4 After Icon: Part Nine

'Renewed'

A/N: I hope you have liked reading this as much as I enjoy writing this. Thanks for the reviews!

Thor's Ship

Michael paused and held a hand up at Thor. "Wait a minute, I may have to make an alteration to the power conduit transference before I go any further. I have to make sure that the message I send out is personalized for each human."

Thor blinked at him then spoke. "What memory are you implanting in the members of the SGC's minds?"

"Oh, I am making them remember that Drake, Violet and I are just humans that helped them find some artifacts. The people in Kentucky at the Park will remember finding a lovely new room in the cave system without any of our artifacts there. This will make it easier for them then knowing that what they called Vampires was real till we eliminated them. This will also help Keira with the trauma she has experienced by being under Drago's control. There will also be significant memory loss from the day they got back to the SGC. They will remember things vital to their jobs, but personal things will be blurred. If they have any memories of anything at all, it will feel like they dreamed it. Was there anything you wanted to add?" Michael made another adjustment then studied Thor.

"I just wanted to make sure that you were only altering what was necessary. And it appears that you have." Thor blinked several times then went back to supervising Michael's progress.

The Quarters of Teal'c

After Teal'c left Jack in the hall, he ran into Violet and they spent an hour talking. She gathered her things up to leave his room when she ran her hand across his arm and fluttered her eyes at him.

"These are very interesting. May I take a few?" Violet held a few items that were in Teal'cs living quarters.

"Indeed you may. There is one thing that I would ask of you in return." Teal'c raised an eyebrow and had a hauntingly seductive look on his face.

"And what would that be exactly my good friend?" Violet purred.

"In exchange for these coins, I would ask for something personal from you to remember you by." His heart was hammering against his ribs and he brushed a few strands of her violet hair out of her lovely face.

"I have an idea." Violet smiled and gave a tug on the strap of her dress (Deleted Scene).

Somewhere in the SGC (not telling this time either)

Sam's hands continued to lightly touch Jack in an almost inviting manner. "What I wanted to tell you was, I do not think of Pete as much as I find myself hoping for you."

"Hoping for what exactly?" Jack found it hard to breath with Sam talking to him with her hands lightly exploring his body as her leg was hooked over his.

"Don't play innocent with me. I think we both know what I am talking about." Sam flushed as memories of all the times he had rescued her and that she had saved him. Thoughts of the Infinity pool invited her into a seducing mind frame.

Jack got a puzzled expression on his face, "You hope to go fishing with me?"

Sam dipped her head down slightly then lifted herself completely into his lap sitting sideways on the couch over him. She felt him tense for a moment then she distinctly recognized his oblivious General persona melt as he started stroking her back with his finger tips. "No, fishing was not what I was talking about, but if that is what you want to call it then ok. I want to go fishing with you more then I want to go fishing with Pete."

"Obviously cause I'm a better fisher." Jack was completely beside himself. He leaned away from her for a moment and got something out of the end table. "In that case, would you take this piece of fishing tackle as a token of the many fishing trips we will take together?" While experiencing an intense desire to kiss Samantha, he wanted her to continue to go at her own pace and remain in control for now.

"I don't think you understand, Jack." Sam paused and took a deep breath. She shifted her weight on his lap causing a noticeable reaction from his body. I bet he is a better fisher with a better fishing rod. What am I thinking? Focus.

He also paused in handing her the little brown bag that he retrieved from the end table. She called me Jack and not sir. She is going to have to stop moving like that. Dam, Sam if you can read my thoughts, continue please.

Sam noticed the little brown bag and thought of her annual doctor visit. I hope that is not a bag of condoms, please be fishing tackle. Sam took another deep breath as she had lost her train of thought. "When I said fishing I was not talking about fishing, but rather."

Jack cut her off from her sentence knowing what would fix the moment. "Look in the bag."

She leaned against his strong chest while wiggling in her newly found seat. "Like I was saying." This time she cut herself off as she pulled out what she thought was some kind of fishing bait and opened it.

Jack felt the muscles in his neck tighten then relax when he remembered the words of M. D. Babcock. "Do not let the good things of life rob you of the best things."

She completely leaned against him while pulling her feet up closer to herself. Yes, she had perused her career at the SGC and for so long neglected the personal side of her life. She found herself drawn to Jack, but he was her superior and that meant they could not have a personal relationship. For so long they had pretended, that it was just a working relationship. Even when they were forced to say they cared for each other in that Tok'ra lie detector, they tried to be professional. She let the full meaning of his words press against her mind and heart.

In moments, Sam was encompassed with Jack's warmth as he put his arms around her with a smile. "When I seen this, I thought you would like it. And I believe you know where to put it."

Sam gasped again for the second time, "It's a ring."

"Yes, for you to wear on a certain finger. It kind of looks like the thingies that lock the chevrons in place on the Stargate, but the center stone is a color changing Topaz kind of like the horizon." Jack took the ring from her with delicate movements as he climbed into the floor. "Samantha Carter, will you marry me?"

Sam could only gape at the ring that was given to her as Jack put it onto her ring finger. The band was mainly gold with silver overlapping on it with intricate designs. There were two rubies on either side of the ring, like the part on the Stargate that glowed red, with small diamonds in two separate rows encasing a Mystic Fire Topaz in the center. Yes, Jacks right, it looks like a Stargate, Sam mused to herself. It took her several minutes of looking from the ring to Jack to regain her composure.

She pulled him closer with a look. "I quit."

Jack appeared shocked and hurt. "What?" How can this be, she prefers Pete! NO! A flood of emotional loss filled his eyes like a storm.

"Oh, I mean I am formally notifying you that I am retiring." She brought her face into a mere inch from his, "Yes, I will marry you, Jack."

"I think I will retire too. Want to run away to the Caribbean for a year? Hey, say it again." He kissed her lightly on the lips trying not to bite her.

"Yes, Jack." Sam reached one arm around his neck and pulled him onto the couch with her. "Lets go fishing." She knew she could not trust herself anymore to maintain control in the smoldering fire that consumed their secret refuge. They wrapped their arms around each other with the realization that they had found the things in their hearts were stronger then the world around them.

The full intensity of their controlled passion flooded the blue room with an all-consuming tempestuous inferno. Their harmony and ecstasy while breathes shared, encouraged Jack to show Sam how full and unfathomable love is to experience. Within endless fathoms of time, their unclothed bodies basked in the blaze of love as they lost all conscious thought and gave in to the raw urges that promised fulfillment.

Later on Thor's Ship

Michael had everything working to alter everyone's memories of the vampires. "Ok, lets start."

After an hour of controlling the alterations to various people's memories, Michael was tired and Drake came to help. Violet showed up after that, and they were ready to depart. Thor had helped them change a few things on a little ship he had to help them get to a safe galaxy before using the beacon they had constructed from memory and the parts they had originally taken out of the one they had on Earth. It was risky, but they had to try something.

Violet was saddened that she would never again see the human friends she had cared for. She had formed a bond with Teal'c and kept a quarter in her pocket that she intended to melt down to make a pendant. She knew that over the years that she would look back on this time as one of discovery and mystery. Violet knew she would out live the humans by hundreds of years and soon they would be no more. The knowledge that they lived shorter lived made them even more special and dear to her heart. When she got home, she intended to tell the story of the young planet that helped overcome one of their enemy and the passions by which they lived.

Unknown to Teal'c, she had recorded him into a device she had, so she could make a holographic form of him once inside the safety of her galaxy. Yes, he would be a pleasant distraction to remember once her obligations of who she was in her people's way of life consumed her days.

Earth

The memories of everyone exposed to the knowledge of the cave were reverted to an ordinary cave by Michael and Thor. It had been more difficult for them to alter the people's minds at the SGC where they could not just erase, but leave in the useful information as well. Michael found it necessary to delete everything from the days after they arrived at the cave and just leave memories of a vacation and finding artifacts. Thor had wondered if he should have asked for the time he noticed that the members of the SGC were intimately in personal endeavors to remain as memories or not. In the end, delete, delete was the key.

Daniel awoke the next day with feelings as if he had been on a mission to help a beautiful lady and wished he could remember the dream better. Teal'c on the other hand wondered where the purplish tie of hair in a small golden box in his room came from that was locked in one of his drawers. Sam and Jack woke in their own quarters with vivid memories of dreams of romantic interludes with one another.

First thing Sam did was to open her journal and start writing what she remembered. After writing a sentence, she read it out loud to herself. "Jack then gave me a miniature Stargate to wear on my hand with all the power of the sun." What does that symbolize if it happens in a dream? she thought.

She felt something on her shoulder and looked in the mirror after taking she shirt off. "Is that a bite mark?" Sam then looked at her posterior as it was feeling a little damaged on her left cheek. "A welt on my a with a hickey! How did that happen?" She exclaimed out loud, as there was a knock at her door.

Sam opened it to find Daniel with a dazed look on his face, "Don't look at me, but then again I had the strangest dream." He shook his head then left.

In that moment, Sam seen that Jack had been standing behind Daniel, "So, how's you're a?"

Sam tried to think of how she got hurt then replied, "Fine for someone who fell down stairs on some books." She didn't add in the last part of her memory that he was the one holding the books she fell on.

"Did you bounce down every step and land with your shoulder and you rear in someone's mouth?" Jack winked then walked away.

What did Jack mean by that? Sam wondered as she sat down on her bed and noticed that there was not really pain, but the knowing it was there. How would she ever explain this to Pete? She did not know, so she determined to go sit on some ice and not leave the SGC for three days.

The Three Friends in Their New Ship

The three comrades familiarized themselves with the small ship that Thor gave them for their perilous journey. The threat of letting their enemy find the young planet weighed heavy upon them as they activated the controls to leave the solar system. Drake immediately started priming the weapons and changing a few things to make it more effective in case of an attack. He also installed one of their devices they recovered from their own destroyed ship in order to travel at five times the speed and strengthen the shields by tenfold.

During their journey to a safe distance from earth to use the new beacon, they detected what Thor had told them was a Goa'uld mother ship. Upon detecting the kind of ship, they immediately decided they would probably have to destroy it without thought because they knew the evil acting Goa'uld were trying to conquer and enslave, which they viewed as a cardinal sin.

She saw by the controls, that the Goa'uld ship had powered up weapons. She sent a telepathic wave of thought to Michael who was already reading their thought patters and knew they were about to attack anyway. Violet cringed when they fired upon the other ship. Such loss of life sickened her, but she knew it was necessary.

One never knows if the enemy of a friend is an ally to your own enemies and informs them on your movements. How she wished and spoke so to the other two in the ship that there should be no murder or killing ever. She then communicated that she knew if beings that are good let the evil proceed with what they are doing that they will never be quenched of the lust of conquest. The evil will take over all good if that happens till there is no existence of decency and safety, only hate and death.

With this in mind, they desperately sought out their home waiting for safety from the enemies that lurked seemingly everywhere in the darkness that seeks to consume every life.

A/N:

I do believe this concludes After Icon. I hope they make it home safe.

By the way, I have the ring that Jack gave to Sam. I have a picture of it on a wallpaper of them holding hands at under the username: Stargatebyleia in the Community pictures. Love that ring, I called it a Stargate ring, but it is just a Mystic Fire Topaz (for the center stone that is one ct) ring with round diamond and ruby accent stones. The band is a unique estate style made of 14 karat gold.

Please Review the chapter and or the pic of the ring as a wallpaper with Jack and Sam acting romantic! Thanks.

Smile,

Leia