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"I'm tellin' ye I'm fine. I'm great, I'm fricken wonderful! Charlie's voice could be heard threw out the entire infirmary as Janet wheeled him back to his room.
"Charlie you are not fine!" Janet yelled back just as loud.
Charlie sighed, "So what's the damage, doc?"
"Well, luckily you didn't re-damage your ribs," Janet replied. "But, I'm going to have to keep you a few more days."
"A few more days! Are your Crazy? Cause that's the direction I'm heading, I'm bored out of my mind," Charlie exclaimed.
"You could find something to do," Janet replied trying to calm the young O'Neill down.
"Like what?" Charlie asked.
"You could talk to your father," Janet replied with the first thing that came to mind.
"About what?" Charlie had to ask.
"Anything, tell him about yourself, I'm sure he'd listen," Janet replied.
Charlie raised an eyebrow before he replied, "In case you haven't noticed we don't exactly do the whole talking thing well."
"Just think about it," Janet replied as she rolled him back into the hospital room.
"Where'd you go?" Jack asked as soon as Charlie and Janet entered the room.
"The doc decided she needed to torture me some more," Charlie replied with a grin.
"We just did an X-ray of his ribs to make sure they were healing right," Janet replied shooting a mock glare at Charlie.
"Good news, I hope," Jack replied.
"Janet says I'm fine," Charlie replied trying and failing to keep the grin off his face.
"Very funny Charlie," Janet replied. "I'll see you two later and Charlie, think about what I said."
"I'll try," Charlie offered as Janet left the room.
"Try what?" Jack asked after Charlie had settled himself in his bed.
Charlie was silent for a while before he finally asked, "So you really want to know about my girlfriends?"
"You mean the psychic one?" Jack asked, trying to be funny.
Normally Charlie would have realized Jack was just joking, but just trying to 'talk' had put him on the defensive.
"I was just being sarcastic," Charlie replied.
"Really, cause I never would have guessed," Jack replied grinning.
"Yeah, I wonder where I picked that up from," Charlie growled.
"Charlie, calm down," Jack replied trying to figure out what he had done this time.
"Don't tell me what to do," Charlie snapped.
Jack had had enough, "Don't raise your voice to me."
"You know you're a real Jackass."
"Why you little…"
"Little what? Huh, Dad?" Charlie said cutting Jack off.
"You are so grounded," It was the only thing that Jack could think to say.
"Grounded?" The word exploded from Charlie as he jumped out of bed causing Jack to do the same. "Oh, that's real funny. You never could ground me before, what makes you think you can now?"
"Charlie," Jack growled.
"Come on dad, you have to actually be around to ground someone," Charlie snapped.
Silence.
"Alright, I'm sorry! I know saving the planet is a hell of a lot more important than spending time with your kids," Charlie was heading for the door.
"Charlie, wait," Jack called, the anger gone.
"No, I don't need this crap," Charlie replied heading threw the door.
"Charlie!" Jack called out, but it was no use Charlie was already gone.
Jack collapsed back onto his bed trying to figure out what exactly had gone wrong. What Charlie had said had hurt and while Jack was sure it was aimed at an alternate version of himself it still hurt, mostly because he could see the truth in it.
"Alright Charlie, this should keep you busy," Janet was saying as she walked into the room leafing threw a bunch of papers. She looked up when she received no response, "Where's Charlie?"
"He took off," Jack replied. Suddenly he shot up, "What you didn't see him?"
"What did you do?" Janet demanded.
"We have to find him," Jack replied quickly getting out of bed.
"No, you're staying in bed. Don't worry, we'll find him," Janet replied adding "again" under her breath.
Janet picked up the handset on the wall next to the door, "We have a security breach in the infirmary."
"We found him," Daniel was briefing Jack in his hospital room.
"Where? Is he OK?" Jack demanded the worry evident in his words.
"He's at the cemetery," Daniel replied.
Before he could even add an explanation Jack cut in, "What? Is he Ok? How'd he get off base?"
"He's fine. He's just talking to himself," Daniel replied.
Jack looked concerned, "So he's crazy?"
Daniel realized how what he had said had sounded and quickly explained, "Sorry, He's at Charlie's grave. He's talking to, himself."
"Oh," Jack replied as he fell silent lost in his own thoughts.
"Jack? Are you OK?" Daniel's voice sounded worried.
"Yeah," Jack sighed. "How could I have been so stupid?"
Daniel didn't know what to say, but he was saved from answering from a voice at the door.
"Don't ye be beating yeself up over it. Charlie has always been one to turn to anger to avoid showin' his feelings. He's wantin' to get close to ye, don't ye doubt. He's just fears that he'll only loose ye again," King Ollom Hammersong explained as he walked into the room.
"King Hammersong, well met," Daniel said in greeting.
"What are you doing here?" Was the only greeting that Jack gave.
"Well met, Daniel, Jack," Ollom greeted. "I came to work on the treaty but it seems I can help in other ways."
Charlie was kneeling in front of a gravestone.
His gravestone.
"Well this is strange," Charlie sighed as he ran his hand along the headstone. "I don't really try to make a habit of talking to myself, but I um I don't know what else to do. I screwed up back there, and not just in a little way. I shouldn't have said. It was just uncalled for."
Charlie sighed again running a hand through his hair, "I just don't know what I should do."
"I think you should try to talk to him again minus the O'Neill sarcasm," A voice from behind caused Charlie to jump to his feet and turned to face what his reflexes had considered a threat even thought the voice was familiar.
"Cassie?" Charlie's voice was shocked.
"Are you alright?" She sounded worried.
"Yeah, it's just well, you're not the same one," Charlie mumbled turning back to look at the headstone.
"No I'm not, but I'd like to get to know you and so does Jack, he's just, well he's Jack," Cassie replied moving to stand next to Charlie.
"You like him," Charlie said sitting down, more of a statement that a question.
"Yeah," Cassie replied.
"Still have a crush on him?" Charlie asked.
"No, well maybe a little, but I hear there's this guy that's a lot like him, and about my age," Cassie replied sitting down next to Charlie.
"Really?" Charlie's voice held a hint of humor.
"Yeah, heard he's real cute to," Cassie replied with a smile.
"We've had this conversation before," Charlie replied his smile turning sad.
"How'd it end?" Cassie asked.
"The conversation, not so good so were not gunna follow that path, but the rest, happy days. Lots of happy days," Charlie replied.
"What happened?" Cassie couldn't help but ask.
"You were visiting the Alpha site," Charlie replied looking down at his hands.
"Oh," Cassie replied taking Charlie's hand in hers.
"Yeah," Charlie sighed his hand tightening around Cassie's has he lifted his head up to look her in the eye. "I thank god every day that you were."
"You know they're looking for you right?" Cassie asked changing the subject.
Charlie smirked, "Yeah."
"So they sent you?" Charlie asked.
"Daniel thought I might be able to find you, apparently King Hammersong told him I was your girlfriend. General Hammond let Daniel explain the situation," Cassie replied.
"How'd you find me?" Was Charlie's next question.
"Who better to talk about your problems with then yourself, right?" Cassie replied.
Charlie turned to look at the headstone before he stood up, "I guess we should head back."
"Yeah," Cassie replied as Charlie helped her to her feet.
Janet was ready to call it a day. She had gotten Charlie set up in his own room, finished her rounds and was going to check on Jack before she could head home. As she walked into Jack's room she couldn't believe her eyes. Jack was gone!
"I'm going to give them both their own rooms in the brig," Janet exclaimed before she ran out of the room, she had a feeling she knew where to find him.
"So," Jack began looking very uncomfortable.
"So," Charlie copied from his position sitting on his hospital bed, looking about ready to bolt through the door.
"Are we …?" Jack let the question hang in the air unfinished.
"We're ok dad," Charlie replied with a soft smile lifting some of the tension in the room.
Jack finally sat down next to Charlie and after a few minutes of silence he said, "I'm sorry."
"I'm sorry too, those things that I said, they shouldn't have been said," Charlie replied.
"But, were they true?" Jack forced himself to ask.
"No," Charlie declared but then clarified. "I'm not gunna lie to you, you weren't always there, but you tried. You never missed one of my baseball games, even if you were offworld. You watched the first game of the playoffs from the Alpha site."
"How?" Jack asked not seeing how he could manage that one.
"Well, I kinda feel bad about it, but it was the first game of the playoffs and you had to be at the Alpha site so I was pissed. Mom overheard the argument and decided it was a problem she could fix. She sent the doc to my game with a camcorder and a laptop. She recorded the whole time sending everything back to the SGC from there they sent it threw the gate," Charlie explained.
"How'd Hammond clear that?" Jack asked.
"They were planning to send supplies threw to the Alpha site in a couple days anyway, Hammond just bumped up the timetable. Yeah he was really cool about the whole thing. He even ordered the gate to be shut down early just so they could reopen it in time for my first at bat."
They were both sharing grins now.
"So you were dating Cassie?" Jack asked.
"Yeah, how'd you know?" Charlie was a little nervous.
"Ollom told us," Jack replied.
"You're not mad?" Charlie couldn't help but ask.
"Should I be?" Jack shot right back.
"No," Charlie replied.
"Then we're good," Jack replied with a grin.
"You think she'll go out with me?" Charlie asked.
"I'd ask her mom first," Jack answered.
"Colonel O'Neill!" The shout blasted through the room.
"You might want to wait on that," Jack looked a little worried.
"Ya think," Charlie smirked.
"Hi-ya doc," Jack grated Janet with a grin.
The next day
"What are you doing? If Janet sees this you know you're going to be in trouble, right?" Sam asked as she walked into their room.
They were all watching a movie, the Trips had all piled on Charlie's bed and Sarah had curled up next to her father, and Daniel and Teal'c were sitting on chairs that looked to comfortable to have come from anywhere in the infirmary.
"Why? We're only watching a movie?" Jack asked with a grin. "I mean it's not like we broke out or anything."
"Janet had an end of the year parent-teacher conference with Cassie," Daniel explained.
"Don't ye worry mommy. It be easier to get forgiveness than permission," Car spoke up.
Jack glared at Charlie.
"Oh, like that could possibly be my fault," Charlie was quick to defend himself.
"But ye always be 'ayin' dat 'arlie," Torq replied.
"Not always," Charlie replied.
"Yeah ye do. Like the time ye tooked Tomek's axe so ye could get the orcs," Replied Car.
"Or th' time ye and Rask went into th' underdark," JD added.
""Or da Dragon," Torq spoke up.
All of the adults were staring at him with a look that told him he was crazy.
"Ok, so maybe it was my fault," Charlie said sheepishly.
"Dragon?" Daniel had to ask.
"I don't want to talk about it," Charlie grumbled rubbing the scare that cut threw his left eye.
"Where's Jacob?" Jack asked changing the subject.
"He's talking to General Hammond and King Hammersong," Sam replied.
"Well, why don't you grab a seat and watch the movie with us," Jack asked.
"Yeah, Mommy! Sit wit me and daddy!" Sarah called out excited.
"Yeah join us, we're celebrating our last night in the infirmary," Charlie added.
"Really?" Sam asked sitting down.
"Yep, we go home tomorrow," Jack replied.