A/N: I should put a warning up, but if I warn you I'll spoil it for you. So be warned there should be a warning.. It may also be a little intense for some.

Chapter 21

Jack was fuming; he couldn't believe Hammond called him back in to the base. Many Airmen quickly got out of Jack's way as he made his way to Hammond's office. Jack knocked forcefully on the door.

'What the hell?' George thought as he got up to answer the door. "Colonel O'Neill, what the hell are you doing here?" George said puzzled looking at a very irate Jack O'Neill.

Jack was taken aback by Hammond's question. "Ah, you called me in Sir."

"No I didn't." Hammond said even more puzzled. "You're supposed be watching over Major Carter."

"I know that Sir, but I received a call from you telling me to get down here." Jack was truly perplexed.

"Jack, I didn't call you."

"But Sir it was your voice." Jack said getting very nervous. "If you didn't call me then this was a set up." Jack said running away from Hammond.

George watched Jack's retreat, "I'll arrange for some backup Colonel!" He shouted to Jack.

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Kennedy watched from his car down the street as Teal'c and then Dr. Jackson were taken away in handcuffs. 'Well that leaves only one guard inside.' He thought as he made his way to Sam's door.

"Is there anything I can do for you Ma'am?" Parker asked trying to make sure she wasn't angry with him. It's bad enough having to face an angry Col. O'Neill, but he didn't want to have both of them angry with him.

"No I'm fine thank you Sgt.," Sam was still mad but didn't see any use in taking it out on Parker.

"Ok, I'll just be in the other room if you need anything."

"Very well Sgt., knock your self out." Sam was really worried; not for herself, but for Daniel and Teal'c. How could they have been arrested for attacking Stan? Everything just seemed to be going wrong. She just hoped O'Neill would be back soon so they could get things straightened out. Sam decided the best thing was just to rest while waiting for Jack, but the broken ribs and her battered body were making that even difficult.

Parker left the room and went to secure the rest of the house. When he finished he thought he'd do something nice, maybe make the major a cup of tea, 'might as well try to get on her good side'. He thought back to how she looked all weak and bruised and wondered if she did have a good side. He couldn't blame Dr. Jackson or Teal'c for attacking that prisoner; he was brought out of his thoughts by a sound at the front door. He drew his gun and headed for the living room, but before he could react the door swung open and a figure hunched low to the ground fired a shot and he went down.

Sam was startled by a loud noise; she gripped her gun tightly and hid it under the covers. "Is everything alright Sergeant?" She called out. Sam wasn't sure if she should try to get up, or stay put and keep the gun ready; after trying to shift around a bit she decided she could do her best where she was.

Kennedy checked on Parker, 'Yea he'll be out for a while.' he thought looking at the dart sticking out of Parker's arm. He stood up and headed further into the house looking for Carter.

Sam was growing nervous she hated being so helpless, having to wait to find out what was going on. She gingerly reached for the phone and tried to dial O'Neill's number.

Jack was speeding down the road when his cell phone rang, he hated having to answer the thing when he was driving but it could be important. "O'Neill."

"Sir?" Sam said quietly.

"Carter? What's wrong?" Jack said feeling a knot forming in the pit of his stomach.

"Someone's broken in, and I don't know what's happened to Parker."

"What! Where are Daniel and Teal'c?"

"They were taken into custody and are on their way to the base. Sgt. Parker stayed behind as my back up but….

"Carter!…Carter are you there?" When Jack received no answer he stepped on the gas even harder trying to make it to Carter's house as fast as he could. He kept the phone to his ear hoping to hear something.

"Put the phone down Major?" Kennedy said from just outside the doorway pointing a gun at Sam, while staying shielded himself.

Sam glared at Kennedy with such hate that if looks could kill, Kennedy wouldn't stand a chance. She dropped the phone so it landed on the floor, but didn't hang it up. "So Kennedy what brings you here?" Sam said keeping her other hand under the covers gripped tightly on the gun while she leaned against the headboard of the bed.

"Put your hands up Major, both of them…slowly." Kennedy said as he waited outside the room. He knew her reputation and wasn't going to go in before he knew it was safe.

Sam waited not moving, the last thing she wanted to do was let go of her gun; but he did have the drop on her; there was no way she could get a shot at him. Sam slowly raised her hands.

"Higher Major." Kennedy said motioning with the gun. He watched as she slowly raised her arms he could see the pain on her face with the movement. He slowly entered the room keeping his gun aimed at her. By the looks of her, he didn't think she would be able to put up much of a fight. He walked up next to the bed and pulled the covers away, "Now now Major, that's dangerous you know." He said picking up the gun that was lying next to her.

"Only to you Kennedy." Sam said starting to lower her arms, her anger growing by the minute.

Kennedy surprised Sam by grabbing her ankle and pulling her hard so she slid down the bed ending up flat on her back.

"What the hell!" Sam gasped, trying to push herself up into a seated position; only to have Kennedy pressing his arm across her collarbone, just below her neck.

"Now Major, I just wanted you to get a little more comfortable." He said as he reached into his jacket and pulled out a rope. "This will be a whole lot easier if you co-operate Major. Or should I say less painful. Now put your hands together."

"You've got to be kidding, if you think I'll co-operate with you." Sam said glaring in his eyes.

"I just want to make sure we can have a little talk without you trying something." He positioned himself so he was leaning heavily on her, making it hard no impossible for her to move. Then proceeded to tie her hands. "There now that's better. Just one more little adjustment." He said as he lifted her arms above her head and tied the end of the rope to the headboard.

"What do you want?" Sam yelled slightly out of breath from having him leaning on her broken ribs.

"You know Major that's a good question. At first, I just wanted your help like I told you when we had you at our building. But since your little escape I've had to rethink things a bit." He said now sitting on the edge of the bed next to her looking down.

"You had a funny way of asking for help." Sam said feeling her skin crawl having him so close to her like this.

"Yes well good help is so hard to find." He said smirking a little.

"Where did you dig up Stan?"

"Ah yes Stan; you know he does take pride in his work." Kennedy said taking his gun and running it along the bottom of Sam's top slowly pushing it up.

Sam shivered with repulsion as she felt the cold metal of the gun against her skin.

"I see Stan did a lot of damage; must hurt like hell." Kennedy said inspecting the damage. "Hmm, lets see; broken ribs?" He said as he ran his hand over the area. "And it looks like you had some sort of surgery, let me guess…internal bleeding?" His voice steely as he ripped off the bandage covering the incision site. "You know you didn't have to go through all this? All you had to do was answer some questions to help us figure out how to use those alien devices."

"You didn't give me much of a choice. I couldn't spill classified information like you must have to your cohorts." Sam said showing her disgust in the man.

"Always the good little soldier, eh Major."

"At least I'm a loyal soldier, unlike you." She spat out.

"Oh don't kid yourself Major, I'm loyal; it's just my loyalty goes beyond those in charge. My loyalty goes to my country and planet; I was trying to make us better, more prepared to face our new enemy." He said getting angry at her doubting his loyalty.

"All you had to do was go through regular channels; you could have gotten the information there instead of kidnapping me!" Sam said showing him her anger as well.

"You really think that's all I had to do! I read those reports, the tests and results they had on you. They didn't want to take my suggestions that we perform more in depth experiments. To do what ever we had to do to find the answers!" He yelled standing up and looking down on her.

"Well thank God those running the program knew better than to make a lab rat out of me. No government has the right to force experiments on a person, or kill them just to get the answers they hope they will find. And if you read the reports carefully, you'd know that the only way to get the abilities I have is to have a Goa'uld symbiote implanted in your brain. Something I don't recommend."

"You survived." He said getting annoyed at her argument.

"That's because I had a Tok'ra who gave its life willingly so I would survive. You can't say the same for Major Kawalski; or did you forget about him." Sam said tiredly, the stress of the situation taking its toll on her.

"Of course I haven't forgotten about him, as you recall I wanted to experiment on him and find the answers! But those bleeding hearts at the SGC wouldn't think of it, now we have no answers and no Goa'uld to questions! All we have is you!"

Sam was getting even more nervous, Kennedy was becoming unhinged which in her book made him more dangerous.

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Harm couldn't believe what he heard, General Hammond was yelling after O'Neill that he would send back up, then he heard him ordering a security detail to Major Carter's house. He looked at Mac, both saying 'let's go' at the same time; which is why he and Mac were speeding down the streets of Colorado Springs. Harm only hoping that he remembered the way to her house.

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Jack turned down Sam's street; he slowed the truck and tried to approach making as little noise as possible. He had heard some of what was said, but it was difficult to hear. He kept the phone to his ear as he approached the house.

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"So Major, I'm giving you one last chance to join me. With us working together I know we can find the answers." He said once again taking a seat on the edge of bed, facing her.

"When Hell freezes over Kennedy." Sam said through gritted teeth as she struggled with restraints on her arms.

"I'm sorry to hear that Major; that only leaves me with one option…I'm afraid I'm going to have to kill you."

"They'll hunt you down with a vengeance." Sam spat out.

"With you gone, there's only one other witness against me. Getting to Colonel Mackenzie will be a hell lot easier than getting to you Major. With both of you gone, there will be no one to testify against me and I'm sure I'll be back at my original position serving my country. Oh and not to mention with you dead, we can perform all the experiments we want to on your body." He said running the back of his hand along her side.

"You bastard!" Sam yelled struggling even harder against the ropes. "We have your people in our custody, someone will talk."

"Ha, you mean like Stan?" He laughed.

"So you had something to do with his attack."

"Sorry Major that wasn't me, although I can't say I'm sorry about it."

"We'll get the others to talk."

"Not likely Major, once your gone they'll know better than to talk. Now let's see; I have to kill you but I have to do it with minimal damage. Let's see a bullet could cause too much organ damage, we don't want to waste your precious blood; we'll need a lot of it for the experiments. Poison would mess up the lab results."

"Well then I guess you'll have to let me live." Sam said with the bravest voice she could muster. 'Come on Jack where are you?' Sam thought to herself getting desperate.

"Oh I've got it, asphyxiation, that will leave your body intact for all the examinations."

"My friends will never let you get your hands on my body. They'll have me cremated first." Sam said struggling again.

"Oh I don't think so." Kennedy said as he reached over Sam for a pillow, then placed it high over her face. "Good bye Major, it's been nice knowing you." Kennedy placed the pillow on Sam's face and began to push down hard.

Sam was struggling for breath; she had taken one deep breath before the pillow came down. She felt the weight on top of her; she tried kicking out with her feet but didn't come in contact with anything. She slowly felt the pull of unconsciousness.

Jack slowly made his way into Carter's house; he saw a body lying on the floor and went to check it out. He found the young guard he was unconscious but breathing. Next Jack made his way to Sam's bedroom. He was shocked to see Sam struggling with Kennedy holding a pillow over her face. Jack's instincts kicked in he ran over and pulled Kennedy off Sam, then pulled the pillow off of her face. He didn't have time to check on her, as Kennedy was still a threat.

Kennedy regained his balance and lunged at O'Neill. Jack saw him coming and braced himself for the impact; he grabbed Kennedy and used his strength to move the both of them away from the bed and Sam. The two men began to fight, Jack taking out his frustration on Kennedy's face. The next blow sent Kennedy falling backwards into a dresser. He reached for the gun in the back of his waistband. Pulling it out he didn't aim at Jack, but aimed it at Sam. "I suggest you stand down O'Neill!" He said wiping the blood from his nose.

Jack took a step back and raised his hands. "What ever you do just don't hurt her."

"You know O'Neill you always have a knack of getting in my way. I should just shoot you now."

"So why aren't you?"

"Because it would be over too soon, I want you to suffer. Killing Major Carter first will definitely cause you to suffer."

"You can't do this! She's suffered enough."

"Don't worry O'Neill I'll make her death quick, she won't suffer. You will." Kennedy raised his gun aiming it at Sam.

Two loud shots rang out in the deafening silence of the room.

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Harm and Mac entered Sam's house through the opened door. They noticed the body lying on the floor Mac went up and checked for a pulse; she was relieved to find one, the young man was just unconscious. Harm was already making his way to Sam's bedroom Mac right behind him. They both took one side of the door peeking in.

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Jack closed his eyes at the sound of the shots; he took a deep breath and steadied himself for what he was going to see. When he opened his eyes, he saw Kennedy lying on the ground. He let out the breath he was holding then saw Harm and Mac entering the room holding their guns up.

"Boy am I glad to the two of you." Jack said, then rushed to Sam leaving the lawyers to take care of Kennedy.

Jack didn't like that Sam had been quiet through the whole situation. First, he checked for a pulse on her neck and was relieved to find one. Then he checked if she was breathing. Her breathing was shallow but she was breathing. 'She must have just passed out from the lack of oxygen.' Jack thought to himself.

"Carter, can you hear me?" He said holding her face. "Come on Sam." Jack was relieved when he felt her stir.

Sam started coming around, she could swear she heard O'Neill's voice, but it couldn't be; she was alone with Kennedy. She startled herself at the thought of Kennedy and became tense. "No!" She yelled as her eyes flew open and she pulled on the restraints.

"Carter its okay, he can't hurt you anymore. Right?" Jack said looking at Rabb and Mackenzie.

Harm got up from checking on the man. "Yea he's dead." Then he and Mac made their way over to Sam, standing on the other side of the bed. They were shocked when they saw the position Sam was in.

"See Carter, you're safe now." Jack said reaching up to untie the rope from the headboard and slowly brought her arms down.

"Ahhh," She moaned at the movement of her arms. "I have to say, you took your sweet time Sir."

"Yea I'm sorry about that Carter, but when I left Daniel and Teal'c were here." Jack said glaring at Rabb and Mac while untying the rope around Sam's wrists. At least this time she had the bandages to protect her from further rope burns.

They all looked at the door when they heard loud noises, then saw four security guards from the SGC enter the room. Mac reached over and tossed the sheet over Sam realizing she probably didn't want everyone seeing her with her top hiked up so high. She heard Sam give her a quiet 'thanks'.

"What's going on Sir?" Lt. Simms asked O'Neill.

Jack got up and approached the young man. "That's the man responsible for kidnapping Major Carter and Colonel Mackenzie; he broke in and tried to kill the Major. Contact General Hammond and let him know what's going on. But first I want everyone out of here for a few minutes." Jack said realizing Sam might want a little privacy to pull herself together.

"Yes Sir, we'll be waiting in the other room." Simms answered getting O'Neill's meaning as he escorted his men out of the room.

Jack returned to Sam, "So Carter what do you say about a little trip back to the base? I'm sure Janet wouldn't mind having a look at you."

"I'm okay Sir, he didn't hurt me; much." Sam said realizing that her arms were hurting more now than they previously had.

"I don't know Carter, with all this action happening tonight. I never knew your bedroom was as popular as Grand Central Station?"

"Colonel!" Yelled both Harm and Mac, shocked at O'Neill's insensitivity.

Sam just smiled and chuckled a little, "Well I have to get my entertainment somehow."

"Anyway if we go to the base, we can try and clear things up with Teal'c and Daniel's arrests." Jack said looking angrily at both lawyers.

"What?" Harm said.

"We didn't have them arrested." Mac filled in.

"The guards, who came here, said they had orders from you to take them into custody." Sam said looking confused at the two of them.

"Ah actually we discussed having them arrested with Gen. Hammond, but he said they were doing something important and it would have to wait." Harm told them.

"Yea well I got a call from Hammond telling me to come into the base; but when I talked to him he denied making the call." Jack said sighing.

"Someone must have a voice synthesizer, to set up this trap for me. The same mole we're looking for." Sam said.

"Do you think your trap worked?" O'Neill asked.

"There's only one way to find out Sir; we have to go back to the base." Sam said shaking her head slightly. The last thing she wanted was to make that long drive back to the base.

"You know Sam; you could always stretch out in the back of my car for the drive." Harm offered.

"Sounds like a plan." She answered.

"So Sam, why I don't help you get ready." Mac offered. "Unless you'd rather have Colonel O'Neill help you get dressed." Mac said with a little smirk, reminding Sam of what she told her about her feeling for O'Neill.

"Oh I think you'll do fine Mac, thanks." Sam said with an edge to voice.

"Okay then, as soon as you two are ready we'll head to the base and let the others take care of the garbage." Jack said motioning to the body on the floor as he and Rabb left the room.

A/N: I really tried to get that creepy feeling with Kennedy, he always did come off as a little creepy on the show. I hope that wasn't too much for you janissima, and I hope it wasn't over the top. Thanks once again for all the reviews, they are much appreciated.