skydiver
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Registered: Nov 2001
Location: Topeka, KS, USA
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This just can not be happening. It?s over. SG-1 is no more.
OK, there?s still a SG-1, but it?s only Daniel, me and Teal?c. The Colonel is relieved of command. I?ve always wondered about how it would end. Of course those thoughts usually come to the surface after a particularly harrowing mission.
Like every time I?ve thought Daniel was dead somewhere, or worst of all, when that bitch Hathor had me convinced I was the only survivor. I still have nightmares of being all alone. These people are the first real friends I?ve had for...well for years. Just the thought of losing one of them is enough to make me sick to my stomach. And now it?s a reality.
There?s always a way out. That?s something I?ve picked up from the Colonel. I?ve just gotta find it. Maybe if I ask him, maybe he?ll give me a clue, throw me a bone. Maybe there?s a virus, maybe they did something to him on Edora, maybe Urgo?s back...Maybe I?m frantically grasping at straws. Can someone please tell me just what the hell is going on around here?
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?No Carter, I haven?t been acting like myself since I met you. Now I?m acting like myself.?
Those words of his keep echoing through my brain. Only years of military training, and the fact that we were in the middle of a crowded hallway kept me from forgetting myself and punching him out. I see Teal?c?s jaw set as the Colonel lobs those hateful words my way. I know that one word from me will set the big guy off.
OK Sam, get a hold of yourself. Right now you need to keep it together. If the Colonel is really getting kicked out you gotta be there for Daniel and Teal?c. Anyway, I?m not going to give him the satisfaction of losing my temper. Never let them know how you really feel...Jacob Carter?s life lesson number one.
Screw you, you mean tempered SOB. I just turn and leave. Maybe I?m running away. No it?s not running away...it?s a strategic withdrawal. My lab...I just gotta get to my lab. The door locks. I can hide there. Been doing a lot of that lately. Besides after Janet?s casual prying over the last three months...the last thing I need is to give her more ammunition.
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Hammond just called me to his office. It?s official. The Colonel...Jack?s retired...again. This time however, it?s for keeps. Teal?c, Daniel and I are on stand-down until he finds us our fourth. And after today?s events he wants us to leave the facility...well Daniel and I anyway.
And he asks me a favor. He knows just how...unique Daniel and Teal?c are. Whoever our fourth is, he...trust me it?ll be a he...will be regular military. It?ll be my job to ...translate...mediate...levitate...yeah it?ll take some magic. There?s gonna be compromises on all sides. Daniel?s got to start to remember that ?It?s time to go? doesn?t mean ?Five more minutes Jack?. Teal?c...well he?s going to have to trust and respect a stranger. Believe me winning Teal?c?s trust is like winning the lottery. It isn?t easy but it?s certainly worth it.
And me...I?ve gotta get back to yes sir, no sir, how high sir. I?ve let myself get way too comfortable with the col...Jack. I?ve let myself get far too...open...casual...trusting. I mean my new CO...yeah it?ll be a higher ranking officer, there?s no way I?ll get command of SG-1...he?ll most likely have no tolerance of my explanations, my off the wall ideas and need I mention my little alien flashbacks. It?s time to get back to ...well basically back to the way things were. I just can?t even begin to tell you just how much I don?t miss that.
One thing, just one thing, please God don?t let him be one of those ?women don?t belong in the military? types. I think I can handle having to hold SG-1 together as long as I don?t have to fight for the respect I deserve along the way.
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It?s Colonel Makepeace. I had a feeling it would be him. Ferretti and SG-2 are working well together. No reason to throw two teams into turmoil. Anyway, two majors on one team would just make things awkward. Colonel Makepeace is a good man. He?s been here almost as long as I have and he?s bailed our butts out a few times.
Of course that last mission is the reason he?s not too crazy about me. It actually has nothing to do with my gender. When he rescued Daniel and I from Hathor, Makepeace declared co...Jack a casualty. Then I went back to blow the generator. That was all fine and well. The problem came when I had to rescue c...Jack. I just couldn?t leave him. Jolinar was enough for me to deal with...there was just no way I could let him spend eternity trapped in a nightmare with a monster in his head.
What I couldn?t tell Makepeace or even Hammond was that I?d promised Jack I?d never let him...his knowledge...fall into Gou?ald hands. We all promised that to each other. Our SG-1 pledge.
Then Makepeace found out I?d not only made a side trip, I?d almost gotten my brain fried by Hathor. If Jack hadn?t have woken up and she had succeeded in killing me...it would have been a massacre. Five SG teams, almost half of us would have been killed.
After we got back, Makepeace quietly pulled me aside. Basically the fact that I?d succeeded in saving Jack and that Trofsky, thinking Jack was a host, was tricked into killing the time necessary for our reinforcements to arrive and I ...technically...hadn?t disobeyed orders was all they kept him from ?court-martialing me back to civilian?.
This is going to be SUCH FUN.
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Oh Daniel, please shut up. Don?t protest anymore, just accept it. Don?t make things worse. I know what he?s doing. That beautiful, crazy, problematic loyalty of his. With Jack gone, he?s going to defend me the same way he would have defended Jack.
He told me some of what happened during their talk. Some but not all. If Jack?s words to me in a crowded hallway are any indication, I?ll bet what he said in the privacy of his home was far, far worse.
Jack you son of a bitch. Lash out at me...fine. Treat Teal?c like dirt...fine. But to deliberately hurt your best friend? I didn?t think you could sink so low. Then again I?m getting the idea I never really knew you.
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We had our first mission today. Just your standard recon. Usually no big deal. Gate to a planet, look around, take a few samples, go home. Of course the four of us had a long standing pattern. Daniel and Teal?c would look for archaeological signs, Jack and I would collect samples. Makepeace?s plan is that we all stick together. It?s a sound plan, strategically. But it cuts our coverage in half. The problem is Daniel just assumes ?same game, different colonel.? Instead of waiting for orders, he just trots off. Makepeace protests, Daniel tries to explain, Makepeace doesn?t want to hear it, he cuts Daniel off. Teal?c defends Daniel, Makepeace gets annoyed at Teal?c. I try to mediate. Daniel thinks I betrayed him, Teal?c glares and I?m caught in the middle. I stand with my friends and I can kiss my career good-bye. I help Makepeace control them, I?m gonna lose my friends.
Dammit this whole mess is all Jack?s fault. What the hell was he doing? How can he leave me like this?
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