Team Five Things, by Abyssis (G to PG-13)

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A year ago today, I made my first ever rec for stargateficrec: one of my favorite team fics. So I'm quite pleased to start my second year of reccing by snagging the Teamy Goodness category again! :)

Rec Category: Teamy goodness

Pairing: none, really; some references to times in characters' lives when they were married or in a relationship
Categories: team, friendship, Jack O'Neill, Daniel Jackson, Samantha Carter, Teal'c, Cassie, character study
Warnings: none
Author on LJ: abyssinia4077
Author's Website: unknown
Link: Team Five Things

Why This Must Be Read: Abyssis wrote, in honor of her own birthday, an amazing set of "Five Things" – fourteen in all. Except for one about Rodney McKay (Five Things Rodney Does When He Can't Sleep), they're all classic SG-1 – and classics!

We get wonderful team loyalty and staunch friendship. There's marvelous insight into the characters' motivations, dreams, and desires. These gems range widely, from the sweetness of the guys defending Sam's honor from the SGC gossip mill to the humor of the running bribe that keeps Teal'c from telling anyone what Jack did during the time loops. And there's Cassie, and Siler, and Sam's mother, and even Mackenzie. All of them are delightful, and every one is worth savoring. Read these and enjoy!

 

Five Books Cassie Loved

1) Daniel brought over a pile of folktale and mythology books from all over the world and if some of them weren't quite written for children, at least most of them were in English. Cassie liked The Woman in the Moon the best because all the stories are about brave, brilliant girls and women and there's the one story about the girl who survives all on her own until she finds a family again.

2) Janet did her best to bring Cassie up to date on inoculations, but she came down with the chicken pox a few months after starting school. SG-1 was on stand down while Colonel O'Neill recovered from Antarctica and Sam was recovering from her own battle with hypothermia so she stayed with Cassie when Janet went to work. By day four they'd finished The Phantom Tollbooth and moved on to A Wrinkle in Time and Cassie giggled every time Sam went on a tangent about wormhole physics.

3) In retrospect Janet shouldn’t have been surprised when, the day the adoption was finalized, Jack showed up with what appeared to be every Dr. Seuss book ever printed. She probably also shouldn't have been surprised how often he appeared just before Cassie's bedtime to read them, but she could never help smiling when his voice drifted down the hall, tripping and jumping over the rhymes.

4) Cassie was delighted to discover that even though Teal'c was very old, he was learning to read and write English the same time she was. Every Saturday SG-1 was on-world and Janet had to work, Cassie would appear at Teal'c's door with a new book they could work through together, but at the end of the day they'd always pull out The Little Engine that Could.

5) Janet isn't quite sure who first gave Cassie Calvin and Hobbes but she suspects Siler. Still, it was awfully nice of Cassie to loan the comics to Jonas Quinn so he could "better understand American culture after moving from Toronto."

Comments

[kellifer-fic.livejournal.com]

wow... congrats on the anniversary!! :)

[sg-fignewton.livejournal.com]

Thank you! And thank you, too, for all the hard work you do for the community. :)

[abyssinia4077.livejournal.com]

Thanks again!

Also, go you on one year of recs! I love your recs so much and they've been so useful as I've been diving into SG-1!

[sg-fignewton.livejournal.com]

Oh, you're welcome, I assure you! And I'm so pleased you enjoy my recs. The best thanks, of course, would be more wonderful fics. :)

[hsapiens.livejournal.com]

Yay! Congrats on the recaversary! *throws confetti* I don't get to follow every link you post but every last one I've followed has led me to a great read. Thank you!

[sg-fignewton.livejournal.com]

Thank you for your lovely words. :) I've so enjoyed making these recs and I hope to make lots more!