Second Floor Common Room, Wednesday Night

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Sam is sitting on the floor of the common room with her independent study notes spread out all over the table. The television is on in the background, but she doesn't notice what's playing.

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Deciding that being alone is pretty much going to drive him crazy overthinking things, Cameron heads to the common room.

"Yo," he says softly before plopping down in one of the chairs.

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"Yo." Having blown of her morning run, Sam hadn't seen Cameron all day. He seemed uncharacteristically quiet. "Everything okay?"

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"All fine and dandy," Cameron says with a tight smile.

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"Okay," Sam replied. She wasn't going to push. "Remote's on the table. I'm not really watching, so put on whatever you want."

She began erasing furiously.

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Cameron snatched up the remote control and quickly changed channel to Cartoon Network to watch Itcyh and Scratchy.

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Sam rolled her eyes when she heard the show, but didn't look up from her work. "Okay, so if this variable is wrong, then..."

She ripped a page out of her notebook, crumpled it up, and threw it towards the garbage can.

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"Hey, think of the trees!" Cameron said as he watched her throw the paper away.

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"I am," Sam retorted. "The trees wouldn't want anything that stupid written on them. It needed to be destroyed."

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"Right," he rolled his eyes and turned the television back off.

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"Alright. Out with it." She slapped her pencil down on the table and glared at Cameron.

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Cameron frowned. "Did Janet tell you?"

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"Tell me what?"

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"The err... results of that thing," he said meaningful.

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"No, I hadn't heard," Sam replied, concerned. "Do you want to go somewhere more private to talk about it? I wouldn't want this to end up on the radio."

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"No, it's just..." he shook his head. "A lot to take in and Vala's gone for a week. She didn't exactly leave on the best of terms and now I'm whining." He gave her an apologetic smile and shrugged.

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"You're not whining. You've had a rough couple of days. If you want to talk about what you learned, maybe I can help you sort some stuff out. Or, y'know, you can let it sit and fester until you take it out on someone who's not me." She shrugged. "I'm good either way. Wait...Vala left? Where'd she go?"

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He motions up to the ceiling. "Death in the family, business, whatever."

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"Business? Vala?" Sam wondered if she should warn the SGC.

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Cameron sighed, suddenly feeling guilty for not keeping his mouth shut. "Just someone she knew died and she had to go set some things straight."

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"Oh, that's too bad! How long is she going to be gone?"

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"A week," he kicks against the coffee table.

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A few papers fluttered to the floor and Sam bent over to pick them up. "I'm sure she wouldn't be gone for so long if it wasn't important, though."

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There was a snort and Cameron was up on his feet. "I need to go read up for Criminal Justice."

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"Okay. Have fun with that."

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"Yeah, sure." Cameron said with a quick wave before fleeing back to his room.

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Sam shook her head and went back to her homework. "Boys are so strange."


((OOC: NP.))