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Torchwood/Stargate: Atlantis (NC-17)
Title: A Ring in the Black Sea by basingstoke
Pairing: Jack/Teyla
Length: ~6600 words
Author on LJ:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
basingstoke
Author's Website: snogging puppets
Why this must be read:
I must admit I'm not really an SGA fan, but I absolutely adore this story. The backstory posited for Jack (this was written well before Adam, etc.) is fascinating, sad and poignant all at once:
"No. There isn't a gate where I come from. The Wraith never found my people. We found our own reasons to kill each other," he said, his mouth twisting. "I think they must all be dead. Even if they're not, it's not worth going back there. But the military got me off that planet, and I found a new place. New people--that I loved. Dearly," Jack said. He let out his breath and smoothed water across his face with both hands. It was a gesture of grieving on Alaeon, bringing the salt water to your face to mix with the tears that you shed. The waters at Alaeon were vast and shallow, warm and salty, threaded through with fingers of land. On the land, people from all worlds had built benches, cairns, simple piles of stone or steel or plastic. Clothing, weapons, all the trappings of your people were left on the land when you took the water. In the water, you were nameless. In the waters of Alaeon, the tears of all the Pegasus galaxy mingled. If you found you could not cry, all of Pegasus would cry for you.
The pairing between Jack and Teyla isn't a "relationship" or a romance so much as a brief encounter, but one that has a long-lasting impact on both of them. And in typical basingstoke fashion, there are moments in this story where you will laugh out loud, because she captures the characters' voices brilliantly and brings out their lighter sides so well.
A Ring in the Black Sea
Pairing: Jack/Teyla
Length: ~6600 words
Author on LJ:
basingstokeAuthor's Website: snogging puppets
Why this must be read:
I must admit I'm not really an SGA fan, but I absolutely adore this story. The backstory posited for Jack (this was written well before Adam, etc.) is fascinating, sad and poignant all at once:
"No. There isn't a gate where I come from. The Wraith never found my people. We found our own reasons to kill each other," he said, his mouth twisting. "I think they must all be dead. Even if they're not, it's not worth going back there. But the military got me off that planet, and I found a new place. New people--that I loved. Dearly," Jack said. He let out his breath and smoothed water across his face with both hands. It was a gesture of grieving on Alaeon, bringing the salt water to your face to mix with the tears that you shed. The waters at Alaeon were vast and shallow, warm and salty, threaded through with fingers of land. On the land, people from all worlds had built benches, cairns, simple piles of stone or steel or plastic. Clothing, weapons, all the trappings of your people were left on the land when you took the water. In the water, you were nameless. In the waters of Alaeon, the tears of all the Pegasus galaxy mingled. If you found you could not cry, all of Pegasus would cry for you.
The pairing between Jack and Teyla isn't a "relationship" or a romance so much as a brief encounter, but one that has a long-lasting impact on both of them. And in typical basingstoke fashion, there are moments in this story where you will laugh out loud, because she captures the characters' voices brilliantly and brings out their lighter sides so well.
A Ring in the Black Sea