Title: More Than You
Category: Sam and Jack established relationship. Hints of Daniel/Janet, Daniel/Sarah. Oh, and it now seems that some Lorne/OC is developing!
Spoilers/Season: Takes place after MT5, set in the middle to end of season 7.
Rating: PG13
Content Warnings: Maybe some mild peril, canon character death.
Summary: He rescued her from the clutches of Osiris, but now for the real tests to begin. They can never be on SG-1 together again despite the missions still needing them, but that's okay because Sam and Jack have each other at home. Don't they? And together, they can face all the problems that are just run of the mill for the SGC, right?
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Comments: The More Than Universe spins off from canon after Entity and this story is similar to More Than Mini, where I am taking it episode by episode until the next story I've written! This is now technically an alternate universe. The episodes involved in here start with Revisions and work up to just before Lost City. Please note, certain elements of the show remain true in this fic (Heroes), but I don't intend on too many differences. Other characters are going to start playing a larger part, so it's not all purely Sam/Jack, sorry! Part way through this, there's a spin off dealing with Major Lorne, which doesn't need to be read to make this make sense.
Previously: Sam and Jack had been living together platonically and just as they consider becoming more than friends, Osiris kidnapped Sam. Jack then led an unauthorised mission through the Stargate to rescue her where SG-1 walked straight into Osiris' trap. Having taken her as a host, Osiris used Sam's body to torture her team-mates and then the Goa'uld was killed, leaving Sam free for Jack's rescue. Joining SG-1 on their escape was Sarah Gardner, also free of Osiris, but not of a healthy mind. They returned home and Sam and Jack decided to give their relationship a go, to become a normal family with their daughter.
Revisions
"Colonel?" Jack looked up and smiled at Janet Fraiser as she entered her own infirmary. He had only been there a few minutes, waiting for her to return. "Is everything okay, sir?"
"Yeah, just wanted a chat really."
"A chat, sir?" Only in the past year had it become so clear to Jack just how military Janet was. Sometimes it bypassed him because she was the base doctor and then because of how close she was to Sam. Janet always maintained her ranks and regulations. The strain between Sam and Janet had been clear recently.
"I wanted to thank you."
"For what?"
"Helping me out when Sam was missing." He noticed a look cross her face when he used Sam's first name. It was something everyone would have to get used to because things were different now. For almost a year Jack and Sam had been living together platonically to raise their daughter, but the feelings they had always tried to hide had become too strong. A month had passed since Sam's return from her ordeal at the hands of Osiris and they had done a lot of talking in that month. Jack had always had faith in Sam to be able to lead her own SG team, but he had reluctantly wanted her to be apart from him on missions. It was his manly way of protecting the woman he cared for, but it could not happen anymore. It would only be on the rarest of occasions that they would both be allowed off world to the same location. General Hammond would not happily risk either of them making the wrong decision due to the other's presence.
"She's my best friend."
"Yeah, but you didn't need to bring Cassie in. Or agree with Jacob taking her." After Sam had been kidnapped, Jack had led an unauthorised mission through the Stargate to rescue her and requested that Jacob take Cassie and Daniella off world to keep them safe. Jack was well aware that he had made a parental decision on someone else's child.
"She was safer with him than here. And she loves Daniella like a sister. She sees you and Sam as family, too." Those times had always been the most awkward – when Janet and Cassie had visited for the day with Daniel and Teal'c, sometimes General Hammond and his family. Even before everything had changed with Daniella's arrival, Janet had always referred to Jack as Colonel outside of work. Jack had expected it to change as Sam had, but Janet still called him Colonel all of the time. "I couldn't have kept her away even if I wanted to."
"You didn't need to be as kind as you were. Thank you."
He could see her bite her tongue to prevent a comment spilling out, something that would not be wise given his higher rank. Instead she asked, "How does it feel to not be off world with SG-1?"
"Incredibly… odd," Jack admitted. After Sam had been cleared to return to active duty and Hammond had made it clear that he was not going to record Jack and SG-1's unauthorised actions, Jack and Sam had taken equal ownership of SG-1. During Sam's ordeal, Jack had witnessed his daughter's utter devastation and he had been unable to help her. Despite his off world duties already having been decreased, there were still times where Jack barely knew his own daughter. He had almost lost Sam and he was not about to lose his daughter. It was one of the parting comments that Jacob had made: "You only get one shot to raise that girl and only one shot with my daughter. Take it from me, I know, don't screw up either of them." He wanted to be with Sam and he wanted to be a more hands on father.
"It's a routine mission though, isn't it?"
Jack nodded. "And right down Sam's technological street." It was a run of the mill mission and should take no longer than a few days. A doddle, in normal SG-1 terms, but it did not change how Jack felt. He had worried about telling SG-1 his plans to step down from as many front line duties, but no one had questioned him. Jack had a sneaking suspicion that Daniel was somewhat pleased. It was Sam that had worried him the most. Jack's internal decision had come before they sat down and discussed it, without the rest of the team. His primary concern was that Sam, too, was going to want to spend more time at home. She had not. "There's still a Goa'uld out there that did this to me. I'm going to find him and, part Ascended being or not, I'm going to destroy him." It was a bit angrier than Jack was used to seeing Sam, but he could understand given the circumstances. Sam needed something on which to focus her pain.
"Clearly something's not sitting right with you, Colonel."
"I know she's a patient and not under my chain of command, so I have no right to ask-"
"Then don't," Janet warned.
Ignoring her, Jack continued, "I'm worried that it's all too soon. For Sam. For what she went through. Do you really think she's ready?"
"From our limited research into post-blending affects," Janet spoke carefully and clearly diplomatically, "it can take a few weeks for full physical health to return."
"I'm not talking physically, doc. Sarah's nuts." Osiris' original host, Sarah Gardner, was still suffering mentally from the effects of being blended.
"Sarah Gardner was a host for an incredibly extended period of time. You, yourself, Colonel, had a blending within the past year with no long suffering effects."
That she was aware of, Jack thought to himself ignoring any feelings that surfaced within him with regards to Kanan. "She hurt her friends. Her family."
"I am not her psychologist."
"I guess, if you notice anything?"
"If I have any doubts about Major Carter's health of mind, I will let General Hammond know." She paused for a moment. "And you if I feel it requires. You're the one most likely to notice anything different about her."
"And what should I be looking out for?"
"You know the warning signs, Colonel. You know the coping mechanisms, the separation. You're probably the best person to be as close as you are. If you ever have any concerns or doubts, you can speak to me, but I may not always be able to answer or promise to not inform the general."
He nodded for a long few moments and then randomly said, "I miss them all, you know?"
"I've spent over six years watching and waiting for you, your team and all the others. So, yes, I know."
"Even Daniel. If this were normal downtime for SG-1, he'd be pestering me every ten minutes with a new discovery, a new planet we really *must* visit."
Smiling, Janet responded with one word and a forced deeper voice. "Indeed."