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SEQUEL/SERIES: This story follows A Dream Can Come True, Believe, Wonderful, Like Someone In Love, I Scare Myself, This Girl's in Heaven and In Perfect Dreams.
SOUNDTRACK: Lamb "Softly" from the album `Lamb'.
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So Happy with You
By Celievamp
She's back where she belongs. At home, in bed, with me. Three days missing, three days at McMurdo before the Colonel was stable enough to be medivacced home and then another week at the Academy Hospital recovering from various surgeries. She has pinched all the covers and is wound up in them. All I can currently see without stretching is a tuft of blonde hair. It's going to take her a while before she feels warm again.
The Colonel's going to be out of commission for at least another six weeks. Although Sam did the best job she could given the circumstances his broken leg had to be reset and he's going to be in traction for a while. The injury to his abdomen and his collapsed lung are pretty much going to immobilize him for the next couple of weeks by themselves. And he's being watched for signs of pneumonia which given how and where he got his injuries and his immobility is pretty much a given.
Sam sighs, stirs and recognizing the signs I soothe her back to sleep, my fingers gently touching her face careful of the dressing on her cheek. Her hands and feet are healing well, the frostbite wasn't too severe. She still has the remnants of some spectacular bruising on her back and her left hip, the legacy of coming back down the crevasse a lot faster than she climbed up, or so she told me.
There's a lot she hasn't told me. It's still too raw, I think. It's coming out in her dreams and she needs her rest which is why I watch over her like I do. They were within hours of death when we found them, the Colonel was in a coma and Sam was in hypothermic shock. The two of them had not realized that they were on Earth – how could they? They had pretty much prepared themselves to die. Sam was drifting in and out of consciousness as we loaded her into the harness and began to lift her. She asked if I was her guardian angel.
I wish I was. I wish I could keep her safe. But she's not that type of girl, not one to be cosseted or protected from life. If I want to keep my Sam I have to let her fly free.
I don't think she's realized I'm awake. She's humming a song under her breath as her fingers gentle my cheek. It's just beginning to sink in what I put her through this week. Yet she never lost hope, never lost faith in me.
I don't deserve her. I didn't believe she was real when I saw her bending over me. I thought I was hallucinating. When I laid down that last time beside the Colonel. When I pretended to be his Sara so that he could rest, I really expected that to be it. In a thousand years or more some future archaeologist would have found us huddled together and wondered how we came to be lost in this desolate place so far from home.
So far and yet so near. I never considered the possibility that we would be on Earth. That Earth would have had more than one Stargate. Again, it was Daniel who figured it out, Daniel who thought outside the box. Another thought struck me as I drifted in a sedated sleep on the long journey from McMurdo back to the SGC. Why hadn't I just dialed a different gate – the Land of Light, hell, even Cimmeria? Why was my mind stuck on the one Gate address that would never have worked? The DHD wasn't the only thing that needed rebooting.
There's something I need to tell Janet and soon. Losing her would have been my one regret if I had died in that cave. These past few months with her and Cassie have been the happiest of my life, I think, certainly since my Mom died.
Her hand reaches out to touch my cheek again and I turn my head so that I can softly kiss her palm. I open my eyes and smile at her. The smile I get back in return… breathtaking. The troubles and terrors of the last weeks are forgotten, meaningless. I don't remember ever being this content just to be me.
The End
SOFTLY – LAMB – Fear of Fours
SOFTLY
(So happy with you)
(Happy with)
Softly kissing you as you lie sleeping
Breathing gently with you in your slumber
Your face is the picture of contentment
My angel's dreaming my angel's dreaming
(So happy with you)
I'm so happy with you
So happy with you
So happy with you
So happy with you
Slowly opening your wondrous eyes on me
Shining green and glorious in the morning sun
This moment what could be more precious?
May it live forever may it live forever
(So happy with you)
I'm so happy with you
So happy with you
So happy with you
So happy with you
Smiling on me your love gives me all the blessings of this new day
The heat in your skin caresses my senses in such a glorious way
(I'm so happy with you)
Smiling on me your love gives me all the blessings of this new day
The heat in your skin caresses my senses in such a glorious way
(So happy with you)
I'm so happy with you
So happy with you
So happy with you
So happy with you
Smiling on me your love gives me all the blessings of this new day
The heat in your skin caresses my senses in such a glorious way