Title: Teal'c's Five Favorite Board Games
Author's LJ/DWJ:paian
Categories: Teal'c, humor, character study, team, friendship
Warnings: none
Author's Webpage: Fic Index or at AO3
Link to story: Teal'c's Five Favorite Board Games

Why this should be read: This may be my favorite Teal'c fic. It is beautifully written, funny and moving. I actually choked up at the ending the first time I read it. Starting with "Checkers" and ending with "Chutes and Ladders" each game gets longer, more involved and more interesting.

Plus it has wonderful illustrations! And links to some of the games mentioned! (I'm a geek about background stuff.) Really an amazing fic in only 2800 words.

He took great pleasure in stunning them all by achieving immediate supremacy in the newly released Trivial Pursuit Millennium Edition (Jaffa Sub-Edition, Daniel Rules).

"Right out of the damn box," O'Neill grumbled. "Where's that Baby Boomers one? We have one of those, right? Bet he's never played that one either, and I'll kick his ass."

"I kick your ass at that one, Jack, and I'm Gen X," Daniel Jackson said.

O'Neill had never been a good loser. Teal'c had always admired that in him.

Now Teal'c sits across the table from the young lieutenant colonel who not two hours ago slapped the SG-1 patch back on his shoulder. Word of their showdown has spread quickly, but the commissary is so deadly quiet that Teal'c almost believes he can hear the crowd around them inhale and exhale. He listens to Lieutenant Colonel Carter's ceremonial removal of the packaging from the brand-new box, hears the low whirr as she inserts the data disk into her notebook computer, perceives a small smile on Daniel Jackson's face as he meets her eyes across the table. He considers what he will learn about their new teammate as he and Colonel Mitchell engage, one on one, in Stargate Command's first game of Trivial Pursuit DVD Star Wars Saga Edition.

ETA: I hit enter by mistake before I finished most of it, sorry about that.