One of them a wedding picture of their Mom and their biological father, John O’Neill. Their father had died when his sons were very young, killed in a bank robbery gone wrong. He’d died protecting his family.
The second picture was of the two brothers, their mother, and their stepfather, James MacGyver. It had been taken the summer before Celia Jackson and Peter had died in the car accident.
Mac stared at them in awe, his fingers hovering just over the pictures.
“I ehm, I already had them professionally copied and reprinted… several prints.” Jack shrugged self-consciously. “You can keep these… if you like.”
“You sure?” Mac asked, a quick look at his brother, who nodded, then quickly returning to look at the pictures. Finally he dared to touch them. Real. They were real. Joy bubbled up, and his eyes shone when he regarded his brother. “They’re real!”
Jack grinned and nodded. “Worth tearing your attention from those squiggly lines of code then?”
Mac pulled a face, but he couldn’t form a witty retort. It had been so long since either of them had seen a picture of their parents. Mac regarded his brother. “How about we both keep one original, and a copy of the other?” he offered. Jack raised one eyebrow. Then he nodded, his own spirits lifting as well. Mac’s joy was infectious.
Jack cleared his throat. “So…Fishing then?”
Mac chuckled. “Yes sure ya betcha.”
It was the end of the weekend when Jack left his brother’s floating home to return back to duty the next day. The two brothers looked at each other for a moment, eyes taking in as much as they could, to remember until they next saw each other again.
Then Mac spoke up. “Thank you.”
Jack shrugged. “Yeah, well, right back atcha.”
They grinned, and after a brotherly hug, Jack left.
Mac went back inside, still in a good mood. He looked over at the – now framed -pictures, and smiled. Then something caught his eye, and he groaned.
His computer screen was completely covered in duct tape, a message written across in black marker. “Warned ya.”
“Jack!!”
Jack chuckled, and quickly escaped. Served him right. Just because he’d been asked to have a look at some weird language written on a ring of stone, had not meant he had had to try and replicate that ring in the garage of their home back then. Which reminded him… he’d have to call Catherine and figure out why she had thought it a good idea to send such a drawing to a young MacGyver. And what he really wanted to know was… had his brother unknowingly contributed to the Stargate project? Not that it really mattered, he supposed. Although now he wondered… had Catherine known that Jack and Mac were brothers when Jack joined the Stargate project? Yes, he definitely had a call to make.
First things first though… As he made his way home, he started weighing the pros and cons of smuggling a GDO off base to see if it would open his garage door too…
The End
Finally. Hope you enjoyed! Sorry about hogging the space! If this should have gone somewhere else, let me know.
An enormous thank you to you, Beth, for providing the inspiration!
Thanks!(by the way, I probably won't be commenting here much for a little while - just had jaw surgery this week, and I just returned home today. I can't read the mouse-over texts with my phone though, so i'll just catch up another time. There, so you know I didn't get stuck back in time or something. ;))
Thanks! Yay, first time since the surgery that I'm on a computer again! My face is still rather swollen, even though it's already much better than what it was. I'm not complaining though; so far, the painkillers do a fantastic job at keeping the recovery pain-free. Yay! So, yeah: back on a computer, means: I'm ba-ack! ;)
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Mac hardly dared to breathe. Two pictures.
One of them a wedding picture of their Mom and their biological father, John O’Neill. Their father had died when his sons were very young, killed in a bank robbery gone wrong. He’d died protecting his family.
The second picture was of the two brothers, their mother, and their stepfather, James MacGyver. It had been taken the summer before Celia Jackson and Peter had died in the car accident.
Mac stared at them in awe, his fingers hovering just over the pictures.
“I ehm, I already had them professionally copied and reprinted… several prints.” Jack shrugged self-consciously. “You can keep these… if you like.”
“You sure?” Mac asked, a quick look at his brother, who nodded, then quickly returning to look at the pictures. Finally he dared to touch them. Real. They were real. Joy bubbled up, and his eyes shone when he regarded his brother. “They’re real!”
Jack grinned and nodded. “Worth tearing your attention from those squiggly lines of code then?”
Mac pulled a face, but he couldn’t form a witty retort. It had been so long since either of them had seen a picture of their parents. Mac regarded his brother. “How about we both keep one original, and a copy of the other?” he offered. Jack raised one eyebrow. Then he nodded, his own spirits lifting as well. Mac’s joy was infectious.
Jack cleared his throat. “So…Fishing then?”
Mac chuckled. “Yes sure ya betcha.”
It was the end of the weekend when Jack left his brother’s floating home to return back to duty the next day. The two brothers looked at each other for a moment, eyes taking in as much as they could, to remember until they next saw each other again.
Then Mac spoke up. “Thank you.”
Jack shrugged. “Yeah, well, right back atcha.”
They grinned, and after a brotherly hug, Jack left.
Mac went back inside, still in a good mood. He looked over at the – now framed -pictures, and smiled. Then something caught his eye, and he groaned.
His computer screen was completely covered in duct tape, a message written across in black marker. “Warned ya.”
“Jack!!”
Jack chuckled, and quickly escaped. Served him right. Just because he’d been asked to have a look at some weird language written on a ring of stone, had not meant he had had to try and replicate that ring in the garage of their home back then. Which reminded him… he’d have to call Catherine and figure out why she had thought it a good idea to send such a drawing to a young MacGyver. And what he really wanted to know was… had his brother unknowingly contributed to the Stargate project? Not that it really mattered, he supposed. Although now he wondered… had Catherine known that Jack and Mac were brothers when Jack joined the Stargate project? Yes, he definitely had a call to make.
First things first though… As he made his way home, he started weighing the pros and cons of smuggling a GDO off base to see if it would open his garage door too…
The End
Finally. Hope you enjoyed! Sorry about hogging the space! If this should have gone somewhere else, let me know.
An enormous thank you to you, Beth, for providing the inspiration!
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Thank you! Woohoo!!
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My face is still rather swollen, even though it's already much better than what it was. I'm not complaining though; so far, the painkillers do a fantastic job at keeping the recovery pain-free. Yay!
So, yeah: back on a computer, means: I'm ba-ack! ;)
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