Title: Extras
Author: PapayaK
Category: 'triple drabble'
Spoilers: Enemies
Disclaimer: Don't own 'em. Just having fun.
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Extras
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This is written in response to the fact that – in the episode "Enemies" season 5 ep 1 – Jack and Daniel are playing with a small green ball. I wondered where it came from.
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Jack had a fit when Carter brought too many trinkets. Once he found a microscope in her pack, complete with all the stuff she'd added to cushion it. Really? She should have had it in its special suitcase, but she knew her commanding officer would never have allowed it.
They were – still – and – no matter what – a front line team. If you want to go all scientific, then join one of the research teams!
And Daniel? Daniel and his books! Oh – don't even get him started on the pounds and pounds of books. There really should be some sort of digital-eye-ZAY-tion of those. Then he could bring all he wanted.
Ah well. Technology would just have to catch up. Maybe Sam could work on it…
ANYWAY!
No more than 3 pounds of books on a mission. He had started keeping a scale in his locker – just to check.
At least Teal'c never brought anything extra. Nothing scientific, nothing sentimental, nothing that he didn't need. Now see? That's how it's supposed to work!
Well….
There was one small allowance COLONEL Jack O'Neill allowed himself. Privileges of rank after all… And it added exactly 1.8 ounces to his pack. (he'd checked… with the scale…)
He had a bouncy ball.
It sat in the bottom of his lower left pants pocket on every mission. He found it somehow… comforting.
Comforting to know that –
no matter HOW bored he got…
there was something…
something to do.
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A/N plus? I like to think that Samantha Carter had something to do with the development of the Kindle...