Title: 'Cause I Care about Her

Author: SerenityLago

Category: Adventure, Romance, Mild Angst

Characters: Major/Doctor Samantha Carter Ph.D, Colonel Jack O'Neill, Lantash, Teal'c, Doctor Daniel Jackson Ph.D, Lieutenant Elliot, Aldwin, General Jacob Carter/Selmak, Major General George Hammond, Doctor Janet Frasier, and many, many more (If they're in the episodes, they should be in the fic) (Also a very minor Martouf, flashbacks only)

Rating: T/PG-13 for some strong language and implied sexual scenes

Disclaimer: All publicly recognizable characters and places are the property of MGM, World Gekko Corp and Double Secret Productions. This piece of fan fiction was created for entertainment only and not monetary purposes and no infringement on copyrights or trademarks was intended. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author.

Summary: An AU version of Summit/Last Stand as well as Fail Safe and possibly more in which O'Neill and Elliot basically switch places.

Spoilers: Anything up to and including Summit/Last Stand and Fail Safe. I'll let you know if there's another episode added on. (I'll probably try and make this into a series.)

A/N: Edited 12/15/10 with LOTS of help from 3rd Apple. THANKS!

Bold: The symbiote is talking
Italics: Thoughts

(In thoughts if there is a symbiote it will be bolded and Italicized)

Prologue -

Martouf's mind was racing. Why hadn't Anise checked him? He couldn't stop himself from pulling the weapon and trying to kill the President and Persus. Then he was shot, although the
pain barely registered.

There were only three people he trusted to stop him; Lantash, Samantha, and Colonel Jack O'Neill. How he hated O'Neill. After all, O'Neill called him Marty. He hated that name! But that was neither here nor there. If anyone was going to stop him it would be Colonel O'Neill.

Lantash was trying to get him to stop. Lantash was all Martouf could hear as he continued to shoot. Then Martouf saw Samantha shoot him with a zat'nik'atel. Suddenly, he was reaching for the self-destruct. He was going to die.

Lantash, he thought, Lantash, you must go on. Protect Samantha.

Lantash was livid. You must not leave me Martouf! I need you. Samantha needs you, please do not leave us!

Martouf knew he had only one chance, one chance to fix everything. So he turned to the woman he loved and with all his remaining strength he pleaded, "Samantha…" then the shot came and there was peace.

After an extremely draining day – both emotionally and physically – he and Carter had finally been cleared of being Xanexexes… or whatever. Then the thought dawned on Carter: Martouf hadn't been tested.

They ran down the halls of the SGC, hoping to get there before Marty went psycho, but they were too late. When they got there he was already shooting up the gateroom with some weird ass alien ring thingy.

Now what? Jack thought. He knew that Carter would have a hard enough time if Marty died, but she was the only one there with a zat. It was pretty obvious she'd have to be the one… and there it was – she shot him once. Then Marty started reaching for the ring/gun.

What in the hell? It must be the self-destruct, like Major Graham. Then that rat bastard asked Carter for the one thing no one thought she could do.

"Samantha..." He wanted her to kill him.

No way! Carter'd have a hell of a time trying to live through that! But she did it. Poor Carter.