stargateficrec | Rules of Evidence by Paian (NC-17)

Rec Category: Jack/Daniel
Pairing: Jack/Daniel
Category: Slash, Angst, First Time
Warning: Explicit, Set in season 7, sometime between Orpheus and Revisions.
Author on LJ:

paian
Author's Website: Lyrical Magic
Link: [15,156 words] Rules of Evidence

Why This Must Be Read: I'm sure most readers here are familiar with

paian (and, for those of you who aren't,

paian may also be identified as Komos). I would describe her writing style as arresting, as being in the moment - a single scene that encompasses every bit of past, present, and future. The written equivalent of a picture being worth a thousand words. This particular fic is a string of such scenes, such moments, that all add up to a rich portrait.

Here Daniel is... fine. Mostly fine. Somewhat okay. Whatever, he's dealing with it, thank you very much. But dealing with things by blocking them out only works until something chinks it's way through the armor and when that happens, a moments pleasure can let in more pain than it's worth, sending things spiraling dangerously. So you forget about it, ignore it, submerge it deep into your psyche. Well, you can try. Of course, there's an alternative, but that's just wishful thinking, right?

Excerpt: In a cramped A-frame tent offworld, hunkered down in a storm that had taken a third of their gear and left them with limited shelter and rations with which to survive until they could make their way back to the gate to report yet another failure to find the Lost City of the Ancients, Daniel discovered the flaw in his theory that if you pushed something out of your fantasy life and down into your dreams, it would conveniently work itself out in your subconscious, and leave your waking life in some semblance of peace.

It only worked if you slept alone.