Stop the Presses, by Redbyrd (PG)

Rec Category: Original Character

Pairing: none

Categories: original character, gen, episode related, drama, crossover, Cassandra Frasier

Warnings: crossover with Atlantis, spoilers through SG-1 S9, violence (including minor original character deaths)

Author on LJ: redbyrd_sgfic

Author's Website: Redbyrd’s Stargate Fiction

Link: Stop the Presses or on the website

 

Why This Must Be Read: Have you ever snickered at the increasingly ridiculous idea that the SGC can still be top-secret after all these years? Then this delightful remix of Stop the Presses by Cofax is definitely for you!

 

Colin Jameson, a reporter from LA, comes to Colorado Springs at the behest of his friend, Matt Yurievich, to attend a press conference by one Dr. Berend Kavanagh. Despite the apparent ridiculousness of his claims, these two reporters have added up enough suspicious events over the years – the “Denver flu,” hallucinatory creatures infesting Colorado Springs, an entire building disappearing, the incident in LA in Resurrection, and Alex Colson’s disappearance after his attempt to prove the existence of aliens, just to name a few – to wonder if there’s really a story there. But when Kavanagh’s press conference gets crashed and things suddenly turn deadly, will Colin stay alive long enough to get the story out to the public?

 

An excellent Cassie scene, a seriously hilariously-in-character Jack O’Neill cameo, and one of the only sympathetic treatments of reporters that I’ve seen outside the Lois and Clark fandom. Stop the Presses is an affectionate poke at the SGC’s laughable secrecy, and one you’re sure to enjoy.

 

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Only Misplaced, by Random (PG)

Rec Category: Teal'c and Daniel friendship

Pairing: none

Categories: Teal'c and Daniel friendship, Teal'c, Daniel Jackson, gen, character study, dramaxml:namespace prefix = "o" /

Warnings: none

Author on LJ: randomfreshink

Author's Website:

Link: Only Misplaced

 

Why This Must Be Read: Full disclaimer: not only did I get to serve as a beta for this absolute gem, but Random has called this a belated birthday present for me.

 

If you want to skip the rest of the rec, this should be enough: SQUEEE!

 

Oh, this fic is wonderful. Forget, for the moment, the intriguing puzzle Teal’c and Daniel need to solve, the sudden tension at the potentially fatal stacking of the deck against them, the drama of a frantic Daniel trying to save Teal’c’s life after Teal’c has saved his life, the sober realization of how Pandora’s Box can never, ever be closed... No, what makes this story incredible is that it’s early, early S1 Teal’c and Daniel, struggling with preconceptions and the weight of the baggage they already carry between them. There are fascinating references to their “training” and the meaning of the word “guide”; a lovingly detailed look into both their heads, as they consider one another; the slow journey to acceptance, and to what we know will be an astonishing friendship.

 

Sam and Jack, the disembodied voices over the radio, serve as a sort of grounding backdrop to the drama in characterization that unfolds before us. But this fantastic story is all Teal’c’s and Daniel’s, and it goes on my top-ten favorites list. Read this one right now!

 

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