White

Oct. 16th, 2005 10:26 am
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Title: White
Author: [livejournal.com profile] muck_a_luck, posting in [livejournal.com profile] brainofck
Pairing: Daniel Jackson/Jack O'Neill
Rating: NC-17
Summary: Daniel refused to live a lie. Or a life of denial and bittersweet heartbreak.
Content/warnings: None.
Spoilers: None.
Words: 523
Disclaimer: If anybody is planning a script like this for SG-1, I'm certainly not going to claim any rights to it. However, I'd be delighted to work in a co-writing/consulting/first-reader/advisory-type capacity, with my fee to be negotiated at that time. :D
Archive rights: Absolutely none. My journals only. [livejournal.com profile] muck_a_luck and [livejournal.com profile] brainofck
The Matrix: The Matrix is located here. I'm calling this one "White" for Jack and Daniel.

For my loyal [livejournal.com profile] rugbytacklers, I have done a Stargate crash course located here.






Daniel refused to live a lie. That was what he said, when Jack kissed him that night at Daniel's apartment. Daniel wanted him. Daniel loved him. But Daniel wanted love and a life, not a bittersweet denial of a love condemned. They both knew they weren't going to throw aside the exploration of the universe, the defense of the planet, the Stargate, for their love affair, so Jack had left Daniel's apartment that night, cried a few tears, and would never have looked back.

Then one white day, when there was already four inches of snow on the ground. When the air was so thick with flakes that it was impossible to see, or drive, or even walk to the mailbox, Daniel had appeared on his doorstep, and while the white snow fell, hiding the world, and they had fallen onto the ivory quilt that covered Jack's bed and the passion had been as white and pure as the falling snow outside.

After that, Jack planned for the snow. He listened to the forecast in the winter, and when a real doozy was coming - ten or twelve inches in a night - Jack would buy Daniel's favorite coffee, and bring extra logs onto the porch, and be sure he had every sweet and savory treat Daniel loved tucked casually into corners of his kitchen.

When the first white flake fell, Jack would light the fire.

When Daniel appeared, damp and frosted with snowflakes, Jack would be ready for him.

Three? Five times in a year? When it snowed and they were planetside and the stars were in alignment. Daniel was his. Jack came to associate Daniel with white fluffy snow.




The mission had been routine. Nothing to write home about. They stepped back through the gate, tired, but no more tired than usual. Routine infirmary visits, blood work, shower and fresh clothes, debrief with their hair still damp, then Hammond needed one thing, and Frazier needed another, and Jack was the last to leave, signing out topside after another day at the office.

"Careful in the snow, sir. There's probably six inches on the ground already, and they're predicting twenty," said the airman in the booth.

Jack could have cried.

A perfect storm, lost to the vicissitudes of work and the weather.

He considered going back downstairs and staying over in a VIP suite, rather than fighting the snow to arrive at a cold, empty house.

Everything was white, as he drove home through the opaque darkness. He could have walked it faster.




He opened the door to the unmistakable feeling of heat from a wood fire. The white quilt from his bed was spread over the living room floor. And Daniel lay on the quilt, propped up on his elbows in just the light of the fire and a pillar candle he must have brought with him, reading one of his scholarly journals and eating white, powdered sugar mini donuts straight from the box.

Jack shook the white snow from his jacket to the floor of the porch, stepped into the coffee scented warmth of home.

Daniel was white.

Date: 2005-10-16 04:22 pm (UTC)
seleneheart: (Default)
From: [personal profile] seleneheart
Oooh, I thought for a minute that Daniel was off being glowy and that would have sucked. But I like the way it turned out.

White donuts

Date: 2005-10-16 08:04 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] brainofck.livejournal.com
I wanted to put the donuts on Daniel's back, but decided it did not match the overall mood of the piece.

Date: 2005-10-16 06:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] green-grrl.livejournal.com
Mmmm, beautiful. I hate snow but this story makes me love it. Just the perfect balance of warmth and angst.

#67

Date: 2005-10-16 08:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] brainofck.livejournal.com
Wow! You hate snow? That's unexpected! :) You many be annoyed to note, then, that I still have #67 Snow left to do... :p

Glad you liked it!

Re: #67

Date: 2005-10-17 04:56 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] green-grrl.livejournal.com
I live in the desert for a reason. :-)

Date: 2005-10-18 06:19 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] brandinsbabe.livejournal.com
aww this was so nice.
i love how you made it into three sections. so perfect
i really like your style. a lot.
xo

Date: 2005-10-24 05:10 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] brainofck.livejournal.com
Thanks! It's funny what other people see that I don't. Writing is so weird. I was unexpectedly literary! *laughs at self*

Date: 2005-10-18 01:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] raviahmad.livejournal.com
I liked the donuts. A little off-beat but (a) it worked for the challange and (b) it was a homey, private kind of touch. Very nice. And, may I say, that I'm SO happy that you're doing this challange. Its so cool!

Thanks and thanks!

Date: 2005-10-24 05:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] brainofck.livejournal.com
Thanks!

And, may I say, that I'm SO happy that you're doing this challange.

What a kind, sweet, lovely thing to say! Thank you!

Date: 2005-10-21 09:56 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] from-the-corner.livejournal.com
This was beautiful.
Simple and warm (despite all this snow :-)).

Date: 2005-10-24 05:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] brainofck.livejournal.com
Thanks! So pleased you liked it.

Date: 2005-10-22 10:03 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kar0na.livejournal.com
That was beautiful.

Date: 2005-10-24 05:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] brainofck.livejournal.com
Thank you!

Date: 2005-10-24 07:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] teddibear.livejournal.com
I like how you use the metaphor of white. A way for them to blank out the rest of the world and live in their own little snow covered one. Great imagery there :)

Loved how this ended too. I was all worried there for a bit when Jack talked of going home to an empty house even with the snow falling.

I may need to friend you. I'm loving your ficcies :) I hope you don't mind. I just recently got dragged into the loveliness that is SG1.

Date: 2005-10-24 07:13 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] brainofck.livejournal.com
Thank you so much! And, please, feel free! I love new friends! I just came to SG-1 myself this summer, after years of resistance. I actually have some serious qualms about Jack and Daniel. I think my angsty first drabble series really gets at the heart of how I feel about them. But it's fun to write fluff, and I seem to be overcoming my squick. :)

Date: 2005-10-24 09:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] teddibear.livejournal.com
Ah see I watched a few eps way back when and I was into Daniel/Carter at first but I had not seen enuf of the series to really decide if I liked or gauge an opinion. I've resisted for a long time and then Nil made me read Dr. Jackson's Diary and well after that there was no way I was going to be able to resist this series, this pairing, or Dr. Jackson. So I am diving in wholeheartedly. It's also a good way of distracting myself of the utter horror that my other J/D has come (West Wing's Josh and Donna, which John Wells has COMPLETELY destroyed for me). So when I can't have het, I turn to slash. This and NCIS' Gibbs/DiNozzo are what works :)

I am eager to read the rest of your stuff. And yay for overcoming the squick. I reckon these two could definitely work. There is so much subtext there (the Spacemonkey moment alone SCREAMS of it) that something's DEFINITELY going on.

Oh and I added you :)

Date: 2006-09-22 02:19 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] secretbutterfly.livejournal.com
*faints at the loveliness & hotness of it all*

Date: 2007-09-14 04:07 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] melayneseahawk.livejournal.com
I love this fic, loved it when I first saw it, but how is it connected to this morning's angstfest?

Date: 2007-09-14 07:40 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] angiepen.livejournal.com
You're right, this is a perfect follow-on to the other one. [beam]

Angie

Date: 2007-09-14 05:41 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] zats-clear.livejournal.com
this follows for me. once again, something from your journal I had missed...
*idly wonders what's up with Daniel and snow*

Date: 2007-09-16 03:22 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tresa-cho.livejournal.com
Aww, that was brilliant! Very well done.

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