Good Luck & Godspeed
PART 11
The yelling woke me up. I tried to rise only to find my hands tied behind my back and me on my stomach.
I heard a slap and open my eyes and tried to focus to see what was happening.
I was in my living room floor. Cassie was next to me she was gagged and the fear in her face told me all I needed to know. She made me follow her eyes and I did only to see Sam tied to ae, that brat by you or the rest of her friends. She will abide by my rules and everything will be just fine."
He had lost it. He was talking nonsense and I was helpless to do anything.
Cassie whimpered and he turned his attention to her.
"As for you young lady some one should have taught you to mind your elders. I blame your up bringing on that no good mother of yours. She tried to influence my Sam to leave me and you were spreading the same poison she was spewing. So you are no longer welcomed to my house got that you lying little witch, your plan back fired she loves me she just said so didn't you honey you said you couldn't live with out me right?"
Sam caught my eye and turned to Pete.
"Your right Pete this is all my fault but now that I'm back by your side I will never stray again. Please forgive me for being so weak and listening to their lies about you. You're the only man that could ever love me."
He walked over to her and smiled. He cupped her chin and squeezed it till she cried out and kissed her.
I closed my eyes not believing what I was seeing. He was a dead man.
As soon as I got loose I would makehe was spewing. So you are no longer welcomed to my house got that you lying little witch, your plan back fired she loves me she just said so didn't you honey you said you couldn't live with out me right?"
Sam caught my eye and turned to Pete.
"Your right Pete this is all my fault but now that I'm back by your side I will never stray again. Please forgive me for being so weak and listening to their lies about you. You're the only man that could ever love me."
He walked over to her and smiled. He cupped her chin and squeezed it till she cried out and kissed her.
I closed my eyes not believing what I was seeing. He was a dead man.
As soon as I got loose I would make him pay for what he was doing to us. I would kill him with out remorse.
He let her go and wiped his face and started to yell at her again.
"I should punish you for not coming home like you were ordered to do. Instead I follow you here to his house. I knew they were lying to me at the base. They are covering up your affair with him and trying to make me look like a fool. Well who's the fool now I'm in control I have the gun and he's tied up on the floor where he belongs. Then to find my wife in her lover's clothes yes I do believe you owe me an apology and you will be reprimanded for your behavior. You're nothing but a whore and I will beat it out of you."
That explained why Sam was in her underwear. Pete started berating Sam again and Cassie nudged me to get my attention. She motioned to her hands that were tied and I looked to see something shiny.
A knife she had somehow hidden a knife and was trying to hand it to me.
I moved to her side and missed the first time I tried to grab it but grasped it the second.
I had to flip over to hide what I was doing. I looked up to see Sam's eyes widen when she say the knife. I flipped over and she turned back to Pete.
He was towered over Sam and she snapped yelling at him that she was sorry… Sorry that she ever was crazy enough to go out with such a lunatic. That he was not half the man he thought he was.
I groan I knew what she was doing. She was distracting him so I could get free. She was ranting at him that she never cared about him and when did their marriage take place since she didn't remember marrying him or taking his name. She went on to say he was a sorry excuse for a man and that she should have listened to her heart when it said that he was not man enough to fill it.
He hit her hard. Her neck snapped back and blood flew from her mouth. He had knocked her unconscious and held the gun to her head saying he was going to stop the influences that were clouding her mind.
I could feel the ropes loosening and felt Cassie nudge me to see Pete coming towards us.
I moved to cover Cassie he would have to kill me before he would touch her.
"Ah touching Colonel trying to save the girl that ruined my Sam. She's nothing hell she was adopted even her own parents didn't want her."
The ropes weren't loose enough and I started to struggle with them. He kicked me off off Cassie and I crashed into the table. I turned to see him pull her off the floor and drag her over to Sam.
He picked up a glass of water that was on the table and threw it at Sam to revive her.
I had to get loose now or I'd fail Cassie and doc would kill me for doing that.
Janet? Why did that flash through my head?
I heard Sam scream no and looked up to see Pete hold the gun to Cassie's head.
I pulled with all my strength and the rope snapped.
My training kicked in my first objective was to get the gun out of the lunatic's hands and the second was to protect Sam and Cassie.
I launched myself straight at Pete. I knocked him down but he managed to pull Cassie and Sam with us. I batted the gun away and rolled us away from Sam and Cassie.
He was enraged that I had gotten loose and screamed.
"You are the reason she's turned on me you and everyone else that she works with in that mountain. I'm going to take great pleasure in ending your life and that brat's. Samantha will pay for her indiscretion with you, she will watch you die at my hands."
He barrelled into me. He was stronger then he looked and he pushed me against the wall and started to bang my head against it.
I pushed him off and all the rage I had held back took over. I punched him over and over again and he still came at me. He picked up the lamp on the table and threw it grazing my head.
It stunned me and I stumbled backward. He tackled me to the floor and started pounding on my face when I heard a scream of no and he stopped.
Sam had gotten loose and was on Pete's back pulling him off me. I tried to raise my self but he still had the strength to kick me down.
I felt my ribs crack and thought Dr. Garrett was so not going to like me.
I looked up to see Pete pull Sam off his back and throw her across the room she fell in front of the fireplace and wasn't moving.
He turned and found the gun and picked it up. Cassie had crawled over to Sam and screamed to Pete that he had killed her.
We both stopped and turned to her. I closed my eyes and moaned no. I looked to Cassie to see if she was mistaken. Sam's head was cradled on her lap and she showed me her hand full of blood.
Pete looked stunned and fell to his knees next to her.
He pushed Cassie away and took Sam into his arms and begged her to wake up. He kept saying he was sorry that if she would just have listened to him and did what he asked that this would not have happened. It was her fault that she had let this escalate to this point.
Cassie came to me and I whispered for her to run. She nodded no but I gripped her arms and growled yes.
She whimpered and started to go for the door. Pete saw what she was doing and pointed the gun at her.
"Cassie duck!"
I yelled to give her that split second to get down.
I had to stop him but I knew I was too late when I heard a gun shot.
I had failed Sam I had failed Cassie and I had failed Janet all the women I loved were now dead.
It hit me. I heard Janet's voice, "Trust your heart it holds all the answers." She was right it did.
The mission off world, the ancient download, the time at my house, the time on the ship, the look on her face when I went into ice cube mode, Janet helping me find my way home to our family, the pain my team endured during my absences, the journey into my mind and Sam helping me find my way home. Our time together in her subconscious everything flooded back to me. It was clear to me now my memories were intact. She loved me and never gave up and now she was gone.
I didn't have anything to live for they were both dead and I dropped my face to my hands to try and wish this was not happening. That I would wake up and it would all be a dream.
I felt an arm on my shoulder and I screamed and launched myself at the man that had ended the life of the two women I cared for.
I felt arms hold me back and my name being called.
"O'Neill stop your struggling it is I Teal'c and Daniel Jackson."
I stopped Daniel, Teal'c?
He let me go.
I looked up to see Teal'c motioning to Daniel who held Cassie in his arms. I turned to see Pete on the floor dead next to Sam.
I got up and pulled her into my arms and carried her to my couch I laid her down and checked her pulse. She could not be dead I remembered everything and I needed to tell her.
I found a weak pulse and I yelled at Teal'c to get an ambulance. Cassie came next to me and pleaded for me to tell her that Sam was not dead.
"She's got a weak pulse Cass, she's strong she'll pull through. Did you hear me Sam please you need to pull through. I remember everything it was all in my heart and in my head. Please sweetheart, come back to me. I need you. We need you."
I held her hand and started to weep begging Janet to hear me and to bring Sam back to me.
