Spoilers: Nothing specific if anything.
Season:??????AU?????????
Warnings: language
Summary: Jack and Sam become stranded on an alien world. (This is a prequel type story to my story 'The Otherside' but both can be read as stand alones).
Parings: Jack/Sam, Daniel/Janet
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A/N: Just to give you all a heads up things are starting to get a little hectic in my life so I might not be posting as regular as I normally would but I will try to have at least one chapter a week posted. I ask that all you kind forgiving readers please bare with me until my life gets less hectic again.
Ok enough rambling on to the story.
/dream/
Pain, that was the first thing Sam became aware of as she started to wake up. Her head felt like it was going to explode any second. Attempting to open her eyes caused the pain to intensify to the point that Sam nearly passed out again. Curling into a ball Sam laid as still as possible, waiting for the pain to go away. Several moments later the pain had lessened enough that Sam could finally open her eyes slightly, it was then she saw the form of colonel Jack O'Neill lying not far from her.
"Gah! What the hell was I drinking last night?" Jack complained as he tried opening his eyes.
"Keep your eyes closed and hold still sir, the pain will lessen sooner." Sam instructed.
"Carter?" Jack tried sitting up, but let out a loud moan and clutched his head.
"Just hold still sir."
This time Jack did as he was told and soon felt the pain lessen in his head. When he felt the pain had lessened enough, Jack sat up and took in their surroundings. The two officers were sitting at the base of the stargate, which stood in the middle of a small clearing that was surrounded by trees, lots and lots of trees.
"Have any idea where we're at Carter?"
"Not a clue sir." The last thing Sam remembered was trying to escape from a Goa'uld fortress.
SG-1 had been on a standard recon mission when they had come across a group of Jaffa. Daniel and Teal'c had managed to make it back through the gate, but Jack and Sam had been captured. They'd been held prisoner for what felt like weeks before they were able to escape, Sam shuddered thinking about their imprisonment.
Not having a GDO and not wanting to risk the Goa'uld learning the gate address to the alpha site the two decided to gate to another world and then go from there. So after taking the first gate address they could find from the Goa'uld computers they left through the gate.
"Well what do you say we get the hell out of here and go home?" Jack, followed by Sam, walked over to the DHD and dialed the alpha site, but nothing happened. When Sam tried and still nothing happened, both began to get worried. "You can fix this right? No problem?"
"I think so sir but I'll need to get a look inside the DHD first to be sure." Sam quickly got to work on the DHD.
While Sam worked on the DHD Jack started to scout around the clearing. Not wanting to let Sam out of his site and since they had no weapons for that matter, he didn't go far. About an hour later Jack was getting bored and decided to see how Sam was doing.
"So major what's the verdict?" Jack asked as he crouched near where Sam was working.
"Well sir the good news is that I know exactly what's wrong, why the gate won't dial..." Sam answered poking her head out from under the DHD.
"And the bad news?"
"The bad news is that without the proper tools and replacement parts I'm not going to be able to fix it."
"I'm sure you'll think of something, but for now I think we should worry about finding some shelter, it looks like it'll be dark soon. Tomorrow we'll need to look for food and water."
Before long the two were able to find shelter in a large old rotted out tree that must have fallen long ago. It had taken some work but Jack was able to get a fire going using some rocks, dead wood, and dry weeds/grass. Soon after the two fell asleep Sam found herself lost in the throws of a nightmare.
/ He was coming she could hear the unmistakable sounds of his footsteps. The Goa'uld was coming to poke and prod her and perform all kinds of tests on her. The sound stopped but the Goa'uld was just out of her line of vision. Knowing what was coming next she began to thrash around trying to get away from the pain she knew was coming, but her restraints prevented her from escaping.
Fear gripped her as what seemed like phantom hands wrapped around her throat, squeezing off her air supply. The form of the Goa'uld flashed before her eyes, an evil smile adorning his face, as he held on tight to her throat.
When the Goa'uld was handed a small device and went to put it on her head, she once again began to struggle, but it was to late. She whimpered as the device was turned on and a dull pain started to spread throughout her head. Each time she failed to answer the Goa'uld's questions the pain would sharpen. The pain was getting intense and verging on unbearable.
The light became intolerably bright and her vision soon started to blur. Light seemed to bend and curve directly on her, causing her to tightly shut her eyes. Eventually the outside world disappeared as the pain engulfed her mind. Soon her body became numb, she could no longer feel the cold smooth table below her.
Everything seemed so far away, even her own body felt far away. Time lost all concept to her, she had no idea how long this had been going on or how much longer it would last. It felt like the pain burning into her mind was all there was, all she knew, all she'd ever known.
It was too much, she couldn't breath, she was suffocating, drowning. After what felt like an eternity the light and pain faded leaving only darkness, no sites, sounds, or smells just darkness. Drowning in the darkness with no feelings, no thoughts, no nothing she finally was embraced in blissful unconsciousness. /
Sometime during the night a sound woke Jack from unpleasant dreams of knives, acid, and pain. Holding still Jack listened to see if he could figure out what it was. It didn't take him long to find that Sam was the source of the noise. She seemed to be having a nightmare, not that he blamed her after the hell she'd gone through at the hands of that bastard Goa'uld.
"Carter wake up." Jack took a hold of Sam's shoulders. "Come on you're just having a bad dream...Sam!!"
Feeling someone holding onto her shoulders Sam started struggling. Still not completely awake she wasn't sure were exactly she was. Soon the sound of Jack's voice started to register and Sam could feel his arms wrapped around her.
With his arms wrapped tightly around Sam, Jack began to whisper soothing words trying to calm her down. Feeling Sam start to settle down Jack loosened his grip, but didn't completely let go. Next thing Jack knew Sam was gripping his shirt and crying into his shoulder. Not really sure what else to do Jack just held Sam and let her get it all out.
"I...I'm sorry sir...I... don't know what came over me." Sam apologized when the realization that she'd just broken down and cried all over her CO hit. Sam quickly started to pull out of Jack's arms, but Jack wasn't quite ready to let her go yet. After getting over his initial surprise Jack had enjoyed holding Sam in his arms.
"Hey don't worry about it. You've had a rough time lately."
"Colonel –"
"Jack...call me Jack. Look odds are we're gonna be her for a bit, right?" Sam gave a slight nod of her head. "So what do you say we drop the sirs, colonels, majors, Carters and just be Jack and Sam?"
"I guess I could live with that."
"Good. Know lets get some sleep, we have a lot of work to do tomorrow." Jack settled back against the tree wall, still holding Sam. Enjoying the warmth of Jack's arms Sam settled in as well and soon both were sound asleep once again.