Deterrents by miera_c (NC-17)

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Rec Category: Threesome

Threesome: John/Elizabeth/Ronon
Category: Atlantis, het, John Sheppard, Elizabeth Weir, Ronon Dex, explicit sex.
Warnings: Het, a few mentions of slash, explicit sex.
Author on LJ: miera_c
Author's Website: here
Link: Deterrents

Why This Must Be Read: Often enough in many threesome fics, one particular pairing is favored even above the threesome. Sometimes this is done purposefully and here is one similar case. John and Ronon don't like it when Elizabeth puts herself in danger, even if it is for them, and have a very special way of making her aware of it.

Miera's struck gold yet again.

Keeping Silent by helsinkibaby (PG)

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Rec Category: Sam/Cam
Pairing: Sam/Cam
Category: Angst, point of view, samantha carter
Warnings: Angst
Author on LJ: helsinkibaby
Author's Website:The Band Gazebo
Link: Keeping Silent
Why this must be read: Angsty to the nth degree, yet so so lovely. A little Sam POV that is just so fantastic and angsty…

A Million Days, by Tallulah Rasa (PG)

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Rec Category: AU

Pairing: none
Categories: AU, Jack O'Neill, episode related, Jack and Daniel friendship, angst, character study
Warnings: insanely bored Jack with no consequences doing just about anything
Author on LJ: unknown
Author's Website: To Explore the Universe and Eat Pie
Link: A Million Days

Why This Must Be Read: I was so sure that this gem had previously been recced that I didn't even bother looking for it in the AU memories. Well, I've looked now, and it isn't, so…

This is Jack. This is Jack trapped in time with no future in sight, or past within reach. Any questions?

Tallulah Rasa, one of the queens of gen fic (even if, sad to say, she has greatly reduced the number of her stories available online), offers us an amazingly bleak AU look at a light-hearted, fan-favorite episode. What would have happened if something went wrong, and the time machine in Window of Opportunity couldn't be fixed?

If you take away the humor, WoO is a pretty dark story. Daniel (possibly) dies in the teaser; entire worlds have their very existence put on hold; and it's all happening because a single man is so grief-stricken that he's willing to put billions of lives on the line just to speak to his wife again. Now, take those elements, and add a Jack O'Neill who is stuck in an endless time loop that can't be broken.

Tallulah Rasa, recognizing how such an experience must impact on a human being, distills Jack down to his most basic elements, and it's only the unique friendship he shares with Daniel that keeps him even marginally sane – even if he abuses that friendship by dangling Daniel out a 14^th story window. And that friendship is written just beautifully; this is one author who has their complicated pushme-pullyou relationship down pat. The perfect example of this, included in the snippet of fic below, is when Daniel walks away, because he knows this is something he wouldn't have done on a previous loop, and that will make this something different for Jack, instead of being the same thing over and over and…

Oh, yeah. Those two are unique.

And so is A Million Days. One of my absolute favorites, and once you read it, I'm sure you'll add it to your list, too.

 

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