Authors Note: Well folks after asking for story suggestions I have two working their way through my mind. This story however is for NurseKelly who was begging for a new story and I found this one on my computer. It is 3 chapters long and comes with a T rating.

Also - please note it comes with an attempted suicide warning, so if that bothers you please don't read.

Well thanks to you all for the support and the suggestions from two reviewers that have really got my muse working again.

Will post the next chapter tomorrow. Enjoy.

Need

What had these weird people given her? She felt odd, decidedly out of it and, very strangely, quite frankly, horny. She was locked in a cell about 6 feet wide with white walls and no windows. The guys had been here before she'd been taken but now that she was back they were gone.

She couldn't be certain but as she scrutinised the walls she was convinced that one wall served as a window into her cell, which was a very discomforting thought.

Time passed and she was becoming more and more out of it. Oh, she was feeling peculiar. She was hot, itchy, and needed to cool down. Then, in a blinding flash she knew exactly what she needed: him. Why? Where were they?

Her clothes and combat wear – not to mention weapons – were long gone. They'd been taken from them when they'd been captured. What a really screwed up recon mission this had turned into. Where were her team mates? Where was he?

She moved around the cell feeling like a caged animal. She began prowling round the walls, ready to pounce, but no one appeared.

Finally, the door opened and her team walked in. They looked dazed. They were dressed in the same type of dress as she'd been given, only theirs were grey while hers was white. She was on the floor but didn't have the energy now to get up and walk.

She began crawling towards them and Daniel knelt down to speak her. "Sam, what's wrong?" Her hair was in disarray, her dress was filthy and badly creased after having been wrung in her hands and in some places ripped.

"Need... Daniel... Need help!" Sam responded. In her head she could acknowledge she sounded like she had that stupid Touched virus but her mind couldn't help her find the words although they were there. "Something's... wrong," she managed to get out.

Sam scuttled back into the corner. "Need... You!" she uttered, looking straight at Jack.

Jack was looking round the cell, still very unsure about what was going on. They'd been taken away and given food and drink by their captors but there'd been no sign of Sam. They'd been assured that she was fine but looking at her now she certainly didn't look fine. Far from it. "Daniel, help Carter," he said brusquely and turned to look straight at the wall he'd decided was an obvious window. "T, see if you can get some answers."

Jack turned back around to look at Sam. He wasn't happy. He was beginning to feel antsy and angry and could feel severe distress spreading throughout his body, as if it had started at his toes and was now rising. It had reached his chest before he finally worked out what was causing it. Her! He'd been unhappy since he'd found out that Sam was dating. Normally, this fact wouldn't affect him, particularly on a mission, but this fact was starting to really bug him today.

Meanwhile, Daniel had laid Sam down at the back of the room and was sitting beside her.

"You can't help," she whimpered, clawing at her dress. "Need him."

Daniel tried to hush her, tried to calm her, but was obviously failing.

"We demand an explanation of these events," Teal'c stated to the wall.

Sam was getting more and more fretful. "Nothing will help. Only him!" she cried out to Daniel.

At that moment the door opened and two older men, dressed as scientists would on Earth, stood viewing the scene.

"It has clearly been effective," said one.

"Yes, we will now begin to understand these aliens better," stated the other.

Daniel, beginning to realise that Sam's odd behaviour was what the men were expecting, sat up. "Please, our friend is in distress. Help us to understand what's happening."

"A female must belong to a male," the first man answered.

"Your female needs to be joined to someone. One of you," the second man concluded.

"You drugged her to accept one of us?" Daniel asked incredulously, noting Teal'c's fighting stance as he looked around. He then did a double take at Jack's complete acceptance of the situation.

"No, you misunderstand," the younger man jumped in to defend his culture. "In our society every female is destined to be with only one male. Our T'amore prompts the female to pick the one with whom she is destined to be joined."

"Well, the one she's chosen isn't here," Jack spat out, irritation and distain dripping from his voice.

Daniel looked over towards him, surprised by his tone.

"No, need you," Sam whimpered from the rear of the room, pulling at her dress.

Returning his focus to the doorway, Daniel cleared his throat "Em… how will this uh… situation be resolved?"

The scientists were beginning to look a little flustered "We believed she was with one of you. Is she not sent on this exploration to choose one of you?" The younger one was stunned.

"No, she isn't." Jack fumed. "She's made her choice and he's back on Earth!"

"She must be allowed to return and complete the ritual," the younger one stated, concerned at the damage keeping the subject from her chosen one could do.

"Just to clarify, how does she complete the ritual?" Daniel asked.

"She must come together with the one she is destined for, physically. They would join forever," the older scientist explained.

All the attention was then centred at the back of the room, where Sam was whimpering and moving restlessly on the floor. She began calling quietly, "Sir... Jack..."

"She seems to have chosen you. You may not leave until this is resolved!" the older scientist stated emphatically and walked out the door, furious, resetting the controls.

Daniel couldn't believe what was happening. For three years he'd watched his team mates dance around each other. Now, when Sam needed him, Jack was being a jerk.

"Jack, what's going on?" Daniel asked. "You can see Sam needs you. Help her!"

Jack was seething but managed to keep his anger in check, if only just, while replying, "Daniel, I have no idea what that drug is doing to her but in her right mind Sam wants nothing to do with me. So save it. I'm not 'helping' her as you so casually put it."

In the corner Sam was getting more and more distressed. Her moans and whimpers were increasing in volume and she was twisting and turning, the long dress getting caught underneath her.

Jack was getting angrier and angrier and until he finally realised that he had somewhere to direct his anger – towards her. "Shut up, Carter!" Jack shouted as he began to walk towards her.

Sam jerked back further into the corner, recoiling at his tone.

"I'm not going to help you. I'm not going to sleep with you. You made your choice and you didn't choose me. You chose him. You chose not to wait for me after I'd worked for days to find you when you went missing on Prometheus. So I hope you're suffering. You need to suffer." Jack had advanced towards her during his rant and was towering over her when he snapped a final sentence spitefully at her, "You deserve to suffer."

Sam curled herself in a ball, trying to protect herself from his attack.

Before Daniel and Teal'c could stop him Jack continued. "I used to think that I cared for you but now that I know you can so easily throw me away I'm going to do the same. You mean nothing to me, Carter."

Jack turned, leaving Sam weeping on the floor. He stalked the short distance to his other team mates. Daniel had his mouth open and was about to say something when Jack ordered, "Daniel, do something with…" He waved his hand in a dismissing gesture towards Sam. "Teal'c, find a way to get us out of here."

Just then the door opened and the young scientist was standing there looking furtive. "Quick, come with me. You must leave here." He shook his head, confused with the situation. "We have never faced a situation where the male rejects the female. It is unheard of here." He tried to get them to move quicker. "Come, you must go home, see if your medicine can help her. Maybe the one she has chosen on your planet will help, although I do not understand why she has chosen two different people." The man looked quickly into the corridor to check it was still empty.

Teal'c, sensing Jack was not going to help, went to pick up a sobbing Sam and they all followed the man, making their way quietly through the complex. The Stargate on this planet was in the basement of the building they were in. The young scientist explained that it wasn't really guarded as they had a shield. However, their 'gate required a password to activate it before any symbols could be entered into the DHD. Fortunately, the young scientist had been trusted with the code.

"Here, take this." The scientist handed Daniel a small container. "It is some of the T'amore. It may aid your doctors in helping her."

"Thanks… I think," Daniel replied, moving towards the 'gate.

The group made it safely through the 'gate to the Alpha site as, without GDO's, they couldn't return immediately to Earth. Once at the Alpha site Jack pulled rank and they did a quick turnaround and were on their way home, even with the protests of the Alpha Site CO.