Please Hang Up and Try Again, by Abyssis (PG-13)

[sg-fignewton.livejournal.com]

I'm your devoted Daniel reccer this month! Let's start with an absolute gem, shall we?

Rec Category: Daniel Jackson

Pairing: see below

Categories: Daniel Jackson, Samantha Carter, Jack O’Neill, Teal’c, gen, Sam and Daniel friendship, AU, drama, episode related, angst

Warnings: some language, spoilers through Season Six, one apocafic, spoilers for Moebius, AU major character deaths

Author on LJ: abyssinia4077

Author's Website: Masterlist of fanfiction

Link: Please Hang Up and Try Again

 

Why This Must Be Read: This beautifully rendered story will unquestionably break your heart.

 

Abyssis gives us two times five telephone conversations Daniel never had: five because they never existed - each takes place in a different AU - and five that were left on his voice mail during the year that he was Ascended, but were subsequently erased before he ever heard them.

 

The erased voice mails are poignant and heartbreaking and wistful in turns, left by Sam, Jack, Jonas, and Janet, echoing events of Season Six until Sam finally erases them. And the AUs cover the gamut from hope to anguish and back again - the embittered, exhausted Daniel from Moebius, a Daniel on the run from Kinsey, a Daniel who finally achieves public recognition, a Daniel who loses his SG-1... and a Daniel who gets back Sha’re, which brings tears to my eyes every time.

 

You will be blown away by the sheer power of this fic and its scope of if-onlys and might-have-beens. Go and read this one right now.

 

Hey, Daniel. I know you can't get this message and I feel silly leaving it but Colonel O'Neill refuses to talk about you and Teal'c is being Teal'c and General Hammond told me yesterday that I'd learn to live with not knowing where you are or…what. And I guess I just got too used to you being there for me to talk to. And…okay, maybe this wasn't my best idea.

Comments

[abyssinia4077.livejournal.com]

Oh, thank you so much! I'm still really glad you liked it! Really, really glad. And honored for the rec.

(you may want to warn for AU character death and spoilers through Moebius though...)

[sg-fignewton.livejournal.com]

Ooh, good point! Thanks, I'll edit to reflect that.

And congrats on spontaneously getting two recs within a couple of minutes of each other. :)

[abyssinia4077.livejournal.com]

Hee. I think I'm setting a record for warnings for a gen fic :)

I know! It's am embarrassment of riches (especially since I feel like I've barely written anything in a long time).
*dances in fannish glee*