Title: Contemplation

Author: LittleKitten

Email: littlekitten2424@hotmail.com

Archive: SJD yes, anyone else please ask! :)

Spoilers: None

Category: Angst, Drabble

Season: 5

Pairings: Sam/Jack UST

Rating: PG

Summary: He's asked her. Again.

Disclaimer: They're not mine!

Authors Notes: I wrote this in an English lesson, the day before "Sight Unseen" aired in the UK. Which is just *so* typical(!) and I didn't want to post it then. But... it's set in Season 5 so there you go...

~8~

She pulled her sleeping bag tighter around her shoulders, shivering slightly.

Watching.

Watching him... through the flickering flames from the raging camp-fire, the glowing colours cast falteringly across his skin.

She'll be next on guard, but she knows it; she won't get any sleep before then.

He'd asked her, again.

Fishing. For them, it meant something else entirely. Something it shouldn't.

Something that was totally wrong.

She couldn't let herself go.

She *couldn't* go.

Studying his face again, she realised he was returning the gesture; with a big-assed grin on his face.

...*Shouldn't* go.

Only... this time, she hadn't refused.

*fin*

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