Chapter 3

Author's Note: Another chapter, hope nobody's getting bored yet!

If I haven't made it clear before, this is an AU, set sometime between Seasons 3 and 8

Jack arrived bright and early but put off his visit to Sam. What could he say? She wasn't too keen on talking anyway. He loitered around her office for a while, remembering when things where a whole lot simpler.

Then he heard screaming and raced to the infirmary. There, his normally calm and collected second in command was sitting in her bed, throwing anything within reach at a cowering man.

"Get the hell out of here!" Sam shouted.

""What the hell is going on here, Carter?"

"They think I'm crazy!"

Bewildered, Jack looked towards the man, who was now trying to leave the room.

He realized that it was Dr Mackenzie and started to understand what was going on.

"They don't think you're crazy, Carter. They just want you to talk to someone."

Three airmen rushed into the room, drawn by the bellowing.

Sam turned her attention to them, "Airmen, this is an alien posing as a doctor. I command you to shoot him!"

The men all raised their weapons, ready to follow an order from a superior officer.

"Wait! Don't shoot! Go and get Dr Fraiser." Jack shouted

The Airmen hesitated but the Colonel was in charge and they left the room.

"You better get out of here as well." Sam threatened the psychiatrist

The doctor looked at Jack for support who could only shrug.

Just then, Janet Fraiser swept into the infirmary with a dangerous gleam in her eye.

"Sam, were those soldiers telling the truth?" Janet caught a glimpse of Mackenzie, who was trying to act as though he hadn't been hiding under a table, and glared at her patient.

"You're threatening a psychiatrist?"

"I didn't want to talk to him!"

"I don't care!"

"You can't make me!"

Jack smirked at the sight of these two very stubborn women acting like children and made a mental note never to annoy either one of them again.

"If you don't talk to him, then I'm not going to clear you for active duty. Ever."

Sam's eyes widened in horror. "You wouldn't do that!"

"Watch me. And you can stop smiling, Colonel."

The grin dropped from Jack's mouth and he simply watched as Sam frowned and crossed her arms like an obstinate five year old.

"Fine! I'll talk to him. I don't have to like it though."

She sat on the bed and fiddled with the bedsheet, anything to avoid looking the psychiatrist in the eye.

"So, Sam, how are you feeling?"

"Firstly," Sam said irritated, "It's Major Carter and secondly, don't waste time with these stupid questions. If I have to talk to you, at least make them vaguely original."

"Okay. Why do you need everyone to call you by your rank?"

"It's just polite."

"Are you sure it's not something else? Maybe a need to prove what you've accomplished?"

"I'm sure."

"Okay, so why did you break the mirror when Colonel O'Neill tried to give it to you?"

"That was all Hera did. She had whole rooms in her palace full of just mirrors. Used to spend hours standing in front of them, admiring her body; my body."

Mackenzie made some notes on the pad before him, "Why haven't you been to see your father yet?"

"I tried to kill him. Twice."

"It wasn't you. It was the…."

"Yeah, yeah. It was the Goa'uld. People keep saying that and its getting boring now. I still don't think he'd be too keen on seeing me just yet. He's not even conscious."

"What is your main aim right now?"

"To get back to normal. Rejoin SG1 and save the world like we normally do."

After an hour of long questions and short answers, Mackenzie left, with promises to return before she was cleared for duty again.

It was growing late and most of the personnel had left for the night. Sam was still awake, brooding over her earlier talk with the psychiatrist. A movement in the corner of the room caught her eye and she was instantly more alert. Then the figure stepped forward into the dim light of the infirmary and she relaxed.

"Hello, Sam."

""Hi Dad."

Authors Note: Okay, so I kinda left it on another cliffhanger but I will update in the next couples of days, if everyone likes this chapter. Next chapter brings in some more old "friends" which causes the story to speed up a little. Any guesses who they might be? Apart from Jacob, because you already know he's going to be in it! As always, any contributions or suggestions are welcomed.