By the time Janet had reached the infirmary, Teal'c had already laid Sam down on a bed and the nurses had picked up where she'd left off on the planet. Throwing her jacket aside, Janet immediately prepared the defibrillator and gave Sam the first charge, glancing across to the monitors and seeing the flat line, she upped the charge and shocked her again. Relief was evident in the room as Sam's body came back to life. Working as fast as she could, Janet let her team work as she prepared herself for surgery, Sam had done her bit, now it was her turn to give her friend a fighting chance to recover fully.

"Jack, will you just please sit down?" asked a thoroughly exasperated Daniel who was already regretting his decision to bring Jack down to wait outside the infirmary. Ignoring him, Jack continued to pace up and down and for a moment Daniel contemplated leaving him there on his own and hiding in his lab with a rather large cup of coffee. Thankfully, Teal'c reappeared with coffee for the both of them and Jack begrudgingly sat down to drink his.

"Have you had any news as to Major Carter's condition?" asked Teal'c.

"Nothing since they took her into surgery" replied Daniel, "but the nurses said someone would be out as soon as they were done"

"How is O'Neill?" enquired Teal'c as he and Daniel briefly stepped away from Jack to discuss their friend.

"Blames himself as usual" sighed Daniel.

"To what reason does he believe it is his fault?"

"No idea, I already told him it wasn't anyone's fault but you know how stubborn he can be" replied Daniel.

"I might be stubborn but I can hear you talking about me" yelled Jack.

"We were conferring out loud O'Neill, I am glad you can hear" replied Teal'c without a hint of sarcasm causing Daniel to snort his coffee having just taken a sip.

Before they could argue any further, a very tired looking Janet came out to find them.

"How did I know you three would be here?"

"Tell me some good news Doc" asked Jack as he stood up in front of her whilst Daniel and Teal'c moved to be beside him.

"She's out of surgery and stable, I'm not going to lie, that was a close one General" Jack breathed a silent sigh of relief as Daniel excitedly hugged Teal'c before slapping Jack on the back.

"Can we see her?" asked Jack, the tension already leaving his body.

"Give me 20 minutes to get her settled, no sooner!" Janet told them before heading back into the infirmary.

Daniel and Teal'c both knew Jack would want time alone with Sam so they both said their goodbyes and promised to stop by in a few hours. Sitting back down to wait Jack struggled to hide his relief at the fact she'd made it. That moment on the planet when he saw Janet giving her CPR would stay with him forever, he was certain of it. It would have been a cruel irony to lose her when the next chapter of their life was only just beginning. He hadn't even told her that he'd planned to retire, riding a desk wasn't for him and the big brass knew that as well as he did. Digging around in his pocket, he pulled out the single diamond ring and spun it around in his fingers. Waiting for the right moment to ask, he'd kept putting it off, that moment was now he thought to himself.

Sam felt like she was lying on a cloud of fluff, big white fluffy fluff she thought to herself. The only problem with her big cloud of fluff was that someone kept shouting at her and they didn't seem to be going away, in fact they appeared to be getting more persistent. Forcing her eyes open, Sam's mind and her body came rushing back to reality, as did the events of the past few days. Groaning in disgust that the best hallucination she'd had in days was so abruptly ended, she glanced to her side to find Janet smiling at her.

"Welcome back Sam, you had us all worried for a moment there"

"Sorry" was all Sam could manage at that point, her body brutally reminding her of what she'd put it through.

"I'd say I'll leave you to get some rest but if I don't let the General in, none of us will be getting any rest" Janet told her smiling warmly, "don't let him keep you awake" she added before turning to let Jack into her infirmary.

"I'll leave you two alone and she needs rest!" Janet told Jack sternly, he simply nodded at Janet, his eyes focused purely on Sam.

"Hey" he said quietly, taking her hand in his.

"I'm sorry"

"For what Carter?" replied Jack in surprise, "none of this was your fault"

"I shouldn't have let myself fall behind, none of this would have happened if i'd kept up"

"Firstly, I'm your commanding officer, if anyone's to blame it's me for not making sure you kept up and secondly, I ordered the others through the gate and I left you behind. The blame ends with me, understand?"

"Is that an order, Sir?" she replied, looking at him with a smirk.

"It is, now are you up to this?" he asked as he leant forward and gently placed a kiss on her forehead.

"Mmm" she replied sleepily, "try it again" Smiling as he leant forward to kiss her again she instead caught him by surprise and turnt her face to meet his, allowing him to kiss her gently on the lips.

"Carter!" he yelped in surprise, "don't tease me, I'm an old man. Now get some rest, doctors orders remember?"

"Yes Sir" she replied, perfectly enouncating her words, "stay" she whispered shortly after.

"I'm not going anywhere Sam" he told her as his fingers twirled the ring in his pocket, "I'll always be by your side"