Title : May I

Author : DiBee

Summary : My answer to the eighth Penguins' challenge, based on the quote from 'May I' Trading Yesterday. Sam's life, Jack's lips, and an additional flicker. Os, Sam/Jack, Romance.

Disclaimer : Not mine, no money out of it.

Rating : K+

Spoiler : None

A/N : English still isn"t my first language. Thanks to Oris for the music! See French translation under "Puis-je".

When the world is closing in

And you can't breathe

May I love you

May I be your shield

~ "May I" by Trading Yesterday

When the world is closing in

He was close. God, he was too goddamn close! Only a few more millimeters, and she would be able to feel his lips against hers, and there wouldn't be anything more. At this very moment, he meant the world to her. He was her world, her sun, and the only one she felt like gravitate around.

And you can't breathe

There, he was kissing her. Hard. But softer than she could have expected. It was both too desperate and too intense to pull back, yet so loving she thought, for a second, she could have cried had she been able to focus on anything else but him. His lips, his tongue trailing her lips, his body firmly pressed against her, his hands cupping her face...

May I love you

'God, Sam, never do this to us again" he said, as she draw a breath once he had pulled back. He had known. He had known that she had been breathing again, but kissed her nonetheless.

May I be your shield

And here they were again, back to strictly professional. Her heart had stopped, he had reanimated her, kissed her to life, maybe lingered a slightest bit more than necessary to prove his point, and it was back as it was before. Two soldiers, one harmed, the other worried for his comrade fallen under enemy's fire. But deep in his eyes, she could see something more, a flicker that she knew wouldn't fade like that. An overview of what love could taste like, that they had both, for a few seconds, had the pleasure to share.