Author: Selenay
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Summary: Jak Kern's only lead in the disappearance of his son is hidden in an obscure manuscript. Denil of Errith is pulled away from his quiet scholar's life
by Jak's plea for help, but neither of them could have known where the search would take them.
Rating: PG-13
Pairing: Jack/Daniel (or Jak/Denil)
Date: 01-03-04
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Feedback: Yes please *g*
Note on the origin: Back in November 2002, Biblio issued a challenge to the Alpha Gate list to write an AU taking the characters from SG and putting them into a a different setting. At first I didn't have any ideas, but after a couple of weeks this little plot bunny started nibbling at my ankles. It grew and refused to be quiet, so 'Serpent in the Shadows' was born. I'm assured that Stargate fans will recognise familiar characters and images, but non-Stargate fans can read it just as well because I ended up writing this as though it was an original novel. In fact, it's much closer to an original novel than I ever imagined it would be when this teeny little plot bunny started nibbling over a year ago. They say 'write what you know' and my home genre is fantasy, so this is probably the first AU Stargate high fantasy fic out there.
Acknowledgments: This novel owes a lot of its existence to Aloysius. In March 2003 I had about twenty pages written, but I wasn't sure whether it would
interest anyone else. I wanted to finish it, but I didn't feel all that positive about publishing it. Alo listened to me babbling about it in a pub
in Oxford and demanded that I finish it. Knowing that there would at least be an audience of one, I knuckled down and have been working on it
intensively, obsessively, since May. Nine months. Wow. Throughout that time Alo has encouraged me and been an ear when I needed to babble about it.
She also took on the mammoth task of beta-ing this and it wouldn't be the fic it is without her support and encouragement. She really
deserves co-writer credits :-) So you can either thank or blame her for getting this fic published.
Thanks also go out to Joy, Beth, Kate, Nic, Annie, DM, the rest of the FDAS crew and anyone else who has encouraged me while I've been finishing
this - I'm very lucky to have such lovely friends. I'm writing this the morning after the Oscars so I feel like I should be thanking my mom and
my lawyer, too, but I think that's the signal to stop thanking people and point you in the direction of the story.