Ice by DawnC (PG)

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Show: SG1
Rec Category: Daniel Jackson and Jack O'Neill friendship
Characters: Daniel Jackson, Jack O'Neill, Samantha Carter, Teal'c, Janet Fraiser
Pairing: None
Het/Slash/Gen: Gen
Warnings: None.
Author on LJ: n/a
Author's Website: DawnC
Link: Ice

Why this must be read: Lots of lovely angst and a heartwrenching situation for Jack as he faces losing his best friend. There are a couple of small typos but nothing that threw me out of the story.



Colonel Jack O'Neill's gut twisted as he looked out over the white expanse. Snow. Nothing but goddamned snow. No trees. No animals. It all looked so harmless and so peaceful.

But it had already proven to be far from harmless.

Jack sighed heavily and hefted the pack higher on his shoulders, then glanced at Carter to his left. "Okay, let's head to where we left him."

He saw Teal'c flinch almost imperceptibly at the comment. Any one who didn't know the Jaffa would've missed the reaction completely, but Jack knew Teal'c's guilt over leaving Daniel behind was eating at him. No amount of reassurance that Teal'c had done the only thing reasonably possible had been able to convince Teal'c that he had, in fact, done the right thing.

It was nobody's fault. It had just been an accident. Teal'c had traveled the quarter of a mile back to base camp in what had to have been record time, and his report had been concise and stoically-delivered.