Thank you all very much for you reviews and feedback, I'm glad you like. Thanks for all the suggestions you guys have suggested, surprisingly some of them were exactly what I had in mind, others I looked and thought…yeah I could do that…not promising anything mind. Okay so you've asked for more…here is more…hope you like. Sorry about the whole Spudly Duckling thing tho' VBG

See part one for disclaimers, spoilers etc

Through the eyes of a…Cop.

I knew it was too good to be true. I mean, I met the perfect woman, fell in love with her and asked her to marry me. That doesn't happen to average Joe's like myself, it happens to heroes in movies and fairy tales, not cops from Denver.

I should have known, it was obvious from the first time I saw them together. I just ignored it and carried on as normal. I thought we could work past it and that she'd get over him. I think maybe I rushed things with her, pushed her too hard and didn't give her room to breath.

Okay, so I've been given the whole work scenario story, the basics and that has helped a lot. But I don't know what she goes through everyday, how hard she pushes herself or how exhausting her job is. She risks her life everyday, visits alien planets where she fights the Goa'uld and I know she almost hasn't come back at least four times since we got engaged. I have no idea what exactly she goes through. I can't help her get through it.

It suddenly hit me the other day, not that I didn't realise it before, but she must go through hell. She was having another nightmare, a real bad one.

"Sam, Sammie wake up. Its just a dream, its okay." I tired to reassure her.

She kept thrashing around and crying, I didn't know what was going on.

"Samantha!" I cried grabbing her a bit too roughly by her shoulders.

Her eyes flew open, I saw pure fear in her eyes and she panicked.

"Sam it's me, Pete." She had flipped me onto my back and was pinning me down on the bed; any other day and that would have been a major turn on.

"Oh my God, Pete I'm so sorry."

"Hey, its okay." I sat up as she got off me, she was still crying so I pulled her to me. "You just had a nightmare."

"No." She said. "I mean, it wasn't a nightmare, it was a flashback."

I opened my mouth to ask what about, not that she could tell me. I closed it again realising it would lead to another apology. She seemed to be doing that a lot lately.

Stroking her hair out of her face I kissed the top of her head.

That was the point I realised I couldn't help her through what had happened, not if I didn't know what had happened. Sam didn't need me, well maybe for a while to build up her self esteem and to give her an outlet other than work related, also to get her mind off a certain CO. But I was no good to her now. I know she first went out with me because she wanted a non-work related relationship, but that's not what she needs, she needs someone who knows what she goes through day in day out. And that doesn't come in the form of Pete Shanahan, unfortunately.

She stayed curled up on my chest until she fell asleep, I rolled her over and lay down next to her, giving her the comfort of my body heat. Yeah, I loved her, still do but she doesn't love me the way she wants to.

I know Cassie would be coming home the next day for the Christmas holidays; I'd talk to Sam before then.

She took it well, surprisingly.

"Look, Sam." I said sitting next to her on the couch and taking her hand in mine. "I love you, you are the most amazing woman I have ever met, but can you honestly tell me that you love me with all your heart as I love you?"

She looked a bit gob smacked, a lot gob smacked.

"I, Pete…"

"Sam, I have had an amazing time with you and haven't regretted a thing, but I'm not the right guy for you." I gave her hand a gentle squeeze. "I know you love Jack."

"Pete you know I can't…"

"That's not an issue, ever heard the saying 'love conquers all'? Well it's true; you have options open to you if you'd step back and see them. Take it from me, you need him and he probably needs you just as much. What do you have to loose?"

"I can't believe you are saying this." She said frowning. "We're engaged, you've worked so hard to make this work and now you're throwing it all away?"

"Not throwing, giving. You deserve to be the happiest girl in this galaxy and the next; I mean you've saved them enough times! You'll only be that girl once you're with him and I'm a big enough man to see that." Damn me and being a big man!

She threw her arms around my neck and held me tight.

"Pete, I'm sorry." She whispered.

"Yeah, me too." I murmured, extracting myself from her hold I threw a box of tissues for her to catch and went to go and pack my things.

As usual, Cassie arrived on time that evening before I headed back to Denver. She looked confused at my two bags in the hallway and hugged Sam hello.

"Someone going somewhere?" She asked.

"Yeah, actually I'm going back to Denver." I said.

"But is Christmas."

"Cassie," Sam said coming to my rescue. "Pete and I, we decided to call it a day."

That was one way of putting it. Cassie was too slow to mask the look of joy that passed her features. I know she had never really caught on to the idea of her Sam dating anyone other than 'Uncle Jack', I have often heard her phone conversations to Daniel or Teal'c complaining that Sam needed to come to her senses.

Saying goodbye, I climbed into my car and drove into the sunset never to be seen again…only in films it would be on a horse with the love of my life along side me but c'est la vie!

The End…for now!

OMG I actually finished this part! Wow! Sorry it took so long-its writing as the Duck, it's a very hard thing to do!