Taking a cab would have been easier, Daniel realizes by the time he makes it back to the building some twenty or thirty minutes after the fact, but at the time he'd been a little preoccupied over the fact that Seth is apparently fading from his perception. Public transportation hadn't exactly been high on his list of concerns.
Daniel's panting by the time he makes it to the apartment, jams the key in and twists with more viciousness than is strictly necessary, letting the door slam shut behind him. He's spent the entire run here systematically imagining and discarding all the various explanations for what could be happening, each possibility progressively escalating in the level of bad until he eventually halted it with a flat-out refusal to accept the fear that Seth might be gone permanently. Daniel won't accept that. He challenges every god he meets; mercurial space-time Rifts that spontaneously fade people out of existence are no exception.
Except Seth isn't faded out of existence. He can't be. And if he is Daniel will just have to get him back. A nice, solid plan, beautiful in its simplicity, only that Daniel has no idea where to start with this one. He doesn't have any of the SGC's resources. He doesn't even have his books. All he has is his phone, the nearest library, and - and Google maps.
Well, if Daniel can help save the galaxy with duct tape and hope then he can save Seth with a library and Google maps.
It's a brief matter to grab a jacket in preparation for more possible rain, check to ensure he has wallet, keys, phone - no texts from the beyond, or wherever it is Seth is now and Daniel will try not to think about that however hard it is - and head out again.
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Daniel's panting by the time he makes it to the apartment, jams the key in and twists with more viciousness than is strictly necessary, letting the door slam shut behind him. He's spent the entire run here systematically imagining and discarding all the various explanations for what could be happening, each possibility progressively escalating in the level of bad until he eventually halted it with a flat-out refusal to accept the fear that Seth might be gone permanently. Daniel won't accept that. He challenges every god he meets; mercurial space-time Rifts that spontaneously fade people out of existence are no exception.
Except Seth isn't faded out of existence. He can't be. And if he is Daniel will just have to get him back. A nice, solid plan, beautiful in its simplicity, only that Daniel has no idea where to start with this one. He doesn't have any of the SGC's resources. He doesn't even have his books. All he has is his phone, the nearest library, and - and Google maps.
Well, if Daniel can help save the galaxy with duct tape and hope then he can save Seth with a library and Google maps.
It's a brief matter to grab a jacket in preparation for more possible rain, check to ensure he has wallet, keys, phone - no texts from the beyond, or wherever it is Seth is now and Daniel will try not to think about that however hard it is - and head out again.