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Here is chapter 10…finally. Thank you so much to Sammie77 who beta read the chapter. All mistakes or inaccuracies remaining are definitely mine.
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Chapter 10
Colorado Springs
Most of the tapes weren't of any use. They saw endless hours of empty corridors.
However, they managed to spot a few faces and isolate them to try to identify them.
After two hours they finally saw the first glimpse of Sam. She was unconscious and led into one of the room, a lab Jack remembered.
The tape indicated she stayed there for two hours before being brought in one of the cells.
It had been the first proof that they were on the right track. In a weird way it was a relief. They were finally going somewhere.
They decided to narrow their search. They would focus on the tapes from the lab and the two cells. Any tape showing another corridor would be left out…for now anyway.
They found the footage showing what happened to Sam in the lab and they all watched in horror.
She had been placed on a small bed in the centre of the room. Her vitals had been checked by a man in a lab coat. When he had made sure Sam was still okay he had simply nodded towards a corner of the room. They all assumed someone had been standing there waiting his turn.
Then they saw a man coming into view, carrying a small container.
He had carefully extracted a symbiote and gently led it to Sam's neck.
The members of the SGC weren't able to watch this happen. They either turned their heads or closed their eyes during the few seconds that were needed for Sam to be implanted.
They decided to make a pause in the viewing. They needed to clear their heads.
"That explains how she got the scar" Janet said
Somewhere
Memories came more and more often.
Sam had been embarrassed when the Broca virus incident came back to her. It proved that the attraction she felt for Jack had always been there. Even though she was under the influence of an alien virus at the time the choice of Jack O'Neill to be her mate had been done with very good reasons.
The small bit of logic left in her brain had told her he was the perfect mate. He was the alpha male. He was the leader of the pack.
Her instincts, led by her emotions, had told her she couldn't be with anyone else because he was the only one made for her.
She could vividly remember how easy it had been to make the decision to go to him and to seduce him.
It had been the first of their opportunities to know each other intimately.
Over the course of the years there had been just two occasions for them to advance in a relationship. There again, it was due to some alien exposure.
Their time as Jonah and Thera had been wonderful she mused.
Of course living in that underground facility had been far from easy. The work had been hard. The food had been hardly enough to sustain their tired and abused bodies.
And the place had been dangerous, very dangerous.
She had quickly realised it was a world dominated by brutal men who made the weakest submit to their will.
She wasn't weak. However as a female she had had to be always aware of her surroundings. She had had to make sure she was never alone.
The first days had been physically as well as emotionally exhausting.
Everything had changed when she met Jonah.
They had connected instantly.
The mind stamp they had suffered hadn't been able to erase the awareness of each other.
They had only left each other side to go to work. Even then they had managed to work together or at least in the same area of the compound as often as possible.
Whatever small amount of free time they had had was spent together.
They even had managed to find a place to sleep together.
However nothing inappropriate had happened between them. It had been another missed opportunity. They might have crossed the line if they had stayed there a bit longer but it hadn't been this way.
The Zatarc testing memory left her shaking with regret and anger.
They had admitted their feelings even though it had been in a somewhat cryptic way.
Then, they had both chickened out. They had quickly agreed to leave it in the room.
She couldn't believe they had been so foolish. She wondered why none of them ever resigned sooner considering what was between them.
Memories were coming back nicely and regularly. Sam was aware that the place where she was, the calm and peace were helping greatly. She still needed some time to understand fully who she was and what she wanted to do with her life. Staying a few more days couldn't hurt she thought.
When she came back she wanted to be able to make her own decisions and to decide what path she wanted to follow.
She was pretty sure by now that her future was beside Jack but she couldn't afford to be impulsive. There was too much at stake.
Colorado Springs
They had all resumed their sits in front of the video screen after a short but welcomed break. None would have admitted it but they all dreaded what they would discover in the remaining tapes.
The next main event they witnessed was the one Sam had remembered early after flying from Jack's.
They couldn't make out the man's face. His back was turned to them all the time.
Jack's blood boiled in anger and he stopped the viewing when what happened became obvious to everybody.
"She wasn't herself" Janet stated
Jack didn't think he could answer calmly and without snapping at Janet so he choose to remain silent.
It was Jacob who answered
"Obviously not, the symbiote had already taken over". Then turning "I'm sorry Jack, you know Sam. My daughter wasn't in control when this happened. We will find these guys and take care of them. I swear it to you Jack".
Jack simply nodded staring at the blank screen.
After a few minutes of silence that felt like hours to everyone General Hammond commanded
"Now that we know how Major Carter became pregnant we need to understand what happened next"
They went back to the tapes.
The next lab tape showed two men bringing Sam in. She was barely standing, clutching her belly.
They saw Sam giving birth. They saw the pain and the fear on her face as she faced this with strangers. They saw the most beautiful baby coming into this world and even though they didn't have the sound they noted he had obviously been screaming out of his lungs.
They saw the distress Sam went through when she hadn't been able to hold her baby. The child had been taken to another room straight away.
It tore their hearts.
How could people be this cruel?
Overwhelmed with emotions they didn't react at first when they saw in the next tape a man entering Sam's cell in a rush. He was agitated and he had a gun in his hand, ready to use it.
Daniel was the first one to react.
"Oh my god! Do you realise who this is?"