Downtime, by Kellifer (PG)

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Rec Category: Team

Pairing: none

Categories: team, gen, humor, fluff, vignette

Warnings: none

Author on LJ: kellifer_fic

Author's Website: Kellifer Fic Online or SG-1 Fic Index

Link: Downtime

 

Why This Must Be Read: When Jack tells his team that they are going to actually have to put up with two whole months of downtime - without work - he meets with stiff resistance. No experiments? No translations and digs? Doing nothing? How could they possibly survive?

 

It takes a disabled truck and hidden cell phones, and Star Wars DVDs and donuts, to finally force the team into relaxing. But by the time this fun little story is over, the entire team has settled into the Zen art of doing nothing - and Jack smugly proves that he really knows best, after all.

 

Read this one and smile, and try not to wish too hard that you could be there on the beach with SG-1!

 

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Grace Notes by synecdochic (estimated PG-13)

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Rec Category: Jack O'Neill
Pairing: Jack/Daniel (also mention of Daniel/Cameron, Jack/Sam UST)
Category: slash, drama, angst
Warnings: slash, non-monogamy
Author on LJ: synecdochic
Author's Website: different colors made of tears
Link: Grace Notes

Why This Must Be Read:

This is part of synecdochic's Eurydiceverse, but it stands on its own just fine.

All you need to know about the E'verse that it's the series of stories in which the members of SG-1 are all as fucked up as they should realistically be, given their canonical traumas, and sex is comfort and tool and language and connection and arena and weapon.

And in the middle of it, there's this gorgeous, poetic, scalpel-sharp reflection on pain and benediction and grace.

I saved this for my last rec because it's become something of a touchstone for me when I'm trying to write about Jack: this is essence-of-Jack, distilled like a liqueur.

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