Bittersweet (PG)
Have you checked out LeapGate yet? Lots of prompts still available, and some really interesting commentfic already written. I wrote Bittersweet, rated PG. Daniel and Skaara, in the final scene of Pretense. ~260 words, which makes it my shortest ficlet ever! Maybe one day I'll even manage a drabble.
ETA: Now with beautiful fanart included below! Thank you, sg_betty! :)
Bittersweet
Skaara slapped an exuberant hand against Daniel's arm before he practically bounced down the steps to greet the others. His face was alight with joy as he spoke to Jack, to Teal'c, to Sam - as himself, not as Klorel's host. After three years of daily, hourly torment, he was finally free.
Daniel felt the happy expression on his face congeal as he watched Skaara turn away from Jack's embrace to formally clasp hands with Teal'c in a gesture of acknowledgement and acceptance. He forced himself to keep his smile in place and fought down yet another wave of regret.
This Skaara wasn't the laughing, mischievous good brother he had known and loved in his year on Abydos, the youth who had dared to storm the very gates of heaven to battle at his sister's side and throw down the greatest of the System Lords. This was a man: wiser, graver, his knowledge infinitely expanded and his psyche almost irretrievably wounded. He wore Tok'ra clothing as casually as Klorel had donned his elaborate costumes, and Daniel wondered if Skaara would ever be as comfortable in Abydon robes again.
No, Daniel told himself firmly. You're happy for Skaara. You are.
He covered the spasm of pain with a casual rub of his nose. The smile, still a little frozen, stayed firmly on his face... and if his regret at Skaara's unseen scars was compounded a thousand fold by the wave of bitter resentment that the Tok'ra hadn't done the same thing for Sha're - well, that was no one's business but his own.
art by sg_betty, with more versions available here
[The background, for those (like me) who don't get it at first, is from the funeral scene in FIAD: the weighing of the feather.]
Original post, with comments: Bittersweet.
I really really want someone to write my Nero Wolfe/Daniel crossover prompt. If no one takes it, how childish would it be for me to write it myself? :)
ETA: Now with beautiful fanart included below! Thank you, sg_betty! :)
Bittersweet
Skaara slapped an exuberant hand against Daniel's arm before he practically bounced down the steps to greet the others. His face was alight with joy as he spoke to Jack, to Teal'c, to Sam - as himself, not as Klorel's host. After three years of daily, hourly torment, he was finally free.
Daniel felt the happy expression on his face congeal as he watched Skaara turn away from Jack's embrace to formally clasp hands with Teal'c in a gesture of acknowledgement and acceptance. He forced himself to keep his smile in place and fought down yet another wave of regret.
This Skaara wasn't the laughing, mischievous good brother he had known and loved in his year on Abydos, the youth who had dared to storm the very gates of heaven to battle at his sister's side and throw down the greatest of the System Lords. This was a man: wiser, graver, his knowledge infinitely expanded and his psyche almost irretrievably wounded. He wore Tok'ra clothing as casually as Klorel had donned his elaborate costumes, and Daniel wondered if Skaara would ever be as comfortable in Abydon robes again.
No, Daniel told himself firmly. You're happy for Skaara. You are.
He covered the spasm of pain with a casual rub of his nose. The smile, still a little frozen, stayed firmly on his face... and if his regret at Skaara's unseen scars was compounded a thousand fold by the wave of bitter resentment that the Tok'ra hadn't done the same thing for Sha're - well, that was no one's business but his own.
art by sg_betty, with more versions available here
[The background, for those (like me) who don't get it at first, is from the funeral scene in FIAD: the weighing of the feather.]
Original post, with comments: Bittersweet.
I really really want someone to write my Nero Wolfe/Daniel crossover prompt. If no one takes it, how childish would it be for me to write it myself? :)