"Janet will check it out when we get back, the baby will be fine Sam." He assured her before radioing Daniel to tell him that Sam was safe only to find that Conrad and the Gould are missing.
Life on Hold part10
Sam tried to remember what had happened after Jack had arrived; it was all a bit fuzzy. Daniel had radioed to say that the symbiote and Conrad were missing, Jack had asked if she was okay before handing her a gun, they had gone after Conrad, and they had split up. She remembered Jack on the floor; he had been shot.
Sam sat up quickly but immediately regretted it. She felt like someone was drilling a nail into her head and chewing their way through her muscles. She groaned.
"Whoa Sam, take it easy okay?" Daniel said pushing her back onto the bed.
"Daniel, where's Jack? Is he okay?" She asked grabbing onto his arm.
"He's in the bed to your right. He just got shot in the arm but he's fine." He reassured her.
"Hello Sam, how are you feeling?" Janet asked walking up to her bed.
"Like Alien is about to burst out of me."
"Yes, well I'm not surprised. You've been drugged up to the eyeballs and strapped to a bed for the last few days, you're bound to feel like shit." She looked at Daniel's reaction. "What? Isn't a doctor allowed to swear?"
Daniel shrugged.
"Well, you'll be fine Sam after a lot of rest. Chasing Adrian Conrad didn't do you any good; the drugs affected your muscles so they must really hurt now, I won't give you any painkillers because you've had enough drugs to last a lifetime and I don't want to endanger the baby anymore than it already has been."
"How is my baby?"
"As far as I can tell at the moment, fine. I want to do more tests when you're feeling better just to be on the safe side." Janet smiled. "Get some rest Sam, you need it."
Sam nodded and closed her eyes; she fell straight to sleep with Daniel holding her hand.
She woke hours later to find Jack talking to General Hammond.
"We don't know how Maybourne and Adrian Conrad got by the men surrounding the hospital. However the local authorities have admitted they may have dropped the ball." Hammond was saying.
"May? May have?!" Jack spluttered.
"The FBI and Interpol have been alerted, unfortunately we can't tell them everything."
"The bottom line is, there's a Goa'uld out there somewhere." Daniel added.
"Ah crap." He sighed. "How's Sam?"
"Still asleep."
Sam opened her eyes and looked towards the voices, the curtain was drawn to keep the light from Jack's cubicle off her as she slept. She moaned to get Daniel's attention.
"Actually she's awake." He smiled looking around the curtain. "How are you Sam?"
"I've been worse." She smiled back.
Daniel pulled back the curtain so that Sam and Jack could see each other.
"Hey Sam."
"Hi Jack."
"As nice as this is I have some paper work that desperately needs my attention." The General smiled before leaving.
"Me too, I left Teal'c with the new assistant." Daniel said. "They seemed to be getting along when I left but with Teal'c you never know."
Jack laughed as Daniel rushed out of the room leaving him alone with Sam.
"Sam, I was so scared I wasn't going to see you again." He admitted.
"So was I, I was scared I'd never see you again, never be able to touch you or smell you, never have your baby." She looked at the floor. "I thought I'd let you down."
"Let me down? Sam, none of this is your fault." He gritted his teeth as he turned to get off the bed.
"Does it hurt a lot?"
"I've had worse." He smiled and walked over to her bed, he took her hand in his good one. "Samantha Jean Carter, you could never let me down. Unless you ran off with the milkman or the circus."
Sam laughed.
"That's what I like to see, you laughing at my lame jokes. I love you Sam, nothing can change that." He bent down and kissed her forehead.
"I love you too Jack O'Neill with two ll's."
"Colonel O'Neill!" Jack jumped as he heard the familiar shrill.
"Ah crap." He whispered to Sam who grinned.
"What are you doing out of bed?" Fraiser asked walking over to them.
Sam had an inkling that Janet had been standing there a lot longer than she let on and had heard everything.
"Taking a stroll?"
Janet raised her eyebrows. "Get back into bed Colonel."
"Yes Ma'am." He muttered before turning back to his vacant bed.
"How do you expect to heal if you don't rest?" Janet went on with a smirk in her eye.
"Is that a rhetorical question?"
"In." She held up the covers for him to get under.
"Do you mind? These hospital gowns don't really cover much." He said.
"Seeing as I am the one that put you into the gown, it doesn't really matter does it?"
Jack reluctantly sat on the bed and swung his legs up.
"And besides, there are plenty of men on this base with a lot more to hide than you Colonel." Sam could swear that Janet had a huge grin plastered on her face as she walked off.
"That woman is evil." Jack said glaring at the door she had just exited from.
"I wouldn't say anything bad against her then Jack, she's the one with the needles." Sam reminded.
"Napoleonic power monger." He muttered laying back. "Sam, I'll keep watch if you want to sleep."
"I think we should both get some sleep."
"Yeah, maybe we can get Daniel to keep watch."
"Daniel?"
"Good point, he'll break when interrogated by Her. Maybe Teal'c will help, bribe him with Donuts...the ones with the icing on top and the sprinkles, he likes those."
Sam fell asleep to Jack's musings with a contented smile on her face.
