Title: Sacrifice: Teal'c
Author: Sarah K. Roberts (S.K.Roberts)
Date Completed: March 23, 2004
Category: Drabble
Summary: A warrior is lost.
Setting: Under the Antarctic ice after the battle is over, Teal'c's PoV
Spoilers: "Lost City, Part 2"
Author's Note: This part was previously an independent drabble titled Despair.
Sacrifice: Teal'c
The battle for Earth is done. The Tau'ri have once again triumphed.
While we should feel victory, there is only despair.
O'Neill is unmoving.
We are losing him. There is no other choice. He must sleep now.
His unnatural stillness disconcerts me as I carry him to his slumber.
Goodbye is too inadequate a word for saying farewell to a brother.
He truly has made the ultimate sacrifice. Gave more than his life, but his soul.
O'Neill is no longer O'Neill. Not dead, not alive, just a frozen shadow of the remarkable man he should be. A fate worse than death.
His expressionless, petrified face will stay with me always.
