Originally posted by VastlySuperiorStuff
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I liked Grace though - and not just for the BHK
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I always felt that when she says "I was wondering when you were gonna show up" it was coz she'd seen everyone else that was very important to her and she knew, seeing as he is the MOST important person to her, that her befuddled mind would conjure him up eventually.
But they are so dysfunctuional!! I think you're right that Sam knows she'll never get a straight answer out of him, even if she was to straight out ask him he would dodge it somehow. When I think of APA's recent fic about that scene in Threads I think it's right, I think even there he was getting ready to shoot her down. So when she calls him Jack, it is definately a reprimand he gives her, I mean she actually apologises for it so she felt that too. We know it's not unusual for Jack to allow his subordinates - those he's close too - to call him Jack (we even know that he himself has called his CO's by their first names before too) but with Sam he won't allow it. I think he has a good reason - I think it's a way of protecting himself, just as he stops calling her Sam when he decides his feelings for are too deep and too dangerous. Sam seems to innately know this - she doesn't call him Jack under usual circumstances and she only did here coz she thoguht she was still hallucinating for a second - and I think she this helps her keep her distance too.
But yes, this final reprimand about the 'sir' thing decided her I think. To me she didn't need to figure out her feelings for him. IMHO she was very well aware by now that she was in love with him. I think it was the clincher that meade her decide to try to move on. To try to meet someone else in the hopes that her current feelings forhim would change or fade in the same way as I think she believed that his feelings for her faded after D&C. Jack's "excuse me?" serves to reinforce her belief that Jack doesn't love her anymore.
Threads to me isn't about her discovering her feeling for Jack or fionally realising that she loves Jack. I think she already knows this. For me it's about her realising that she can't be happy with 2nd best and about her coming to terms with the fact that it doesn't matter who she meets or dates or whatever; her feelings for Jack will never change or fade. She'll be in love with him always!!
Whoa... sorry ranted on a bit there
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