Travelers Return, by Redbyrd (PG)

Rec Category: Samantha Carter

Pairing: none
Categories: Samantha Carter, gen, episode related, angst, character study
Warnings: none
Author on LJ: redbyrd_sgfic
Author's Website: Redbyrd's Stargate Fiction
Link: Travelers Return; LJ comments on the fic are here.

Why This Must Be Read: Redbyrd is one of my favorite authors, especially for her ability to offer a new and unique perspective on Stargate episodes – usually by focusing on an unusual POV. This might be AU Kalwalsky in POV, or Krista in Affinity, or Stephen Raynor in The Curse. This story is a little bit different – after all, Sam is hardly a minor character! – but all the same, in the oodleplex of episode tags about The Serpent's Lair, I have never seen another one written from Sam's point-of-view.

There's Redbyrd's usual loving attention to detail, including the puzzled guard at the checkpoint who doesn't understand how they can sign in when they never signed out. Most importantly, though, this is Sam-the-soldier, dazed and wondering whether she's going to face that court martial she worried about before they went AWOL through the Stargate, still feeling that twinge of isolation at being the single woman on a team with three men – but at the same time, this is also Sam-of-SG-1, standing at Jack and Teal'c and Daniel's side, and deciding that "team" means more to her, now, than anything else.

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