Title: Counterpoint
Date: June 28, 2001
Status: Complete
Author: Jmas
Category: Drama, angst
Rating: PG-13
Email: jmasg1@bellsouth.net
Spoilers: Point of No Return
Summary: A Study in Geekism…;)
Author's note: Another of the missing scenes or tags for season
4 promised to the HC list. Thanks to Paula and Ellen for the
title, and those two plus Bri for beta duties above and beyond.
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Counterpoint
By Jmas
To think I used to call Daniel a geek.
Not even close.
Spending up close and personal time with Marty ‘hi,
I’m a paranoid alien with no social skills’ Lloyd
has given me an entirely new perspective on the word. Daniel
- even the Daniel of five years ago - was not a geek.
One of the brightest bulbs in the light fixture, yes; preoccupied
and distracted when faced with a challenge; stubborn to the
Nth degree and then some; snarky beyond all recognition when
he’s riled - that’s Daniel.
And Daniel’s no geek.
Pre-Abydos Daniel definitely qualified as a dweeb - I had
that one right on the money. Socially inept and completely
unaware that his ‘everyone can think as fast as I do,
please keep up’ distractedness was unnerving to us lesser
grunts. Irritating in the extreme actually.
Then he got his ass killed saving mine and I got an education
in the solid core of non-dweeb, non-geek Daniel Jackson. At
the time it confused the hell out of me, a guy I’d barely
given the time of day to jumping in front of a gun to save
a life I wasn’t even sure warranted saving. I looked
for reasons, for angles, for some tangible gain he would have
had for taking a staff blast to the chest for my sake. Couldn’t
find any and that fact alone distracted the hell out of me.
Over time I’ve learned that’s just Daniel being
Daniel. He values life. Well, most life not of the snaky persuasion
anyway….
Going back to Abydos after Apophis went on his host-hunt,
I saw yet another side of the good doctor, a side that had
built himself a place among a people very, very different from
himself. A place that was ripped from his heart in the blink
of an eye and never truly got a chance to heal until Sha’re
died three years later.
In the time between his return to Earth and now, Daniel has
grown - a lot. In some ways more than others. The heart that
bleeds for anyone in need is still there, just tempered a bit
more with the head that thinks before acting instead of the
reverse. Sometimes. The brain that can make me dizzy on a bad
day has learned to slow down and let me keep up without reminding
me he’s doing it. The stubbornness - well - we’re
still working on that. There are things Daniel and I are just
never going to agree on - and that’s okay too, because
underneath it all we’re as solid as a rock and twice
as strong.
Daniel’s earned the right not to be called a geek, or
any of those other names I’ve used and heard used over
time. He’s more than earned the backup the three of us
will give him on a moment’s notice. He deserves all the
leeway we can grant to satisfy his curiosity when time and
the mission allow.
Daniel’s Daniel - one of a kind.
Which is probably a good thing….
*fin*
