Off-World Incident #21

Title: Off-World Incident #21
Fandom: Stargate SG-1
Author: Me.

It all happened so quick really. Colonel O'Neill was leading us through the swamp this planet seemed to be covered in. Daniel and I were talking about the possible implications of a planet where the Goa'uld had never ventured too, but a civilization had developed on. Teal'c had our six covered, making sure none of the undetected anything tried to get us.

"O'Neill!"

I heard Teal'c's shout and looked to my commanding officer. He had been standing just a few feet before Daniel and I, and now there was a bunch of scuffle marks in the muddy grass and no sign of him. Teal'c pushed past me and knelt by the pool of water in front of us.

"He is in here." Teal'c informed us and I pulled off my pack as I knelt by my Jaffa friend.

"I'll go in." I stated and pulled a rope I had packed in my bag out. Teal'c and Daniel grabbed one end of the rope and I wrapped the other end around my wrist before sliding myself into the obviously deep pool of water.

I looked around as best I could under the water and spotted the Colonel struggling weakly to get out of his pack.

I kicked off the rough walls of the odd pool and propelled myself to the Colonel. As I unclipped the heavy pack the Colonel's movements slowed. He was going to lose consciousness.

You may not have noticed, but Colonel O'Neill is a little bigger than I am. I certainly noticed as I wrapped my arm around his waist and yanked on the rope, while swimming upward as much as I could. The rope tightened on my arm and I kicked my feet to speed up the process of Daniel and Teal'c pulling us to surface.

I'm pretty sure I was just about to pass out when I felt strong arms pull me out of the water. The weight of the Colonel left me and Daniel told me to take deep breaths. I did as told and moved to where Teal'c was with the Colonel.

"Teal'c. Is he breathing?" I asked the Jaffa.

"He is not." Teal'c's so calm. How the hell can he be so calm!!!

I moved to the other side of Colonel O'Neill unbelievably fast and checked his pulse. "He's got a pulse." I told them as I began mouth-to-mouth. I had my ear over his mouth, to check if he was breathing, when he coughed up water into said innocent ear.

"Roll him over." I instructed, and Daniel and Teal'c helped me roll him onto his side.

He continued to cough up water and take in air as I rubbed his back.

"Carter?" He gasped out.

"Yes, sir."

"Wha happened?"

"You fell into the pool." I explained vaguely.

"And..." He prompted. He's good.

"And I took off my pack, grabbed a rope and jumped in after you." I was a little worried about how he was going to react to me jumping into an alien pool of water. It may have been the slightest bit senseless, but I'd rather get reprimanded by my CO than have to speak at his memorial.

"Thanks." I wasn't really expecting that.

"No problem, sir." A breeze blew and I realized just how cold I was. "Why don't we head home, sir?"

"Good idea Major." He rolled onto his back and I grabbed his outstretched hand and pulled him up to his feet. Then he said something I don't think I've ever heard him say. "Lead us to the gate Daniel."

*the end*

Murphy's Laws: They Should Be Common Knowledge

This is some important information that I think everybody should know.

Murphy's Laws (well...some of them)

1. Anything that can go wrong, will.
Meghan's addition to Murphy's First Law: Anything that can't go wrong, will go wrong faster. (i.e. The Titanic)

2. If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong.

3. If everything seems to be going well, you've obviously overlooked something.

4. Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse.

5. It is impossible to make things foolproof because fools are so ingenious.

6. Anyone who isn't paranoid, simply isn't paying attention.

7. When working toward the solution of a problem, it always helps to know the answer. Provided, of course, that you know there is a problem.

8. Behind every small problem is a larger problem, waiting for the small one to get out of the way.

9. Chaos will win over order, because it is better organized.

10. Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself.

11. There is never time to do something right, but there is always time to do it over.

12. If everything has been going wrong, something is bound to go right.

13. In the end, only entropy wins.

I believe Murphy had it right.

My Own 'What If' Question

This a prompt I thought up last night as a what if.

What if Major Carter went to Atlantis and Major Sheppard was the 2IC of SG-1 (under Colonel O'Neill)? How would things be different? The same?

The most obvious for me is I wouldn't have to choose whether to read SG-1 fanfiction or Atlantis fanfics. Major Sheppard is my favorite charater in Atlantis (the other characters are cool too). And Colonel O'Neill is my favorite character in SG-1. I think there would be problems with all of SG-1 being male. Sam is the majority of Stargate SG-1's girl power. Without her it would be all guys and SG-1 would have no scientist, except for Daniel, who couldn't help them with blowing up suns and building naquada reactors. I don't know how having Jack O'Neill and John Sheppard on one team would work. They're both good leaders. I think they're so alike in personality that they annoy each other. Major Sheppard kinda seems like Atlantis' Jack to me. Atlantis would have problems too. I think putting Sam Carter and Rodney McKay on the same land mass for along time, with them trying to compete with ideas and theories, they'd probably try to kill each and other would have to intervene. Plus, the dynamic between Weir and Carter would not be the same as the dynamic between Weir and Shepard is now. Just as the dynamic between O'Neill and Sheppard would be different than the dynamic between O'Neill and Carter is now. I like the dynamics as they are now. I don't know how I'd like the new ones. My decision is that Major/Lt. Col. Sheppard should stay on Atlantis and Major/Lt. Col. Carter should Sg-1. And they should bring back Jack! If they feel like doing an episode of either SG-1 or Atlantis with John Sheppard and Jack O'Neill on the same planet. And possibly even on screen together that be really cool, in my opinion. I did see Rising, but another one with both of them would probably make me melt into goo because they're both good-looking, funny characters/actors.

Two Writing Prompts

I actually wanted to do some writing before I go to bed tonight, and while I work on my Version #2, so I found another prompt. I almost passed this one by, but I decided to go back to it. I like it. It makes you think.

Usually, envy is portrayed as a purely negative emotion. Do you believe it is possible to harness the power of envy as a positive motivator?

Yes I do. I think I use envy as a motivator to make myself a better person. I think a person can use envy to motivate themselves to do better or do something more interesting. Envy can be a negative emotion, but if used well and kept controlled it can easily be used as a tool. Envy pushes people to be better than others. How it is achieved is up to us. I figure I'll use envy as motivation to maintain good grades and push myself in the areas I wish to excel in.

*And another prompt because I feel like it and I didn't particularly like my answer to the first one.*

What cliche describes you?

If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try, try again. Most definitely. I'll try at something for hours until either I get it or I seriously need one of five things: food, drink, a bathroom stop, sleep, or chocolate. This applies to everything except homework/schoolwork. I don't really spend any of my home time on that. The cliche most describes me when I find something new that interests me or strikes my interest. I can spend days working on a project on my computer or hours cleaning my room, if I feel like it.

*Despite the time stamp on this I'm finishing it at about 2:45am. So, I guess I'm gonna get some sleep.*

The Internet!! It Was! And I...OMG!!

I'm back. We didn't have internet for a few days, but we got it fixed and now I'm back.

This is a freewrite I did for 11 minutes on the 18th (Saturday):

I'm handwriting this because at the moment internet is down and I can't type it straight into my blog. The reason internet is down is some BS I don't know much about. We got a new modem today. It's supposed to be faster than our other one. It worked through the afternoon, but now it's not. And that means no phone because that goes through our internet. I haven't read fanfiction since Thursday. Maybe Wednesday. Somebody's coming on Monday. It's Saturday today. AAAHHHHHH!!! How will I survive?!

I was having trouble posting today. I kept getting an error "553 Permission Denied." I signed out, deleted all my cookies (bye cookies) and signed back in twice, trying to publish each time unsuccessfully. It's a bummer. I want it to work for me.

Even if I can't read fanfiction, I do have an idea for a story written down, as well as all my stuff for Atlantica if I still want to do it. I'll try writing it slower this time.

Since I wrote this freewrite I posted the post that wouldn't post before. We obviously have internet back. I hand wrote three pages of the Stargate SG-1 story mentioned. It's the one inspired by the 'looking in the mirror' prompt. I hope to get it up this week. I'm on vacation for now. I have also read enough fanfiction to make up for the days I missed. Approx. 14 stories in three hours. I feel better already. Atlantica is a series of stories inspired by a line from Stargate Atlantis. The line where Lt. Aiden Ford proposes that they name the planet that Atlantis resides on 'Atlantica'. I like the name and I created a planet of my own called Atlantica. I would like to try to write about it.

A Different Face Stares Back

This is one of two prompts that struck my interest today. I'll mostly likely do the second one tomorrow.

You wake up, go to the bathroom and look in the mirror. A different face stares back at you. Begin your story.

Version #1:

*This hooks onto the story before this starting with the line "the clock winked."*

It's interesting somedays when you look in the mirror you see just you. The same person you see every other morning. And some mornings you look in the mirror and see a face that's different in some way.

That's the kinda morning I'm having. I'm here standing in front of the mirror, and the face staring back at me is the same. The person behind the face is what's new today. It seems like every other day I see a child behind the face, or a teen. Today it's different. Today I see a young adult.

It's the morning of the first day of my senior year. I have some bags unnder my eyes, but it's not my fault I couldn't get to sleep last night. Despite the bags, I like this 'new' more mature face.

Of course, that doesn't mean I'm going to be completely mature at school. I need to have fun after all.

I think I can find a happy medium between maturity and not wasting what's left of my childhood.

*the end*

A second version is in progress. It's a Stargate SG-1 story inspired by this prompt.

JackFic.com Drabble Words

The following is a list of drabble words from JackFic.com:
Pumpkin
Spooky
Paper People
Maverick
Suspect
Suggestion
Jinx
Rival
Life
Death
Bubbles
Shadow
Homecoming
Boxers
Division
Empty Chair
Joke
Solitary
Obsession
Headache
Memory
Pockets
Moving Day
Tick Tock
Snipiness
Friday the 13th
Smarmy
In Memory
Toothache
Haunt
TGIF
Malediction
Silence
Frosty
Commando

These are supposed to be drabble words for Stargate stories. I may end up using them for short Stargate stories or non-Stargate stories. I doubt any of the stories I write will be a hundred words long.

I have two more prompts that I'm going to start writing the rest of the day and finish when I get home.

I'm having a lot of fun on here. I've missed writing. It's a lot of fun to start and finish a story in the same night, rather than it taking months or a year.