New Fic: It's Different with Your Own

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It’s Different with Your Own
Fandom: Stargate SG-1
Rated: PG
Category: Double Drabble. Gen. Janet POV.
Season:  Pre-seven.
Spoilers: Broca Divide, Brief Candle.
Summary: They say it’s different with your own.
Note: Written for the 2012 Ancient Obsessions Advent Prompt: Major. (Not holiday fic.)

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They say it’s different with your own.

And Lord knows I’ve seen that enough to know it’s true.

Still, I thought I’d be different. Like countless doctors before me, I thought I was the exception to the rule. Given that I’ve seen people transformed into cavemen, several types of alien possessions, extremely rapid aging, and all sorts of other oddities, weird is part of my job. You’d think a little blood wouldn’t bother me, no matter who’s it was. And since I’ve also seen my share of truly gruesome wounds, you’d be right to think that.

Too bad you’d be wrong.

Turns out a simple laceration on Cassie’s arm (while not enough to panic me, thank you very much) was enough to cause a frantic drive to the emergency room.

Now that Cass is patched up and sleeping off her pain meds, I feel pretty sheepish.

I probably could’ve taken her to a minor emergency clinic or driven the extra distance to the SGC or even sutured her up myself.

But it’s like they say.

When it’s your kid, all bets are off. In that case, there are no minor emergencies.

When it’s yours and there’s blood, everything is major.