Title: With the Dying
Author's LJ/DWJ: dira
Categories: ANGST, Daniel and Teal'c friendship, episode related, character study
Warnings: character death, references to AU!Jack/AU!Sam (passed by the mod, heh)
Author's Webpage/Fic list: Fiction by Dira Sudis
Link to Story: With the Dying (LJ feedback here)

Why this should be read: I have a special fondness for Moebius fic that highlights the closeness between our Daniel and AU!Teal'c. One of these, Singing Down the Moon, has already been recced here. But With the Dying is the first - and the best - that I ever read.

Here is a Daniel who has lost his team, and is faced with three people who wear their faces but do not share their life experiences. And now he has to stand sentinel over another Teal'c, who has a symbiote that will soon mature, and no access to tretonin, and who makes an inevitable decision...

And the last paragraph will break your heart.

An empty, echoing future for the sake of freedom for others. Lonely. Powerful. Good.

( snippet of fic... )