Title: Stopping Time, Drabble Challenge for 'Tick Tock'

Author: Eleri McCleod

Email: elerimc (at symbol) lycos . com

Status: complete

Category: drama

Pairings: S/J

Spoilers: Divide and Conquer

Season: 4

Sequel/Series Info: none

Rating: T

Content Warnings: none

Summary: The moments you wish would last forever, never do.

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): 3k

Archive: Jackfic, Gateworld, FF. net, anyone else please ask

Author's Note: Special thanks to Cokie, a non-shipper, for pre-reading this one. It's a hardship, I know, but you never fail me. (g) As always, any and all feedback is appreciated.


Tick …

Time slowed, stilled. Then stopped.

Flashing blue rippled between two frozen figures. Each wanting to speak. Neither knowing what to say. Eyes met. Held. Despaired.

A single pounding footfall reverberated down the corridor, a herald of the inevitable.

Go, please.

I can't.

Words never realized, never allowed, floated in the still air. Was this how it was to end? A silent acknowledgement before the last breaths, the final cheated glances?

Desperation squeezed a vise around ribs unprepared for the sensation. Why? Oh, why, had they waited until it was too late?

The moment gone, time sprinted back into place.

… tock.