Fics I've had the fleeting urge to write today but wouldn't know how to start:

[magibrain]

1) The one where the first time Sam uses the Goa'uld ribbon device it scrambles her neural pathways and leaves her without access to the linguistic portions of her brain for a few days, and the team has to find a way to bring her through it.

2) The one where something goes horribly wrong with Sha're's pregnancy, her body absorbs the Harcesis, and Amonet goes into a Goa'uld coma, leaving Sha're with the genetic memory of the Goa'uld and a position of power in Apophis' empire, and ends up becoming a fake System Lord/replacement main character for Absolute Power.

3) The one where Hammond comes in to the SGC one morning only to find that SG-1 has taken over the place and are playing some weird four-faction game of cat and mouse because one or more of them is under alien influence, but no one is sure who.

4) The one where Sam and Daniel fall through the Rift into S1-era beyondtherift and get dragged into Torchwood Chicago for three years before the Rift establishes a two-way connection back to the SGC, where only a few months have passed, and Jack O'Neill and Jack Harkness eye each other a lot and are quietly mistrustful because no one should get that close to/have that much power over their people without them knowing about it. (Okay, this one I have bits written out of in my braintics file, but come on. IT WOULD HAVE A READERSHIP OF ONE PERSON. ME.)

5) The one that comes before Scales.

[ETA] 6) The one where they discover a dialect of Goa'uld which exhibits rhyming slang and Daniel just doesn't want to explain.

Comments

[antonomasia]

Aww, poor Walter would be holed up in a closet somewhere until Hammond got there and made an announcement on the PA that he needed him. He deserves some hazard pay for all the ridiculousness that goes on under Cheyenne Mountain.

[magibrain]

I feel like everyone in that mountain deserves copious amounts of hazard pay. For all the times the 'Gate almost blows up, or there's a foothold situation, or everyone gets strung up from the ceiling and has alien duplicates made of them, or gets vanished into some other dimension by angry alien spirits...

The SGC is probably one of those places where you need to have security clearance just to handle their payroll. ("Why does the janitor get hazard pay, Frank?" "Don't ask those questions.")

[antonomasia]

Mm, true. That's a totally different story, though- the janitor who has a REALLY bad day at work cleaning up alien slime which turns out to be toxic/hallucinogenic, and he nearly dies before Janet can come up with a cure. And then he can't complain about it to his family or his friends when he goes home because they don't have security clearance. :)

So, I've been brainstorming with a friend, who suggested that maybe there was an alien artifact that was actually a prison for semi-corporeal beings, and some of the prisoners got released when SG-1 touched it. Then, the aliens possessed them either to escape offworld or to live out their lives somewhere else on earth. So it was probably either Daniel's or Sam's fault, which means that one or both of them is possessed. And I kind of want Teal'c to be possessed too, just because it never happens to him, but I'm not sure if it can be justified. The possessed ones would probably be accusing the non-possessed ones, but one of the non-possessed ones could think that the other non-possessed one was acting suspiciously too. Like mafia.

[magibrain]

Though it could be, depending on how it was rendered, either hilarious or heartrending to see Jack, who usually places such absolute trust in his team, aware that his entire team has been compromised and trying desperately to convince Hammond and Janet that none of them can be trusted. Just now. Because they're not really them.

You could probably justify it by having them all in a room, and then Jack hears a noise in the hall or something and goes to check it out, and that's the exact moment Daniel pokes something and the semicorporeal beings just needed a direct line-of-sight between themselves and their hosts-to-be, and can't pass through stone or whatever the place is made of. Jack hears the noise from the room he just left, steps back in, and suddenly everyone is really eager to leave.

Heck, if they needed a direct line-of-sight, he could have just been standing behind a pillar, or something.

...it would be really funny if Jack was the only one unaffected, but four escaped prisoners hitched rides back to Earth because some unlucky sap got stuck in Junior.

[antonomasia]

Okay, the biggest question then is which direction should it go in: funny or serious? Either way could work. Actually, is it okay with you if I take a stab at writing this, since I kind of want to try it both ways?

I think it would also be cool if even Jack didn't know whether or not Sam was possessed. She could have been further away from the device/half-hidden behind something when he stepped out, so it's possible that she may have not been targeted.

Haha, I would feel bad for both the prisoner and Junior! Neither of them could possibly be enjoying that!

Also, I wanted to say that this conversation is giving me all the Stargate feels, so thank you very much for being willing to discuss all of this with me!

[magibrain]

I'd be happy if you were to write it! You probably have a more solid idea of where to go with it than I ever did. *g* And I think it could work easily as funny or serious, or as a snappy, funny coating on a gooey serious center.

And hah, yeah, having Jack unsure as to one or more of the team would add another really fun layer of trust and suspicion, on there. Especially if Sam might be able to whip up some kind of detector, but no one knows how far they should trust said detector because Sam's the only one on base who understands the science and if she's possessed, it could all be a trick.

[antonomasia]

Thanks! I've started working on an outline, and realized that the way it's going currently, it's from Jack's POV rather than Hammond's and the only ambiguous possession to him is Sam's. I'm not sure whether or not she's really possessed or not. Leaning towards yes, though, because if she is then the prisoner in her can either actually be innocent of the crime he/she was accused of or just isn't really friends with the ones inside Daniel and Teal'c.

It's going to be linear, starting with SG-1 on the planet and something weird happening. At this point, I've got SG-1 acting normally all the way through the post-op checkup and debriefing, but then afterwards Daniel tells Jack that he wants to leave the base. Jack won't let him because Dr. Frasier imposed a 24 hour quarantine on them after she heard that something strange happened, so Daniel tries to shoot Jack. Jack tells Sam, who says she doesn't believe him, and Hammond, who sends SF's to take Daniel into custody just in case. When they find Daniel, though, he looks terrified and is claiming that Jack was threatening him.

Love the detector idea! If it works, it's probably some sort of small EEG machine because they can't get SG-1 into the infirmary to do a proper one.

I'm definitely going to have to write another version from Hammond's POV where he has no idea what's going on. I need to get this one down first, though.