Setting: Set during "Unending", Season Ten.
Disclaimer: All characters, etc are the property of MGM. I do this solely for entertainment purposes (my own as well as that of others), with no financial gain whatsoever.
A/N: I enjoyed writing Teal'c's perspective in "The Promise" so much, I decided to give him and Sam their own story. You do not have to have read "The Promise" to make sense of this, although I will warn that this is probably not the story for die-hard Sam/Jack shippers. Having been warned, if you still want to give it a go, just remember...once time has been reveresed within the time-dilation field, everything will be undone, so it's all good...
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The Odyssey, Prologue
She sat in the dimly lit room, running endless simulations. Trying, once more, to save them.
She had been trying for over a year.
He had spent many a night such as this, unacknowledged and silent, offering whatever invisible support and encouragement he could.
He felt they owed her that much.
Life was life, regardless of how limited its scope had become. They would all be dead, were it not for her.
Sam could feel his eyes on her, was aware of his presence, but was not yet ready to face him. To face any of them.
She failed them all each day. Each day that passed without a solution. Each day they spent trapped on this ship, in this space-borne coffin. Each day they lived without the ones they loved.
They believed in her, put their faith in her. She had never let them down before. There had always been a solution, a last-minute miracle. They'd done the impossible so often, it had become the norm.
Only now, there was no solution. They were trapped, and she knew it. She just couldn't bring herself to tell the others.