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Take These Broken Wings by synecdochic (NC-17)
Hi, I'm your driver for the month of August. Please fasten all seatbelts and be advised that this will be the month of current team recs; in other words, if you don't like Cam Mitchell, well, this is your chance to have your mind changed :)
Fandom: STARGATE SG1
Pairing: Cameron Mitchell/Jonathan Nielson (aka JD, aka cloned!Jack)
Length: Noveletta (series of chapters ten - twenty thousand words each)
Author on LJ:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
synecdochic
Author Website: Venus in Furs
Why this must be read:
I'm so mystified by the idea that this hasn't been recced yet that I went back through entries before the first chapter was even posted just to double check, but it doesn't appear that my eyes are playing tricks on me, to my joy and excitement.
This is, hands-down, my favourite SG1 fic ever. It features Mitchell who's 'kind of halfway between canon-Cam and "The Road Not Taken" Cam' and Jack's clone who definitely didn't go off back to high school like a good little teenager. Instead, he shows up on Cam's doorstep, with a proposition (not that kind of... okay, yeah, that kind as well).
This is an au that makes writing computer code interesting; that makes you ache for Cam and JD and for what they've both lost; that allows for both characters to be labelled cradle snatchers, depending on how you look at it. And it has the Mitchell extended family, who are one of the most realistic groups of ocs I can remember seeing recently.
The main story currently stands at eleven chapters, three interludes and a whole bunch of very hot porn paragraphs. There's another part still to come, but what's up right now can be read as a complete story.
They go through days where they argue about everything, from who used the last of the toothpaste (Cam) to who forgot they were out of orange juice (JD) to who broke the spine of the squirrel book (JD, and Cam's annoyed, because he's bitched at JD's habit of leaving books open spine-up to no end). Cam gets frustrated at himself for how slowly he's re-learning integrated systems engineering and JD gets annoyed at himself every time he re-invents the wheel. The weather changes, changes back -- early fall in Colorado is schizophrenic -- and plays merry hell with Cam's joints. They go through a lot of Pop-Tarts, a lot of coffee, and at least a few days where they communicate entirely by IM because they both know that if they say a word out loud, someone's gonna get shot.
But there are good days, too. The days when Cam actually forgets that he's crippled, because every time he's about to do something that would remind him, JD's right at his elbow taking care of it instead, always with that studied nonchalance intended to communicate that JD had been just about to get to it. The days when a problem they'd been working on just clicks, and one or both of them winds up awake all night working out subroutines and banging out code. The days when Momma calls, and can hear Cam feeling happy again, feeling useful again. The days when Cam forgets how strange this would look to anyone who wasn't them.
Take These Broken Wings
Fandom: STARGATE SG1
Pairing: Cameron Mitchell/Jonathan Nielson (aka JD, aka cloned!Jack)
Length: Noveletta (series of chapters ten - twenty thousand words each)
Author on LJ:
synecdochicAuthor Website: Venus in Furs
Why this must be read:
I'm so mystified by the idea that this hasn't been recced yet that I went back through entries before the first chapter was even posted just to double check, but it doesn't appear that my eyes are playing tricks on me, to my joy and excitement.
This is, hands-down, my favourite SG1 fic ever. It features Mitchell who's 'kind of halfway between canon-Cam and "The Road Not Taken" Cam' and Jack's clone who definitely didn't go off back to high school like a good little teenager. Instead, he shows up on Cam's doorstep, with a proposition (not that kind of... okay, yeah, that kind as well).
This is an au that makes writing computer code interesting; that makes you ache for Cam and JD and for what they've both lost; that allows for both characters to be labelled cradle snatchers, depending on how you look at it. And it has the Mitchell extended family, who are one of the most realistic groups of ocs I can remember seeing recently.
The main story currently stands at eleven chapters, three interludes and a whole bunch of very hot porn paragraphs. There's another part still to come, but what's up right now can be read as a complete story.
They go through days where they argue about everything, from who used the last of the toothpaste (Cam) to who forgot they were out of orange juice (JD) to who broke the spine of the squirrel book (JD, and Cam's annoyed, because he's bitched at JD's habit of leaving books open spine-up to no end). Cam gets frustrated at himself for how slowly he's re-learning integrated systems engineering and JD gets annoyed at himself every time he re-invents the wheel. The weather changes, changes back -- early fall in Colorado is schizophrenic -- and plays merry hell with Cam's joints. They go through a lot of Pop-Tarts, a lot of coffee, and at least a few days where they communicate entirely by IM because they both know that if they say a word out loud, someone's gonna get shot.
But there are good days, too. The days when Cam actually forgets that he's crippled, because every time he's about to do something that would remind him, JD's right at his elbow taking care of it instead, always with that studied nonchalance intended to communicate that JD had been just about to get to it. The days when a problem they'd been working on just clicks, and one or both of them winds up awake all night working out subroutines and banging out code. The days when Momma calls, and can hear Cam feeling happy again, feeling useful again. The days when Cam forgets how strange this would look to anyone who wasn't them.
Take These Broken Wings