Comments | jennickels: Stargate SG-1 fic: Existing

jennickels

Stargate SG-1 fic: Existing

Jul 06, 2011 23:53

Existing
by jennickels (aka Jen Connelly)
Stargate SG-1
Jack/Sam UST
505 words
rating: PG
WARNINGS:

AU where Sam has married Pete and Jack is just as good about holding a grudge.

don't own... wish I did, but I don't. No infringement intended.

( there's a difference between living and just existing )

genre: alternate universe, comm: fictionland, genre: ust, character: sam carter, fanfic, pov: jack o'neill, character: jack o'neill, genre: future!fic, genre: angst, idea: challenge, fic: sg-1, pairing: jack/sam

Comments 10

nymaeria July 7 2011, 12:17:04 UTC

oh, so sad! :( but I could totally see jack being/feeling like this if that happened.

thank god she didn't marry Pete! :)

jennickels July 7 2011, 16:53:50 UTC

Jack's notorious for his grudges. I can see him being utterly conflicted over the whole thing... wanting her to be happy but being angry for choosing someone else, wanting to still be friends with her but unable to be in the same space without the bitter feelings overwhelming her.

It's not really a way to live which is where I got the title... he's not living, he's just existing.

Poor Jack.

thothmes July 8 2011, 04:18:28 UTC

Oh, ouch. This is precisely what I was afraid would happen to Jack.

So nice to be able to comfort myself with the idea that it didn't!

jennickels July 8 2011, 05:42:07 UTC

Me too.

In my head I always pictured Jack just withdrawing from everything if Sam had married Pete.

I actually have a much longer plot bunny where she marries Pete and Jack goes off to DC and little by little alienates himself from his friends to the point that Daniel even gives up trying. Until one day they are all forced back together and he has to deal with the issue (by then Sam's divorced but he still can't get over it).

regularamanda August 13 2011, 02:11:24 UTC

Ohhh gooossshhhhhh

Heart= broken

But I loved it! Because I can so see Jack acting that way!

jennickels August 13 2011, 02:16:00 UTC

It is heartbreaking, isn't it. Jack would totally pull away from her to save his own sanity. The pain of being around her would be too much for him.

Poor Jack.

And it was amazingly easy to cut down to 255 words. I was surprised. Not as fun and full as the original but it still gets the point across.

regularamanda August 13 2011, 02:22:17 UTC

It really really is. See, I also feel the same way when it comes to one of them dying. Because I think Sam would be able to go through the motions of living without Jack. Getting up, getting dressed, going to work, doing her job for hours on end, and come home and falling asleep exhausted, and do it all over again. Not because she loves him any less but because she can bury herself and her feelings in her work. But Jack? Jack would go up to that little cabin in the woods and bury himself there, and no one would be able to get through to him. (And this is why I like writing death!fic so much, there is SO much emotion in it!)

*squishes Jack*

I'm glad! :)

jennickels August 13 2011, 02:26:01 UTC

Yes, I don't think Jack could take losing anyone else he loves that much. He's like at his limit. Losing Sam would just tip him over the edge.

Did you read my actual death!fic? I had someone on ff.net get all on my case, begging me to change it, write a sequel or something to not make it death!fic. I mean I warned that there was a death of a major character. If she can't handle character deaths why read the story?

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