Natural Light, by Otter (PG)

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Rec Category: Sam and Daniel friendship

Pairing: none
Categories: Sam and Daniel friendship, Samantha Carter, Daniel Jackson, episode related, humor
Warnings: none
Author on LJ: agentotter
Author's Website: Faded Press
Link: Natural Light 

Why This Must Be Read: This delightful short story only seems to be plunge right into a tense retreat from mysterious enemies. In reality, it's a lovely character piece, with Daniel and Sam getting some quality time together and making an enforced vacation into something warm and chock full of friendship.

Any more detail would ruin this satisfying Sam and Daniel story, so just go ahead and read it!
 

"We should make a pact," he said. "If either one of us survives, we have to give the other a proper burial."

Sam shook his hand and said, "Deal," and then she peeked over the edge of the hawk's head, saw the Colonel standing down below on the pier and staring up. "Hi, sir," she said brightly, with a little wave. "Time for dinner already?"

Jack smiled a deadly smile at her, and waved back. "Time for just *desserts*, more like," he shouted back. "Come on down, kids." He didn't tell them to be careful, but it was there in his voice.

Beside her Daniel said, "You know, we really are likely to kill ourselves trying to get down from here."

She bit her lip and reluctantly said, "Yeah. But I only just got dry."

When she turned back to look at him, he'd hauled himself to his feet and was shuffling carefully down Horus' beak, looking down at the ocean. He shrugged and said, "It's a clean drop, and we know it's deep enough." He shuffled back to the hawk's brow again, sat down and said, "Well. Ladies first."

She thumped the back of his head -- just because she could -- and then dashed down the hawk's beak, let loose a wild battle cry, and leaped out and down down down in a tight cannonball dive, splashing loudly into the orange-tinged ocean. Daniel followed with an only slightly more graceful swan dive, and when Jack went to help them both up from the little stone stairs on the side of the pier, they each grabbed an arm and hauled him into the water, too.

He made them pay for it later, when he not only stole the desserts from their MREs, but also lay claim to Sam's packet of coffee and Daniel's only dry t-shirt. Daniel pretended he'd worked for at least a few hours of the day, and Jack pretended to believe him, and Sam pretended that she wasn't sneaking sips of Daniel's coffee while he wasn't looking, and Daniel pretended not to notice.

Comments

[shamak.livejournal.com]

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[sg-fignewton.livejournal.com]

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