This probably isn't what you had in mind, but there you go. :)
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Somehow, it made sense that the only time she'd been alone in what seemed like months would be because she fell down a hole.
"Management" at the SGC means more regular hours and less life-threatening danger, but it also means she's constantly training or reviewing or managing someone. She doesn't even have her own lab anymore. Home is no better – Brianna just got tall enough to turn doorknobs, so even the bathroom is no longer safe. If she goes to bed early to get an hour alone before Jack finishes watching the ballgame, the dog will faithfully follow her under the covers to keep her from going too long without a cold, damp nose against her skin.
She was starting to go a little stir-crazy in the Colorado winter, so she signed herself up for a brief jaunt to an alien technology recovery site on sunny P4X-118.
She's not getting much sun at the bottom of a hole, though. She landed well and isn't hurt, beyond a bruise or two to her ego, and SG-14 isn't even a quarter-mile away. There's nothing of any technological interest down here – it is a hole full of dirt, after all – but she isn't in any hurry to call for rescue.
After all, this may be the only off she gets for a while.
Sam Carter / "alone"
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Somehow, it made sense that the only time she'd been alone in what seemed like months would be because she fell down a hole.
"Management" at the SGC means more regular hours and less life-threatening danger, but it also means she's constantly training or reviewing or managing someone. She doesn't even have her own lab anymore. Home is no better – Brianna just got tall enough to turn doorknobs, so even the bathroom is no longer safe. If she goes to bed early to get an hour alone before Jack finishes watching the ballgame, the dog will faithfully follow her under the covers to keep her from going too long without a cold, damp nose against her skin.
She was starting to go a little stir-crazy in the Colorado winter, so she signed herself up for a brief jaunt to an alien technology recovery site on sunny P4X-118.
She's not getting much sun at the bottom of a hole, though. She landed well and isn't hurt, beyond a bruise or two to her ego, and SG-14 isn't even a quarter-mile away. There's nothing of any technological interest down here – it is a hole full of dirt, after all – but she isn't in any hurry to call for rescue.
After all, this may be the only off she gets for a while.