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Stargate SG-1
"Coming Home"
Chapter 8


Four hours later, the stargate inner ring began to rotate. "Incoming traveler! IDC reconized. It's the Tok'ra," the operator announced.

"How many?" O'Neill asked the operator.

"One Tok'ra, sir."

"Jacob hopefully," he hoped aloud. O'Neill was then joined by General Hammond.

"Who is it?" Hammond asked.

"Tok'ra."

"Oh, Jacob?"

"Hopefully," O'Neill told him as a figuare came through the event horizon. It was Jacob Carter. "Yes!" O'Neill and Hammond walked down to meet him. "Hiya Jacob!" O'Neill greeted.

"Hi, what's wrong?"

"I'm afraid you'll have to talk to Colonel O'Neill about that," Hammond told him.

"Ummm...let's walk this way Jacob," O'Neill said seperating from Hammond.

"What's wrong? Is Sam okay?" Jacob Carter asked O'Neill afraid that his daughter might be hurt.

"Sam's...okay. She's having memory flashbacks from Jolinar," O'Neill explained. "I think they're getting really bad."

"You didn't tell George?" Jacob asked surprised.

"No. Sam didn't want him to know. She thought that she would be replaced by a different astrophysicist. I knew the general would give her afew days off without a second thought, but he'll ask if it goes any farther than a few days."

"Where is she?"

"At her apartment, I told her that I'd send you to see her. Come on, let's go."

"Do you know what the flashbacks are about?" Jacob asked him.

"Something about a mission and Jolinar and Lantesh were arguing about it."

"A mission? What kind of mission?"

"Tok'ra mission?" O'Neill told him clueless. "I don't think Sam knows what kind or what the mission was about."

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Five days later, SG-1 was having a meeting with General Hammond. The general sat at the head of the table with Majors Carter and Kawalsky on his left and O'Neill, Jackson, and Teal'c on his right.

"SG-1 your next mission is to P5X-190. The planet is dense in forest and has three moons. The MALP reports that there are no lifeforms on the planet. The planet's oxygen and gravity levels are the same as Earth except the air is 100% cleaner than ours," Hammond explained to SG-1. "SG-1 do you have any questions?"

"No," O'Neill started.

"No," Kawalsky agreed.

"No," Daniel said also.

"I have none General Hammond," Teal'c told him.

"Yes," Sam said looking at the table.

"What's your question, Major Carter?" Hammond asked.

"What color is the grass?" she asked getting strange looks from the rest of SG-1 and General Hammond looked rather shocked.

"Well, actually the grass color is different from that of Earth's. The grass is red. How did you know?" he asked her amazed at what she knew of the planet she had never visited or seen the video of.

"I didn't," she said simply.

"Then who told you?" Hammond asked her.

"We can't go there it's dangerous!" Sam told him.

"Dangerous? How?"

"The oxygen level changes during the day, so at midday it is half oxygen and half nitrogen."

"Who told you this? We have no record of this!" Hammond exclaimed.

"Jolinar told me or rather showed me," Carter confessed.

"Are you having memory flashes, Major Carter?" Hammond asked.

"Yes, sir."

"Have you told Doctor Frasier?"

"No, sir."

"Colonel O'Neill take Major Carter to the infirmary. The rest of you are dismissed. SG-1 you leave at 1600 hours with or without Major Carter."

"Come on Carter," O'Neill said pulling her by the arm.

"Yes, sir. Please don't go! I know that's the planet in those meories!"

"What do they show you?" Daniel asked her.

"Tok'ra not able to breathe and seeing the air change. Jolinar and Lantesh run to the gate and then Jolinar running through. The grass was so red, it's so memorable to her. How red the grass was. Like blood that had stained it," Sam told him.

"Daniel she needs to go to the infirmary!" Jack told him.

"Okay I'll go get ready," Daniel told him. Daniel looked at Sam who looked very confused and dazed.

"Kawalsky help me get her to the infirmary!" O'Neill yelled and was immediately helped by Charles Kawalsky.

Teal'c and Daniel watched as Kawalsky and O'Neill helped Samantha Carter to the infirmary. "Why did Colonel O'Neill not ask me to carry Major Carter to the infirmary?" Teal'c asked confused.

"Cause he wasn't thinking, Teal'c," Daniel told him.

"Because it was concerning Major Carter?" Teal'c asked.

"Yes it's because it concerns Sam," Daniel told him before walking away.

"I see," Teal'c said to himself before walking to his quarters.

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"What's wrong?" Janet Frasier asked when she saw O'Neill, Kawalsky, and Carter come in.

"She's having memory flashbacks from Jolinar," O'Neill told the doctor.

"And they are just getting worse," Kawalsky added.

"Okay, lay here down over here and then wait outside," Doctor Frasier told them. She watched as they followed her directions and proceeded to her patient.

"You think she'll be okay?" Kawalsky asked.

"I hope so," O'Neill told him.

"Shouldn't we call the Tok'ra or something?" he asked.

"They've probably already signalled for Jacob to come. Maybe the Tok'ra can help, but then again they might only make it worse," O'Neill told him.

"You wanna talk about it?" Kawalsky asked trying to do his best friend things like making sure his friend is okay and to never go out with your best friend's girlfriend or exgirlfriends. Kawalsky waited, but didn't get a response from his friend. He wanted to help Jack, but Jack wouldn't let him help him. Jack was sitting in the chair next to him with his head in his hands. Poor Jack. He can't lose Sam, when my Sam lost Jack it was si hard fir her, he thought to himself. Please let her be alright! I don't want to see one of my friends hurt again.

"Ya know the Asguard came for help not so long ago that these metal bugs were kicking their butts. They wanted us to send someone who was basically dumb..."

"So you went?" Kawalsky asked him with a smile on his face.

"No. I went on this German sub with Teal'c to destroy the metal bugs on Earth, but anyway...Sam went. I thought it was so funny because Sam and Daniel are alot smarter than me. Hey even Teal'c's smarter than me. You'd have thought I'd been the model choice. But everything turned out alright. You should have seen those bugs it was crazy!"

"I'm sure it was," Kawalsky told him.

The door opened and the two men stood up and Jacob ran to catch them before Janet said anything.

"What's wrong?" he asked out of breath.

"Sam's been overpowered by a flood of Jolinar's memories from P5X-190 and SG-1 haven't even been there yet," Janet Frasier explained.

"What planet?"

"One with red grass?" Jacl O'Neill told him.

"Red grass? We lost alot of good Tok'ra that day. Jolinar and Lantesh where the last through the gate. There were so many lives lost that day."

"I had to flood her system with sedatives, but she's still conscious," she explained.

"She'll be alright?" Jacob asked.

"Yes, I think so, but she'll need to take heavy doses of medications to surpress the flood of memories for now," Frasier told them.

"Whatever you do, Jack don't go to that planet," Jacob warned.

"That's what Sam said," Kawalsky told him.

"Well listen to her," Jacob Carter told them. "Can we see her?"

"For a minute and then she needs to rest," Frasier told them.

"Thank you," Jack said quitely. Jacob Carter, Major Charles Kawalsky, Colonel Jack O'Neil, and Doctor Frasier entered the room.

"Hi," Samantha Carter said weakly. She seemed half there and half somewhere else, she was so pale, and there were so many wires hooked up to her.

"Hey kiddo, howya feeling?" Jacob asked her.

"Drowsy, confused," Sam told him.

"Okay, then we'll let you rest," Colonel O'Neill said as they all left the room and went their seperate ways.

"So is this what it's like in this dimention?" Kawalsky asked.

"Yep, welcome home," Jack told him.

"Thanks."

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The End!