Chapter 2 - Why Oh Why ?
Instantly after the debriefing Sam and the others went to infirmary to see what Jack's condition was like.
The news they got from Janet were not good at all.
"Good you're all coming down here, I was about to call you", the expression on Janet's face promised nothing positive.
"What is it, Janet?" Sam inquired.
"To say it right away: He's comatose, we couldn't do anything against it, I'm so sorry."
Sam's heart sank, but then something deep inside told her that this was not the end.
"But there's still a chance we get him back, right?", she asked.
"There is a chance, yes", Janet nodded, "but it's not that big..."
"Maybe one of our allies can help", Teal'C suggested.
Both Daniel and Sam turned around giving their friend sort of thunderstruck stare.
"Whom are you thinking of?" Daniel questioned.
"Perhaps the Asgard could offer it's him", Sam ended his sentence, "Perhaps they could if we get to contact them through all the trouble they're in."
"But for now we're on our own", Daniel stated.
"It could help if we'd see him and maybe try talking to him", Sam proposed, "is that all right, Janet?"
"Of course", Janet agreed leading the three of the to Jack's bed.
Jack blinked away the darkness that had been surrounding him for quite a while. He was sort of baffled as he found himself lying on a huge meadow, in the middle of a bed of pink flowers.
He sat up and let out a long yawn, he felt really tired and asked himself if this all could be real.
Still wondering about this strange place he looked up to the sky, it was clear and blue, there were some birds flying around, chirping happily.
His gaze went further down facing the horizon, the whole land seemed to be evenly flat and green with no peaks or higher trees in sight.
But as he turned his head to the other side he saw some trees that were the first spurs of a forest.
Suddenly Jack heart a serene giggle; he spun around scanning the surroundings for anybody to be seen, but he was still alone.
He heard the giggle again, it appeared to come from near the trees. Jack jumped to his feet, slowly he was becoming curious.
As he came closer someone called his name.
Jack.
Once again a giggle followed.
"Hello? Anybody home?" Jack called as he was standing at the bottom of one of the trees.
All of a sudden it started raining sparks from the very top of the tree. They formed a figure sitting on one of the thicker branches; after a short moment the figure became flesh and a pair of long, female legs was hanging down the bough.
Jack looked up further and saw that this woman was wearing not much more than a very short green, asymmetric dress that looked like it was made of leaves.
As he looked up further and found her eyes, Jack let out an astonished breath, of all people he knew only one person had these amazing ice-blue eyes...
"Sam?" he brought out full of surprise.
"Who's Sam?" she giggled again and slowly she came flying down the tree and stopped floating some inches away from the ground, "I'm a fairy."
"Whoa, whoa, wait", Jack eyed her closely, "ya look like Sam, ya talk like Sam, but yer floating in the air..." he had to frown, "so who else the heck could you possibly be?"
"As I've said before, I'm a fairy. Oh, and my name ain't Sam, it's Serena", she was smiling at him in a playfully innocent way.
"So, you're Serena", Jack sighed, "crap, this can't be real."
"Why not?" the fairy chuckled.
"Hell, I'm standin' here chatting with a fairy."
"And?" Serena seemed to find his attitude highly amusing.
"That's impossible, if I'm not completely nuts, I suppose."
"You're not, I promise you", Serena landed on the ground next to him, "Come on, I'll show you something", she took his hand and Jack could not help but follow her.
She took him into the forest and they walked side by side quietly for a while, but suddenly the air around Jack seemed to twist, something was pulling him away from this place, everything was swimming in front of his eyes, he called out her name Sam and then it went dark all around him again.