Biting the Bullet by ijemanja (PG-13)
Rec Category: Het
Pairing: Sam/Jack, Sam/Rodney
Category: AU, character study, first time, episode related, het, humor
Warning: fluff
Author on LJ ijemanja
Author's Website:
Link: Biting the Bullet
Why This Must Be Read:
In this marvelous use of the "five things" format ijemanja dives through canon AUs to give us "Five time Jack O'Neill asked Samantha Carter out and one time he didn't have to." Sometimes funny, sometimes touching, sometimes painful, this fic shows us how, as different as the universes might be, some aspects of character still shine through, whatever roles and events they find themselves in.
Spot-on characterization throughout and just the right amount of humor to put a smile on your face.
At no point did she recall ever agreeing to go on a date with Jack O'Neill.
Which was strange, considering how she suddenly found herself, one Friday night, alone with just him, a couple of beers, and a basket of crispy potato skins.
"I thought you said the guys were coming."
"I did say that, didn't I."
"Uh, yeah."
"To be fair, when I said that, I was under the impression that they would be. Here. The guys... would be"
He was avoiding her eyes - guilt, she decided. It was why she was so not buying this 'I was set up, too' routine.
"Kawalsky was here!" he pointed out.
Kawalsky, it had to be noted, had been there for exactly five minutes before remembering an errand he urgently needed to take care of.
"Shame he couldn't stay long," Jack finished.
"A real shame," she echoed.
And it really was. Because she liked Kawalsky. She got along with him well, and the same went for the other members of SG-1 - not to mention any number of other people from the base she might have expected to encounter there at the bar upon being casually invited to stop by for a drink with 'the guys'.
Colonel Jack O'Neill, on the other hand? He hated scientists. He saw no use for civilians in general, and he didn't bother trying to conceal it.
Pairing: Sam/Jack, Sam/Rodney
Category: AU, character study, first time, episode related, het, humor
Warning: fluff
Author on LJ ijemanja
Author's Website:
Link: Biting the Bullet
Why This Must Be Read:
In this marvelous use of the "five things" format ijemanja dives through canon AUs to give us "Five time Jack O'Neill asked Samantha Carter out and one time he didn't have to." Sometimes funny, sometimes touching, sometimes painful, this fic shows us how, as different as the universes might be, some aspects of character still shine through, whatever roles and events they find themselves in.
Spot-on characterization throughout and just the right amount of humor to put a smile on your face.
At no point did she recall ever agreeing to go on a date with Jack O'Neill.
Which was strange, considering how she suddenly found herself, one Friday night, alone with just him, a couple of beers, and a basket of crispy potato skins.
"I thought you said the guys were coming."
"I did say that, didn't I."
"Uh, yeah."
"To be fair, when I said that, I was under the impression that they would be. Here. The guys... would be"
He was avoiding her eyes - guilt, she decided. It was why she was so not buying this 'I was set up, too' routine.
"Kawalsky was here!" he pointed out.
Kawalsky, it had to be noted, had been there for exactly five minutes before remembering an errand he urgently needed to take care of.
"Shame he couldn't stay long," Jack finished.
"A real shame," she echoed.
And it really was. Because she liked Kawalsky. She got along with him well, and the same went for the other members of SG-1 - not to mention any number of other people from the base she might have expected to encounter there at the bar upon being casually invited to stop by for a drink with 'the guys'.
Colonel Jack O'Neill, on the other hand? He hated scientists. He saw no use for civilians in general, and he didn't bother trying to conceal it.