Category: Stargate: SG-1
Title: No Regrets
Chapter: 1
Chapter Title: Cameron's view
Genre: Romance/Angst
Rating: Fiction Rated: T
Summary: The first in a group of POV's. They are all connected and deal with the events in Line in the Sand. Major spoilers for this episode you are Warned.
Spoilers Up to and including season ten Line in the Sand
Pairing S/J Sam/Cam friendship
Set in Season ten during and following the events in Line in the Sand
Cam's point of View during Line in the Sand, when he and Sam are out of phase.
I tried my best to reassure Sam, but I don't think I did a very good job. In truth I had no idea how we were going to get out of here, and our only hope is lying there, fighting death, a faint glimmer of fear in her eyes. I decide to try helping her alleviate her fears so she can focus on other things. I come up with my Grandma story and I hope it makes sense to Sam. Seems to be working.
Those words I said recently to Vala are coming back to haunt me. This is what being on SG-1 means. Watching a teammate give their life for a cause, whether it be Earth, the SGC, or the team. Yep open mouth insert foot, Cam.
I don't really want to have let Sam go, but I don't know if I will have a choice. If I can just keep her focused and thinking, then maybe she can figure out a way to fix the machine. I am not giving up on her yet. If anyone can do this she can she is the strongest woman I know. I know our friendship got off to a rocky start, with me taking over the Generals old spot on SG-1, but in the last year we have ironed out our differences, and made the co-command thing work.
She is trying to tell me things I will need to know if she dies. Her password is "fishing." Huh, that's weird. I would've guessed something scientific or a little more complicated. I guess it must have some special meaning to her.
I don't want to know how to work the device. I decide to try a new approach.
Sam, stay with me here, I know you have had some morphine, but we have to protect the device. We can't let the Ori find out about it and destroy it. I pull out some C-4.
Her eyes get big. No, you can't destroy it, and you have to take it back to the SGC.
I can't carry it and you, I tell her gently.
No choice, she says. The weapon is too important. I finally realize what she is saying. She is ready and willing to die if necessary, to ensure the device is brought back to the SGC.
There has to be another way.
Suddenly she is very far away.
Sam, Sam wake up!
Her eyes open, and I see a spark in her eyes. She is still fighting to live. I strain to hear what she has to say
The Ori staff it has an energy crystal and we could use it to power the device.
As I made the modifications Sam suggested, I realized that General O'Neill was right. His words of advice coming back to me.
Mitchell, take care of Carter and she will take care of you, but whatever you do, don't let her know you are taking care of her.
Despite the amount of pain she must be in, and the drugs flowing through her, she uses me to get the device working again. Great job Sam, I knew you could do it. If you hadn't, well, I don't know if I could've left you alone, to die. Nobody gets left behind, and no one did.