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figs_sg1_rec) wrote2008-03-25 03:09 pm
figs_sg1_rec) wrote2008-03-25 03:09 pm
Substance Clad in Shadow, by Abyssis (PG)
Rec Category: Sha're
Pairing: Daniel/Sha're
Categories: Sha're, Jack O'Neill, Daniel Jackson, Daniel/Sha're, Abydos, character study, episode related
Warnings: spoilers for the movie and FIAD
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abysinnia4077
Author's Website: Masterlist of Fanfiction
Link: Substance Clad in Shadow
Why This Must Be Read: This haunting, elegant fic, set within the final scenes of the movie, touches upon Daniel and Sha'uri determining their future, but is mostly about Sha'uri and Jack.
Abyssis' intelligent, intuitive version of Sha'uri is wise enough to sense the darkness that lingers around her new husband's friend, and she worries that he needs something to act as his anchor. There is lovely backstory, and dreamy culture-building, and the pain of a quiet full circle, as the gift that was given to assauge one death is returned to help share in the grief of another.
This story will break your heart. And then you'll want to read it all over again.
Sha'uri's father comes to take Danyel's hand and drag him away to people who wish to meet his new son and she is left across the fire from Oneer, who stares into the flames with stony silence and for just a second Sha'uri sees the blackness skim closer. In a flash she knows what is needed and springs to her feet, holding her hands out to Oneer and bidding him wait. He waves her off.
She races back to her room, digging in the sack beside her blankets until she comes out with the stone - carried by traders from a place where they say water stretches as far as the eye can see - wrapped carefully in wire, each knot placed to channel the spirit to safekeeping. She brings it out and places it in his hand. He looks down, shakes his head, and tries to hand it back to her but she puts it in his palm, bending his fingers down to close around it.
When he opens his mouth to speak she reaches out a finger to still his lips then lets her hands trail over the weak points where his spirit might leak - across his forehead, before the ears, down the parts of his neck which throb with life, settling over his heart and then down to enclose his hands in her own, amulet trapped inside. She bows her head and whispers a prayer, calling upon the true gods to watch over this man and keep him safe - to drive away the evil that will not release him and the evil he cannot release.
When she steps back he looks up and says something in his tongue before slipping the gift into his pocket. She hopes he understands to always keep it with him.
The next day she stands by Danyel's side as they bring the doorway of the gods into light and Oneer's men step through. At the last step he turns back to look at Danyel. Her husband holds her close as he bids farewell and she watches Oneer's hand stray to his pocket as he steps through and knows he will be safe.
Pairing: Daniel/Sha're
Categories: Sha're, Jack O'Neill, Daniel Jackson, Daniel/Sha're, Abydos, character study, episode related
Warnings: spoilers for the movie and FIAD
Author on LJ:
abysinnia4077Author's Website: Masterlist of Fanfiction
Link: Substance Clad in Shadow
Why This Must Be Read: This haunting, elegant fic, set within the final scenes of the movie, touches upon Daniel and Sha'uri determining their future, but is mostly about Sha'uri and Jack.
Abyssis' intelligent, intuitive version of Sha'uri is wise enough to sense the darkness that lingers around her new husband's friend, and she worries that he needs something to act as his anchor. There is lovely backstory, and dreamy culture-building, and the pain of a quiet full circle, as the gift that was given to assauge one death is returned to help share in the grief of another.
This story will break your heart. And then you'll want to read it all over again.
Sha'uri's father comes to take Danyel's hand and drag him away to people who wish to meet his new son and she is left across the fire from Oneer, who stares into the flames with stony silence and for just a second Sha'uri sees the blackness skim closer. In a flash she knows what is needed and springs to her feet, holding her hands out to Oneer and bidding him wait. He waves her off.
She races back to her room, digging in the sack beside her blankets until she comes out with the stone - carried by traders from a place where they say water stretches as far as the eye can see - wrapped carefully in wire, each knot placed to channel the spirit to safekeeping. She brings it out and places it in his hand. He looks down, shakes his head, and tries to hand it back to her but she puts it in his palm, bending his fingers down to close around it.
When he opens his mouth to speak she reaches out a finger to still his lips then lets her hands trail over the weak points where his spirit might leak - across his forehead, before the ears, down the parts of his neck which throb with life, settling over his heart and then down to enclose his hands in her own, amulet trapped inside. She bows her head and whispers a prayer, calling upon the true gods to watch over this man and keep him safe - to drive away the evil that will not release him and the evil he cannot release.
When she steps back he looks up and says something in his tongue before slipping the gift into his pocket. She hopes he understands to always keep it with him.
The next day she stands by Danyel's side as they bring the doorway of the gods into light and Oneer's men step through. At the last step he turns back to look at Danyel. Her husband holds her close as he bids farewell and she watches Oneer's hand stray to his pocket as he steps through and knows he will be safe.