Two Way Street by Stealth Dragon (T)
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stargateficrecRec Category: Hurt/Comfort
Pairing: none
Category: team, Atlantis
Warning: violence, torture/abuse, slavefic, mentions of non-con
Author on LJ:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kriadydragon
Author's Website: Mini Fanfic Archive
Link: Two Way Street
Why This Must Be Read: There are massive helpings of hurt and comfort all around in this dark but ultimately hopeful story. The SGA team are taken as prisoners of war in an offworld conflict and thrown into a forced labor camp. Despite starvation, beatings and other abuse, they lean on each other and protect each other in order to survive. But getting through their ordeal is only the beginning -- it's going to be a long road back to (relative) normalcy for all of them.
I think this story might be too much for my fragile heart to take if it were longer, but it's only about 23K words, mostly concerned with their recovery. It's been a couple of years since I read it for the first time, but I keep coming back to it for re-reads because it's such a perfect straight-up shot of h/c -- a slightly guilty pleasure, yes, but what really makes the story work for me is the way that, when the characters are stripped down to their bare essentials by their desperate circumstances, what's left is bravery and integrity and love for each other. Despite the darkness of the story, it's a very hopeful story at heart, because no matter what life throws at them and no matter how badly broken they are, the characters still remain fundamentally decent people, still capable of drawing strength from each other. Hopefully you'll enjoy it too.
Pairing: none
Category: team, Atlantis
Warning: violence, torture/abuse, slavefic, mentions of non-con
Author on LJ:
kriadydragonAuthor's Website: Mini Fanfic Archive
Link: Two Way Street
Why This Must Be Read: There are massive helpings of hurt and comfort all around in this dark but ultimately hopeful story. The SGA team are taken as prisoners of war in an offworld conflict and thrown into a forced labor camp. Despite starvation, beatings and other abuse, they lean on each other and protect each other in order to survive. But getting through their ordeal is only the beginning -- it's going to be a long road back to (relative) normalcy for all of them.
I think this story might be too much for my fragile heart to take if it were longer, but it's only about 23K words, mostly concerned with their recovery. It's been a couple of years since I read it for the first time, but I keep coming back to it for re-reads because it's such a perfect straight-up shot of h/c -- a slightly guilty pleasure, yes, but what really makes the story work for me is the way that, when the characters are stripped down to their bare essentials by their desperate circumstances, what's left is bravery and integrity and love for each other. Despite the darkness of the story, it's a very hopeful story at heart, because no matter what life throws at them and no matter how badly broken they are, the characters still remain fundamentally decent people, still capable of drawing strength from each other. Hopefully you'll enjoy it too.
