Tell a story in one hundred words exactly? When my author's notes take more?

It's strangely addictive.....

I Knew I'd Like Him - General Sam thoughts, no spoilers, unless you count a teeny one for the pilot.

Never Known Real Love - Sam's thoughts during that scene in Need.

Just One More Time - Sam's thoughts at the end of season 5.

Before I met him, I read his research, admiring the way his mind worked; never dreaming I'd get the chance to observe it so closely.

Never dreaming that he'd be so handsome, his eyes so blue, his voice so kind.

When I met him, he became my team-mate, then my friend, then my confidante.

I never dreamed that the day would come that he'd be anything more than that. That he'd see me as anything more than that.

And yet it has.

You see, I always knew I'd like him - I just never knew I'd like him this much.

"You've never known what real love is, have you Sam?"

The words themselves are bad enough; words Daniel would never say. But this isn't Daniel; this is a stranger. A stranger with Daniel's face and Daniel's voice, but with Jonas's eyes.

That's what scares me most because I remember how that ended.

I can't go through that again but I'm very afraid I'll have to.

Because if the sarcophagus takes a person's soul, because if the eyes are the windows to the soul, then we're already too late.

Never known real love? Daniel, you don't know how wrong you are.

I hated having to fight with him for who would get the last of the coffee.

I hated having to play peacemaker between him and the Colonel.

I hated trying to get his attention when he'd gone off on some tangent or other.

I hated worrying about him every time he ended up in the infirmary.

I hated how he could read me with just one look.

I hated dragging myself away from our bed every morning.

I hated hiding what we'd become from everyone around us.

Now I'd give anything to hate all those things just one more time.