Things Not Dreamed by StargazerCMC (G)

[abyssinia4077.livejournal.com]

Rec Category: Daniel Jackson
Pairing: None
Category: Daniel Jackson, Sam Carter, Jack O'Neill, character study
Warning: none
Author on LJ stargazercmc
Author's Website: Fic LJ: gazerfic
Link: Things Not Dreamed

Why This Must Be Read:
Daniel has spent his life on the ground, digging history out of the Earth, but Jack and Sam are pilots and they get their excitement from the sky. In this fic stargazercmc explores these different forces that drive the members of SG-1 and has Daniel attempt to understand Jack and Sam's need to fly. It's a wonderful, intricate look at all three of them and a great exploration of character.


Daniel doesn’t understand their need to fly.

Jack tries explaining it once. He starts at least three times but never makes it past, “It’s like…” and some vague hand signal Daniel suspects is supposed to be a takeoff of some sort. He finally tells Daniel, “Ask Teal’c or Carter.” He knows the irritation in Jack’s tone is because he wants to explain. He’s only slightly surprised Jack doesn’t go for flippant.

Daniel has learned how to pilot spacecraft from necessity, but he has never become comfortable with the process. The laws of physics include too many X-factors for a man versed in removing dust from buried objects. He likes the feel of earth beneath his feet, trusts the soft bristles that remove grains of sand from tablets eager to spill their stories.

He doesn’t trust the mechanics of flight, and he cannot find balance when out in space. He’s always waiting for the moment when one misstep is going to send the ship crashing down. Air and space never had their proper chance as Daniel’s elementals. Earth was ingrained in him as a child when the sandbox of Egypt was his world.

Thrust, propulsion, draft. Forward-moving things. Not practical for a man whose business is the past.

Comments

[moonshayde.livejournal.com]

I have some much love for this fic. Every time I read it, it's like reading it for the first time all over again.

[abyssinia4077.livejournal.com]

I know - it's such an awesome contrast of them.

[odakota-rose.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much for reccing this fic, I read it a long time ago and was wondering where it was :)

[abyssinia4077.livejournal.com]

You are very welcome.

(and, yeah, I read it a while ago and was thinking of it the other day and poked around until I found it again. Figured reccing it would be the best way to not lose it)

[odakota-rose.livejournal.com]

I keep losing fics, eventually I'll have to make a list, but that involves being organizing and actually looking for stuff amidst the thousands of LJ memories.
(which might take a while..)