1. He doesn't like heights unless he's up in a plane of some kind. It's one of those irrational fears that hangs around no matter what you do, and it was all kinds of embarassing when he joined the Air Force. Still is, actually - Vala will never let him hear the end of the time they wound up a couple hundred feet up a tower and he refused to go near the edge.
2. He still has no idea, two years on, whether he would have stuck it out with the SGC if SG-1 hadn't come back. He's pretty sure he wouldn't have been able to go back to a regular Air Force posting, but he's not sure he would have made it with a team of people as new to gate travel as him. So maybe the decision would never have had to be made. He prefers not to think about that, but it makes him extra grateful for them all.
3. He's known Sam Carter for so long that everyone assumes they slept together at some point - they never have. It's not because they don't want to (although they've been friends so long now that they really don't) or that they think it will mess up a good friendship (they're way past that point now). It's because, two months after they met, Sam had too much to drink and sighed and said that she wondered if anyone would ever understand how she felt, a scientist and a girl and a pilot. Cam's pretty sure she'll never trust him to try to understand if he sleeps with her, and he wants her to trust him, much more than he wants anything else from her. Except possibly for her to come back from Atlantis again.
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2. He still has no idea, two years on, whether he would have stuck it out with the SGC if SG-1 hadn't come back. He's pretty sure he wouldn't have been able to go back to a regular Air Force posting, but he's not sure he would have made it with a team of people as new to gate travel as him. So maybe the decision would never have had to be made. He prefers not to think about that, but it makes him extra grateful for them all.
3. He's known Sam Carter for so long that everyone assumes they slept together at some point - they never have. It's not because they don't want to (although they've been friends so long now that they really don't) or that they think it will mess up a good friendship (they're way past that point now). It's because, two months after they met, Sam had too much to drink and sighed and said that she wondered if anyone would ever understand how she felt, a scientist and a girl and a pilot. Cam's pretty sure she'll never trust him to try to understand if he sleeps with her, and he wants her to trust him, much more than he wants anything else from her. Except possibly for her to come back from Atlantis again.