PROLOGUE
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DISCLAIMER: Read everyone else's, they're all the same
RATING: PG
SPOILERS: Probably…I couldn't tell you which episodes, they'll be small though, and they won't spoil anything, just references
PAIRING: Jack/Sam
TITLE: The Time Ever After
AUTHOR: Hehehe, me - Angel of Fire
"Daniel, where's Carter?" Jack asked, poking his head around the corner of Daniel's office.
"Umm, she's on a mission with SG-13," Daniel said. "Why?"
"What kinda mission?" Jack asked.
"They're collecting data on stuff," Daniel said. "Why?"
"When will she be back?" Jack asked.
"In about three hours at the most," Daniel said, starting to get frustrated. "Why?"
"Because Teal'c keeps bugging me to help him with this machine thingy…and I can't, so I'm trying to find Carter so that she can help him," Jack cocked his head sidewards. "You know me and machines."
Daniel nodded and looked back down at the artefact that lay on his desk. "Well she's offworld."
"I gathered," Jack said, turning around to leave.
He was halfway down the hallway, headed back towards Teal'c, when the alarms started screeching. A squadron of guards ran past him and he step backwards to let them through. He wasn't annoyed by the alarms anymore, they were so familiar to him they were comforting. He managed to find his way to the gateroom.
"Receiving iris code."
"Who is it?" General George Hammond was asking.
"It's SG-13, sir," came the reply.
"They're not due back for three hours," Jack muttered.
"Colonel O'Neill, three hours is an estimate, they may return whenever," Hammond said, walking out of the control room and towards the gate room.
"Yes, sir," Jack said to himself, sitting down in Sam's usual chair.
Four men stumbled through the Stargate, looking warn out. A staff weapon shot came through the Stargate just before the wormhole disengaged. A sudden feeling of worry shot through Jack. Where was Sam? And why wasn't she with them? Jack stood up and ran out of the control room, receiving a few glances from the other officers in the room.
"Where is Major Carter?" Hammond asked as Jack ran in.
"Major Samantha Carter is dead, sir," Major Ingles said, looking in Jack's direction. "I'm sorry, we tried."
With that he walked out of the gateroom. Leaving Jack staring blankly at the Stargate. It couldn't be true. Sam couldn't be dead. There was no way she could be dead. Not Sam. Not on a data collecting mission.
"Colonel O'Neill," Hammond said. "Maybe you should attend the debriefing."
Jack nodded, the realisation hitting home. Samantha Carter was dead.
