stargateficrec | Downtime, by Kellifer (PG) (Reply)

Rec Category: Team

Pairing: none

Categories: team, gen, humor, fluff, vignette

Warnings: none

Author's Website: Kellifer Fic Online or SG-1 Fic Index

Why This Must Be Read: When Jack tells his team that they are going to actually have to put up with two whole months of downtime - without work - he meets with stiff resistance. No experiments? No translations and digs? Doing nothing? How could they possibly survive?

It takes a disabled truck and hidden cell phones, and Star Wars DVDs and donuts, to finally force the team into relaxing. But by the time this fun little story is over, the entire team has settled into the Zen art of doing nothing - and Jack smugly proves that he really knows best, after all.

Read this one and smile, and try not to wish too hard that you could be there on the beach with SG-1!

Daniel had died and they’d all saved the world and so they got to have a holiday, which meant doing nothing at all. Infuriatingly, they’d argued with him and even Teal’c had objected, at a loss as to what they would do for two months if they couldn’t work.

Nothing. That’s the whole point.

Jack had finally relented, throwing up his hands in frustration and proposing a compromise. A month together and then a month of doing whatever else it is they wanted to do, even if it was work. He just didn’t want to know about it. He arranged for a large holiday house on the beach, had rented a van and had told them all to be ready to be picked up on the twenty-seventh.

No excuses.

Six hours on the road and when they’d arrived he’d pulled the spark plugs from the van and had confiscated both Sam’s and Daniel’s mobile phones. He’d hidden them and had been amused to watch them hunt for them for about four days before giving up. It wouldn’t matter if they found the phones because he had hidden the batteries separately.