Title: The Sleeping Warrior
Author's LJ/DWJ: annerbhp
Categories: action/adventure, character: bra'tac, character: ishta, character: teal'c, era: season 9-10, pairing: teal'c/ishta, theme: terrific teal'c
Warnings: none
Author's Webpage/Fic list: fic master list on lj
Link to story: The Sleeping Warrior

Why this should be read: Teal'c launches a not-so-solo rescue mission and ends up changing his entire life because of the dual influence of Bra'tac and a young Jaffa girl. I just, I can't even articulate what it is I like about this story, because I like the whole thing too much. The fic totally embodies Teal'c, speaking quietly but saying volumes with its actions.

“He ordered us not to interfere,” Arnok insists. “But he should have returned by now. I fear something has gone amiss.”

It was inevitable, perhaps. Ever since Bra’tac relinquished his seat on the Council in exchange for an intransigent life of wandering from Jaffa camp to camp, he was bound to run into trouble. Not all Jaffa greeted the new order with open hearts. And these, like the Kal’vidan, are the ones Bra’tac means to better understand and extend the hand of kinship to.

Teal’c knows the tentative peace between the Kal’vidan and the Council is such that any overt retaliation, even an armed attempt to recover Bra’tac, will be seen as a declaration of open war. Bra’tac must know this as well and as such has roped his attendants into swearing off any such action, effectively tying their hands. All this in the name of reaching out to all Jaffa in the galaxy.

“Fortunately I am bound by no such order,” Teal’c says. “I will retrieve him.”