Part 10

"I'm going to head west AJ. Knowing Harm he would have flown into the sun to blind those guys down there." Boone yelled over the gun fire. He knew Harm's dad and Harm was just like Hammer, right down to that grin of his.

"What ever you think Tom. You would know Harm better in this situation."

Daniel managed to get a couple of those guys down there. It's sad to think he was getting good at shooting. All those missions where they ran into enemy fire helped a lot.

"Take that you son of Bitch!" Mad Dog yelled. "And that's for shooting my best friend you sorry bastard!" Mad Dog was one crazy SOB, but if you needed someone to back you up and get out safely, you called him. AJ just shook his head and told Daniel not to worry about Dog, when Daniel was giving him a funny look while bandaging AJ up.

"He's fine, Daniel, you don't need to be concerned. He may seem crazy, but he's not. He only acts that way; it drove our CO's into early graves." AJ chuckled as he recalled some of the things that Dog did.

"What kind of Doctor are you? I thought it wasn't a medical one. How did you get so good at fixing injuries?" He asked him after he stopped laughing.

"Well, Danny boy use to be accident prone when we first met. He had been in the infirmary so often that he should be a medical doctor by now." Jack said turning around while smirking. "We should be okay for awhile. They won't catch up to us anytime soon."

"Gee, thanks a lot Jack, but he is right. I probably should be a medical doctor or at least a medic." Daniel replied shaking his head. Thank goodness those days are over, being around the SGC the last few years, well except for being ascended, helped.

"Where is it you work that you were accident prone?" Farrow asked.

"We work at Cheyenne Mountain, a lot of stairs." Ferriti said.

"Hey, that looks like a plane down there!" Yelled Dog who was leaning over the side.

"Is there anyplace to land this bird, gentlemen?" AJ asked.

"Yes, there is a dirt road about half mile from here but one of us should stay here and keep anyone from stealing the Helo." Jack said as he was landing on the road.

"Sounds good, but who?" Asked Boone.

"Dog, you stay here, you're scarier to look at then the rest of us. They take one look at your face and they will run the other way screaming." Laughed AJ, he knew Dog wouldn't take offense, he did have a face like a bull dog, hence the nick name.

"Sure, Hoss, but you owe me big time." Dog called back to him as they were hiking into the forest. He knew it wasn't true, Dog owed AJ ten times over. If he hadn't pulled him out of that firefight back in Nam, he would never have made it home to see his sons born. He never figured out how he did that, he had been shot too and it looked worse then his. There was so much blood on AJ; it was a wonder he made it out of there himself. No, Dog owed him a lifetime over.

Same Time

Crash Site

Paraguay

Harm slowly got himself sitting up. He looked around, but didn't see Mac lying where he last saw her. 'She was lying on the ground a few minutes ago. At least I think it was few minutes. I could really use Mac's sense of timing right about now. I wonder if she gone to get help. She seemed okay when I looked over the side of the plane to check on her. Her chest was rising maybe a little shaky, but she was breathing.'

'God Mac, I hope you're safe and come back here soon. I tried to get up and go to you but I must have fallen out and blacked out.' "Dad, please look after Mac for me. Keep her safe and out of Sadik's hands." Harm said as he looked to the sky.

He practically jumped out of his skin when he heard the gun fire. "Oh, God, don't let that be them getting Mac." 'What am I going to do? I can't do anything to help and my gun is missing.'

'What am I going to do if I lose her? She is my best friend and I do care for her. I didn't even think I told her, but I must have, she knows how I feel about her. Doesn't she? But that kiss she gave to Clay, what was that about? I guess I lost her to him. I knew I should have come out and let Mac know how I feel about her when I had the chance. Why didn't I? I had so many opportunities, but something always stopped me. Why?'

'I have to get out of here somehow. My mom would not be able to handle losing me like this, just like my dad, not knowing for sure if I was really gone.'

"Please, dad, help us get out, or help to send someone to us!" Just as Harm finished saying that he heard what sounded like a Helio. 'Could it be Sadik, or hopefully our rescue, but how would I know for sure. I'll go crawl over into those bushes and hide. I just hope it's the Calvary.'

So with that thought he crawled on his hands and knees to hide as best as he could. By the time he managed to crawl across to the other side, he was sweating and weak.

'Wow, I haven't been this dizzy since that drinking binge when Diane was murdered. That seems like a lifetime ago instead of eight years. I do miss Diane. I was in love with her hoping to be married to her, and have a child, or two or three. If only I met her there instead of her coming to meet me, but I can't live in what ifs, they never help.'

He tried to keep as quiet as possible when he heard movement to the left. There was a tall grey hair guy in camouflage walking toward the plane with an automatic weapon pointing ahead. Another guy with short dirty blond hair wearing glasses who came up behind him with another guy right behind him.

Soon three others came into view and what a view. Harm could not believe that both Admirals and Farrow would come looking for them.

"Sirs! Over here!" Harm had called to them.

AJ looked over to where he had heard Harm calling them. He saw that Harm was under some bushes and looking beat up. "Rabb! What the hell happened down here! And where is the Colonel?" He was getting scared. He didn't see her anywhere and not liking what he was concluding.

Harm looked into AJ's eyes. He answered with anxiety and uncertainty. "I'm not sure sir. When I had first awakened, I saw the Colonel laying on the ground out cold. She was breathing and had a cut on the side of her head. I climbed out of the plane to go to her but must have blacked out when I landed on the ground. I just work up about half an hour or so to find that Mac wasn't here. I don't know what happened. I'm sorry sir, I tried to get them out of here alive, but I'm not sure if Webb and Gunny made it to safety, or where Mac is."

"Harm, you did great, you got the stingers, and Gunny did get Webb to a hospital. They are on there way home as we speak. Though I had to order Gunny home, he wanted to come for Mac, but I already had one Marine and a retired one too. Now, we just need to track down Mac. I'm guessing that the Colonel went the opposite way of Sadik and his men, so we should go this way." AJ said pointing to the east.

Boone had come over, asking Harm if he could stand. When he received a negative, he called Jack over. "We're going to have to carry him out. Then we can come back to help them search for Mac." Boone radioed to Dog to let him know that they were coming and not to shot. With Dog, he would shoot first, and then ask questions later.

AJ, Daniel, Farrow and Ferriti decided to go in pairs to search a wider area. AJ and Daniel teamed up leaving Farrow and Ferriti to be partners, which left Jack and Boone to stick together.

To be continued…