Title: Concatenation

Author: Lisa Yaeger

E-mail: lisayaeger@hotmail.com

Rating: G

Category: Romance

Pairings: Sam/Jack

Content Warnings: none

Summary: What is "it"?

Season/sequel: This happens in season 6

Spoilers: Up to and including Frozen

Archive: SJD & whoever wants to- I'd be flattered!

Disclaimer: All publicly recognizable characters and places are the property of MGM, World Gekko Corp and Double Secret productions. This piece of fan fiction was created for entertainment not monetary purposes and no infringement on copyrights or trademarks was intended. Previously unrecognized characters and places, and this story, are copyrighted to the author. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author.

Status: Complete.

Author's notes: The disclaimers are longer than the fic! Sam's POV.

Feedback: Welcomed!

Date: 19-11-2002

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concatenation \kon-kat-uh-NAY-shuhn; kuhn-\, noun: A series of links united; a series or order of things depending on each other, as if linked together; a chain, a succession.
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Some people think it started the first day we met in the briefing room. Or when we were infected, and I kissed him in the locker room. Some people think it was when we watched each other play with Cassie. Or when we were almost dead in Antarctica.

There are others who are sure it was when he was gone for three months, and I wouldn't stop working to get him home. Or when I saw him kiss the other Samantha. A skeptical few think we didn't even know about our feelings until I was trapped behind the force field or until we were Jonah and Thera. The remaining ones didn't believe it until they heard that he agreed to the blending because I had asked.

Daniel knew it when he saw the "other" us just months after we had met. Janet knew it when he was stuck on Edora. Teal'c knew it when he heard our confessions, and probably long before that. Before he 'killed' me, the General practically admitted that he knew it. When we went to rescue him and Teal'c in the glider, Dad knew for sure.

So, when did we know? I can't speak for him, but I know one thing. It wasn't any of those specific instances. It was both before and after - enduring throughout our time together. It was, and is, both a single moment in time and a series of events. Without a beginning and without an end. Continuous and unbroken. We are it, and it is us.

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