ABC Challenge Ficlet: 'Lovers'
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Lovers
This is definitely not how it’s supposed to be.
Sam Carter was a nice girl, once upon a time, and she’s grown up into a good woman.
She’s had boyfriends, fiancés and even one very long-term, star-crossed love affair. She doesn’t have casual sex. She doesn’t have lovers, one-night stands or friends-with-benefits.
At least, that is, until she does.
It’s not planned. She’s mostly given up on dating. She still feels the pull of the traditional, though, or maybe it’s just a biological urge. Either way, when Cam stops by her office -- fresh from the funeral of yet another friend who died in the desert without ever knowing where the real war was being fought -- and asks her if she wants to get a drink, it’s a whole lot easier to say yes than it would have been ten years ago.
He’s in his dress blues, with fine lines around his eyes and mouth that hadn’t been there the day before. She has a sudden, possibly self-destructive urge to kiss him hard enough break the tension, to smooth those lines away.
“Sure. Why not?” she says, and grabs her jacket.
On the outside, he seems like just another Jack-replacement. He cracks bad jokes, bickers with Daniel, questions her science without ever completely understanding it. She’s dug more deeply, though, and found someone who’s a whole lot like her.
And, okay, maybe he’s a little bit of a Jack-replacement, too.
Whatever the reason, it happens. The world doesn’t end (not yet anyway), she doesn’t get fired, she doesn’t hate herself in the morning.
So, really, there’s no reason for them not to keep on.
Landry looks the other way because he’s old-school, and he believes simply that Things Happen During War Time. Daniel, on the other hand, gives them both dark looks and generally acts like he’s the one who’s been betrayed.
He’s just going to have to deal. Because, for the moment at least, she likes things this way.
for aella_irene
Lovers
This is definitely not how it’s supposed to be.
Sam Carter was a nice girl, once upon a time, and she’s grown up into a good woman.
She’s had boyfriends, fiancés and even one very long-term, star-crossed love affair. She doesn’t have casual sex. She doesn’t have lovers, one-night stands or friends-with-benefits.
At least, that is, until she does.
It’s not planned. She’s mostly given up on dating. She still feels the pull of the traditional, though, or maybe it’s just a biological urge. Either way, when Cam stops by her office -- fresh from the funeral of yet another friend who died in the desert without ever knowing where the real war was being fought -- and asks her if she wants to get a drink, it’s a whole lot easier to say yes than it would have been ten years ago.
He’s in his dress blues, with fine lines around his eyes and mouth that hadn’t been there the day before. She has a sudden, possibly self-destructive urge to kiss him hard enough break the tension, to smooth those lines away.
“Sure. Why not?” she says, and grabs her jacket.
On the outside, he seems like just another Jack-replacement. He cracks bad jokes, bickers with Daniel, questions her science without ever completely understanding it. She’s dug more deeply, though, and found someone who’s a whole lot like her.
And, okay, maybe he’s a little bit of a Jack-replacement, too.
Whatever the reason, it happens. The world doesn’t end (not yet anyway), she doesn’t get fired, she doesn’t hate herself in the morning.
So, really, there’s no reason for them not to keep on.
Landry looks the other way because he’s old-school, and he believes simply that Things Happen During War Time. Daniel, on the other hand, gives them both dark looks and generally acts like he’s the one who’s been betrayed.
He’s just going to have to deal. Because, for the moment at least, she likes things this way.
for aella_irene