up, did I ask you? – not you sir, Vala, she’s – Ow! Jesus, get off –” and Vala’s voice, distantly, in a garbled sentence that started “Well I’d be glad to…” and then there were the sounds of a scuffle and Carter hooting with laughter in the background. “Sir. Sorry. Sir. Um. I was – Teal’c and I wanted you to know, sir, we – no I’ll tell it – we tried to bring your face back, sir, but it got blown off, just like…I mean I don’t think they were aiming for it…” In the pause, the rumble of Teal’c voice, indecipherable. “Well, maybe. But still, blown off, which is probably better and probably they won’t do a new one –” but the rest was lost in the overlap which turned into an extended argument with Daniel that was mostly unintelligible and went on until the recording automatically cut out.
3. The follow-up message went like this:
“General O’Neill, sir, I’m just calling to... apologize for last night. We – well. I’m sure you’ll read the report.” There was a long pause, and then Mitchell added, “For the record sir, the four of us talked it over, and the tequila was Teal’c’s fault.”
Later, he read the report. It turned out P3R-832 was still Prior free, but that in the time since SG-1 had first visited and helped them out with their crop problem, some of the locals had come to think that they must have been sent by the gods and started up a cult worship. SG-1 turning up again, without their divine leader, escalated into a full-scale riot between the cult and everyone else, and apparently the life-sized statue of Jack in the middle of the village hadn’t survived.
Jack knew Teal’c’s sense of humor enough to know that the tequila probably really was the big guy’s fault, but he freaked Mitchell out with strongly worded emails about drinking responsibly and getting help when you needed it until Daniel called and made him stop.
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4. Cam knew that Sam or Teal’c – probably Sam and Teal’c – would call as soon as they could find a phone, so he pulled just enough strings to make sure that his medical-post would be quick and theirs would run long. SG-1 – O’Neill’s SG-1 – had some kind of check-in system, and whenever something happened, when someone got hurt, at least one of them would be on and off the phone with O’Neill until it was over. Cam didn’t mind, and he usually didn’t get in the way.
But it had been his mission, his command. His responsibility, and when General O’Neill found out that Jackson was MIA, it would be from him. Not that there was shit-all they could do about it, not that they even knew where to start looking for Adria…. Cam shut himself in his office and dialed Washington.
5. “Oh, my God,” Sam had said, “are you still thinking about that?” And then she laughed at him for a very long time and passed him her phone.
General O’Neill screwed with him for about ten minutes, and then finally, finally told Cam what was in mission file 30185 and put to rest months of wondering, endless attempts to pry it out of Sam and Jackson, four attempts to locate the missing file, and one very bizarre phone call to his parents. Who’s his daddy, Cam’s ass.
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Love Jack screwing with Cam's head in 3 and 5, hilarious drunken phone call in #2, love the painstaking description of the business card in #1, and hate #4 in the best possible way, because I hate Cam having to make that call and I hate Jack having to hear it. *meep*
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Thanks so much for making this prompt not responseless anymore! *g*
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#2 is my favorite and #5 is just LOL funny! Good stuff...
and I swear, I didn't read this until after I wrote mine - the drinking stuff was purely coincidental. -- and yours is funnier anyway...
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I love when people happen to write similar items for five things lists, or there's somehow some crossover in the same part. The cool little coincidences...those are the most fun!
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Have much love for the drunken messages, of course (very cleverly done) and #4 just makes me wibble because, well, ::points to icon:: it means half of my OTP is missing.
Great work. :-)) and ::wibbles::
Five times Cameron called Jack
Five times Cameron called Jack
*** Ring ***
“O’Neill.”
“General O’Neill, this is Lt. Colonel Cameron Mitchell, I’m with SG-1, joined them after I recovered from my accident and...”
“Yes, I remember who you are.”
“Thank you, General. General, I am calling because...”
“Are you standing at attention, Mitchell? ‘Cause it sounds like you’re standing at attention.”
“Sir, General O’Neill, sir...”
“You’re standing at attention. I know you are.”
“Sir..., General...”
“Sit down and relax, Mitchell.”
“Yes, sir.”
*** Ring ***
“O’Neill”
“General O’Neill, this is Lt. Colonel Cameron Mitchell, I’m with SG-1, joined ...”
“Yes, Mitchell and I have caller ID, so I know...”
“Thank you, sir...”
“You’re not at attention, are you?”
“No, sir, I’m sitting down.”
“Great.”
“Sir, General Landry asked me to report to you via secured telephone...”
“Jeez, Mitchell, will you relax?”
“Sir, yes, sir...”
*** Ring ***
“O’Neill”
“General O’Neill, this is...”
“Yeah, hi, Mitchell, what’s the bad news...”
“No bad news, sir, I...”
“You sound more relaxed, Mitchell. Glad to see you’re settling in.”
“Thank you, sir.”
*** Ring ***
“O’Neill.”
“Hey, Jack! Wazz cooking? Hows stuff in Washin...Washssh...Washsssssss...”
“Are you drunk, Mitchell?”
“Sirrr? Nooooooooo...”
“Do I hear giggling? Is that Daniel, I hear? What the...? I think you’d better hang up and hide the phone from yourself, Mitchell, before they get you in trouble.”
*** Ring ***
“O’Neill.”
“General O’Neill, this is Lt. Colonel Cameron Mitchell, SG-1...
“Are you standing at attention, Mitchell?”
“Sir, General O’Neill, sir...”
“You’re standing at attention. I know you are.”
“Sir..., General... I want to apologize...”
“Sit down and relax, Mitchell.”
“Yes, sir.”
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Fun! :)
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Five Times Cameron Calls Jack