December 2nd - Nativity by Cleo the Muse
All Ages
Gen, Drabble, Holiday (Christmas)
Warnings: Might induce a sniffle
Episodes: Takes place in season six
Synopsis: The AO Happy Place Advent Calendar challenge, in which each day of December (until Christmas), a new door is opened on the Advent calendar, and a picture prompt revealed.
Word count: 300
Status: Completed as of December 2, 2007
December 2nd - Nativity
The children's Christmas play--put on by a local youth center--was an annual SG-1 team event. Cassandra Frasier was a frequent visitor there, as that's where she'd taken to spending her afternoons when Janet couldn't pick her up from school. Her first year, Cassie played a sheep, then a shepherd two years in a row. This time, at a lovely sixteen, Cassie had been chosen to be the lead angel.
Jack shifted in his chair, casting a glance over at the rest of his team. Teal'c, as always, was transfixed by the figures on stage, lips curving softly into a smile when a child would stumble over lines or the "choir of angels" hit a sour note. Past Teal'c was Carter, but the major wasn't as focused on the play as the Jaffa. Instead, she was leaning toward their new fourth, Jonas Quinn, quietly explaining the significance of the story much as Daniel had done for Teal'c that first year.
Daniel...
Daniel would have loved to see Cassie playing the lead angel.
Finally, the children's choir finished their song and a hush fell over the room. It was time for the angel to appear.
A single bright spotlight came up, illuminating Cassie. She stood atop the specially-made perch in the stable set, looking simply radiant as the angel. Her long brown hair cascaded over her shoulders, and the gentle drape of her robe's fabric accentuated her slender figure. The wings she and Janet and Carter had painstakingly assembled looked magnificent, but there was something else different about this year's angel: she actually glowed.
At first Jack thought it a trick of the light, but when a gust of air swept through the auditorium just before the angel began to speak, Jack knew.
Daniel hadn't missed the play after all.
Author's Notes:
Yep, it's true... the Muse wanders where she will...