Chapter 3
As Danny slowly came round and into the land of conscious, he suddenly remembered the river and JACK, was he ok? Is he still alive? But the most important question that came into his mind was, Where am I? He looked around the room for something familiar but he saw nothing he recognised, until he looked to his left and in the corner he saw the small, fragile and bruised body of Jack O'Neill his first real friend hooked up to god knows how many, he himself had something piercing his skin, as he looked for Sam he saw her on his other side in the corner with nothing attached, she was curled up tightly in a ball, huddled under her sheets. He noticed outside the door was a guard, with a gun! As he climbed out of his bed he pulled along the little thingy that he was attached to and walked over to Jack, as he began walking over to Jack he started to move then groan and he opened his eyes, he looked around the room in a panic, he didn't see Sam and Teal'c he looked to his side and saw Danny, his posture didn't relax and only made it worse when they both heard the clicking of heels and usually to Jack that meant doctors he hated doctors, they always prodded and poked him about especially where his bruises where, as she reached the door Jack whispered quickly
"Hide." Danny ran back to his bed but he couldn't climb back on, he was stuck, so he ran behind Sam's bed and pulled the curtain back, as he hid Sam awoke and she looked confused as she looked at Danny
"You're awake" she said with excitement
"Shh" he said raising his finger to his mouth
"Doctors coming" he warned her Danny hated shots and Jack hated them altogether by the look in his eyes
"Janet!" she said, she like Janet
"You know her name!" Danny said shocked
"Yeah she gave me ice cream" Danny's face became the picture of betrayal,
"She gives us shots" as that sentence was finished Sam's face dropped and she became scared
"We have get outta here!"
"What about Jack we can't leave him!" Sam asked concerned for her friend
"We gotta take him as well while the doc isn't looking"
"I gotta idea, my Dad taught me this, and he's in the air force too!" Daniel came closer towards Sam, as she told him of her plan.
As the doc entered the room she looked at the sleeping form of her commanding officer in concern,
"He should have awakened by now" Janet thought concerned, after the briefing with the much younger Teal'c and General Hammond, she contacted Jack's medical chart from when he was younger, she flipped through the file and gasped, the young Colonel had spent most of his life in the hospital with various burns, bruises, broken bones, scratches and A LOT of other things she went to his side and took his hand she checked over his body when he opened his eyes
"Good morning Jack, sleep well?" Jack looked worried and turned his head away from her
"Leave me alone"
"Well I'm your Doctor, I'm here to help you" She said trying to reassure him, while still holding his hand
"No-one can help me" He said his voice meaning it
"Well I'm going to try, Now is there anything you want to tell me?" She said that in her mother tone, that she'd learnt to use while using it on Cassie, he adopted daughter. Jack's head immediately turned towards her, eyes wide with utter horror
"No" he said, he looked scared and he pulled his hand away from hers and stood up abruptly from his bed pulled out the wires and went and hid in the corner
"Leave me alone" He said, his voice edged with fear and anger
"I can help you" she said starting to raise her voice
"NO ONE CAN HELP ME" Daniel and Sam peered ran the curtain and saw Jack backing into a corner for some reason they knew that was bad, but they couldn't grasp were that idea came from
"JONATHON O'NEILL STOP THIS RIGHT NOW" she shouted loudly, Jack recognised the use of his full name, his dad always shouted that when he was angry at Jack and did what he usually did in those situations……Run. He pegged it right through the doors, the guards automatically chased after him
"Crap" she swore under her breath and turned around and walked towards Daniel's bed when in the corner of her eye she saw Danny and Sam copying Jack and running out of the door. She immediately went to the phone and called the general's office, he told her to come to his office and bring SG1's medical files
Doctor Janet Frasier walked towards General Hammond's door and knocked he called out his usual 'come' and she walked in and took a seat opposite his desk
"Sir have they found them" she asked
"I'm afraid not, what happened?" he asked
"I lost my temper general I shouted at Colonel O'Neill and he ran"
"Why did he react the way he did" the general asked confused
"I believe the young Colonel O'Neill was abused as a child." She handed the surprised general Jack's medical file, after he read it he sighed and placed it on his desk,
"Well in these cases sir it's the parent is usually drunk, maybe the reason he likes being called Jack is because his father always called him Jonathon
"That's a good theory how did he seem when you asked him"
"He seemed angry yet scared, angry because I asked him, and scared because of what they might do if they found out"
"Well, I want you to find them and proceed as you see fit, give me an update when you find them" she nodded and walked out the room.
As Jack ran out of the infirmary he had no idea where he was and where he was going, he kept running when, he saw an empty lift he ran towards and picked a number, he pressed the button and waited, as the doors opened he ran through the corridors he found a storage closet and he ran in, he found a dark corner and crouched in it, hiding away from the world and anyone who could find him, as he rested his head against the wall he shut his eyes as a wave of dizziness swept over him , he calmed himself down and kept his eyes closed, eventually he breathing calmed and he drifted off into a restless sleep.
As Danny and Sam ran after Jack they saw a guard chasing him, Sam shouted at him. He turned around gun raised, Sam and Danny froze they'd never in there life faced this situation, Sam knew her Dad had one but he NEVER pointed it at her. As this thought passed her mind Teal'c appeared behind the guard he grabbed the gun and ordered him to drop it he did, and Teal'c let the guard go, as he continued walking towards Sam and Danny
"Run Sam" Danny shouted kicking Teal'c , as Teal'c ignored Sam he grabbed Danny and put him under his arm, Sam stopped
"Keep going Sam, find Jack!" she nodded and carried on running and into the elevator she pushed any button and let the doors close, she thought to herself after seeing Jack back into a corner scared shitless after Janet shouted at him, she was smart enough to know what was going on even though she was 7. When she was 6, she asked her Dad why her best friend, Natalie, was scared of being shouted at and always had bruises on her body, Her Dad explained that, her father wasn't a nice man and hit her, later that night Natalie had turned up bruised and bleeding outside her house having ran, That's when Jacob had had enough he nursed her wounds and called the police, but before the police arrived Natalie's father turned up he barged in past Sam's brother, Mark, and started shouting at his daughter, she backed into a corner and waited for his hand to be raised, but luckily for her it never came she opened her eyes to see the smiling face of Mr Jacob Carter and an unconscious father on the floor. From that day forward Jacob Carter adopted Natalie and treated her as his own. Pulling back from memory lane Sam noticed the lift doors open she peered out the doors and saw no guard she walked out of the lift and looked for a storage room where no-one would think of going, she searched high and low in the room but found no sign of Jack so she exited the room on constant look out for guards, but also for the room which she hoped hid the scared Jack O'Neill,
As Danny watched Sam run of he finally came back to reality and noticed he was still cradled in Teal'c's arm
"TEAL'C PUT ME DOWN" he started wailing until he saw Doctor Janet Fraiser waiting for him, but also standing next to him was an annoyed looking bald man.
"Hello!" Danny said smiling innocently. The bald man smiled while Teal'c put him down on the bed, Janet started poking him and put her hand on his neck, after about a minute she wrote something down and pulled out a needle and Danny made another run for it, but Teal'c grabbed him before he could get down.
"TEAL'C, LET ME GO NOOOOOOOOOOOOO" he screamed, as he screamed that Hammond had an idea,
"Teal'c, Doctor, come with me" They looked at him confused but followed. He ordered the guard to not let Danny out of his sight and walked to his office. He walked into his office and sat down, Janet and Teal'c followed.
"It seems even though they don't know each other as well as their older selves do, but there still is a bond. Therefore I think that if Sammy finds Jack they will attempt a rescue eventually" Janet and Teal'c nodded a little confused with 'Sammy'.
"Indeed GeneralHammond I believe that O'Neill will attempt a rescue, as O'Neill would say, Nobody gets left behind" Teal'c said agreeing with General Hammond
"What of Colonel O'Neill's health Doctor?"
"He should be fine as long as we get him back before tomorrow night when his meds run out, although I am worried about the extensive bruising he has, that couldn't have been caused by the river! He might have bruised ribs, I'm afraid I didn't have time to check." She said worrying for Jack's health
"What dose this mean DoctorFraiser?" Teal'c asked confused
"I'm afraid Teal'c that the younger Colonel O'Neill was beaten constantly as a child" she said upset of what he had to go through
"Then we must find O'Neill1" Teal'c stated
"Agreed! Here's the plan" Hammond said with a kind of evil grin, this must be like an SG1 mission!
Major LouisFerretti, Co of SG2, walked down the halls towards the commissary when he was called by General Hammond
"Yes sir," he said as he turned around and walked towards him
"Have you heard of our situation Major?" He asked Ferretti
"All I've heard is rumours Sir" He answered
"Follow me I'll explain everything, I also need a favour" he said turning around and walking back to his office. Ferretti followed him thinking how weirder his day could get.
As Sam, aka Sammy to her dad, walked endlessly around the corridors she finally came to level 13, she had no idea why she picked numbers a random and didn't do it in an order. So as she waked down the corridors she came across a storeroom, she looked inside, it was exceedingly smaller than all the other ones But as she walked in the heard the soft sound of breathing. She'd found him! As she moved closer she found him hiding behind a stack of Toilet rolls asleep. She finally crept closer to Jack and she gently nudged him, he sleepily patted her hand away and awoke eyes wide and totally awake, he was aware of his surroundings and people close to him
"Hey Sam" he said going quiet again
"Hey Jack, listen I know what's going on" she said casually
"Really, what? Cuz I'd like to know!"
"Jack don't play dumb, I've seen it all before with my best friend, I know your Dad hits you" she stated simply. And for the first time ever Jack O'Neill cried, he cried as Sam pulled him towards her and he buried his face in her shoulder, after a while he stopped crying and Sam whispered soft reassurance
"It's gonna be okay" she promised him and herself
"Cone on lets go back to Janet"
"No" he said firmly
"Last time I went to a doctor she sent me back" he explained
"Well let's go and get Danny" she said grabbing his arm and pulling him up and walking towards the door, Jack decided to pull himself together and take some kind of charge, he let go of Sam's hand and opened the door, he peered out and looked around he thought he saw someone in the corner of his eye but it wasn't anything. He grabbed Sam's hand and ran in the opposite direction.
As Ferretti thought over his 'secret mission' he wondered how the hell he got himself into this when he saw a door open from where Sam had entered last, he saw Jack's head peer right at him, as he quickly hid round the corner,
Luckily Jack didn't see him. To his surprise he saw Jack and Sam hand in hand while they ran along the corridor
"Oh boy, the betting poles are gonna go sky high once they hear this" he thought smirking. He pulled out his cell and updated Hammond who upped his stake to £50 and put the date for them getting together as June 31st, the date was now April 28th. Hammond assured Ferretti that the news would be passed on to the WHOLE base that each had a date in the sweep stakes. He hung up his cell and followed his pint size Colonel and the mini Major.
Jack knew he was being followed so he pulled Sam into an office and told her
"Were being followed"
"How? Who? When?" questions exploded from Sam as she became more curious
"I don't know how, but we are"
"Okay so what do we do?" she asked, she seemed to think Jack as a leader, and Jack took on the role with ease.
"W carry on as normal and get Danny!" he said with a firm command and walked out of the room Sam followed suit behind hi, no longer hand in hand, as they walked off around the base looking for their lost comrade. As they came to the entrance to the infirmary they somehow thought something was not right, it was way too easy, when they first came here there was at least one guard outside but this time there wasn't. They walked into the infirmary and check Janet's office for her or any other nurses they did NOT want to be caught, they finally reached Danny's bed and pulled back the curtain and low and behold there sat one Danny Jackson the look on Danny's face when Jack walked in was one of shock
"What?" asked Jack confused he kind of liked Danny.
"Sorry guys they threatened to tell my mum! They know you're here" he stated simply
"Wha..." Sam began to ask but was cut of by Jack grabbing Sam's hand and running straight into Teal'c
"Oh crap" he muttered and picked himself up, he grabbed her hand once again and ran straight between Teal'c's legs and straight into a closed leg Hammond who bent down and grabbed Sam
"Hello Uncle G" Sam said cheerfully giving Hammond a kiss on the cheek. Jack was now in a 'trapped' situation, he was surrounded by people who probably would send him home and he could do nothing about it, he whirled around in a circle looking for any escape root. He turned to face Danny and gave him the death glare that would cause a full grown man to running for the hills
"You idiot! You have know idea what you've done!" he finally shouted at Danny who cringed in fear. Sam, noticing Jacks tone, started to struggle from Hammond's grasp but he held his grip
"Now son, it wasn't Danny's fault" he began
"Then whose was it?" he asked anger boiling up from inside him. Hammond remained silent not knowing what to say. Jack on the other hand, lunged at Danny and punched him straight in the nose, and Ferretti, from behind the door, went into action he grabbed his commanding officer and pulled him of Danny he whispered in Jack's ear to calm down but he wouldn't, he tried whispering that everything was going to be ok but Jack didn't believe him and he started to shout , and to top it of Danny's nose started bleeding and he started to cry and that was Janet's queue to go into Doctor mode. She took Danny's hand and led him into her office, between Danny's sobs, Sam and General Hammond could both here Jack shouting the same thing over again, after all the commotion was over they understood what Jack said from through the hold of Ferretti,
"I'm not going back" Jack whispered to himself in a soft reassurance.
Later on that day Sg1 each had separate rooms to stop Jack from beating the crap out of Danny. Before Janet went of to her briefing with Teal'c, Major Ferretti and General Hammond she noticed that Sam was with Jack and they both hadn't talked to Danny since his 'betrayal', she knew Jack wouldn't forgive him that easily because he thought he would be sent home, but Sam, well Janet came to the conclusion that Sam felt safe around Jack and didn't want to loose the protection, she also though that maybe Sam had a crush on Jack, she sighed and walked into Danny's room where he sat and read a book written in ancient Egyptian
"The man does not change" she said to herself with a chuckle
"My god, so it is true what Sam AND Cassie says I DO have a crush on Daniel, I haven't felt this way since I was a teenager!" she thought with amazement she suddenly started a mental battle with herself
"He's 7 forcryinoutloud "she thought with a perfect imitation of Colonel; O'Neill
"Well wait till he's back to normal then ask him out!" her other side said
"I can't what if he doesn't like me back" her thoughts where cut of by a flash of a camera, that Danny ad found in her office earlier. Danny uploaded the picture onto his laptop; he was very good at computer for a 7 year old, and showed her her picture. The picture was exactly like the face Colonel O'Neill made when he was looking at Carter during one of the mission briefings
"So that's what he does in briefings, he fights over Sam with himself!" She quickly pulled out her cell and called Ferret updating her stake to £70 and put the date to the day before General Hammond's, June 30th. Turning her attention back to Danny, who was still laughing at Janet's picture, she smiled at him then decided to try and get the topic of her awful picture!
"So Danny what you been up to?" she asked finally getting his attention off her picture, his smile faded
"Oh nothing, like usual" he assed sadness in his voice. Janet put her hand on his shoulder
"Jack was my first real friend you know and in the space of, what, 2 days I manage to nearly get him and myself killed THEN betraying him and nearly getting my nose broken and now I'm all alone" He said while crying, Janet's motherly instincts kicked in and she pulled him into a hug
"I wanna go home" he said into her shoulder"
"Oh crap, how are we gonna explain that their actually adults who travel to other planets" while thinking this Danny stopped crying and planted a small kiss on her cheek, while being kind of embarrassed she felt strangely aroused, she was being kissed by the smaller version of the man she was in love weird
"Now that's just weird" she thought and pulled away from the hug and walked out of the room leaving Danny to secretly print of the photo and stick it in his desk draw.
Sam and Jack were sat laughing in front of a TV General Hammond had set up in Jack's VIP quarters when Janet Frasier walked in she looked pissed yet slightly embarrassed. She slammed the door and walked towards Jack and Sam that had turned to look at her, Jack remained silent where as Sam looked happy to see her
"Hiya Janet" she said standing up
"Hi Sam, can I talk to Jack quickly" she looked towards Jack who sighed and walked out of the door leaving Sam to watch her cartoons alone
Outside the door she talked to him in a calm and gentle voice
"Come on Jack you cant stay mad at Danny forever"
"Oh yes I can he betrayed me and I will NEVER forgive him!" he said his voice raising
"Jack listen, I can't imagine what you have to go through but it wasn't Danny's fault "
"Your right Janet you cant imagine what I have to go through every time I hear my Dad's voice I'm scared he'll come and see me, so you right you do have no idea what I go through" he said, he was now shouting. Janet was beginning to get frustrated
"Jack, Danny has no other friends, you saved his life that's gotta mean something"
"It did mean something but now it doesn't because of him me and Sam were found, she probably has someone who cares for her but me well all I get is a mother whos shit scared of my Dad, a brother that protected me but now he's protecting his country and a father that constantly beats me and tries to drown me nearly every day .So yeah thanks Danny you've done me a 'BIG' favour" he finished then waked of leaving a dumbstruck Janet to stand and watch him walk away. Jack had no idea where to go, he knew he couldn't go home so he decided to go see Teal'c. Teal'c had told him what level his quarters were if he ever needed to talk, so he went there, he knocked on the door and heard Teal'c cry of
"Enter" Jack entered Jack looked around to see the room full of candles and in the centre of the room was a ring of candles and in the centre of this ring was Teal'c who was sitting there looking at him
"Is everything okay O'Neill?" Teal'c asked worried for his comrade and friend
"Yeah T I'm fine it's just ….." Jacks sentence was never finished because before he could he was engulfed in a flash of light, leaving a confused Teal'c who went straight into action.
As Jack looked at his new surrounding he came face to face with a small naked grey alien
"Holy Shit!"
And that was one of the rare times Jack ever swore .