December 12th - Ornaments and Tinsel by Cleo the Muse
All Ages
Gen, Drabble, Holiday (Christmas), Humor, POV (Jack)
Warnings: None
Episodes: Season two, brief mention of a comment later made by Carter in season six's "Forsaken"
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 12, 2007
December 12th - Ornaments and Tinsel
Well, we all learned an important lesson this week, one which will no doubt serve us well in the years ahead: never decorate a Christmas tree while drunk.
It seemed a good idea at the time, seeing as how we had just been sprung from the infirmary after two weeks' captivity on a stinking mudhole of a planet, plus three days in isolation to make sure we hadn't caught the swamp fever the locals warned us about when we first got there. The unintended extra two weeks on that planet put a crimp in our holiday schedules, leaving us with barely a week to finish shopping, decorating, and whatever else we wanted to do before the big day.
Rather than putting up three different trees, I invited the kids over to my place to celebrate our escape and continued health, and to decorate the house a bit. Teal'c rode with me, and insisted on stopping to pick up a meat tray at a local deli on our way. Carter and Daniel came over a little later, bearing gifts in the form of food, too. Daniel brought a pecan pie, and Carter showed up with her famous Three Cheese Soufflé.
I have to hand it to her: she does make one mean soufflé.
Anyhow, as host of the party, I supplied the bread and beverages. Teal'c doesn't imbibe, so he had orange juice, but Daniel, Carter, and I hit the beer.
Before long, the beer hit us.
Now, I don't remember what happened next, but Teal'c assures me we all had a really, really good time. I figure he had to be right, as some of the ornaments and tinsel didn't make it on the tree. The next morning, Carter wound up with a shiny new pair of earrings and decorative accents hooked into her sweater. Thankfully she doesn't toss and turn in her sleep, since that might've hurt. But as amusing as her idea of holiday decorations was, it's nothing compared to the holiday spirit Daniel sported.
I'm not sure what possessed somebody--and I hope it was Carter, not me--to braid strands of shiny tinsel into his hair.
Teal'c's not talking, which has me more than a little worried that it might have been me after all. Still, it's too bad Daniel didn't let me take a picture.
I could have made a fortune off the nursing staff.
Author's Notes:
I would so buy that picture.
On the wonderful news side of things, I passed my IC3 certifcation exams with flying colors, giving me 3 more college credits, bringing my single-semester total up to 18!
On super-duper wonderful news side of things, the SG-1 LittleVerse, a fiction archive dedicated to Stargate SG-1 kidfics of all shapes and sizes, is now OPEN! Head on over to littleverse dot cleothemuse dot net to check it out!