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EIGHTH DAY

Jack and the survivors left walk out the cave for the first time in over a week. They walked to the village, noticing that there was a lot of damage done to some of the homes and there were no homes left standing on one side of the village.

Some homes weren't even touched by the asteroids. So when they slowly went though the village in shock, they noticed that some families were coming out from the homes when they saw them in the streets.

They all went and hugged one another and informed them that some families were killed when the fire rain hit the homes.

"Major Carter informed me that only about 2/3 of your people went though the stargate back to Earth where they will be safe," Jack said.

"That there are a lot of caves near were the stargate is, and that perhaps some of the family's went in there." Jack looked at them all.

"Ok, I need some volunteers to help me search the caves for survivors, who will come with me?" Jack said,
As he looks around to see who will help him.

"I know where the caves are, I'll help you search them" Laira's son said.
Jack looks at him and said

"Ok, any one else" No one else answered.

"Ok. Let's go"

As he turned around, he heard some one yelling, So he went to where the yelling was coming from. A young man ran into the village and Jack stopped him. He was breathing heavily from his run. After a moment he looked at Jack and then to the others, and said,

"The gate is gone."

"What?" Jack said,
With a shock on his face, the young guy nodded,

" Yes, fire rain must of hit the gate the day the fire rain hit the planet… I found this near the hole in the ground where the gate was"
He passes the radio to Jack

"I think this belong to one of your team members Jack"

Jack took it from the man and he looked at the back of it. It had Carter's name on it. Then Jack looked down to the ground holding the radio close to his chest.

'No this can't be happening, she's not dead, she's got to be alive. I haven't had a chance to tell her how I feel about her, that I love her,' Jack thought to him self.
The young guy said to the others,

"The radio belongs to Major Carter."

Every one was in shock. First the gate was gone and they don't know how many made it though the gate and now it seemed that Major Carter was dead. Jack looked at them with tears running down his face and turned to run towards where the gate was.

When he got there, he stoped and looked at the hole where the gate once was. He thought of her the whole time that he was running to the gate. Then he yelled her name.

"Samantha!"

In the caves not far from the gate people in the cave herd some one yelling.

"Samantha!"

So one of the men walked out to see what was going on and he knew it was coming from where the stargate was. When the man walked through the bushes, he stopped and saw Jack, realising. It was him that was yelling. The man said

"Col."

Jack turned to the man, who walked over to him, seeing the Colonels eyes were red and puffy from crying, like he just lost some one he loved.

"Are you alright Col? I heard you call out Samantha."

Jack just looked at the guy and remembers him from the village, and the man said

"Is Samantha… Major Samantha Carter"
As he looked in to Jack's red eyes.

"Yes" Jack, said with a sad look on his face.

"She is alive, but weak"

The look on Jack's face, when he heard the words 'she is alive', He just looked at the guy for a minute,

"Where is she, is there any more of my team with her?"

"Come with me and I'll show you where she is, as for the other two member's of your team…. She was the only one we found."

Jack followed the man to one of the caves and, when he walked in, the man pointed out where she was lying down on a blanket. He was shock when he approached her. She was white as a sheet.

Her arm was strapped up with two sticks on each side and the same for her legs, and her head had a bandage on it. There was blood all over her uniform and he noticed a tube sticking out of her side. The doctor went to him.

"How is she doing, what happen?" he asked
She told him what happen and where they found her.

"I did the best I could for her, She is alive but very weak from amount of blood lost. If she doesn't get a blood transfusion soon, she might not make it," she said.

He just looked at her, his 2IC, his Sam, the one he fell in love with. He walked over and sat next to her, brushing her hair back, and then tears started rolling down his cheeks again. After a moment he turned around to the women.

"Thank you for what you have done for her and keeping her alive."

Then guy came up to him and asked,

"Is it safe to go back to the village?"

"Yes, there are survivors there" Jack said,

"We will get a stretcher from the village and come back for Major Carter".

Jack didn't say any thing, just kept looking at her. Then he lifted her cold hand with his warm one kissing the back of it before resting it against his wet check. The families left them alone for a while, when they decided to walk back to the village.