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Title: No Accounting for Taste
Category: Classic Team, Humor
Word Count: ~650
Spoilers: Anytime Sam is a major.

Summary: Teal'c snorted and shook his head, the shuddering wracking his body finally becoming still. It didn't hide their unease even after he repeated with a hint of impatience, "I am fine."

Author's Note: Written for [livejournal.com profile] one_prompt prompt of "Breathe". Thanks to [personal profile] holdouttrout for beta.


"Breathe, Teal'c! Just breathe!" Jack said. Daniel and Sam ran into the chamber to find Jack O'Neill hitting the fourth member of their team on the back as he was doubled over, wheezing. "C'mon, buddy."

"What happened?" Daniel asked as Sam rushed to their teammate's aid. "Did he swallow something?"

Jack flailed his arms about helplessly. "No, we were just looking at the walls, passing time while you two did your readings. And he looked at something over there and then just started...doing this."

"You think it's something with his symbiote?" Sam tried to get Teal'c to sit down, but he waved her away, shaking his head. After a few moments, he began to breathe normally, wiping tears from his eyes.

The rest of the team exchanged worried glances. It was odd any pain would be so great it would cause Teal'c to cry.

When he finally caught his breath enough to speak he nodded, and made certain to look Sam directly in the eyes. "I am well, Major Carter."

"What happened?" Daniel asked. They were disconcerted to note as soon as Teal'c turned to look at him, he started wheezing again–a choked off sputter that had both Sam and Jack reaching out in a vain attempt to assist.

Teal'c snorted and shook his head, the shuddering wracking his body finally becoming still. It didn't hide their unease even after he repeated with a hint of impatience, "I am fine."

Daniel turned in puzzlement to the etchings on the wall behind him. He squinted and murmured, running his hand along one section before turning to Teal'c with a raised eyebrow. "Kretchta?"

"Krek'ka'ta." Teal'c corrected, suppressing a smirk. And that was when Jack and Sam realized Teal'c hadn't been choking at all.

Teal'c had been laughing.

"Ah...." Daniel's eyebrows were furrowed a few moments more as he scanned the section of wall. "Ah."

"What does it say, Daniel?" Jack was still eyeing the chamber warily, as if Teal'c had been infected with some kind of Jaffa laughing gas rather than seeing something amusing. It was an understandable worry. This was definitely unusual behavior.

"It, well...it's actually a spin off an old legend of Cronus, and..."

"Skip the history lesson, Daniel," Jack warned.

Daniel shrugged. "It's...a derogatory captioned pictorial setting for Cronus's court during a harvest festival."

The others blinked at him. Sam finally spoke up. "It's a comic strip?"

Daniel paused for a moment before nodding. "Basically. Maybe more a political cartoon, but yeah."

Jack eyed Teal'c for a moment, who was having unusual difficulty maintaining his stoic pose. "So, what's the punchline? We could all use a laugh."

Daniel looked from the others to Teal'c, to the wall, and back to Teal'c again before finally shrugging what seemed to be an apology. "I don't think it really translates."

Sam gaped at Daniel in frustration while Jack raised an expectant eyebrow. "Oh?"

"Really, it's not...remember Teal'c's last Jaffa joke."

"Oh," Sam replied and she and Jack immediately nodded their understanding. Teal'c's amusement died and he glowered at his teammates, a clear admonishment at Tauri failure to appreciate true humor.

Sam smiled an apology. "Don't take it personally, Teal'c. Humor's pretty subjective anyway. I still don't get the Three Stooges."

"That's classic!" Jack protested as Teal'c gave her a nod of approval.

Teal'c replied, "I prefer Laurel and Hardy, O'Neill."

"Okay, yeah, they're not bad, but...c'mon. The Stooges?"

Sam and Teal'c walked out shoulder to shoulder. Sam's whispered words carried through the cave acoustics all too well, "We won't even get into the whole Simpsons fixation."

"I heard that!"

With everyone leaving the chamber, no one noticed Daniel had paused and pulled out his camera, taking a snapshot before following the others.

It took Teal'c ten minutes to finally stop laughing enough to thank Daniel Jackson for the framed photograph after he opened the gift the following Christmas.

Fin.

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