Close to Bone by Synecdochic (R)
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stargateficrecRec Category: Jack O'Neill
Pairing: clone!Jack/Daniel, Jack/Daniel UST
Category: slash, angst, dark
Warning: language
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synecdochic
Author's Website: http://www.kekkai.org/synecdochic/sg1/main.html
Link: http://synecdochic.livejournal.com/90763.html
Why This Must Be Read: This was written for the![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
dark_gate challenge, and is it ever dark. There are two perspectives on Jack here. One is: who would Jack be, cut off, hurt, angry, all of his special ops skills and training intact, and no duty, no family, no friends -- no brakes? Meet clone!Jack, three years later -- JD. The other is: Jack in Washington, older, sitting behind a desk, not so in touch with his team. Who exactly that makes Jack depends on who's painting the picture. Synecdochic does brilliant things with tight points of view and unreliable narrators, never better than when she sets up the twists and turns here.
Each of the team gets a distinctively drawn character, and her Landry is one who has influenced my viewing of the show. On top of all that is a great political plot, weaving together the Ori, the IOA committee, the Trust, Homeworld Security and the SGC.
This is a story that haunts and won't let go.
Excerpt:
"This is about the fact that there are a bunch of new kids in town." JD is carefully controlling his voice; Daniel can't tell what he's thinking. "The Trust was an offshoot of the NID. These guys are an offshoot of the IOA. They want to work with the Ori, think if we give them what they want and stick our heads in the sand, the Ori will leave us alone. They've got people from the Trust, and people from the IOA, and people from Homeworld. I need your help to deal with it."
Daniel frowns. "To get you to General Landry?" But JD's shaking his head, frowning, and even on an eighteen-year-old face that particular twist of lips is the 'don't be stupid, Daniel' look.
"Do you trust him?" JD asks, quietly. The undercurrents of his voice say that he doesn't.
"That's --" Daniel shakes his head. "You picked him."
"The old man picked him," JD corrects. Which threatens to send Daniel's mind off on the age-old question about what makes up identity, whether JD and Jack were the same person, then or now, and if what one of them did, the other's responsible for -- but now's not the time, and JD's face makes that clear. "And you of all people should know how much this shit can change someone. I need you to get me some information I can't get."
Something about JD's body language hits the spot of Daniel's psyche that will always roll over the minute Jack issues an order. It's a spot not even Jack can reliably find anymore. "Not if it's classified."
JD's lips thin. "You wouldn't say that to the old man."
"You're not him," Daniel says.
Pairing: clone!Jack/Daniel, Jack/Daniel UST
Category: slash, angst, dark
Warning: language
Author on LJ:
synecdochicAuthor's Website: http://www.kekkai.org/synecdochic/sg1/main.html
Link: http://synecdochic.livejournal.com/90763.html
Why This Must Be Read: This was written for the
dark_gate challenge, and is it ever dark. There are two perspectives on Jack here. One is: who would Jack be, cut off, hurt, angry, all of his special ops skills and training intact, and no duty, no family, no friends -- no brakes? Meet clone!Jack, three years later -- JD. The other is: Jack in Washington, older, sitting behind a desk, not so in touch with his team. Who exactly that makes Jack depends on who's painting the picture. Synecdochic does brilliant things with tight points of view and unreliable narrators, never better than when she sets up the twists and turns here. Each of the team gets a distinctively drawn character, and her Landry is one who has influenced my viewing of the show. On top of all that is a great political plot, weaving together the Ori, the IOA committee, the Trust, Homeworld Security and the SGC.
This is a story that haunts and won't let go.
Excerpt:
"This is about the fact that there are a bunch of new kids in town." JD is carefully controlling his voice; Daniel can't tell what he's thinking. "The Trust was an offshoot of the NID. These guys are an offshoot of the IOA. They want to work with the Ori, think if we give them what they want and stick our heads in the sand, the Ori will leave us alone. They've got people from the Trust, and people from the IOA, and people from Homeworld. I need your help to deal with it."
Daniel frowns. "To get you to General Landry?" But JD's shaking his head, frowning, and even on an eighteen-year-old face that particular twist of lips is the 'don't be stupid, Daniel' look.
"Do you trust him?" JD asks, quietly. The undercurrents of his voice say that he doesn't.
"That's --" Daniel shakes his head. "You picked him."
"The old man picked him," JD corrects. Which threatens to send Daniel's mind off on the age-old question about what makes up identity, whether JD and Jack were the same person, then or now, and if what one of them did, the other's responsible for -- but now's not the time, and JD's face makes that clear. "And you of all people should know how much this shit can change someone. I need you to get me some information I can't get."
Something about JD's body language hits the spot of Daniel's psyche that will always roll over the minute Jack issues an order. It's a spot not even Jack can reliably find anymore. "Not if it's classified."
JD's lips thin. "You wouldn't say that to the old man."
"You're not him," Daniel says.
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Date: 2007-04-28 09:51 pm (UTC)When I went and skimmed through all of those again, I realized I never left you feedback for "Tangled Web". All of those scenarios were absolutely brilliant and I thank you from the bottom of my poor broken heart for giving us fixes for all of the horror of "Close to Bone" and "To Let His Kingdom Rise"!
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