Reaching Past the Sky by Amy (PG)

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Fandom: STARGATE SG-1
Pairing: None
Author on LJ: amilyn
Author Website: http://www.fanfiction.net/~amilyn
Why this must be read:

Amy does an excellent job of weaving a real world event that no doubt would have had a significant impact on Sam, considering her dreams of NASA and going into space, into an engaging and informative piece of Sam's backstory at the Academy.

Sam's voice is spot on in this, and her struggles with more than one failure and her fear of losing the future she had so meticulously planned is believable and poignantly Sam.



She was sitting up, still winded, when the jumpmaster got to her, ordered her to attention, and demanded a report of any injuries then chewed her out for scaring him to death. The entire squadron collected their chutes and packs and ran back to campus. For Sam it was three miles on shaky legs with a mind oddly empty even of equations and an occasional twinge from an ankle that she thought might have turned slightly when she'd landed. She'd managed to return to her dorm room before collapsing on her bed, still trembling behind the safe veil of her door where the further weakness wouldn't expose her to worse ridicule. She might not have been graceful and confident, but she'd done it. Every step toward her goal had a purpose. The next time she would be more prepared, more decisive, she promised herself.



Reaching Past the Sky