Sophia hailed a cab from outside the airport. She was less jet legged this time around and didn't appear as though she had just come out of the jungle. Taking the cab to the hospital she prepared herself for yet another breakdown. Walking down the halls she entered Cameron's room to find that he was gone. She braced herself and walked in. To her surprise she found Cameron sitting up in a chair playing chess with General O'Neill. "Hey Sof," he said with a smile. Sophia started crying as she hugged her brother. "Careful sis, I did break my back."
"Sorry," Sophia said stepping back. "I'm just glad you're okay."
"Well Mitchell, I'm going to loose this game anyway, so I'll be going." Jack smiled tipping his king over. "But consider what we talked about."
"I will, thank you sir."
"Sophia nice to see you again." Jack nodded putting his hat on as he left.
"Have a seat," Cameron offered moving the chess set aside. Sophia looked at her brother and collapsed into the chair. "Long flight?"
"Very," Sophia said taking off her heals. "But not as long as last time. If you ever scare me like that again I will kill you."
"Ah, threats from my little sister, now that's what I've missed. How come you stopped calling, talk about scared I didn't hear from you for six months."
"I've been in the jungle, give me… Cam why are we talking about this? How are you feeling?"
"We were talking about that so you would ask me about that."
"Well now we're talking about it. How are you?"
"I was unconscious for two months, I broke 50 of the bones in my body and I have no muscle mass left. How do you think I am?" Cameron didn't want to talk about his rehab or his injuries he just wanted to talk with his sister like they were having coffee.
Sophia saw her brother's frustration and decided to take a risk to make him feel better. "I got shot the day after I left that message on your answering machine, after that I didn't want to call anymore."
"WHAT! WHEN? HOW?"
"When I was in Somalia, I just got caught in the cross fire." Sophia lifted her sleeve showing the tiny scar. "It was nothing."
"Nothing my ass!" Cameron sat up in his chair. Sophia smiled she knew that Cameron was only truly happy when he was taking care of someone. "Are you okay!"
"It was months ago and I DON'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT."
"Haha, I get your point." Cameron got himself back into bed and lay down. "What do you want to talk about?"
"Where is Rebecca?"
"I was unconscious for seven weeks, you think she'd stick around?"
"I'm sorry."
"I'm not," Cameron said lying down. "So how long to I get to enjoy your company?"
"Six months."
"You mean weeks."
"No months," Sophia said plainly walking over sitting on her brother's bed. "I heard that you are going home in week, and you can't stand. You are going to need HELP."
Cameron laughed and ran his fingers through his sister's hair. "Have I told you that I've missed you?"
"I always like to hear that." Sophia lay down next to her brother and sighed. "I've missed you too." She paused as the tension of the looming topic came into both of their minds. "Okay lets go," she said sitting up and grabbing her brother's wheelchair.
"Where?"
"Just get in the chair Cameron." Sophia helped her brother settle in. It was obvious he wasn't the man he used to be strength wise. She pushed the chair down the hall smiling at the nurse she had met the first time she had come. It took about five minutes for them to make it to the ground floor and out the door. "Now before you lecture me about how you're not supposed to leave the hospital, I got permission for this little field trip."
"From who?" Cameron asked as his sister hailed a cab.
"If you don't want to come then we can just go back up stairs and you can lay in bed all…"
"No, surprises are fun." Cameron smiled as his sister carefully helped him into the cab and the driver but his chair in the trunk. He hated to admit it but this was the first time he'd been outside since the crash, leave it to his sister to be the one to drag him outside.
"Are you okay?" Sophia asked as the driver transferred onto the highway.
"I'm fine."
"I just don't want you to set yourself back, or strain yourself."
"You sound like mom." Cameron saw his sister bite her bottom lip angrily at his comment. "I guess it's a good thing you can't hit me right now."
"Oh you are correct sir." Sophia smiled as the cab got off the highway and stopped at the gates of the air force base. "Surprise," she said as she saw her brother's face light up. "I knew you'd like it." Sophia pushed Cameron across the base letting him look at everything and enjoy being outdoors. "I'd like to take credit for this, but I was on orders from General Quinn. He wants you in his office."
"Am I in trouble?"
"You tell me," Sophia said raising an eyebrow.
"Unconscious, remember? How could I be in trouble already?"
"I'm sure you would be able to find a way." Sophia let an SF continue to push her brother along. "I'm going to go visit with Jefferson. Come see me when you're done?"
"Sure," Cameron nodded as the two broke paths.
Sophia made her way to where she remembered the lower ranking officers had their offices. With a little trouble she finally found the door reading Jefferson and knocked upon it. "Enter," she heard from the other side. Following the instruction she turned the knob and walked in meeting her husband's half brother with a smile. "Sophia, what are you doing here?"
"Coming to visit you Jefferson," Sophia replied giving him a hug. "That and the General ordered me to bring Cameron to the base. I think he's in trouble again."
"Cam can't ever keep out of it. How is he doing?"
"Good, they are going to release him in a couple of weeks."
"Which is why you pulled yourself out of whatever jungle you were in, I assume?" Jefferson offered Sophia a chair and poured her a cup of coffee.
"And to spend some more time with Finn."
Jefferson grew silent for a moment then regained to talk again. "Listen Sophia," he paused while collecting his thoughts. "Finn wouldn't want you waiting around your whole life for him."
"I'm not going to wait my whole life. It's only been two years."
"I know but you could at least start…"
"I'm not ready yet," Sophia said playing with her wedding band.
FlashbackSophia stood in front of her fiancé who was in his dress blues. Next to him stood her brother and his brother both in uniform. She took a hold of his hand and smiled as they said their vows patiently waiting for the kiss. Once it came she felt a tingle down her spine, the same tingle that she had gotten when they went on their first date and when he proposed. "I love you," she said as they walked out of the church. "And I will forever."
End Flashback"I am interrupting anything?" Cameron asked wheeling into Jefferson's office.
"No, nice to see you out and about Cam," Jefferson said turning his attention away from his sister-in-law. "Did the General take a strip off of you?"
"Actually no. He called me 'son' and told me he was proud of me… it was a little unsettling."
Jefferson laughed and shook his head. "Yeah I can see that. Sorry guys but I've got to go and yell at my new pilots, I wish I could stay and chat."
"Nice to see you man," Cameron shook Jefferson's hand as he left. "You ready to head out Sof? The general got us a car."
"Yes." Sophia got up with Jefferson's words still stuck in her mind. "Is it okay if I don't hang out late tonight? I'm still a little jet-legged."
"Yeah, sure, no problem. Are you okay, you're kinda quiet."
"I'm fine, just tired."
