A/N: Hey guys!! I'm sitting currently 3 hours from my home watching Stargate (Entity YAY) with my friend, I've successfully brainwashed her!! Isnt it get!? Anyway, I thought I'd take this chance while I'm in a shippy mood to catch up on fan fics :D

Hope you enjoy

Chapter Six

"So what do we do?" Jack asked.

"Nothing," Jacob replied.

"Nothing?" Jack repeated, raising his eyebrows. "Jacob, we have a plan."

"So do we," Jacob replied. "You have no chance anyway."

"Excuse me, who defeated the Goa'uld?" Jack replied.

"Well you didn't do a very good job of it, did you?" Jacob shot back.

They both sat across from each other, glaring angrily. Most of the people at the table had switched off from the argument a long time before. Jonas was fiddling with his patch, which he had torn off his sleeve, Teal'c sat silently, staring at the wall across the table from him and Daniel was quietly fiddling with the notepad that lay on the table in front of him. Only Sam was watching the two of them arguing.

"We did better than you," Jack said, his voice calm.

"We were close to putting into action our own plan," Jacob replied.

"Well maybe if you hadn't cut contact from Earth we would have been able to ask you, but as you Tok'ra seemed to think you were too good for us…"

"Mistakes were made…now what can we do to help?" Sam cut him off, glaring at him.

Jack was still staring at Jacob, a small smile playing on the corner of his lips. It was a trick he had learnt to use very well on high school teachers, and had discovered that it worked in all kinds of situations. Pretend that they weren't getting to you and you annoyed them even more.

"Nothing, we don't need your help," Jacob said. "Now we can either fix your old Goa'uld cargo ship to fly faster and send you home, or you can stay on board…but we have no need for your help."

"Fine," Jack said. "You do it your way, but if our planet gets blown up, we blame you."

"Fine."

Jack stood up, the chair that had been somehow projected disappeared as he did so. The table disappeared at the same moment, Daniel quickly catching his notepad before it fell to the floor. Jacob stood up and stormed off.

"Well who stuck a poll up his ass?" Jack mumbled.

"You," Sam replied, standing up and storming out of the room in the opposite direction to Jacob.

"What did I do?" Jack asked no exact person.

The room was silent, Teal'c remained staring at the wall, still seated, while Jonas and Daniel avoided looking at Jack.

"Yeah…that's what I thought," Jack muttered, walking out the room, following the same direction Sam had walked in.

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God he was annoying. Why the hell couldn't he forgive her? It had been years since they'd talked. Had she really screwed up that badly?

"Are you blind?"

She heard his voice echoing through her head. She sighed, sitting down on the bed Jacob had announced briefly as hers. She looked across at the four other beds set up temporarily in the small room. Jack, Daniel, Teal'c and Jonas had briefly thrown their stuff over the beds before going to the meeting with Jacob.

It had been a completely useless meeting too. He had successfully told them that they were useless and couldn't possibly defeat the Goa'uld, that they should have done a better job of it the last time and that they would have no part in overthrowing Atum.

He'd also made a point of making it noticed that he had issues with Jack.

"Carter…"

Sam looked up, he was standing in the door. He looked tired, his age becoming more apparent when he was.

"Hi," she replied.

"Did you…wanna talk?"

Talk?

"About what?" she asked, looking up in surprise.

"What happened with Jacob?" Jack asked, wincing in the process.

"Not really, but thanks, sir," Sam replied.

"Was it…" Jack paused as Sam met his eyes, he looked away. "Nevermind…"

"We…had different opinions on some things," Sam said.

Jack looked back her. She felt as if she should look away, but somehow she was drawn to his gaze, drawn to a man she had spent so many years avoiding contact with, avoiding having to face her feelings for.

Now here they were, alone, light years from earth, five years after they had forced themselves away from each other, thinking it was the right thing.

Suddenly she regretted it all, she regretted getting angry at him, regretted shouting at him not to come to her wedding, regretted ignoring her feelings, regretted marrying the wrong man…regretted never telling the right man how she really felt.

"I guess he was right," she muttered, looking down at her hands.

She felt tears coming on, pushing them away only seemed to make them come faster. Her wedding ring was still on her hand, reminding her of her unconscious husband. She blinked a few times, trying to makeit goaway.

"Hey…" Jack moved closer.

"Don't…" she said, standing up and walking away.

"Sam…"

She stopped where she was and stared ahead, trying to ignore him. Her vision was becoming clouded, the tears building up quickly. She wiped them with her sleeve. She didn't want to cry, not now.

"Just go away," she said, quietly.

"No."

The whisper was so close to her. She jumped, spinning around and finding him so close to her. She couldn't look up, couldn't bring herself to look up into his eyes and see the pain at seeing her upset, the caring look in his eyes, knowing that it was directed at her. She couldn't see it for fear of falling immediately back in love with him.

If she hadn't already.

"Please," she whispered, still staring at his chest.

He didn't reply, just remained there silently.

"Jack, please don't…" she was cut off by his finger resting against her lips.

"Ssh…" he said. "I'm not going anywhere."

She looked up. The look in his eyes scared her, the overwhelming adoration and caring they revealed to her made her feel insecure. Years ago it had been a comfort to her, but now it made her uncomfortable.

Yet slowly she found the discomfort fading, the old feeling of comfort returning to her. She wanted him to take his hand away from her mouth, to move away and tell her that he didn't care. She wanted to forget ever having feelings for him. She was unable to move, her breath was caught in her throat.

She wanted to kiss him, to lean forward and loose herself in his kiss. But she couldn't, she was married, although it barely felt like that anymore, she was, and she wasn't going to cheat on her husband, even if he was a vegetable.

She closed her eyes briefly and then looked away, not wanting to look into his eyes any longer. She felt his hand slip off her lips and make its way to her shoulders.

"Come here," he said quietly.

He pulled her in and hugged her tightly, the same way he had when Janet had been killed, when she'd thought he was also going to die. She wrapped her arms around him, holding on tightly, not wanting to let go. She felt his arms tighten around her as he pressed his chin further into her shoulder. His jaw tense, as if he were trying to force back tears.

She felt her own tears flowing freely, the thought that Jack O'Neill had the need to force back tears was too much for her. She also tightened her griparound him.

"I'm so sorry," she said quietly.

"Me too," he replied.

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Daniel watched his friends silently. He knew it was dangerous for them, just being here was dangerous for them, but it was also the best thing that could have happened. He knew as well as the next person that there was no way Pete was going to make it, Sam was just delaying her acknowledgement that that part of her life was over.

She'd always have Jonathan, but Pete was gone. It was just a matter of time before she agreed to have the life support taken off. She was clinging on to a part of her life that was over, and maybe being there with Jack would help her to move on.

Hopefully.

"They have made mistakes."

Daniel felt Teal'c stop next to him, also watching their friends.

"Mistakes are fixable," Daniel replied.

"Indeed," Teal'c said quietly.

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Jack pulled back, looking again into Sam's eyes. The cold, fearful look she had had in her eyes earlier had been replaced by a thankful expression. One he had missed greatly, her large eyes gave away all emotion she was feeling, and he hadn't seen the caring look in her eyes for over five years.

He felt the need to talk, but nothing came to mind. She wiped away the last couple of tears still present in her eyes and smiled at him slightly.

"Thank you, sir," she said.

Sir. If he could delete one word from her vocabulary it would be the damn 'sir'.

"Anytime," he said, but his word barely came out.

He'd missed her. He hadn't realised exactly how much he had missed her over the years. Hadn't realised how much he needed her, even if only as a friend. He regretted having been so stupid, but there was nothing he could do about that now. All he could do was change what happened from there on.

"I've missed you," she said suddenly.

"Me too."

"Let's not let it happen again," she said. "I don't wanna lose you again."

"Me neither," Jack replied.

She held her hand up to his face, leaning it against his cheek. Her eyes were searching his, as if looking for something. He could tell she wanted to say something. But as if suddenly realising where they were, who they where and what they were doing, she pulled her hand back and looked away, widening the space between them.

"Daniel…" she said.

Jack spun around. Daniel and Teal'c were standing in the doorway, they both looked like they'd been standing there for a long period of time, Daniel was standing up straight again from his position leaning against the wall.

"You guys ever heard of a little thing called privacy?" Jack said, his tone anything but friendly.

"We were…not interrupting," Daniel said.

"Yeah well, next time take your non-interrupting somewhere else," he muttered.

"Oh, OK, next time I'll just walk into the room when I want my stuff," Daniel said, walking over to his things and pulling out one of his notebooks.

Jack opened his mouth to respond but Daniel had already stormed past him and back out of the room. Jack continued to glare at the doorway space he had left empty. At that moment Jacob appeared next to Teal'c, replacing Daniel.

"Jack, I need to talk to you," Jacob said.

"Now he needs our help," Jack said, walking towards Jacob.

"We just found out something that complicates the matter," Jacob said.

"What is it?" Sam asked.

"They have a hostage…" Jacob replied. "Some teenage girl they abducted from Earth…"

"Do we know why?" Jack asked.

"Atum wants a new Queen," Jacob replied.

"Ouch," Jack said. "So I guess we have to save her…"

"That'd be the plan," Jacob said.

"And I'm guessing the Tok'ra aren't going with that," Sam said.

Jacob shook his head.

"So that's where we come in," Jack said. "Well at least we didn't fly out here for nothing."

A/N: More coming soooon!!! grins