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The Library (2/10/06)

Janet unlocked the door to the library, turned on the lights, and sat down behind the Collections Desk. She warily eyed the rather strange-looking romance novel with the centaur and the mermaid on the cover. It was just lying there on the corner of the desk.

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"You had a social life? Lucky. I think I used to have one." Janet looked wistful. "Why wonder that? You'll drive yourself nuts. ~~Besides, I managed to fall for someone without even that much.~~"

Sam chuckled. "Okay, maybe social life was overstating things. I spent a lot of time going on first dates and wondering if I'd messed up by breaking things off with Jonas."

"I could have told you then that he was no big loss." Janet grinned. "Of course, my track record those days wasn't exactly impressive."

"He..." Sam fidgeted, "He wasn't always like that. Especially not the way he was, y'know, at the end. And at least you've been married."

"People change, sure," said Janet. "But he was going to end up unpleasant whether you married him or not. Trust me, I wish I hadn't been married--at least not to him. Those were the three longest years of my life."

Sam nodded and leaned forward on the counter. "There were some good times, they were just outweighed at the end. Turns out that I don't deal well with being ordered around if I'm not under fire."

"You?" asked Janet. "I never would've guessed." She grinned. "At least you have the good times to remember, right?"

Sam stuck her tongue out at Janet. "I do. Although, I have to admit that they are very often overshadowed by the fact that he set himself up as a god and enslaved an entire planet full of people, then tried to kill Jack."

Which, you know, she could have ended earlier if she'd been able to pull the trigger. She began playing with the edges of her notebook.

"Well, we're not all perfect," said Janet, making a face at Sam before getting serious again. "Sam, Jonas Hansen had deep psychological instabilities that he was able to hide prior to his placement in the program. There was no way anyone could know that his encounters through the 'gate would exacerbate them to that extent. And let's face it, the two of you were engaged. He knew just what buttons to press."

Sam sighed and put her head in her hands. "I know. Trust me, I had to go through more counseling on this issue that you'd believe."

She looked up at Janet. "Okay, maybe not more than you'd believe, since you ordered it, but more than anyone else would believe. And I was a sucker."

Janet grinned wryly. "Did you really think you'd get away without it?" she asked. "Why do you say that you were a sucker?"

"I had hopes, anyway," she shrugged, "and I bought into what he was telling me, instead of what I knew was true, because of past history. That makes me a sucker."

"You didn't know me very well then, did you?" asked Janet. "It makes you someone who wants to believe the best of people. And he pushed your buttons. Stop blaming yourself. Everything turned out all right, didn't it?"

"No, you'd pretty much just gotten there, and I was humiliated because of the virus thing, then 595..." she groaned, "so I was hiding in my lab a lot." Yeah, it had turned out great for her. For Jonas? Not so much.

"Virtually everyone on base was humiliated because of that virus," said Janet. "Though 595 was unique, yes. Honestly, Sam, if we were still in Colorado I'd send you back to Mackenzie over this. Even if he is a sadistic little bastard."

Sam may have muttered something that sounded suspiciously like "damned alien alcohol." She shook her head, "no, please, don't do that. I'm usually okay with it, honestly."

"You're in luck," said Janet. "I can't do that to you. Yet. By the time I can again, it'll at least be somebody besides Mackenzie."

Sam cheered up and straightened. "That's true. Thanks, Janet."

Janet laughed. "Any time, Sam. So I'll tell you what time I get our appointment for?" ~~We should possibly wrap this one up...~~

"Yeah, that's fine." ~~Yay! Yes, we should.~~

"All right, then," said Janet. "Want to keep me company while I shelve books?" ~~And we can just post us walking away chattering and then, wow, a wrap-up.~~

"Yeah, sure," Sam said, following behind Janet into the stacks, paperback in hand.

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