The Other Me
There is only one person I expect to understand this title, and she doesn't like Stargate. Anyway, I wrote this because I keep telling people that Jack and Daniel's friendship reminds me of the one that I have with nekkidchick--even though they fight WAY more than we do; I think it's a guy thing. "The Other Me" doesn't mean "my other half". It's not a reference to one completing the other, or an implication of a relationship with romantic overtones. As nekkidchick and I have said for years, "That would be like sleeping with myself." It's something else, and it's infinitely harder to explain unless you have experienced it. I tried to put it into words in this piece, but I really don't know how well I did.
This is over on my fic comm, but I am re-posting it here because I think it's as close as I can get to expressing a phenomenon that is as much about me and Sarah as it is about Jack and Daniel.
Title:The Other Me
Author: Lionchilde
Summary: Thoughts on Jack and Daniel, from Daniel's perspective
Rating: PG
Length: 165 words
Category:Gen
Pairings/Characters:Daniel/Jack FRIENDSHIP
A/N: For fic101.
The Other Me
If anyone had asked, he would have said that Jack was his best friend. If he stopped to analyze the statement, he supposed it was true. The problem was that their relationship went so far past the bounds of simple friendship that the word didn’t seem accurate. They had fought and bled and laughed and cried together for too long. They had fought for each other-they had fought each other-and both of them knew that they would do the same things again, just as hard, any time it became necessary. They knew the best in each other, and they accepted the worst in each other. They knew the things that no one else knew. They kept one another’s secrets, and they told one another’s secrets when they had to. They were two beings, whole and complete, with lives and loves apart from each other. Often, their opinions that were often diametrically opposed. And yet, when each looked in the mirror, he saw the other as often as he saw himself.
This is over on my fic comm, but I am re-posting it here because I think it's as close as I can get to expressing a phenomenon that is as much about me and Sarah as it is about Jack and Daniel.
Title:The Other Me
Author: Lionchilde
Summary: Thoughts on Jack and Daniel, from Daniel's perspective
Rating: PG
Length: 165 words
Category:Gen
Pairings/Characters:Daniel/Jack FRIENDSHIP
A/N: For fic101.
The Other Me
If anyone had asked, he would have said that Jack was his best friend. If he stopped to analyze the statement, he supposed it was true. The problem was that their relationship went so far past the bounds of simple friendship that the word didn’t seem accurate. They had fought and bled and laughed and cried together for too long. They had fought for each other-they had fought each other-and both of them knew that they would do the same things again, just as hard, any time it became necessary. They knew the best in each other, and they accepted the worst in each other. They knew the things that no one else knew. They kept one another’s secrets, and they told one another’s secrets when they had to. They were two beings, whole and complete, with lives and loves apart from each other. Often, their opinions that were often diametrically opposed. And yet, when each looked in the mirror, he saw the other as often as he saw himself.