New Arrivals
The following story is under the sole ownership and copyright of J.L. Scott. Unauthorized copying and/or use is actionable in a court of law.
To borrow a phrase: SG-1 and Star Gate no mine, no permission, no money, no sue...please?
"Morning"
"Good morning, Dr. O'Neill" Batai answered cordially. Cass put her note book and bag on the table with half a smile.
"Only General Hammond calls me by my title" she told him.
"By what do they call you then?" Lor'ta asked.
"My name" Cass answered.
"Cassandra O'Neill then" Gray'ag said. Cass snapped her head around. There hadn't been anything odd about the way he'd said her name, but her breath drew short at the sound of it coming from him.
"No" she answered slowly, "Just Cassi"
"But that is not your name" Batai objected. Cass felt her first opportunity to teach the Tok'ra something about her culture present itself. IT was something she had had to teach Teal'c about too, so she at least had a little experience with it.
A good place to start she thought to herself.
"Okay. This is a good place to start" she told them, pulling a chair out and sitting down. The other three followed suit.
"Humans like shortcuts. We have shortcuts fro everything, including names. 'Cassi' is a shorter form of my name, so is Cass. There's a difference though. Everybody calls me Cassi, but only people I'm really close to call me 'Cass' "
"Why?" Lor'ta asked, "Why do they call you Cassi in the first place? Does everyone with the name of Cassandra go by Cassi?"
"No" Cass answered, "I'm actually not positive why they started calling me Cassi. Dr. Fraiser's daughter's name is Cassandra too, but we call her Cassie. It's called a nickname. IT's like I call Teal'c 'Tik"
"And why do you call him that?" Batai asked.
"Well because ' Teal'c ' was hard to say properly when I was little, so I called him Tik. It stuck" Cass answered.
"It stuck? What does that mean?" Gray'ag asked. Cass relaxed a little;. Teal'c had had the same kind of questions. She suddenly felt better about her assignment. She would just have to attack each question as it came.
"That's a eupherism" Cass explained, "Where we use one word or phrase to mean another. 'It stuck' in this case means that I simply kept calling him Tik"
"A eupherism?" Lor'ta repeated, "I fyou say one thing and mean another, how does another person know what you mean?"
"Oh, well, they're commonly known" Cass rolled on, "For instance if someone were to tell you that one of their grandparents passed on or passed away, they mean that thier grandparent died. In that case, it's a nicer way of saying something"
The rest of the day went on like that, the Tok'ra asking questions about Cass's answers to previous questions, which only created more questions. Meanwhile, Cass came up with a game plan for introducing the Tok'ra to what they'd need to know to pass in the "outside world".
"Hey" her father greeted her as she made her way upt to the SUV, "How'd it go?"
"Not too bad actually" Cass replied, "They just asked questions all day and I answered them" Sam asked the same thing when they got home and recieved the same answer.
"But I've got some good ideas on where to go now" she added at the dinner table, "Half the day we'll go through academic type of stuff, liek basic history and finer points of English, maybe another language when we decide where they're from. The other half we'll do practical stuff, like how to use a phone, or money or what a mall is"
"Sounds like you've got it figure out" Sam said, "You certainly had a more productive day than I did" Neither Jack nor Cass said anything, both realizing that Sam could become very bored, very quickly.
We better find something for her to DO Cass told her father privately. They were saved from having to pursue the conversation however, by Teal'c who had just walked in. It had taken some doing, but with Cass's help they managed to turn the small storage room under the stairs into a semi-comfortable bedroom for Teal'c.
"Teal'c! where ya been?" Jack asked with mischeif coloring his voice.
"I was meditating" Teal'c answered stoldicly, "Shall I join you?" Jack turned in his chair and studied his friend for a moment.
"No, Teal'c" he told him firmly, "You can't eat dinner tonight" He turned back around and continued eating. Teal'c gave him a strange look but turned away.
"Tik, come back! " Cass called with a low chuckle, "He's just kidding!" Teal'c returned and took his seat. He eyed the food set before him.
"It's all right Teal'c" Sam said, "Jack didn't make it" This was a joke with which Teal'c was familiar, but still it baffled him.
"Perhaps joking is a subject you should spend time on with the Tok'ra, Cassi" he suggested, lifiting the fork to his mouth. Cass looked at her parents with a smile.
"No kidding!"
The following story is under the sole ownership and copyright of J.L. Scott. Unauthorized copying and/or use is actionable in a court of law.
To borrow a phrase: SG-1 and Star Gate no mine, no permission, no money, no sue...please?
"Morning"
"Good morning, Dr. O'Neill" Batai answered cordially. Cass put her note book and bag on the table with half a smile.
"Only General Hammond calls me by my title" she told him.
"By what do they call you then?" Lor'ta asked.
"My name" Cass answered.
"Cassandra O'Neill then" Gray'ag said. Cass snapped her head around. There hadn't been anything odd about the way he'd said her name, but her breath drew short at the sound of it coming from him.
"No" she answered slowly, "Just Cassi"
"But that is not your name" Batai objected. Cass felt her first opportunity to teach the Tok'ra something about her culture present itself. IT was something she had had to teach Teal'c about too, so she at least had a little experience with it.
A good place to start she thought to herself.
"Okay. This is a good place to start" she told them, pulling a chair out and sitting down. The other three followed suit.
"Humans like shortcuts. We have shortcuts fro everything, including names. 'Cassi' is a shorter form of my name, so is Cass. There's a difference though. Everybody calls me Cassi, but only people I'm really close to call me 'Cass' "
"Why?" Lor'ta asked, "Why do they call you Cassi in the first place? Does everyone with the name of Cassandra go by Cassi?"
"No" Cass answered, "I'm actually not positive why they started calling me Cassi. Dr. Fraiser's daughter's name is Cassandra too, but we call her Cassie. It's called a nickname. IT's like I call Teal'c 'Tik"
"And why do you call him that?" Batai asked.
"Well because ' Teal'c ' was hard to say properly when I was little, so I called him Tik. It stuck" Cass answered.
"It stuck? What does that mean?" Gray'ag asked. Cass relaxed a little;. Teal'c had had the same kind of questions. She suddenly felt better about her assignment. She would just have to attack each question as it came.
"That's a eupherism" Cass explained, "Where we use one word or phrase to mean another. 'It stuck' in this case means that I simply kept calling him Tik"
"A eupherism?" Lor'ta repeated, "I fyou say one thing and mean another, how does another person know what you mean?"
"Oh, well, they're commonly known" Cass rolled on, "For instance if someone were to tell you that one of their grandparents passed on or passed away, they mean that thier grandparent died. In that case, it's a nicer way of saying something"
The rest of the day went on like that, the Tok'ra asking questions about Cass's answers to previous questions, which only created more questions. Meanwhile, Cass came up with a game plan for introducing the Tok'ra to what they'd need to know to pass in the "outside world".
"Hey" her father greeted her as she made her way upt to the SUV, "How'd it go?"
"Not too bad actually" Cass replied, "They just asked questions all day and I answered them" Sam asked the same thing when they got home and recieved the same answer.
"But I've got some good ideas on where to go now" she added at the dinner table, "Half the day we'll go through academic type of stuff, liek basic history and finer points of English, maybe another language when we decide where they're from. The other half we'll do practical stuff, like how to use a phone, or money or what a mall is"
"Sounds like you've got it figure out" Sam said, "You certainly had a more productive day than I did" Neither Jack nor Cass said anything, both realizing that Sam could become very bored, very quickly.
We better find something for her to DO Cass told her father privately. They were saved from having to pursue the conversation however, by Teal'c who had just walked in. It had taken some doing, but with Cass's help they managed to turn the small storage room under the stairs into a semi-comfortable bedroom for Teal'c.
"Teal'c! where ya been?" Jack asked with mischeif coloring his voice.
"I was meditating" Teal'c answered stoldicly, "Shall I join you?" Jack turned in his chair and studied his friend for a moment.
"No, Teal'c" he told him firmly, "You can't eat dinner tonight" He turned back around and continued eating. Teal'c gave him a strange look but turned away.
"Tik, come back! " Cass called with a low chuckle, "He's just kidding!" Teal'c returned and took his seat. He eyed the food set before him.
"It's all right Teal'c" Sam said, "Jack didn't make it" This was a joke with which Teal'c was familiar, but still it baffled him.
"Perhaps joking is a subject you should spend time on with the Tok'ra, Cassi" he suggested, lifiting the fork to his mouth. Cass looked at her parents with a smile.
"No kidding!"