Title: Someday, Not Yet
Summary: "It hasn't happened yet, but I know someday it will." Short perspectives from Jack and Daniel.
Notes: I just found this on my hard drive so I cleaned it up and decided to post it. I guess, technically, they aren't drabbles, but they're close! Each perspective is exactly 250 words.
Jack
It hasn't happened yet, but I know someday it will. It's only a matter of time.
Daniel isn't aware of it yet, maybe he never will be. He gets so caught up in his desire to help that he forgets about the dangers. I know he believes that he can always find a solution without anyone getting hurt. To be fair, most of the time, he can. I've seen him talk his way out of impossible situations so many times that I've almost come to expect it.
Almost. But one day he won't be able to. It won't be his fault, necessarily, it's just bound to happen sooner or later. So far, we've been lucky, but I've been around the bush enough times to know that luck won't always be enough. Good won't always prevail. Sometimes there is no right way out.
So for now, I leave him alone and let him do his thing, because I know that he needs to try and find that peaceful solution. If he didn't try, than he wouldn't be the man I've come to know and respect. Even when it infuriates me, I understand the need for it. I really do. But someday, we'll find a situation that even Daniel can't talk his way out of. It hasn't happened yet, but it will. And when it does, I hope he'll keep fighting, keep trying. Because I'm afraid that if he stops, there won't be any reason for the rest of us to continue.
Daniel
It hasn't happened yet, but I know someday it will. And that thought scares me more than anything else.
It's inevitable given the frailties and follies of humanity. I've studied different cultures all my life, and I've learned that some things are universal. I accept that the human capacity for violence is one of them. Jack thinks I'm arrogant, and maybe I am, but even I know that I can't change the course of human nature, only delay it for a while. I'm always aware that disaster, death, destruction, are waiting just beyond the next bend.
So far, it hasn't happened. But I'm not naïve enough to think we can always win. I may hide it well sometimes, but I know how cruel the human race can be, and that seems to be true of most other races we've encountered as well. So even though I put up a good fight, and I always argue for a peaceful solution, I know that sometimes good people die, and violence can't be stopped.
But the part that scares me the most is that I might one day stop fighting for a peaceful solution. That someday I might take the easy way out and chose to fight violence and cruelty with more of the same. Because someday we will lose, and people will die, and we won't be able to stop it. But if I don't continue to try, to fight against the inevitable, than someday will come sooner than it needs to.
