Title: Blinded
Author: Tracy
Rating: G
Pairing: Sam/Jack
Spoiler: A Hundred Days episode tag
Category: Angst
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Disclaimer: Not mine, just borrowing them for a while
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As Samantha Carter emerged from the depths of Cheyenne Mountain, she stopped suddenly and squinted into bright sunshine. She shielded her eyes for a moment and wondered how long had it been since she'd seen the sun? How long since she'd been hidden underground like a mole, hidden away from actual daylight?
Colonel O'Neill had been gone for 100 days, and in all that time she'd tried to do everything in her power to get him home. She'd spent every waking, and sleeping, hour working on some way, any way, to return him from Edora. She'd barely been out of the mountain the whole time, working in her lab, sleeping in her quarters, when she slept at all. Worrying how he was doing, if he was hurt, if he was even alive. Only to find he'd been involved with Laira all that time. He hadn't really wanted to come home, had asked Laira to come with him, and that had hurt more than she, Sam, had expected.
Her feelings for Jack O'Neill were still fairly new. Ever since they'd been stranded in Antarctica Sam had known she'd had feelings for him that had only grown since that time. She only knew she'd do anything for him. She'd been so determined to get him home from Edora that she hadn't expected him to have built a life for himself, hadn't expected him to fall in love with someone else while he was gone.
Sam tried to deny she felt hurt, betrayed, but as soon as Colonel O'Neill had been taken to the infirmary she'd grabbed her things and left the mountain as fast as she could. After months of refusing to leave, she just had to get out of there, right now.
She removed her hand from her eyes and raised her head, telling herself it was the bright sunshine that made her vision blur. She wiped away the moisture that had filled her eyes with her fingertips and headed for her car.
Fin
