As the two people lay on the floor, they knew, that they were loosing each other.
Sam and Jack released each other.
Sam rolled onto Jacks right side, then realised that she was no longer holding the knife.
The weight of Sam off Jack caused him to groan, then move his hand to his stomach, to find the handle of the blade, imbedded deeply into his stomach. There was only one word that sprang to mind. "Crap" He groaned again.
Sam rolled onto her front, eyes looking straight to Jack, then to the slowly growing circle of blood, surrounding her knife hilt. "Sir!" She called as she moved closer. Jack had closed his eyes.
As his breathing slowed, Sam started to Panic. "Shit. Shit. Shit!" She moved her hand to the hilt of the blade, touching the gold of the tip lightly.
"Don't even think about it Sam" He groaned, opening one eye.
"But Sir, you've been stabbed"
"By you Carter. You"
Sam blinked. Her eyes widening. "What? That's impossible."
"Take a look at my stomach Sam. The knife, the blood, it was you" Jack moved his left hand to touch her, Sam backed away. "But I cant of, I mean, I would never" As soon as the words had left her mouth, her eyes closed and she saw. Not everything, not even half. But she saw herself, pulling needles from his back. And she was, well she was laughing and smiling as she did it. She looked like she was having fun.
As her eyes opened, they filled with tears.
"it wasn't your fault." Jack said. Eyes closing again. The bleeding was slowing as he lay, mainly because the knife was so far in, that it was like a cork in a bottle, if you took out the cork, then the liquid would flow out. If you removed the knife, then out would come the blood.
"But It was. I wasn't strong enough, I should have resisted it. I should have stopped myself, I should have"
Jack cut her off, once again reaching for her.
"You could do nothing. It wasn't your fault. But, Carter, did you have to slam it all the way in."
Carter crawled away, recoiling from his touch.
As they sat, Sam crying in front of her CO, Jack groaning as he lay there dying, the doors opened. Three people emerging.
Tamara, in her pale purple gown.
Ellyanii in her ruby red skirt and chain straps round her chest.
And then the mother of all things evil. Kali-Kasha, her deep emerald dress, flowing from her neck, down to the floor.
Tamara stood to the left, Ellyanii to the right, and kali-Kasha in the centre. All three with large wide smiles across their faces. Kali-Kasha started to clap. Her delicate hands applauding the view.
"I must say Sister, that you have exceeded our expectations. Brave, brave girl."
She looked from her left to her right. Tamara, then Ellyanii.
"Girls, you can play now"
Tamara leapt forward, springing straight to Jacks side, her hand going form his chest.
"Don't you even dare!" Sam cried as she crawled forward back to Jack.
"Dare to do what? This?" Tamara leant forward, kissing Jack briefly.
In a matter of seconds, Sam had flung herself forward knocking Tamara to the floor, hitting her with fist after fist.
Sam was crying, Tamara was punching back. Together they rolled across the floor. A mess of Purple and Blue fabric. Ellyanii was watching wide eyed.
Tamara was on top, throwing all her weight into punches that went smacking straight into Sam's stomach.
"Leave her alone" Came a gruff voice from behind. Tamara missed the hint, and delivered another blow into Sam's stomach.
Jack's hand moved to the back of Tamara's head, and he pulled a handful of ringlets. Tamara's body falling back from Sam's.
In a rage, Tamara screamed, then with her right hand took a firm grip on the knife in Jack's stomach.
"No" Sam screamed. Tamara grinned, then ripped the knife from Jacks stomach. The blood was instant, the laughter was neurotic and Sam was crying.
Sam jumped forward, straddling Jacks thighs, she pressed her hands onto his wound. His blood pumping fast and thick through her fingers.
"Jack" She whispered.
"Just let I go Carter. Let it go"
Tamara was sitting on the floor cross legged, with the knife that was in Jack, flicking between her fingers.
Ellyanii groaned.
"Look Darling," She said as she strode forward. "Lets cut this goodbye down a little."
She stood right behind Sam, bending down she placed a tanned hand on Sam's shoulder.
"He is going to die. And there is nothing you, or I, or he can do about it."
Sam held her hands to Jacks stomach.
"Move now" Ely commanded. Sam shook her head, not moving. "Fine, my way then" Ely reached forward, wrapped her hand in Sam's hair. Then with a large tug, dragged Sam across the floor, off his body.
Jack lifted his head slightly. "Sam, find Daniel and Teal'c, and get back to the ga.."
He was silenced by a shoe coming straight towards him and crushing his throat.
"Silence little man. You are lucky you are still alive. Or maybe not, not with what Tamara is going to do to you"
Ellyanii dragged Sam's body, starting to pull it down the first flight of stairs. As Sam twisted and turned, her hair gripped tight. Sam leaned forward, and with a free hand gripped Ellyanii's wrist. She then sunk her white teeth straight into Ely's arm. Her canines biting so hard, she could feel the metallic tang of blood and the ripping of flesh.
Ellyanii released Sam's hair with a feline hiss, her hand in automatic recoil hitting Sam with a blow that could crush iron. Sam flew across the corridor, her body hitting the stone and crumpling at the floor.
"You little Earthen Bred Whore, lowest of the low" Ellyanii screamed, her voice trailing off into her native tongue, but was obviously not something to be repeated.
Sam scrambled from her position, her feet flying underneath her as if they couldn't carry her fast enough. Her torn and bloody dress trailing behind her like a banner caught in wind.
She smashed through the doors, falling to her knees, her body still in propulsion sliding alone the floor. Her body came to a halt at the back of Tamara's legs.
Tamara rose her hand as if to hit Sam.
"Leave her" Kali-Kasha smiled. "There is nothing she can do now. We might as well get more pain out of her this way, than leave her unknowing." Kali smiled. "Tamara here now" Tamara shifted and walked to the wall and stood next to Kali-Kasha.
Sam looked over at jack. Her first immediate action was her hand racing forward and finding a very low pulse in O'Neill's neck.
"No, No. No!" She shouted. "Jack. COLONEL!"
Jack's breathing became hardly audible. As Sam tried her best to keep him warm and alive in his semi-unconscious state. Ely walked in the room behind Sam.
Her wrist hung at her side. The bite clearly visible as streams of jet ebony blood ran in torrents down her hand and dripped on the floor.
Sam was holding jack. Her face buried into his chest. She felt completely helpless. She couldn't stop the bleeding. She knew it was helpless. He was going to die.
"How does it feel, the pain inside. The complete and utter desperation you must be feeling." Ely smiled.
"Your love. He is dying. His life is slowly ebbing away. And you know what. You did it. Its all because you succumb to us. You let us use you. You are weak. You should be in his place. Dying slowly, painfully."
Sam groaned as Ely continued. Trying to block out most of the insults.
"They say that it's the feeling in your lower body that starts to go first, then the pain slowly spreads upwards, wrapping itself like a large serpent round his chest, and lungs and heart, that big loving heart, Tamara tells me he was very, very loving.
"No. No, he wouldn't do it on purpose. You forced him, some kind of mind trick, control, whatever. It wasn't him. And I wasn't me"
"On the contrary, he was quite himself". He was fed up with waiting for you. He eventually decided that the wait wasn't worth it."
Jacks body stirred under her. His lips parted to speak and she leant in, her ear against them.
"Sam........................I........................I............" He never got to finish his sentence. Jack's body beneath her was lifeless, an icy husk, his breathing still, his great generous lovely heart stopped forever.
Sam let out a heart rendering cry. Her arms wrapped round Jacks chest. She sat up, opened her mouth to say something before she was silenced.
"We'll be keeping a close eye and check on you Samantha Carter of the Earth's Airforce"
Everything Sam knew turned to darkness as she her head fell to the floor.