The Wrong Button, by Knightshade (PG)

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Rec Category: Daniel Jackson

Pairing: none
Categories: Daniel Jackson, Jack O’Neill, Samantha Carter, gen, humor, angst, Jack and Daniel friendship
Warnings: written for apocalypse_kree – so apocafic. Sort of.
Author on LJ: dknightshade
Author's Website: Knightshade's Garden
Link: The Wrong Button

Why This Must Be Read: “Jack always suspected that one day Daniel would push the wrong button and the world would end.”

Of course, it’s which world that makes this story so fascinating…

What begins as fun and fluffy, with entertaining Wonder Twins geekery and fantastic Jack-and-Daniel banter, suddenly takes a ninety degree turn into horror when the wrong button gets pushed and Sam, Jack, and Daniel get to literally watch as a world is completely destroyed. There’s great characterization and wonderful dialogue, as Jack helps Daniel come to some kind of acceptance – by reminding him of their shared history, and the triumphs and tragedies that inevitably result just from living.

Call this a sort of light apocafic, perhaps. But read it, and enjoy!
 

Daniel and Carter fought over the view from the lighted, magnifying lens until Jack had gone in search of a second one, not wanting to see his two science-minded friends come to blows. Now they were both so engrossed that they’d ignored the dinner he’d brought them and were ignoring him too as he peered over their shoulders.

“This is amazing. Just incredible. They have their own Great Wall of China!” Daniel gushed without taking his eyes away from the magnifier.

“Did you notice Germany?” Sam asked, half a world away looking through her own lens. “There seem to be ruins from what could be their Berlin Wall.” Daniel looked up and blinked, before horning in on Carter’s view.

“Can I see?” Jack asked.

They both looked at him like he had four heads.

“Hey, I’m interested. It’s not every day you find a beach ball sized replica of the earth.”

“I think there’s one in the General’s office if I’m not mistaken. They’re commonly called globes,” Daniel said, not even looking up.

Jack crossed his arms and glared at him. “The one in Hammond’s office isn’t populated with living people.”