Pizza and Fairy Tales, by Ari (G)

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Rec Category: Sam and Teal’c friendship

Pairing: none

Categories: Sam and Teal’c friendship, Samantha Carter, Teal’c, gen, character study

Warnings: none

Author on LJ: wisdomeagle

Author's Website: unknown

Link: Pizza and Fairy Tales

 

Why This Must Be Read: When Colonel O’Neill instructs Sam to take Teal’c for an outing, she can’t help but feel resentful at what she perceives at being shunted to the sidelines. But as the evening progresses, Sam slowly discovers that she and Teal’c have a lot in common, and the beginnings of a solid friendship.

 

Written in engaging, thoughtful Sam POV with some entertaining fairy-tale metaphors, this short story is a good look at Sam and Teal’c, all the way back at the beginning.

 

It began like a fairy tale, with a beautiful princess (Sam supposed that was Sha're) and with a wicked enchanter (and Sam supposed that was Ra), and a handsome prince (and anyone with eyes could see that that was Daniel). But there was no place in a fairy tale for a theoretical astrophysicist who didn't know the meaning of the word love except that it was something that interfered with the best-laid plans of men and women. The only mice in Sam's reality were the ones attached to her computer, and they didn't run up clocks or after farmer's wives, not even when Sam had been up all night working. Even then, her computer's mouse didn't talk to her.

So she supposed Colonel O'Neill and Daniel were going to mull over their unhappily ever after. That's what she told herself at least. That she'd gotten "telling Teal'c about earth culture" duty because of something on Abydos that she wasn't privy to, some secret that fairy tale people like Daniel were born knowing but that people like Sam, who had always preferred algebra to fairies, even when she was a little girl, could have no part of. It had nothing to do with her being the token woman. Nothing. She wasn't going to let that happen again, not after all those years at the Pentagon.

She was so glad to be away from that place. She wondered how the Colonel had managed to retire. He'd tasted action, he'd flown so many missions—she'd seen his record, his medals. How could you abandon a career like that to sit on your roof stargazing? She could never do it. She wouldn't, not again. No more sinecures for Sam Carter. No more girly work, either. Explaining Earth to Teal'c was not girly work. It was important, perhaps would even be essential in the long run, if they were going to be an effective team.

Sam was seething.

"You're staying late, right? Why don't you take Teal'c out for dinner when you leave? Tell him about Tau'ri science, or something."

"Actually, sir, I was planning on ordering in."

"I think it would be nice to get Teal'c out of the mountain once in awhile, Captain."

"Yessir."