Fic: Not EVEN.

[pepper]

 A ficlet for abyssinia4077, who has made me crave Jack/Sara apocafic OMG.

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"Oh, c'mon!"

 

"No."

 

"Pretty please?"

 

"No!"

 

"Just half an hour, and if you don't like it, I'll never bother you again."

 

"No! And will you stop following me! People are staring."

 

"Sara! Come on, Sara." He revved the engine. "I'll drive extra-fast so you can cling on tightly to my manly chest," he tried, wheedlingly.

 

She absolutely was not suppressing a smile. Sara kept walking fast. "Jack O'Neill, I wouldn't go out on a date with you if you were the last man on Earth!"

 

She kept walking, and a few steps later realised that his motorbike was no longer dogging her footsteps. Unable to stop the impulse, she turned to look back, to see if she really had put him off this time.

 

Not a chance.

 

He was giving her that look, a small, devilish little smile, and a glint in his dark eyes. One foot rested on the floor, balancing his bike as he sat there, leaning on his handlebars, not trying to hide the fact that he'd been watching her walk. His smile increased, just a little, and it occurred to her that she might be giving him the wrong impression, standing here staring at him like that.

 

Or the right impression, said the tiny part of her mind that was completely falling for his ridiculous posing.

 

"Pick you up at nine?" he said.

 

"No!" She turned and started walking quickly away, hyper aware of his eyes on her ass.

 

"Hope you like Italian!" he called.

 

"I hate it!"

 

"Wear something skimpy!"

 

She turned around and walked backwards. "I'll be wearing my pyjamas, because I'll be at home, in bed!" she hollered.

 

"Sounds good to me!"

 

"ALONE!"

 

"Aw, where's the fun in that?"

 

She was grinning broadly as she turned and walked away.

 

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"My photo albums!" she gasped, hesitating at the door.

 

"Leave 'em!" snapped Jack, tugging her hand. "Come on – we've gotta go!"

 

Reluctantly, she let him drag her out of the house he'd re-entered for the first time in eight years, only five minutes before. She glanced back, and then up, at the smoke that darkened the sky. "Oh, god." Still looking up, she walked straight into him when he stopped. She turned, and the words died on her lips, killed by a disorienting wave of familiarity. "Oh my god. You are kidding me."

 

Jack was already throwing his leg over the bike. "Nope." He looked up at her, and a familiar glint lit his eyes, just for a moment. "You still remember how to ride one of these, right?"

 

"Like falling off a log," said Sara. "Sometimes all too literally, with you driving." He didn't bother to deny it. Sara got on behind him quickly, and wrapped her arms around his chest, tucking her feet up out of the way. Apparently helmets were optional on this trip.

 

"So, that thing you said," he called back, over the revving of the engine, and the noise of explosions and panic all around.

 

"What thing?"

 

"About not even if I was the last man on Earth. How serious were you?"

 

Sara huffed a startled laugh, and buried her face against his back as he nudged up the kick-stand and launched them into the end of the world.

 

 
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ETA: Woohoo! We have more Jack/Sara apocafic, this time from holdouttrout! Come, join us... you know it makes sense... *uses hypnostare*

ETA2: If you want more Jack/Sara fic (and who shall blame you), there's a decent-sized collection of great recs on the redial_the_gate fanworks page for Cold Lazarus, here.

Comments

[abyssinia4077.livejournal.com]

OMG OMG OMG OMG!!!!!

*SQUEES*
*JUMPS YOU*
*LOVES YOU FOREVER*

OMG OMG OMG!!!!

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

I love the teasing in the first half with him being leacherous confident young!Jack and her loving the reaction she gets from him!

And then the second half! He goes for her! And the bike! And the apocalypse! and the callback!

(Pepper! We have found the best fic subgenre EVER!)

[pepper-field.livejournal.com]

Yes! The best obscure little subgenre of which there'll be maybe five fics EVER! *g*

We must convert more people so they'll write fics, too. Because oh how I love apoca!Jack/Sara. They've got all this history, and it's the end of the world so they can drop all the reasons to be apart and just remember why they were so good together, and squeeeeeeeeeeee!

[abyssinia4077.livejournal.com]

Oh, man, this ficlet is still the best thing ever with the contrast and him being charming and her being her and....guh!

YES we much convert everyone OMG!
It's so complicated and involved and crazy and I love them so much.

[pepper-field.livejournal.com]

Let us trample all over NaNo, hoorah! *g*

It's all your fault, with Sara getting a gun and heading into the fight with Jack. It stuck like a burr in my brain.

Also, I think young!Jack is permanently on a motorbike, in my brain. And I know exactly where that came from - this: http://pepper-field.livejournal.com/14486.html

[abyssinia4077.livejournal.com]

I will so take that blame! I want more of them so bad! You know she could.

(oh, your brain makes lots of sense to me!)

[beanpot.livejournal.com]

I like how this sort of book ends Jack - the Jack before everything happened and the Jack after everything occurred. Most excellent.

[pepper-field.livejournal.com]

:) Ta! I love doing that sort of thing with him and Sara - I guess because there is such a clear before and after, for them, and she's one of the few people who knew the before-Jack. She'd be one of the only canon characters who'd seen how light he could be (in my head, anyhow), before.

[pulsar4529.livejournal.com]

I love it! You two converted me.

They're so comfortable with each other, so snarky, and it's awesome.

[pepper-field.livejournal.com]

You two converted me.

YES! *raises hands triumphantly* So now you want to write some. Right? ;)

Yeah, I think they must have so many years history that they wouldn't be able to help just kind of... slipping back into old patterns, despite everything that's between them.

[http://users.livejournal.com/traycer_/]

Fantastic little snippet of Jack and Sara that feels so right!

Thanks for this!!

[pepper-field.livejournal.com]

I don't know why they ping me so, but they do.

(Just pretend you didn't see this. I'm totally writing my NaNo. Honest! *g*)

[nandamai]

Aw! (Gotta love apocafic that makes you go "Aw!")

Re: your comment above about the size of the fandom: There's a bunch of Jack/Sara around here somewhere, though it's probably not apocafic. ;) I think you'll find some on Jackfic, if I remember correctly.

[pepper-field.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've come across some Jack/Sara fics - I have my sources. *g* Other than Abyssis's fic the other day, I don't remember coming across specifically Jack/Sara apocafic before. There may well be some out there... the hunt is on.

And, heh, apocafic that makes you go "aw" - I'm strangely pleased. *g*

[holdouttrout.livejournal.com]

Oh. My. God.

You know, before this ficlet, Jack/Sara was like, "Okay, fine. Whatever. Cute. Blah. Yes. Sure."

And now? EEEE!!!

Damn you--you and abyssinia4077.

[pepper-field.livejournal.com]

*does dance of triumph*

It occurred to me that it sort of fits with my peculiar love of Terminator, actually. Sarah Connor - I can almost see Sara O'Neill in that role. Partly the 80s thing, for the earlier stuff, and the fact that she's a civilian, but really quite tough when she has to be, and amazingly resourceful... And Jack is doing the whole "Come with me if you want to live!" bit, here. :)

[holdouttrout.livejournal.com]

I'm blaming you for this. (http://surreallis.livejournal.com/361923.html?thread=7011779#t7011779)

All your fault. I was supposed to write Sam/Jack next. But no!

(I've never seen Terminator. How sad am I?)

[pepper-field.livejournal.com]

Woohoo! *is not at all regretful*

(I didn't watch Terminator for years, myself. When I did, it was a lot better than I expected - but I tend to watch scifi for the romance, and there's a great time-travelling tragi-romance in it. And Sarah Connor, the lead character, simply rocks, IMO.)

[holdouttrout.livejournal.com]

I can totally go for the tragic romance. Might give me enough of an shove toward putting it in my queue.

:-D

[abyssinia4077.livejournal.com]

*tackle hugs you*
*tackle hugs you again*

YOU ARE AWESOME!

(also. Go watch Terminator)

[holdouttrout.livejournal.com]

*picks self up, examines self for signs of bruising. concludes she's still intact*

(Also, yes ma'am)

[pepper-field.livejournal.com]

Heh! And don't worry about there being too much Schwarzenegger - the first film is mostly about Sarah Connor being supremely awesome.

[abyssinia4077.livejournal.com]

(and watch both 1 and 2 - I actually saw the second one several times before I saw the first one. So much goodness)

[pepper-field.livejournal.com]

And don't watch 3! Bleh.

[holdouttrout.livejournal.com]

Yes, ma'am. :-)

And I'll be sure to avoid three. What franchise has a solid number three? (Besides LotR, which doesn't count!)

[abyssinia4077.livejournal.com]

!!!

Oh, man, and now I want to read a fic where...oh oh oh....

Something crazy with Charlie and Goa'uld and AU time travel apocafic and Jack and....and...Sara is SO Sarah Connor!

[pepper-field.livejournal.com]

Oh, there are so many things right about that idea... *wants*

[abyssinia4077.livejournal.com]

Oh, oh, oh. Because...man this is so awesome in my head my brain can't think straight.

[caladria.livejournal.com]

It's Jack/Sara! You wrote Jack/Sara again!

*is not fussy about subgenre of Jack/Sara, but is open to persuasion via more apocaJack/Sara*

[pepper-field.livejournal.com]

I couldn't help it. There's something about 'em that I just love. Have you read Abyssis's Jack/Sara apocafic? It's so lovely. It's, um - oh, there's a link on my previous post.

*is thinking up more fic to persuade you*

[caladria.livejournal.com]

Yes, I have read it. It is greatly of the Jack/Sara goodness, because as I said over there, Jack/Sara are apocafic all by themselves without outside intervention.

*reads paragraph* *is tired and not making of the sense*

*sits and waits for more Jack/Sara recs*

[pepper-field.livejournal.com]

:D

I... think I understood that. Yeah, they have their own end-of-the-world moment, definitely. The actual apocalypse might actually be less traumatic than that. Depending on how it happens, and who gets caught up in it, of course.

Okay then... I'm going to put together what Jack/Sara links I have, I think.

[pepper-field.livejournal.com]

Actually, even easier - I've added these to the redial_the_gate fanworks page for Cold Lazarus - so all the fic people have thus far recommended are here:

http://community.livejournal.com/redial_the_gate/10032.html?view=305456#t305456

[caladria.livejournal.com]

*congratulates you on finding me vaguely intelligible*

ooh, yay! links! *sigh* the only Jack/Sara stories I have any knowledge of are far, far too vague (something called Colours/Colors? It was a series, and it was really good)

[pepper-field.livejournal.com]

Oh - I don't know that one. If you find it, let me know! It'd be nice to collect all the links in one place.

[caladria.livejournal.com]

searching Google for "stargate colors badger" and its still the fourth link down...

http://www.jackscabin.net/jackandsarasroom.htm

It's been years since I've read any of these, so don't ask me anything about them except that they're Jack/Sara!

[pepper-field.livejournal.com]

Ooh! Lots of fic I've not seen before! *is thrilled* Thank you!

[maychorian.livejournal.com]

Oh, very cute story! I think I just fell in love with Jack a little bit. And I've always been a Daniel girl.

And Sara! She's her own person and it's awesome.

[pepper-field.livejournal.com]

Awww, I'm glad! Come to the Jack side... we have cookies... ;D

Sara had a lot of character, for someone who appeared in only one episode (and for about 3 seconds in the film). I think they gave her and Jack a lot of room to just show their relationship. I love it when that happens on a show.

[katcorvi.livejournal.com]

Wow! What a fantastic story.

[pepper-field.livejournal.com]

Aww, thank you! Jack/Sara grabs me, sometimes. They just... *waves vaguely* ...[something incoherent].

:)

[paian]

I am so, so loving this Jack/Sara apocasplosion, and yours is exhilarating. I should probably feel guilty about being exhilarated by the end of the world, shouldn't I?

... Nah. *g*

[pepper-field.livejournal.com]

Naaaaaaah. If you can't have fun at the end of the world, there's no hope. *g*

You know, I think Jack would find a certain adrenalin-junkie excitement about the apocalypse - so long as it was all explosions and fast bikes.

I'm loving this apocasplosion (excellent word) too. I hope there will be more. Hint, hint. ;)

[paian]

If you can't have fun at the end of the world, there's no hope -- Wow, very true.

Hint, hint -- I am very, very tempted! :-)

fyi...

[winterhart]

I believe Sara's Father's name is CONNER

Re: fyi...

[pepper-field.livejournal.com]

You're kidding! That's excellent! I didn't know that. Sara Conner!

I wonder if that was on purpose, referencing Terminator?

Re: fyi...

[winterhart]

I wouldn't doubt it

[princessofg.livejournal.com]

EEEEEEEE.

thank you. so much. wow.

[pepper-field.livejournal.com]

Heheh. You're welcome. *g* I do love Jack and Sara. (Although I've written kind of the same scenario twice now... I need to get some new material!)

[kirsty841.livejournal.com]

I love this. Jack/Sara apocafic is awesome. I love the cute flirty-ness between them, even when the world is ending.