I hope she didn't see my relief when she told me. She just looked so broken when she came back to the SGC that morning. I couldn't help but ask if she was okay. I felt like such an idiot standing there. I didn't know what to say. I mumbled something about her getting through it, not letting it bring her down. All I really wanted to do was kiss her.
It's not like I thought going into this mission that I'd fined myself falling for her. I never even gave any relationship much thought before. I'm always focusing on what mission I'm going on next, and when I'm not working, I'm watching football. I mean, I've had my flings in the past, but nothing ever got serious. I'd usually come home from wherever I had been sent that week, and she'd be gone.
She talked about him sometimes while we were in Atlantis. After a while I got kind of tired of hearing about him. But I listened anyway. You know, I thought he sounded like a pretty good guy. Well, even I'm wrong sometimes. I never would have let her go. Those three simple words, they shattered her world. But they may have given me some hope.