Title: Things Not Seen, Drabble Challenge for "Homecoming"

Author: Eleri McCleod

Email: elerimc (at symbol) lycos . com

Status: complete

Category: drama

Pairings: Jack/Sara

Spoilers: none

Season: pre-SG-1

Sequel/Series Info: none

Rating: K+

Content Warnings: none

Summary: Some things cannot be seen.

Disclaimer: Stargate SG-1 and its characters are the property of MGM, World Gekko Corp and Double Secret productions. No copyright infringement is intended.

File Size (kb): 5k

Archive: Jackfic. Anyone else, please ask.

Author's Note: Welcome home, all soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines. Your service and sacrifices are humbly appreciated.

© Eleri McCleod, February 2004


For four months I told myself that once I saw the States, I'd be home.

Then, for months while I was in the hospital it became: once I saw our house. I was surrounded by trees, not sand. Easily understood English words, not oddly scripted symbols. But I wasn't home.

Then, I saw the house, the green grass, the so-familiar lines of wood and siding. Yet I still wasn't home.

I lay in bed that evening, the evening that was supposed to have been my homecoming and I wasn't there. A sigh slid out, still quiet, even after months of de-conditioning. The dark surrounded, muffling the sight that was to be my proof. Lungs filled deeply to replace what I'd just wasted.

And home filled me. The smell of clean sheets, Sara's subtle perfume and the unmistakable scent of our life together lifted, warmed, soothed. And proved I was home.