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badly_knittedTitle: The Wrong Side
Fandom: Stargate SG-1
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badly_knittedCharacters: Jack O’Neill, Daniel, Teal’c, Alar.
Rating: PG
Spoilers/Setting: The Other Side.
Summary: Now that Jack realises he was helping the wrong side, he intends to correct his mistake.
Written For: Challenge 441: Amnesty 73 at
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fan_flashworks, using Challenge 38: The Other Side.Disclaimer: I don’t own Stargate SG-1, or the characters.
A/N: Triple drabble.
It was hard to admit he was wrong, but Jack did it anyway, because he wasn’t the kind to duck his responsibilities. He’d screwed up, couldn’t see the forest for the trees, and other cliches along those lines. He was all about what earth could gain in terms of advanced weapons and technology, just for giving the Eurondans some heavy water, but sometimes the means didn’t justify the ends. Sometimes the price tag was just too high.
He should have paid better attention, listened to Daniel, looked deeper, because the clues were there all along. The Eurondans weren’t victims in a desperate fight for survival, they were fighting a eugenics war, and worse, they were the ones who’d started it, wanting to eradicate the ‘breeders’, whatever the cost.
It was the other side who were fighting for survival, battling to keep from being wiped out by people who cared only for genetic purity, saw them as a plague, an abomination. Alar and his people were no better than the Nazis, killing anyone who didn’t fit with their vision.
The Eurondans built themselves a protected underground complex, then poisoned the atmosphere, and now they wanted earth to help them destroy everyone who wasn’t like them. It sickened Jack to realise how close he’d come to enabling them to do just that.
But now that O’Neill knew the truth, it was time to make amends, something that went a little further than merely apologising to Daniel for his own short-sightedness. Time to strike a blow for the other side! Piloting the drones, he and Teal’c switched sides, guiding the ‘enemy’ bombers in. It was the least they could do after they’d been manipulated into killing earlier. With a little assistance, perhaps the rest of the planet’s inhabitants could take back their world.
The End
He should have paid better attention, listened to Daniel, looked deeper, because the clues were there all along. The Eurondans weren’t victims in a desperate fight for survival, they were fighting a eugenics war, and worse, they were the ones who’d started it, wanting to eradicate the ‘breeders’, whatever the cost.
It was the other side who were fighting for survival, battling to keep from being wiped out by people who cared only for genetic purity, saw them as a plague, an abomination. Alar and his people were no better than the Nazis, killing anyone who didn’t fit with their vision.
The Eurondans built themselves a protected underground complex, then poisoned the atmosphere, and now they wanted earth to help them destroy everyone who wasn’t like them. It sickened Jack to realise how close he’d come to enabling them to do just that.
But now that O’Neill knew the truth, it was time to make amends, something that went a little further than merely apologising to Daniel for his own short-sightedness. Time to strike a blow for the other side! Piloting the drones, he and Teal’c switched sides, guiding the ‘enemy’ bombers in. It was the least they could do after they’d been manipulated into killing earlier. With a little assistance, perhaps the rest of the planet’s inhabitants could take back their world.
The End
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Date: 2024-11-18 12:08 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2024-11-18 11:22 am (UTC)The Other Side is a favourite episode of mine, partly because it shows Jack and Daniel butting heads, and Jack being a jerk to Daniel, but then apologising. They don't always agree anyway, but this was kind of a pivotal moment, and Jack eventually realising Daniel was right, that he should have looked more closely at what was going on... Not everyone can admit when they're wrong and own their mistakes
Thank you!