No Man Is Born An Angler by Anna (NC-17)

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Fandom: STARGATE SG-1
Author website: Eliade's Stories
Author on lj: [Bad username or site: ~eliade @ livejournal.com]
Pairing: Jack O'Neill/Daniel Jackson
Rating: NC-17
Why this must be read:

Lovely, lovely, lovely. Jack and Daniel are stuck on a planet without a stargate millions of lightyears from home and it's just possible that they are 'a thing'. Great writing, great atmosphere to the story (which could have been an almighty angst-fest) and a gorgeous sensuality to the language.

"I think we're a thing," Daniel said.
"We're not a thing."
"I'd be willing to admit it if you were."
"Oh, for crying out loud."
"Would it be that awful?"
"We're not a thing."
"Look around you, Jack." He leaned his scythe against his chest a moment and swept one arm out wide. "Who else do you see?"
I glared at him from under the brim of my cap. "You know that saying, if you were the last man on Earth?"
"Well, this isn't Earth either."
"Rub it in, why don't you." We scythed another minute or two in silence before I spoke again. "The key word there was 'man' by the way, in case you weren't paying attention."
"I think we should be able to talk about these things." He sounded reasonable, but he was saying unreasonable things. Why was that, I wondered, then remembered: because he was insane.

No Man Is Born An Angler

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/oceana_/]

This really is a great story, but it's the only of Anna S's fics that I read only twice. It makes me so sad! Can't they be rescued? What if one of them dies? The other one will be all alone.
*is sad*
But thanks for the rec, it's been a while since I read it. mm, maybe I'm in the mood for sad today.

[kraken-wakes.livejournal.com]

It's funny, but I've never seen it as 'sad'. I mean, the situation is fairly desparate but somehow there's this undercurrent of warmth and hope running through it. Uplifting rather than depressing, I think.