stargateficrec | Time Heals All, by SG

Rec Category: Sam and Daniel friendship
Pairing: none
Categories: Sam and Daniel friendship, Samantha Carter, Daniel Jackson, gen, episode related, character study
Warnings: none
Author on LJ:

sg_betty
Author's Website: unknown
Link: Time Heals All

Why This Must Be Read: Here's a nice twist on the Sam and Daniel friendship: Moebius!Daniel and AU!Samantha, sitting on the sands of Ancient Egypt. Even more, Betty offers us a rarity in a Moebius!Daniel who is at peace with the choices he's made, and is optimistic about a future that he will never get to see, but which he is content to know will happen once again... and an AU!Samantha who is ready to hear about the woman she once was, even if it's never going to fit what she is right now.

Most Daniel fans are horrified at the sheer pain that Moebius inflicted on him. Betty not only gives him solace, but also gives him a friendship with Samantha - not the same, certainly, as the one he had with Sam, but a hopeful one nonetheless.

"One morning, on the day this started, I’ll wake up, go to work at the SGC, and at some point in the day, in a fraction of a second, we won’t come back here.” He lifted a hand and waved it through the air. “I won’t know that something has changed, that everything is right again, but it will be...” Daniel spread his hands. “This is, but it isn’t.”

Her brow creased as she thought about what he had said, and she looked away. “You have the advantage of knowing you’ll be the same person, continuing your life as you were supposed to. I’ll… kind of cease to exist. She looked at him again. “Although, I will have ceased to exist long before that, in the sense of being alive—and I will have existed, because I’m here.” Samantha shook her head.

“You’d like who you’ll be. Sam was, will be, a wonderful person… Uh, not that you’re not now. I mean… You’re not that different… Ugh.” His eyes squeezed shut and he brought his hand up to cover his face. “Sorry.”