Coming Home, by Caladria (PG)
Nov. 9th, 2011 09:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
figs_sg1_recRec Category: Sam and Vala friendship
Categories: Sam, Vala, character study, ep related, angst
Warnings: none
Author on LJ:caladria
Author's Website: Caladria at FF.net
Link: Coming Home
Why This Must Be Read: In the wake of Memento Mori, Sam takes Vala home to recuperate with ice cream, movies... and some sobering reflection on their shared experience as former hosts.
Caladria does a wonderful job of drawing both the similarities and the contrasts between these two women, in how they cope with their pasts and face the future. This is honest, genuine friendship, and a real pleasure to read.
Vala just shakes her head and returns to Indy and his escapades, methodically licking every scrap off of the spoon, handle and all. “You came for me,” she tells the spoon eventually, gazing at her upside down reflection in its surface. “You didn’t give up.”
“We don’t leave our people behind,” Sam responds automatically, although it doesn’t make it less sincere. She lives that; breathes it, eats it, sleeps it. It’s a fibre of her being that has been true for so long that she doesn’t need to think it, only know it.
“Exactly,” Vala replies, quietly enough that Sam isn’t sure that she heard it. A moment later she is, as Vala reveals herself with her cover up. “Qetesh used to have Jaffa racing to her aid, of course, but they weren’t half as entertaining as Colonel Mitchell.”
“Qetesh isn’t you,” Sam points out. This isn’t a truth she believes bone-deep, but one that has to cling on to when the nightmares come; she needs to believe this one.
“Sometimes it’s hard to tell.”
Sam gets that. She still has odd glimpses of memories; of planets that she’s never known, heartaches for people she’s never loved, the resonance of words she’s never heard – from people who died long before she was dreamt of – still echo through her mind.
Categories: Sam, Vala, character study, ep related, angst
Warnings: none
Author on LJ:
caladriaAuthor's Website: Caladria at FF.net
Link: Coming Home
Why This Must Be Read: In the wake of Memento Mori, Sam takes Vala home to recuperate with ice cream, movies... and some sobering reflection on their shared experience as former hosts.
Caladria does a wonderful job of drawing both the similarities and the contrasts between these two women, in how they cope with their pasts and face the future. This is honest, genuine friendship, and a real pleasure to read.
Vala just shakes her head and returns to Indy and his escapades, methodically licking every scrap off of the spoon, handle and all. “You came for me,” she tells the spoon eventually, gazing at her upside down reflection in its surface. “You didn’t give up.”
“We don’t leave our people behind,” Sam responds automatically, although it doesn’t make it less sincere. She lives that; breathes it, eats it, sleeps it. It’s a fibre of her being that has been true for so long that she doesn’t need to think it, only know it.
“Exactly,” Vala replies, quietly enough that Sam isn’t sure that she heard it. A moment later she is, as Vala reveals herself with her cover up. “Qetesh used to have Jaffa racing to her aid, of course, but they weren’t half as entertaining as Colonel Mitchell.”
“Qetesh isn’t you,” Sam points out. This isn’t a truth she believes bone-deep, but one that has to cling on to when the nightmares come; she needs to believe this one.
“Sometimes it’s hard to tell.”
Sam gets that. She still has odd glimpses of memories; of planets that she’s never known, heartaches for people she’s never loved, the resonance of words she’s never heard – from people who died long before she was dreamt of – still echo through her mind.
