stargateficrec | The Right Regrets, by Mara Greengrass (PG)

I'm utterly delighted to break in the new Friendship: Other category this month with one of my favorite friendships in Stargate: Daniel and Sam!

Rec Category: Sam and Daniel friendship

Pairing: none
Categories: Sam and Daniel friendship, Samantha Carter, Daniel Jackson, gen, character study
Warnings: none
Author on LJ: marag
Author's Website: Diversions and Degressions
Link: The Right Regrets

Why This Must Be Read: It's Sam and Daniel, eating breakfast in a diner, doing the crossword and talking about life.

That sums it up, really. With lovely word-pictures of breakfast and just the right quirkiness to their conversation, it's so perfectly them that you'll save it to your hard drive, like I did, so you can read it whenever you're in the mood for a smile!

Sam ate for a few minutes, reading the puzzle upside down. "12 down is Waterston," she said, swirling a piece of sausage in syrup.

"Hmm." Daniel filled in the answer. "I don't know much about actors."

"I've seen him a couple of times in Law & Order. It's always on, no matter what time I get home, and I can watch the series out of order. He's probably been in movies or something, but I wouldn't know."

Daniel looked up, wiping a dribble of egg off his chin. "You'd rather see movies than do what we do?"

"Of course not." The waitress refilled her coffee cup and Sam added more sugar, drinking some. "It's just that sometimes I wish we had time for normal things. So much of our life is totally abnormal."

"True." Daniel shrugged. "'Yellow and absorbent is he'?"

"Either Spongebob or Squarepants."

Daniel blinked. "How'd you know that?"

"Huh? Oh, my nephew wanted one of the DVDs for Christmas. I'd never actually seen it before, but I ordered off Amazon.com. I watched an episode so I'd know what I was giving him."

"Hmm."

The door opened again, letting in a group of laughing teens who poked each other and generally goofed off. One of the girls had palmed a handful of snow, which she managed to shove down the neck of the blue parka of the boy next to her.

Sam chuckled into her coffee as the group settled at a table, still squabbling amicably. Glancing over, Daniel looked back at her. "Bring back good memories?"

That made her stop laughing as she twirled her cup in her hands. "Not really. I was always too serious, too focused. I don't remember spending too much time hanging out like that." Scowling, she looked at Daniel, expecting pity.

One side of his mouth quirked. "I could put some snow down your shirt, if that would make it up to you."

"No, thanks," she said, the laugh surprised out of her.

"That's what I thought." He leaned over the puzzle again, idly eating a piece of wheat toast and getting crumbs all over the newspaper.