Fandom: Stargate SG-1
Pairing: Sam/Other, Sam/Teal'c (er, kind of)
Author on LJ:
troyswannAuthor Website: Outside the BoxWhy this must be read:All of Salieri's stories are wonderful, in many different ways - she's probably my favorite writer in the fandom when it comes to prose style - so choosing just one to recommend was... difficult. I came down on Surface Tension for four reasons:
1) It's relatively short;
2) It doesn't require any real knowledge of canon;
3) It features a strong Sam POV, something that is vanishingly rare in the subset of Stargate fanfic that I read;
4) and it lets me set up a paired recommendation with the story I'll be posting about tomorrow. (Aren't I the clever one!)
( Spoilers beyond the cut )Lastly, oh, the
way this is written, the tightly-leashed desperation. It's wonderful. Go read it. Shoo.
Because he was Daniel and nervous, his gaze was itinerant, wandering over her head, to the numbers on the wall beside the door, the withering begonia in its pot on the porch rail, his shoes. Sam wanted to clasp his face between her hands and say, "Look." Instead, she twisted the rubber band around two fingers, tighter and tighter, until the fingertips were purple.Surface Tension