Almost a year later she was smiling. It was an unfamiliar feeling, her face felt stretched and her cheeks hurt. She thought of Cam and Daniel, she would finally get to see them again. The threat of imminent death didn't matter much, if that mattered they would never have gotten anywhere back at the SGC. They would get through it, they always did. She had her pictures back in her pocket where they belonged; she was starting to feel whole again.
The first person she saw was Daniel. She felt a shock when she saw the cane in his hand, she had almost forgotten about his leg. Maybe if she had thought it through she wouldn't have thrown herself at him as hard as she did but that required more will power than she had at that moment. "Daniel!" She cried and almost tackled him in a hug. They wobbled a bit but her being the military woman she kept balance for the both of them. "Sam! It's so good to see you!" She could hear the smile in his voice. "Well, I feel left out." Cam had just walked around the corner. "Cam!" She said and embraced him too. After he and Daniel had exchanged a manly hug with a lot of back-smacking they proceeded into the room with the president. She fought not to smile again when Daniel described what was coming as, "Death. Slavery. More slavery more death." And looked at them as if to make sure he had it right. She gave him a small grin of support.
Already the chemistry of the team was reasserting itself. The feeling that they had each other's backs no matter what, and they did. No matter their differences they always stood as a united front. She hadn't realized how much she missed that feeling until the hole in her heart was filled. Then the president just had to burst her bubble.
He brought up the weapons platform in Antarctica. The one that almost killed Jack. Her heart turned to ice as she considered the possibility that they might bring jack in on this again. She was afraid of seeing her own husband. She almost forgot where she was again when General Hammond walked in. "Sir, it's good to see you!" he looked at her strangely and she almost banged her head against the wall as he said, "If you say so."
A few hours later she was floating on air. Literally, she was flying again. She had missed it so much; this was turning out to be a pretty good day. All that it would take to make it would be kicking the goa'ulds collective behinds, going back to her timeline and spending an enjoyable evening with her husband and she would be on top of the world. Of course she already was, she had forgotten how beautiful clouds looked when you were at their level. She remembered floating above the earth, in orbit. Jack telling her to look at the view out of the top window. It had been beautiful, like a gift from him. Maybe she was being too romantic, she figured she was allowed to be after all they'd been through.
She was broken roughly out of her reverie with the news that McMurdo had been destroyed. "Kiss your ass goodbye." So much for her evening plans. A while later she watched as a plane blew up. She did as Cam said and broke right. The familiar feeling of adrenaline hitting her system filled her like electricity. The sky started raining fire. Kiss your ass goodbye. She heard Daniel ask what city was below them. She didn't have to listen to the answer, she could already feel the sinking feeling in the pit of her stomach, Washington, kiss your ass goodbye. "The Russians have the other one. Do what you need to do." She wasn't sure whether that was a good thing or a bad thing. Every time she thought of the Russians in relation to the SGC she thought of Jack telling the Russian general right to his face that he would put a Russian member on his team over his rotting corpse. This was going to be fun.