Chapter 10

Alex and Scott both got off on level 27 to go to the briefing room. They both walked into the briefing room and sat down and made conversation with their teammates waiting for General O'Neill.

"So how are you holding up?" Sam asked Alex sitting across the table from her.

"Ok, I guess," Alex replied, "I am still trying to shake the memory."

"I believe you will pull through this Alex Rivers," Teal'c said from sitting next to Sam.

"Thanks, Teal'c," Alex replied, O'Neill walked in.

"So, what the heck happened?" He asked sitting down at the head of the large mahogany table.

"Well, we were captured by Ba'al's forces and then Alex got taken and interrogated." Scott replied to the General's question.

"And why was Rivers so pissed off when she got home?" O'Neill fired at Alex.

"Well, Ba'al interrogating technique was a little different this time, then the last times." Alex started then continued, "He used some sort of advanced memory recall device to make me remember a memory from about 10 years back."

"Was it a difficult one for you to remember?" O'Neill asked seeing tears well up in Alex's eyes.

"Yeah," Alex said taking a short deep breath and then once again, "If you've read my file, then you know what I'm talking about."

"Yeah, I do," O'Neill said, "The crash, 97,"

"Yeah," Alex muttered as tears started falling down her face, Scott embraced her in a hug.

"Shh…" Scott said reassuringly as he held onto the back of Alex's head.

Alex leaned back into her chair and wiped some of the tears from her face, "I'm sorry, it's just hard for me to recall that particular memory."

"It's ok, why don't you and Scott go back to your quarters, I think Sam, Daniel and Teal'c can handle it from here." O'Neill said reaching over and patting Alex's shoulder.

"Thank you, sir," Alex said standing up wiping more tears from her face.

"We'll see you guys tomorrow," Sam said discreetly waving at the two.

Alex and Scott walked out of the room and into their quarters, Alex fell onto the bed. Scott went over to the other side of the bed and picked up his wife's shoulders and then rested them on his lap.

"Are you sure you're ok?" Scott asked brushing some of Alex's hair out of her face.

"Yeah, I think so," Alex said and then started crying again, "It's just every time I close my eyes I see the image of me and Cameron hitting the ground and then nothing."

"Hey, hey, hey…" Scott said quickly propping Alex up and wrapping his arms around her, "Don't start crying again, I don't like it when you cry,"

"Sorry, I don't know what's come over me, I'm just a wreck today,"

"It's not your fault, you're not the once that dug up that memory, Ba'al did." He replied releasing Alex from the hug and wiping some tears from her face.

"I'm going to go work on a translation that has been waiting for me to get my mind off things." Alex said looking down at her watch and realizing it was 1845, "Actually, Cam wants me at 1900, I'm going to head to the infirmary and see if he's been released."

"Ok, sweetheart, I'm going to finish my mission report." Scott said picking up his laptop from the side table and opening it.

"See ya later," Alex said walking out of the room.

Alex arrived at the infirmary and was informed that Cameron had already been released. She walked toward the elevator and before the doors shut all the way she stepped in, Cameron had apparently just been released because he was in the elevator.

"Hey," Alex said, the doors to the elevator closed, and she wrapped her arms around her commanding officer.

"Hey, Sunshine," Cam said setting the bag down in his hands and wrapping his arms around Alex, "Still planning on coming to my quarters?"

"Of course, that's where I was just headed." Alex replied.

"Ok, let's go," Cameron said picking up the bag he put on the ground and walking out of
elevator with Alex.

When they reached his quarters they both walked in and Alex shut the door. Cameron sat down on the couch and Alex said next to him. He put his arm around her shoulder and she leaned into him.

"So, how are you holding up?" Cameron asked Alex.

"Not amazingly."

"Are you ok?"

"Not really, but I'll live, I did last time." Alex replied, tears started streaming down her face as she recalled the events of the crash in her mind.

Cameron wrapped his arms around her and held her, Alex wrapped her arms under his arms and around and rested her hands on his shoulders. Alex, after fifteen minutes of crying, cried herself to sleep.