Chapter 40: Sam's War Path
Sam was really trying to overcome the emotions that seemed to be ripping through her body making it hard to stay calm. She knew she had to relax otherwise she risked losing the baby, but it had been over 24 hours since Jack had left her to help their old friends and over 14 hours since the team guarding the gate had lost contact with SG1 and had been made to return home.
After hearing Hammond order the team at the Gate home, Sam had started to cry, the feeling that she had lost him running through her mind. In her hormonal state it felt like her entire world had been ripped apart. She knew that if she wasn't pregnant she wouldn't have freaked out as much as she had, saying that though if she hadn't have been pregnant she would have been on the mission with them.
After a few calming words from Jules, Hysta and Janet she had managed to stop crying long enough to have some chocolate cake, soon enough the hormones took over again only she was angry this time.
Angry at Jack, who had broken his promise to her. Angry at General Hammond for ordering the team to leave her husband behind. Angry at herself for being hormonal, for letting him go, for not being able to go with him. Angry at the rescue team who willing followed Hammonds orders and left the planet, at the goa'uld for being the arrogant, egotistical, power hungry, life stealing bastards they were, at the universe that seemed to love screwing with her life and even at Janet, she wasn't sure why.
Everyone on base was a target on her anger spree, even the general himself had been on the receiving end of it. Janet was reluctant to give her anything to calm down because of the baby, but at the same time she was worried Sam could end up loosing the baby.
After Janet saw one of the technicians crying she made a decision to give Sam a sedative to help her to sleep and to give the base a rest from the hormonal-pregnant-woman-on-a-war-path as Sam had been so nicely named after the fiasco started. No-one could believe it had only been 15 hours since General had given the order, but it had and everyone felt that as long as Sam was hurting so would they by her hands.
Janet had found Sam with Jules, she was shouting at an airman who had apparently just knocked into her by accident but in the state Sam was in she was accusing him of feeling her up. Shouting that the airman didn't want to find her husband, that he only had one dirty little thought in his mind and how she was going to get him thrown out of the Air Force for sexually harassing a pregnant woman.
Jules was trying her best to calm Sam down telling her to be more rational that it was a simple mistake, but Sam was having non of it. Janet looked at the airman and immediately felt sorry for him. He was only a kid, early twenties mid twenties at the most. Poor lad probably joined the Air Force for the action and this was probably one of his first assignments. He looked so close to tears that a few more threats from Sam probably would have assured his transfer if not his resignation from the Force.
With this in mind Janet stepped in front of Sam and before Sam could say another word Janet pulled her into a hug telling her it would be alright. At first Sam tried to struggle but then she broke down into tears again.
Not wanting to stick around much longer the Airman gave a thankful nod to Jules and Janet before sprinting from view. Janet lead Sam towards the infirmary as Jules followed.
As the entered the room Janet sat Sam down on a bed leaving Jules to keep her calm she went to fetch the sedative.
"Sam I'm going to give you something to help you sleep ok?" Janet asked as she filled the syringe.
"You think I'm just a hormonal wreck like the others, you don't think I can cope, you think I'm weak." Sam spat back jumping off the bed.
"No, Sam, honey, listen to me. No-one thinks that. Everyone knows how hard it is for you." Janet answered calmly and reassuringly
"How can they know? No-one has any idea." Sam shouted.
"We can see it, every time he goes out on a mission how lost you are. Even before Kanaya they knew how hard it was, how hard you fought to keep your cool."
"They think I'm weak, that I can't cope without him." Sam said loudly, the fight slowly leaving her.
"No they know how strong you are. How can they not after watching you and Jack fall in love more and more each day, each mission, each moment you both spent together. You are one of the strongest people anyone on this base…"
"…in this universe" Jules interrupted.
"Yeah, one of the most powerful forces, bonds was forming between you both but you both resisted, neither of you toed the line. You both resisted and in the eyes on those that know you both that make you one of the strongest people they know. Not many of people would have been able to do that to resist a love as strong as the one between you two." Janet finished, she looked at Sam. She could see silent tears falling down the woman's face. She looked at Jules, who was also crying silently, and realised she too was crying wiping the tears away. She prepared the syringe and helped Sam back onto the bed. She was just wiping Sam's arm with a wipe getting ready to administer the sedative when Sam spoke again.
"We aren't strong, we're stupid." She said through the tears, her voice was slightly husky from all of the emotions.
"No your not, you're the most selfless, smart, strong, caring, loving people in this universe. You never gave up on each other but at the same time you never let the feelings get in the way of saving this world, this universe over and over again. That's what true strength is being able to put what you want on hold for a cause that needed you more and yet never giving up on getting what you want at the same time." Janet replied.
"Sam, I saw you both struggle with your identities, your feelings, your memories. I saw you make a difficult decision to finally go for you relationship even knowing that if you ever went home you would risk losing each other.
"I saw you fight your feelings for Jack and the emotions of your father on your wedding day no less. If that had been me I wouldn't have been able to cope. I wouldn't have been able to go against my father and risk losing him, no matter how much I love Glen. I am only grateful that I didn't need to.
"And then once again you had to go against your father when he found out you was pregnant. That would have broken me completely…"
"…As it would me…"
"You and Jack are meant to be together, and I know no matter what trouble he's gotten himself into, with that smart assed mouth of his, he won't give up until he's back here with you and his child you just have to hold on that little bit longer for him." Jules finished and silence filled the infirmary again. There was no movements for a couple of minutes.
Janet emptied the syringe of the air bubbles and gave Sam's arm another wipe but before she could insert the syringe into her arm the sirens sounded alerting them of an incoming wormhole.
After a quick glance at Janet, Sam jumped up and ran to the Gate room. Janet and Jules followed her at a run.
"Its SG1's IDC sir." The technician informed the General just as the three women entered the Control Room.
"Open the iris Sergeant." He replied, he look to Sam and nodded silently telling her to go. She entered the Gate room just as people started to exit the gate. About ten refugees came through the gate followed by four of the rescue team, but these weren't the reason why she was there.
As she continued to look it felt like a lifetime but finally she saw him leave the gate a moment later it shut down. In that same moment Sam had ran from near the door where she was stood and all the way up the ramp and had jumped into Jacks arms. Jack had been caught slightly unawares and fell backwards onto the ramp with a thump.
"You miss me then." He asked with a shit eating grin on his face, looking up into her eyes. Sam didn't have any words to answer him instead she lowered her face to his. Caught his lips with her own and began a passionate kiss that conveyed every emotion he had put her through in the last 24hours.
The rest of SG1 smiled as the watched the pair making out for the entire base to see. Wolf whistles reverberated off the cement walls of the Gate room.
"Enough!" Hammond said as he entered the Gate room, he smiled as the couple lay there on the ramp still tongue wrestling.
"Get yourselves cleaned up briefing in an hour." He informed them when he saw that Sam and Jack still hadn't come up for air he added. "And will some go and get a bowl of iced water, or the hose pipe."
Daniel smiled at the General, as the man left, but really didn't want to put his life at risk so he nudged Teal'c who immediately got the message and walked back up to the pair.
"I believe the General wishes for you to stop the showing of public affection" he told the pair, making them both jump apart. Jack was the first one stand and after helping Sam up he noticed the Gate room was filled with people all of whom had been watching him and Sam along with everyone in the control room. He looked at Sam who was flushed.
"Ok people nothing to see here." He said trying to disperse them.
"I don't think they agree." Daniel said smiling, Jack threw him the evilest look he could muster before turning back to the room.
"DISMISSED and that is an order anyone still in my line of sight in 2 minutes will find themselves heading through the Gate to Sokar or Baal." He threatened.
The only ones left at the end of the 2minutes were SG1 including Melanie (she knew the rest of her team would protect her), Cris, Hysta, Jules, Glen and Janet (non of whom where really scared of Jack) and Walter (someone had to stay in the control room and the other technicians felt Walter was less likely to get hurt seeing he was the General's aid).
Sam had never seen so many people leave the Gate Room so fast, it was quiet funny that this guy who wouldn't hurt a fly (Maybe a couple of goa'uld and Jaffa but never a fly) could inflict so much fear in so many people.
As they left the Gate Room all Sam could think about was that Jules was right, she did just need to wait a bit longer. Jack had come back to her albeit with a blooded face and sore stomach, but he was back. He was alive, he was hers and hers only. Her soul mate had returned to her as he always had in the past she was stupid to doubt that fact.