Almost a Statesman, by KatieM (PG)

Rec Category: AU

Pairing: none
Categories: AU, futurefic, Teal'c, gen, drama, character study
Warnings: deaths of minor canon character
Author on LJ: katie_m
Author's Website: Katie's Stargate SG-1 Fanfic
Link: Almost a Statesman

Why This Must Be Read: Because there are way too many of us that wish that this wasn't in the AU category, and think that the Jaffa deserved a better storyline than the one they got slapped with in S9-10.

The story diverges from canon sometime towards the beginning of S7 – most specifically, Death Knell never happened, and the Jaffa remained at the Alpha Site. Written intelligently from the POV of Ry'ac, this is the story of "Teal'c of the Tau'ri" – with both the positive and negative connotations abscribed to that nomenclature. The fic draws us a picture equally based in hope and realism, as the Jaffa, new to this strange, wonderful thing called "freedom," stumble along the path towards a brighter future.

Teal'c, as percieved by his son, is simply awesome. The cameos from the rest of SG-1 are wonderfully in character, as are the minor canon characters, like Rak'nor and Ry'ac, and some excellently drawn original ones. This is what I imagined Teal'c would become, once the Jaffa won their freedom – and despite SG-1's temporary loss, I only wish the Jaffa would have had him as their gain.

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The Message/The Reply, by Scribe (PG-13)

Rec Category: Daniel Jackson

Pairing: none
Categories: Daniel Jackson, Jack O'Neill, drama, angst, episode related
Warnings: non-sexual nudity, violence, some language
Author on LJ: sg1scribe
Author's Website: Daniel's Diaries
Link: The Message / The Reply 

Why This Must Be Read: These two fics, part of Scribe's infamous shower series, can be read individually; but when you put them together, the impact of the creepiness factor goes up exponentially, and leaves you very relieved that certain events in Season 4 weren't actually real.

Senator Kinsey warned Jack, in their confrontation in Chain Reaction, that "Doctor Jackson will be out of the SGC permanently." In The Message, Kinsey arranges for Jack to discover just how vulnerable Daniel and his teammates really are – and there doesn't seem to be anything Jack can do about it. But in The Reply, someone does do something about it. Sort of, anyway. It's the kind of elegant, vicious reciprocity that you would expect, if a particular person had chosen to take a specific path.

Read these two stories and shiver, just a bit, at the very plausible possibilities.
 

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