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Pepper ([personal profile] pepper) wrote2007-05-08 10:25 pm

Ficlet

For the 'three things I would never, ever write' meme. Previous efforts here. Prompt from [personal profile] holdouttrout, who is enabling me to procrastinate on my SDficathon story: Cam and Felger getting together to play with the SG-1 action figures.
 
Man. This went in totally a different direction than I was expecting.
 
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A voice, oddly deep. "See, Sam, all we needed to do was reverse the polarity of the neutron flow, and the Stargate is all fixed."
 
A second voice, strangely high-pitched. "Oh, Cam! You're so clever! I never would have-"
 
There was a knock and a soft, amused, "Cam? Doctor Felger?" And then some of that blurred scrambling to conceal that is usually only seen in small children when they're caught doing Something They Shouldn't. Cam and Felger ended up shoulder to shoulder, creating an impenetrable wall preventing Sam from seeing... something, held behind their backs.
 
Sam, who had been to Jay Felger's home once, and been sufficiently disturbed that she wasn't likely to forget the experience, had a fair guess as to what that something might be. She kept the smile from her face with some difficulty.
 
"Are you guys okay?"
 
"Yes!"
"Oh, yes!"
 
Felger and Cam exchanged dismayed looks at the obvious desperation of their simultaneous answers. Cam cleared his throat, and gave Felger a subtle nod.
 
"Yeah, Sam," he said, calmly. "I was just helping Felger here to run a... simulation." He cleared his throat again at Sam's steady look, and the twinkle in her eyes. "Is there something you wanted?"
 
Sam looked at him for a long moment. "A simulation, huh?"
 
"Yes," said Cam, firmly. "Doctor Felger needed someone to help him work out how this particular scenario might play out in the field. So he could adjust his solution accordingly."
 
"Uh-huh."
 
Sam looked from Cam to Felger. Cam looked at Felger, too, almost sympathetically. He was obviously the weak link.
 
Felger swallowed. This was just like school. He always got picked on.
 
Sam leapt.
 
There was a scuffle, a quick jab, an agonised yelp, and Cam was left clutching his side, whilst Sam clutched triumphantly in her hand a small, blonde-haired action figure. She examined it critically.
 
"This looks nothing like me! The only thing we have in common is that we're blonde and-" she made a gesture that would have earned one of her male teammates a severe slap-down from her, "female!"
 
"Well we couldn't exactly go out and buy the Sam Carter action figure!" snapped Cam, rubbing his side. "Damn, that hurt, you know?"
 
"I know," she said, absently, turning the doll in her hands. Then she turned to Felger, who was still in a defensive position, slightly crouched with his hands over his face. "Felger!" She held out a hand imperiously, and Felger straightened immediately, and handed over the action figure he was brandishing as a defensive weapon. "Who are these people?" she asked, examining the two small figures, and then making them kiss. Cam made an involuntary strangled sound.
 
"Well, that's Angel," said Felger, a little too eagerly. "And, of course, you have been represented by Buffy Ann Summers herself. Original series," he added, proudly.
 
Sam looked at him for a long, long moment, and then at Cam. "Buffy?" she said, slowly. Then she held up the male doll. "And Angel is you?" Cam held her gaze, and didn't flinch or blush as he nodded. "Huh." Sam looked down at Felger's desk, and there was an awkward pause. "So," she said, eventually, thoughtfully, "who're these other guys?" Her eye was caught by something. "You know your Stargate is to completely the wrong scale, right?"
 
"Oh, yes," said Felger, happily. "Well, this is Doctor Jackson, currently in the form of Xander Harris, and Ms. Mal Doran is Anya, of course. Teal'c is represented by Oz, despite the difference in, uh, physical appearance, and I myself am represented by Giles-"
 
"I told you, you're not Giles!" exclaimed Cam, hotly. "You... you're Jonathan."
 
"I don't have a Jonathan, and I resent the implication," said Felger, with great dignity. "If you don't like my choices, I can take my action figures and-"
 
"No, no, wait, Fe - Jay," said Sam, conciliatorily. "Come back. You can be Giles. So who's Willow?"
 
"Well, that is, of course..."
 
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END.
 
 

[identity profile] 6beforelunch.livejournal.com 2007-05-08 09:44 pm (UTC)(link)
BWAHAHAHA! I love it. The Buffy action figures re-imagined as SG1 and Cam being a fanboy and Felger and Sam and...hee! Awesome! :D
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[identity profile] pepper-field.livejournal.com 2007-05-08 09:48 pm (UTC)(link)
I bet Felger pretends he's the Angel action figure when there's no one else around. *g*

Ta. It's all holdouttrout's fault. Such a cool prompt, how could I resist?
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[identity profile] abyssinia4077.livejournal.com 2007-05-08 09:55 pm (UTC)(link)
HA!

That is crackified awesome to the max!

(see! you can totally write them :) )
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[identity profile] pepper-field.livejournal.com 2007-05-08 09:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Hee! Thank you. Cam and Sam? Yes. Daniel and Sam? Not so much. Why? Whyyyyyyyy?

Dammitdammitdammitdammit. I swore I was going to get on with my ficathon effort...
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[identity profile] abyssinia4077.livejournal.com 2007-05-08 10:01 pm (UTC)(link)
So write Daniel and Sam and Cam.

I don't know why! I usually can and I'm still fic-less.

You'll get there. *waves more pom-poms*
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[identity profile] pepper-field.livejournal.com 2007-05-08 10:05 pm (UTC)(link)
I wrote 541 words today. It started out as Daniel and Sam, but turned into Daniel and Jack. I don't know where Sam went. If I want it to become Daniel and Sam again, it'll have to become a little more... epic than I intended.

And I have two days.

Curses.

*waves pom-poms back atcha* You can do it, too. I have faith. (Or at least empathy for the pain.)
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[identity profile] abyssinia4077.livejournal.com 2007-05-08 11:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Yay 541 words!
(it's okay, mine keeps being Daniel&Teal'c or Teal'c&Jack or Sam&Teal'c. *sigh*)

two days is 48 hours! In that time Daniel and Davis brokered a deal with the Russians, Sam head-butted with Rodney and blew the Russian's DHD AND saved Teal'c from being trapped in the Stargate and got Rodney sent to Siberia! You can so write a fic if they can do that!

*kicks stories*

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[identity profile] pepper-field.livejournal.com 2007-05-09 08:45 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, but they're geniuses. *gets whiney*

Okay. I can do it. It's only fic. Nothing to be scared of. *g*

Oh, meme prompts, why are you so much more appealing than my ficathon story?

[identity profile] moonshayde.livejournal.com 2007-05-08 10:02 pm (UTC)(link)
I suggest more procrastination. ;)

This is maybe the only time I've ever liked Felger. Thanks for the smile ;)
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[identity profile] pepper-field.livejournal.com 2007-05-08 10:07 pm (UTC)(link)
*throws things at you*

MORE procrastination??? You honestly wouldn't credit how much time I spend procrastinating as it is. And this Stargate obsession is mostly a way of procrastinating my real life, anyhow!

And, aww! That's nice to hear, thank you. I like Felger, personally - even if he is a little creepy. *g*
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[identity profile] surreallis.livejournal.com 2007-05-08 10:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Ahaha! I have never seen an episode of Buffy, but I found it hilarious anyway. :D
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[identity profile] pepper-field.livejournal.com 2007-05-09 07:56 am (UTC)(link)
You've NEVER SEEN BUFFY?!?

*faintz ded*

I thought the whole world (or at least that portion of it that's on the internet) had seen it. I live and learn. I'm glad it worked anyhow. *g*

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[identity profile] l-jade.livejournal.com 2007-05-09 06:27 am (UTC)(link)
LOL! thank you for the crack!

And WIllow is Janet of course :P and now I'm missing ANGEL :(
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[identity profile] pepper-field.livejournal.com 2007-05-09 07:58 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, Willow should be Janet - although, of course, if Cam is there, Janet isn't. But probably best not to make too close a comparison... :D

I still haven't seen all of Angel. Someday I will.
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[identity profile] l-jade.livejournal.com 2007-05-11 06:00 am (UTC)(link)
How 'bout Darth!Willow for Adria :P

Have you read the comic/seen the cover for Buffy season 8 ?? Joss decides to make it in comic/graphic novel and the covers are yummy!

If you have to see ANGEL, see season 5, it's the best! especially Smile Time *point at icon* for the crack factor, but the whole season are just... *sigh* always makes me mad at WB for cancelling the show. But I heard Joss is preparing to make Angel season 6 in graphic novel too... so YAY!