green-grrl.livejournal.com ([identity profile] green-grrl.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] stargateficrec2009-11-29 08:54 pm

Ordinary is All Perspective by maab_connor (NC-17)

Rec Category: Jack/Daniel
Pairing: Jack/Daniel
Category: slash
Warning: premise is dubcon, though the fic really isn't
Author on LJ: [livejournal.com profile] maab_connor
Author's Website: fic tag
Link: Ordinary is All Perspective

Why This Must Be Read: This is last of the recs I'm writing up from the 2009 J/D Ficathon, but read them all!

I have to admit, this was written to my request--so Aliens Made Them Get Married gave it a boost already, in my book. But. Maab does an outstanding job of keeping the boys entirely in character throughout, and provides plenty of note-perfect banter. Bonus Paul Davis, perfectly fitting in on a mission, as he does. There's a dash of drama, loads of humor, glimpses of protective!Jack, a perfectly imperfect "seduction," and really gorgeous sex. Entirely adorable.

Excerpt:
“There’s no way around it,” Paul said after dinner that night. “The Chancellor says that you two have had physical contact while on this world and their law states very plainly that you two have to be married.”

“Ok,” Jack said. “So we do whatever deal they need us to do, finish up the treaty and all suffer selective amnesia. I don’t see the problem.”

Daniel, who was sitting at the table with his face hidden in his folded arms, said in a muffled voice, “What does the ceremony entail?”

Paul looked like he really did not want to answer that question.

“That’s what I was afraid of,” Daniel said. He picked up his head and banged it down on the solid wood surface of the table. “How long?”

“Six days,” Paul said, a blush creeping up his neck. “With a witness for the first.”

Daniel’s head shot up, “WHAT?”

“I keep having to ask questions I really do not want to ask,” Jack said. “Explain it to me like I’m five.”