Fic Search: Jack/Daniel

[tikrasiva.livejournal.com]

I found this fic early in my fanfiction-reading career, and I've never come across it since:

Jack gets lost or captured or something, and ends up homeless on another planet. He gets a wasting disease of some sort - can't walk, can't speak, can't see, etc. The team happens to find him and brings him back, and they find the way to heal him, except the blindness is permanent. Most of the story is Jack learning to deal, and Daniel freaking out and angsting. Daniel has a breakdown at one point, and Jack goes to a special school to teach him how to live independently, and Daniel eventually learns to chill out. I don't know if it's an established relationship fic, but I'm pretty sure it ends up with them together, because I remember it being incredibly sappy at the end.

I know that I have some pretty angsty dreams, but I'm almost positive that this was actually a fic. Thanks for your help!

Comments

[stasha2g]

What Is Essential by JoaG & babs

[tikrasiva.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much! Now that you say it, I'm pretty sure I've seen the name a few times, I just kept on confusing it with "What This Is," which is a slightly different story ;)

[l-jade.livejournal.com]

Yeah... that one!, I was going to point that way too... it's just one of the best... I prolly read it again this weekend :)