Ch 19: No more babysitting.

Janet arrived about twenty minutes later, she quickly rushed over to Sam's car with a medical bag in her hand. "How are you feeling?" she asked as she leaned into the back seat of the car, she looked down at Sam's ankle and got to work.

"I'm… just a bit cold, head hurts…" Sam said through her shivers. Janet cleaned away the blood and wrapped up Sam's ankle, she made her way to her head.

"Sam, it's going to need stitches, that's a big cut," she put a patch on there to keep the cut from bleeding. "Sam, I'm going to take your car back to the SGC okay? That way we don't have to move you."

"Ok." She shivered.

Janet buckled the middle seat around Sam's waist, Jack got up in the front passenger seat and buckled. "Is she going to be okay?" he asked as he glanced back at Sam.

"Yes, she's going to be fine," Janet replied. "Where's the keys?" Jack tossed them to her, he had got them all ready while he was waiting. "Thank you." Janet stuck the keys into the engine and began to drive away, not going past the speed limit, but hurrying as fast as she could. "Tell me what happened Sam." Janet said, trying to keep Sam awake.

Sam began to explain slowly and coldly what had happened.

Jack sat there, looking out the window, everything seemed to modern, so new… he looked back at Sam, her forehead wasn't bleeding as much. He sighed and looked straight ahead, suddenly, he began to shake slightly.

"Are you okay Jack?" Janet asked as she looked at him in the corner of her eye,

"Yeah," Jack said, he stopped shaking, he looked at her and smiled. "I was just a bit cold, that's all."

Janet nodded, not believing him, but this wasn't the time for accusing anyone. They arrived on the base a couple of minutes later, a medical team was already waiting for them, they hurried and got Sam on a gurney, and quickly pushed her towards the infirmary.

Jack didn't follow, he stood still in the middle of the hallway, he had a funny pain in his body, he didn't know what it was. He began to shake again, but harder this time, he looked down at his hand, which seemed to be growing a bit, then he disappeared…

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They had stitched Sam up, she was resting in the infirmary bed, she had twisted and sliced her ankle, but Janet assured her that she would be back on her feet in a couple of days. Sam still thought this was one of the best days she had ever lived, she got to fishing with Jack, she had refused the older Jack so many times, he'd probably never ask her again.

Janet walked over to Sam a minute later. "You're supposed to be resting your head!" she scowled her friend. Sam smiled.

"Sorry," she muttered. "Can't sleep, where's Jack?"

Janet froze, where was Jack? She had been so wound up with Sam she had completely forgotten about him. "I… I don't know," she said, she looked around the room. "Umm, I'm going to go talk to General Hammond." She rushed out of the room as fast as she could with her high heels on.

Sam sat up in the bed, was Jack missing again? She looked over at her crutches after several minutes of deciding what to do, she was about to get up when Janet walked into the room. "Sam!" she shouted. "Do not even think of getting up."

"Janet! What's going on?" Sam demanded, she looked up at her friend with concern. "JANET!"

"Sam, SG-5 just sent a radio message, they found Colonel O'Neill again there, but he's still aging, so they're keeping him there, he's fine." Janet said.

"He's aging?" Sam repeated, her days with Jack were now officially over.

"Yeah, he's about thirty five right now," Janet said. "He's aging about ten, eleven years every five minutes or so."

Sam nodded slowly. "Thanks," she said, she smiled slightly. "I knew he wasn't going to stay like this, but…"

"You almost hoped he would, yeah, I know how you feel. I'm going to miss seeing you so happy, he made you so happy, every time I saw him with you, you had this shine… he really brought it out." Janet smiled.

Sam smile grew bigger. "He was a funny little kid."

"Unscheduled off-world activation!" a voice shouted through the intercom. Sam and Janet looked up in surprise, Sam turned to Janet. Janet quickly rushed out of the infirmary, leaving a Sam waiting nervously.

Janet ran into the gate room and watched as the iris spun opened, the members of SG-5 entered, following close behind, was Colonel Jack O'Neill, looking positively clueless, and his regular age.

"What the hell happened?" he demanded as he hurried down the ramp.

"Colonel, good to have you back." General Hammond said with a small smile.

"Sir, where exactly was I? The last think I remember is Daniel prodding along about some race's heritage."

General Hammond smiled wider. "Let's just say some time has passed since then, report to the infirmary."

Jack nodded, still clueless. "Yes sir." He muttered.

Janet exchanged a glance with General Hammond, then hurried and followed Jack towards the infirmary.

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Jack walked slowly into the infirmary, glancing around the room, his glaze fell upon Sam, who was laying on a bed. "Carter?" he asked, what had happened? Sam turned to him.

"Jack?" she asked, forgetting his was now back to his normal age, that met he was back to being a colonel, and she could no longer call him by his name.

Jack hurried to her side, not mentioning that she had called him 'Jack'. "What happened? What-" he looked up at the calander. "It's not the 27th is it?" he demanded.

"Yes it is, you don't remember what happened?" she asked, both hoping he would and wouldn't remember.

Jack thought slowly. "No, not really, Carter, what happened to you?" he began to look over her.

"Umm… fishing accident." She said simply.

"Fishing? You went fishing? Without me?" he didn't mean the words to come out that way.

Sam smiled. "No, I went with you… it just wasn't… exactly you." She said.

"My clone?" he asked.

Sam laughed. "No, it was you, you see… " she began to explain the story how he had turned into a little boy, and then began to age, Jack sat there for a moment, thinking. "You remember it, don't you?" Sam asked after a moment of silence.

Jack nodded. "But, it feels like the whole thing was a dream." He said.

"It wasn't a dream Colonel," Janet said, she walked over to them with a picture in her hands. "Remember this?" Jack looked down at the picture of his as a three-year-old covered in make-up, he began to blush, then burst into laughter. Sam and Janet joined him.

"JACK!" Cassie's voice shouted from behind the group, Sam, Jack and Janet turned to see Cassie, Daniel and Teal'c hurrying into the infirmary. "Oh my gosh! You're back!" Cassie threw her arms around him.

"It is a pleasure to have you back O'Neill." Teal'c said.

"Yeah Jack, it's good to have the… bigger you back." Daniel said.

Jack paused. "Thanks," he mumbled.

Cassie looked over at Sam. "How you doing? Mom told me what happened… that jerk head Pete…"

Jack turned around to face Sam. "Pete? You said a fishing accident with…. younger me." He tried to think back, but somehow he didn't remember Pete being there.

Sam looked down. "He wasn't fishing with me, I fell into the water-"

"After twisting her leg!" Cassie added.

Sam nodded slowly. "After twisting my leg, Pete was on the other side of the river I guess, he came over, but Jack- you had already pulled me up."

Jack smiled proudly. "I did didn't I?"

"Come one everyone!" Janet said as she began to push them out of her infirmary. "Out!"

"Mom!" Cassie complained. "I want to talk-"

"Not now young lady, go." Janet swatted her away with her clipboard in her hand, she turned to Sam and Jack. "I'll be back, I still have to give you an exam." She said, then hurried out of the room.

"Yes ma'am." Jack muttered, he turned back to Sam, he walked over to her. "Did you mean it?" he asked. Sam looked up at him, confused. "When you said… that you loved me more then Pete?"

Sam looked down at her feet. "Sir, you were three-years-old, what else would I tell you?" she asked, it didn't matter to her if he was three or fifty, she still loved him.

Jack nodded slowly. "Well… I- sorry about ruining the date with Pete, I didn't mean to, you know, just that little kid-"

"It's okay sir," she said with a small smile as she remembered that day. "Pete and I aren't right for each other, but I'll always have a place for him in my heart."

Jack nodded. "You should get some rest…"

"Colonel…" Sam said.

"Yeah?"

"I was serious about you paying me back for all that stuff I bought you." she said with a childish smile plastered to her face.

"Ha ha!" he turned away and hopped on another bed, Janet came back into the room and began to give Jack his test.

A couple minutes later, the test were done, Janet was sure Jack was fine, and wouldn't age anymore, but she said she still had to wait for the lab results. Jack walked back over to Sam and sat on the edge of her bed. "So, I wasn't that bad as a little guy was I?" as he folded his hands onto his lap.

Sam smiled. "Are you kidding? The whole time I was wondering how your mother handled you!" As soon as she mentioned 'Mother' she wanted to ask him about his family again.

Jack smiled slightly. "My mom was talented." He said.

"Colonel… when you were younger, you talked a lot about your family, I know it's none of my business, but what happened to them?" Sam looked up into his eyes. Jack looked down at his hands.

"There was an accident…" he started, he sighed and looked up at her. "My mom… was taking my sister and I to… I don't remember what now, maybe a party or something, anyways, my sister and her got into a fight… my sister was like sixteen, I was fourteen, my sister got into fight a lot with her, I yelled at my sister to stop, she turned back to me and told me to shut up… she was driving the car obviously, then the car started to swerve, my- we hit a tree, my sister was killed instantly, my mom died a couple days later."

Sam covered her mouth with her hand. "Oh my god," she said. "I'm sorry, your brother?"

Jack shook his head. "No, he wasn't in the car, he was at some friend or another's house, but he wasn't old enough to take car of me, so I went and lived with my Aunt, while he got a job, when he was old enough, I went to live with him until I got a job and moved out… we haven't been in touch."

"I'm really sorry sir." Sam said, she knew what it was like to lose a parent at a young age.

Jack stood up. "It's okay Carter, it happened a long time ago…"

Sam looked at Janet who walked back into the room. "Colonel, please leave, Major Carter needs her rest." Sam sighed and looked like she was going to throw a book at her.

"Sure thing," he said, he turned to Carter. "Hope to see you up and around soon."

"Yeah, me too." Sam said.

Jack smiled and headed out of the infirmary.

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This was probably the hardest chapters for me to write, I wanted it perfect, but I couldn't seem to get it there, but I like it, hopefully you will to! The reason it took me so long to update is because I couldn't write it the way I wanted it, so sorry for the delay!

Morgann edited this chapter (Doesn't she always?) So, thank Morgann!

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