Downhill from Here by Wisdomeagle (NC-17)

[paian]

Rec Category: Jack/Daniel
Pairing: Jack O'Neill/Daniel Jackson
Category: SG-1, slash, Daniel/Jack, Daniel Jackson, Jack O'Neill, established relationship, explicit sexual situation
Warning: Referenced infidelity to Sha're, referenced infidelity to each other, strong language, explicit reference to m/m sex
Author on LJ: wisdomeagle
Author's Website: SG-1 Fic Index
Link: Downhill from Here


Author's summary: But he makes hungry where most he satisfies -- Shakespeare, alt.


Why This Must Be Read: This is a comprehensive survey of Jack and Daniel's relationship over the course of the entire series -- and a complex, gnarled version of their relationship, even for them -- in a thousand words. There's no shmoop here, there's no angst, and there's no gritty owchiness for its own sake. There's just reality -- the good, the bad, the indifferent; the euphoric highs of youth, the inevitable plateaus of age -- and a quiet satisfaction at the end that's made all the more believable by the unflinching characterization that leads up to it. A short and very striking fic.

Excerpt:

When they were younger.

Well.

Daniel was younger.

Jack's hair was brown.

When they were younger, before Jack's knees gave out for good.

When they were younger, before Daniel cut his hair. Before Daniel was widowed, way before Daniel ascended and descended and before they started over, when they were younger, they didn't have sex. They had orgies.

Two-person orgies. Failed orgies. Small orgies. But still orgies. Between the two of them, there were so many limbs, so much movement, so much sweat, so many muscles, so much grappling, so much feeling, hope, frenzy, fear, that it seemed there were a dozen men in their bed.

Comments

[paian]

About yours, my pleasure -- I have another in the pipeline for the Jack category for later in the month, too -- and about this one, thanks! I'm really glad that description worked, and it is a terrific fic.