Paige woke up, there was a beeping noise next to her, and the sound of people talking in the room, she was laying on a bed, she opened her eyes to find her uncle Jack and her brothers sitting next to her, she looked around the plain white room, she had never actually been in a hospital, she was born at home, she had never been given a shot in her life.
"Paige!" Dylan cried happily. "Your awake!" he said as he jumped out of Justin's lap, and gave Paige a hug.
Paige pushed away from him; she didn't want to see anyone. She looked at her uncle for a second, then turned over and faced a wall, pain shot through her head.
"Paige-"
"Please go away," Paige asked.
Jack turned to Justin and Dylan, Justin nodded and they left the room.
"Paige-"
"I don't want to talk to you." Paige whispered.
"I don't care Paige, how could you think about doing something so stupid!"
"My parents just died!" Paige shouted, she turned to him and stared at him. "I wanted to be with them,"
"Paige-"
"Uncle Jack! How can you talk about something stupid I almost did, when you didn't care after your son died? Huh? Dad told me you went on a suicidal mission, you didn't care if you died, he said you actually wanted to die! How can you say I almost did something stupid?" Paige asked.
"That was different," Jack said.
"How so?"
"It just was!"
"Because it was you? And not me? You don't know what it's like to lose both of your parents!"
"I know I don't"
"Uncle Jack?"
"Yeah?"
"Why did you stop me? You wouldn't have wanted anyone to stop you, would you?"
"Paige we're not talking about me!"
Paige looked outside the opened door where Dylan sat on Justin's lap. "Justin hates me," she spoke quietly. "He blames me for our parents death."
"No, no he loves you, and he doesn't blame you!"
"How do you know? Did you ask him!" Paige demanded. "I was the one who told them to take a second honey moon! Heck I even paid about a fourth of the price" she said as she started crying. "I told them to go… I did"
Jack stared at her; he didn't even ask where they were when they died. "It's not your fault sweetie, it's not your fault, don't go blame yourself"
"If you can blame yourself about Charlie, I can blame myself!" Paige shouted.
"Sir? She needs some rest" a nurse said as she walked into the room. Jack nodded, he wanted to take her back to the SGC but he couldn't for two reasons, one it was top secret and the kids weren't allowed to know about it. Two they were to far away from Colorado springs, Jack stood up and walked towards Dylan and Justin.
"What did she say?" Justin asked.
"She's blaming herself for your parents death" Jack said.
Justin looked down.
"Something you want to talk about?" Jack asked.
Justin looked up he had tears in his eyes. "I was the one who made her almost commit suicide,"
"What?"
"Right after we found out about our parents, I was yelling at her for making them go, well, convincing them to go," Justin said as he wiped the tears away. "I said I hated her."
Jacks mouth dropped slightly, he leaned over and gave Justin a hug. "It's ok, everything will be all right."
Justin looked. "What happens if she tried it again?"
"She won't"
"How do you know?"
"I-"
"You don't do you?" Justin asked as he looked into his uncle's eyes.
"She can't" Jack said as he looked into Paige's room, she was sleeping.
"Did you call your girlfriend?" Justin asked.
"Girlfriend? Carter? No, no, no she's just a friend at work, and yes I did call her"
"You like her though" Justin said.
"Let's not get into that right now ok?"
"What else have we got to do?"
Jack sighed. "You guys hungry?"
Dylan nodded.
"Here" Jack said as he dug into his pockets and pulled out a twenty-dollar bill and handed it to Justin. "Go get some food from the cafeteria"
"Thanks" Justin said as he took Dylan's hand and walked away.
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Jack walked to Paige's room, they said she could go home today, he didn't tell them that she tried to commit suicide, he wanted her home for Christmas, and he would have to keep a close eye on her, a really close eye. Maybe have her talk to a physiatrist or something, Jack walked into the all-boring white room as Justin called it, Paige was sitting on the edge of the bed, buttoning her blouse up.
"You should knock next time," Paige said as she quickly buttoned the last one, and got off of the bed.
"Sorry" Jack said. "You ready?"
"What do you think?" Paige asked as he turned to her uncle.
"Paige, I'm sorry"
"You didn't do anything," Paige said as she put her hand on his shoulder. "I did"
"It wasn't your fault" Jack said.
"Yes-"
Jack put his finger over her lips. "You weren't the one that crashed were you?"
"No but-"
"Then it's not your fault"
"Justin thinks it is," Paige said with tears in her eyes.
"No, no he doesn't"
"He said he did" she said.
"He was mad, he didn't know what he was thinking" Jack said.
"Promise he didn't?"
"I promise" Jack said.
A small smile spread across her face, she leaned over and gave him a hug. "I'm sorry for worrying you,"
"It's ok, just never do that again ok?"
Paige didn't say anything; she looked at her brothers who walked into the room.
"Hey, nice to see you up" Justin said. "Look, I'm sorry Paige"
"It's ok," she whispered.
Justin smiled.
"Come on, lets go home" Jack said as he put his arms around Paige's and Dylan's shoulders.
Paige nodded.
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So, what do you think?
