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TITLE: CAGED
AUTHOR: Rowan Darkstar
EMAIL: rowan_d1@yahoo.com
WEBSITE: beautyinshadows.net
RATING: Teen
CATEGORIES: Angst, hints of Sam/Jack, Daniel POV
SUMMARY: "He's always been a little afraid of Sam Carter."

Written for the GateShip Wednesday Shorts "Wormhole X-treme"
Challenge

230 words

CAGED
by
Rowan Darkstar (rowan_d1@yahoo.com)
Copyright (c) 2005


He's always been a little afraid of her. But this...this is
different. She came back a little wild. A little scared.

He knows a week of captivity and near death would leave anyone
shaky. Her color is pale in the brilliant sunlight and she's
edging toward distraught when she has to tell Jack they lost
"Steve". She thinks she failed something in the recent past and
she's trying to prove herself. It's all in her head, but that
doesn't make it less real.

He knows the moment the unsuspecting NID agent is left behind
that the man is no match for Sam Carter.

Her cool rationalism slips when Jack's in trouble. She will deny
it to her dying breath, but he has watched her set the self-
destruct on the rest of them like she was refilling the coffee
filters. And he has watched her yell at superior officers and
type with trembling fingers when Jack was trapped offworld.

Today is something more.

Her elbow slams into the agent's face and her heel hits his groin
and together Daniel and Sam tie the man to the chair. There is
nothing extraordinary in their actions. Jack would unofficially
order the same.

But something in her viciousness scares him a little. And makes
him want to hold her hand. Or maybe just hold her.

He's always been a little afraid of Sam Carter.


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