What Love Remains by Flora
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stargateficrecRec Category: Jack/Sara
Category: Angst, H/C
Warning: none
Author on LJ: unknown
Author's Website: unknown
Summary: Sara never really got any explanation of the events of Cold Lazarus. And when an old friend of Jack's shows up unexpectedly, she is determined to get some answers. Later, certain events lead her and Jack both to re-examine their feelings for one another.
Link: http://www.jackfic.com/archive/archive/10/WhatLoveRemains2.html
Why This Must Be Read: This fic can be confusing, because the POV swaps between two time periods (one a month before the other) without much in the way of warning. It is good though, dealing with Jack's friendship (or lack of) with Frank Cromwell almost as much as his relationship (also lack of) with Sara. Given that the real meat of this story takes place after "A Matter of Time" only one of those has any chance of being fixed, and the other gets in the way.
Excerpt:
He's shaking his head, reaching for the bottle again and downing another shot. "No."
I look up, meeting his eyes just in time to see something crack.
"No, there wasn't time. There wasn't time to sit down and talk about it." He stands up suddenly, grimacing as his bad leg bumps against the table. "We didn’t kiss and make up and solve everything and live happily ever after, like you always said we should. And now we won't ever—"
He breaks off with a choked sound, bending over to grab the crutches, and when he looks at me again the confusion in his face gives way to fury.
"Is that why you came here?" he asks. "To say 'I told you so'? What do you want?"
He's yelling now.
"You were right. I was wrong. Is that why you came? Is that what you want to hear?"
Category: Angst, H/C
Warning: none
Author on LJ: unknown
Author's Website: unknown
Summary: Sara never really got any explanation of the events of Cold Lazarus. And when an old friend of Jack's shows up unexpectedly, she is determined to get some answers. Later, certain events lead her and Jack both to re-examine their feelings for one another.
Link: http://www.jackfic.com/archive/archive/10/WhatLoveRemains2.html
Why This Must Be Read: This fic can be confusing, because the POV swaps between two time periods (one a month before the other) without much in the way of warning. It is good though, dealing with Jack's friendship (or lack of) with Frank Cromwell almost as much as his relationship (also lack of) with Sara. Given that the real meat of this story takes place after "A Matter of Time" only one of those has any chance of being fixed, and the other gets in the way.
Excerpt:
He's shaking his head, reaching for the bottle again and downing another shot. "No."
I look up, meeting his eyes just in time to see something crack.
"No, there wasn't time. There wasn't time to sit down and talk about it." He stands up suddenly, grimacing as his bad leg bumps against the table. "We didn’t kiss and make up and solve everything and live happily ever after, like you always said we should. And now we won't ever—"
He breaks off with a choked sound, bending over to grab the crutches, and when he looks at me again the confusion in his face gives way to fury.
"Is that why you came here?" he asks. "To say 'I told you so'? What do you want?"
He's yelling now.
"You were right. I was wrong. Is that why you came? Is that what you want to hear?"
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