Plot-bunny: Highlander / Stargate (1 of 3)

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When I posted Escape Route loe these many years ago, my first Methos in the Stargate universe, I commented:

For some reason I have discovered in my head half a dozen or so plot bunnies that get Methos involved with the SGC in some way or another, as ally or enemy or just someone really annoying sitting back and mocking their struggles. This was the shortest smallest plot bunny that's sort of me testing the waters of this crossover universe.

Later I wound up writing a longer Methos in the Stargate universe story, A Square Peg in a Round Hole, commenting:

When I started writing this Highlander/Stargate crossover I had four completely different ways of fitting the two universes together plus a smattering of random scenes. At this point I think I have waffled enough about which one is really the best one to go with and so have simply decided to pick one and post it and then see where I go from here.

I recently got a request from Mountain Elements / mountainelement to post the plot-bunnies for the other ideas that I had. Since I’m not planning writing any of these, I release them out to pasture. This one, the first of three, is the shortest one. It is also a rare one for me in that it’s slash. I rarely write romances and when I do, they tend to be, um, ruthless. (see: Her Kingdom as Great).

Anyway: the first of three:

Jack O’Neill looked furious. Sheppard paused for a moment to let him storm past. The Atlantis crew was back on Earth for the time being, hoping to get back to Atlantis someday. To do that they’d probably need O’Neill’s assistance at some point so Sheppard did not want to get on his bad side.

Although watching him go by there was more than just fury…

He would figure out what had happened soon enough. McKay didn’t even notice the pause, still groggy from Sheppard having dragged him away from his cot in the lab after only two hours of sleep. Finally, amongst all the chaos, he found Elizabeth.

“So, what happened?”

The words were barely out of Sheppard’s mouth when McKay squawked, “You don’t already know?” For an optimistic moment Elizabeth thought she might get out of explaining the situation herself.

“You dragged me out of bed away from my much needed sleep saying it was an emergency and you don’t even know what it is?”

“Elizabeth sounded stressed.” Shepherd shrugged.

“Well, now that I’m here anyway, what is going on?” Rodney frowned, took a sip of coffee and rather pointedly looked at the other small groups whispering to each other.

Elizabeth sighed. “There are a great many rumors going around at the moment but the basic facts are that Dr. Jackson started flickering into incorporeal blue light at about one thirty this morning, possibly re-ascending, but did settle back into solid human soon after.”

She paused trying to figure out how to phrase the next bit. Inspiration noticeably failed to strike.

Then Rodney appeared to finally wake up. “One thirty this morning? He left the base at eight. Where was he?”

“Shit. Tell me he wasn’t in a bar or anywhere with a lot of witnesses.” Sheppard didn’t want to be on Earth at all but he really, really didn’t want to be on Earth when there was a major leak like a person ascending in public.

“No, no,” Elizabeth hastened to assure them. “He was at his apartment at the time and his condition was called in directly to the SGC by a civilian he had over.”

Sheppard was watching her too closely. “What else?”

“A male civilian.”

Rodney snorted. Just amused, rather than coffee out the nose, she was relieved to see. “A male civilian who was in his presence at 3am in his apartment? And what exactly were they doing that made Jackson so content with the universe that he almost ascended? Or is that confidential?”

Rodney smirked. Elizabeth winced. Shepherd had that blank look on his face that could hide anything.

And yes, this is Methos and Daniel Jackson are lovers and after one particularly satisfying night, Daniel almost ascended. I have no idea where the story goes from there. But there’s certainly a lot of innuendo around base about Methos’ skills, as it were. (I do enjoy bedroom humor.) And any attempt at harassment does not end well when confronted by Methos who has actually dealt with a lot of it over the years, mostly a lot more deadly than this. (Consider being a stranger coming into a very insular village where everyone has known each other going back at least seven generations. Consider being harassed as a potential witch/demon/terrorist/etc and the villagers waiting to stone you out of sight. Consider doing this repeatedly. Then consider how unamused Methos would be to be outed on a modern military base. It's not a pleasant sight. And yet, it really, really is.)

Plus, Jack is jealous of Daniel (wanting him for himself) and Sheppard is probably jealous as well (wanting to have the freedom to be out rather than be severely closeted as he is.)

Beyond that, stuff happens. Any ideas?