Sunrises, by Bakaknight (PG)

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Show: SG-1

Rec Category: Pre-series
Characters: Sha're, Jack O'Neill, Catherine Langford, Samantha Carter, Kawalsky, Daniel Jackson
Categories: gen, Daniel/Sha're, episode related, character study
Warnings: none
Author on LJ: bakaknight
Author's Website: Bakaknight at AO3
Link: Sunrises

Why This Must Be Read: This is a thoughtful episode tag to Stargate: the Movie, offering a glimpse of the aftermath to a variety of different characters. (Well, Sha'uri's is more a prologue.) My personal favorite is Catherine Langford's, but all of these feel very real and very right.


When he came back from the trip, the first thing he did was announce himself re-retired. He handed in his official resignation to General West, who took it without a word.

The second thing he did was to book himself a trip to Egypt.

The third thing was to return Catherine’s necklace to her, and then tell her what had happened. And then he had taken her out to dinner, and after they returned to her place for a nightcap, he told her what really happened.

The fourth thing he did was go out to a sombre party with the remains of the team who’d gone through with him. They raised a silent glass to the children, and to Daniel and his new bride.

The next day, slightly hungover, he signed the divorce papers his wife had served him, and helped her go through the record collection.