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Ficlet: Settling In, Gen, PG
Well, I can't *possibly* miss Gen Fic Day. Alas, I have no actual fic to post. But here's a little snippet (that was going nowhere in my WIP file) from between S8 and S9- Jack's settling in at the Pentagon, and his new assistant doesn't quite know what to make of him:
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Devereaux sorted through the pile of new mail, well into another typical day at the Pentagon. It was the first day of her second week working for her new CO, General O'Neill, and she still wasn’t sure what to make of him. He seemed at first like a complete hardass, with a sarcastic comment for nearly every occasion, except that the sarcasm seemed as often directed at himself as anyone. He'd dismissed three assistants before her, and she took a perverse pride she'd already lasted longer than any of them. He was a workaholic, like every other senior officer in the place, but with a subtle difference that had taken several days for her to place. Where other officers seemed to spend as much time jockeying for position as anything else, this one was all business. The sixteen hour days he put in were all on Air Force business.

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