Of Gate Techs and Goa'uld
By:afg	
Rating: All Ages.
Category: Angst.
Spoilers: 'There But For The Grace Of God'.
Disclaimer: Not mine and no money is being made.
Written for the Gateship Wednesday Shorts TBFTGOG Challenge.



He remembered thinking once that it would be so cool to run around in 
full combat gear, toting an automatic weapon. He'd been a geek, all 
his life, and when he'd joined the Air Force he'd done his weapons 
training like all the other raw recruits and had discovered, to his 
immense disappointment, that he really wasn't cut out to shoot guns. 
His instructor had told him very loudly and at great length what he had 
thought of his marksmanship. However, since being drafted to the 
SGC his G.I Joe fantasies had been re-awakened.

 Well they had until today. Today, he was running through the 
corridors of the SGC holding his long desired weapon, and it didn't 
feel at all like he'd thought it would. First of all the gun was heavy and 
his hands were sweating, he couldn't aim properly because those 
sweating hands also shook. He wasn't in combat gear, just a stiff 
cumbersome Kevlar vest over his V-neck and shirt and tie, he even 
had his second best dress pants on and his shiny shoes, that he'd 
polished so carefully this morning. What surprised him most of all 
though, was that he was frightened. Him, Walter Harriman, Mr cool as 
a cucumber behind his station in the control room; he supposed that 
control was the operative word. Out here in the smoking tunnels, with 
people he knew being killed around him, he had no control at all.

 It came to him that very probably he was going to die today, and that 
everybody he knew would die too, He'd been at the SGC since the 
very beginning, he was strangely glad that he would be here at its end. 
He could see General Hammond and a few men at the end of the 
corridor, under heavy fire. Suddenly his hands were steady and dry as 
a bone. It was time to show his old weapons instructor just how well 
he could shoot. It was a real pity about the combat gear though.