Nothing More Persistent Than a Bored Jack O'Neill

Nothing More Persistent Than a Bored Jack O'Neill

Stargate: SG-1, Post "The Light"

by Amy L. Hull

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"Sir, could you bring my laptop from the next room?"

"Trying to get rid of me, Carter?"

"Yes, sir."

"Feeling insubordinate, are we?"

"Very much so, sir. You've been whistling 'She'll Be Comin' Round the Mountain,' 'Darling Clementine' and 'It's a Small World' for three hours. I've been trying to study this power converter."

"You could take a vacation, Carter. Two weeks on a Goa'uld pleasure planet--"

"--with nothing to do will make me go out of my mind."

Jack shrugged. "I'm doing fine."

"Oh?"

"Yep." He grinned, leaned his head back on intertwined hands, and resumed whistling.