Stargaters? Wanna story?

[icarus]

Hello, Stargate fen.

Talk to me.

Do you have an AU fantasy/challenge you'd like written? Jack/Daniel only. Any rating. Any scenario. My deadline to write it: Friday.

One request: avoid cliches?

*Holds up the starting pistol*

On your mark... get set... GO!

Comments

[sharp-tongue.livejournal.com]

Jack is still married to Sara when he and Daniel start working together at SGC.

[not-sally.livejournal.com]

that icon is mindblowing-ly perfect.
and ummm... Jack never came out of retirement. So someone else was chosen instead of him. Only then that someone dies, and Jack does get called for the Stargate program. So, kinda like, hey people, this is Jack. Now deal.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

So to take this a little further, would the team then have a problem with the new team leader?

Icarus

[not-sally.livejournal.com]

Well, imagine having met someone, become their friends, going through adversity together, and then losing that someone, only to get Jack, Jack, as a replacement.
I think it'd be a rough first couple of... centuries!

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Oh god. Jack would want Daniel off the team.

"Look. This is a military operation. Bill Nye the Science Guy has no business out there, I don't care what happened to his wife."

[not-sally.livejournal.com]

Totally! They wouldn't have chemistry at first, none of the team would.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Drat. I'm passing out behind the computer. But I do have a drabble/vignette in mind for you.

Icarus

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Cool. That's a short one, but yeah. Definitely differently.

I can't believe it. It wants to be written from Sara's eyes.

Icarus

[sharp-tongue.livejournal.com]

I really like her. The one or two times we saw her in episodes she was so cool. Very strong and sensible.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

This is a strong bunny. Yeah. Good idea.

Icarus

[sharp-tongue.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I can't wait to read it.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

The Other Man


The kitchen was dark, with only the light on over the sink, turned low on the dimmer switch.

Sara shut off the water and sponged down the faucet, wringing the sponge out into the drain. That left her with... no more excuses to avoid the living room. But she did so just the same, waiting, with her hands on the edge of the counter. It was dark outside too, and there was nothing to see but a black window.

She could hear the low murmur of men's voices from here; Jack's deep baritone, and now and again a softer voice, very mild. Edged with humor and self-mockery. She'd been prepared to hate that voice and the man that came with it, but she found she couldn't. Which was disappointing. She supposed she was getting old.

She felt rather than heard Jack come and lean against the doorway; there was almost a warmth to his presence behind her. He waited, too, studying her, weighing her mood. There was the soft plosh of the beer as he took another sip. Forcing her, as usual, to make the first move.

"So he's the one?" she said sharply.

It came out a lot harsher than she intended. She turned to look at him to soften it, but his eyes were tracing the patterns on the floor. She never could read him. They stood in silence in the dark kitchen.

And just about when she'd given up on an answer, he said:

"It's only for one night." Jack looked up at her, warm, dark eyes glinting. He'd said he was sorry once. He wasn't going to repeat himself. His tone grew frustrated, "He had nowhere else to go."

"He could've stayed on base."

Not charitable, she knew, but she was past caring at this point. She might not be able to hate this 'Daniel Jackson' but she'd be damned if she was going to share.

"I can't say that I don't regret what happened, because I do," he said, having the nerve to sound hurt. "And it isn't... You just have to trust me that history isn't gonna repeat itself. What happened on Abydos..." She stiffened and didn't want to hear it again, his rush of explanations about 'a man' and 'a night' and 'a situation.' "But I'm not gonna stop being his friend. I owe him at least that much."

And that was it, wasn't it? Because he was a man it was somehow not okay for her demand Jack never see him again. Because a man could be a buddy but a woman was what-? She was awed at the double standard.

"Do what you want," Sara said, turning her back on him. "You will anyways."


Finis.

[sharp-tongue.livejournal.com]

Oh wow. Oh ouch. Poor Sarah.

I could just see her in the kitchen, standing over the sink and staring out the window. It made my chest cave in.

And the bit about it being a double standard... very nice observation. I had never really thought about it before, but the truth of it really resonates.

Excellent job!

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

So I got her voice right? I was really quite worried about that. I've never written Sara before.

She's so strong and smart. I think a little more visual detail to this. Great suggestion and request for a story, Sharpie.

How is it that I write so much angst for this show?

Icarus

[sharp-tongue.livejournal.com]

I think you got her voice right. She's only been in one or two episodes so there isn't that much to go on. But she's smart and strong and tough, and knows when to call Jack on his crap.

This show does lend itself to angst. And yet also to action and romance and drama and humor. So much good stuff!

[moojja.livejournal.com]

Remember that Spartan AU plot line you threw out a while ago. It would be great, if you expand on that, or write a new plot in the same universe.

If not, there is the crack plot: girl!Daniel, AU or otherwise.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

That Spartan one is a great idea, but I don't think I can do it by Friday.

The girl!Daniel is. But, danvers now has a fic that's very similar, so similar in fact that it would really look like a rip-off. So I'd have to check with danvers first, just to make sure it doesn't cause problems.

Icarus

[dementedsiren.livejournal.com]

The only thing I'd really, really like to see at this point is more of Teal'c's reaction to a Jack/Daniel relationship. However, since you're already covering some of that in your ongoing fic...

Either way, more Stargate J/D is always good.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. Interesting thought.

I'm doing these for a particular challenge that I heard about rather late.

Icarus

[teaphile.livejournal.com]

Hmm...Jack stayed on Abydos with Daniel for that year (but not in a slashy context). Then they come back a la Children of the Gods. Slashiness commences.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Oooo. Cool.

*starts scribbling*

Icarus

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

I've a question though. Why would the slashiness wait for later, post-Abydos? It seems the opportunity's gone.

Icarus

[tboy.livejournal.com]

You got halfway through a dancing Daniel fic for me a while ago (around December.. 5th?). Any chance of continuing with it? :-) *bat bat*

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

I have that on my to-do list, and I know where the sex happens, too.

We just have to get rid of the tarot-poker-playing SFs. ;)

Icarus

[tafkarfanfic.livejournal.com]

Daniel joined the military (who paid for his degree and trained him in linguistics - Arabic and all the other languages - so he could be of benefit to them); Jack became an aeronautics engineer, got assigned to cutting-edge NASA work, and thus got sucked into the Stargate program. Now they're on a team...but DANIEL is the military leader.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Oh man. That's a hard one. :D

Icarus