Between Two Waves of the Sea, by Stringertheory (PG)

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Show: Stargate SG-1

Rec Category: Drama
Characters: Samantha Carter, Daniel Jackson, Jack O'Neill, Teal'c
Het/Slash/Gen: Gen
Warnings: none
Author on LJ: stringertheory
Author's Website: fic list
Link: Between Two Waves of the Sea

Why This Must Be Read: A gorgeous, haunting exploration of the echoes of the team's other lives -- the phantom quantum entanglement, as Stringertheory puts it, of the other realities and timelines they've lived.

Thoughtful, speculative, shivery good.


Phantom quantum entanglement – the quantum equivalent of a phantom limb remembering a grasp that is no longer there. There is something in them, something in their very atoms, that recalls who they never were.

It is deja vu of the subconscious, an echo of lives they have not lived but that remember their shape. A breath of what might have been, of what may be in some other place or time, quivers in their cells like a memory. It calls to them in a voice no one else could hear, in a language no one else could understand. They hear without listening and respond without thought.