Well, you know how rumors get developed. Daniel's known as cheating death. And how many people are truly classified to know exactly *how* Daniel's cheated death? Marks's cheated death himself way too many times. (Luckily with just a broken arm and a really good lucky streak of getting promotions mid-episode). It just seemed to be how scuttlebutt can warp.

I'm just...stagnating on a couple of scenes...actually one particular scene. I've written scenes AFTER the one I'm stuck on, but just...I felt bad nothing was working and I hadn't posted fic for a while so I just kinda stuck this in. It's sort of a vignette in itself, even though it does set up the rest of the story. :-)