crack_van | Eroding Away the Mountains by abyssinia4077 (PG)

Hello all. I'm

6beforelunch and I've been kindly permitted to be your SG1 driver for this month. Expect het and gen with a focus on various characters and pairings. :)

Fandom: STARGATE SG-1
Pairing: none (Sam and Daniel friendship)
Author on LJ:

abyssinia4077
Author Website: Masterlist of Fanfiction
Why this must be read: When I found out that

abyssinia4077's wonderful fic had yet to be reced here, I got excited. Eroding Away the Mountains became a favorite the first time I read it and I've only grown to love it more since. This is a lovely story that focuses on Sam and Daniel, a friendship that seems sadly neglected by fandom sometimes.

abyssinia4077 fleshes out the course of their friendship beautifully. The story spans the first five seasons, from the awkwardness of first getting to know each other to the development of a comfortable friendship to Sam's agonizing loss in Meridian. Beautiful characterization is married with a wonderful interweaving of canon events that takes the reader on an emotional journey and makes you feel, at the end, Sam's grief at the events of Meridian.

She says, "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have bothered you," at the same time he says, "Captain Carter, I'm afraid Jack isn't here."

"Oh, no, I know he's fishing," she stammers. "Actually I came to see you, but you're probably busy. I'll leave."

"No, no, come in." He pauses for a minute before stepping aside so she can actually come through the door. "I was, uh, reading. Jack has a year's worth of Newsweek magazines and I thought I'd see what I missed while I was gone." His smile is still a little shy, as if nervous she might declare him a geek for wanting to brush up on recent history.

"Oh. NASA sent another probe to Mars, Atlanta hosted the Olympics, there was a really good Star Trek movie, some people in Scotland cloned a sheep and, um, I think the Packers won the Super Bowl," she tells him, checking out the colonel's house. She's a little excited to see the poster of Mars on the wall and the model of an Apollo capsule on the bar.

He nods at her and she's convinced that if she asks him three days from now, he'll be able to tell her exactly what she'd said. Suddenly she's completely sure she has nothing to offer this man. She may have developed the dialing program and she can almost explain some of the physics behind how the gate works, but he translated the symbols, stepped through into the unknown, helped kill a Goa'uld without any military training, and lived for a year on an alien planet. Now he's returned to Earth, which must seem just as alien, and his wife is lost to the stars and an alien parasite. Dr. Jackson always seemed a little larger than life back when she'd read the mission reports and thought he was dead, but now he stands in front of her wearing rumpled sweatpants and a confused smile, and she feels more nervous than she had for her doctoral defense.

Eroding Away the Mountains

Eroding Away the Mountains by abyssinia4077 (PG)

no subject

no subject