A/N: Sorry this has taken so long. Worked another story that had to be finished by a certain time. Now I am working on this one and "Cassie and Kyle". Hope you enjoy the tid bit that I have wrote about Jack O'Neill. Hopefully he will understood better.

Debbie

P.S. For disclaimers see chapter one

Chapter Thirteen

Everyone turned to see a wobbly General standing against the door jam.

Sara turned her maternal instincts to the General, "What are you doing out of the med bay?"

"Wanted to take a walk?" Jack asked innocently. He knew he wouldn't get by with his innocent look from Cassie or Ratchet but he was hoping for some pity from Sara.

"Sorry General, it doesn't work with me either. I have a husband and a toddler who do the exact same thing, to which I tell them to go back to bed. So your tactic is not going to work, although I do appreciate you and your insight where my husband is concerned, but I am not going to go against Ratchet or Cassie in this. You need rest and it's back in the med bay for you." In so saying Sara looped her arm through Jack's and let him back to the infirmary.

Jack O'Neill's face was comical to the two leaders. They snickered. One in his hand and the other vibrated the floor just a little. If Will knew Jack O'Neill he would have seen the look on his face of payback when the time arose but for now he was content in being led back to the infirmary.

Once Jack and Sara arrived at Ratchet's med bay you could hear Cassie explaining to Ratchet about her 'Uncles' escape tactics. When Jack and Sara opened the door to the med bay, Cassie looked at her patient with concern.

Cassie let into her 'Uncle' for escaping, "What were you thinking taking off like that?"

Chapter Fourteen

Ratchet watched his counterpart, as the humans would say 'ripped a new one' into General Jack O'Neill. It was a most interesting sight. He never knew that there was a human version of himself until met Cassandra Frasier. She had the spitfire of any transformer corpsman. What brought Ratchet back to the present was O'Neill's answer to Cassandra's question.

"I wanted to make sure everyone was alright after my conversation with the brass."

Cassie was fuming, "You could've done that when you were deemed well enough by myself or Ratchet."

To hide his emotions of embarrassment he gave Cassie an eye roll and indignantly said under his breathe, "Napoleon power monger."

Cassie barely made it to Ratchet's mini computer that he let base personnel use, when she heard his comment, she smirked and yelled the same thing her mother said to him so many years ago, "I heard that."

Jack started grumbling about docs and their high falutant ways.

Cassie turned to look at Ratchet to see his demeanor change from cordial to somewhat steamed. She immediately went to him and put her hand on his leg to one, get his attention and two, to calm him down.

Ratchet looked at Cassie who had a hold of his leg and raised part of his metal plating as if to ask, "What?"

Cassie smirked and shook her head, "Ratchet his bark is worse than his bite," she watched his face become clueless, "Another words he is hiding behind a mask of embarrassment and tiredness. Underneath that gruff exterior is man who is caring, loving, and a kid at heart. He thinks he is not worthy of someone caring for him. He would rather be worrying about his team than himself."

"Which in turn makes him a great leader," said a soft voice that came from the entrance of the infirmary.

Cassie looked up to see Optimus Prime standing quietly just inside the infirmary and shook her head yes, "I don't know how many times my mother would try to shoo the General out of her infirmary when he was just a Colonel after one of his team was either injured slightly or worse. He would sleep in a chair next to one of the team member's bed the whole time just so that someone would be there when that particular team member awoke. To use a phrase that my 'Uncle' has used, 'Dollars to donuts' you will find that each member of the team will be in here sitting with him the next few days. Daniel will probably read a archeology book to him, Sam will hold his hand, Teal'c will be standing stoically at the foot of the bed, Mitchell will be in here to support his team mates and Vala will be in here to take over for Sam when she gets too tired. By the end of Thursday I will be shooing him to his quarters or shooing everyone else out so that he can get some rest. I am leaning toward the first of those two. The team respects him and he respects them. A lot of the military would say in one sentence, 'we've got his six'. They won't leave him behind even when he is in here getting well."

That very long statement surprised Ratchet and Optimus. They had, had teammates wanting to come in to sit by there sides. After Cassie's long explanation everything about the military ingrained into Ironhide and few of the others, they were beginning to understand the necessity it was for comrades to encourage each other, especially when one was injured.

"Cassie you have given us a lot to think about in the next few days or hours," Ratchet said with a thoughtful expression on his 'face'.

"Your welcome. Now I'm going to put this list of personnel in the computer of who can see him and cannot and then I will give it Optimus, Ironhide, Lt. Colonel Lennox and you Ratchet. That way if we have a problem in the next few days it will be taken care of."

"Much appreciated," Ratchet said as he sat down at his desk and began thinking all about what Cassie had said in the last 10 minutes or so. It was going to be an interesting afternoon.