The Weapons Test

[donutsweeper]

Title: The Weapons Test
Pairing/Rating/Warning: none, rated G
Word Count: 100
Summary: Jack surprises Elizabeth Weir
Author's Note: Written superfast for the "Time Stamp Meme" as requested by _medley_ who wanted more of Jack in Atlantis.  Un-beta'ed.

“Captain?”  Elizabeth called out from doorway of the balcony.  “May I speak to you for a moment?”

“Be my guest.”  Jack motioned her for her to join him.  

“I just got Colonel Sheppard’s report on your weapons proficiency testing.”

He looked at her, slightly confused.  “My scores were unsatisfactory?”

“No... They were perfect.   Literally perfect.  No one’s ever managed that before, not even Colonel Sheppard.”

He shrugged.  “In a lot of ways weapons are like women, treat them right and they’ll perform however you want.”

She blinked in response.  “You are a very interesting man Captain Harkness.  Unusual.  But interesting.”

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/_medley_/]

LOL! And then she kills him for that comment. ...And then possibly goes to dinner with him once he comes back. *g* Hee! Thanks!

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

*phew* I thought it might have gone a little too over the top! I like writing SGA/Jack, thanks for requesting it!

[http://users.livejournal.com/_medley_/]

SGA/Jack is tons of fun!. I'm so glad you wrote it! Yay for the "Come as You Aren't" party!

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

Seriously! I would never have done SGA/TW without it! Or DS/TW for that matter, since it made crossovers less scary an idea!

[rustydog.livejournal.com]

Ha! I can picture Elizabeth being pretty flustered by that response (as well as many other things she might encounter from Jack), but covering up as you have her doing. Fun. :)

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

Elizabeth is quite the diplomat, isn't she? Glad you liked! Feel free to go request something for yourself!

[eumenidis.livejournal.com]

It took me a few minutes, but I finally recalled what this reminds me of: Roxanne Longstreet Conrad's description of Jayne Cobb--"Has an up-close-and-personal relationship with his gun in a way that the previous occupant of the weapons officer chair can't even imagine. Or would want to."

I *hope* Jack's not naming & talking to his weapons too. Jayne is...well, Jayne, but if Jack did it, it'd just be...strange.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

I never thought of compairing Jack to Jayne, but I see what you're saying. I was trying to put to words the way Jack touched the guns when he was teaching Gwen how to shoot.

[eumenidis.livejournal.com]

Not just the guns. Jack is--I can only say "tender"--with just about everybody. & underneath the flirting & banter he has the protective instincts of a border collie. I wonder if immortality, remaining young & strong & rising unscathed from injury & death while friends & lovers age & die or are killed has made him particularly sensitive to the fragile & ephemeral nature of life.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

That's an idea I've tried to write about a lot. Have you read How Death Comes (http://donutsweeper.livejournal.com/18757.html)?

[eumenidis.livejournal.com]

I think every writer (poet, dramatist, etc.) worth a lick tackles that theme sooner or later. I think I read somewhere--probably several somewheres--that mortality & humans' response to the awareness of mortality is one of the factors central to our sense of ourselves.

Ummm, yes, I have read "How Death Comes". Sorry, it just doesn't satisfy me. But please don't stop trying--it's a huge & difficult subject.

[chatona.livejournal.com]

*giggles happily* That is so Jack :D

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

Thanks!! :)

[unfeathered]

Oh, hilarious - and so totally Jack! *g*

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

Jack certainly does know his way around women, and weapons.... :)

[hellenebright.livejournal.com]

He said that to Elizabeth? And survived the experience?

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

lol, I think she was too stunned to process what he really said

[joonscribble.livejournal.com]

Hee, hee, HEE! I can picture this so clearly in my head. Both characters!

Very nice!

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Glad you liked it!

[mad-jaks.livejournal.com]

Somebody lend me a chair I want to clip him round the lug hole !!!

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

Jack'd just think that you were flirting with him for that...