Golden, by Knightshade (PG)

Rec Category: Gen

Pairing: none
Categories: gen, Teal’c, Jack O’Neill, Teal’c and Jack friendship, episode related, drama, character study
Warnings: intense pain, by personal choice
Author on LJ: dknightshade
Author's Website: Knightshade's Garden
Link: Golden

Why This Must Be Read: Knightshade presents us with an interesting look at the run-up to 2010 in the original timeline, as Teal’c chooses to undergo a medical procedure under the auspices of the Aschen.

Filled with stoicism, symbolism, and the very essence of Teal’c, Golden also gives us Jack, despite his unhappiness and suspicions, coming to stand at Teal’c’s side in support. There’s the bond of intense friendship, and consequences of choice – that of pain, that of allies, and that of selecting one’s future, when the choices of the present leave that future echoing and empty.

I love a good story that makes the reader think. For all its brevity, Golden does that in spades.
 

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