The water was turning cold, Jack snapped it off and grabbed a towel handing it to Sam. When she didn't reach for it he looked at her. So small and broken he thought to himself and for the first time he feared this might be the one that breaks her..."Sam?" He said softly. " I can't move my arms, nothing will work..." She started crying softly he wrapped the towel and his big arms around her and whispered in her ear " your heart works , your mind works, your body will soon too I promise." He lifted her slightly walking towards her locker. He took the towel away and looked at her, she nodded in permission and he reached around and unclipped her suit letting it fall. "Can you stand a moment if you hold onto my shoulders?" She nodded again and he brought her hands up to him. She slid them around his neck and they both glanced at each other again, nothing said no words needed...Jack took the towel and dried off her body then placed it on the bench and helped her down as he pulled away to stand she fell a tender kiss on her forehead.

As he collected her clothes he knew he had to ask. "Sam, where you trying to...? NO no I swear no...I wanted toforget the pain for just a little while." He understood this, after Iraq he practically made a trench in his favourite running path. Then he had a terrible thought..."how long were you in there ?" Again she was studying the tile floor then a whisper "midnight" He looked at her in shock "MIDNIGHT? AT THAT PACE? WHAT IF YOUD BLACKED OUT EARLIER? WHAT IF I HAD WALKED A DIFFERENT HALLWAY? WHAT IF..." He stopped, her shoulders were shaking she was quietly sobbing listening to him yell. " Damn it Sam I'm sorry but you scared me to death, if anything happened to you I...she was looking at him now...I couldn't survive it. I know I couldn't." He silently continued to dress her while she absorbed what was just said. He reached for her hair brush " I can do that Jack, go change you're shivering." He hadn't noticed he was too focused on her so he retreated the few steps to his locker stopping at the base phone and making 3 short calls when he was out of her view. Suddenly he heard "OH MY GOD" in almost a wail. He slid on water from the shower trying to get to her. "THE CAMERAS she yelled at him THE SECURITY CAMERAS SAW EVERYTHING!" She was close to hyperventilating when he wrapped his arms around her and held her tightly. " It's ok Sam shh it's ok I promise. Can you hear me? I promise it's been taken care of, it's ok. Slow down Sam breathe with me.." That had been one of his phone calls...the security office.

They stayed like that for several minutes listening to each other's breathing. She had settled just having the occasional shutter. "Let's get outta here huh?" He said into her hair. She nodded and they headed towards the surface.