Stargate Fic Recommendations

Rec Category: Jack O'Neill
Pairings: Daniel/Jack, Baal/OFC
Categories: SG-1, Jack O'Neill, action adventure, Baal, crossover, drama, episode related, original character, suspense, team
Warnings: Violence, language, mild gore, some sexual content, dubious consent involving an original character; spoilers through S9 'Deus Ex Machina'
Author on LJ: troyswann
Author's Website: Outside the Box
Link: One in the Play of the Many, link goes to Part 1, each part links to the next

Author's summary: One body with its neck blown out is a puzzle; three identical bodies and a bunch of spooky Air Force types, well, that just makes DaVinci cranky. Or, to quote Cameron Mitchell, "That's a lot of Ba'als to keep in the air."

Why This Must Be Read:

First it was a striking Jack snippet on troyswann's journal that stood alone as a powerful vignette unto itself. Then it was a work-in-progress posted in sections as gifts for Martha. Now at last it's a gloriously completed fic: a suspenseful thriller with terrifically engaging original characters, a police procedural that crosses over into a fandom whose characters you don't have to be familiar with to appreciate, a sense-of-wonder science fiction story that builds a cool (and creepy) scenario from questions 'Deus Ex Machina' raised, and a gripping SG-1 adventure. And Jack is the linchpin, so I get to rec it here!

What if something came up that had such bitterly intense personal significance to Jack that he did not stay dutifully ensconced in his D.C. office, but made himself a player in the field again? What if his objective and SG-1's objective conflicted? This is a Jack who is very much still in the game, but who's fully capable of making mistakes, too -- smart and formidable and scary and weary and haunted and angry, pushing unstoppably toward a showdown that will not be what he or anyone else expects.

The fic's about 25,800 words, and the crossover source is DaVinci's Inquest. I hope you won't pass on this one because it's long or because it's a crossover. I had seen half an episode of the other show before reading this and I loved all the new-to-me characters. Salieri's writing is a joy from start to finish. It's a rockin' Stargate story. And it's a not-to-be-missed Jack fic.

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