Stargate SG-1 Bigbang Fic: Jigsaw

( The story of the story. )

AU from late season three, post-"Pretense" (Skaara is free, Sha're is dead). 66,906 words. Not explicit.
Warning: Multiple major character deaths, mostly before the story starts. Mostly.
Jack/Sam/Daniel/Teal'c, Sam/Daniel/Teal'c, Jack/Sam, Sam/Daniel, plus smidges of Jack/Daniel, Jack/Teal'c, and Daniel/Sha're.

Thanks to iulia and treewishes for beta!

Jack wakes up in the SGC to the news that his team is dead. If he weren't hearing the news from General Hammond he might not believe it--and even so it's not quite real until he sees the bodies. Once he does, he knows nothing is ever going to be the same again.

Sam wakes up in the SGC to the news that she is now the senior member of SG-1. Jack O'Neill is dead. For Sam and her team, nothing is ever going to be the same again.

SG-1 might be able to go on like this--Sam's going to keep her team together if it kills her--but a man who's lost his team is capable of anything, and Jack's about to do the unthinkable to make things right.

Deeply, profoundly fabulous and variously spoilery artworks by milanthruil are available at the artist's post. You can go look at them now, but go back and look at them again after you read because THEY GET SO MUCH MORE AWESOME. :D

And without further ado:

Jigsaw at the AO3

Jigsaw at my website