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In The Depths of Silence by JB (PG-13)
Title: In The Depths of Silence by JB
Fandom: STARGATE SG-1
Pairing: None
Author on LJ: None that I know of.
Author Website: The Tablet
Why this must be read:
For starters? It is odds on one of the best Daniel pieces I've ever read.
One of my favorite, most impactful moments, of season 5 is the moment Daniel looks at Jack, after Jack has killed Reece, in Menace and says that "you stupid..." It's not so much that he'd say it to Jack that hits me. (Though that does factor in) as it is the fact that it's Daniel saying it. That somewhere in him, something has broken and he just can't take it anymore. That's what JB plays on in this story. The story takes Daniel to a very dark place in himself, the place where he's been storing up every pain, every broken promise, and every wound he's experienced, both from before the SGC and from his time there and, like every vessel, that place has finally fulled to overflowing and it flows out in an amazingly lyrical fashion in this story. It's heartbreaking to watch Daniel flounder and struggle and to watch the others not know what to do or how to reach him. To watch Jack try...
Friendship is an underlying current in Stargate and is used to perfection here as well in that fashion. The friendship is there but...in the end, this is another of Daniel's many battles and it's amazing to read.
In The Depths of Silence
Fandom: STARGATE SG-1
Pairing: None
Author on LJ: None that I know of.
Author Website: The Tablet
Why this must be read:
For starters? It is odds on one of the best Daniel pieces I've ever read.
One of my favorite, most impactful moments, of season 5 is the moment Daniel looks at Jack, after Jack has killed Reece, in Menace and says that "you stupid..." It's not so much that he'd say it to Jack that hits me. (Though that does factor in) as it is the fact that it's Daniel saying it. That somewhere in him, something has broken and he just can't take it anymore. That's what JB plays on in this story. The story takes Daniel to a very dark place in himself, the place where he's been storing up every pain, every broken promise, and every wound he's experienced, both from before the SGC and from his time there and, like every vessel, that place has finally fulled to overflowing and it flows out in an amazingly lyrical fashion in this story. It's heartbreaking to watch Daniel flounder and struggle and to watch the others not know what to do or how to reach him. To watch Jack try...
Friendship is an underlying current in Stargate and is used to perfection here as well in that fashion. The friendship is there but...in the end, this is another of Daniel's many battles and it's amazing to read.
In The Depths of Silence