The Things You Fight by Baalsgirl
Summary: Okay, this is a spin-off to my previous story "The Gods We Serve" and here is what happened in the meantime between its end and the beginning of this one here:
Sam has never met Pete again. She stayed together with Jack for some time, but they split as well after some woeful incident putting Jack into grave danger (there'll be more about that in the story).
After it Sam went into depressions and averted from her friends, then one night she disappeared through the Stargate and though they searched everywhere for her, her friends could not find her.
But now, years later, an entirely changed Samantha Carter will have to face her past life again...
Pairings: S/J (I didn't say, they won't get together here again...)
Rating: PG-13 (The thing's a bit violent and I dunno what our protagonists are about to in the later chapters... ;-) .)
Disclaimer: I don't own Stargate (a pity), I don't do anything for money, just for a lotta pleasure.
Some of the characters (Daray; the Kel'ba people ) are original and property of the author, as is the storyline, the rest are Stargate originals...
Dedications: To all of you guys who liked TGWS and posted me so many reviews. Hopefully this one will please you, too...
And now, peeps: Sit back and enjoy, here comes the conclusion.
Chapter 1 - Jack
Somehow the wind must have swept the photo from its place on the bookshelf. He reached out to pick it up from the floor. But instead of putting it back to where it was placed before, he started to look at it, what he had not dared to do for a long, long time. The picture was showing himself together with Sam on the first downtime they had spent all alone in his cabin back in Minnesota. But they had not been alone all the time, as usual one of their friends had stumbled by, that evening it had been Daniel and he had taken the picture for them.
As he was looking at it now sadness started to overwhelm Jack, he had to fight back tears.
Sam had left Earth over four years ago. After the incident with Baal she had never been the same person again. For some time Jack had been able to comfort her, though they had not been supposed to they had become a couple, things had started to improve again, but then one day it happened. Once again the images were filling his mind: the attack, the blood, the screams and then the explosion that had finally destructed the whole planet - and everything because of him...
Everything still seemed so real and though years had passed Jack could hardly cope with it.
After some time Jack was able to calm himself again. Though it was just 9 o'clock he decided to go to bed. It was Sunday evening and he would go on a mission with SG-1 tomorrow morning. But still he could not let go of the photo, he took it with him and lay it down on his bedside table.
This night he did not get to sleep much, like so often in the past years he was pained by nightmarish dreams, but this time something was different...
Dream
Jack was running to the gate room as fast as he could, but he arrived there too late. He caught the sight of Sam who was about to leave through the Stargate, he sprinted up the ramp to stop her.. Now Jack awaited to happen what had happened in the hundred other times he had had this dream, but it did not end that way. He reached Sam and she turned around throwing her arms around her boyfriend kissing his lips tenderly...
End dream
The buzzer of his alarm clock woke Jack, he jumped out of bed trying to shake off the weired night he had had. It was already 7.30. He had to speed up if he wanted to be in time for the mission briefing.