Title: Losses.
Fandom: Stargate SG-1
Characters/Pairing: Capt. Samantha Carter.
Table: Astrological
Prompt: Canser.
Word Count:
Rating: T or PG for language
Summary: It seemed crazy, but it was all she had.
Author's Notes: I'm bored. And I know Canser is a crab, but canser translated to cancer for my muse.
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Seeing the old woman who should have been thirty years younger, like her memories were telling her, cut her. It was like looking at the ninety year old version of the Colonel, and knowing that she knew nothing that would help. Seeing her once Titan-like dad, frail and in a hospital bed was still worse.
Finding the Tok'ra had been a miracle, quite frankly. Jolinar's memories were telling her that they shouldn't have settled here. They usually traveled through at least three 'Gates or a ship before stopping and putting down the tunnels.
So here she was, watching one of Jolinar's friends & the closest her invader had to a parent, die. Her father was on Earth, dying of now terminal cancer, thinking that his little girl was doing glorified radar work for NORAD. Her brother was on Earth with his perfect kids & wife, still hating their father for the death of their mother.
Who needed a soap opera, her life was one already.
She didn't want to lose Selmac, she didn't want to lose her dad, she didn't want her brother to never have a chance to forgive or at least ignore his anger. For once, just once, she wanted everyone she cared about to live. She didn't want to end the day without having to plan a funeral. At least one for someone she counted as family.