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stargateficrecRec Category: Jack/Sara
Pairing: Jack O'Neill/Sara O'Neill
Category: Angst, character study, drama, established relationship, explicit sexual situation, het, Jack O'Neill, Jack/Sara, Sara O'Neill, SG-1
Warning: Explicit sexual content
Author on LJ:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
princessofg
Author's Website: LJ tags | Area 52 page
Link: Necessary and Sufficient
Why This Must Be Read: This is the kind of fic that comes close to reducing me to just flailing and pointing. It's a very adult fic in every sense -- the sex is explicit, and mature (in both the approach of the writer writing it and the experience of the grown-ups having it), and integral to the storyline, and serves as an amazing vehicle for characterization -- and I worry that the rating will put off readers who generally don't go for NC-17 material. I hope you won't be put off, especially if you like Jack/Sara or Jack character studies or character studies in general. This is a Not To Be Missed portrait of Sara's relationship with Jack in the days before Charlie came into their lives. It's also a gorgeous portrait of Sara herself -- a character Princess makes you empathize deeply with, and admire -- and of Jack, as we see Sara struggling to reacclimate to his presence after an extended absence, and to understand where he's been and what it was like for him while he was away from her, engaged in covert activities he can't tell her anything about.
Through Sara's sharp, intelligent eyes, Jack is beautifully observed: what his behavior and his clothes and his body say about what's happened to him and whether it's changed him. Sara comes beautifully to life through her unsuppressible curiosity and her deductions and her responses to them. Their marriage comes beautifully to life through their backstory, the setting of the home they've built together, and telling details like an ashtray washed out months ago and collecting little stray items in its disuse. This is how they find each other, learn each other, remember each other, again and again, every time he comes home; this is what they learn and remember.
A poignant story, skillfully told, and with the. most. perfect. last. line, which left me smiling like crazy.
::flails:: ::points::
About 5,000 words.
Excerpt:
Pairing: Jack O'Neill/Sara O'Neill
Category: Angst, character study, drama, established relationship, explicit sexual situation, het, Jack O'Neill, Jack/Sara, Sara O'Neill, SG-1
Warning: Explicit sexual content
Author on LJ:
princessofgAuthor's Website: LJ tags | Area 52 page
Link: Necessary and Sufficient
Why This Must Be Read: This is the kind of fic that comes close to reducing me to just flailing and pointing. It's a very adult fic in every sense -- the sex is explicit, and mature (in both the approach of the writer writing it and the experience of the grown-ups having it), and integral to the storyline, and serves as an amazing vehicle for characterization -- and I worry that the rating will put off readers who generally don't go for NC-17 material. I hope you won't be put off, especially if you like Jack/Sara or Jack character studies or character studies in general. This is a Not To Be Missed portrait of Sara's relationship with Jack in the days before Charlie came into their lives. It's also a gorgeous portrait of Sara herself -- a character Princess makes you empathize deeply with, and admire -- and of Jack, as we see Sara struggling to reacclimate to his presence after an extended absence, and to understand where he's been and what it was like for him while he was away from her, engaged in covert activities he can't tell her anything about.
Through Sara's sharp, intelligent eyes, Jack is beautifully observed: what his behavior and his clothes and his body say about what's happened to him and whether it's changed him. Sara comes beautifully to life through her unsuppressible curiosity and her deductions and her responses to them. Their marriage comes beautifully to life through their backstory, the setting of the home they've built together, and telling details like an ashtray washed out months ago and collecting little stray items in its disuse. This is how they find each other, learn each other, remember each other, again and again, every time he comes home; this is what they learn and remember.
A poignant story, skillfully told, and with the. most. perfect. last. line, which left me smiling like crazy.
::flails:: ::points::
About 5,000 words.
Excerpt:
There was no relief in him at all. Not yet. He was still so grim, so lined and determined. And god, he was tired. The dark circles under his eyes were purple. She closed her eyes as his hands tilted her head the way she already wanted it to go, anticipating, and then, slowly, he brought his face to hers.
The kiss was searching, the getting reacquainted that their ‘first kiss of a leave’ always was. He’d been gone this time for four months and fourteen days. Because of his missions. Because of the life she’d known she was signing up for when she said yes.
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Date: 2009-03-28 06:21 pm (UTC)