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mhalachaiBalancing Act part one of seven an Anita Blake/Stargate SG-1 crossover
by Mhalachai
Disclaimer: Laurell K. Hamilton owns all things Anita Blake. MGM/UA, Gekko Productions et al. own all things Stargate SG-1. I am but borrowing the characters for a brief time and shall return them intact at the end.
Summary: After being "asked" to change schools, 16-year-old Jack O'Neill moves to St. Louis. His new school looks as if it might be better than the last; the teachers seem halfway decent. And yet, there's something sort of odd about his new science teacher, Richard Zeeman...
Timeline: After Season 7 "Fragile Balance" for SG1 (the mini-Jack episode) and after Incubus Dreams for Anita Blake.
Rating: PG-13
Note: Yes, I know that Richard Zeeman teaches junior high science. Let's pretend he got transferred to a high school. We all know they're starving for science teachers.
Some Stargate SG-1 background for those of you who don't know the show:
The Stargate: Big ring thing that's the "gate to the stars", through which our heroes travel every week to seek adventure! Danger! Aliens! Ratings!
Jack O'Neill: In this story, "Jack" is a 16-year-old clone of Col. Jack O'Neill. The clone was made by the Asgard (little grey men) named Loki, with all of the older Jack's memories. At the end of the show, Little Jack went off to high school, telling Big Jack that they'd never meet again. Anyway, Jack has all kinds of military training under his belt: he's an ace pilot and parachutist, he's got covert ops training, and all kinds of stuff. He's also a bit of a smartass. Okay, a big smartass.
Carter, Daniel and Teal'c: actually Major Samantha (Sam) Carter, the scientist; Daniel Jackson, the anthropologist, and Teal'c, a former Jaffa who now fights for earth. They make up SG-1, the team that Jack leads.
Jaffa: big warrior men of the aliens, the Goa'ulds.
System Lords: the name of the Goa'ulds who rule planets and territories. In space. They're the bad guys.
SGC: Stargate Command, which lives inside Cheyenne Mountain and runs the Stargate program. Jack saved the universe a million times,all of which Little Jack remembers.
Sara and Charlie O'Neill: Before the beginning of the Stargate movie (about eight or nine years ago, canon time), Jack's son Charlie accidentally shot himself with Jack's gun, two weeks after a fight in which Jack got mad at Charlie for fooling around with a water gun. Sara and Jack divorced after Charlie's death.
Jack tried the combination again. Nothing. The locker wouldn't open. Slamming his palm against the metal didn't work, either.
"For crying out loud," he muttered, leaning his shoulder against the wall and wishing he didn't have to be here. Math class had been bad enough. A whole pack of strange kids, being the new guy to the school midway through November, in St. Louis nonetheless. Add to that a math teacher who seemed to be freaked out by the idea that Jack had been kicked out of his last school for fighting, and it was just a great day.
Not "Anubis is going to end the world" great, but close.
The bell rang, and the straggling kids in the halls began to run. Jack looked down at his new schedule, half-tempted to just bail on this whole school thing. Go out, get a job somewhere sweeping floors.
Although, if he did that, then he'd really never understand what Carter was talking about.
"Hi ho, to science class I go," Jack said under his breath as he hiked his overburdened backpack up higher on his shoulder, and set off for class.
"Jack O'Neill?"
Jack winced, almost out the door after class. I'd have made it, too, if it wasn't for those meddling kids. "Sir?" he said warily, turning back to the teacher.
The man, as tall as Teal'c and almost as big, leaned on the edge of his desk, arms crossed over his chest, and smiled. "Call me Mr. Zeeman," he said.
Jack just stared. Well, glared, actually.
"We all got the memo about you, at the teacher's meeting," Zeeman continued. "About how you were kicked out of your old school for... fighting, was it?"
Actually, it had more to do with trying to avoid a fight, but try telling a senior jock you didn't want to hurt him. Things had gone badly, especially after the jock's lawyer father had gotten involved. Jack hadn't wanted to bother anyone in the Air Force (or, rather, didn't want anyone to tell his team-- no, damn it, his clone's team, SG-1), so he packed himself up and moved to St. Louis.
Zeeman took in Jack's rather sullen silence and soldiered on. "We also know that you're on your own, legally emancipated," he said in a tone just soft enough that Jack would cheerfully have choked him.
"Is this going to turn into some kind of Afternoon Special intervention?" Jack demanded. "I've got a bus to catch."
Zeeman raised his eyebrows, and Jack couldn't shake the feeling that this guy found him amusing. God, this whole high school thing keeps getting worse and worse. "I just wanted to tell you that if you have any questions about this class, or the school, you can ask at any time," Zeeman said smoothly.
"Right," Jack snarked, already on his way out the door. Just my luck, I get stuck with the guy who wants to reach out and help a student.
The halls had emptied. Jack passed rows of beat-up lockers, a sports banner, some posters suffering from too much enthusiasm and not enough proofreading, all the junk that made up an American high school. Just the place I don't want to be.
He wanted to be an adult again. He wanted to be with Carter and Daniel and Teal'c and everyone at the SGC, saving the galaxy. Hell, he'd even settle for facing off against the System Lords, anything besides sitting through classes with kids old enough to be his kids. Most of these kids would have been born around the same time as Charlie.
Jack stopped suddenly. No, he wasn't going to do this. He'd made a decision a very long time ago. At least, the other O'Neill had, and Jack didn't see why he should change it now. The rule was simple: he didn't think about Charlie, or Sara, during business hours. He changed it to school hours, then to ever, because otherwise, spending thirty hours a week with children whose fathers' hadn't been careless with their guns and whose fathers' hadn't been too relieved to be home to think about what might happen when a curious boy--
Taking two quick steps to the grimy windows framing the wall, Jack pressed his hands hard against the wooden frame, trying to stop thinking. He might have been able to escape the older Jack O'Neill's bum knee and aging joints, but the worst of what that Jack, and this one had seen was stuck forever in his brain.
I look sixteen, and I feel like an old man. A useless old man at that.
Wishing for the millionth time he could do something useful, instead of having to sit through classes more boring than one of Carter's briefing room lectures, Jack pushed off the wall, turned around, and almost jumped out of his skin.
Mr. Zeeman was standing not three feet away, looking at Jack curiously. How the hell did he sneak up on me? Jack thought furiously. No matter what anyone may say, I've still got years of covert ops training, and a man who weighs two hundred and thirty pounds, almost all of it solid muscle, should not be able to sneak up on me over this hard floor in dress shoes!
"Everything okay?" Zeeman asked, shifting his briefcase from one hand to another. Even that made a little bit of noise.
"Yeah, things are fine," Jack said, pretending to look at the floor, while giving Zeeman a once-over. The teacher didn't carry himself like he had any military training, but there was something odd about the man, something that set Jack on edge. Jack just didn't know what.
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you.
"But, uh, you were talking about problems and stuff?" Jack hurried on, hoping that Zeeman wasn't thinking he was checking him out, not like that.
Zeeman nodded.
"You know who I talk to about a broken locker?"
The corner of the teacher's lip curled up in a smirk that looked slightly... wolfish. "The custodian can help you with that."
"Right." Jack shifted his bag around on his shoulder. "Thanks."
Zeeman stared at Jack with eyes just a little too still, like the eyes of some Jaffa he'd seen in a stand-off, then headed on down the hall.
He's still not making any noise! Whatever the hell was going on, Jack was going to get to the bottom of it.
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Date: 2006-04-21 07:13 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-21 07:16 am (UTC)Looking forward to future installments, and curses for giving me yet more reasons to stay up when I should be asleep. :P
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Date: 2006-04-21 07:46 am (UTC)♥
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Date: 2006-04-21 07:44 am (UTC)Luckily I saw that episode with "young Jack." You have no idea how excited I was to have seen one of the episodes that was going to be important to this fic...woo! (Especially since I've probably only seen about 10 eps ever:)
I liked your characterization. It went from frustrated teen to tired adult and back very well. It's like his body and mind are in such different places that it can't decide where to stay and thus there's a bit of a pendelum swing.
Of course it would be Mr. Zeeman that would meet him first. Very clever way to put the two worlds together. I'm wondering how it's all going to fit together though since Jack isn't magical or anything, except fot the whole clone w/memories thing. Sci-Fi/Supernatural Fantasy. That's definitely a challenge!
And thanks so much for the mini glossary...it was very helpful. Also, how is Inevitable coming along?...last I read it was giving you a bit of a headache. Hopefully things are well!
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Date: 2006-04-21 04:51 pm (UTC)That's really the main one, or at least knowing what's happening. Any other SG episodes I reference, I will be totally explanatory.
Of course it would be Mr. Zeeman that would meet him first. Very clever way to put the two worlds together. I'm wondering how it's all going to fit together though since Jack isn't magical or anything, except for the whole clone w/memories thing.
I'm going to play around with it a bit, but I figure that what's going to happen is a simple misunderstanding that's really not so simple at all... I even get to invoke that search and seizure clause in the American constitution. Um, I mean, Jack's not magical but there are more things in heaven and earth than Jack knows, and he knows most of them :)
how is Inevitable coming along?...last I read it was giving you a bit of a headache
I still have a headache on it, but I've read through several chapters and have made my notes. The next chapter is all plotted out, but it's going to be action-packed and full of information, and I need to get it right. Adding to the mix that I’m running in the Sun Run () this weekend, and it's going to be a busy few days for me :) I'm anticipating the chapter no earlier than Monday.
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Date: 2006-04-21 02:58 pm (UTC)about what?
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Date: 2006-04-21 01:58 pm (UTC)I am now officially your fangirl. Which, according to the previous icon, means I can "die repeatedly, moan and perv", but not necessarily in that order. *grin*
When I first saw this, I was curious about how you were going to do a crossover. I'd completely forgot about mini-jack. (shame on me forgetting such a cute-young-thing er, talented child-star.) I like what you've got here and I look forward to more.
Also, good luck finding your missing notebook. I hate when I misplace things. *crosses fingers for you*
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Date: 2006-04-21 04:51 pm (UTC)*g* There are times when my brain surprises even me.
When I first saw this, I was curious about how you were going to do a crossover. I'd completely forgot about mini-jack. (shame on me forgetting such a cute-young-thing er, talented child-star.)
The crossover actually came to me after I watched the director's commentary on Fragile Balance, the mini Me episode. I had written a little note for my LJ about the plot bunny, and how wacky it was.... then I thought *hey, why not just write it up?* and here we are.
The commentary said that the guy who played Mini Jack had never seen the show, so the directors got together a tape of the "Best of O'Neill" for him to watch, and he did an excellent job playing to the mannerisms, knowing his lines, doing the show. I love the DVD commentaries, it makes the episodes have so much more life to them. And very much worth the investment.
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Date: 2006-04-21 02:19 pm (UTC)Mr. Zeeman:
This is a letter from a sometimes fan concerning the fact that I am disappointed with your actions. I had heard from a reputable source that you were the hardest of the lot to detect, the most acclimated to behaving like a standard human. Have you lost your skills of subterfuge just because you have come to accept your wolf more? That is a fast track to getting asked to leave from your place of work with the children for whom you obviously care. I hope that you proceed with the utmost of caution. Do try to make a little noise as you walk; your silence is disturbing the most suspicious of students.
Very truly yours,
&c.
Dear Mhalachai--
I have enjoyed greatly this newest venture. Your stories are like the best of medicine to cure me of the doldrums. Thank you for devoting so much time, energy and imagination to the humoring and entertaining of your computer readership.
Very truly yours,
&c.
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Date: 2006-04-21 04:52 pm (UTC)To be fair, most students wouldn't notice this at all, mostly because the school is so loud during the day. And it's two days to the full moon. And they don't have crazy Jaffa-detection skillZ.
I have enjoyed greatly this newest venture. Your stories are like the best of medicine to cure me of the doldrums. Thank you for devoting so much time, energy and imagination to the humoring and entertaining of your computer readership.
Glad you're enjoying it. I love to write, and to make people smile. Here I do both! Go me. [/ego trip] What I mean is, I enjoy the creativity that I can express by writing these crossovers. It does give me a mental boost to pull something like this off.
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Date: 2006-04-21 02:39 pm (UTC)but then again I never read a LKH book before I was 20 chapters into "Inevitable"
I like the story.. very very good!
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Date: 2006-04-21 04:52 pm (UTC)Yeah, that's Jack. Team leader and all that. A really fascinating character. Anyway, the little Jack is a clone of the real Jack, only he didn't age the proper way for the rest of the clones, and he was stuck at 15. A 46-year-old man in the body of a teenager... at first, Mini Jack was all about "second chance!" but I figure that wore off after having to sit through calculus 2 classes.
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Date: 2006-04-21 03:12 pm (UTC)i know next to nothing about the stargate world (sg1? atlantis? what?) but your briefing was helpful, and i've been known to read fic for which i had no canon knowledge before, anyway :-)
good start!
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Date: 2006-04-21 04:52 pm (UTC)If I do get confusing, let me know. I'm going to try to be very explanatory in the SG content, as there are several people around here who do not know the SG1 fandom.
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Date: 2006-04-21 03:50 pm (UTC)...and make me love it.
*sigh*
shame on you. *glomps*
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Date: 2006-04-21 07:42 pm (UTC)I can just see it later on...Jack's trying to figure out what Richard is, going through all the aliens he knows:
"He's not Jaffa, no pouch; not a hologram, so not Asgard; hair's too neat, can't be Nox; definitely not glowing, so not Ancient; what is he? Could he be a Furling? We haven't met those guys yet. But then why would he be here?"
This would all be said under his breath, but of course with his werewolf hearing, Richard hears every word and reacts to being called a Furling (too close for comfort?).
Anyway, can't wait for the next installment!
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Date: 2006-04-23 04:08 am (UTC)Glad you're enjoying it!
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Date: 2006-04-21 08:14 pm (UTC)I can't wait until mini-Jack starts trying to figure out just what in the heck his science teacher really is. It could provide some very interesting humor, hehe. Although, if he ever meets Anita, I'm not sure which one to be sorry for. Or who knows? Maybe they'll end up really getting along! Oh, I want more of this! I think this story is a perfect way to destract from the lack of Inevitable (for me at least).
Haha...this makes me want to skip seasons 3-6 and go right to season 7! ♥
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Date: 2006-04-22 04:28 am (UTC)And don't skip the seasons! Just... you know, download 7x03 :) There's good character development in those seasons!
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Date: 2006-04-22 04:24 am (UTC)In, um, ways totally unlike my 17-year-old boy in St. Louis fic, Inevitable.
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Date: 2006-04-22 01:30 am (UTC)Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you
I say this all the time. ^__^;
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Date: 2006-04-22 04:18 am (UTC)Plus, I can say that no one's done it, sort of like my AB/Firefly and Merry Gentry/Firefly crossovers.
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Date: 2006-04-22 02:01 am (UTC)But, regardless, nifty concept! I'm very intrigued to see Jack's perspective on Anita & gang . .
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Date: 2006-04-22 03:44 am (UTC)Anyway, we'll see them together soonish :)
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Date: 2006-04-22 02:03 am (UTC)OMG, Mini-Jack! ::squees repeatedly and huggles Mini-Jack::
Wow. This ruled. I'm a huge fan of Stargate, and that episode with mini-clone-jack was one of my favorites. I'm so happy you tossed these two fandoms together like this.
::is now hooked on yet another of your fanfics::
damnit :P
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Date: 2006-04-22 03:41 am (UTC)::is now hooked on yet another of your fanfics::
Hee hee hee. My cunning plan is coming together.