Taking Chances - Series working title subject to change
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AU: Theoretical astrophysics is one thing, but actually stepping into a wormhole for the first time is quite another. I have been waiting for this chance since I was a little girl, and now that it's here I'm ready. Well, almost ready. There's no knowing for sure what's going to happen tomorrow. This could be my last night on Earth, or my last night ever. And I want to go out with a bang.
Did I mention I ran the table? Poor guy never had a chance, but in my defense, he seemed to like it that way. It’s a good thing because I promised myself I would never be less than I am for a guy ever again. And this guy looks like he can handle me.
Anyway, when I slid past him the third time to line up my final shot, I faced him. I couldn’t explain it, but with a look, he somehow managed to paralyze me, standing there and straddling his knee. Maybe it was just his look, fiery and dangerous, or maybe I froze because both of his hands at my waist didn’t give me a choice.
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I'm not sure if she just expects me to forget what happened between us, but if she does, she's just going to have to be disappointed. I'm not going to stand in the way of what she wants in her career. I'm not going to ruin her chance of a lifetime to be a part of the action, but I'm also never going to forget what we shared the night before that first mission to Abydos. And isn't that the most inconvenient truth a CO can admit about his subordinate?
That night we spent together under the stars is a sweet but seemingly distant memory now. In fact, there have been exactly zero sightings of Samantha since the day that Captain Carter walked into the briefing room and put the possibility of a second date—or really just a proper first date—on ice.
Captain Carter is in attendance at every briefing, beside me on every mission so far, and occasionally across the lunch table in the commissary. It’s not that I don’t appreciate Captain Carter. But that doesn’t mean that I don’t wish that she weren’t quite so good at compartmentalizing the Samantha parts of herself that I appreciated in her on the night we met.
SEQUEL: to “Running the Table” which should be read first.
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