She watched from the bush, he sat down between her grave and his son's; he smiled at the names touched the slabs. His clone sat down next to him, she never got to know his clone and wasn't offended that he paid much more attention to Charlie's grave than hers. Jack placed daises over her grave and she could see his lips moving but his clone wasn't answering, was he talking to her?

She couldn't believe he even bothered to visit her, he had seemed so angry last time he spoke to her, he didn't want her. She knew now, it was because he was worried about her but she had been so shocked at the time that she didn't think about that…she didn't do an awful lot of thinking back then.

She watched as Sam, Daniel and Teal'c arrived in a car and went to join Jack. Sam placed a hand on Jack's shoulder from behind him and kissed his neck. Alex grinned, when did they get together? At least she had done something right while she was with them, though it was obvious they liked each other from the start.

Sam sat down beside Jack and he put an arm around her, Daniel and Teal'c sat down next Jack (clone) and they all were silent. Alex frowned, what was she going to say? How were they going to react? It wasn't a normal thing to happen to someone but these people weren't exactly normal, she only just found out Teal'c was an alien.

"They look happy don't they?" A male voice came from behind her, she sighed expecting it to be another person from the beyond to screw with her mind then just disappear in oblivion. She twisted her head to look behind her and there was Cian, a lot taller than she remembered, he looked a lot older. Something told her she was gone for more than two months.

He was in his early teens maybe just gone fourteen, he looked a lot more muscular but his hair was just as unruly as ever and his dark eyes were almost black. "Hi Cian," What else could she say? Cian looked confused and snapped his attention to her from where his eyes had been scanning the little group at her grave.

"Wh-what did you say?" Cian stuttered, he looked at Alex up and down "You've never said anything before, you're meant to be silent,"

"Have I ever been silent?" Alex asked confused, he had seen her before…while she was dead?

"Well…no," Cian agreed "But in my hallucinations, you're always quiet or talking to yourself…not me. You never even look at me," he confided.

"I'm not an hallucination," she said, standing up next to him, taking in that he was now actually an inch taller than her "You've grown, how old are you now?" she asked.

Cian went wide-eyed like a startled rabbit and slowly reached out and touched her face and snapped his hand back when he felt her skin. "I'm th-thirteen, fourteen next week," he stepped back from her, scared "You're real?"

"Yes I think so," Alex said. Two years? She'd been gone for two years?

"Go and say hello to the others then," Cian said stepping back towards her with curiosity, she let his fingers stroke her hair and follow the scar on her eyebrow "You're here," he said disbelievingly. She saw tears form in his eyes, she scolded herself once more for leading him around like she did, he hadn't deserved that. She was about to pull away from him when she felt his arms wrap around her and pull her into a huge embrace, she reciprocated it and he whispered something in her ear. "Don't ever leave me again, please, Alex. Don't do that again,"

She could tell he was crying and she felt tears of her own sting her eyes. "Never again, Cian," she said. She hadn't known he'd cared this much and she suddenly felt very comforted. She broke the hug and wiped her eyes as Cian did the same. "Don't make me cry Cian, you know I don't like that," she grinned.

He chuckled and gave a huge jump in his happiness "You're alive Alex!" he shouted. She glanced at the group of people at her grave, none of them had brought their heads up at the shout, thank God, they were too far away. She wanted to break the news to them personally, unfortunately Chilly's hearing had picked up on the yell and he barked back startling everyone around him. Achilles caught sight and smell of Alex and he stood up, his tail going mad as he pulled Jack to his feet by tugging on the lead that was around Jack's wrist when Achilles tried to make it to her.

She panicked, Jack had seen her, he was so surprised that he had let go of Chilly's lead and the dog went galloping across the graveyard at her and rammed into her legs sending her over so Chilly could get better access to her face. Cian laughed as he watched the dog go and proceeded to run to Jack as the older man had just passed out on the ground. "Jack! Jack! Look who's here!" He shouted. The rest of the group stood up and looked astonished at Cian, they had all forgotten he could talk.

Alex shoved the dog off of her and walked over to where Cian and everyone had gathered with Achilles at her heels "Er…Hi guys,"

"I…what…how…er…thing…huh?" Jack (clone) stuttered. "Daniel have you been giving her lessons on coming back from the dead again?"

Jack woke up and rubbed his head and groaned "I have just had the weirdest dream, guys," he said then he opened his eyes to find all of them staring down at him…including Alex. "Oh look, I'm still having it," he smiled. He got up and brushed himself off and made his way back to his car, ignoring Alex.

"Jack, she is actually there," Daniel said grabbing Jack's arm and turning him so he faced her. Jack studied her, and Alex felt a bit awkward being the centre of attention. Sam had her mouth hanging open and Teal'c had both eyebrows raised, the clone was screwing his face up in concentration and Daniel looked like he was doing some mega thinking.

"Are you sure, Daniel?...Ok, put your hand up if you can see her," Jack ordered. Everyone put their hands up and Jack smiled, pleased that he hadn't gone insane and immediately bent down picked her up squeezing her tightly "You smell really bad," he said into her hair.

"Thanks Jack, I'm going to treasure those words forever," she smiled as he carried her to the car with everyone else in tow.