therienne and
aka_arduinna both pointed me to this SG-1 story. Short, hilarious and insane.
When Carter finished, Jack nodded firmly and said, "Great. Keep up the good work. When you do you think you'll be--" It was probably a little sad that he had a standardized vague hand gesture that meant "back to normal."
Carter talked some more. It was a speech full of eventualities and caveats and if-then statements. After a while, Jack turned to Daniel and said, "Maybe it’d be faster if you could, you know--" Sadly, he had a standardized hand gesture for this, too. "And then come straight back down. What? It’s worked before."
Yet Another SG-1 Adventure, by
minnow1212. SG-1, gen.