Title: Heat Index

Author: Nzie

Season: 3

Spoilters: Mild for Solitudes, A Matter of Time, and Jolinar's Memories/The Devil You Know.

Drabble for August, "swelter."

Disclaimer: Despite fervent wishes, none of these are mine.. but they like to hang out in my imagination every now and then, so no harm done..

Summary: It was hot, but he'd been hotter places.

Thanks to the Jackfic list for the encouragement and great comments.

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On a scale of Antarctica to Hell, Netu just managed to reach Mali, around a seven. Jack O'Neill couldn't describe hell, even though he said he was headed there, but he'd been to the hottest places on earth. This place was bad, but it didn't beat all of them.

Not that he would tell them that. They didn't know what it mean to really sweat, to swelter under a hot sun and a cold glare more constant than any drink or alien comeback kid, to commando crawl through a desert for days.

But he wasn't about to tell them that.

thank you for reading.

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