Footprints, by Raven (G)

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Rec Category: Teamy goodness

Pairing: none
Categories: team, Samantha Carter, gen, humor, fluff
Warnings: none
Author on LJ: loneraven
Author's Website: Sleeping With Ghosts
Link: Footprints

Why This Must Be Read: This lovely bit of fluff, told in Sam's POV, is sweet entertainment at its best. Sam and Teal'c follow footprints in the sand to find their teammates, with a bit of detective work – and some really in-character Sam musings – along the way.

Raven offers us what we can only hope happens more than once for SG-1: a bit of light-hearted fun on missions, among four people who are very good friends. In other words, teamy goodness! :)

She had taken off her boots and socks some time before, and Teal’c had raised an eyebrow but said nothing. The sand was soft and warm against her toes, and she smiled as she saw how her footprints changed from heavy, military standard issue treads to the delicate imprints of a woman barefoot. And there were other footprints, too; Teal’c’s, deep and even and always at her side, and in front of her were two slightly older sets of prints, blurred at the edges by drifting sand, but still visible. They led and she followed. She would meet them eventually.

First, the long, deep strides. The military swagger, she reminded herself. Left, right, left, right, straight ahead, primary mission objective, retrieve UAV. And on the side, the other footprints, wandering, variable, less deep and much less regular, crossing the first set of footprints at random intervals. Pauses as the military footprints became decidedly less military, and then stopped altogether. They had stopped here, and Sam found a small piece of MRE foil stuck in the sand like a flag.

She leaned down to pick it up, and found the touch of a human hand; Earth’s point of origin, traced by a slender index finger in the sand. She remembered Archimedes, a mathematician not a myth, finding the footprints of man in the geometric figures scored in the sand, and thought about the soft science and hard science together in the symbol.