A/N - I was bombarded with MANY Daniel/Janet plot bunnies last night, while watching YouTube vids. This is but one of them.
Daniel's POV, obviously
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Hugging her is like something from a dream. Holding her tight, her arms around me, her hair in my face seems so surreal.
Closing my eyes, my mind takes me back to that day.
The sounds, the smells... the sight of her, working hard to do her duty, to save another's life.
Even at the cost of her own.
My traitorous mind relentlessly tortures me with those few moments - her last moments.
Playing them over and over in my head, reminding me all too clearly of my failure.
As I force myself to pull back, I study her face, burning it to memory, wishing desperately to wake up and find that this had all been a horrible nightmare.
I step back, fighting the urge to pull her back, to keep her here with me, and never let her go.
Smiling at her one last time as she walks up the ramp, I draw some comfort from the fact that she's alive out there, somewhere.
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