After Every War, by Magistrate (PG)
Rec Category: Drama
Categories: AU, angst, character study, original character, Daniel, Jonas, Teal'c, team
Warnings: none
Author on LJ: draegonhawke
Author's Website: Magistrate at AO3
Link: After Every War
Why This Must Be Read: When you can literally never go home again, how do you ground yourself? Where do you begin, and where will your journey take you? In this beautiful, deep story, many characters, both original and canon, ask themselves those questions. This fic is adult in the best sense of the word: intelligent, thought-provoking, with no easy answers.
Enjoy early S7 Teal'c, Daniel, a slightly AU Jonas, and several fascinating original characters, complete with excellent world-building, as they seek an answer to those questions... and find unexpected companionship along the way.
Natasu watched the strangers, his eyes flicking over them. He, unlike many in the village - unlike Saha, who'd grown up angry at stories - had seen the Jaffa, fought them, felt the fire of their weapons shriveling his foot and burning through his friends. He had given his own children, three of them, to the war - might they be looked after, by whatever true god might exist for them.
He, unlike many, could look at these two and see the difference between the wariness of the always-embattled and the wariness of the uncertain; see the way the injured one groped for purchase in his mind; see the way the lucid one watched over his friend, body angled to get between him and Natasu if necessary, protective as an older brother and deferential as a younger.
He could see the edges of a history, if not their content.
Likely, Natasu thought, that they had their own stories to tell.
Categories: AU, angst, character study, original character, Daniel, Jonas, Teal'c, team
Warnings: none
Author on LJ: draegonhawke
Author's Website: Magistrate at AO3
Link: After Every War
Why This Must Be Read: When you can literally never go home again, how do you ground yourself? Where do you begin, and where will your journey take you? In this beautiful, deep story, many characters, both original and canon, ask themselves those questions. This fic is adult in the best sense of the word: intelligent, thought-provoking, with no easy answers.
Enjoy early S7 Teal'c, Daniel, a slightly AU Jonas, and several fascinating original characters, complete with excellent world-building, as they seek an answer to those questions... and find unexpected companionship along the way.
Natasu watched the strangers, his eyes flicking over them. He, unlike many in the village - unlike Saha, who'd grown up angry at stories - had seen the Jaffa, fought them, felt the fire of their weapons shriveling his foot and burning through his friends. He had given his own children, three of them, to the war - might they be looked after, by whatever true god might exist for them.
He, unlike many, could look at these two and see the difference between the wariness of the always-embattled and the wariness of the uncertain; see the way the injured one groped for purchase in his mind; see the way the lucid one watched over his friend, body angled to get between him and Natasu if necessary, protective as an older brother and deferential as a younger.
He could see the edges of a history, if not their content.
Likely, Natasu thought, that they had their own stories to tell.