The Satisfaction of Revenge
By StarnightSam
Summary: This is a Sam/Jack Romance. Only Jack and Sam! Sam is mad at one sexy gorgeous two star General and makes plans for revenge. But can she really pull it off? Come into my strange world and see. As usual read at your own risk.
Disclaimer: Not mine, not even their thoughts because Muse wrote them! Only the plot and admittedly (with her permission) the Teal'c personality in this story is based on Su Freund's Teal'c character in her story, "Unending Time." But it is only his personality and care of Carter that I borrowed, cause I liked him and she let me! The rest of the story is nothing like "Unending Time." (Which you should also read because it is really good. It can be found here on FanFiction.
The Satisfaction of Revenge
Chapter One
Colonel Sam Carter stood leaning over the banister, looking out over the ocean. The wind was blowing her hair. Her face and eyes were set in a statue like stance. Nothing about her moved. She was deep in thought. Truth was she was mad, madder than she'd been in a long time.
She had been stationed here three months and one week. Last week, her experience with the Seer had really shaken her, more than she'd ever admit. In her visual report to General O'Neill, she'd tried to mask her fear. She'd never let him see her as anything but a fearless top notch soldier. With General O'Neill she'd masked her femininity so well that she had doubted he even thought of her as a woman.
She'd tried to develop a relationship with him just after she'd broken off her engagement to Pete. In fact he was the reason she'd broken up with Pete. But the General had let her know he wasn't interested in her that way. They'd gone out to dinner a couple of times; he even took her to the cabin after her father died. But he had also invited Teal'c and Daniel. It turned out to be two weeks of frustration for Sam.
Every time she tried to get close to him in anyway other than friendship, he quickly changed the subject or made some excuse to leave the room. Even Daniel and Teal'c noticed his reserve with her. It not only hurt her feelings terribly, but it made Sam doubt what she'd assumed he felt for her. She'd used the excuse of her father's death every time they caught her crying, but in truth she was crying over losing Jack. She'd waited too late.
She'd thought he'd broken things off with Kerry Johnson because he finally wanted to give them a chance to develop this thing between them. But she'd been wrong. Terribly wrong. General O'Neill had made it plain that he didn't want to be with her in that way.
They were friends, good friends, he had said. Yeah, right, good friends. She'd spent the entire night crying the night he made that statement. Samantha Carter never cried over men. Never. But she couldn't seem to bury her tears over Jack. The guys thought she was upset over her father and the break up with Pete. Every time they found her in tears, they would hug her or just give her space.
It had been over two years since that trip to his cabin. After that Sam made it a point to stay away from him. She'd tried really hard to move on with Pete. Her mistake with Pete was that she was too much in love with Jack, and at that time she still in her deepest heart felt he still had feelings for her. She really thought it was the regs keeping them apart.
Now, she'd buried her feelings so deep, that she didn't even look at men. Any man. She'd put all her energy and emotions into fighting the Ori. She'd been really hurt when the General had her reposted to the SGC.
She'd given up command of SG1 and had been appointed as head of Area 51. She'd actually liked it there. It was safe. She'd spent her time on the front lines, putting her life at risk and taking chances that she wouldn't make it back to Earth for eight long years. Only reason she'd made it that long was she would never have broken up her team. They were family. And she loved all three of them just in different ways.
She had faith in all three of them. She'd trusted them with her life. Colonel O'Neill was a great CO. He protected his team, and made sure they weren't put in danger if he could help it. He never took unnecessary chances with their lives.
But Sam had been really mad at him when she was reassigned to the SGC. Not only was she sent back against her protests, she was placed under the command of a green CO, who'd had two months of being an off world team leader. Funny thing was he didn't have a team.
She took it personally, as a demotion. She never would have believed that the General would have done that to her. She'd really thought he cared for her. Believed in her. Boy, had she been wrong. He'd stripped her of her command of Area 51 without a blink of the eye and tossed her back in as a 2IC of the very team that she had commanded.
He used the excuse that the SGC needed her expertise. Why didn't they offer her SG1 back, or at the very least why not another team. Wouldn't she be more productive than Mitchell? She had eight years off world experience for crying out loud.
She truly felt that General O'Neill was getting revenge. Either he wanted her to pay for his losing Kerry or for Sam's engagement to Pete. She wasn't sure which. After almost being killed several times following Mitchell, and the defeat of the Ori, she'd asked to be reassigned.
She was forty three; it was so much harder to maintain the vigorous schedule that off world travel required and keeping up her technological projects at the same time. Truth was she was just tired. She'd spent the last ten years in fast speed, and her body was tired.
She was ready for a change to a more normal work week. And after they had received the Asgard technology, she couldn't wait to see what all they really could do with it.
She had been shocked out of her mind when General O'Neill had appointed her to head Atlantis. She'd never wanted to be here. This was Daniel's dream, not hers. General O'Neill had stated more than once, he didn't want Daniel that far away. So, placing her in Atlantis just proved her belief about his feelings for her. They were nonexistent. Or it was truly revenge. She hadn't decided which.
It was her dream to work on the Asgard technology they received from the Asgard. She'd asked for a transfer to Washington to be involved in the implementation of any Asgard Technology that could be used now or at least to be one of the teams that would be working on the Asgard tech of the future.
And what had the Head of Home World Security, the CO of her CO, one two star General O'Neill, the only man that she'd ever loved, decided to do with her? Ship her off, that's what. Not just across Earth, but millions of light years away. She couldn't even talk to Cass or her friends when she wanted. Not only that, but he'd refuse do take her calls. She'd tried several times, left many messages asking for him to reconsider, but he never acknowledged her messages.
She'd never before thought of him as a bastard, but now she did. She'd been furious with him, and after the Seer's prophecy of the attack on Atlantis she not only became more furious but also depressed.
She wasn't willing to give her life anymore for the good of all, not at Atlantis anyway. There were so many others that could head the Atlantis expedition just as well as she. They had more than capable people here. They didn't need her.
Sam had tried to put the damn man out of her mind. She really had. But it just never worked. She went from being mad as hell at him to wanting him so much she'd wake up from dreams of them having passionate sex. She was losing it, more and more each day.
The Seer's vision of Atlantis being destroyed really upset her. She'd realized that it may not happen, or if it did it could be a thousand years from now. But she just knew in her heart that it was going to happen and happen in her tenure here.
All this was the cause of her plan. She'd had nothing to lose anyway. But she'd be damned if she spend another week without getting him back. She'd set her trap and catch a damn big mouse. That's just what she'd do. She turned from the ocean and made her way back to her quarters, all the while thinking how best to get revenge on one smart ass, gorgeous two star General.
TBC
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