Title: Holding Water
Fandom: Stargate SG-1
Characters/Pairing: Captain Samantha Carter
Table: Astrological
Prompt: Aquarius
Word Count: 413
Rating: T or PG for language
Summary: S1- Sam's bored.
Author's Notes: I'm bored.
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Sam was bored. It didn't happen often, but went it did... she started to search for people online. First she searched herself, the usual academic papers & trekkies that used her work to support or shut down other fanatics. There was also a few surprises, her brother had his family web site up & on it was her picture along with a short personal bio, for those distant relatives who she never got to see.
It was nice to see that she was remembered like that & she sent Mark an e-mail to thank him & just to exchange current non-classified events. Now that she had an idea of where she was going to be for the foreseeable future, she also sent him her address & her phone numbers. While he was still a bit irritated that she joined the military, he understood a little bit that it was for the chance to see the stars, not blow up people or to emulate their father.
That done, she then started to wonder. Daniel's work before the 'age of the pyramids' fiasco wasn't really included in the briefs she had read on the man, & Daniel never seemed to talk about anything before he came back from Abydos. So she pulled up her favorite search engine again and started to search for information on the man who figured out her 'gate.
She found several books and paper after paper by Daniel; archeology, anthropology, linguistics, teaching of those subjects, language primers, translations of ancient texts, even a few travel guides and fictional stories. He was obviously respected as well, because even more papers that turned up used his work as reference.
She trolled through and found a short statistics page, it listed the books, the papers, the digs he supervised or worked on, and the classes Daniel taught. It also listed the known languages Daniel was at least conversational in, the peoples that Daniel had studied, the conferences that he had spoken at, and the number of times his work was listed as a source in other papers or books.
All of it left her wondering. If Daniel had such a genius mind & so obviously respected, why the hell did he have to run from his old life? Why was everyone so sure that his theory wouldn't hold water?
Sam almost wanted to ask, but she had a feeling that Daniel didn't want to talk about that. If he wanted to talk, he would have brought it up on his own.