I love this so much. I love it in the context of all the conversations that have been going on this week, yes, but I also love it to pieces for its own sake, which just makes it so much better. I love seeing this intimacy from Cammie and Sam; I always saw it lingering around bits and pieces of the Cammieverse, and it always made so much sense (even if I get the impression that Cammie's more willing to give pieces of herself than Sam does -- I think it's easier for Cammie than for Sam, but I love that Cammie would accept that about Sam and work with it instead of resenting it), and I always wanted to see more of it, and here it is.
So I really just love this so much -- this piece of their connection, no less important than the connections everywhere else in this 'verse, and it's wonderful having it show up front-and-center. It's lovely. And the last three paragraphs are just wonderful -- observations about Sam that make so much sense for her, the feelings in the next-to-last paragraph that are so familiar. (And it also makes me think about the isolation Sam has in canon, because she doesn't have that backup standing beside her, because the closest she had -- and I'm not selling it short, but -- was Janet, and then Janet was gone. And as much as you can see the ties of family between Sam and Teal'c, say, there are things he can't understand in the pit of his stomach the way Cammie does here. It makes me want to hug Sam so much.)
Thank you! I love Sam and Cammie's relationship so much; they might not always understand each other, but man, they love each other a lot.
And yeah, I do feel sorry for Sam. There's backup, and then there's backup from people who share the visceral understanding of why you need the backup, and that's one of the reasons why I was so happy to see Sam and Vala's relationship being played the way it was, instead of the Hollywood sterotype of the catty/bitchy female interaction.
So I really just love this so much -- this piece of their connection, no less important than the connections everywhere else in this 'verse, and it's wonderful having it show up front-and-center. It's lovely. And the last three paragraphs are just wonderful -- observations about Sam that make so much sense for her, the feelings in the next-to-last paragraph that are so familiar. (And it also makes me think about the isolation Sam has in canon, because she doesn't have that backup standing beside her, because the closest she had -- and I'm not selling it short, but -- was Janet, and then Janet was gone. And as much as you can see the ties of family between Sam and Teal'c, say, there are things he can't understand in the pit of his stomach the way Cammie does here. It makes me want to hug Sam so much.)
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And yeah, I do feel sorry for Sam. There's backup, and then there's backup from people who share the visceral understanding of why you need the backup, and that's one of the reasons why I was so happy to see Sam and Vala's relationship being played the way it was, instead of the Hollywood sterotype of the catty/bitchy female interaction.
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