Author's note: I don't own anything but the story itself (unfortunately).
Michael came home after a long day. Seeing as he actually was home relatively early from work and Rex was out with some friends he had an evening all to himself. He made himself a sandwhich, put the TV on and started zapping through the channels. He finally settled for an episode of Stargate Sg-1 that was now on. It was an interesting episode he really could relate to. The alien called Teal'c was switching back and forth between two different realities and he couldn't distinguish which of them was real.
Half into the episode he was glued to the screen. It was as if someone had made a movie of the events that had started in Michael's life after the accident. He and his family had been in a car crash and since that he too was switching between two similar but still different lives - Living one day with his wife and the other with his son. The other having died in the crash.
The episode continued and another character called Daniel said something that first made him flinch, and then he couldn't let go of what he'd said. Michael saw the rest of the episode, waited until Rex finally came home, said good night and went to bed. When he woke up he still couldn't stop thinking about the line from the TV- show the night before.
"If you can't distinguish between them, if the one seems equally as real as the other, maybe you don't belong in either one."
At work, detective Vega noticed that something was different with his partner. He somehow seemed less interested in the case they had started on this morning. It was a murder case. A male victim who had been shot in front of his wife and ten year old son. Horrific. So after having looked over the scene of the crime Vega asked him what was wrong.
"Nothing"
"You sure? You've seemed distracted by something all morning."
"Yeah, no, I didn't sleep very well."
Detective Vega had to take his partner by his words, but he still wasn't convinced that he was telling him the truth.
The truth was that, though a little reluctant, Michael was trying to finds signs of something that could tell him that the reality he was experiencing was in fact not real. He would do the same in the green reality and if none of them were real maybe he was really just having a normal dream. A dream which he could wake up from and again start living a normal life with both Rex and Hannah alive and well.
He didn't dare say anything to dr. Lee when they met that evening. Not yet anyway. The good psychologist he had been required to see after the accident would most certainly see it as a step in the wrong direction. And he couldn't say anything to Hannah either. It was in fact very long since they talked about Michaels dreams at all. It only scared her.
Nothing out of the ordinary happened that day, but Michael would make sure to keep his eyes open in the green reality the next day.
What do you think? I'm not quite sure where I want to go with this yet, but please rate & review !
Ps. I am not a native English speaker so I apologize for any mistakes I may have made.