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The
questioning had gone on for hours, I knew that they were just being
thorough, I mean if I had dealt with people from another reality
before then I would feel the need to be cautious. It was an hour
after they put me in the holding cell that Sam came to see me.
"Sam."
I stood when she entered. She looked exactly like my Sam, same hair
same eyes. I wanted so much to get lost in her.
"We
need to talk, . . ." I could see it already, the mental walls
going into place to protect her from the emotions she wouldn't allow
herself to deal with. I hate those walls, it was hard enough to break
them down the first time, before we got married, only as Jonah and
Thera could we come to realize that we loved each other. and after
that it took months of late night phone calls, and even those we only
because Charlie was opening up to her, we talked about nothing and
everything, and Charlie.
Trying not to loose the closeness we had
gained. She brought me and my son back to life then, being his mom
was something she loved. I hate seeing this side of Sam, the one
that's afraid to express how she feels, the one that lives and dies
by the regulations. But she is the only one in the universe I would
trust to get me back to My Sam, and I do need to get back, to her and
Charlie.
I just hope that if my double is there, that he
understands how much Sam needs her world in order and to make sense,
that was the one thing that being with me has done to her. She is
stronger than anything but when it comes to me or Charlie she has a
weakness. She loves us more than life itself, and she's almost lost
us too many times in the recent past to be able to deal with it all,
I can't imagine what this is doing to her.
"Okay,
Sam, or should I call you Major, what should we talk about? Why I am
in a holding cell? For what happened earlier?"
"You are
in a holding cell because the general thought it best to treat you as
a hostile." She was taking the easy way out.
"In order
to protect your career from what happened earlier between us." I
wasn't going to let her get away from this, If I was stuck in an
alternate reality, I was at least going to try and make things
different. And this Sam needed a change.
"Yes, but .."
"Not
buts Sam, you wanted me as much as I wanted you, you just thought I
was Him and I just thought you were my wife. Please don't deny that
you want him, or that you love him, cause I heard a few rounds of
'Oh, god Colonel YES! I love you, YES!' that would make a liar out of
you."
" . . .The general has made it clear that any
further displays will be met with negative. . . "
"Oh
don't worry about it Sam, George has his fingers in enough pie's and
enough respect around here to keep this thing under wraps. And any
'further displays' are completely up to you and your Colonel. I just
want to get back to my wife."
"You are married then . .
to . .me .. in your world."
"Yeah, for almost 2 years
now, we moved into my house after we got the General to appoint you
his 2IC over Scientific operations, I'm his 2ic in charge of military
operations, and as equals we get to be together. We've got Charlie
and everyone on base knows were trying to have a baby. You go off
world a lot less, but we are still both ."the look on her face
was almost horrifying. " ..Sam you look like you just saw a
ghost."
"Oh my GOD! I hadn't even thought that far, What
if . . ."
"What is it?" I watched her for minutes that
felt endless as she went through the gamut of emotion of a woman
discovering that she may have gotten pregnant and realizing all of
the possible consequences which were occurring to her with each new
thought on the situation.
" I've
been working with Janet to regulate my hormones after the last
goa'uld implantation and I'm not on birth control right now. "
There was fear in her voice. I got up from my chair and slowly walked
toward her. I eased myself into the seat next to her and drew it up
beside her. Then I hugged her, and I was surprised and glad when she
let me.
"Maybe you should go to the infirmary."
AU
I am a
monumental, Grade A, First Rank, Head of the Class, Bastard. I feel
like I am cheating on Carter with Sam, and of course as soon as she
becomes aware of what happened last night she'll want to kill me,
cause I'm not her husband. I may look like him and sound like him,
but I am most definitely Not him. I mean we didn't actually .. I just
used my hands but . . .
"Jack, honey?"
"Sam, . .
I . ."
"Oh God, . . ." Well she remembers who I
am.
"I'm . ."
"Yeah . .I know . .but"
".
. ."
"Last night . . I . . . You BASTARD!" I
deserved to get hit a lot harder than that, I think she was just
trying to keep Charlie from hearing us."
"I'm sorry, you
were just tossing and turning so much and needed to get some rest .
."
"that is no excuse, you had no right."
"I
know, I have no Idea what came over me or what I was thinking, but it
didn't go as far as you're thinking, I promise."
I could see
her thinking, trying to reconcile the dream images from the real
ones, she hadn't been completely asleep last night.
"I did it
only to get you to stop pawing me and get you back to a restful
sleep, I swear."
"I was pawing you?"
"Yeah,
you were dreaming and kinda .. grabbed me and started . . ."
"Crap!
yes .. I'm sorry." the memories were beginning to fall into
place.
"No problem .."
"..."
"..."
"
. .I guess .. um I should get dressed."
"Yeah, um do you
mind if I borrow some of . ."
"Jack's clothes, yeah go
ahead . . and um . .Jack."
She was still trying to reconcile
last night but wasn't ready to kill me anymore.
" .. Thank
you .. I mean . . for everything."
"Yeah sure you
betcha'" She closed the door on the bathroom and left me to find
clothes. I knew that she meant thank you for more than just the
previous night, considering everything I suppose I shouldn't feel too
bad about it, it was mostly self defense. But she was thanking me for
Charlie too. And she had smiled, a sure sign that things were going
to be all right.
I dressed quickly and made my way to the kitchen. Saturday mornings in the O'Neill household, the morning that Dad makes his Famous buttermilk Surprise Pancakes. Only for Charlie I would leave out the Surprise.
RU
The
infirmary had been crazy the previous night, Janet had gone home and
Sam really didn't want to discuss the new possibility in her life
with anyone else.
She arrived on Base, at 8 am Saturday morning
after making Janet Cancel her Saturday plans to come in and help.
"What's up Sam, it can't be anything that dramatic, The Colonel is doing all right and it's too early for entropic Cascade failure to set in."
"Janet
what did you hear about last night."
"Only that the
other Colonel O'Neill came back through the gate last night and
attacked you in the gate room. That you subdued him and brought him
to the infirmary."
"That's not the entire story Janet. We kind of .. Slept together first."
"You What! . .Sam I really thought that you knew better."
"I
thought he was Colonel O'Neill."
" All the more reason,
Sam, do you have any idea what this could do to your career?"
"That's
why the general is keeping him under quarantine as a hostile."
"But
Sam with the Hormone therapy we're doing right now . ."
"I
know Janet that's why I'm here, I need to know if I could be
pregnant."
"I don't know honey, it takes time for that
to become apparent, I mean I could give you the morning after pill,
but I don't know how much of an effect it would have on your altered
body chemistry. we may just need to wait it out."
"When
would we be able to know?"
"Two weeks at the
soonest."
""Two weeks. . ." The concept was
still shocking, but I had to admit that the idea of having a baby was
attractive, especially that of Colonel O'Neill. But an alternate
universe Jack, "in all likelihood with Cascade failure, even if an
egg did get fertilized, the conflicting entropic signatures would
never stabilize and it would never become an actual pregnancy." Sam
finished the thought aloud.
"Sam
you know the physics behind it much better than I do"
"Thank
you Janet, I'm sorry to drag you in here this morning."
"No
problem Sam, I'm Just glad you're alright. Do you need anything."
"I
don't know Janet it's been such a long day, just to talk I
guess."
"Why didn't you call me?"
"I really
didn't sleep last night and I didn't want to interrupt your date."
"Well I am right here now sweetie, so scoot over and tell me
everything."
So I made room For Janet on the gurney and as
she sat beside me I related the story from the incredible kiss in the
gate room to the multiple climactic ending in the VIP guest
quarters.
"so I guessed I passed out and when I came to, he
was talking about going to see Charlie at some game and like
everything was just as normal as could be. . .I really thought it was
just another one of my unrealistic 'could never happen in a million
years' fantasies, but I just couldn't say no to him Janet, I couldn't
push him away, I thought it, I said it in my head several times, but
my body wouldn't listen, just responded to everything he did to me,
every spot he touched expertly like he'd memorized the map of my
body."
"He's been married to it for two years, I'm not
surprised."
"I guess I'm just floored Janet, I didn't
realize that I truly had that little control when it came to the
Colonel, that all he had to do was kiss me and I'd fall into bed with
him."
"Don't be too hard on yourself Sam. The two of you
have been dancing around each other for so long it's not even funny.
Something was bound to happen."
"Yeah, now i just wish
it had happened with the right one. . ."
We talked and cried
and Laughed together for a few more hours, then I got some sleep, and
when I woke it was time to figure out how to gt MY Colonel back.
