Window of Revelation: A Missing Loop or Two
By Candy-Dawn
Author's Note: I want to thank Teri for creating 'Jack?' and letting me borrow her characters for this story. As you might have guessed 'Windows of Revelation' is sort of a missing clip to the forth season episode 'Window of Opportunity' set in Teri's 'Jack?' universe. -waves- Thanks Teri!
Summary: Part of Jack's point of view missing from 'Window of Opportunity.'
Disclaimer: I don't own Stargate or MacGyver, there, now that that is over with... Here is a key to the punctuation: "speech," 'thoughts,' and emphasis
Since I couldn't get the formating to work, do a search for Teri and read her story 'Jack?' to better understand what is happening in this story.
Colonel Jonathan 'Jack' O'Neill of the United States Air Force was tired. Tired of the passage that he had almost finished translating and how he had been reliving the same day for at least a month by now.
If he hadn't been busy trying to find a way to end the endless day on his own, he could have had the translations done last week, at least by his time.
The problem with the translations were that they weren't talking about the machine back on P4X-639, they were telling a story about how an ancient civilization, maybe the ancients themselves, were about to be wiped out by a disease or plague of some kind.
It was all very interesting and he would have loved to read it some other time, but this was not that time! He needed to find a way to end the loop and the translations weren't helping any.
Jack rubbed his eyes tiredly and continued with his thought process.
Both he and Teal'c had gotten so sick of taking the medical exam every single loop, just to satisfy their friends that they were not a threat to the SGC, that they had started working on the translations themselves, without telling the others about the time loop.
'We've gotten some pretty odd looks while we were working on our paperwork...'
'Of course this solution was tricky in itself because of the pre-mission briefings we had to sit through. Both Teal'c and I had started bringing the translations to the briefings and work on them there, after having to explain to the General why we hadn't bothered to come to the briefing yesterday or was it today...'
'I hate time travel! I really do!'
'Besides it's not like we had any trouble acting like we were paying attention, we had both memorized the entire briefing a long time ago and I usually doodled during the meetings anyway. Just have to be careful that Danny doesn't see what I am doodling.'
'Doodling in Latin would probably give poor Danny a heart attack... Hmmm, now that is an idea for later...'
'A problem that I alone had to worry about was trying to keep my secret from my team as I searched for a way to end the loop myself.'
'Especially watching out for Teal'c, if Daniel or Sam caught me in their spaces then I could just pass it off as fiddling with the doohickeys while I was waiting for them to show up.'
'But Teal'c would know better, for one thing he is very observant and another he knows that I know exactly where both of them are all day long.' Is this confusing enough for you yet?
'In fact, I may be pushing it in working with him on the translations – he looked at me kind of funny when we discussed the latest section that we had translated. Although, I have to admit it's kind of hard to tell what Teal'c is thinking.'
'Of course we check our work with Daniel every couple of loops just to make sure we are on the right tract, and then we have to put up with all of the questions that Daniel and the others ask each time we tell them about the loop. We got fed up with answering the same exact questions every single time, a long time ago.'
Looking up, Jack noticed that Teal'c was almost done writing out his section of the translation for Daniel to look at.
'Oh joy! It's my turn.'
As he got up to walk over to the chalk board to take over, Jack glanced over at Daniel and saw that the amazed but dazed look was still plastered on the younger man's face from when they had explained what was going on, again.
'Ha! We shocked him into silence this time!'
This was one of his favorite parts of the looping. Being able to see his friends incredulous gawking each time he or Teal'c either predicted that something was about to happen or knew about something that we should have had no way of knowing.
It was all very amusing.
Starting to write out his part of the translation on the board, Jack wondered what would happen if he just gave in and told them how intelligent he was and the rest of his big secret. Well he figured that he already knew the answer to that one...
They would never forgive him!
He had been lying to his friends since the moment he had met them over four years ago. For them to find out that Jack O'Neill doesn't exist, and never has, after all of this time would just be devastating!
(AN: Remember Teri wrote that until MacGyver went back to the Phoenix Foundation when Pete got sick, he believed that Jack O'Neill was just a cover he'd made, nothing more.)
Not to mention that he had been playing dumb for years, they would probably think he was laughing behind their backs that they had never figured it out.
After that shock even more would come when his team and General Hammond realized who he really was and that he was famous.
'Oh for crying out loud! How did that happen anyway?'
He hadn't done anything special enough to warrant his publicity, especially not enough for his name to be used as a verb in the same sentence with the Stargate!
That had been a real bombshell that he still couldn't get over.
'Well that part of the translation is done,' he had been working on it while he had been thinking. Now it was Teal's turn again.
"Teal'c?"
"Thank you O'Neill," Teal'c replied as he was rising to return to the board.
"No, Thank you Teal'c," Jack returned as he went to go sit by Daniel.
"Ohh... God!" Jack groaned. 'I am so sick and tired of this, there has got to be some way to fix this mess...' he continued silently in his head.
Daniel Jackson, who was still looking very much in shock, dared to raise the question, "Exactly how many of these loops have you... we... been through?"
Glancing over at the astonished archeologist, Jack opened up his mouth to reply then just as quickly furrowed his brow and really began to think about his answer.
It had been quite a while and the days had started to run together because they were all the same day – it wasn't like he could mark on a calendar to keep track of how many days he'd been doing this now, could he?
He realized that he didn't know how many days this had been going on anymore.
"I've... lost track," Jack finally replied to Daniel.
"That must be frustrating."
"Uhh... Yeah!" Jack said back sarcastically as he stared disbelievingly at his friend.
'Yeah sure, you betcha, what else would it be Danny! Oh for crying out loud! This day is getting old.'
Bringing his attention back, Daniel was talking again.
"On the other hand, it's kind of an opportunity."
"How's that?" 'What has he got going on in that head of his this time?'
"Well, think about it. If you know in advance that everything will be going back to the way it was, then... you could do anything... For as long as you wanted, without having to worry about the consequences!" Daniel said excitedly, proud that he had thought of it.
Jack thought of this new and exhilarating concept... for about one-tenth of a second. Then he looked over at Teal'c who had been eavesdropping from the chalk board.
Both came to a silent agreement before excusing themselves and making a break for it.
Leaving behind a slightly perturbed Daniel still sitting at the table in the now empty room.
"But what about the artifact's translation... guys?"
'I really should have thought of this earlier, I mean, it's the perfect solution! I guess I'm just so used to keeping my secret that it comes naturally now.'
'I'll finally be able to use Sam's lab without her finding out anything – at least not permanently.'
'I can tell my secret and see how they react to it... or at least stop acting dumb for a while.'
Then another realization hit him, he'd still have to watch out for Teal'c... because Teal'c wouldn't forget.
'I'll just have to be careful.'
Jack looked up as the claxons began to sound and the lights in the corridor began to flash.
Glancing down at his watch he muttered, "It's time already? Well here we go again..."
This is not the end. I have already started on the second part, but I have to warn you that I am not a very fast writer.
I hope you enjoyed it.
Candy-Dawn (06-14-04)
By Candy-Dawn
Author's Note: I want to thank Teri for creating 'Jack?' and letting me borrow her characters for this story. As you might have guessed 'Windows of Revelation' is sort of a missing clip to the forth season episode 'Window of Opportunity' set in Teri's 'Jack?' universe. -waves- Thanks Teri!
Summary: Part of Jack's point of view missing from 'Window of Opportunity.'
Disclaimer: I don't own Stargate or MacGyver, there, now that that is over with... Here is a key to the punctuation: "speech," 'thoughts,' and emphasis
Since I couldn't get the formating to work, do a search for Teri and read her story 'Jack?' to better understand what is happening in this story.
Colonel Jonathan 'Jack' O'Neill of the United States Air Force was tired. Tired of the passage that he had almost finished translating and how he had been reliving the same day for at least a month by now.
If he hadn't been busy trying to find a way to end the endless day on his own, he could have had the translations done last week, at least by his time.
The problem with the translations were that they weren't talking about the machine back on P4X-639, they were telling a story about how an ancient civilization, maybe the ancients themselves, were about to be wiped out by a disease or plague of some kind.
It was all very interesting and he would have loved to read it some other time, but this was not that time! He needed to find a way to end the loop and the translations weren't helping any.
Jack rubbed his eyes tiredly and continued with his thought process.
Both he and Teal'c had gotten so sick of taking the medical exam every single loop, just to satisfy their friends that they were not a threat to the SGC, that they had started working on the translations themselves, without telling the others about the time loop.
'We've gotten some pretty odd looks while we were working on our paperwork...'
'Of course this solution was tricky in itself because of the pre-mission briefings we had to sit through. Both Teal'c and I had started bringing the translations to the briefings and work on them there, after having to explain to the General why we hadn't bothered to come to the briefing yesterday or was it today...'
'I hate time travel! I really do!'
'Besides it's not like we had any trouble acting like we were paying attention, we had both memorized the entire briefing a long time ago and I usually doodled during the meetings anyway. Just have to be careful that Danny doesn't see what I am doodling.'
'Doodling in Latin would probably give poor Danny a heart attack... Hmmm, now that is an idea for later...'
'A problem that I alone had to worry about was trying to keep my secret from my team as I searched for a way to end the loop myself.'
'Especially watching out for Teal'c, if Daniel or Sam caught me in their spaces then I could just pass it off as fiddling with the doohickeys while I was waiting for them to show up.'
'But Teal'c would know better, for one thing he is very observant and another he knows that I know exactly where both of them are all day long.' Is this confusing enough for you yet?
'In fact, I may be pushing it in working with him on the translations – he looked at me kind of funny when we discussed the latest section that we had translated. Although, I have to admit it's kind of hard to tell what Teal'c is thinking.'
'Of course we check our work with Daniel every couple of loops just to make sure we are on the right tract, and then we have to put up with all of the questions that Daniel and the others ask each time we tell them about the loop. We got fed up with answering the same exact questions every single time, a long time ago.'
Looking up, Jack noticed that Teal'c was almost done writing out his section of the translation for Daniel to look at.
'Oh joy! It's my turn.'
As he got up to walk over to the chalk board to take over, Jack glanced over at Daniel and saw that the amazed but dazed look was still plastered on the younger man's face from when they had explained what was going on, again.
'Ha! We shocked him into silence this time!'
This was one of his favorite parts of the looping. Being able to see his friends incredulous gawking each time he or Teal'c either predicted that something was about to happen or knew about something that we should have had no way of knowing.
It was all very amusing.
Starting to write out his part of the translation on the board, Jack wondered what would happen if he just gave in and told them how intelligent he was and the rest of his big secret. Well he figured that he already knew the answer to that one...
They would never forgive him!
He had been lying to his friends since the moment he had met them over four years ago. For them to find out that Jack O'Neill doesn't exist, and never has, after all of this time would just be devastating!
(AN: Remember Teri wrote that until MacGyver went back to the Phoenix Foundation when Pete got sick, he believed that Jack O'Neill was just a cover he'd made, nothing more.)
Not to mention that he had been playing dumb for years, they would probably think he was laughing behind their backs that they had never figured it out.
After that shock even more would come when his team and General Hammond realized who he really was and that he was famous.
'Oh for crying out loud! How did that happen anyway?'
He hadn't done anything special enough to warrant his publicity, especially not enough for his name to be used as a verb in the same sentence with the Stargate!
That had been a real bombshell that he still couldn't get over.
'Well that part of the translation is done,' he had been working on it while he had been thinking. Now it was Teal's turn again.
"Teal'c?"
"Thank you O'Neill," Teal'c replied as he was rising to return to the board.
"No, Thank you Teal'c," Jack returned as he went to go sit by Daniel.
"Ohh... God!" Jack groaned. 'I am so sick and tired of this, there has got to be some way to fix this mess...' he continued silently in his head.
Daniel Jackson, who was still looking very much in shock, dared to raise the question, "Exactly how many of these loops have you... we... been through?"
Glancing over at the astonished archeologist, Jack opened up his mouth to reply then just as quickly furrowed his brow and really began to think about his answer.
It had been quite a while and the days had started to run together because they were all the same day – it wasn't like he could mark on a calendar to keep track of how many days he'd been doing this now, could he?
He realized that he didn't know how many days this had been going on anymore.
"I've... lost track," Jack finally replied to Daniel.
"That must be frustrating."
"Uhh... Yeah!" Jack said back sarcastically as he stared disbelievingly at his friend.
'Yeah sure, you betcha, what else would it be Danny! Oh for crying out loud! This day is getting old.'
Bringing his attention back, Daniel was talking again.
"On the other hand, it's kind of an opportunity."
"How's that?" 'What has he got going on in that head of his this time?'
"Well, think about it. If you know in advance that everything will be going back to the way it was, then... you could do anything... For as long as you wanted, without having to worry about the consequences!" Daniel said excitedly, proud that he had thought of it.
Jack thought of this new and exhilarating concept... for about one-tenth of a second. Then he looked over at Teal'c who had been eavesdropping from the chalk board.
Both came to a silent agreement before excusing themselves and making a break for it.
Leaving behind a slightly perturbed Daniel still sitting at the table in the now empty room.
"But what about the artifact's translation... guys?"
'I really should have thought of this earlier, I mean, it's the perfect solution! I guess I'm just so used to keeping my secret that it comes naturally now.'
'I'll finally be able to use Sam's lab without her finding out anything – at least not permanently.'
'I can tell my secret and see how they react to it... or at least stop acting dumb for a while.'
Then another realization hit him, he'd still have to watch out for Teal'c... because Teal'c wouldn't forget.
'I'll just have to be careful.'
Jack looked up as the claxons began to sound and the lights in the corridor began to flash.
Glancing down at his watch he muttered, "It's time already? Well here we go again..."
- - FLASH - -
This is not the end. I have already started on the second part, but I have to warn you that I am not a very fast writer.
I hope you enjoyed it.
Candy-Dawn (06-14-04)