Homecoming Game by Ivory Gates (PG)

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Rec Category: Jack/Daniel
Pairing: Daniel Jackson/Jack O'Neill
Category: SG-1, slash, Daniel/Jack, Daniel Jackson, Jack O'Neill, angst, established relationship
Warning: Language, referenced sexual infidelity
Author on LJ: ivorygates
Author's Website: two gates of sleep
Link: Homecoming Game

Why This Must Be Read:

'Homecoming Game' is the SG-1 sequel to 'Hotel Sex,' a brilliant SG-1/House crossover. What you need to know of the events in that fic is embedded in this one, and while I loved reading them for the first time in chronological order, I think it would be fascinating to start with this one and let it make you burningly curious to find out what really happened and go read its predecessor and then read this one again. (The House sequel, 'Light Housekeeping,' is also excellent, although it benefits more from familiarity with both sources than 'Hotel Sex' does.) So the angle of approach is up to you -- but this fic stands wholly on its own as a set of paired character studies that combine into a striking portrait of Jack and Daniel's relationship.

There's a painful stillness at the center of the Stargate story as it's imagined through this single scene, where Jack and Daniel are set up like two facing mirrors, reflecting each other, and their surroundings, and the reflections of themselves in each other, to the limits of sight. Nothing is sugar-coated, and by the same token there's no melodrama, only angst as bitter and tight as a clenched fist; this is love at its most bare-knuckles realistic, and it's a powerful thing.

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MVP by Speranza - NC-17

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Rec Category: John Sheppard

Pairing: Rodney McKay/John Sheppard
Category: first time, drama, john sheppard, rodney mckay, slash
Warning: none
Author on LJ: cesperanza
Author's Website: Speranza's Fiction
Link: MVP

Why This Must Be Read: Rodney reads John's military file and subsequently becomes obsessed with what he thinks he knows about John. Despite all that, John manages to completely blindside him. MVP is in turn sweet, funny and insightful.

Till Human Voices Wake us, by Ivory Gates (PG-13)

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This is rec number 300 (!) for me for stargateficrec. Thanks, angelsgracie and medie, and the rest of you wonderful people who keep the comm going. :)

Rec Category: Drama

Pairing: none (but see below)

Categories: drama, gen, apocafic, AU, Daniel Jackson, Teal'c, Teal'c and Daniel friendship, Jack and Daniel friendship, angst, episode related

Warnings: AU major character deaths

Author on LJ: ivorygates

Author's Website: The Two Gates Of Sleep

Link: Till Human Voices Wake Us, gen version; see here for other versions and feedback temporarily hosted here

 

Why This Must Be Read: This powerful, gripping drama takes a sharp bend mid-season 1, as the Earth abruptly dies, taking half of SG-1 with it. Daniel and Teal'c, the shattered survivors, have to try and pick up the pieces. Teal'c wants revenge; Daniel wants survival, for himself, for Sha're, and for his adopted people on Abydos. But with no resources, no supplies, and no leads except a handful of addresses that Daniel remembers from debriefings about future missions, what chance do they have?

 

Disaster on Chulak makes things worse. Daniel is at the end of his rope when he gates to the last address he remembers from the debriefings: P3R-233. And suddenly, Daniel is facing the apocalypse. Again...

 

While I've read only this one, other readers will appreciate that Till Human Voices Wake Us is actually an experiment in triplicate, with two ship versions. The storyline alters in each, to reflect the differences in reactions and motivations of the three Daniels (or two Daniel and one Dani). So really, this is a three-for-one rec. Hope you all have time to spare, because once you start reading this amazing story, you're not going to stop until you've finished it!

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