A/N: Now it's kind of edited… mistakes are now mine… sorry for them. (SG-Fan)
Ch 8: True Feelings
"Major Carter has slipped into a coma..."
Her words stung as if a million bees had stung him. He couldn't believe it! Sam was in a coma? She wasn't that type of person that would be in a coma… people that were going to die went into comas. Sam was a young, strong woman, she couldn't be. He didn't speak for fear he might say something horrible – or worse, start crying.
After a very long and uncomfortable silence, Daniel decided it was time to say something. "What happened?" he squeaked, his voice sounded horrible, he was trying his best to hold back the tears that seemed to want to spill from his eyes.
"She uhh- we-…" Janet trailed off, she cleared her throat, determined to speak. "We think we found a cure, but it was too late- she had already slipped into the coma. She doesn't look good either. There is a very little chance that she'll... ever wake up." She turned to Jack. "I'm sorry."
Jack tried to keep all his anger bottled up, but he knew he was about to blow any minute. He turned and ran down the hall. Daniel called after him, but he didn't stop, he hurried into his office and slammed the door shut. He stood there, looking at his surroundings; he walked over to his desk and picked up a piece of paper on top of a large stack.
He stood there, breathing heavily before grabbing the whole stack of papers and throwing them all over the room, he kicked his desk as hard as he could, causing the printer on top to fall off, but he didn't care. Jack grabbed his head, this shouldn't have been happening, not to Sam. He whacked a lamp off his desk and it shattered to pieces as it hit the ground.
He heard the door open; he turned around about to yell at the mysterious guest to leave him alone when he saw General Hammond standing there, examining the disaster. "Colonel O'Neill…" he said kindly. "Dr. Fraiser just told me what happened… I'm sorry, I know how important Major Carter was to you and to the SG-1."
Jack didn't want to hear the 'I'm sorry' crap. The only thing he wanted to hear was she was going to wake up. "Thank you, sir."
General Hammond cleared his throat; this was hard for him as well… Samantha Carter was like a daughter to him. "Colonel, you and the rest of your team still need to be checked out, to make sure you don't have it."
Jack nodded. "Yes sir." He looked at the mess once more and then walked out the door.
"I'll have someone come in and clean it up for you Colonel." General Hammond said, shutting the door.
Jack looked back at him. "No need for that, sir. I'm not finished yet."
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Jack sat on an infirmary bed, while Janet gave him a complete medical exam. After half an hour of being poked, prodded and having her damn penlight in his eyes, he was allowed to leave. Jack hopped off of the bed, pulling his shirt over his head – he turned to Sam, who looked horribly pale. Jack looked around the room – Janet had left, he was the only one in the room, unless you count the couple of cockroaches, well, and Sam.
He walked over to her bed; a chair was already pulled up next to it. He sighed as he came closer, he wasn't a crying sort of man, but he was forcing himself to keep the tears back now. Maybe this was the time she wouldn't pull through. He sat down next to her; picking up her hand, he began to rub it softly.
"Carter?" he called softly. "Carter, this is no time to be sleeping, come up, wake up. Who knows what mess Daniel's getting into? Siler, no doubt, is going to break a leg or something if you aren't there to help him with whatever it is he needs help with…"
But there was no reply from Sam; the only sound in the room seemed to be from the beeping machine next to her.
Jack let out a long breath. "This shouldn't have happened to you." He said after a couple minutes of silence. "We need- Earth needs you. We can't survive without you… I know I can't. I need you… Sam, Sam I need you, you have to wake up." he looked down as he spoke.
"Jack," a soft voice said from behind him.
Jack turned slightly; in the corner of his eye he spotted Daniel standing there. "Oh, hey." He sat up straight, as if nothing was wrong.
"Jack, why didn't you tell her all those things when she needed to hear them?" he shoved his hands into his pockets and walked over to the two of them.
"Daniel, I want you to stay out of this, got it?"
"Not this time, Jack," Daniel said quietly. "You've been in love for years! You both deserve each other! But you won't see past the stupid rules the Air Force made! You only admit your feelings when there's a chance that she… that she…" he trailed off.
His words stung, but they were all true. "Daniel" Jack began, "it isn't that simple. She has a right to any life she wants, if she wanted me… she would have had me by now."
"No, now that's where you're wrong." Daniel said. "Sam would give up her career in an instant to be with you. She told me so, about a year ago… I don't know how two people who are so in love as you guys are… would let work get in the way of your feelings."
"Daniel…" Jack ran his fingers through his hair. "I don't want to talk about this, okay? I understand what you're doing, but this isn't the best-"
"This is the only time you'll listen to me, Jack! Any other time you'd already have left!" Daniel looked down at Sam then back to Jack. "I think I know what your problem is."
"Yeah? And what's that, Daniel? Please, enlighten me." Jack motioned for him to start talking.
"I think you're afraid to love again. I think you're afraid to ever get married again… after what happened with Charlie, you couldn't bear the thought of something like that happening again. You-"
"That's enough." Jack interrupted loudly.
"- think what happened-"
"DANIEL!"
"-was your fault, Jack, you-"
Jack turned around quickly and stormed out of the room.
Daniel turned and stared at Sam. "God! Why does he have to make life so difficult?"
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Okay, I know, it's a short chapter compared to all my latest ones, but I thought this was the best place to leave it… anyways, I hoped you all enjoyed it, 'cause that's all that counts.
SG-Fan edited this, Wahoo! (I did, I really, really did.)
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