Title: She Went On
Author's LJ/DWJ/AO3: nonisland / nonisland
Categories: Character study, character: Sara O'Neill, character: Jack O'Neill, character: Daniel Jackson, theme: awesome women
Warnings: Canonical pre-series character death
Author's Webpage/Fic list: Fic Masterlist
Link to story: She Went On
Why this should be read: Sara fic is a rare find. Even rarer is good Sara fic that really is Sara fic, not Jack fic in disguise. This is a spare and unsentimental 500-word portrait of Sara becoming about herself.

Snippet of fic:

She quit smoking, unafraid of some sterile distant death but not afraid to fight it, either.

She called some of her former friends, people she'd drifted away from when she married, or when Charlie was born, or when he died. Some of them brushed her off, but others made time for her—lunches and lazy afternoons, weekdays when their children were in school.

She signed up for night classes in engineering. She'd always had a knack for cars and motorcycles, but it had been mostly guesswork, picked up here and there. In her classes she learned why things worked, how the sense she had of moving parts applied to more than just vehicles.