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havocthecat has convinced me to throw caution to the wind:
Inspired by Doctor Who's "Turn Left:" Pick one of my stories and tell me a point in the tale that you'd change -- something tiny or big -- and I'll tell you how that one difference would have altered the course of the entire story.
Fic can be found under the fic tag here.
havocthecat has convinced me to throw caution to the wind:Inspired by Doctor Who's "Turn Left:" Pick one of my stories and tell me a point in the tale that you'd change -- something tiny or big -- and I'll tell you how that one difference would have altered the course of the entire story.
Fic can be found under the fic tag here.
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This would go on until Lorne introduces the military contingent to LyX, which allows everyone to type up reports neatly in LaTeX with a fairly minimum amount of effort and is more intuitive than Word. Now having a third faction, people start realizing that oh my god, we are fighting about text editors and the Wraith are trying to eat us.
Rodney still snipes about people not using vi, though. Sam gets SG-1 to send her this mug (http://www.thinkgeek.com/homeoffice/mugs/7bbe/) for McKay as a peace offering and a ceasefire is official.
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So, if Sam(alanderthyrixian) hadn't been around for Daniel's failed lecture, Catherine Langford was waiting right outside and Daniel would have ended up cracking the 'gate cover and going on the Abydos mission.
A year later, a certain Time Lady's wanderings would bring her to the little planet of Abydos. Daniel's intrigued by this stranger who's seen a lot more of the universe than he has. He's a lot more open to the idea of aliens now, although he's still surprised that she isn't human.
Sha're's initially a little wary of this strange woman, especially since she and Daniel seem to hit it off. But that first night, the two of them end up sitting by the fires and that's when Sha're sees the look of pain and loss in Sam's eyes. It's the old look, the stare of someone's who's seen too much. Sha're's seen that look before, on the people who had been trapped in Ra's stronghold. And she understands.
Before Sam gets ready to leave a few days later, the 'gate opens again and Jack O'Neill leads a team through. Understandably, Jack's a) surprised, and b) wary of the woman wearing a black leather trench coat and Converse sneakers hanging out with the Abydonians. They don't exactly get along.
But when Apophis's Jaffa come to attack, Sam's still there and hacks the DHD to prevent them from leaving with the hostages (she has a sonic screwdriver, of course). Teal'c turns with combined persuasive power of a Time Lord and Jack, Sha're and Skara do not get taken as hosts, and Teal'c gets political amnesty on Earth along with some other Jaffa who decide its not bright to piss off someone who can deactivate a DHD by pointing at it.
Daniel stays on Abydos. Jack brings back an influx of Jaffa refugees to the SGC, who help with intel. And Sam leaves Abydos again, although promises to visit every once in a while. And she goes back to traveling time and space alone.
Well, until she has a bit of a run-in with a certain down-on-her-luck space pirate.
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Sam couldn't escape the mountain, and the walls would start to feel like they were closing in on her. Metal and stone, trapping her back into a place she didn't want to be. She'd get out of her lab, the metal and the glow from the computers and the beeping too much, far too much for her to handle.
She tries to act normal, keep it together, and she finds herself in the locker room. It's empty and she locks the door, and in the shower, scrubbing and scrubbing her skin raw until its an angry red, she leans against the cool tile wall and it just hits her.
She screams and beats her fists against a wall until the skin breaks on her knuckles. The pain is pushing her both into and out of her head, and it's not where she wants to be and dammit, not even the water can wash it away. She can't run, it's her shadow, it's inside her. She screams her frustration and anger and despair and horror because it's choking her and she needs to breathe. She doesn't hear the pounding at the door, doesn't hear the bones in her hands snap.
Eventually, two female marines have broken into the locker room and tackle her to the floor. Someone's shouting, the water stops, and someone's covered her with a towel, despite her thrashing. A nurse comes running and sedates her.
Sam wakes strapped to a bed in the infirmary. She stares out at nothing. She can't see it, but the General has never looked so old as he does sitting by her bed, Teal'c a silent statue behind him.
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Sometimes, you just need to scream or break something to let it out. In Legion, the mirror broke. Here...Sam did.
Since she was explicitly trying to get away from Jack and Teal'c, they let her go, thinking she just needed time to herself. And Janet's dead and Daniel's off on the Prometheus, so...there's no one to catch her when she fell.