Show: SGA/SG-1
Rec Category: John/Cam
Characters: John Sheppard, Cameron Mitchell
Pairings: John/Cam
Categories: slash, romance, drama, H/C,
Warnings: None
Author on LJ:
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Almost Free Why This Must Be Read: When I saw this category as an option for recs, this was the story that came immediately to mind. Almost Free is told in two timelines, each one telling the story of my two favourite flyboys and their relationship in the past and present until we are caught up. I love this story, each man is painted as himself. Race_the_ace writes a beautifully tentative and sensitive love story - please don't roll your eyes, because that's exactly the right description. There's porn but it's never just porn, there's lashings of messy and real emotions to be dealt with and did I mention I LOVE it *squees* Told over the span of decades, if you love John and Cam, oh hell, even if you don't know them very well, you'll definitely enjoy the depth of this fic.
Excerpt:
Christmas morning was still and quiet. Outside there was snow everywhere, and a light mist covering the vast fields. Last night John had admitted that this was his first white Christmas, so they had sat by the fire place, drank hot cocoa, and Cam was laying down with his head on John's lap, while they watched the snow fall outside.
Later that night, many of Cam's extended family would crowd into the Mitchell house and there would be a huge feast and lots of pie. But right now there was just him, John, and his parents.
Cam turned over and looked at John and was startled to find John looking back at him, eyes shining in the soft light of dawn. Cam licked his lips, and snuggled further under the warm blankets.
"It's Christmas," Cam said.
John nodded hesitantly, unsure of why Cam chose to declare the day.
"I want my present early."
John furrowed his brow and then shrugged. "Okay." He started to get up but Cam reached a hand out to still him.
Cam smiled shyly. "It's Christmas, John. Now will you kiss me?"
John stared for a moment, and there was a second where Cam wondered if he had read it all wrong. If John didn't want him like that after all. But then John slowly tilted his head towards Cam's, and their lips touched, ever so slightly.
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