Serial Rediscovery by CK (NC-17)

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Rec Category: Jack/Daniel
Pairing: Jack/Daniel
Category: Slash
Warning: Sex
Author on LJ: muck_a_luck
Author's Website: LJ index: http://brainofck.livejournal.com/54980.html
Link: http://brainofck.livejournal.com/98784.html

Why This Must Be Read: I'm so pleased I get to rec Jack/Daniel this month, as CK has posted the long-awaited ending to her amnesia!fic!

Eight months ago, rogue agents kidnapped Daniel Jackson. But when SG-1 finally found him, he didn't recognize them. And he didn't recognize them again the next morning. Nor the next morning. The only thing he does know is that as soon as the fear of being with these strangers abates, he realizes he's powerfully attracted to the man called Jack. Every day.

Wonderful plot and wonderful love story woven together, and a resolution that's a happy ending without being a cheaply "perfect" ending.

Excerpt:
They had taken his hard drive and all the loose electronic media. They had taken the notebooks that were open and in progress. Clearly, they had been targeting his current projects, and Jack had a good idea which one in particular.

But they obviously did not know how Daniel Jackson ticked. He kept his most precious belongings close to him, near his heart, and that was there, in his office, where he pursued the love of his life.

So among other ratty, grubby, many-times repaired volumes - every single book from the suitcase that went to Abydos, in fact - they had left Budge. All the white space in the text was filled with Daniel's notes and invective, including the very rare acknowledgement. The pages divided by little folded scraps of paper, with scribbles in various languages, most in Daniel's own writing, but many in other hands and scripts.

Jack had opened it initially because he could. He was pretty sure that Daniel didn't realize that Jack even knew of the book's existence. Jack suspected Daniel didn't want people to know that his Budge was one of his most treasured possessions. It was always tucked away in some dark corner of the office. Except those unusual moments when Jack would find it lying out, by some translation that was driving Daniel to his wits' end.

So when he had the book in hand, Jack had to look, and what he had found had been the horror that Daniel was lost to him, stolen, maybe forever, and he had touched Daniel's words in despairing anger, then slept with the book under the other pillow.

The Budge would convince Daniel. More than the pictures from missions, the commissary, the elevator. When Daniel saw Budge, he would understand.

Comments

[muck-a-luck.livejournal.com]

Oi! The Budge thing... *shakes head* Eh, the perils of writing something when you don't know what the ending is going to be... I liked your idea, though, to use the Budge more. Maybe a good alternate ending.

[green-grrl.livejournal.com]

But you did use the Budge, perfectly. ♥