Off World Aliens
By Gatebee
Chapter III - The Bed
General Hammond had just finished briefing SG5. They had explored farther into the planet with better equipment than SG3 but they had not found any signs of SG1 or the malp, all they could see or not see for that matter was darkness. It was so dark that the most the power beams of light could focus no farther than two feet in any direction. This was deep soup darkness.
General Hammond had been informed by Walter that Thor was unavailable at the moment. He instructed Walter to try their other allies, the Nox and the Tokra but was not that simple to get hold of the Nox. Messages were sent by normal channels in hopes that the Nox would answer back. The Tokra on the other hand had been very busy moving, always trying to be several steps ahead of their enemy. The whole of the SGC teams had volunteered to search for SG1. Gen. Hammond had not been surprise at all by this response.
Jack had been looking at her face for a couple of minutes now. He studied her face more intently than he has ever allowed himself to before. She was such a beautiful woman. He was such a lucky man to have her beside him.
Gently moving her hair and softly touching her face, he tucked her hair behind her ears. She twitched a little feeling his warm fingers upon her ears and moving her head slightly towards his hand. She slowly opening her eyes smiling looking at him with so much love. He moved his fingers slowly tracing her face. His heart was razing like a thunderous roar ready to announce to the world how he cared for her. He touched her lips and she gently took his hand and gave it a kiss.
Her eyes met his and she knew then that he was going to kiss her. It was a kiss that she had been waiting for all these years. Sam could not believe that after all these year, they were going to be one. He moved his face closer to give her a soft kiss on her lips. But before his lips touched her….
"Sam, Jack. You both awake." Daniel's voice could be heard over the radio.
Jack was lying on his right shoulders while trying to grabbed the radio with his left hand. Without opening his eyes, he said. "Ya , Daniel. What's up?" He opened his eyes and noticed the table and chairs across the room. Reality struck and he remembered where he was now.
He realized he was on the bed. He vaguely remembered Carter moving him to the bed. He was so out of it due to the cold, in fact he was slowly freezing. Hypothermia was like that, you sleep slowly not knowing that all your vitals are slowly shutting down. He knew now that if she had not moved him, he would be dead by now.
Turning to his left side, there she was lying beside him. He was dreaming again and it had been the same dream he had had for so many years. From the first moment they met , he had felt this about her, but being her CO, he could do nothing more than dream about her every night.
"Morning , sir. I know you ordered….." she tried to explain but he just gave her that look and a wave of his hand saying that it was ok.
This was the first time that she has seen him this close. This close without both of them trying to hide from an enemy or fearing death was upon them. She was so relaxed and she could sense that he was to. Sam noticed he had that smile on his face. She had seen that smile before when they were stuck in a time loop and had asked him then what it was all about, but he just smiled.
Jack had such lovely brown eyes and that tempting smile he had. .She couldn't look straight at him afraid that he might see through her, afraid he would see the her true feelings hiding all these years. He was her CO and fraternizing with your commanding officer was not allowed. Who ever wrote that rule must have fallen in love with someone in their command and that someone must have died. She supposed that he didn't want any one to feel that pain of loss while in the service.
Sam's thoughts was disturbed by another voice coming from the radio. It was now Teal'c.
"O'Neill, Daniel Jackson Major Carter, look towards the wall behind the left corner of your table. There seems to some writing on it." said Teal'c.
Daniel quickly put on his glasses and got out of bed. He found the corner wall that Teal'c was pertaining to. There was enough light now to see the writing and ran his fingers along the symbols. He was sure he could recognize some of them. But he needed more time to decipher what it meant.
"Teal'c, I can see the symbols. Can't tell you what it means but I am sure in time I will be able to." Daniel ended of and was already writing down the different symbols he could recognize on the wall.
Jack was getting out of bed, standing up realizing how comfortable that bed was. He had never felt this good waking up, without any aches in his back or his bum knee which would normally be stiff when he got out of bed. With a sudden realization of fear, quickly looking at Carter then pulling off his shirt running his hands across his stomach "Ah," he gave a sigh " no junior". Looking at the bed, he wondered how to get the bed back to earth.
"Well, Danny Boy, take your sweet time. We have the whole time in the world. We are all stuck here with a whole lot of nothing to do." The moment Jack said that, he looked at Carter. He looked at her sort of trying to say with his eyes and hand gestures that it was not meant for her personally. Then right after that, he wondered why he said that in the first place.
Sam got out of bed having an unusual feeling of glow all around her that she had never felt before. She felt rested, energized and a warm feeling was running up and down her spine .Then she saw Jack look at her quickly and then checking his stomach. Without hesitation, she too did the same. No symbiote. She blushed at his comment and had to turn around so he would not see. Consequently , she wondered , why was she feeling so great.? She didn't have an answer for that at the moment.