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NOTE: Lyrics are from "Strange & Beautiful" by Aqualung.
SPOILER: Set during "Crystal Skull"
Strange & Beautiful
By Celievamp
O'Neill carried your unconscious body through the Stargate. Three of you collapsed on the ramp. We waited for the fourth but the wormhole shut down. It was hours before Teal'c was able to tell us what had happened – that Daniel was gone.
Teal'c is recovering slowly. O'Neill is being difficult. And you are unconscious. I don't think I've ever seen you so pale and still. If you'd stayed in that cavern a few minutes longer I think we would have lost you as well. And difficult though the loss of Daniel is to bear, if I had lost you as well, I think I would have just stopped existing.
There wouldn't have been any point to it without you.
I know it's selfish. I have a daughter to think about after all. Thanks to you and your stubbornness. And you have no idea how I feel about you. I am very very good at hiding in plain sight.
So I do the only thing I can do. I am here for you where you expect me to be. I take care of you watch over each breath in the very real fear that it may be your last. The radiation is affecting you in atypical ways – probably due to the changes the symbiote made in your body. I'm monitoring your oxygen intake and your temperature very closely as your hypothalamus struggles to cope with the radiation levels in your body.
When you open your eyes, my beautiful Sam, I will be here to tell you that you are safe and you will be well, to soothe your fears and to tell you that Daniel is gone. Once before you let me see you cry, you let me hold you in your arms as you cried out your grief for that annoying, lovable man. I will be here for you again, I promise. If all I can be to you is a shoulder to cry on, then that is what I will be.
Until the day when you finally see me. And you realise that you love me.
Words & Music – Aqualung from the album "Aqualung"
Strange & Beautiful
I've been watching your world from afar
I've been trying to be where you are
I've been secretly falling apart
Unseen
To me you're strange and your beautiful
You'd be so perfect with me
But you just can't see
You turn every head but you don't see me
I'll put a spell on you
You'll fall asleep
I'll put a spell on you
And when I wake you
I'll be the first thing you see
And you'll realise that you love me
Sometimes
The last thing you want comes in first
Sometimes
The first thing you want never comes
I know waiting is all you can do
Sometimes
I'll put a spell on you
You'll fall asleep
I'll put a spell on you
And when I wake you
I'll be the first thing you see
And you'll realise that you love me
The End