Tiger By the Tail by IvoryGates (NC-17)

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Rec Category: Cameron Mitchell
Pairing: Team/All
Category: Cameron Mitchell, Angst, Genderflip, AU, Episode, Het, Slash
Warning: angst, mutilation, murder, torture, dark
Author on LJ: ivorygates
Author's Website: On Dreamwidth
Link: Tiger By the Tail (you can comment via OpenID if you don't have a Dreamwidth account)

Why This Must Be Read:
Yes, I admit that for this rec I am incredibly biased but I honestly don't think that should keep me from making sure everyone gets a chance to read this story.

Everyone knows how inspiration happens: a flash and an idea is formed and you essentially have to no choice but to follow through. Well in this case, the flash was the Tiger!Team appearing through the gate in Ripple Effect and ivorygates met their drawn guns head on and gave us this piece of art. And while the story essentially gives us what happened in canon, it is set in Ivory's Dani'verse.

Ivory writes the story from Tiger!Cam's POV and we learn about their universe and how he (and the rest of his team) see "our" team and the rest of the SGC and their opinion matches the harshness of their universe.

But don't get me wrong, this is still Cameron Mitchell, only one distilled down by brutality from not only the universe at large but from Earth itself after Anubis attacks the planet during the Spring Surprise.

There is no holding back in this story, and there are no puppies and rainbows to soften the blow that their words inflict on a person's more genteel sensibilities. That is why you must read this. It gives you a greater appreciation of the easy time SG-1 has had over the years and points out… It could have been so much worse for them.

Snippet:

The locals call P7R-14B "Avranath". It's the stronghold of an Alliance fuck named Tarik, who's one of their main suppliers for tretonin. SG-1 was supposed to shag ass in, hit the place hard and fast, grab all the manufacturing data and any scientists they could find, and blow everything else to shit. A great plan. It would have worked one fuck of a lot better if Tarik hadn't been there and the goatfucker who sold them the intel hadn't turned around and sold them.They shoot their way out and run for the Gate with all God's Jaffa on their asses. If Sam hadn't laid down the usual string of mines around the Gate, Cam wouldn't've had the time to argue with whatever dickwad fuckhead is on the other end when he dials in. It takes the SGC ninety seconds to send the "All Clear", and by then Tarik's tapeworm army's cleared the last string of mines.

So they come in hot — they almost always come in hot — and the Gate Room's all wrong and it's full of people pointing guns at them. They fall into defense position without taking time to think, Jackson and Teal'c up and covering, him and Sam down to sweep the room. And he's just registering there's a him — another him — when in the corner of his eye he sees Jackson settle back and get ready to hose down the room. He barely gets his hand on her weapon in time to yank it down and out of her hands before the Armed Response Team can take them all out.

"What the hell is going on here?" he demands as he stands up, because sure as hell that wasn't General O'Neill on the other end of the blower and O'Neill wouldn't have dicked them around when they had a fuckton of Alliance Jaffa on their ass.

Jackson grabs her MG4 back from him and doesn't quite snarl. Cam lets her have it because Jackson gets really pissy when you take her toys away from her, and Teal'c's seen what Cam's seen. He knows the T-man will keep Jackson from shooting anybody for a couple minutes. And afterward, it might not matter.