Title: His professional life
Author: Numnut
Rating: PG
Pairing: Jack/Sam
Timeline: Spoilers up to season 7 (cos I can't remember which season the ep occurs in)
Summary: It was his gun.
Word count: 293
Disclaimer: Mine? You gotta be kidding. Money? Don't have any don't bother.
Author's notes: Just a scribble from a while back. Missing scene. Response to the challenge 'solitary'.
His Professional Life
A drabblish for Solitary
A missing scene for 'Entity'
By Numnut
10 Apr 2004
He tore into the room and slammed the door behind him. It hit so hard, his degree fell off the wall with a clatter of wood and shattering glass.
His office was empty but for him and the scatterings of his professional life.
Empty.
Damnit, damnit, damnit!
Why her? Why did it have to be her?
It was his call, his hand, his weapon. A simple decision, a calculation of threat. No emotional thought, no consideration.
His professional life.
Notes, papers, reports, both typed and scribbled in his own scrawling handwriting. What did it mean? Was there anything of himself not related to this blasted office.
The answer hung in the air.
He knew it.
It was her.
Her.
A smile.
The happy chatter of laughter, a dig in the ribs, an answer to every question.
Her.
But now she was gone.
Her life tangled up in wires and tubes and medical equipment that both gave and took the life from her.
It had been his hand holding the gun.
His finger pressing the trigger.
The final, fatal shot.
Damnit!
Papers, desk lamp, pens, pencils. Medals. The clatter on the floor was deafening.
He kicked the desk. Books on a shelf went flying. It wasn't enough.
No, no, no.
Why?
Why?
He stumbled and fell back in his chair, his hands cradling his head, resisting an attempt to rip it from his shoulders.
His hand.
She no longer looked at him.
She was dead.
His head fell to his desk. The solid against solid producing a small flare of pain. He didn't care.
A single, solitary tear. He felt it run down his cheek to fall to the military issue woodwork.
His professional life.
It had taken hers.
And his along with it.
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