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stargateficrecRec Category: Jack O'Neill
Pairing: none
Category: gen, angst, drama, episode-related
Warnings: spoilers for "Abyss" and "Citizen Joe"
Author on LJ:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
minnow1212
Author's Website: not known, but fic tagged on LJ
Link: Untitled
Why This Must Be Read:
minnow1212 takes the canonical claim from "Citizen Joe" that, courtesy of an Ancient gizmo, Jack's been seeing flashes of the life of a barber in Indiana for years and never bothered to mention it to anyone, and makes it work.
More than that, she makes it work with "Abyss", of all possible episodes. And the result is this stingingly brilliant little fic.
Oh, Joe might not be real; he might only be a figment of Jack’s imagination. But Jack guesses that everything’s real somewhere, one step through the funhouse quantum mirror, and so somewhere Joe exists, Joe with his wife and child and sedate life. Jack had a wife and child once, but no more. He still owns a lawnmower but he doesn’t use it; he pays a lawn service because he never knows when he’ll be offworld.
Joe’s got all these things and what does Jack have? A grill on his deck, yes, and a better grill than Joe’s, but it’s light years away. The only grill here is the wall they keep sucking him onto. He’s surprised they haven’t yet lit it up and scorched him into char. (Put that thought out of his mind: if he doesn’t think it, he can’t blurt it out.) Okay: somewhere far away he’s got a grill. Here, he’s got a tattered shirt and the memory of pain and a glowing friend through whom he can throw shoes. Joe doesn’t have a glowy friend, but then he’s not being tortured, so overall he’s the winner in their little contest.
Pairing: none
Category: gen, angst, drama, episode-related
Warnings: spoilers for "Abyss" and "Citizen Joe"
Author on LJ:
minnow1212Author's Website: not known, but fic tagged on LJ
Link: Untitled
Why This Must Be Read:
minnow1212 takes the canonical claim from "Citizen Joe" that, courtesy of an Ancient gizmo, Jack's been seeing flashes of the life of a barber in Indiana for years and never bothered to mention it to anyone, and makes it work.More than that, she makes it work with "Abyss", of all possible episodes. And the result is this stingingly brilliant little fic.
Oh, Joe might not be real; he might only be a figment of Jack’s imagination. But Jack guesses that everything’s real somewhere, one step through the funhouse quantum mirror, and so somewhere Joe exists, Joe with his wife and child and sedate life. Jack had a wife and child once, but no more. He still owns a lawnmower but he doesn’t use it; he pays a lawn service because he never knows when he’ll be offworld.
Joe’s got all these things and what does Jack have? A grill on his deck, yes, and a better grill than Joe’s, but it’s light years away. The only grill here is the wall they keep sucking him onto. He’s surprised they haven’t yet lit it up and scorched him into char. (Put that thought out of his mind: if he doesn’t think it, he can’t blurt it out.) Okay: somewhere far away he’s got a grill. Here, he’s got a tattered shirt and the memory of pain and a glowing friend through whom he can throw shoes. Joe doesn’t have a glowy friend, but then he’s not being tortured, so overall he’s the winner in their little contest.
