FIC: Three-Body Problem (Stargate SG-1)

[katie_m]

Title: Three-Body Problem
Fandom: Stargate SG-1
Summary: Five things Sam regrets about getting involved in a threesome with Jack and Daniel.
Rating: PG-13

Comments

[cofax7]

Oh, poor Sam.

I can almost read this as a progression rather than as a series of AUs. But really what comes through the strongest is the work that it takes to make it all happen, and how it seems that it's Sam that has to do most of that--even if she's also sometimes the one making it more work than it needs to be. It's so psychologically realistic, and therefore rare and precious in fandom, which so privileges HEA with no complications.

I love the one set on Atlantis, though, and the image of her on the balcony in the sea-spray, even if it ends so sadly.

Yay for Katie!fic.

[katie_m]

Well, and it's not exactly a prompt that calls for happily ever after.

I love the one set on Atlantis, though, and the image of her on the balcony in the sea-spray, even if it ends so sadly.

Oh, thank you! I loved that image too--that's what that whole section was built around, the exhilaration of that moment. That section was actually supposed to be the happy ending, so far as it goes, though of course in the post-funeral moment Sam is sad and going through that moment where having lost something, it feels like it wasn't necessarily worth it to have had it at all. So that is sad, but not... there was nothing wrong, if that makes sense. People die, and that sucks, but they were happy, and once Sam gets over the initial bruised heart she won't regret it anymore. So.

[abyssinia4077]

Oooh! I remember the first one from whenever-ago and really liking it a lot, but these others? *shivers*

Especially that last one that is somehow so them in such a quiet, achey, perfect way. Every bit.

[katie_m]

Thank you!

[_minxy_]

Oh. Gracious.

There should be more I can find words for here, like how sweet it is to hear Sam announce what Jack would say and agree, even as she takes the same consoling conversation with Teal'c that only they can have, that a baby would be so emotional and baffling, that the mechanics of threesome sex would be *hard* and she would feel like it was a problem to be solved. But what's sticking with me is the Goa'uld one: that I knew who Mulac and Cauac and Kan and Ix were, before they were described. I knew.

[katie_m]

Oh, that's interesting! I had actually planned to set the personalities of Goa'uld and host against each other originally, but then I... didn't. So I'm glad I lucked out and got that to hit you the right way.

that the mechanics of threesome sex would be *hard* and she would feel like it was a problem to be solved

Yeah, you know, that's probably the lightest of the five sections, but I was totally serious about it as something that pissed her off; I can see her feeling like she had to get it right, and thinking it wasn't. Because if anyone could turn sex into an activity to be graded, Sam could.

[minnow1212]

Wonderful--I love your Sam so much, and how love doesn't always make things easier.

[katie_m]

Thank you! Yeah, you know, it's good but it does add... complications.

[katie_m]

Thank you!