Title: Our Love
Author: Chickee1
Rating: PG-13
Pairing: Jack/Sam
Summary: Another take on Threads….Can the love of two people that waited for 8 years beat anything that comes their way?
Disclaimer: I do not own anything or anyone from Star-Gate SG-1.
The song used is 'God Blessed the Broken Road' by Rascal Flatts
Chapter 5
He'll do all that...wait for me...just because...he loves me...that much? Sam stared at the paper in disbelief. What can I do...say to this? Tears poured down her face, seeping from her eyes quickly, leaving her no time to prepare for them, or wipe them away as they spilt down her cheek. He loves me so much...and what can I offer in return?
Weeping softly, she laid back down pressing her face into her pillow, and holding the letter in her hand, she cried herself to sleep, not bothering to remember the light, just sank into herself, filled with pain, and sadness, and holding the forever promise of a strangers love.
I set out on a narrow way many years ago
Hoping I would find true love along the broken road
But I got lost a time or two
Wiped my brow and kept pushing through
I couldn't see how every sign pointed straight to you
(Flashback from Children of the Gods)
O'Neill: (leaning over table to write down something) Where's he transferring from?
Carter: (off screen) She's transferring from the Pentagon.
Carter: I'm an Air Force officer just like you are, Colonel. And just because my reproductive organs are on the inside instead of the outside, doesn't mean I can't handle whatever you can handle.
O'Neill: (sitting down) Oh, this has nothing to do with you being a woman. I like women. I've just got a little problem with scientists.
Carter: Colonel, I logged over 100 hours in enemy airspace during the Gulf War. Is that tough enough for you? Or are we going to have to arm wrestle?
(Flashback from Ascension)
Sam: (Turning toward Jack) Take it easy?
Jack: Yeah. You've been a little tense.
Sam: Tense? Me? I'm not tense ... am I? When did you first notice?
Jack: (Said Very slowly) As ... We ... Met.
Sam woke with her heart skipping a beat. What was that? She asked herself. Must have been dreams... Shaking her head at the idiocy of having dreams of Jack because of the letter that she had read before crying herself to sleep, she rose from her bed. Sam looked in the mirror and wiped the tear away that had dried. As she opened the door and started to walk down the hall another one hit her.
(Flashback from the Lost City pt 1)
Jack: How long have you been waiting there?
Daniel: You said half an hour, an hour ago.
Sam: General Hammond's waiting. (Jack walks up to Sam, and with a grin on his face, hands her the puzzle.)
Jack: Excuse me.
Sam: The fate of the world is hanging in the balance and you've been sitting in your truck finishing this?
Jack: I believe it was double or nothing.
Sam: Ok. 23 across, the atomic weight of boron. Answer is ten.
Jack: Yes?
Sam: You wrote the word fat.
Jack: And your point? (Takes it roughly from her hands)
Grabbing her head, Sam moved towards the wall for support. Oh my god, what's happening to me. She spotted Daniel coming towards her. "Sam are you okay? What's wrong?" Asked Daniel placing his hand on her shoulder.
She stared at him. "I just had a dream hit me like a ton of bricks. But it felt so real." She said as she moved off the wall. "What do you think would bring this on?" He asked concerned. Sam shook her head. "Jack dropped a letter in my room while I was sleeping; he said that he would wait for me for as long as it took for me to remember how much we loved each other…..even if it took a lifetime. I read it and couldn't help but cry and I cried myself to sleep and that's when I started these dreams….mostly with Jack in them."
Daniel looked up at Sam with a smile on his face, "Sam….what was your dream about?"
"Hmm the first one was something about us arm wrestling and than one about him waiting in his truck doing a crossword puzzle with the answers he wrote being all wrong…weird eh?"
Daniel began to laugh and pulled Sam into a hug, "Sam those aren't dreams…their memories. The letter that Jack wrote you must have triggered something. Your remembering things now."
Without saying a word, Sam takes off leaving Daniel happy but confused. As she's running, more tears come running down Sam's face. Memories, they can't be memories they just can't be.
"Colonel Carter, are you in need of assistance?" Asked Teal'c as he grabbed Sam by the arms as she almost ran into him. "Teal'c, do you know where Jack is…I need to talk to him."
"Are you remembering your life with O'Neill?" Teal'c looked down at her seriously. Shaking her head she released herself from Teal'c's grip and continued to run.
(Flashback from Unnatural Selection)
"Sir, we can't call it the Enterprise."
"Why not?"
"The code name for the project is Prometheus. What's wrong with that?"
"It's a Greek tragedy. Who wants that?"
Every long lost dream led me to where you are
Others who broke my heart they were like northern stars
Pointing me on my way into your loving arms
This much I know is true
That God blessed the broken road
That led me straight to you
(Flashback from Learning Curve)
MERRIN: I am not a rocket scientist.
CARTER: I think what Colonel O'Neill means is that you're very smart.
MERRIN: You find my intelligence level unusual?
O'NEILL: No. There are lots of intelligent people around here. Just not as young as you.
CARTER: You mean you were not always as smart as you are now?
FRAISER: No. We spent a long time in school to get to this point.
MERRIN: Please explain what school is.
CARTER: Uh. School is a place where you go to learn. A teacher gives you information and you take different classes to learn different subjects.
MERRIN: So this is how you and Dr Fraiser became scientists?
CARTER: Mm-hm.
MERRIN: You aren't a scientist?
O'NEILL: Oh no.
MERRIN: Then you are not as smart as Major Carter and Dr Fraiser?
O'NEILL: Well it depends on what you mean by. Okay, no. I'm not. But while they were stuck in school, I was out doing other things, like, having fun. You do know what fun is, don't you?
"I wish these would stopped!" Sam yelled as she hit the floor hard. The memories that were coming back to her were overwhelming her. Within minutes she lost consciousness. "Sam...Sam!" Daniel called as he and Teal'c ran towards her. "Teal'c, pick her up we gotta take her to the infirmary." Teal'c quickly picked Sam up and both ran to the infirmary.
"What's going on?" Asked the doctor when he saw Teal'c placing Sam on a gurney. "I was talking to her earlier; she said that after reading a letter that Jack wrote, she began having some dreams. But when I told her that they were memories she took off." Daniel said as he looked concerned at his friend. "I took saw Colonel Carter, she was in pursuit of finding O'Neill."
"I have no idea where he could be, last I talked to him, he said that he needed to be alone and figure things out." Said Daniel as he took a seat beside Sam. "I will go in search of O'Neill." Teal'c replied as he headed out of the infirmary.
I think about the years I spent just passing through
I'd like to have the time I lost and give it back to you
But you just smile and take my hand
You've been there you understand
It's all part of a grander plan that is coming true
(Flashback)
Sam headed to the hillside needing some fresh air. I'm going to miss you dad... She thought to herself, as she sat on the edge and watched as the sun begin to set.
"Hey Sam….you okay?" Jack appeared quietly behind her. She gave him a slight nod, than moved over, indicating for him to sit next to her. Taking a seat beside her, Jack grabbed her hand and held it lightly. "Why did we wait so long?" Sam whispered.
Jack looked confused then realized what she was talking about. He thought for a brief second, bringing the words they both needed to hear. "We were sacred about what the outcome might be, not only to our personal lives but our professional too. I didn't want you to have to choose, and I would never ask you to give up your career." Jack said looking into her eyes...
Every long lost dream led me to where you are
Others who broke my heart they were like northern stars
Pointing me on my way into your loving arms
This much I know is true
That God blessed the broken road
That led me straight to you
"Jack!" Sam cried as she quickly rose from the bed. "Hey, calm down." Daniel soothed and lightly helped her back down. "Daniel I need to find Jack." Teal'c walked into the room. "I have been unsuccessful in finding O'Neill." Quickly getting off the bed, Sam headed out the door. "Where are you going?" Daniel questioned startled, making Sam stop.
She turned around. "I know exactly where he is."
Now I'm just rolling home
Into my lover's arms
This much I know is true
That God blessed the broken road
That led me straight to you
That God blessed the broken road
That led me straight to you.