4.Reality
"No", Jack rose staggering away from her, "What have you done?"
"Jack ", Sam looked away from him, "it just happened."
"And you just accept that?", he returned a little too sharply, for now Sam really started crying.
"See", Jack began again, "Her'ak, he's the enemy and ... you among all people should really know that having a kid with him will spoil your life."
"Never was I free to do what I wanted. Have you thought of that for a single second?", she argued weakly.
"But..." he was speechless.
"Think of us. What we did was just as wrong, then."
"Yeah", Jack bit his lower lip, "but what went on between us was not this ... sordid."
"Sordid?" Sam began shaking with wrath, "How can you say something like that?"
He realized that he had truly hurt her feeling, now. "Sorry", he whispered.
But she did not calm down. "Leave", she hissed, "and don't dare coming back."
"Sam", he tried to soothe her once again reaching out his hand to touch her, but she pushed it away violently:
"No."
Jack turned away from her. All this felt like a bad dream to him, the worst nightmare he had ever been in.
"Do as you please", he muttered as he left the house. As he passed Her'ak on the way out he looked up at him saying:
"You can have her. Go and make her happy", his own resignation scaring and saddening him even more.
This could not be real...
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Sam woke up with a start wondering about what had just happened in her sleep. On her nightstand the phone began to ring...
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Jack sweated as he awoke. The nightmare he had just had was worse than anything he had experienced ever before.
This could not wait till morning, he just had to tell Sam about it. Still a bit bewildered he picked up the phone and dialed her number.
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After three rings she picked it up.
"Jack?" she was stunned.
"Yeah. I needed someone to talk to", he sounded really done in.
"What happened?"
"I just had this shocking nightmare and..."
"What", Sam could barely take it, "you, too? About that I need to talk myself."
"God..." Jack swallowed hard, "Would it be okay with to come by for a hot chocolate or something, so that we can talk face to face?"
"Now?" she thought for a moment: it was around three o'clock in the morning, but she would not find back to sleep again, anyway.
"Okay", she finally confirmed, "I'll be right there.'
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He hung up the receiver slowly walking into the kitchen to switch on the water cooker. Dropping down into a chair to wait for Sam. He wondered how shaken the thing had left her after all.
For him this weird coincidence needed quick sorting out, otherwise it would leave hi traumatized for a long time, that was for sure.
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What do you say now? Expect the conclusion in about ten days. CU, then.
Kc, would you please take back the badassed, there? Never mind, but I don't really like it. Thank you.
