Consequences in an Alternate Universe

[brainofck]

For starting_gate who said:

Press my biggest, prettiest kink button! I want J/D caught. Outed, busted, in flagrante delicto, even. Serious angsty stuff about the consequences of being found out.

Ha! No novella here. But this is an interesting thing to maybe consider for something longer later.

Title: Consequences in an Alternate Universe
Author: muck_a_luck, posting in brainofck
Pairing: Daniel Jackson/Jack O'Neill
Rating: G
Summary: Consequences in a don't ask, don't tell world.
Words: 328
Disclaimer: If anybody is planning a script like this for SG-1, I'm certainly not going to claim any rights to it. However, I'd be delighted to work in a co-writing/consulting/first-reader/advisory-type capacity, with my fee to be negotiated at that time. :D
Archive rights: Absolutely none. My journals only. muck_a_luck and brainofck




The first resignation was as unexpected as it was abrupt.

The second resignation explained the first.

Rumors were rife. That they had been caught on base. Off world. In Jackson's home. In O'Neill's truck.

SG-1 was shattered.

Teal'c went back to the life O'Neill had lured him to leave, to be with his son and fight for his rebellion.

Tainted by apparent complicity, Carter was transferred to Pegasus quietly and with no send-off party, a three-week shunning on the Daedelus her reward for years loyalty and deliberate ignorance.

But the Daniel Jackson of another universe would tell them that it was really for the best.

So O'Neill retired to the woods of Minnesota to fish in a fishless lake, and Jackson went with him to support them by writing a hugely successful series of secretly auto-biographical novels that were eventually made into a moderately successful television show and revealed years later, when the program went public, to be dramatic reenactments of actual missions. Maybe it wasn't the life of heroism and action to which they were accustomed, but O'Neill was getting a little old for that, anyway. And a retired Daniel Jackson could not become entangled with one Vala Mal Doran and in the end the Ori never noticed the little spiral galaxy a universe away from their own sphere of power.

And Carter plus McKay was more than the Pegasus bad guys could handle, and the Michael experiment was never conducted and the Pegasus replictors were never disturbed and in the end it was happily ever after, the end.

So maybe Hammond regretted it for a long time. And maybe O'Neill resented it. And maybe Jackson was heartbroken for the things he had to give up.

But the Daniel Jackson trawling mirror universe after mirror universe for someplace safe to mourn the loss of his own Jack O'Neill, Sam Carter, Teal'c and George Hammond was really very jealous as he touched the mirror's surface one more time.


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Comments

[melayneseahawk.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I like this one. Can I take it home with me to keep me warm?

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

Oh, great, but sad.

[starting-gate.livejournal.com]

Wow. I read this three times to get all the meta and undertones out of it. I didn't use this prompt lightly--I knew you could do justice to it. Thank you!

But this is an interesting thing to maybe consider for something longer later.

*nodnodnodnodnodnodnodnodnodnodnodnod* Ow.

[green-grrl.livejournal.com]

Yes, pluses and minuses. And, really, a good, good life after all. Wonderfully bittersweet.

[princessofg.livejournal.com]

oh oh oh oh.


OH.

OUCH.

perfect. ouch. did I say OUCH????

[burningchaos.livejournal.com]

*whimpers* I love it, but poor Daniel on the outside looking in. *pets him*

[seleneheart]

Oh hell, this touches so many levels . . . the potential of dominoes falling from one small act, the happily-ever-after for one set of Jack/Daniel, and the sorrow of the other Daniel who's lost everything.

[mresundance.livejournal.com]

Nice. :D

[lokei.livejournal.com]

Oh, ouch. Consequences indeed--nice to know things work out well in one universe, though nice and painful could easily be interchanged in that sentiment.

[zats-clear.livejournal.com]

you know this is beautiful, right? I can see a wistful Daniel, touching the mirror.

[tresa-cho.livejournal.com]

Awww. :c

[kuonji14.livejournal.com]

This was unexpectedly wonderful. Unexpected b/c I was thinking of the usual angst/ohnoes/how tragic melodrama, but I figured I ought to expect better from you, and yay I was right. :) The first line is a grabber, and the last line is heartbreaking. Thanks.

[kuonji14.livejournal.com]

Two more comments:
1. This reminds me of a Sam Carter story, "Five Things Sam Would Have Done Differently" or something along those lines. Will have to remember to dig that up tomorrow.
2. How awesome is the force of McKay + Carter??? *G

[ravenholdt]

*slow head shake*
*blink blink*

Oh...

Beautiful.