Firelight by Feather Autant (NC-17)

[paian]

Rec Category: Jack/Daniel
Pairing: Daniel Jackson/Jack O'Neill
Category: SG-1, slash, Daniel/Jack, Daniel Jackson, Jack O'Neill, adult content, established relationship, explicit sexual situation, hurt/comfort, porn
Warning: Explicit adult content
Author on LJ: feather_autant
Author's Website: Fic by Feather Autant
Link: Firelight

Author's summary: Just the thing for a cold winter's day . . . a little heat.

Why This Must Be Read:

Pure, glorious, loving erotica. Delicious fireside sex.

After suffering through a mission that trapped the team offworld in an ice storm, Daniel comes home, exhausted and freezing, to a blizzard and a cold house. He starts the process of getting himself warm by laying in a fire, and then Jack comes by. In a nice alternative to the trope of 'combine body heat to stay alive offworld,' Feather brings Daniel and Jack home and gives them the leisure to warm up and unwind in front of a cozy fire, with time and privacy.

Excerpt:

He looked up and gazed into the flames again. The carpeted floor in front of the fireplace had finally warmed. Daniel smiled and put the book and mug aside, then took off his shirt and jeans, casting them carelessly on the couch, and stretched out on his back, fully naked. His body was finally warm enough to relax, and he felt himself sink deeply into the carpet, letting the floor completely support his weight. His body unwound but his mind was still racing, trying to make sense of the ruins. He tried to focus on calming things, but his over-tired brain kept darting back to the puzzle. What had happened in that place? Who had they been? What had happened to them? Had they been human?

Daniel sighed and rolled over, scooting as close to the fire as he could, letting the heat bake into him. He crossed his arms and rested his head on them, staring into the flickering light. If he could just sleep . . .

He heard a key in the door.

Comments

[paian]

You're welcome! I'm always so happy when people find new-to-them things, and I'm especially so when it's someone who's read so widely in the pairing. Yaaay! :-)

And definitely guh. *g*

[jd-junkie.livejournal.com]

I'd missed this, too. What a treat!
It's freezing here today, but I'm very warm and snuggly now (on the inside). ;-)
Thank you for another fab rec. :-)

[paian]

You are most welcome. It's a wonderful fic to read in winter, isn't it? :-)

(I love that 'they're doing it again' icon -- haven't seen that before.)

[jd-junkie.livejournal.com]

That icon is one of my favourites. It was one of the first I acquired when I set up my journal. It was a free to use one from jackslashdaniel, I think. I only have a free live journal account and am thus limited to 15 icons, so I chop and change (and still never seem to have universally appropriate ones, aggah!) but I can't bear to get rid of that one!
(Oh yes, and six of the current crop are yours!) :-))

[paian]

That is a high-praise percentage, 6 of 15 -- I'm very flattered, seriously!

Even with umpteen bizillion icon slots donated to me by a very generous someone, I do the swap-out, swap-in thing a lot, and I'm the same way about having a handful that I will never part with. This Jack icon especially -- it was the first one I grabbed, and I'll never let it go.

Sometimes I long for the icons I have over at IJ, where the limits are a lot higher for all account levels. I find myself saying 'over there I have the perfect icon for commenting on this fic, aaaaaa!' But over there I spend forever going thru my icon dropdowns to pick the perfect one. *g* Pros and cons to anything, I guess!

[jd-junkie.livejournal.com]

Oh, that Jack icon is just lovely. There's something about the look in his eye; he's about to do or say something; his mouth is about to twitch into a smile, or maybe he's about to get angry. It's enigmatic. I could look at it a thousand times and think something different each time. :-)
BTW, is there a link anywhere that would allow me to keep track of you at IJ? I'm not a member there (can only just cope over here!). I know you said you were using it as a sort of back-up but I'd so hate to miss anything of yours:-)

[paian]

Yeah, his expression in the cap is so wonderful, and the way jr_moon cropped it makes it extra striking, especially combined with the almost journalistic-looking black-and-whiteness. The tilt of his head, that dark eye right up at the top ... mmmmmm. :-) (And it's shareable as far as I know, since I grabbed it originally from a public icons-on-offer entry, if you ever feel like swapping it in, of course.)

My journal at IJ is almost the same link as the one here: http://paian.insanejournal.com/. Aside from me using it to interact over there, mostly it's a mirror of fics and reading logs, but it's great to know you're saving the link -- that makes the backup useful. :-)