A/N:here's chapter 20 for your reading pleasure. please remember to bribe the author into writing more by reviewing. bribes always work and reviews make me smile.
Chapter 20
As the days past, Ba'al had continued pulling the members of SG-1 out for periods of time. But he never removed Jack from the small cell where the team was being held. Ba'al made sure that his Jaffa never touched O'Neill, only the other three. In fact, other than being zatted when initially captured and the few bruises he had sustained from being tossed into the cell, Jack hadn't suffered any physical harm.
But mentally, he was being to have trouble holding on. Watching his teammates, his friends, be taken away and hurt was taking its toll on him. Especially as Sam was being taken away most often, and for increasing lengths of time. When she was returned it was obvious that a sarcophagus had been used, and that she'd been physically worked over afterwards. She never talked about what happened when she was taken, but curled up in Jack's arms and refused to move from them until something, usually someone, forced her too.
Jack and Teal'c spent all the time they could trying to come up with a way out. Sam's increasingly bizarre behavior (none of the three men had seen their friend this physically needy of someone since the Entity incident years before, after which she had needed tactile contact constantly for days) was causing extreme worry, and causing all plans to have very short time frames. Daniel was helping as best he could, but he knew his limits and accepted them. Slowly a plan was coming together. The only problem was Sam's physical and mental state. They were fairly confident that Sam was physically capable of making it out, but mentally they weren't sure. Her new physical dependence on Jack was worrying them as well as her almost catatonic state. This was not the Sam they knew and even Jack had no idea how to help her, hell he didn't even know what was happening to her when Ba'al's Jaffa took her from him.
With each passing day they felt the urgency to get out grow, until finally the plan was complete and everything was set for the SG-1 reenactment of the Great Escape.
