Wow, I finally got round to writing some more! Thanks a lot RUpuzzled2? for
your continued encouragement and support, and for telling me what you
really thought. I know it that might be a little confusing at the moment,
but all WILL be explained in about 2 chapters if all goes to plan. After
all I'm going to need to explain this to Jack, and that will need to be
simple.
"Well I think that's all for now. Colonel, would you please mind giving them a tour of the base." General Hammond had seen a protest coming, and so his voice in no way suggested that this was a request. Jack noticed this, and quickly cut off his sharp remark and instead said "Right. The tour. Any particular place you want me to show them...?" He broke off at this point, receiving one of Hammonds' best 'this is a really bad day so you just try to make it any worse' glares, and hurriedly continued "Well, let's go then shall we? You want to come and help Daniel?"
"Oh no, I really can't. Lots of work to do, you know how it is." Daniel was trying to avoid looking at Captain Cooper. He really didn't want to spend any time at all with him, let alone give him an hour long tour around the base.
"I said are you coming Daniel?" Jack said much more forcefully, thinking 'If I've got to miss the Simpsons then he can miss looking at his little rocks for one evening'.
"Uh, yeah sure." said Daniel 'after all, it would look suspicious if i was to be really unfriendly, so I might as well make an effort to be friendly towards Captain Trimmer. Besides, maybe Captain Cooper just wants to be friends anyway' He finally managed to convince himself. "Plus at least he can't challenge me while we're in company." he said under his breath as the last person walked out of the door.
"Sorry, did you just say something there Daniel?" Jack poked his head back through the door, still concerned about his friends' odd behaviour.
"What?" he finally came out of his thoughts art his friends worried voice. He suddenly realised that he should try to ignore the fact that there was another immortal in the area and just make sure that he was always with someone. 'He will never be stupid enough to fight me in front of other people' he concluded, and rushed out to join Jack and the others.
"And finally, here is the commissary. The place where we eat, eat and...eat" he finished lamely "So, any questions?"
The tour had indeed gone on for the best part of an hour, but Jack had found that he'd actually rather enjoyed showing the two men around. He took an instant liking to Captain Cooper, who he had found to have exactly the same sense of humour, and even as they had just walked out of the briefing room Cooper he'd groaned under his breath "Couldn't they have chosen a better time? I'm missing the Simpsons!" to which Jack had laughed and a friendship was instantly made. Captain Trimmer wasn't too bad once he'd loosened up a bit, but then he'd started talking, and since Daniel had found out about his interest in ancient cultures they hadn't stopped once. They seemed to get along right away making Jack like him more, if only because Daniel seemed to liked him. They were just behind him at that moment, and it didn't seem like they'd noticed that they had stopped. They were chattering on about some weird theological debate about some old ruins that sounded as though it had been going on for centuries, and was not likely to stop any time soon. The two of them obviously, even to an amateur like Jack, had very different opinions on it. Whatever the subject was.
"I don't see how you can support his theory Dr. There is absolutely no evidence..."
"But Pete," Jack raised his eyebrows at that. First name terms already? "that is only because no one has ever found any yet. I am confident that..."
'Since when did the army start employing soldiers for Daniels' benefit? He sounds like a Daniel clone to me, and they still let him in the army?' But he couldn't think badly of Captain Trimmer – as long as he never had to go on a mission with the two of them together, he'd never get any peace! He didn't think that he could cope with two Daniel's to chase after. One was way more than enough.
"End of the tour guys." he said a little more loudly, receiving no more response than the last time. He shared a glance with Captain Cooper. People were starting to stare at the two arguing men; they rarely saw the doctor so worked up other than in the briefing room trying to persuade General Hammond to let them go somewhere, and they were already putting Captain Trimmer in their 'like' or 'dislike' pile accordingly. Captain Cooper was just standing there grinning at the scene that was playing out before him.
"Captain, stand to attention, NOW!" Jack shouted, and years of automatic responses kicked in making Captain Trimmer straighten immediately, while Daniel just turned round looking very annoyed at being interrupted.
"OK, it's break time. You are now free to leave. And continue your argument which I am sure will go on for many more years somewhere and sometime else." he added under his breath, just loud enough for them to here. But to Daniels' look he continued exasperatedly "We've got a briefing at 0800 hours tomorrow morning, and I don't want to be the one killed by General Hammond because you're late due to you spending all night yapping."
Daniel smiled at this, but then quickly remembered what he wanted to ask Jack. "Um, you couldn't give me a lift home when you leave could you? Only I think my car's bust or something, and it's too late to do anything about it now." He said the lie with ease, but was still relieved when Jack seemed to accept it with just a "well I told you to get a new one" comment. 'now I've just got to find excuses for as long as Captain Cooper is here' he thought 'and break my car so that my excuse is true'. But for now he was happy just to say goodbye to everyone else, get changed, sort out all his things for the night, sign out and go home to sleep until the morning.
I know they're all a little grumpy at some point today, but that's mainly because someone is writing a really bad fic that they don't want to be in. I only hope I can finish before they run away :-S. Reviews please!
"Well I think that's all for now. Colonel, would you please mind giving them a tour of the base." General Hammond had seen a protest coming, and so his voice in no way suggested that this was a request. Jack noticed this, and quickly cut off his sharp remark and instead said "Right. The tour. Any particular place you want me to show them...?" He broke off at this point, receiving one of Hammonds' best 'this is a really bad day so you just try to make it any worse' glares, and hurriedly continued "Well, let's go then shall we? You want to come and help Daniel?"
"Oh no, I really can't. Lots of work to do, you know how it is." Daniel was trying to avoid looking at Captain Cooper. He really didn't want to spend any time at all with him, let alone give him an hour long tour around the base.
"I said are you coming Daniel?" Jack said much more forcefully, thinking 'If I've got to miss the Simpsons then he can miss looking at his little rocks for one evening'.
"Uh, yeah sure." said Daniel 'after all, it would look suspicious if i was to be really unfriendly, so I might as well make an effort to be friendly towards Captain Trimmer. Besides, maybe Captain Cooper just wants to be friends anyway' He finally managed to convince himself. "Plus at least he can't challenge me while we're in company." he said under his breath as the last person walked out of the door.
"Sorry, did you just say something there Daniel?" Jack poked his head back through the door, still concerned about his friends' odd behaviour.
"What?" he finally came out of his thoughts art his friends worried voice. He suddenly realised that he should try to ignore the fact that there was another immortal in the area and just make sure that he was always with someone. 'He will never be stupid enough to fight me in front of other people' he concluded, and rushed out to join Jack and the others.
"And finally, here is the commissary. The place where we eat, eat and...eat" he finished lamely "So, any questions?"
The tour had indeed gone on for the best part of an hour, but Jack had found that he'd actually rather enjoyed showing the two men around. He took an instant liking to Captain Cooper, who he had found to have exactly the same sense of humour, and even as they had just walked out of the briefing room Cooper he'd groaned under his breath "Couldn't they have chosen a better time? I'm missing the Simpsons!" to which Jack had laughed and a friendship was instantly made. Captain Trimmer wasn't too bad once he'd loosened up a bit, but then he'd started talking, and since Daniel had found out about his interest in ancient cultures they hadn't stopped once. They seemed to get along right away making Jack like him more, if only because Daniel seemed to liked him. They were just behind him at that moment, and it didn't seem like they'd noticed that they had stopped. They were chattering on about some weird theological debate about some old ruins that sounded as though it had been going on for centuries, and was not likely to stop any time soon. The two of them obviously, even to an amateur like Jack, had very different opinions on it. Whatever the subject was.
"I don't see how you can support his theory Dr. There is absolutely no evidence..."
"But Pete," Jack raised his eyebrows at that. First name terms already? "that is only because no one has ever found any yet. I am confident that..."
'Since when did the army start employing soldiers for Daniels' benefit? He sounds like a Daniel clone to me, and they still let him in the army?' But he couldn't think badly of Captain Trimmer – as long as he never had to go on a mission with the two of them together, he'd never get any peace! He didn't think that he could cope with two Daniel's to chase after. One was way more than enough.
"End of the tour guys." he said a little more loudly, receiving no more response than the last time. He shared a glance with Captain Cooper. People were starting to stare at the two arguing men; they rarely saw the doctor so worked up other than in the briefing room trying to persuade General Hammond to let them go somewhere, and they were already putting Captain Trimmer in their 'like' or 'dislike' pile accordingly. Captain Cooper was just standing there grinning at the scene that was playing out before him.
"Captain, stand to attention, NOW!" Jack shouted, and years of automatic responses kicked in making Captain Trimmer straighten immediately, while Daniel just turned round looking very annoyed at being interrupted.
"OK, it's break time. You are now free to leave. And continue your argument which I am sure will go on for many more years somewhere and sometime else." he added under his breath, just loud enough for them to here. But to Daniels' look he continued exasperatedly "We've got a briefing at 0800 hours tomorrow morning, and I don't want to be the one killed by General Hammond because you're late due to you spending all night yapping."
Daniel smiled at this, but then quickly remembered what he wanted to ask Jack. "Um, you couldn't give me a lift home when you leave could you? Only I think my car's bust or something, and it's too late to do anything about it now." He said the lie with ease, but was still relieved when Jack seemed to accept it with just a "well I told you to get a new one" comment. 'now I've just got to find excuses for as long as Captain Cooper is here' he thought 'and break my car so that my excuse is true'. But for now he was happy just to say goodbye to everyone else, get changed, sort out all his things for the night, sign out and go home to sleep until the morning.
I know they're all a little grumpy at some point today, but that's mainly because someone is writing a really bad fic that they don't want to be in. I only hope I can finish before they run away :-S. Reviews please!