The Point at Which We Break, by Kellifer (PG)

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Rec Category: Sam and Daniel friendship

Pairing: none
Categories: Sam and Daniel friendship, Samantha Carter, Daniel Jackson, gen, angst, hurt/comfort
Warnings: none
Author on LJ: kellifer_fic
Author's Website: Kellifer's listing of fics
Link: The Point at Which We Break

Why This Must Be Read: A few weeks ago, Kellifer offered to take requests for ficlets. I asked for early Sam and Daniel friendship, and I got this little gem as a result.

Daniel spent the first few episodes of S1 just trying to cope. In this ficlet, the inevitable crash takes place; but as heartbreaking as it is to see Daniel so shredded and lost, there's also the sweetness of seeing how he instinctively turns to Sam for help… and gets both understanding and comfort.

This ficlet is less than 400 words, but it really packs a wallop. Go read The Point at Which We Break. You'll want to hug them both.

 
It hits her as she listens to him start humming something she doesn’t recognize that he has been gone a year, pronounced dead and that he, more than all of them except maybe Teal’c, is alone.

“Are you okay?” she asks and she hears him chuckle, a deep, throaty sound that tails off at the end into a small sob that she will never tell him she heard.

“I’m not sure where I am,” he says and he sounds so forlorn that Sam aches for him.