new SG-1 story

[destina]

Well, to call it a 'story' would be to overstate things a bit. *g* S9, spoilers through Avalon part 1, with a very vague spoiler for what Jack is up to now. Jack/Daniel, of course.

Comments

[taselby]

EEEeeeee!!! I was *so* hoping you'd post this -- with the sweet and the achy and the hot and- and *lint*!

And ow! (little ow because Daniel does end up staying, and I can just picture Jack's slightly guilty satisfaction that Daedalus left without him)

*happysigh*

[destina]

:D Thank you. I'm still feeling bizarrely shy about it. But I like the linty parts. And I can totally see Jack sitting at his desk and smirking like crazy when he gets the call. Of course, then he'd be all angsty concern because Daniel was unconscious, but he knows Daniel too well to be too upset about that. *g*

[thevetia]

An elegy, maybe? That was lovely; beautiful, deceptively simple, and with just the right emotions for Jack and Daniel. The costs of actions, of their lives, are complex, and they know it, but they're not broken by it.

[destina]

Thank you so much. One of the reasons I love both characters is because they are so compelled by duty, over all else, and it does define their characters. The cost is so high, though, but you're right -- they have never been broken by it, and certainly not so late in the game.

[advection]

God, this is beautiful. So heartbreaking and hopeful at the same time, and telling detail after telling detail rendered so memorably. It's hard to say good-bye to that house, and everything it symbolizes, and this was a lovely/sad way to do that. Especially love the little negotiation at the end. That question hasn't been settled yet, and you don't settle it for them, the way I read it at least. That's really cool.

[destina]

Oh, thank you! I think that question between them can't really be settled, not until one of them is willing to walk away from what duty compels them toward. That hasn't happened, yet.

Jack and his house are so tied together for me in all sorts of symbolic ways...I miss them both so very much. *sigh*

[movies_michelle]

Oh, I loved it. Just what I needed. Aching, but still slightly hopeful. This is not the end.

[destina]

Thank you. :) I can't leave them without hope, at this point; my heart just won't go there. *g*

[lapislaz]

All right, you've convinced me. We have just *got* to get both of these guys to Atlantis somehow. (scribbles off a memo to John to save them a balcony suite)

Good story - very ambivalent, bittersweet.

[destina]

Thanks, Laz. :) My own ambivalence is showing, I fear, in what I'm writing.