Blood Ties

Chapter 10: Bring Me To Life

Time passed Andy trained both physically and mentally. Eating, sleeping, and training that was what her life had become and no one could talk her out of it. She had apologized to Cass almost immediately, she truly felt bad about what she had done. True to her word she had not attempted to leave the base again. At the moment Andy was ending another practice session, sweat lingered on every inch of her body as she pushed herself even harder. Her breath came in gasps, times from her childhood lingered in her mind times with her father and mother. She had never known her aunt then, only a few calls and the odd letter but it was something to grasp onto. She missed her family, she always teased her brother and disobeyed her parents, but the truth was even now at 18 she still needed them.

The practice dummy hit the cold gray wall. Everything here was so harsh, like the world outside, the world that wanted her in a cage, to be used as a tool. The bitter memory gave her a focus for her anger and she took all she could out on the dummy before she collapsed against it in exhaustion.

She laid head against the dummy tears mixed with sweat running down her face. She lifted her hand in a futile attempt to hit the dummy one last time. Pain radiated from every inch of her body, she had pushed to far and she knew it but it was the only way to fall into a deep sleep where memories and visions of her father could not shove their way into her mind. It did not work this time, sleep did not come to her, and she was left all alone.

A shadow figure watched her from the doorway careful not to interfere with the girl, his heart ached as he watched her cry but made no movement to help her. He left after a few minutes, as a meeting was to take place shortly.

"Col."

"General." A slight nod of the head was all Jack gave as he sat down.

"We have received inside intelligence as to Mark Carter's whereabouts."

Samantha looked up hopefully "Does that mean we have a go?"

The General looked solemn. "Yes, but if you are caught there can be no link to the SGC is that understood? Nothing that happens leaves this room. You and any one that goes with you is on leave as far as I know. Any unauthorized person or persons I know nothing of them. Is that understood? You will be on your own."

SG-1 looked at the table each in his or her own thoughts.

"Daniel Teal'C I'm not forcing you guys to come along on this one."

"Jack I'm going." Daniel insisted, "Andy is an amazing person and we have to help her, and Sam is my friend."

"Indeed Maj. Carter has helped me many times."

"Alright SG-1 you are on leave, dismissed." The team stood up and headed for the door. "And good luck." They turned back to the general each of them saying their thanks in their own way.

24 hours later SG-1 and Andy were making their way off base towards Mark Carter.

The drive was long and Andy bored. Trees as far as she could see. She opened the window of the van to get some air. No one said anything they just sat in silence the thought of what they were going to do overwhelming them.

6 Hours later...

"RUN!" Jack turned and fired his gun at the forces that were pursuing them. "Move it!"

Andy and Daniel had already made it back to the van. Daniel helping Andy tended to some wounds that she had received to stop the bleeding. Teal'C jumped into the drivers seat and drove off as soon as Jack was in.

"WAIT!" Andy screeched. "What about Sam!"

"She's still in there!" Daniel spoke up. "We can't leave her!"

Jack was beyond pissed that his fiancé had taken matters into her own hands and had been caught but after Teal'C had knocked some sense into him (he had the bump to prove it) he realized that being caught would do no one any good at the moment.

"You think I wanted to leave her? The woman I love! (A/N: The team does know of the engagement.) I wanted to get her out of there more then any of you but what could we do by getting killed?"

No one spoke and the ride back was silent.

Back at the SGC Andy was in the infirmary. Although this time she didn't put up a fight at being treated in fact she just lay there with tears silently flowing down, never moving an inch never speaking.

To say Jack was furious would be the understatement of the century. He used the same punching bad that Andy had used only 48 hours earlier; it was amazing how much could change in that small amount of time. He wouldn't talk to anyone and if anyone came near he would pick up the nearest object and throw it at him or her along with any insult he could think of

Blood began to weep from the wounds forming on his hands but he didn't feel the pain. Nothing compared to the pain he was feeling in his heart. Why? That was the only question in his mind. Was it something about him that caused the people he loved to be hurt? He knew without a doubt that he would save Sam and marry her he had too.

Andy tried to bring herself to speak but one word to these people who seemed to care for her. But the loss of her only family had hit her hard she could not bring herself to do it. The general, Teal'c and Daniel came by but each time she sat there looking at the wall but not seeing it. When Cass came by she got enough strength to look her in the eye, but that was it. She sat in silence with the person she had begun to think of as a friend and ate some pizza. Cass had brought it in as a treat for the young girl. They sat in silence for a while before Cass brought in a game of chess. Andy looked at the board for a moment before she began to play. Everyone else thought that playing a game was a good sign, it was not for she was making a strategy as Cass was a far better player, like the enemy holding her aunt and father was far stronger.

Both Andy and Jack knew the one person they need most at that moment was each other. They had both been hiding from the world a dark secret that would now come back to haunt them. Sam, the one thing they had in common, the one thing they both needed.

Sam looked to the table next to her. Her brother looked over at her

"Sam. Don't you know how to stay away?"

"No. You needed help, I'm here to rescue you."

Mark looked over at her bonds tying her down and at his keeping him down, not that they were necessary, he was so far gone he couldn't escape if he didn't have the bonds. "Great job."

"Jack..." Was her only response.

"Jack? Could it be my little sister has found a boyfriend?" He coughed bringing up blood. "Damn."

"You alright?"

"Fine for a dead man. So what about this boyfriend?"

"Fiancé."

"Fiancé? My god that was fast!"

"I suppose it was. But I knew him for a long time I just never admitted to him how I felt. He proposed shortly after all this started. I always wanted a family, when he proposed I thought I would get it, now it seems that I just might not get it after all. I might die here without saying goodbye."

"You won't die Sam. You can't." Mark looked up to the ceiling.

"Why's that?"

Mark coughed more blood up. "Because you're all that Andy has left. After I die here she's yours Sam. You're her godmother." He closed his eyes to avoid seeing the expression on her face. "I never told you because I was afraid you would refuse. But we both agreed that upon our deaths that you were to be Andy's guardian, we named you the godmother shortly after that."

"I never would have refused." He looked over in shock. "We may have been far apart but I never stopped loving any of you. Thank you for giving me the honor of being her godmother." He nodded. "But what of your wife is she not alive?"

"Yes but she left with my son. I told her to go and never look for us." Tears crept into his eyes. "I never wanted them to be hurt so I told them to go. I planted a thought into the back of their minds, they will never look for us."

Silence surrounded four lives, each shrouded in mystery and lies. Each yearning to be with the other three, all remembering a phrase that was once told to them all by one Jacob Carter: Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I fear no evil for you are with me.

Both songs were taken out of this chapter due to Fanfiction rules they were by Evanescence the first was called Fields Of Innocence and the second was called Bring Me To Life