Chapter 2

Samantha Carter was asleep in the arms of her lover, Cameron Mitchell, with the phone on her cell phone started ringing. Rustling herself up from a pleasant dream, Sam reached over and looked at the display on the phone. Seeing that it was the SGC calling Sam flipped open the phone and answered, "Colonel Carter." The man to her left awoke from his slumber and listened to his lover as she answered the phone.

"Colonel, this is Sgt. Harriman." Walter spoke into the phone. "I know this is highly irregular ma'am, but I wanted to let you know that Dr. Jackson just turned in his resignation."

"Oh god, what…when…why?" Samantha demanded over the phone in shock that was quickly turning to anger. Hearing his lover becoming upset, Cameron sat up in bed looking worried.

"The letter did not say why ma'am, just that he was turning in his resignation effective immediately." Sgt. Harriman replied. "General Landry was not in to receive it, I saw Dr. Jackson go into his office about 0230 this morning and then leave. I thought it odd so I went in and found the letter in a folder on the General's desk. I called you because I could not reach Colonel Mitchell at his home and I felt someone of SG1 should be informed…ma'am, he looked to be depressed when he left."

"Thanks Walter." Sam said throwing the blankets back and jumping out of bed. "I will look into this right away." Sam hung up her phone starting to pull on the clothes from the night before.

"Sam, what is going on?" Cam asked seeing his lover getting dressed and seeming to be very upset.

"It's Daniel…he just turned in his resignation." Sam said feeling hurt and angry. "That was Walter, he said that he saw Daniel go into the General's office and leave immediately after, this was at 0230. God, he said that Daniel was depressed."

Jumping out of bed and pulling on his own clothes, Cam started becoming pissed as well. "I am not letting you go over to his place by yourself, and I want to find out what the heck his problem is as well."

Dr. Lam slammed the phone down on the receiver and rushed out of the infirmary towards the elevator. If what the SF had just reported to her was true, she had better get to Daniel's place quickly. She knew that he did not want to fight this thing, but maybe she could change his mind and help. Damn, she should have known that things were worse than what he had admitted to. What was it that General O'Neill had always said, "If Daniel admits to feeling bad…it is a hundred times worse." Double damn. Hearing the pounding of feet behind her, Carolyn knew that one of the orderlies on duty was following her.

Reaching the elevator and punching the button to go up, Lam turned to the orderly following her and informed him that they were headed to Dr. Jackson's on an emergency. She was relieved to see that he had grabbed one of the medical duffels on his way out…man was she losing her head. Dr. Lam was squeezing into the elevator right after the door started opening and slammed the button for level 11.

Cameron and Samantha were sitting in Cam's Mustang waiting for a light to change. Sam was fretting and so obviously upset that Cam did not know what to do. "Why would Daniel do this?" Sam kept mumbling to herself.

"Sam, when was the last time you talked to Jackson, maybe he said something about this before now?" Cam asked trying to distract his lover.

"Uh…I don't know…I guess it has been a while since he and I talked." Sam answered distractedly. "I guess it was about a month or so ago."

"A month, Sam, are you sure it has been about a month?" Cam asked starting to get a bad feeling.

"Yeah, that is right." Sam said starting to think back to recall the last time she had spent talking to Daniel. "It was right after you and I …."

"You and I started dating." Cam finished slamming his palms against the stirring wheel. "Did you and Jackson ever talk about how you feel about one another?"

"What, no. We are best friends, like brother and sister." Sam said looking confused. "Why would you ask that?"

All further conversation stopped as Sam and Cam saw a military ambulance rushing in the direction that they were waiting to turn. The brief look that they both saw into the front cab had Dr. Lam in the passenger seat. "Damn!" Cam shouted hitting the accelerator. "Oh God!" Sam exclaimed in fear.