"the name game" by sam carter o'neill wagtail
Season 8 SPOILERS
Post "Threads"
I never thought I could do it again: LOVE.
But I do; I love her…
And… she loves me!
Damn sentimentality
Damn regulations
Damn the irony of:
time (gift/curse)
the SGC (how we fell in love/ what keeps up apart)
Damn Pete Shanahan (for ever loving her)
(Can you imagine…
"Lieutenant Colonel Samantha Carter-Shanahan"
It's ridiculous—13 syllables! My full name is long and it's only 11.)
Damn Jacob Carter (for knocking sense into her… for knocking sensibility into me)
Damn Kerri Johnson (for setting me free to love somebody who she barely knows.)
…
"You are cordially invited to witness the unity of
Brigadier General Jonothan O'Neill
And
Lieutenant Colonel Doctor Samantha Carter
in the sacrament of holy matrimony…"
… we'd have to stop right there if they charged by the letter...
(WAIT, so she'd have been "Lieutenant Colonel Doctor Samantha Carter-Shanahan"
HA!
I don't think that she even knows words with more syllables than her would-be title.
Oh crap—what if…
What if THAT'S why she broke off the engagement…!
…
Shut up, Jack )
I'm a liar
…
…
"Lieutenant Colonel Doctor Samantha Carter-O'Neill"
Now that's one HELL of a name… of a good name, that is.
Damn her and her liberation…
"Dr. Samantha O'Neill
Doctor Sam O'Neill, PhD."
Hell yeah.
("Lieutenant Colonel Dr. Samantha Carter-Shanahan, PhD."
Hahahahahahahahahahahaha HA! THAT'S 21 syllables…
Filling out credit card applications would be a bi— err, a bunny rabbit. )
Lieutenant Colonel Samantha O'Neill…
Oh crap, I feel like a sixth grader!
SAMANTHA CARTER-ONEILL
Ooh, Eureka!
Jonothan and Samantha Carter-O'Neill.
Okay here's a new one:
"Jonothan and Samantha O'Neill"
…
"Jack & Sam O'Neill"
…
"The General and Colonel O'Neills"
… no that's just too weird…
"The Colonel and Major O'Neills"
…Colonel Jack O'Neill and Major Samantha Carter. That's how it is. She's gotta keep the 'Carter.' She'll always be 'Carter' to me.
Always.
Oh boy…
'Always'
"…for being there for me"
"Always."
I'll bring her to that damned room—that damned room and kiss her. I'll get down on one knee and say:
"It's all in this room—'I CARE ABOUT YOU! A LOT MORE THAN I'M SUPPOSED TO!' But screw the 'supposed to!' and damn the regulations! I'm sick of lying to myself and lying to you and I'm sick of trying to be happy with other people," and I'll take out a ring and I'll say, "MARRY ME, CARTER!"
… And she'll slap me! That's horrible…. I'll say—
"General? GENERAL O'NEILL?"
I looked up from my pad of paper into the face of the leader of SG12…to whom I was supposed to be listening. "Er… yes. That's a plan, dismissed!" I pushed my chair back and got up. I went hurriedly into my office. Okay no more playing the name game during briefings! You're important now! You have to listen….
But I still think she should keep the 'Carter'…
