Sequel to Too Relaxed
Rating : PG
Spoilers : Entity
Disclaimer : I DON'T OWN THESE PEOPLE. I just really, really love them and am borrowing them. I don't own Stargate, this lot do- Stargate (II) Productions, Showtime/Viacom, MGM/UA, Double Secret Productions, and Gekko Productions. And I'm making no money. At all…
Author's Notes: Part three already, with the final part written and ready to be typed! Madness I tells ya, enjoy. Feedback please.
Not At All Relaxed
"I'm sorry General, for my behaviour today" Jack said. "Just one of those days" he shifted slightly o the bed as Janet stuck the needle into him.
"That's okay Colonel, I take it you're feeling better"
"I really don't feel any different" he said
"We'll see what the test results say" Janet said
"Surely you must have felt something?" Hammond asked, "Or else you wouldn't be apologizing"
"I did what I wanted" he said. "Without conscience, I guess that's the only real difference between now and half an hour ago"
"What made your conscience return?" Jack wasn't sure how to answer him, he didn't really know, he hated to think that he did something so wonderful but so against the rules that it filled him with so much guilt he regained his conscience.
"No idea General" he said
"Perhaps you could explain how you lost it in the first place" Janet said.
"Nope"
"I'm sending SG-4 to take some samples from the planet"
"I can take SG-1" Jack said
"I'd rather not increase your exposure Colonel, to whatever it was that effected you"
Sam was pacing up and down her lab, frustrated and confused. Jack drove her crazy, leading her on, kissing her, then brushing her off. She didn't know why she he had kissed her to get the truth from her, truth that he didn't offer her.
"Feel the same" she spat out. Somewhere inside her she couldn't work out why she was so angry with him but she was. She clenched her fists, screamed, then grabbed a beaker and hurled it at the wall. It shattered, the pieces falling to the floor at her feet.
"Christ Carter, what the hell was that for?" Jack said, standing in the doorway to her lab. She didn't answer him.
"Are you okay?" he asked.
"I'm fine" she said taking a deep breath, trying to tell herself she wasn't angry, trying to calm herself. She could feel it wasn't working, she could feel the angry pushing against her skin fighting to get out. "How are you?"
"The same"
"The same?" she said. She began to pace again.
"Carter?" he said. "What's wrong?"
"I need to get out of here" she said. "I can't" she stopped and pushed him aside as she stormed out of the room. He watched her go, stunned slightly at the anger she had displayed.
"Have you seen Carter?" Jack asked Daniel. The other man nodded, collecting together pieces of papers and files from his office floor.
"Daniel?"
"Yeah, this was Sam" he said, holding up a file to illustrate his point.
"What she do?"
"She came in, ranted something about you, then a brush, or brush off, the something else, then told me I didn't understand before knocking everything bar the computer of my desk and storming out" he said. "What the hell did you do?"
"I didn't do anything! She three a beaker across the room before giving me a good hard punch out of the way"
"Well she was pissed" he said. "At you" Jack sighed.
"I better go find her before she injures someone" Daniel frowned at him
He found Sam in the gym, breathing the life and soul out of the punch bag in full BDU's and without any gloves on. Her face was full of anger, her eyes dark.
"Carter" he called out, she didn't respond, continuing to hit the bag "Sam" he tried, she still didn't respond but began to hit the bag even harder. He walked up to her but she kept out of reaching distance.
"Talk to me"
"I already did" she said. "I bared my heart to you"
"I don't understand" he said. "I kiss you and you go all nuts"
"No, I tell you I love you and say you feel the same but that was it"
"I kissed you"
"I needed to hear the words"
"I love you" he told her
"I needed to hear the words then!" she yelled. There was a fire in her eyes, anger, hate, disgust, it chilled him, he'd not seen anything like this from since she was taken over by that entity. "You're just saying it because I've told you I want you to say means nothing"
"Sam calm down" she punched the punch bag forcefully, then took a swing at Jack. She missed as he stepped out of the returning punch bag. Shocked he was caught out when she took another shot, her fist connecting hard with his chin.
"Shit" he cried, his hand touching his face immediately. He reacted, grabbing her arm as it came up for another punch. He easily twisted it around her back, as strong as she was he was still stronger and soon had both hands behind her back. She struggled to get free, her anger giving her strength but it was still not enough.
"Sam, Sam, are you goanna stay still and come quietly or do I have to knock you the hell out?"
"You wouldn't" she said.. He sighed, she was right, he couldn't hit her.
"Doesn't mean I won't throw your ass in a cell" he told her. He forced her out of the gym and pushed her down the corridor.
"O'Neill" Teal'c said, Jack turned his head to see him coming up behind him.
"Teal'c perfect timing" he said. "A hand" Sam remained silent as Teal'c helped restrained her.
"What has happened?" he asked as Sam struggled in his arms "Your lip is bleeding" Jack felt his bottom lip and saw blood on the tip of his fingers.
"Thanks Carter" he said. "Lets get her to infirmary, something is seriously wrong" he said. Still struggling they half dragged Sam down to the infirmary.
"Doc, your assistance please?" Jack cried, he and Teal'c lifted Sam onto a bed. "you gonna stay there?" he asked. Here
"I will watch her" Teal'c said. Janet and nurse came in.
"What's going on?" she asked.
"Doc, sedate her, Lt go get the General" the nurse ran out of the room. Sam began to struggle again against Teal'cs hold, she was too angry to even talk. Janet got out a needle and filled it with a sedative.
"Don't you dare" she managed to spit out. Janet was shocked at the venom in her voice.
"Hold her still Teal'c" he nodded and held Sam down against the bed. Janet stuck the needle into her arm and injected it in her bloodstream. It only took moments to take an effect and she relaxed against Teal'c, falling unconscious.
"What the hell is going on?!" The general said coming into the infirmary.
"Something is wrong with Carter sir" Jack said.
"What exactly?"
"She did this to me" he said pointing to his lip.
"Why?"
"She was angry, she broke a glass beaker, then threw the contents of Daniel's desk on the floor before this" Jack said.
"We had to sedate her to get her to stay" Teal'c said
"Is this connected to your earlier behaviour?"
"I'm about to do some tests now" Janet said.
"SG-4 are due back soon" Hammond said. "I'll send them straight down to you" Janet nodded and began to take samples from Sam. "I'll have Ross and Wyman return to guarding duty"
"Thank you sir" Janet said, Sam's anger had rattled.
"I'll be back soon" he said. He smiled and left the infirmary.
"How did all this happen?" Janet asked. Jack looked over at the unconscious Sam and frowned, thinking back to their encounter in the gym. She had been a step away from telling him she hated him, not so long after she had told him she loved him. She'd been right, he did regret it, he never expected Sam to react so badly to a kiss from him. It hurt.
Then it hit him, the realisation, all that was missing he felt was a light bulb above his head as he looked over at Sam. He touched his lip and winced, having forgotten for the moment the cut there.
"Dammit" he yelled
"What is it?"
"I just realised why Carter is so angry" he said. Janet looked over at hm, holding a veil of Sam's blood in her hand.
"Why?" she asked.
"I think, I think I passed whatever you insist I had onto Sam"
"How?"
"I kissed her" he admitted.
"When!"
"When we in my office, I kissed her, then you wanted to see me, and then I apologized for my behaviour" he explained. "oh man"
"Let me look her samples" Janet said. "And maybe we can find what it is that affected you both" Jack nodded, a sudden wave of guilt washing over him. He had hurt Sam, there had been truth in her words, real anger behind them. In all the confusion of being too relaxed then not relaxed at all he'd made a mess of things when all he really wanted was for her to know he loved her, cared for her, wanted her.
"SG-4 are here" General Hammond said leading them into the room. He had decided to bring them down himself concerned for his main team. SG-4 walked into the infirmary and handed Janet the samples they had collected. She thanked them and took them into her lab for testing. When she came back she had Lt Craig and another nurse take samples from them too.
"How are you feeling?" she asked them.
"Fine thank you Dr, no different" she frowned, unsure how to take that, Jack had said it from the beginning. She left her nurses to it, picked up her file and went over to Sam's bed.
"General" she said. "I've found an organism in Major Carter, I believe it's what's causing her anger"
"Why couldn't you see it in the Colonel?"
"I'm not completely sure, I'm guessing the only reason I can see it in Sam is because it is reacted with the protein marker and almost looks like it is fighting with it"
"And instead of being, um, relaxed, she's angry?" Jack said.
"Yes"
"How did she contract the organism?" Janet looked over at Jack, who was looking at the floor.
"That would be my fault sir" he said. "I passed it onto her"
"How?"
"I kissed her, though I was under the influence of this organism myself at the time" the General frowned, he wondered how many times they would find themselves in these situations before they came to talk to him about it.
"Understood Colonel"
"I'll do some more tests, on the samples brought back, see if we can get rid of it" she looked over at Sam "I'll keep her sedated until then"
Jack sat in the lab watching Janet as she slipped slides underneath the microscope. She looked up at him, then back at the sample.
"You feel guilty don't you?" she said. When Sam was in trouble he didn't usually leave her side, let alone the infirmary.
"Very" he said. "She was so angry with me, you should've seen her"
"I did"
"No, no, when she was trying to knock me out, she, she had hate in her eyes" he stopped. "And some of that anger was real, organism or not, I really screwed up"
"Hopefully I'll sort this out and you can make it up to her"
"Maybe"
"Maybe?" she looked at him "Do I want to know what you did?"
"No" she sighed and carried on with her slides, trying to ignore Jack watching her so intently.
"Ooh!" She said suddenly sitting up.
"What?" she grabbed one of the slides from the work bench and placed it under the microscope "doc what is it?"
"Eat any fruit on the planet Colonel?" she asked. "Any berries?"
"Purple in colour, kinda sweet, and tangy, no pips?" he asked. She handed him a small bag with purple berries in that SG-4 had brought back.
"Dammit" he held his head in his hands.
"It's fine, I have a starting point now, I can get rid of it"
"I am never eating again" he said, Janet laughed
"I can hear your stomach complaining about that"
"Just tell me you can get rid of it"
"I think so"
They were all stood around Sam's bed, Daniel and Teal'c stood on either side, Jack, Janet and Hammond stood at the end of the bed. Airmen Ross and Wyman by the door, available if needed. Janet had successfully killed the organism in Sam's blood sample and they were waiting for her to wake to see if it had been removed from her completely.
When she groaned and mumbled everyone leaned forward, she opened her eyes a confused look on her face.
"What the" she started.
"How you feeling Major?" The general asked.
"I have the worst headache but okay" she said "Why?" she looked around at
them and spotted Jack's swollen lip, remembering everything "oh"
"Not at all angry?" he asked her.
"Colonel I'm so sorry, I couldn't stop myself" she said.
"It's okay Carter, we both did things we regret" a look of hurt washed over her
face and he regretted saying that.
"Glad to know you're okay Major" Hammond said "Dr I assume you wish to keep her in the infirmary"
"At least until tomorrow" she said.
"No arguments here" Sam said rubbing her head when it hurt the most. She glanced at Jack briefly, he was watching her, he caught that hurt look in her eyes.
TBC
r.l.w
(19/05/04)
Rating : PG
Spoilers : Entity
Disclaimer : I DON'T OWN THESE PEOPLE. I just really, really love them and am borrowing them. I don't own Stargate, this lot do- Stargate (II) Productions, Showtime/Viacom, MGM/UA, Double Secret Productions, and Gekko Productions. And I'm making no money. At all…
Author's Notes: Part three already, with the final part written and ready to be typed! Madness I tells ya, enjoy. Feedback please.
Not At All Relaxed
"I'm sorry General, for my behaviour today" Jack said. "Just one of those days" he shifted slightly o the bed as Janet stuck the needle into him.
"That's okay Colonel, I take it you're feeling better"
"I really don't feel any different" he said
"We'll see what the test results say" Janet said
"Surely you must have felt something?" Hammond asked, "Or else you wouldn't be apologizing"
"I did what I wanted" he said. "Without conscience, I guess that's the only real difference between now and half an hour ago"
"What made your conscience return?" Jack wasn't sure how to answer him, he didn't really know, he hated to think that he did something so wonderful but so against the rules that it filled him with so much guilt he regained his conscience.
"No idea General" he said
"Perhaps you could explain how you lost it in the first place" Janet said.
"Nope"
"I'm sending SG-4 to take some samples from the planet"
"I can take SG-1" Jack said
"I'd rather not increase your exposure Colonel, to whatever it was that effected you"
Sam was pacing up and down her lab, frustrated and confused. Jack drove her crazy, leading her on, kissing her, then brushing her off. She didn't know why she he had kissed her to get the truth from her, truth that he didn't offer her.
"Feel the same" she spat out. Somewhere inside her she couldn't work out why she was so angry with him but she was. She clenched her fists, screamed, then grabbed a beaker and hurled it at the wall. It shattered, the pieces falling to the floor at her feet.
"Christ Carter, what the hell was that for?" Jack said, standing in the doorway to her lab. She didn't answer him.
"Are you okay?" he asked.
"I'm fine" she said taking a deep breath, trying to tell herself she wasn't angry, trying to calm herself. She could feel it wasn't working, she could feel the angry pushing against her skin fighting to get out. "How are you?"
"The same"
"The same?" she said. She began to pace again.
"Carter?" he said. "What's wrong?"
"I need to get out of here" she said. "I can't" she stopped and pushed him aside as she stormed out of the room. He watched her go, stunned slightly at the anger she had displayed.
"Have you seen Carter?" Jack asked Daniel. The other man nodded, collecting together pieces of papers and files from his office floor.
"Daniel?"
"Yeah, this was Sam" he said, holding up a file to illustrate his point.
"What she do?"
"She came in, ranted something about you, then a brush, or brush off, the something else, then told me I didn't understand before knocking everything bar the computer of my desk and storming out" he said. "What the hell did you do?"
"I didn't do anything! She three a beaker across the room before giving me a good hard punch out of the way"
"Well she was pissed" he said. "At you" Jack sighed.
"I better go find her before she injures someone" Daniel frowned at him
He found Sam in the gym, breathing the life and soul out of the punch bag in full BDU's and without any gloves on. Her face was full of anger, her eyes dark.
"Carter" he called out, she didn't respond, continuing to hit the bag "Sam" he tried, she still didn't respond but began to hit the bag even harder. He walked up to her but she kept out of reaching distance.
"Talk to me"
"I already did" she said. "I bared my heart to you"
"I don't understand" he said. "I kiss you and you go all nuts"
"No, I tell you I love you and say you feel the same but that was it"
"I kissed you"
"I needed to hear the words"
"I love you" he told her
"I needed to hear the words then!" she yelled. There was a fire in her eyes, anger, hate, disgust, it chilled him, he'd not seen anything like this from since she was taken over by that entity. "You're just saying it because I've told you I want you to say means nothing"
"Sam calm down" she punched the punch bag forcefully, then took a swing at Jack. She missed as he stepped out of the returning punch bag. Shocked he was caught out when she took another shot, her fist connecting hard with his chin.
"Shit" he cried, his hand touching his face immediately. He reacted, grabbing her arm as it came up for another punch. He easily twisted it around her back, as strong as she was he was still stronger and soon had both hands behind her back. She struggled to get free, her anger giving her strength but it was still not enough.
"Sam, Sam, are you goanna stay still and come quietly or do I have to knock you the hell out?"
"You wouldn't" she said.. He sighed, she was right, he couldn't hit her.
"Doesn't mean I won't throw your ass in a cell" he told her. He forced her out of the gym and pushed her down the corridor.
"O'Neill" Teal'c said, Jack turned his head to see him coming up behind him.
"Teal'c perfect timing" he said. "A hand" Sam remained silent as Teal'c helped restrained her.
"What has happened?" he asked as Sam struggled in his arms "Your lip is bleeding" Jack felt his bottom lip and saw blood on the tip of his fingers.
"Thanks Carter" he said. "Lets get her to infirmary, something is seriously wrong" he said. Still struggling they half dragged Sam down to the infirmary.
"Doc, your assistance please?" Jack cried, he and Teal'c lifted Sam onto a bed. "you gonna stay there?" he asked. Here
"I will watch her" Teal'c said. Janet and nurse came in.
"What's going on?" she asked.
"Doc, sedate her, Lt go get the General" the nurse ran out of the room. Sam began to struggle again against Teal'cs hold, she was too angry to even talk. Janet got out a needle and filled it with a sedative.
"Don't you dare" she managed to spit out. Janet was shocked at the venom in her voice.
"Hold her still Teal'c" he nodded and held Sam down against the bed. Janet stuck the needle into her arm and injected it in her bloodstream. It only took moments to take an effect and she relaxed against Teal'c, falling unconscious.
"What the hell is going on?!" The general said coming into the infirmary.
"Something is wrong with Carter sir" Jack said.
"What exactly?"
"She did this to me" he said pointing to his lip.
"Why?"
"She was angry, she broke a glass beaker, then threw the contents of Daniel's desk on the floor before this" Jack said.
"We had to sedate her to get her to stay" Teal'c said
"Is this connected to your earlier behaviour?"
"I'm about to do some tests now" Janet said.
"SG-4 are due back soon" Hammond said. "I'll send them straight down to you" Janet nodded and began to take samples from Sam. "I'll have Ross and Wyman return to guarding duty"
"Thank you sir" Janet said, Sam's anger had rattled.
"I'll be back soon" he said. He smiled and left the infirmary.
"How did all this happen?" Janet asked. Jack looked over at the unconscious Sam and frowned, thinking back to their encounter in the gym. She had been a step away from telling him she hated him, not so long after she had told him she loved him. She'd been right, he did regret it, he never expected Sam to react so badly to a kiss from him. It hurt.
Then it hit him, the realisation, all that was missing he felt was a light bulb above his head as he looked over at Sam. He touched his lip and winced, having forgotten for the moment the cut there.
"Dammit" he yelled
"What is it?"
"I just realised why Carter is so angry" he said. Janet looked over at hm, holding a veil of Sam's blood in her hand.
"Why?" she asked.
"I think, I think I passed whatever you insist I had onto Sam"
"How?"
"I kissed her" he admitted.
"When!"
"When we in my office, I kissed her, then you wanted to see me, and then I apologized for my behaviour" he explained. "oh man"
"Let me look her samples" Janet said. "And maybe we can find what it is that affected you both" Jack nodded, a sudden wave of guilt washing over him. He had hurt Sam, there had been truth in her words, real anger behind them. In all the confusion of being too relaxed then not relaxed at all he'd made a mess of things when all he really wanted was for her to know he loved her, cared for her, wanted her.
"SG-4 are here" General Hammond said leading them into the room. He had decided to bring them down himself concerned for his main team. SG-4 walked into the infirmary and handed Janet the samples they had collected. She thanked them and took them into her lab for testing. When she came back she had Lt Craig and another nurse take samples from them too.
"How are you feeling?" she asked them.
"Fine thank you Dr, no different" she frowned, unsure how to take that, Jack had said it from the beginning. She left her nurses to it, picked up her file and went over to Sam's bed.
"General" she said. "I've found an organism in Major Carter, I believe it's what's causing her anger"
"Why couldn't you see it in the Colonel?"
"I'm not completely sure, I'm guessing the only reason I can see it in Sam is because it is reacted with the protein marker and almost looks like it is fighting with it"
"And instead of being, um, relaxed, she's angry?" Jack said.
"Yes"
"How did she contract the organism?" Janet looked over at Jack, who was looking at the floor.
"That would be my fault sir" he said. "I passed it onto her"
"How?"
"I kissed her, though I was under the influence of this organism myself at the time" the General frowned, he wondered how many times they would find themselves in these situations before they came to talk to him about it.
"Understood Colonel"
"I'll do some more tests, on the samples brought back, see if we can get rid of it" she looked over at Sam "I'll keep her sedated until then"
Jack sat in the lab watching Janet as she slipped slides underneath the microscope. She looked up at him, then back at the sample.
"You feel guilty don't you?" she said. When Sam was in trouble he didn't usually leave her side, let alone the infirmary.
"Very" he said. "She was so angry with me, you should've seen her"
"I did"
"No, no, when she was trying to knock me out, she, she had hate in her eyes" he stopped. "And some of that anger was real, organism or not, I really screwed up"
"Hopefully I'll sort this out and you can make it up to her"
"Maybe"
"Maybe?" she looked at him "Do I want to know what you did?"
"No" she sighed and carried on with her slides, trying to ignore Jack watching her so intently.
"Ooh!" She said suddenly sitting up.
"What?" she grabbed one of the slides from the work bench and placed it under the microscope "doc what is it?"
"Eat any fruit on the planet Colonel?" she asked. "Any berries?"
"Purple in colour, kinda sweet, and tangy, no pips?" he asked. She handed him a small bag with purple berries in that SG-4 had brought back.
"Dammit" he held his head in his hands.
"It's fine, I have a starting point now, I can get rid of it"
"I am never eating again" he said, Janet laughed
"I can hear your stomach complaining about that"
"Just tell me you can get rid of it"
"I think so"
They were all stood around Sam's bed, Daniel and Teal'c stood on either side, Jack, Janet and Hammond stood at the end of the bed. Airmen Ross and Wyman by the door, available if needed. Janet had successfully killed the organism in Sam's blood sample and they were waiting for her to wake to see if it had been removed from her completely.
When she groaned and mumbled everyone leaned forward, she opened her eyes a confused look on her face.
"What the" she started.
"How you feeling Major?" The general asked.
"I have the worst headache but okay" she said "Why?" she looked around at
them and spotted Jack's swollen lip, remembering everything "oh"
"Not at all angry?" he asked her.
"Colonel I'm so sorry, I couldn't stop myself" she said.
"It's okay Carter, we both did things we regret" a look of hurt washed over her
face and he regretted saying that.
"Glad to know you're okay Major" Hammond said "Dr I assume you wish to keep her in the infirmary"
"At least until tomorrow" she said.
"No arguments here" Sam said rubbing her head when it hurt the most. She glanced at Jack briefly, he was watching her, he caught that hurt look in her eyes.
TBC
r.l.w
(19/05/04)