AUTHOR: Glinda
TITLE: Rocket Man
CATEGORY: Umm.I'm not exactly up on fanfic terminology - just picking it up as I go along - so this is a I think TAG for the episode Tangent which I saw a couple of weeks ago and then heard the song and thought Ooooh! Just an overheard conversation. And a songfic simply cos I like em.
PAIRING: Mainly T/J friendship - with strong overtones of S/J
SEASON: They've only got as far as 2/3 of the way through season 4 over here so if there are any spoilers then up to there.
WARNING: PG
DISCLAIMER: Not mine, don't own anything. Just a poor little Uni. student trying to stay sane by letting her imagination run wild. Not making any money.just doin this for fun! Plz don't sue! The song is Rocket Man (I think its gonna be a long, long time) by Elton John - lyrics by Bernie Taupin but you probably know that if you care!)
AUTHOR'S NOTES: I know, I know! I'm supposed to be continuing something else, but got writer's block on it so wrote this instead just to keep you going! Please, please, please, please, please review! Since becoming a writer just realized how dependant you become on it - having a mailbox suddenly devoid of review alerts is kinda depressing - I appreciate the importance so am frantically searching the pages for stories I liked to review and let the authors now that I love their work! Ok, I sound all whingy and suck uppish but that's what review depravation does to you! Anyway I just wondered what else Teal'c and Jack might of talked about up there and what would of happened if they'd left their radios on and someone had listened in.
Deep space, somewhere just past Jupiter, in a Death Glider with a mind of its own.a voice mutters.
#I think it's gonna be a long long time...#
"I do not understand the purpose of your last statement O'Neill"
*sigh* "It's a line from a song Teal'c. It just kinda applies to our present situation.It kinda makes more sense in the context of the song, you know?"
"I do not as you say 'Know'. Perhaps if you were to relate the song I would more easily comprehend your meaning."
"You want me to SING?!"
"Indeed I do not O'Neill. I have heard your vocalization attempts before when you were somewhat inebriated.It was an experience that I would be reluctant to repeat."
*snort* "Subtle there, Teal'c. Real subtle"
"I attempt O'Neill, I attempt."
"Its I t.Its another one of your jokes again isn't it?"
"Indeed O'Neill. I thought it wise to attempt to lighten the mood and distract your attention from our current."
"Disastrous?! Hopeless?"
"I would have said unfortunate. Do you not believe that Major Carter will succeed in her endeavors to rescue us? Has she not always succeeded before?"
"Teal'c, I have complete faith in Carter's stubbornness and refusal to give up on us.and no doubt she will find a way to get us home."
"You fear she will be too late?"
"Yeah, I've got a feeling we - our bodies anyway - will give up long before she will. She'll get us home, I just hope its in time for us to see it" quieter "and her" normal volume "again."
Empty control room deep within Cheyenne Mountain Base, small hours of the morning.
"Should we maybe let them know their radios are on?"
"Jees! Davis! I didn't hear you there. No point really, they won't get the message for at least another couple of hours."
"At least turn it off."
"Major? When was the last time you served in the field?"
"Umm.I.well."
"Nevermind, this is the first piece of active service you've done in quite a while anyway, right? So you've not done the whole bonding through life- and-death situations every day thing in.How long? We nearly die at least once a week! But we don't. We've always survived, not a lot of teams stay together for over 4 years without loosing a member. We've come so close and shared so much because who the HELL else can we talk to, I mean who? We're like family.if we don't get them back.it'd be like loosing a limb. You could carry on functioning perfectly afterwards.but you'll never feel complete. This could be the last proper conversation I ever hear them have.scuse me for wanting to hang onto it."
"I'm sorry."
"Just go.shoo! Leave me be! If I can't do anything to help them for another couple of hours then at least I can listen to them one last time."
#She packed my bags last night pre-flight - Zero hour nine a.m.#
"He sounds so alone out there"
"I think they both are Sam."
#And I'm gonna be high as a kite by then#
"How'd things go with the Tok'ra, Danny?"
*frustrated sigh* "I think Anise was being purposefully obtuse and confusing. She didn't make a lot of sense." *sigh* "Anymore luck.or is sleep impossible for you to?"
"Thought I might catch a broadcast! I don't think they even realize we can hear them."
#I miss the earth so much I miss my wife#
TEAL'C: Do you miss the mother of your son O'Neill?"
JACK: Sometimes.most of the time I guess I realize that things were going wrong with our marriage before that. Charlie's death was just the catalyst. After he died we both realized that he was all we had in common anymore.guess you know THAT feeling!"
TEAL'C: Indeed, I often feel that our mutual love of Ry'ac is all that binds myself and Drey'ac together since I left Chulak." Long silence. "If this is true do you not wish you had someone to miss?"
JACK: muttered "She's not mine to miss"
TEAL'C: "You refer to your prohibited affection for Major Carter. It is a most unfortunate situation you find yourselves in and I have great sorrow for the pain it causes you both. I find it most unfair. However your sentiments are indeed bound to the line of the song.You miss the one who you have bound your heart to."
#It's lonely out in space#
Hugging Sam tightly "You've never talked about it have you.God, I hope you get the chance."
"Me too Daniel, me too."
#On such a timeless flight#
JACK: And I think it's gonna be a long long time
Till touch down brings me round again to find
I'm not the man they think I am at home
"Appropriate words in the situation"
"Oh, hiya General.didn't hear you come in there."
"It's three in the morning Major.don't bother to salute!"
"Sorry sir. What were you saying?"
*sigh* "The song, Major. The lyrics are somewhat appropriate not just because of them being out on the edge of the Solar System but specifically to Jack. I think he's proven time and again that he's not the man we thought or think he is."
#Oh no no no I'm a rocket man - Rocket man burning out his fuse up here alone#
TEAL'C: Your words to Major Carter when you were forced to lie to us while undercover imply a truth in that line.
JACK: I meant what I said. You know she's always had this whole misguided opinion that I'm a good person and I make my decisions for the right reasons.and I don't think I am.in fact if you'd asked me six years ago my motivations they wouldn't have been particularly noble."
TEAL'C: You have become a great man simply because you do not have the heart to prove Major Carter's faith in you wrong?"
JACK: Pretty much. What's the point in saving the world if there's nothing left to save for you. I joined the Stargate project cynical, bitter and twisted.The last few years with you guys have taught me more about life then anything else.Its given me hope.I see that shining happy look in Carter's eyes when we save the world and I realize that there are things worth fighting for. Childlike innocence despite all the horror and betrayal they've seen.Makes it all worth while."
#Mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kids - In fact it's cold as hell And there's no one there to raise them if you did#
JACK: "Sometimes Danny kinda reminds me of Charlie.just in little ways. Maybe its just attitude, I don't know."
TEAL'C: "I believe that Daniel Jackson knows and appreciates that fact. He once expressed to me how much he feels that he owes your son his life. He believes it feeds your 'over-protective-older-brother' attitude towards him.
JACK: He'd be right."
TEAL'C: You wish to have more children?"
JACK: I used to think that if I saw another child I'd just die. That having another child would just be a vain attempt to replace Charlie.but know. I don't know. I spend time with Cassandra and 'other' Charlie and.it doesn't hurt so much.the bare thought of it. Does this make any sense at all? Maybe someday.guess I'll never find out if second time round I could be the kind of father my kid'd deserve.
JACK: Ironic, of all of us she's the only one who's been trained to expect this sort of death.She'd have made a great astronaut!!!
TEAL'C: It was a dream of hers?
JACK: *sadly* All her life.
TEAL'C: I believe it would be wise at this time to return Major Carter's unconditional faith in your abilities O'Neill.
JACK: I do! Not giving up at the last kick this time. I learned my lesson on Edora. I give up all hope of going home and get rescued the day afterwards!"
TEAL'C: Indeed O'Neill, I believe stubbornness is a trait which all of SG-1 share in large degrees!
#And all this science I don't understand - It's just my job five days a week#
"Now there's an appropriate line Danny I swear he doesn't understand half the words I say most of the time!"
TEAL'C: You do not comprehend much of what Major Carter says on a regular basis.
JACK: Sometimes I do. I just don't let on.Don't look at me like that!"
TEAL'C: I do not believe in this light you could possibly discern my expression or whether it directed at yourself!"
JACK: Teal'c? We're millions of miles from any other living organism.who else would you be raising you're eyebrow at?! I just hate to spoil her fun.She loves explaining her theories to people.and, I admit it, enjoy listening to her babble.she looks cute.did I just say what I think I did?
TEAL'C: I believe the low level of oxygen is effecting your brain O'Neill.please continue with the lyrics.I do not wish to be haunted by a half finished song!
JACK: Y'know, sometimes Teal'c, I don't think you take me entirely seriously!
TEAL'C: Perhaps O'Neill, that would be an accurate assumption on your part.
#A rocket man, a rocket man
And I think it's gonna be a long long time...#
TITLE: Rocket Man
CATEGORY: Umm.I'm not exactly up on fanfic terminology - just picking it up as I go along - so this is a I think TAG for the episode Tangent which I saw a couple of weeks ago and then heard the song and thought Ooooh! Just an overheard conversation. And a songfic simply cos I like em.
PAIRING: Mainly T/J friendship - with strong overtones of S/J
SEASON: They've only got as far as 2/3 of the way through season 4 over here so if there are any spoilers then up to there.
WARNING: PG
DISCLAIMER: Not mine, don't own anything. Just a poor little Uni. student trying to stay sane by letting her imagination run wild. Not making any money.just doin this for fun! Plz don't sue! The song is Rocket Man (I think its gonna be a long, long time) by Elton John - lyrics by Bernie Taupin but you probably know that if you care!)
AUTHOR'S NOTES: I know, I know! I'm supposed to be continuing something else, but got writer's block on it so wrote this instead just to keep you going! Please, please, please, please, please review! Since becoming a writer just realized how dependant you become on it - having a mailbox suddenly devoid of review alerts is kinda depressing - I appreciate the importance so am frantically searching the pages for stories I liked to review and let the authors now that I love their work! Ok, I sound all whingy and suck uppish but that's what review depravation does to you! Anyway I just wondered what else Teal'c and Jack might of talked about up there and what would of happened if they'd left their radios on and someone had listened in.
Deep space, somewhere just past Jupiter, in a Death Glider with a mind of its own.a voice mutters.
#I think it's gonna be a long long time...#
"I do not understand the purpose of your last statement O'Neill"
*sigh* "It's a line from a song Teal'c. It just kinda applies to our present situation.It kinda makes more sense in the context of the song, you know?"
"I do not as you say 'Know'. Perhaps if you were to relate the song I would more easily comprehend your meaning."
"You want me to SING?!"
"Indeed I do not O'Neill. I have heard your vocalization attempts before when you were somewhat inebriated.It was an experience that I would be reluctant to repeat."
*snort* "Subtle there, Teal'c. Real subtle"
"I attempt O'Neill, I attempt."
"Its I t.Its another one of your jokes again isn't it?"
"Indeed O'Neill. I thought it wise to attempt to lighten the mood and distract your attention from our current."
"Disastrous?! Hopeless?"
"I would have said unfortunate. Do you not believe that Major Carter will succeed in her endeavors to rescue us? Has she not always succeeded before?"
"Teal'c, I have complete faith in Carter's stubbornness and refusal to give up on us.and no doubt she will find a way to get us home."
"You fear she will be too late?"
"Yeah, I've got a feeling we - our bodies anyway - will give up long before she will. She'll get us home, I just hope its in time for us to see it" quieter "and her" normal volume "again."
Empty control room deep within Cheyenne Mountain Base, small hours of the morning.
"Should we maybe let them know their radios are on?"
"Jees! Davis! I didn't hear you there. No point really, they won't get the message for at least another couple of hours."
"At least turn it off."
"Major? When was the last time you served in the field?"
"Umm.I.well."
"Nevermind, this is the first piece of active service you've done in quite a while anyway, right? So you've not done the whole bonding through life- and-death situations every day thing in.How long? We nearly die at least once a week! But we don't. We've always survived, not a lot of teams stay together for over 4 years without loosing a member. We've come so close and shared so much because who the HELL else can we talk to, I mean who? We're like family.if we don't get them back.it'd be like loosing a limb. You could carry on functioning perfectly afterwards.but you'll never feel complete. This could be the last proper conversation I ever hear them have.scuse me for wanting to hang onto it."
"I'm sorry."
"Just go.shoo! Leave me be! If I can't do anything to help them for another couple of hours then at least I can listen to them one last time."
#She packed my bags last night pre-flight - Zero hour nine a.m.#
"He sounds so alone out there"
"I think they both are Sam."
#And I'm gonna be high as a kite by then#
"How'd things go with the Tok'ra, Danny?"
*frustrated sigh* "I think Anise was being purposefully obtuse and confusing. She didn't make a lot of sense." *sigh* "Anymore luck.or is sleep impossible for you to?"
"Thought I might catch a broadcast! I don't think they even realize we can hear them."
#I miss the earth so much I miss my wife#
TEAL'C: Do you miss the mother of your son O'Neill?"
JACK: Sometimes.most of the time I guess I realize that things were going wrong with our marriage before that. Charlie's death was just the catalyst. After he died we both realized that he was all we had in common anymore.guess you know THAT feeling!"
TEAL'C: Indeed, I often feel that our mutual love of Ry'ac is all that binds myself and Drey'ac together since I left Chulak." Long silence. "If this is true do you not wish you had someone to miss?"
JACK: muttered "She's not mine to miss"
TEAL'C: "You refer to your prohibited affection for Major Carter. It is a most unfortunate situation you find yourselves in and I have great sorrow for the pain it causes you both. I find it most unfair. However your sentiments are indeed bound to the line of the song.You miss the one who you have bound your heart to."
#It's lonely out in space#
Hugging Sam tightly "You've never talked about it have you.God, I hope you get the chance."
"Me too Daniel, me too."
#On such a timeless flight#
JACK: And I think it's gonna be a long long time
Till touch down brings me round again to find
I'm not the man they think I am at home
"Appropriate words in the situation"
"Oh, hiya General.didn't hear you come in there."
"It's three in the morning Major.don't bother to salute!"
"Sorry sir. What were you saying?"
*sigh* "The song, Major. The lyrics are somewhat appropriate not just because of them being out on the edge of the Solar System but specifically to Jack. I think he's proven time and again that he's not the man we thought or think he is."
#Oh no no no I'm a rocket man - Rocket man burning out his fuse up here alone#
TEAL'C: Your words to Major Carter when you were forced to lie to us while undercover imply a truth in that line.
JACK: I meant what I said. You know she's always had this whole misguided opinion that I'm a good person and I make my decisions for the right reasons.and I don't think I am.in fact if you'd asked me six years ago my motivations they wouldn't have been particularly noble."
TEAL'C: You have become a great man simply because you do not have the heart to prove Major Carter's faith in you wrong?"
JACK: Pretty much. What's the point in saving the world if there's nothing left to save for you. I joined the Stargate project cynical, bitter and twisted.The last few years with you guys have taught me more about life then anything else.Its given me hope.I see that shining happy look in Carter's eyes when we save the world and I realize that there are things worth fighting for. Childlike innocence despite all the horror and betrayal they've seen.Makes it all worth while."
#Mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kids - In fact it's cold as hell And there's no one there to raise them if you did#
JACK: "Sometimes Danny kinda reminds me of Charlie.just in little ways. Maybe its just attitude, I don't know."
TEAL'C: "I believe that Daniel Jackson knows and appreciates that fact. He once expressed to me how much he feels that he owes your son his life. He believes it feeds your 'over-protective-older-brother' attitude towards him.
JACK: He'd be right."
TEAL'C: You wish to have more children?"
JACK: I used to think that if I saw another child I'd just die. That having another child would just be a vain attempt to replace Charlie.but know. I don't know. I spend time with Cassandra and 'other' Charlie and.it doesn't hurt so much.the bare thought of it. Does this make any sense at all? Maybe someday.guess I'll never find out if second time round I could be the kind of father my kid'd deserve.
JACK: Ironic, of all of us she's the only one who's been trained to expect this sort of death.She'd have made a great astronaut!!!
TEAL'C: It was a dream of hers?
JACK: *sadly* All her life.
TEAL'C: I believe it would be wise at this time to return Major Carter's unconditional faith in your abilities O'Neill.
JACK: I do! Not giving up at the last kick this time. I learned my lesson on Edora. I give up all hope of going home and get rescued the day afterwards!"
TEAL'C: Indeed O'Neill, I believe stubbornness is a trait which all of SG-1 share in large degrees!
#And all this science I don't understand - It's just my job five days a week#
"Now there's an appropriate line Danny I swear he doesn't understand half the words I say most of the time!"
TEAL'C: You do not comprehend much of what Major Carter says on a regular basis.
JACK: Sometimes I do. I just don't let on.Don't look at me like that!"
TEAL'C: I do not believe in this light you could possibly discern my expression or whether it directed at yourself!"
JACK: Teal'c? We're millions of miles from any other living organism.who else would you be raising you're eyebrow at?! I just hate to spoil her fun.She loves explaining her theories to people.and, I admit it, enjoy listening to her babble.she looks cute.did I just say what I think I did?
TEAL'C: I believe the low level of oxygen is effecting your brain O'Neill.please continue with the lyrics.I do not wish to be haunted by a half finished song!
JACK: Y'know, sometimes Teal'c, I don't think you take me entirely seriously!
TEAL'C: Perhaps O'Neill, that would be an accurate assumption on your part.
#A rocket man, a rocket man
And I think it's gonna be a long long time...#
