Medical Considerations #6: Shades of Gray by OzKaren (M)

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Show: SG-1
Rec Category: Team
Characters: Jack O'Neill, Daniel Jackson, Samantha Carter, Teal'c, Janet Frasier
Categories: Gen, Tag, Missing Scenes, Angst
Author's Journal: unknown
Link: archiveofourown.org/works/10351380
Why This Must Be Read: This is a difficult one to read, but an excellent tag to Shades of Gray from Janet's POV. There's anger. And yelling. And healing. I don't know why it's rated M but there is bad language.

It meant the team was tired. Fragile, on the inside, where it didn't show. Hairline cracks in the psyche, the soul, that widened under pressure. And God knows, what those ineffably superior aliens asked Jack to do was pressure enough to split the atom.

After all of that, asking them to uncover the resulting wounds in the crucible of each other's regard was more than they could bear. It was unkind. Unfair. Thoughtless.

But we thought it would be okay. We thought that after three years, that odd little quartet of disparate views had grown together like four different flowers in a single pot, so tightly entwined that not even this most ill-judged of escapades could disentangle the roots.

How refreshing, to find out at my age how wrong I still can be.