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Emergence #1
Emergence
Fandom: NCIS, The Sentinel, Stargate SG-1
Relationship: Anthony DiNozzo/Jethro Gibbs, Jim Ellison/Blair Sandburg, Aaron Hotchner/Spencer Reid/David Rossi, Daniel Jackson/Jack O'Neill
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Gibbs is the Alpha Dragon for the east coast Wing… and the lead for the NCIS MCRT. He has two rules above all others; No other emerged dragons on his NCIS team, and no relationships with non-dragons.
Tony has no dragon blood, so hides his feelings for Gibbs behind smiles and misdirection. Things will change drastically for Tony when he mysteriously falls ill after an investigation on an aircraft carrier.
Relationship: Anthony DiNozzo/Jethro Gibbs, Jim Ellison/Blair Sandburg, Aaron Hotchner/Spencer Reid/David Rossi, Daniel Jackson/Jack O'Neill
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Gibbs is the Alpha Dragon for the east coast Wing… and the lead for the NCIS MCRT. He has two rules above all others; No other emerged dragons on his NCIS team, and no relationships with non-dragons.
Tony has no dragon blood, so hides his feelings for Gibbs behind smiles and misdirection. Things will change drastically for Tony when he mysteriously falls ill after an investigation on an aircraft carrier.
- GenresFan FictionParanormal
527 pages, ebook
First published March 26, 2015
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November 12, 2023
I really thought I would be rounding up to 4★ for this M/M fusion of Sentinel-&-Guide abilities and A/B/Ω dynamics, mapped onto
dragon shape-shifters
, but the ending... isn't.
Well, one decision is carried out, but it doesn't yet solve the major problem they've been warned is coming (from Stargate canon). It's somewhat anticlimactic to have so many chapters and little payoff re. the finally-explained over-conflict (albeit with other plot arcs satisfyingly completed), when it seemed they were setting up to have an actual solution; I should've realized just how close this all was to the end, especially since it's labeled as part of a larger 'verse/series.
(ETA: It's better on reread, expectations being adjusted.)
The many details of colors and roles for Drakes (A & B) and Wyverns (O), which Tony's [and Blair's] gifts give him gradually expanding insight into, are interesting, but maybe a bit too much, or too-RPG-ish, or too pat, or something? IDK, I can't quite decide how I feel about it. (written upon 3/'23 reread)
Anyway, given those factors, I definitively rounded it down to 3★, despite its having many interesting, original, vivid ideas and exciting, plotty, and/or touching personal developments for the large cast of appealing characters, all well-known to me except for a handful of fine secondary OCs (w/fancasting available on the series page).
"Fandoms: NCIS, The Sentinel, Stargate SG-1. Minor Cross with: Criminal Minds, The Magnificent Seven ATF AU, CSI:Miami
Relationships: Tony/Gibbs, Jim/Blair, Jack/Daniel, Hotch/Reid/Rossi, Chris/Vin, Buck/Ezra, Josiah/OMC, Other M/M, M/F"
Tony's is the most-central PoV, but there are scenes from a number of others, especially in [a few] "Alpha Interlude" sections (the only non-Omega PoVs, I think), which each pan from one person/pair to another to another to another at a given point between events.
(Reread note, 11/'23: There's currently only one section marked as containing an Alpha Interlude, and I didn't even think about it as standing out at the time; did the author re-edit something??)
All the voices were well done, with softening moments of humor and the ordinary requirements of living. Although some of Gibbs's reactions might be seen as OoC, I can believe he would value this chance enough to drop some of his rigidity and terseness.
I do like the way NCIS canon to this point (season 7, post-Somalia) was largely retained while still adapting or emphasizing certain elements (besides the slashy relationships). Stargate chronology (not that the other protags know much of it — none, for most of the story) has been adjusted both to match this and to accommodate Alpha!Jack's protective instincts.
Oh, btw, this is not for fans of Ziva, though her appearances are few, and have a moderately hopeful resolution; canon provides plenty of grounds for "bashing". McGee is also only a minor character, but a balanced one. Abby is an ally, if at times over-enthusiastic and/or over-involved, improving as it goes.
Re. the romantic/sexual relationships, I tend to be wary of A/B/O 'verses, because I prefer more equality than having one partner cast as "submissive", but Tony himself has and expresses his own worries on that issue, and it was handled fairly well, with caring respect and no dub-con or S&M.
Despite his personal self-doubts, Tony dares to shake up the established, highly rigid and traditional, process of an Omega's presentation and choosing of a mate, opening many eyes with both his humor and his anger.
The premise is a tad OtT, with draconic scale-bands (lampshaded in Tony's own dialogue as he's getting a "Dragons 101" crash-course, having avoided the subject his whole "tested-dragon-DNA-less" life 'til now) and ~instinctive bonding rituals~, but eh, whatever.
Oh, I should probably point out that one of the tagged secondary "pairings" is a threesome, but no worries for those who avoid threeway sexytimes; the only explicit scenes I recall are Tony/Jethro.
On a minor note, I saw among the comments (on Chapters 21-24) that the author had responded to another reader who shared my confusion re. how the all-male Alpha Drake/Omega Wyvern genetic heritage had not been lost within a single generation by saying cryptically that biological genetics are irrelevant, and it would be fully explained in a later story. That sounds pretty hand-wavey — tbh, I didn't quite "get" it all — but I'll allow the suspension of disbelief. There are also a fair percentage of females among the Beta Drakes, so they presumably do contribute to the repeatedly-mentioned long-standing dragon lineages.
A final note to credit that the proofreading is pretty good. Nothing major sticks in my mind, though there were minor blips here and there — reasonable for this length.
Since the AO3 link given with the book data is no longer valid, here's where you can find it now (n.b., jillyjames.com is back to https as of 3/2023):
• Direct link to the beginning of this 210K MAIN STORY
or
• visit the SERIES MAIN PAGE, with links to all the four-chapter sections of this 36-chapter fic and to a couple related works (though it's set up ready for [many] more, not yet written – see the next paragraph), casting photos with the characters' & actors' names, guide to acronyms used, etc. The slightly-spoiler-y table of the characters listing their dragon attributes and mates is unfortunately poorly formatted, at least in my Kindle's Silk browser, though that part came out okay in a landscape PDF (... which messed up the casting IDs, *sigh*).
Re. related works, from the series main page:
"If the original story was the movie, then what’s to come is the TV show."
"Episode 0": The Alpha of Atlantis is just 10.7K words, but listed here on Goodreads as #2, though it preceeds the revelatory events of the mainfic. "Episode 1": Contact is incomplete, but Chapters 1-3 and a "preview" of Chapter 4 are available to DreamWidth members in the Evil Author Day community. See https://jillyjames.com/fiction/evil-a... for the specific links, since I don't think Chapter 1 links to Chapter 2, etc.
The only other extant story is Little Wyverns, a cute, crack-y (de-aging) ficlet, set plot-sequentially after The Alpha of Atlantis (even including an ~unsurprising~ spoiler for something that hasn't happened yet in TAoA) but "not truly part of the story canon."
My 3/2023 reread of this long main story was prompted by my decision to read all of the author's EAD posts, many for the first time. There was no way I'd remember all this 'verse's specifics without a refresher! I'm not even sure yet whether I've ever read those chapters before; I'll update here afterwards.
**Update** Yeah, I had already read all the way through the extant pieces of this verse, but it was no hardship to read the Atlantis bits again! 😉
Well, one decision is carried out, but it doesn't yet solve the major problem they've been warned is coming (from Stargate canon). It's somewhat anticlimactic to have so many chapters and little payoff re. the finally-explained over-conflict (albeit with other plot arcs satisfyingly completed), when it seemed they were setting up to have an actual solution; I should've realized just how close this all was to the end, especially since it's labeled as part of a larger 'verse/series.
(ETA: It's better on reread, expectations being adjusted.)
The many details of colors and roles for Drakes (A & B) and Wyverns (O), which Tony's [and Blair's] gifts give him gradually expanding insight into, are interesting, but maybe a bit too much, or too-RPG-ish, or too pat, or something? IDK, I can't quite decide how I feel about it. (written upon 3/'23 reread)
Anyway, given those factors, I definitively rounded it down to 3★, despite its having many interesting, original, vivid ideas and exciting, plotty, and/or touching personal developments for the large cast of appealing characters, all well-known to me except for a handful of fine secondary OCs (w/fancasting available on the series page).
"Fandoms: NCIS, The Sentinel, Stargate SG-1. Minor Cross with: Criminal Minds, The Magnificent Seven ATF AU, CSI:Miami
Relationships: Tony/Gibbs, Jim/Blair, Jack/Daniel, Hotch/Reid/Rossi, Chris/Vin, Buck/Ezra, Josiah/OMC, Other M/M, M/F"
Tony's is the most-central PoV, but there are scenes from a number of others, especially in [a few] "Alpha Interlude" sections (the only non-Omega PoVs, I think), which each pan from one person/pair to another to another to another at a given point between events.
(Reread note, 11/'23: There's currently only one section marked as containing an Alpha Interlude, and I didn't even think about it as standing out at the time; did the author re-edit something??)
All the voices were well done, with softening moments of humor and the ordinary requirements of living. Although some of Gibbs's reactions might be seen as OoC, I can believe he would value this chance enough to drop some of his rigidity and terseness.
I do like the way NCIS canon to this point (season 7, post-Somalia) was largely retained while still adapting or emphasizing certain elements (besides the slashy relationships). Stargate chronology (not that the other protags know much of it — none, for most of the story) has been adjusted both to match this and to accommodate Alpha!Jack's protective instincts.
Oh, btw, this is not for fans of Ziva, though her appearances are few, and have a moderately hopeful resolution; canon provides plenty of grounds for "bashing". McGee is also only a minor character, but a balanced one. Abby is an ally, if at times over-enthusiastic and/or over-involved, improving as it goes.
Re. the romantic/sexual relationships, I tend to be wary of A/B/O 'verses, because I prefer more equality than having one partner cast as "submissive", but Tony himself has and expresses his own worries on that issue, and it was handled fairly well, with caring respect and no dub-con or S&M.
Despite his personal self-doubts, Tony dares to shake up the established, highly rigid and traditional, process of an Omega's presentation and choosing of a mate, opening many eyes with both his humor and his anger.
The premise is a tad OtT, with draconic scale-bands (lampshaded in Tony's own dialogue as he's getting a "Dragons 101" crash-course, having avoided the subject his whole "tested-dragon-DNA-less" life 'til now) and ~instinctive bonding rituals~, but eh, whatever.
Oh, I should probably point out that one of the tagged secondary "pairings" is a threesome, but no worries for those who avoid threeway sexytimes; the only explicit scenes I recall are Tony/Jethro.
On a minor note, I saw among the comments (on Chapters 21-24) that the author had responded to another reader who shared my confusion re. how the all-male Alpha Drake/Omega Wyvern genetic heritage had not been lost within a single generation by saying cryptically that biological genetics are irrelevant, and it would be fully explained in a later story. That sounds pretty hand-wavey — tbh, I didn't quite "get" it all — but I'll allow the suspension of disbelief. There are also a fair percentage of females among the Beta Drakes, so they presumably do contribute to the repeatedly-mentioned long-standing dragon lineages.
A final note to credit that the proofreading is pretty good. Nothing major sticks in my mind, though there were minor blips here and there — reasonable for this length.
Since the AO3 link given with the book data is no longer valid, here's where you can find it now (n.b., jillyjames.com is back to https as of 3/2023):
• Direct link to the beginning of this 210K MAIN STORY
or
• visit the SERIES MAIN PAGE, with links to all the four-chapter sections of this 36-chapter fic and to a couple related works (though it's set up ready for [many] more, not yet written – see the next paragraph), casting photos with the characters' & actors' names, guide to acronyms used, etc. The slightly-spoiler-y table of the characters listing their dragon attributes and mates is unfortunately poorly formatted, at least in my Kindle's Silk browser, though that part came out okay in a landscape PDF (... which messed up the casting IDs, *sigh*).
Re. related works, from the series main page:
"If the original story was the movie, then what’s to come is the TV show."
"Episode 0": The Alpha of Atlantis is just 10.7K words, but listed here on Goodreads as #2, though it preceeds the revelatory events of the mainfic. "Episode 1": Contact is incomplete, but Chapters 1-3 and a "preview" of Chapter 4 are available to DreamWidth members in the Evil Author Day community. See https://jillyjames.com/fiction/evil-a... for the specific links, since I don't think Chapter 1 links to Chapter 2, etc.
The only other extant story is Little Wyverns, a cute, crack-y (de-aging) ficlet, set plot-sequentially after The Alpha of Atlantis (even including an ~unsurprising~ spoiler for something that hasn't happened yet in TAoA) but "not truly part of the story canon."
My 3/2023 reread of this long main story was prompted by my decision to read all of the author's EAD posts, many for the first time. There was no way I'd remember all this 'verse's specifics without a refresher! I'm not even sure yet whether I've ever read those chapters before; I'll update here afterwards.
**Update** Yeah, I had already read all the way through the extant pieces of this verse, but it was no hardship to read the Atlantis bits again! 😉
January 11, 2018
This is fanfiction and not everyone's thing, read at your own risk. It's a crossover between multiple different fandoms.
2018
I had the urge to re-read this fanfiction, same disclaimer it's not something that everyone would enjoy, read at your own risk.
2018
I had the urge to re-read this fanfiction, same disclaimer it's not something that everyone would enjoy, read at your own risk.
May 7, 2018
Read this story before and loved it. It weaves together different worlds into one cohesive unit. It's a very interesting world and piece. It's defiantly worth a read of you're willing to be open and give it a chance.
March 14, 2019
I have read this about a dozen times now and I absolutely love it. I hope one day she writes the sequel to it because I cannot wait to see what happens. The story, the characters, all of it is amazing.
March 19, 2025
Love the idea of dragons and how it changes the perceptions of modern society and the people who have to live with them. The dialogue is great and Tony is as funny as always. The back half drags a little ans some parts are a bit confusing but the story is always fun and generally fast paced with a good blend of characters from a variety of series.
May 19, 2020
Sentinel/NCIS fusion.
April 25, 2015
The first 32 chapters get a five. The last bunch get a 3. Once Stargate got pulled in it felt like everything was rushed and explanations were thrown out fast and furious.
The last few chapters just didn't work for me. But the first thirty or so were great.
The last few chapters just didn't work for me. But the first thirty or so were great.
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