Part of him wanted to go and see Daniel but he had decided it may not be the best idea as went he'd spoken to Daniel he hadn't felt much warmth from the archaeologist he didn't know why Daniel had seamed so cool with him. Danny hadn't been cold but there was something that had changed.
Left with no choice he went to see Sam. She was the only one who spoke to him the same way she had seven years ago.
He put it down to a need to know what would happen to him but there was something more to it. He pushed these thoughts out his mind and headed to Sam's lab or at least where he believed Sam's lab to be.
On arrival he believed he'd found the wrong lab. There was a man their who he didn't know.
"Excuse me do you know where I could find Carter?" Jack asked staring at the man before him.
"Yeah she went for coffee but she'd be back anytime now." Rodney replied reading something.
"She went for coffee?"
"Yes coffee pots empty and you can't work if you don't have coffee."
"Ok and who are you exactly?"
"Doctor Rodney McKay."
"Ok and why are you in Carter's lab."
"Well she needs me."
"Why would that be."
"Because one I'm way smarter than she is and two she's my girlfriend."
Jack felt his blood boil. This man wasn't Sam's type. He could be. He seamed arrogant and wasn't that attractive.
"I'm your what." A voice asked from the doorway.
Rodney's face changed. when he'd been talking to Jack he'd looked confident and arrogant but now he looked like he wanted to run and hide.
"I was only joking."
"Well it wasn't funny. McKay is trying to help me figure out a way to send you home." Sam said turning her head towards Jack for a moment and the back to Rodney to see his reaction.. She then watched a Rodney practically ran from her lab. It was then that they both began to feel uncomfortable.
"So what are you doing here sir." She asked as she place the coffee on her desk. She as avoiding eye contact with Jack for as long as possible.
"Well I wanted to ask how it was going."
"Not very well. We'd don't really have a clue how to get you home. We've never had something like this before. I mean we've had quite a few problems with other realties but aside from seven years ago all the other realties have been very close to our own, meaning there were very few differences and those differences were not that major. So it was easy to send them back but this time the differences are very blatant. . SG-4 went to the planet to see not long after you arrived to see if they could see any abnormalities. But they found nothing out of the ordinary. No abnormalities or anomalies. It was just a plain ordinary planet. Just fields and fields as far as the eye could see and then even further. There was nothing to suggest what brought you here."
"Yeah that's what we saw when we got here"
"How have you been coping?" Sam asked offering Jack coffee which was readily accepted.
"Well enough. Its hard. No one trusts me and the one person I can talk to is dying."
"I hope she won't die, if that's an consolation and we are working hard to get you home but I have be honest and say that I'm not confident I'll manage this."
"I though you could do anything." Jack said trying to be funny. The Sam Carter he knew would never gave up."
"I can't do anything. I hate that people think that. You blow up one sun and suddenly you can walk on water."
"You blew up a sun?"
"Yeah a few years ago to destroy of fleet of Gould ships."
"Did it work?"
"For the most part."
"How's Skaara?"
"Skaara?"
"yeah you said in the infirmary a few days ago that Skaara was saved but you never said what happened after that."
"Well we had this enemy called Anubis and he went to Abydos to get this device called the eye of Ra and he then destroyed the planet but just before he did the people were give help to ascend like the ancients. So he's gone now. They all are." Sam answered. Jack could see the sadness in her eyes just like in the infirmary and he had to fight even harder not to hug her and kiss her.
"Oh right. How did Danny cope with it?"
"Don't know he was ascended himself at the time and was punished for his actions on the day so when he came back he didn't remember. It took him a while to get his memories back."
"Why did Daniel ascend?"
"he died after massive exposure to radiation."
"But he'd fine now?"
"Yes he is."
"How close is he with Mitchell?" Jack knew he was asking a strange question but his hate got the Lt. Colonel was extreme.
"Their friends maybe best friends. The talk about things. They have guy conversations I think but I'm not sure what they talk about when I'm not there. I have a suspicion that they talk about everyone." She answered. Jack could see something in her face that said the men had been talking about her.
"And you and Mitchell?" Jack asked unsure about why he asked it but it was out before he thought it over.
"Me and Cam? We're mates."
"How can you stand him?"
"Cam's a great guy Sir and I don't know why you seam to hate him so much."
"I don't know. Sam thinks I'm jealous." It felt very strange to be looking at Sam and talking about Sam. I was all very confusing.
"Maybe you are. I mean Cam's the person you used to be."
"What you mean?"
"Well he's head of SG-1 and Teal'c and Daniel's best friend."
Jack didn't answer her but he put his next action down to his jealous over Cameron Mitchell and the fact that he wasn't to hold on to a part of his past. But that was untrue he did what he did because he wanted to. Jack leaned over and touched his lips to Sam's…
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