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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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