Title: Bury
Rating: PG
Summary: I don't blame them for what happened.
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Too many things happened that dark night. The silence, the stillness, the taste of decay that lingered at the back of your throat- bitter. Cold.
And it all happened so fast- no time to think, to speak, only to react.
I don't hate them for what happened. I would have hated them if they hadn't done it.
Because then they would be dead too.
A hasty grave, what was left of my battered body placed without ceremony, without a pause in the damp earth, buried quickly and left.
I would have slowed them down. They never would have made it to the Gate in one piece if they had tried to bring my empty shell back with them.
Too many things happened that dark night. The tears, the pain, the taste of salt that was too bitter to swallow- silent. Cold.
And it all happened so fast- no time to stop, to cry, only to run.
I don't hate them for what happened.
And I pray that they don't hate themselves either.
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They laid her dog tags on the flag before the seventh chevron engaged, and the last traces of Major Samantha Carter, killed in the line of duty, buried on a planet whose address was burned deep into the minds of SG-1… vanished.
Gone, but not forgotten.