A Halfway Moment, by Fridayschild (PG-13)
Jul. 11th, 2012 12:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
figs_sg1_recRec Category: Jack and Sam friendship
Categories: ep related, angst
Warnings: none
Author on LJ:fridayschild85
Author's Website: unknown
Link: A Halfway Moment
Why This Must Be Read: This is a fantastic episode tag for Scorched Earth, with a worried Sam thinking of future repercussions and an intelligent Jack using his unique brand of deviousness to offer a possible solution. I love the way this leads so naturally into the events of Chain Reaction. It's an excellent glimpse at the military half of both Sam and Jack -- and their friendship, too.
“Sir, we detonated a bomb thousands of times stronger than any nuclear weapon ever developed. That explosion today made the bomb dropped at Hiroshima look like a Roman candle on the Fourth of July. Do you really think the powers that be will leave it at that?”
“This is about ordering you to build a bomb?” He should have known.
“No, sir. It’s about all the other bombs that are going to follow.”
Jack sighs and rubs a hand over his gritty, tired eyes. “Carter…”
“I’ve spent the last three years warning that naquadah is too unstable to use in a bomb at our current level of technology. After seeing what a particle of potassium reacting with a particle of naquadah was capable of, just about everyone agreed with me and left it alone because the risks outweighed the rewards.” Sam meets his gaze again, her eyes swimming with guilt and self-recrimination. “Today I proved that there’s a low-risk way to construct a naquadah bomb. How long do you think it will be before the Pentagon places its first order?”
Categories: ep related, angst
Warnings: none
Author on LJ:
fridayschild85Author's Website: unknown
Link: A Halfway Moment
Why This Must Be Read: This is a fantastic episode tag for Scorched Earth, with a worried Sam thinking of future repercussions and an intelligent Jack using his unique brand of deviousness to offer a possible solution. I love the way this leads so naturally into the events of Chain Reaction. It's an excellent glimpse at the military half of both Sam and Jack -- and their friendship, too.
“Sir, we detonated a bomb thousands of times stronger than any nuclear weapon ever developed. That explosion today made the bomb dropped at Hiroshima look like a Roman candle on the Fourth of July. Do you really think the powers that be will leave it at that?”
“This is about ordering you to build a bomb?” He should have known.
“No, sir. It’s about all the other bombs that are going to follow.”
Jack sighs and rubs a hand over his gritty, tired eyes. “Carter…”
“I’ve spent the last three years warning that naquadah is too unstable to use in a bomb at our current level of technology. After seeing what a particle of potassium reacting with a particle of naquadah was capable of, just about everyone agreed with me and left it alone because the risks outweighed the rewards.” Sam meets his gaze again, her eyes swimming with guilt and self-recrimination. “Today I proved that there’s a low-risk way to construct a naquadah bomb. How long do you think it will be before the Pentagon places its first order?”
