Fig Newton's SG-1 Gen Recs

Rec Category: Pre-series
Categories: Sha'uri, Jack, Catherine Langford, Sam, Kawalsky, Daniel, character study, ep related
Warnings: none
Author on LJ: bakaknight
Author's Website: Bakaknight at AO3
Link: Sunrises

Why This Must Be Read: This is a thoughtful episode tag to Stargate: the Movie, offering a glimpse of the aftermath to a variety of different characters. (Well, Sha'uri's is more a prologue.) My personal favorite is Catherine Langford's, but all of these feel very real and very right.

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Rec Category: AU
Categories: AU, episode related, drama, angst, team, Jack, Sam, Daniel, Teal'c, Sha're, Kawalsky
Warnings: Sam/Jack, language, temporary character death
Author on LJ: annerbhp
Author's Website: Fic Master List
Link: Falling Back to Earth

Why This Must Be Read: In over four years and nearly 600 recs, this is my second Sam/Jack fic rec ever. That should tell you something. :)

In this fabulous AU rewrite of COTG, Sam and Jack are already involved before the story begins. (There are two backstories in this series, both linked at the master post for the fic, which I did not read and are not necessary to enjoy Falling Back to Earth.) What follows is a painfully honest exploration of Jack's struggle to reconcile the regs and Hammond's orders (“ I hereby order you both to cease and desist your personal relationship from this moment forward.”) with his very human reactions and Jack's second-guessing of the choices he makes on the mission, and the twists and turns that happen when Sam is left behind in the Abydos Gate room when Apophis comes calling.

You will love the Jack-voice here. You will love this for Kawalsky, for Sha're, for Daniel. But most of all, you will love this for Sam - wonderfully competent determined Sam, who bonds so fiercely with Teal'c and never, ever stops fighting. By the end of the fic, the formation of SG-1 and SG-2 are delightfully altered, and you'll join me in hoping that Annerb continues to write in this fascinating AU.

If you're a Sam/Jack fan, go read this. And if you're not a Sam/Jack fan, go read this anyway. I most certainly am not, and I loved it!

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