Egeria's Legacy by Annerb (Teen)

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Rec Category: Sam Carter
Pairing: Sam/Jack
Category: Action/Adventure, Drama, Angst
Warning: minor language and violence.
Author on LJ: annerbhp
Author's Website: Annerb Fic
Link: Egeria's Legacy

Why This Must Be Read: This is, hands down, an awesome Sam story. It picks up after Death Knell with Sam still reeling from her experiences on the planet with the Super Soldier and trying to deal with the fact that she came very close to giving up in the end. She's barely getting back on an active rotation when she falls into the middle of a Tok'ra civil war. You get to see the full spectrum of Sam here and annerbhp does an excellent job of keeping it all in check and very in character and believable.

Though it does list the pairing as Sam/Jack I would urge anyone who is a Sam fan with a love of a great story to read this.



The tunnels wound around in the darkness, occasionally opening up into small chambers. The walls were covered in Goa’uld script and looming figures representing the gods. Sam’s wavering flashlight seemed to make the images come alive and she had to suppress a shudder. She really hadn’t been afraid of the dark since she was two, but there was something about this place…

She’d felt strange ever since she set foot on this planet. She had convinced herself she was just imagining things; that she was just out of practice. The wormhole had probably just messed with her system after so long. Not quite trusting herself, she didn’t bother saying anything about her unease to her teammates.

Now the strange feeling burgeoned into a nagging tingle in the back of her brain. It was familiar, somehow, but she couldn’t place it, not here in the dark with the heavy thud of her heart as her only companion. She realized she was beginning to panic and her leg chose that moment to seize up painfully. Suddenly it was all too much and she pressed her back against the nearest wall, raising her weapon with a paranoid jerk.

Her harsh breathing filled the small space and she was finally convinced that someone was watching her. Something was hunting her in the darkness. She twisted to the left and her flashlight illuminated an empty hallway. Twisting to the right, she almost dropped her weapon as a ghoulish face seemed to jump out of the darkness. But it was just a wall carving of a jackal-headed demon, his inlaid eyes glimmering red in the light.

Panic clawed at her throat, but she forced her legs to move, her back sliding roughly against the wall. Compulsively, an inexplicable urgency kept pushing her forward, even as each step filled her with more dread. She had to keep ahead of it…at any cost.

She didn’t even hear the voice on her radio.

Comments

[skydiver119.livejournal.com]

Doggoneit! I was gonna rec this one next time i signed up. :)

Honestly though, i second the rec, for what that's worth. It's a very good sam story and i throughly enjoyed it.

And don't let the pairing put you off if your ship meter is sensitive. It's not an overwhelming force in the story, just an element of it.

If i was still printing out fic, this one would have joined some other goodies in my binders

[triciabyrne1978.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the second!

And definitely. I rarely save fics to my harddrive. I'll mark down pages and I already have this author listed in my favs, but this story I downloaded just so I could have it to go back to.

I also emailed it to my nephew in the hopes that he'll read it and enjoy.