December 9th - Snow Globe by Cleo the Muse
All Ages
Gen, Drabble, Holiday (Christmas)
Warnings: None
Episodes: Brief mention of the events of "The Shroud".
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: 400
Status: Completed as of December 9, 2007

December 9th - Snow Globe

"Wow," Daniel muttered, his breath fogging out before him in the chilly air. In the valley below was the little village the team was heading to visit. The houses were blanketed in snow, but the fluffy smoke which curled out of their chimneys made them look cozy and inviting.

"It looks like a Currier and Ives," agreed Sam.

Vala looked back and forth between her teammates. "What and what?"

"Who and who," corrected Cam, blowing on his fingertips to warm them. "Currier and Ives were printers."

"You may have seen their work on Christmas cards," added Teal'c. "The flavored-popcorn tin in the mess hall has a winter scene from Currier and Ives around its circumference."

Vala gasped delightedly, licking her lips as she recalled the flavor of the caramel popcorn she liked so well. "Oh, I see what you mean! Yes, Samantha, it does indeed look like... a Currier and Ives."

Daniel shrugged. "I though it looked like something from a snow globe." At Vala's questioning glance, he hastened to explain. "It's a glass ball filled with water," he began, demonstrating the approximate size with his hands. "They usually have little figurines glued to the base, like pine trees or snowmen or..." He waved his hand at the town.

"Idyllic little villages?" suggested Cam.

"Idyllic?" Daniel repeated. "Have you been playing Scrabble with Teal'c again?"

"No, with Sam!"

The blond-haired colonel adopted a look of feigned innocence. "You left the 'L' wide open! It was pure luck my 'Y' landed on a Double Letter and the 'C' on the Triple Word Score."

"For fifty-one friggin' points," Cam muttered.

"Go Sam," Daniel grinned.

"Nicely done," Vala agreed. "So, anyway... if it's filled with water, why's it called a 'snow' globe?"

"Well, there are these little white flakes in the water," Daniel replied, "and when you give the globe a good shake--" he demonstrated, holding an imaginary snow globe in his hands "--then the white flakes get dispersed and start falling back to the bottom like it's snowing."

Right on cue, the overcast skies proceeded to dump their own collection of fluffy white flakes upon the explorers and the town nestled into the valley below them.

Cam clapped Daniel on the shoulder. "I thought you said all those freaky super Prior powers were gone, Jackson."

Daniel glared up at the sky. "It's just a coincidence, I swear."

Author's Notes:
My favorite moments in "Camelot" are when Daniel twice said "there's no such thing as magic" just before being beamed up to an orbiting ship!