Chapter 11
Cameron eventually fell asleep with Alex in his arms. Alex woke up five hours later and sat up, waking Cameron up.
"Hey," Cameron said sleepily opening his eyes to see Alex.
"Hey, what time is it?" Alex said groggily.
Cameron looked down at his watch, "two am, why?"
"Scott is probably worried sick!" Alex said concerned.
"Hey," Cameron said grabbing her making her look at him, "I called him before I feel asleep, he knows you're here, and ok,"
"Oh," Alex sighed in relief, "Thanks,"
"No problem," Cameron said wrapping his arm around Alex's shoulder pulling her back toward him, "Now go back to sleep, we have a big day tomorrow,"
"No, I can't sleep," Alex said closing her eyes and shaking her head, "Every time I close my eyes I see the crash,"
"Hey," Cameron said caringly, "I'm right here; you seemed to sleep fine before."
"That was because I wasn't trying to sleep, it just kind of happened." She replied resting her head up against her commanding officers body.
"Just try, ok?" Cameron said gently pushing some of Alex's hair out of her face.
"Ok," Alex said obediently, she relaxed her head against Cameron and fell asleep, but only for about half an hour before she woke up, out of breath.
"Hey, what's wrong?" Cameron asked hearing his teammate in distress.
"The crash!" Alex almost screamed.
"Shh, shh, shh…" Cameron said quickly embracing Alex tightly against his body.
"I just want the nightmares to stop!" Alex said crying into his chest, the words muffled by his body.
"It's ok, shh…" Cameron said comfortingly, patting her back.
"I'm sorry, I'm an emotional wreck." Alex said sitting up and wiping tears from her face.
"Its fine, I just hate to see you this way." Cameron said smiling, trying to cheer her up.
"I should just quit and live a normal life." Alex said, acting rationally.
"NO!" Cameron said sternly, "I won't let you do that!"
"Why?" Alex asked as she became more depressed as she talked about it, "My life is already ruined."
"It is not!" Cameron said quietly wrapping his arms around Alex again, he whispered into her ear, "You have people that love you, you have Daniel, me, and most importantly, you have Scott."
"I guess, but still, every time I close my eyes I see it, I don't know if I'm cut out to be on SG-1" Alex said with self-doubt in her voice.
"You are; you are the best there is!" Cameron said then added as a side thought, "You're pretty darn cute to."
Alex giggled, Cameron was happy to see her smile. "I guess,"
"Yes, now, you need to get some sleep, we have to be up in an hour, and you have a translation to do!"
Alex leaned back up against Cameron and slept for an hour. When she woke up her head was resting on Cameron's lap, she sat up and woke up Cameron.
"Time to get up!" Alex said happily.
"Uhg…" Cameron said groaning as he opened his eyes, "Good to see you in a better mood."
"Yeah, I guess you really slapped some reality into me." Alex said grabbing his hand, "Thanks," she bent over and kissed him on his cheek, "See you later."
Alex stood up and walked back to her quarters where Scott was still sleeping. She climbed into bed next to him, he woke up.
"Hey, Sweetheart," Scott said wrapping his arms around her and gently kissing her.
"Hey," Alex replied when Scott released the kiss.
"Feeling better?"
"Yeah,"
"Cameron always did have that effect on you," Scott said with a taste of jealously in his voice, but he was happy that his wife was feeling better.
"Well, as nice as this is," Alex said, "I have a translation that SG-15 want me to get movin' on, I probably won't see you at all today, I have a lot of work to do."
"Ok," Scott said reluctantly, "Just promise me I get you tonight,"
Alex bent over and kissed Scott, "Of course,"
"Mmm..." Scott said as Alex released the kiss, "I love you,"
"Don't you forget it," Alex said laughing, and kissing him again.
Alex stood up and left the room heading down to her lab. When she arrived Daniel was sitting at her desk, looking at the artifact she had just been coming down to translate.
"Hi," Alex said purposely interrupting her brother, obviously deep in thought.
"Oh, hi," Daniel said looking up for a moment then looking back down at the artifact.
Alex and her brother both had a habit of starting a translation, then living on energy bars and coffee for days at a time. They both loved their job so much, they couldn't even take a break, they lost all sense of time and their surrounds, they were one with their translation as a lot of people on the base put it.
"How's the translation coming?" Alex said walking over to her brother and looking over his shoulder.
Daniel walked away and walked into his office across the hall, Alex felt neglected. Alex saw him looking at his bookshelf, and when he found what he was looking for, he pulled the book, and walked back over.
"This script," Daniel said pointing to the images of an ancient wall sitting on Alex's desk, "It's derived from Babylonian."
"Do we have a reference?" Alex said pulling her book on the Babylonian language.
"Hey," Daniel said looking up from the book he was looking in and looking at his sisters, "Let me see that,"
"Ok," Alex replied confused, handing her brother the book.
"Come here," He said walking back over to his office and logging into the computer and searching one of the words he had been referring to for the past hour he was working on the wall.
"Whad'ya find?" Alex said looking at the internet reference her brother just pulled up, "You've got to be kidding!"
"I don't think this is fake, where did SG-15 get those pictures?" Daniel asked looking up from the computer and at his sister.
"Um…" Alex rushing back to her lab, getting a file folder and briskly walking back to Daniel's lab. Alex opened up the report and looked inside, "P4X-557"
"We need to go there; we need to see these in person." Daniel said fascinated by his discovery.
"Do you think the Gou'ald have made this some very believable plot, to capture us, once again?" Alex said staring down at the mission report she had in her hand, "Well, this report says no signs of Gou'ald activity, but, that doesn't mean anything."
"We're not going to get captured by the Gou'ald again, got that," Daniel said taking the mission report from his sister's hands and placing his arms around her.
"Yes, Daniel," Alex said.
After releasing his little sister, Daniel and Alex both went back to reading their books, looking up every so often to write something down in a notebook, or look at a different book.
