I, In this Darkness by Destina (R)
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stargateficrecRec Category: Jack/Daniel
Pairing: Jack/Daniel
Category: Slash, Angst
Warning: Sex, Language
Author on LJ:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
destina
Author's Website: http://www.lyricalmagic.com/main.html
Link: http://www.lyricalmagic.com/in_this_darkness.html
Why This Must Be Read: Two last fics from the 2006 Jack/Daniel Ficathon that I couldn't leave you this month without reccing.
The first delves deeply into one of my favorite Jack/Daniel areas -- how Daniel copes with Jack's history as a soldier, and how he copes with becoming more of a soldier himself. Daniel goes offworld on a scientific mission, and things go horribly, terribly wrong. We get some terrific Jack-as-Special-Ops action as the team goes in for the retrieval. Before help can reach him, Daniel is forced to take action that he's afraid even Jack won't be able to deal with -- he certainly has a hard time with it himself. When Daniel comes back in shock, Jack has to balance being Daniel's CO, his friend and his lover. Most of all he has to fight his tendency to not talk about things.
Excerpt:
Jack slid his unopened folder away across the table, where it bumped into Teal'c's. "Daniel. What happened out there was not your fault. You weren't technically in charge of that mission, and you did everything right, under the circumstances, once you were captured."
"Colonel O'Neill is right," Hammond began, but Jack shook his head; he wasn't done. He was watching Daniel's face, the way his jaw tightened at the words of reassurance. It wasn't what he wanted to hear. Good, then; he'd take the rest of it as it was intended.
"The fact that you're not responsible for what happened to Devlin and Metz doesn't excuse you losing all perspective about what you know when you were given the chance to explore those ruins. All your alarm bells should have been ringing. The rest of them were inexperienced." He could feel Carter's stare burning a hole right through his face, but he ignored her. "You had the field experience. But experience is only good for something if you learn from it and use it when it's needed."
"Sir," Carter began, and he heard the entirety of what she wasn't going to say: don't you think you're being a little hard on him, there was no way he could have predicted this, excuses that didn't come close to excising the cancerous self-condemnation he could already see eating at Daniel's guts.
"Carter," he said, and the tone in his voice cut her throat, bleeding her argument dry.
Daniel looked up at him then, his eyes full of shadows, the kind Jack had seen in his own mirror. "You're right. It won't happen again." And that was it. No cringing or turning inward, no back against the wall, just a calm acceptance that turned Jack's stomach.
Pairing: Jack/Daniel
Category: Slash, Angst
Warning: Sex, Language
Author on LJ:
destinaAuthor's Website: http://www.lyricalmagic.com/main.html
Link: http://www.lyricalmagic.com/in_this_darkness.html
Why This Must Be Read: Two last fics from the 2006 Jack/Daniel Ficathon that I couldn't leave you this month without reccing.
The first delves deeply into one of my favorite Jack/Daniel areas -- how Daniel copes with Jack's history as a soldier, and how he copes with becoming more of a soldier himself. Daniel goes offworld on a scientific mission, and things go horribly, terribly wrong. We get some terrific Jack-as-Special-Ops action as the team goes in for the retrieval. Before help can reach him, Daniel is forced to take action that he's afraid even Jack won't be able to deal with -- he certainly has a hard time with it himself. When Daniel comes back in shock, Jack has to balance being Daniel's CO, his friend and his lover. Most of all he has to fight his tendency to not talk about things.
Excerpt:
Jack slid his unopened folder away across the table, where it bumped into Teal'c's. "Daniel. What happened out there was not your fault. You weren't technically in charge of that mission, and you did everything right, under the circumstances, once you were captured."
"Colonel O'Neill is right," Hammond began, but Jack shook his head; he wasn't done. He was watching Daniel's face, the way his jaw tightened at the words of reassurance. It wasn't what he wanted to hear. Good, then; he'd take the rest of it as it was intended.
"The fact that you're not responsible for what happened to Devlin and Metz doesn't excuse you losing all perspective about what you know when you were given the chance to explore those ruins. All your alarm bells should have been ringing. The rest of them were inexperienced." He could feel Carter's stare burning a hole right through his face, but he ignored her. "You had the field experience. But experience is only good for something if you learn from it and use it when it's needed."
"Sir," Carter began, and he heard the entirety of what she wasn't going to say: don't you think you're being a little hard on him, there was no way he could have predicted this, excuses that didn't come close to excising the cancerous self-condemnation he could already see eating at Daniel's guts.
"Carter," he said, and the tone in his voice cut her throat, bleeding her argument dry.
Daniel looked up at him then, his eyes full of shadows, the kind Jack had seen in his own mirror. "You're right. It won't happen again." And that was it. No cringing or turning inward, no back against the wall, just a calm acceptance that turned Jack's stomach.
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