Title: Piece of Cake!
Author: Lil' old me ;)
Setting: One of the earlier series... I forget which. When Jack was still a Colonel: the best bits, I think!
Disclaimer: Not mine. Nuh-uh... but Jack is a fox, and so is Daniel, so... XD
Notes: I'll be honest, there's no point to this as far as a story goes... it's just a little ficlet about how mean Jack can be! Anyway, I wanted to see how I managed to capture the characters, with Jack in particular, so I'd appreciate any feedback for that. I have an idea for a story, so depending how well this is received, I'll go ahead with it soon! Thanks guys ;)
"You know, Daniel, I just don't care. Really."
"But don't you get it? It'll completely change how we catalogue all of the artefacts we find, and make finding everything so much easier!"
"And I care why?" At Daniel's rolling eyes, Jack carried on with his bowl of Froot Loops, boots leaning on the desk as he relaxed backwards in his chair. The pair had never exactly seen eye-to-eye on many different kinds of things, mainly because Jack thought that Daniel was a boring nerd, and Daniel couldn't stand how the Colonel was happy enough to live in enough ignorance to get by without being killed. Just. "Look, can't you bother Carter with this?"
"She's busy calibrating the MALP for the conditions on PX-3492."
"Oh." The spoon was slowly stirred around the bowl, the grey-haired Colonel looking down into the milk, adorned with only a few extra loops left before breakfast was officially over. "So…"
"So… you need to listen to my proposal!" The Egyptologist was really starting to get annoyed, slamming the file down on the desk as he forced himself not to growl at the older man. Deep down, they really did care about each other. Deep, deep down. "Why can't you at least pretend to have an interest in what I say?"
Jack just looked up and grinned his best smile. "Why change the habit of a lifetime?"
"You're just… you're just infuriating!"
"And ya love me for it, am I right?"
Finally giving up, Daniel pushed his wire-framed glasses further up his face, sighing and taking the file with him with a few muttered obscenities under his breath as he left Jack to just get on with what he seemed to think was so important. Jack, on the other hand, was just relieved to get a little time to himself before the day began in earnest. Nowadays, he seemed to be getting away with more and more, annoying Daniel within an inch of his life every time he came into contact with him. With Sam Carter babbling in one ear about all kinds of whatsits and doodads, then Daniel wittering on about cataloguing the things they picked up from different planets in a different, just as boring way, it seemed that only Teal'c managed to not make the Colonel want to hide. Considering Teal'c was a Jaffa that held a Goa'uld symbiote in his stomach, though, that wasn't exactly a comforting feeling, was it?
Sighing sadly as the last few bits of his breakfast were gone, finishing his set of thoughts on his teammates, Jack set his feet back on the floor, putting the now empty bowl on the top of his desk. At least he had managed to enjoy a little peace and quiet before anything happened. Adding to that his irritation of the intelligent Egyptologist, and you might be able to say that the beginning of the day started out really well!
The grin returning, Jack started to whistle as he sauntered down the corridors of the SGC. Anything that happened today, well, he could take it. Piece of cake.
