Disclaimer: I don't own Stargate...trust me, that's a good thing.

Realizations

She hadn't expected them to be able to understand her. How could you explain something that went so deep – not just physically or mentally, but emotionally? You don't just spout off your deepest darkest secrets to just anyone, even close friends. Yet that relationship she had had, had been truly remarkable.

She had resisted at first, thinking that she was infested with a Goa'uld, but she had been forced to give up control. She was no match for the creature's insistence and it was remarkably powerful. It was after she quit resisting that she realized there was something different about it.

It still didn't change the fact about her being behind bars. Yet when she – the Tok'ra – spoke about the Ashrak, the assassin, fear radiated from the parasite within her. It hadn't happened until the Ashrak had come.

The device he had held over her sent both her and the creature into fits of pain. It wasn't just pain, but all-encompassing pain. Yet in that moment, both her and the Tok'ra had shared a moment – a single moment in which they had shared their most personal moments. It was a moment that Samantha Carter had never had before, and doubted would ever have again.

The moment had been filled with times of memories: joyful, heartrending, embarrassing and mostly personal. All had been silently exchanged. That had been before the Tok'ra had given itself up to save her life. That single moment had changed everything, including the very real fate of Captain Samantha Carter. For she had realized just how similar they were – both Tok'ra and Sam. Two sentient beings in the same body. A truly symbiotic relationship.

A/N: Just a drabble, really, but I was watching an episode (of Stargate, what else?) and this just popped into my head. I'm not going to hound anyone about reviews...but they do make a writer's day!