Chances by JoaG (T)
Show: SG-1
Rec Category: Kidfic
Characters: Team
Categories: Gen, hurt-comfort
Warnings: Mental Torture, Child hurt
Author's Website: Here
Link: Second Chances - though the copy here seems to having formatting problems, it's also on FFn at Second Chances
Why This Must Be Read: Quantum mirror time (I like quantum mirror stories, oh yes). This is a lovely angst-ridden story for Daniel fans especially, as SG-1 find themselves in an alternate universe... in the past, in particular at that moment (which every fan will know, oh yes) of little Daniel's life when his life fell apart. And our Daniel remembers it all too well to just turn around and leave him, thus setting up changes and complications that cannot easily (and maybe can't at all) be undone...
A well-written little Daniel, traumatised and in pain but still intelligent and so very him, lots of wrenching suffering both physical and emotional for both Daniels, heaps of team support and empathy, Jack's all too well known bond for children made even more so by who the child is... and out of it all a happy ending in at least one universe. What's not to love?
His legs suddenly had trouble holding him up and Daniel sagged against the wall. The boy was now a dead weight, and Daniel knew that he'd gone into shock. He himself couldn't recall much else of that ill-fated day or even the ones immediately following it. He had been told that he'd been brought to a hospital, and had slowly begun coming back to himself at the orphanage a few days later.
As he let himself slide down the wall, cradling the limp body in his arms, Daniel remembered those days of loneliness. He'd been mostly ignored as he had been totally unresponsive. He'd craved human touch but couldn't seem to remember how to ask for comfort in his devastation, and so first the medical staff and then the people in the orphanage had left him alone. His world had been turned upside down with the death of his parents, as had this young Daniel Jackson's.
Jack knelt beside them, a worried look on his face. Daniel opened his mouth to explain what had just happened, but he was too choked up. He took a shaky breath and lowered his face into the soft hair cradled against his chest.
Rec Category: Kidfic
Characters: Team
Categories: Gen, hurt-comfort
Warnings: Mental Torture, Child hurt
Author's Website: Here
Link: Second Chances - though the copy here seems to having formatting problems, it's also on FFn at Second Chances
Why This Must Be Read: Quantum mirror time (I like quantum mirror stories, oh yes). This is a lovely angst-ridden story for Daniel fans especially, as SG-1 find themselves in an alternate universe... in the past, in particular at that moment (which every fan will know, oh yes) of little Daniel's life when his life fell apart. And our Daniel remembers it all too well to just turn around and leave him, thus setting up changes and complications that cannot easily (and maybe can't at all) be undone...
A well-written little Daniel, traumatised and in pain but still intelligent and so very him, lots of wrenching suffering both physical and emotional for both Daniels, heaps of team support and empathy, Jack's all too well known bond for children made even more so by who the child is... and out of it all a happy ending in at least one universe. What's not to love?
His legs suddenly had trouble holding him up and Daniel sagged against the wall. The boy was now a dead weight, and Daniel knew that he'd gone into shock. He himself couldn't recall much else of that ill-fated day or even the ones immediately following it. He had been told that he'd been brought to a hospital, and had slowly begun coming back to himself at the orphanage a few days later.
As he let himself slide down the wall, cradling the limp body in his arms, Daniel remembered those days of loneliness. He'd been mostly ignored as he had been totally unresponsive. He'd craved human touch but couldn't seem to remember how to ask for comfort in his devastation, and so first the medical staff and then the people in the orphanage had left him alone. His world had been turned upside down with the death of his parents, as had this young Daniel Jackson's.
Jack knelt beside them, a worried look on his face. Daniel opened his mouth to explain what had just happened, but he was too choked up. He took a shaky breath and lowered his face into the soft hair cradled against his chest.