Next Steps, By Paian (Teen)

[sam_gardener]

Title: Next Steps
Author's LJ/DWJ: paian
Categories: Five Things, Cassandra Fraiser, AU
Warnings: None
Author's Webpage/Fic list: Stargate Fic Index
Link to story: Next Steps

Why this should be read: Paian creates 5 different wonderful, horrible, sad, scary, amazing futures for Cassie and I believed every one of them. (2856 words)

Five ways Cassandra Fraiser left Colorado Springs, and what happened then.

She didn't know how far she'd get before they caught her and hauled her back. She'd buzzed her hair short and bleached it, she had two different IDs she'd stolen in the spring from girls close enough to her size and age at the city pool and the restaurant where she worked the coat check, she had plenty of cash, and she'd mailed her "I'm OK don't worry about me just let me go I'll be in touch" letters from the Springs right before she left. She knew she was a huge security risk running around loose, and she knew the military would bust its ass to get her back where they could watch her, so she might not have a lot of time. But if she played it smart and kept learning and stayed flexible, she might keep ahead of them just long enough to get her head on straight.

Sam had taught her to ride the bike and helped her get her license; it was like their secret bonding thing that Mom wasn't supposed to know about. Sam had taught her everything she knew about computers, and auto mechanics, and self-defense -- and keeping secrets. Sam had given her all the tools she needed to do exactly what she was doing now. She knew this was a crappy way to repay that. She hoped someday Sam would understand.