Author's note: Sorry about not keeping up with this story as well as I should be. I'll try to do better in the future. Just got wrapped up with the other story I'm writing and forgot about this one for the moment.
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"I still can't believe he hit you..."
Jack scowled.
"It's not funny, Carter…"
The smile on her face vanished, but only for a minute. Of course, she'd been hiding a half smile for the entire time it'd taken them to get back to the infirmary at the SGC.
"I just don't see how you managed to get hit while giving a driving lesson…"
"Ask Sirius."
"It wasn't Jack's fault, Sam," Harry added, looking at Jack worriedly. The last thing he wanted was for Sirius and Jack to be mad at each other – especially since Harry liked both men. "He was putting out cones for us to drive around."
"And Speed Racer there decided to use me as one," Jack said, looking over at Sirius.
The wizard gave a slight smile of his own. He already knew Jack wasn't holding a grudge against him. It was an accident, after all – and those happened. Right?
Sam looked over at Janet, who had just returned with x-rays.
"He's okay?"
Fraiser nodded.
"He'll be fine. You guys go ahead and get out of here. I'll take him home later when we're done running tests on his head, and he can meet you there."
"The cones are probably set up still, if you want to continue the lesson," Jack told her.
She shook her head.
"That's your department, sir… I think I'll do something else with them."
Sirius smiled.
"Like what?" Harry asked, curiously.
"Well… we can always go back to my place…"
Sirius' smile grew wider.
"… and clean my house."
The smile faded completely, and Jack smirked.
"Why don't you show them your car, Carter?" Jack suggested. "We were discussing the difference between an automatic and a manual transmission. That way Harry can see the differences."
"You already told me the differences," Harry said, not wanting Sam to have to go out of her way to do anything if she didn't want to, and giving her a way out if she wanted it.
"It's something you should definitely have explained – and demonstrated." Jack said. "Just in case you ever drive your uncle's car or something."
"I doubt that's going to be an issue…"
Jack did, too, but he shrugged. And winced when he aggravated a particularly painful bruise on his shoulder.
"You never know, Harry."
"He's right," Sam agreed, obviously changing her mind about giving lessons. "Besides, it'll be fun. A stick is a lot more fun to drive than an automatic. We'll go back out to the air field and run you through it."
"Sounds good," Sirius said.
Sam smiled.
"You can come, but you don't get to drive."
Jack's smirk this time was even broader.
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"Come on, doc… aren't you done, yet?"
"We're still waiting on one more test result, Colonel."
"I want to go home."
"So do I." Fraiser wasn't going to be hurried, though. "As soon as we know for certain you're okay, we can go."
He made an annoyed sound, and then scowled when Daniel walked into the infirmary, looking amused when he saw Jack.
"Did you really get run over?"
"I got hit, Daniel," Jack corrected him. There's a difference."
Daniel grinned.
"You're okay, though, right?"
This last was asked of Fraiser, and Janet nodded.
"He's fine. It was just a glancing blow."
"I can't believe Harry tried to kill you."
Jack scowled again. Daniel was enjoying this way too much.
"It wasn't Harry. It was Sirius."
"Oh. Well that explains it, then."
Janet made an amused sound, although she managed to hide her smile when Jack looked over at her.
"For your information, I-"
Whatever he was going to say was forgotten, however. Just at that moment there was a commotion in the doorway. Two men came through the door, holding someone between them. Jack and the others saw immediately that one of the men was Sirius, while another was one of the Marines from the front gate. The person they were supporting was Sam.
Quick as a flash, Jack was off the exam table he'd been stuck on for the past two hours, and he and Janet reached Carter at the same time – just as Harry walked up to the group as well.
"What happened?" Fraiser asked, as Jack took Sam from the Marine and with Sirius helped her over to the table he'd just vacated.
"They crashed into the front gate," the Marine told them.
"What?"
"It wasn't me," Sirius said.
"Totaled her car," the Marine added. "The front end is a mess. Lucky they were wearing their seatbelts."
"You crashed your car?" Jack asked, incredulous. Luckily, Sam didn't look all that bad. A bump on the head and she was favoring her left leg – which Janet was already starting to check out. Otherwise he might have been more concerned.
"Not me," Sam told him.
Harry gave them all a guilty look.
"I did it."
