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crack_van2005-09-19 09:27 pm
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Settling by Elly427 (PG)
Fandom: STARGATE SG-1
Pairing: Sam/Jack, Sam/Pete
Author on LJ:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
elly427
Author Website: eikonklastes
Why this must be read:
The series had a nice 'quick fix' for the cliffhanger at the end of The Lost City, but what if it hadn't been so easy? This is what might have happened if Jack hadn't been so easily rescued, and if Sam had been left to actually play the cards she'd dealt herself up 'til that point.
Elly427's Daniel is spot on, and he has an excellent supporting role here, and her Sam is totally believable in her despair, and in her desperate attempts to move on.
She doesn't get out of bed for three days after she resigns. When Pete asks, she tells him she's just tired, but she knows he doesn't believe her and she's not surprised when she hears him on the phone with Daniel. She thinks it should worry her that her . . . that Pete feels the need to phone Daniel when something's wrong with her, to phone a man who holds the title of 'best friend' only by default, only because Janet's dead, because as much as she loves Cassie she's still too young sometimes, because Teal'c still doesn't always understand, hard as he tries.
She hears him bid Daniel goodbye and put the phone down, listens to his footsteps as he moves down the hall towards the kitchen, expects to hear the door opening, expects him to leave her alone, and instead hears the distinct electrical buzz of the TV being turned on.
She doesn't sleep. She doesn't do much of anything. For once her brain is quiet, and she can distract it by contemplating the crack in her ceiling and deciding whether or not she should paint, distracts it by noting that she
really, really needs to get new curtains.
It's amazing how long she can think of trivialities if she really concentrates.
Settling
Pairing: Sam/Jack, Sam/Pete
Author on LJ:
elly427Author Website: eikonklastes
Why this must be read:
The series had a nice 'quick fix' for the cliffhanger at the end of The Lost City, but what if it hadn't been so easy? This is what might have happened if Jack hadn't been so easily rescued, and if Sam had been left to actually play the cards she'd dealt herself up 'til that point.
Elly427's Daniel is spot on, and he has an excellent supporting role here, and her Sam is totally believable in her despair, and in her desperate attempts to move on.
She doesn't get out of bed for three days after she resigns. When Pete asks, she tells him she's just tired, but she knows he doesn't believe her and she's not surprised when she hears him on the phone with Daniel. She thinks it should worry her that her . . . that Pete feels the need to phone Daniel when something's wrong with her, to phone a man who holds the title of 'best friend' only by default, only because Janet's dead, because as much as she loves Cassie she's still too young sometimes, because Teal'c still doesn't always understand, hard as he tries.
She hears him bid Daniel goodbye and put the phone down, listens to his footsteps as he moves down the hall towards the kitchen, expects to hear the door opening, expects him to leave her alone, and instead hears the distinct electrical buzz of the TV being turned on.
She doesn't sleep. She doesn't do much of anything. For once her brain is quiet, and she can distract it by contemplating the crack in her ceiling and deciding whether or not she should paint, distracts it by noting that she
really, really needs to get new curtains.
It's amazing how long she can think of trivialities if she really concentrates.
Settling