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He was awake as soon as the door opened, he watched through hooded eyes as his friend tried to sneak up on him with a huge blow up hammer, he rolled over and swept his feet to the floor, catching the other man behind the knees and landing him on his backside, coming up in one smooth motion to stand over the laughing man.
"Not lost your edge I see Jack" he grinned. Jack helped him to his feet and he threw the hammer onto the bed. They went into the monitoring room, where the party was still in full swing on the screens.
Bill had had food sent in and Jack settled to eat his breakfast as he filled his friend in on what he needed.
He had decided to have Bill watch Catherines house, he would stake out the old Hammond residence. He showed Bill a picture he had stored on his phone of her and gave him strict instruction what to do, and what not to! He only wanted to know where she was, he didn't need Bill trying to pick her up, in any sense of the word!
They left just before 04:00, Sam could already be in DC but he reckoned that she would not try knocking anyone up at this time, he drove to Catherines and left his friend there watching while he did a U turn and headed to the other side of the city.
He needed to pee badly by 09:00, but it was a quiet residential street, and it would not do to get arrested for lewd behaviour by nipping behind a bush as he would have done offworld. He got a water bottle out of his backpack and drank it in one, and then arranging himself so he could not be viewed filled it again.
It was an hour later that he got a call from Bill, he was just hearing how there was no sign when he saw his truck pull into the end of the street. He gave Bill the address and pulled out the jet injector that the doctor had given him, he walked carefully up behind her and as she was about to ring the bell he pressed it into her neck, she slumped into his arms. He threw her arm over his shoulder and hoisted her to his truck. He sat in the back seat with her until Bill turned up with a couple of his boys.
He handed over the keys to the hire car he had been using and told them where to take it, he grabbed his bag and watched while the two heavies drove off. Bill offered to follow him, but he told him he could cope, he thanked him for his help and with promises to look each other up more often, neither of them too serious about it, Jack drove off.
He rang Hammond, explaining about his truck and arranged for someone to pick it up and drive it all the way home, he got their flight details.
Talk about Déjà vu! He arrived at the base and lifted her into the plane, they had now left their personal transport on both sides of the country!
He asked for an ambulance to meet them at Peterson this time, and the doctor and an escort of SFs ensured that the idiot did not interfere.
They arrived in the infirmary at 12:30 Sam was just coming around from the anaesthetic that Jack had injected her with when they arrived, and once more he received a dazzling smile off her until she remembered something and it turned into a frown.
He paced outside the corridor while the doctor spoke with her, she called the three members of SG1 into her office shortly after 13:00, she was as puzzled as ever.
Sam insisted she had to see her father, though she did not know where he was. She insisted she was stationed in DC and was a Captain though she knew the correct date. She knew she was Mrs Jack O'Neill, and she knew she wasn't and that he was a Colonel in the AF, but she couldn't say where he was based at the moment. She wanted to see Aunt Mary, or Uncle George!
Jack called Hammond and gave him another update, it seemed that every time Sam slept it was as if her memory was reset, almost nothing she had learnt since coming back from the mission had registered in her mind, and the main focus seemed to be all on him! It was the only 'memory' that was totally false.
The claxon sounded and Walters voice floated down the corridor, Jack was about to go see what was happening when the doctors phone rang, Jacob had arrived!
Jacob strode into the infirmary and straight to Sams side, Jack introduced Dr Brightman to him and he gave her a nod while listening to her describe Sams symptoms, he may not have heard much because Sam had grabbed him and started crying into his shoulder the second she saw him. He patted her back and made shushing sounds, clearly he was getting as upset as she was over her behaviour.
His eyes flashed causing the doctor to take a step backwards.
"Jacob is upset by Samathas distress" Selmak said "He understands all that you have told him, but this is not a known situation to us, though we and the Goa'uld possess compounds that can persuade you… brain wash, Jacob is thinking, we have nothing that would effect the memory in this way."
Sam had stiffened as soon as he started talking, Jack realised she had no idea why his voice had changed, if her memories had jumped back to before her trip to Abydos she wouldn't recognise the echo as a bad thing.
She pulled back as Selmak was finishing his speech and looked at her father, she started screaming and backing away from him, Brightman dove for her, Jacob tried to hold onto her, but she pulled her feet under herself and jumped off the bed she ran to Jack and grabbed him trying to pull him out of the door with her. He held her tightly and lifted her feet off the ground, he whispered in her ear that everything was OK and messaged the others to leave them alone while he calmed her down. The doctor got the message and evidently agreed because she shooed everyone out and followed them.
Jack had no idea what to do next, the Sam he knew would not have reacted like this, she would not have cried so much, though really she had been stressed for a week now, so maybe it had got too much, but screaming and backing away? She was more likely to kick his arse than to do that!
He tried to settle her on the bed but she refused to let go, he ended up sitting in a chair with her on his lap.
Jacob returned and stood at the far end of the bed while he apologised. Jack whispering words of encouragement to her the whole time he was in the room. Eventually she nodded and held out her arms to him and Jacob picked her off Jack and sat in his place.
General Hammond walked in just at that moment, Jack was glad it had not been 5 minutes earlier, even though he was helping out, keeping her calm, the last thing he wanted was his CO to find her sat on his knee, especially as he had actually been enjoying holding her a bit too much.
"Jacob," he greeted his friend
"George" came the reply in Jacobs voice
"Uncle George!" Sam said, both senior officers looked at her in shock
"Any ideas?" the General asked and Jacob shook his head.
"Selmak has never heard of it before" he answered. Sam was POUTING! Jack thought she looked adorable, but Jacob gave her a slight shake and her face cleared.
"Who's Selmak?" she asked he could see them debating what to tell her so he jumped in.
"A friend of your dad, we asked him for help" he told her, she nodded accepting what he told her.
"You still haven't said hello Uncle George" she said. "I was trying to ring Aunt Mary… but…" she faded off and her gaze travelled to the ceiling, her lips moving as they had when it all began, so she missed the shock on Jacobs face and the flash of pain on Hammonds.
"Aunt Mary isn't well Sam" Hammond told her "she's staying with David Joan and the kids for a while" naming his son and family. Sam again nodded, but kept staring at the ceiling.
Dr. Brightman returned and waved to the General and Jack, gesturing for Jacob to stay where he was she lead them into her office.
"We have a result on the bloods I drew this morning, there is only one abnormality"
"What?" both men asked at the same time.
"According to her records Major Carter was injected with a Depo Provera shot just over 5 weeks ago, however there is no trace of it in her system, I have asked for a nurse who received a shot from the same batch on the same day to undergo testing" Jacks stomach clenched, he almost felt physically sick at the thought that Shanahan may have had a chance to make HIS Sam pregnant, he dare not ask the question and was glad when Hammond did it for him. He felt dizzy with relief as the doctor told them that she was NOT pregnant.
He left the infirmary, in a rush, unable to control his feelings and features and made his way to his quarters. He sat on the bed and shook, but he could not say WHY!
He went for lunch at 14:30 and was pleased to see neither Daniel nor Teal'c there as he could not face the questions they were bound to have.
He was called to Hammond at 16:00, Pete was at the gate insisting he had clearance to come onto the base and demanding to see his girlfriend and making a huge fuss about how he would be going to the press if they did not allow him in. Hammond had him arrested on the spot!
Jack hoped that HE would be the one to break the news about the charge, but the General called in a senior SF and then contacted Shanahans boss at Denver PD to warn him about his missing officer, it turned out that they had been looking for him all week, he had not reported in and they were afraid that a bust may have gone wrong. His Captain did not know if he was relieved or pissed at the fact that he was alive, especially as he was their equivalent of AWOL and making a nuisance of himself with the AF.
Jack couldn't help smirking when he was listening in to Hammonds half of the conversation, especially as occasionally a swear word directed at the young man floated from the ear piece across the room.
He went by the infirmary a couple of times, Jacob and the two other team-mates in constant attendance, he looked through the pane in the door, but did not enter.
He made sure that both sign in stations, the one at ground level as well as the one on level 11 knew she was not allowed off base without the OK of Hammond and the doctor. And he decided that an early night was in order.