In Threes, by Nanda (PG)
Rec Category: Teamy goodness
Pairing: none
Categories: team, gen, Samantha Carter, friendship, hurt/comfort, drama
Warnings: minor team whumping, major Sam whumping
Author on LJ:
nandamai
Author's Website: Nanda’s Lament
Link: In Threes
Why This Must Be Read: This lovely drama gives us teamy goodness galore, as SG-1 goes into survival mode in a crisis. Told wholly from Sam’s rather muddled POV - she suffers a concussion in the opening paragraph of the story - it’s wonderful to see the story unfold, as the team works seamlessly together to make it through.
Earthquake. Blizzard. Bumps and bruises and hypothermia. Birthday cookie and sterno, and the “big four-oh.” The utter charm of the questions each one of the guys choose to make sure that Sam is compos mentis. And most of all, the delicious teamy goodness that makes Nanda’s story an absolute treasure!
“Hey, Carter. Carter!”
She groans.
“Come on, Sam. It’ll be worth it.”
Her eyelids feel like lead. But above her are three smiling faces, and in Daniel’s bandaged hands, a chocolate-chip cookie with a tin of sterno on top.
“It’s midnight back home,” Daniel explains.
“You guys are nuts,” she says. It’s hard to speak. The smiles turn into expressions of alarm, and a hand waves in front of her face. It makes her dizzy.
“How many fingers, Carter?”
“Two,” she says. She’s pretty sure it’s two. They all look like she gave the right answer.
“How many birthdays?” Daniel blows out the sterno and hands her the cookie. It has white cotton lint on it.
“I refuse to answer that,” she says.
“What’s the highest-scoring college hockey game of all time?”
“How am I supposed to know that, sir?”
“Worth a try,” he grins.
“What is your address, Major Carter?”
She rattles it off. She just wants to close her eyes. “Can I go back to sleep now?”
They make her eat her cookie first.