Just Because I'm A Geek
A/N: I've been meaning to write the rest of this series for ages, and now I have free time because I've almost finished school, I can! YAY!
Thanks to Storm, once again checking my Jack :p That's what comes of channel 7 depriving me of Stargate for so long! NOO! Thanks again sis!
Once again it will be in script form because I just like it!
Disclaimer: No characters are mine.
SCENE: Moving down the SGC hallways. Everyone is going about his or her business until we get to a door – Dr Daniel Jackson's door. It opens and we enter and there, sitting behind a desk laden with 10 coffee cups, a pile of books, and an alien artefact…is our gallant, geeky hero. He looks up at us and puts his pen down onto the desk.
DANIEL:
Ok, so what? I wear glasses and I read a lot but that doesn't mean I'm a geek. It means I'm smart. Smart people read a lot and they fill their brains with all this wonderful knowledge. I know a lot of things about…stuff…and quite frankly I'm proud that I study so hard. I enjoy it.
Jack walks up behind him. Where did he come from?
JACK:
You can't seriously enjoy this? I mean come on, all these books and words and technical crap. Hits book with the back of his fingers. I bet you have loads of paper cuts.
Jack exits with his hands shoved in his pocket.
DANIEL:
Daniel looks at his fingertipsThey've developed calluses shakes head . That's not the point here! I happen to find this stuff quite interesting. I can speak languages nobody else on this planet can speak.
Jack walks past casually again.
JACK:
What's the point of speaking them if people on the world you live on can't understand it? Seriously Daniel, what planet are YOU living on? It's like Spanglish…except more than one person can actually speak language that on Earth.
Jack casually walks back out of frame. Daniel glares at his retreating figure, annoyed. Where HAD he come from anyway?
DANIEL:
One of these days, we're going to need to communicate with these people, and if I'm not there you won't be able to! Whether people on EARTH understand the languages isn't the point here. Its not why the United States Air Force writes to my pay check. I'm paid because I read lots and can speak many different languages, so I can save your asses! But it DOESN'T make me a geek!
Jack yells from somewhere we can't see. It is a simple word, but his tone is one of obvious amusement by Daniel's annoyance.
JACK:
Glasses!
Daniel looks at him, and takes his glasses off, shaking his head slightly.
DANIEL:
I don't wear these all the time! I mean I don't usually, only if I'm reading books.
Jack…once again…
JACK:
BOOKS!
Daniel, now very peeved, slams shut his book, ready to get up, but then…Sam enters the picture! She probably came from the same place as Jack.
SAM:
Don't worry Daniel. You're not a geek. A more educated way to put it would be that you are an intelligent, well-read, knowledgeable being.
She puts her hand on his shoulder and smiles reassuringly. She knows what its like to be called a geek. Jack walks up to Daniel, hands once again shoved into his pockets.
JACK:
Ok Daniel, fine, you win. You're not a geek.
Jack exits the same way he came in. We don't know where that actually is, but he's leaving all the same.
JACK:
…Maybe a nerd would be a more suitable word….
Daniel lets his head fall on the table while Sam gives a comforting pat on the back. She leaves, yelling something to Jack about being nicer to Daniel. The Archaeologist looks up at us, his head resting on a hand.
DANIEL:
Well… I don't really care what he says. I'm proud of who I am. So now, if you don't mind, I'm going to continue my research.
The camera slowly zooms back out the door and Daniel continues translating the ancient artefact. As the doors to his office close, leaving us with the bustling of the people that are the Stargate Command, we hear Teal'c's curious voice say:
TEAL'C:
Colonel O'Neil instructed me to come to you and learn the meaning of the word 'nerd'.
