Chapter 12

John's return and Getting ready for Atlantis

A/N: sorry it's been a while, couldn't decide what to do, how to start the chapter out. But I'm back so tell me what you think. Talk to you later, Liz.

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Rachel did as she had told John, she didn't cry when he left, although she did cling to him longer than she normally did, but he let her and held her as long as she wanted him to. Then when she let go he gave her a kiss and told her he loved her and would see her soon. He walked up the ramp and just before he went through her turned to her and reminded her about their promise to each other. She smiled and nodded and then he went through and disappeared.

The next couple months went by fast cause SG-1 went on several missions. Which everyone thought was great for Rachel cause she wouldn't think to much about John. However the last mission they went turned into a rather bad one for Sam and Rachel.

When they got to the planet the Men were very against women having anything to do with anything and were very upset to see that Sam and Rachel were in the military. They were going to take the girls off but jack requested that since they were visitors, they let them take Sam and Rachel into their care. The men agreed and left them alone for a while that day. However when they were all asleep, the people came in and took them from the room and took them to a jail like area and in bad conditions. When Jack found out about it the next morning he went ballistic and told them to give them back their team members. The natives refused so Jack ordered the rest of his team to start looking, and they weren't resting tell they found the girls and had them safely at home.

It took them about two days to finally get to the area where the natives were keeping their women. They went in with Teal'c leading and asked nicely at first for their team members to be returned. When they were refused they knocked them out with a Zat and started looking for Sam and Rachel…a little bit later they found them, Sam was barely conscious and Rachel was unconscious.

"Damn it." Jack said, "Come on let's get them out and back to earth." He told Daniel and Teal'c.

They got the door opened and went over to the two girls. Jack bent down next to Sam and touched her cheek.

"Sam, Sam your going to be alright, we're going to get you and Rach out of here and back to earth." He told her.

She turned and looked at him, "Jack?"

"Yea, now come on let's get out of here," He said.

She nodded, "Rachel's sick, it gets really cold in here at night. They took her away the first night and beat her pretty bad and didn't leave much clothing on her. I made her put my jacket on, but that's all I could give her. I fell horrible that she's sick."

"You did your best, now come on let's get out of here." He told her and picked her up.

He looked up a Daniel, "Danny get you sister." He said but didn't have to cause he had already picked her up.

They started out of the prison and back towards the town. When they got there the men protested.

"Listen! You may not appreciate you women in you world, but were we come from, they are very important. These two have helped save our world, our people, and country many times. They mean a lot to our people, their friends, and to me. I don't leave my people behind. Now get the hell out of my way, we're going home." Jack said not very calmly.

The leader of the natives sighed and got out of their way, "Teal'c can you dial us home? And submit the code?"

"Indeed O'Neill." Teal'c said and started dialing the gate up.

A few minutes later they were back on earth and Janet and her team had Sam and Rachel on a stretcher. Hammond came over to Jack and looked at him.

"What happened?" He asked.

"The natives there do not appreciate their woman; they keep them in a prison, and beat them, for no apparent reason. I requested that since we were visitors they leave Carter and Rachel alone, they backed off for a while, and then that night they came and took them out of our room. Daniel, Teal'c and I spent the next two days looking for them, cause the Natives wouldn't tell us anything. We finally found them this morning and got them here as soon as possible. Carter said that Rachel is pretty sick and that the first night they took her away somewhere and beat her and didn't leave her much clothing on. Carter gave her, her jacket but it wasn't enough, she still got sick. Carter didn't seem to be sick just weak, and tired, I think she's been trying to take care of Rachel the best she has. I don't think they've feed them either." Jack said getting more pissed the more he said.

Hammond paled, "Ok well we know not to go back there, unless we have an all male team. Did they have anything of use?"

"No, not really." Jack said.

"Ok then well lock it out of the computers." Hammond said, "Go to the infirmary see what Doctor Frasier says about Carter and Rachel."

"Yes sir." Jack said and headed to the infirmary, "Oh sir?"

"Yes Jack."

"Is Major Sheppard here?" Jack asked.

"No Jack, we dialed Atlantis the other day and Dr. Weir said that he hadn't reported in a couple days and when he did she would contact us." Hammond said.

"Ok, just needed to know encase Rach asked." Jack said.

"Yea, just tell her we don't have any updates at the moment." Hammond said.

"Ok, I better get down there." Jack said.

He turned and left the gate room and towards the infirmary. When he got there he found Daniel sitting next to Sam and walked over there.

"Hey kids, how's it going?" He asked smiling at them.

"Ok," Daniel said.

Jack nodded and then looked at Sam, "Did Doc already look at you?" He asked.

"Yea, she said that I just need plenty of fluids and rest, and to eat and I should be fine. She wants me to stay here for the night and see how I am tomorrow." She said.

"Well make sure you do what she says, I think Rach is probably going to need us all to get through this." Jack said.

"I know." Sam said.

Just then Janet came walking over, "Hey, she's going to be ok, she's got a fever but we got to it quickly. It should break soon, she needs some fluids and food, and lots of TLC from her friends, from the look of her back she took a pretty nasty beating." She said and then turned to Sam, "Is that right Sam?"

"Yea, they took her away, saying something about maybe getting another male out of her… I didn't understand what that meant tell she came back." Sam said and started telling them about what happened.

Flashback

About an hour after they left with Rachel they came back with her and threw her in the cell, her clothes ripped and her back bleeding. They shut the gate and left, and Sam quickly went over to Rachel and took her Jacket off and wrapped it around her shivering shoulders.

"Rachel what happened?" Sam asked softly.

Rachel sniffed, "They told me that they believed that the only thing women are good for and having children. They then said that they take several every couple years and mate with them, and that they wanted to do it with me. Well I put up a fight and so instead they decided to beat me." She said crying.

"Oh god, come here Rach." Sam said and pulled the scared Captain into her arms and held her, "The guys won't leave us here they'll find us. Just think about that, they'll find us as soon as they can and get us out of here."

Rachel nodded, "It's so cold in here, don't you want your Jacket?"

"No, you need it more." Sam said.

"Ok," Rachel said and started to fall asleep.

End Flashback

"Bastards!" Jack and Daniel said at the same time.

"God," Janet said, "We need to see if we contact Atlantis, and tell them that as soon as John gets back and is rested that he is needed here. I know that she's going to want him along with the rest of you. If we do that we can at least tell her he'll be here as soon as he can."

"I go do it," Jack said and looked at Sam, "I'll be back in a little bit Carter."

"Ok," She said.

"Janet?" Daniel asked.

"Yea Daniel?" She asked softly.

"Can I go see her?" He asked.

"Yea, that's fine, she's asleep though." Janet told him.

"Ok, I just want to see her." He said and got up, "well you be ok Sam?"

"Yea, I'll be fine." She said.

"You need some rest anyways Sam, why don't you get some rest." Janet said.

"Sounds good, been trying to stay awake to take care of Rachel, but now you and the infirmary people can do that." Sam said

"That's right, now get some rest." Janet said.

"Ok." Sam said and got comfortable and closed her eyes.

Janet smiled and looked at Teal'c, "You going to stay with her?" She asked.

"Indeed, if it is alright Dr. Frasier." He said.

"It's fine, I'll be over with Rachel and Daniel." Janet said.

Teal'c just nodded and Janet turned and walked over to Daniel who was holding Rachel's hand. "She's going to be ok Daniel. Just needs a couple days of warmth and Love, and she'll be ok. She'll probably need some time to get over what happened to her, but that's normal. Plus she's going to get to go to Atlantis, that will be good for her." Janet said.

Daniel smiled, "You think she'll be well enough to go to Atlantis?" He asked.

"Yea, I don't want to hold her from it anymore, might make it worse." Janet said.

"Cool, she's been so excited about it." Daniel said.

Janet smiled, "Yea, she has."

They set there and watched her sleep for a while tell and were still standing there when Jack got there. Daniel looked up at Jack and gave a weak smile.

"Hey did you get a hold of him?" He asked softly.

"Yea, Weir's going to get him here as soon as he can when he gets back, which should be soon." Jack said.

Daniel sighed, "Good," he said.

Jack nodded, "She still not wake up?"

"No, but she should be pretty soon." Janet said.

"We need to make sure that someone is here, when she wakes up." Jack said and the other two nodded.

"I'm planning on being here with her tell she wakes up." Daniel said.

"Good," Jack said and then turned to Janet, "How is Sam?" He asked.

"She's asleep, Teal'c is with her." Janet said.

"How did you manage to get her to go to sleep?" Jack asked.

"Well she told us that she stayed awake, the whole time trying to take care of Rachel. She said she knows now that we are now taking care of Rach, and that she was really tired." Janet said.

"Holy crap, did you get a recording of that?" Jack said sarcastically.

"No, but if you don't believe me ask Daniel and Teal'c they both heard it." Janet said laughing.

"Oh I believe you, I just wanted to hear it." He said and Janet laughed.

Just then they heard a soft sigh and looked up to see Rachel starting to wake up. They both straightened up and walked over to her side.

"Hey there, how you feeling?" Janet asked softy.

"Ok, my back hurts, I can't breath very well either." Rachel said softly.

"Ok, we'll get you something for you back, and I'll get you something to take that'll help your breathing." Janet said and turned to Jack and Daniel, "Can you to help me set her up to put some stuff on her back?"

"Yea sure," Jack said and Daniel just nodded.

"Good I'll be right back." She said and headed off to get the stuff she needed.

Rachel looked around and saw Jack and Daniel, "Jack? Daniel?" She asked just to make sure it was really them.

Jack smiled and took her hand, "We're here Rach, it's ok. Your safe now." He said softly.

"Were is Sam?" She asked.

"She in a bed close by, asleep, she's going to be ok, just like you are." Daniel said.

"I'm glad, she wouldn't sleep when we were in that jail." Rachel said.

"She wanted to take care of you." Jack said smiling.

"I know." She said and looked around again, "Is John here yet?"

"No sweetie, but he should be here soon. I told Weir that we needed him as soon as he could get here. She told me that as soon as he gets back, and rest a little bit, she'll send him home. He'll be here in a couple days, I bet." Jack said.

Rachel nodded, "Ok." She said, "Am I going to get to go to Atlantis when he comes?"

"Yes, Janet doesn't want to hold you back, she told me that you should be well enough to go. She thinks it'll be good for you. Plus she knows how much you've been looking forward to it." Daniel said and Rachel smiled for the first time since she woke up.

A few minutes later Janet came back with the medicine and the cream for Rachel's back.

"Hey you think you can sit up, or do you want them to help you?" Janet asked.

"I think I can, I'll try." Rachel said.

"Ok," Janet said and looked at Jack and Daniel telling them to be ready incase. They got closer and watched as Rachel tried to set up.

"Ok, I think I need some help." Rachel said.

"Ok, lay back, I'm going to raise the back up and then have jack and Daniel help lean you forward." Janet said and Rachel nodded.

They finally got her up and comfortable enough for Janet to put some cream on her back. When they were done she laid back and Janet gave her the medicine. Janet then told her to get some rest and she closed her eyes. Janet then turned to Jack and Daniel and told them to go get some rest in their quarters. They thought about protesting but Janet told them they weren't helping Sam and Rachel if they got sick to, when she said that they turned around and walked out of the infirmary.

A couple days later, Sam was out of the infirmary, she had rested most of the time and was feeling a lot better. She headed to look at Rachel when she got out and saw that she was asleep. She then looked around and found Janet and walked over to her.

"Hey Janet, how is Rachel doing?" She asked, "When I went over there she was asleep."

"She's doing better, I'm planning on letting her out tomorrow. Daniel's going to take her home with him." Janet told her.

Sam smiled, "Good, I'm glad." She said.

"Yea, I hope Major Sheppard can get here sometime soon." Janet said.

"I'm sure he will." Sam said, "I think I'm going to head home."

"Ok, Jack wanted you to go to his office when you got out, so go there first." Janet said.

"Alright." Sam said, "See ya later, Janet."

"See ya later." Janet said smiling as Sam left the infirmary.

Jack had wanted Sam to go home with him for a couple days and she had agreed, so instead of going home alone, she went home with Jack. She hadn't really wanted to be alone, and when he asked she had agreed easily.

The next day Janet was helping Rachel get into some BDU's when the alarms went off and there was an announcement that unauthorized wormhole had been activated. Janet looked at Rachel, who was finishing putting her jacket on and smiled.

"Hey why don't we go to the gate room, maybe it's John." She said.

Rachel grinned, "Ok." She said.

Janet helped her off the bed and they made their way to the control room to see if it was in fact John. Jack was up there when they arrived and smiled at Rachel.

"Your boyfriends back," He said and she squealed and went running down to the gate room.

"Damn it, Rachel slow down." Janet yelled after her and then glared at Jack, "She doesn't need to be running Sir. She's still weak."

"Sorry Janet, but she'd probably have run down there any other way I put it." He said.

"True." She said

They both turned to watch as John walked through the gate and Rachel jumped into his arms.

In gate room

"Hey, you out of the infirmary, Liz told me you were hurt…or sick, how you doing now?" He asked.

"I just got out, literally. I'm fine now, my fever has broke, but my back is still soar. Did Jack tell you what happened?" She asked not wanting to talk about it yet.

"Yea he did, it didn't sound to fun." He said sarcastically.

"Nope it wasn't, at all." She said, "But Janet said that I can still go to Atlantis. She doesn't want to hold me back again, since I've been wanting to go so long. She said she thinks it will be good for me." She said, smiling.

He smiled back, "Good, cause Tayla and Ford are really wanting to meet you." He said kissing her forehead.

She grinned up at him, "Really?"

"Yep." He said smiling.

"Cool!" She said and he laughed.

"Come on, let's go get orders started." He said.

"Ok." She said.

They went and ordered the supplies that they needed and then Rachel had to go to the infirmary to get some stuff put on her back. John set close by, watching and then decided to ask some questions.

"How many times does she need that put on her back?" He asked Janet.

"A couple times a day, she can have it put on more if needed, but needs it at least a couple times." Janet answered.

"Ok, does she take anything else?" He asked.

"Yea she's taking some antibiotics that she'll finish in Atlantis." Janet said smiling.

"Cool, so I should wait to take her on a recon mission tell she finishes the antibiotics?" He asked.

"Yea, that would probably be best." Janet said and Rachel scowled.

"Hey Rach, I'm just trying to look out for you." He said.

"I know." She said.

"Alright Rach, all done, you can go now." Janet said.

"Ok, talk to you later," Rachel said.

She got off the table with the help of John and they left the infirmary. Hammond gave them permission to leave early so they went out to eat and then headed to their apartment building. She should him what she had done with it since he had left. She had gotten a TV and a entertainment center in the living room and had decorated the bathroom. He smiled and told her that it was great. She grinned and then asked him if he wanted to watch TV. He agreed and they went and cuddled on the couch.

The next couple of days they cuddled, hung out with the rest of her team, and got her packed. When the day came that they were to leave she was excited. They packed everything together on the MALP and waited for the gate to be dialed up. When it finally opened up Daniel and Janet came into the Gate room.

"Hey Take care of my little sister," Daniel said giving Rachel a hug.

"Don't worry, I will." John said smiling.

"I know wanted to say it anyways," Daniel said.

"Don't forget to give Carson you medicine and the instructions for them." Janet told Rachel after Daniel let her go.

"I wont." Rachel said.

"Ok, have fun." Janet said, "And no off world tell you finish you antibiotics."

Rachel smiled, "Ok." She said.

"Well we ready?" John asked.

"Yea," Rachel said, "See ya later Danny, Janet." She said and then looked up to the control room and waved to Jack, Sam, Teal'c and Hammond.

"See ya later Rach." They said.

A/N: Ok, I know that was long, but it was to make up for not updating in so long. I hope you enjoyed it and I'm sorry I didn't thank the people that review individually. I'm pretty busy. But thank you very much, and please review when you get a chance. Talk to you soon, Liz.