The New Kid on the Block by Devra 
Jack/Daniel.  Established Relationship.  Season 8 post-Heroes.
Rating: PG-13
Doctor Brightman realises her job at the SGC encompasses more than just using her medical skills.

The New Kid On The Block by Devra

I hate this feeling. You know the one-where you walk into a party or a room full of people and everyone stops and stares. No one has the audacity to point, but you know you've been the topic of conversation. Well, that's how I feel at the SGC. Oh, don't get me wrong, it's not that I'm unwelcome here; it's just the circumstances surrounding my appointment as the CMO left a lot to be desired.

I jumped at the opportunity to join the SGC. Moved to Colorado, rented a house, rearranged every aspect of my life the minute this job was offered to me. The problem was, someone had forgotten to mention a very important piece of information to me, that I was replacing someone who had been killed in the line of duty. A much loved and respected someone who had been with the project almost from its inception, who not only had been the CMO of the facility but had become personal friends with most of her staff, as well as the famed SG1, and someone whose shoes I really wasn't trying to fill.

I wanted to be accepted on my own credentials, and right now I'm floundering, because I'm truly unsure how to do that.

I walk to Dr. Jackson's bedside, giving General O'Neill a curt nod hello. In return, I receive a tight smile and that's it. I shake my head in frustration the moment his attention is refocused on my patient and pick up the chart at the foot of the bed to study recent entries--my gaze bouncing from my patient's last recorded vitals to the current monitor readouts.

Injury sustained on SG1's last mission. An arrow to the left shoulder exacerbated by being cut off from the 'gate for hours on a rainy, humid planet, leading to blood loss and infection. Damage from the arrow now repaired, blood replaced, it's the damn fever from the infection that's giving me a run for my money and draining my patient's strength. On the negative side, the fever hasn't gone down but then on the plus side, neither has it risen in the past two hours. Dr. Jackson has faded in and out of consciousness and I'm not surprised when he acknowledges my presence with a slow rise of his lids. What *does* surprise me is the sotto voce tones General O'Neill uses to gain Dr. Jackson's attention.
 

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