In Threes by Nanda

[audabee]

Show: SG-1
Rec Category: Team/Gen
Characters: Sam Carter, Jack O'Neill, Daniel Jackson, Teal'c
Categories: Team/Gen
Warnings: None
Author's Journal: https://nandamai.dreamwidth.org/
Author's Website: Nanda on AO3
Link: In Threes

Previously rec'd 11 years ago but it's just that good. As was the Fig Newton rec description, so I'm using that as well... I have updated the story link (because I'm not a complete loss).

This lovely drama gives us teamy goodness galore, as SG-1 goes into survival mode in a crisis. Told wholly from Sam’s rather muddled POV – she suffers a concussion in the opening paragraph of the story – it’s wonderful to see the story unfold, as the team works seamlessly together to make it through.

Earthquake. Blizzard. Bumps and bruises and hypothermia. Birthday cookie and sterno, and the “big four-oh.” The utter charm of the questions each one of the guys choose to make sure that Sam is compos mentis. And most of all, the delicious teamy goodness that makes Nanda’s story an absolute treasure!

“Hey, Carter. Carter!”

She groans.

“Come on, Sam. It’ll be worth it.”

Her eyelids feel like lead. But above her are three smiling faces, and in Daniel’s bandaged hands, a chocolate-chip cookie with a tin of sterno on top.

“It’s midnight back home,” Daniel explains.

“You guys are nuts,” she says. It’s hard to speak. The smiles turn into expressions of alarm, and a hand waves in front of her face. It makes her dizzy.

“How many fingers, Carter?”

“Two,” she says. She’s pretty sure it’s two. They all look like she gave the right answer.

“How many birthdays?” Daniel blows out the sterno and hands her the cookie. It has white cotton lint on it.

“I refuse to answer that,” she says.

“What’s the highest-scoring college hockey game of all time?”

“How am I supposed to know that, sir?”

“Worth a try,” he grins.

“What is your address, Major Carter?”

She rattles it off. She just wants to close her eyes. “Can I go back to sleep now?”

They make her eat her cookie first. 

Comments

[fignewton]

I grinned when I saw the rec, and I laughed when I say your Stargate-style "homage" to be rec from (good grief has it been that long?) 11 years ago.

Best compliment ever. :D

And an absolutely fantastic fic, too!

[audabee]

I almost didn't rec it because I realised it had already been done and I thought "oh, 2007, that's only last year". And then my brain engaged.

But yeah, an absolute peach of a story, agreed.