A Friend Indeed
Rated: PG
Category: S/T, Teal'c Angst
Season: Season Ten
Spoilers: Unending
Summary: A Double Drabble Teal'c POV In The Last Scene
Note: My Take on S/T in 'Unending' is better understood if you read 'Acceptance', but it's not required. Also, please note that 50-60 years is 18,250-21,900 days, and I mean the 'thousand' below literally as in occasional. Again, 'Acceptance' helps.
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"You know… as hard as it is for us not knowing…it must be torture for you not to tell us."
Teal'c looked at each of his teammates in turn for a moment, even briefly glancing up at General Landry, before his gaze came back to rest on the speaker. Of course she would be the one to ask. Nothing was ever easy for Teal'c.
A lifetime of memories floated across the Jaffa's mind in an instant and images from a thousand nights spent with Samantha Carter flashed into his consciousness like so many too bright lights.
She'd called it torture, and a small part of Teal'c was certainly in agony as he looked at her.
They'd been close on that ship. So much closer than friends. They'd been confidantes. They'd been shelters from the storms of life. They'd even been sometimes lovers, and while both of them had known that what they had wasn't exactly what they needed, it had come to be meaningful all the same, and if he was honest with himself, Teal'c missed it.
He'd always known that this day would come, one way or another, and that as her friend he would have only one honorable path to choose, but that didn't make it any easier for him to give the only answer he could.
"Indeed."