Under duress and several almost death threats, I have decided to put you all out of your misery. I can't take the guilt of leaving you hanging in the air any longer, so here it is, the next chapter. I hope you are all satisfied now. But…that's all you're getting, until tomorrow! Yes more to come. LOL!

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Harbinger of Sorrow...Herald of Joy.

By Lingren.

Previously:

"I didn't stop him. It's too late," she sobbed, shaking her head. "I warned him to be careful, but it's too late now. He's dead."

Chapter 7

"Who Jackie? What do you mean?" Janet asked, desperate to know what had happened.

"Daddy. I came to warn him, I told him not to touch the device, but it didn't stop him. Now he's dead."

Jackie hid her face in her hands and sobbed, and Janet leaned down and enveloped the younger woman until the sobs abated.

"You don't know that. How can you possibly know that?"

"I do know. I can feel it. The past hasn't changed at all. If he'd kept away from it and lived, it was supposed to change everything, but it hasn't. It's going to happen all over again."

"You knew this was going to happen? Today?"

She nodded, still crying.

"Then that means Sam is..."

"My Mother...yes, she's carrying me, but she's there; she watched him die, and it broke her. She was never the same afterwards!"

"Ohhh my God. Poor Sam," Janet muttered softly, half to herself. "Tell me exactly what happened," she demanded.

"Daddy touched the device and was zapped by some sort of energy force. He was like...'electrocuted' and his heart stopped. They managed to revive him, but he didn't make it home. His heart just kept stopping from the massive shock. It just never settled back into a proper rhythm again and in the end they couldn't revive him. They said it wouldn't have been any good anyway because by then he was brain damaged."

Janet thought about the problem for a few moments and suddenly grabbed Jackie's hand and pulled her from the chair.

"Come with me."

"What?"

"We're going to see General Hammond... Now!" Janet dragged her through the door and down the corridor to the elevator, explaining as she went.

"It'll be different this time. I'm going to get the General's permission to meet them on the way back to the gate, and then I can stabilise him before he does dies."

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Sam called them to a halt again. They had already stopped several times for her to check on Jack's pulse. This time when she felt for it, there was nothing to feel. She cried in frustration again, and Teal'c lowered Jack's lifeless body to the ground so they could start to revive him once more. Jonas doing the compressions this time while Sam gave Jack 'mouth to mouth' breaths. After more agonising moments Jack gasped in another ragged breath and they all heaved a sigh of relief.

This was the third time since he'd been zapped that they had literally resurrected him. How many more times could they carry on doing this? Sam asked herself. Surely he would end up with brain damage after all this time. Was it worth it? Would he think any the less of them if they had given him back his life, only to suffer the ignominy of mental disability. She vowed then that if he did suffer, she would always be there for him, no matter what. Despite the fact that he had a daughter with Janet, she knew without a doubt that she still loved him, and it was clear to her now, that his attitude towards the petite Doctor had never seemed more than just friendly these days, neither of them acknowledging a previous attachment.

As Jack's breathing eased gradually, they all sat catching their own breath, Sam's radio crackled and a familiar voice came over the air.

"Major Carter...SG-1 come in please."

"Janet?" Sam exclaimed, into the radio, biting back the panic she could feel rising.

"Yes. I'm on my way to meet you. How far from the gate are you?"

"We're about 6 miles due west. How did you know we needed help?"

"Captain Miller told me. I'll explain it all later. How is Colonel O'Neill doing?"

"God Janet...we just had to revive him again. I'm worried about brain damage. His pulse is erratic and he keeps arresting."

"I know. Don't worry. I've got all the necessary gear with me to keep him alive and get him home again. Until I can hook him up to the right equipment when I reach you, just keep doing all you can Sam. Be with you soon."

"Roger that. Out."

Sam released the button on the radio and slumped in relief. Janet was on her way with much needed help. She nodded to the others, they had overheard the conversation and were relieved too, Sam was smiling for the first time today.

"C'mon guys let's get to the rendezvous. The quicker we get him to Janet the better."

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Janet watched as the struggling group edged ever closer. She and her team quickened their pace, until the last several hundred yards stretched between the two parties, before they were running to meet them. She could see Teal'c had stopped walking suddenly and she watched as he quickly laid Jack onto the ground, and Sam furiously started CPR on his limp form again. In no time at all, Janet was beside her shouting orders, gently pushing the others out of the way, she had no time to lose, not if they wanted to change the inevitable outcome.

She took over the compressions while a nurse cut the sleeve open on his jacket, exposing his arm and quickly injected him with something to keep his heart going. As one, the nurses worked together with Janet, in a well rehearsed scenario. Someone fixed an oxygen mask over his face, bagging him, and IV needles were inserted under the skin of his now bare arm, where fluids were started. To everyone's dismay nothing was happening, and Sam was hovering on the very brink of despair as she watched him for any signs of reviving.

Janet opened up the portable defibrillator, leaving the compressions to another of her nurses while she charged up the paddles. Everyone stood clear as Janet shocked his body into arching from the ground, and they all stood around holding their breaths, hoping it would work.

Again nothing happened.

Janet shouted that it needed it to be done again and charged the machine to a higher setting. She zapped him a second time, and this time as he arched beneath her, they heard a faint heartbeat from the monitor and he started to breathe once more. His heart rate settled into a more steady rhythm making everyone sigh with relief.

Jonas and Teal'c both placed a comforting arm round Sam's shoulders. She hadn't even realised she was sobbing. Crying because she and Jack had somehow been at odds with each other. She had been really angry with him, she still wasn't sure what was going to happen to him. She was sobbing because she was pregnant with his child, and if he died...what then? Weeping because she didn't have the energy to work it all out. And tearful because she did know that he had saved her life and that of their baby by pushing her out of harm's way. How could she be angry with him for that, when it was obvious that he cared so deeply for her? Maybe he would explain everything to her when he'd recovered.

The next thing Sam registered, she was sitting on the hard ground, Teal'c behind her supporting her. She was leaning back against his solid chest, with Janet fussing over her. When had she sat down?

"It's okay Sam." Janet reassured her, seeing Sam now looking thoroughly confused, but with them again in spirit and body.

"What happened?" Sam asked looking around her at their concerned faces.

"You fainted. It's perfectly normal for anyone to faint when they're pregnant," she whispered. "Look...Jack's going to be fine. He's stable for now, but we have to get him home. Okay?"

Sam nodded, she didn't remember a thing about passing out. Jonas offered her the water canteen and she swallowed a couple of mouthfuls of the tepid liquid. The two other men in her life both gently pulled her to her feet and supported her. She looked across at Jack, now laid out on a stretcher surrounded by all the portable equipment Janet had attached to him. They were ready to take him home.

"Thanks guys. Sorry about that." she smiled shyly. It wasn't everyday she would pass out, but then she grinned inwardly...it wasn't everyday she got to carry a child. One which Janet had believed she couldn't bear. Somehow she had conceived. Maybe when her experience with Nirrti's DNA experiment had been reversed, it had put right the damage, and somehow it had given her back more than she thought possible...the chance to have a longed for child one day. Jack's child at that!

Now here she was, actually carrying his child, and it was making her feel so different inside. Was this what Motherhood was all about? She placed a protective hand over her stomach again in awe of the developing infant inside her before she realised the others were looking on in amusement.

Janet smiled across at her as they walked on towards the gate.

"Sam... I do believe congratulations are in order," she whispered away from her staff. "I don't know how yet...but whatever happened, I'm so happy for you." She put out a hand and squeezed Sam's arm in support, as a gesture of their friendship. Janet really wanted to pull her into a hug but couldn't yet, not only would it look odd to her nurses, but it would take her away from her main concern right now, and that was Jack.

There would be plenty of time to show how pleased she was, later. Sam laughed back, happy beyond words, knowing he was going to pull through now, and that Captain Jacqueline Miller, was the one who was ultimately responsible for saving his life.

TBC