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Chapter 5

"Sam" Jack said as he shook her arm gently. After a brief discussion with the others he had come back to the room Sam was sleeping in to tell her what had happened.

"What?" She asked after she had woken up sufficiently to be coherent.

"You need to come with me"

"What's happening?" She asked sitting up and alert.

"We found another heart"

"Where?"

"On the front window of your car" Jack said after a moment's hesitation.

Sam felt her whole world come crashing down around her. How had he managed to get on the base? If she wasn't safe here then she wasn't safe anywhere. She got out of bed and headed up to the parking lot with Jack. The walk was made in silence, neither one of them knowing what to say at that moment. When she got to the parking lot she found the rest of her team, Janet and General Hammond all stood together talking.

Her gaze went straight from them to her car and the red heart that had been spray painted on the window.

"How did he get on base?" She asked as she and Jack approached the others.

"We don't know yet"

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Sam sat and listened to her friends as they discussed how McAdams could have got on base and what they were going to do next. After she had seen the red heart on her car they had all come to the briefing room Sam was only vaguely aware of what the others were saying she was lost in her own thoughts.

She had also sensed Jack look at her a couple of times, he was probably concerned by her silence. She was quietly weighing up her own options as her military training finally started to kick in and make sense of the situation. She knew what she had to do; she had figured that out fifteen minutes ago, now she was just trying to figure out how she was going to tell the others. There was no point in dragging this out any longer than she already had, so she decided to just say it.

"I'm going home" she stated and prepared herself for the argument that was about to follow.

"What?" Jack and Daniel asked in unison.

"I'm going home"

"No you're not" Jack stated matter of factly.

"I'm obviously not safe even here, the last thing we need is for me to compromise base security by luring some psycho in here" Sam said.

"You're safer here than you are at home"

"Not safe enough to make a difference"

"Why don't we send you through the gate" Daniel suggested not understanding why he'd only just though of it "He couldn't get to you then"

"Because he knows I'm on the base and he'll keep looking for me. If he can't find me he might use someone here to try and find out where I am and that still compromises base security. I won't be responsible for that or for putting the rest of the base personnel at risk"

"To hell with base security, this is your life Sam" Jack said feeling his anger start to flare.

"Jack's right Sam"

"I've already made up my mind, I'm going home"

"How about you stay with one of us?" Janet said stepping in.

"That puts one of you in danger"

"I don't care" Jack said "You can stay with me"

"I won't put you in that kind of danger"

"Then I will stay also" Teal'c added with a look at Jack to ask for permission.

"See, no earth born psycho is going to get past Teal'c"

After a few moments to think Sam reluctantly agreed, she knew this was all the compromise she would get out of her friends. A couple of hours later she, Jack and Teal'c were on their way to Jacks. She didn't like the idea of putting any of her friends in danger but there was no way they were going to give up on this one. She had known she wouldn't win this one even before she had told them she was going home; but she had to try.

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"Come on the guy practically lives there" Jack said, he had been talking about Daniel and Janet and how the two of them might as well live together.

"Does Major Carter not spend as much time here as Daniel Jackson spends at Dr Frasier's?"

Sam couldn't hold back the laugh that escaped at Teal'cs comment and the look on Jack's face.

"Teal'c" Jack said using his hands for emphasis "It is wholly inappropriate for you to say something like that when the person you are talking about is in the room"

Teal'c suddenly looked very smug and Sam realised he had said what he said on purpose and had to burst out laughing. Teal'c had always been very protective of Daniel. When they had first formed SG1, Daniel wasn't very experienced and tended to get himself in trouble a lot. Teal'c had been the best fighter and the most experienced so he had generally been charged with looking after the archaeologist. Even though Daniel was now as good as the rest of them and better than most officers who had been in the military most of their lives, Teal'c was still very protective f him.

"That was a cheap shot Teal'c" Jack said as he finally realised what Teal'c had done. Sam finally stopped laughing and decided she was glad that she had agreed to come here. Jack and Teal'c had managed to get her mind of everything and she was actually enjoying herself. There had been no sign of McAdams, she wasn't naïve enough to believe he wouldn't show up again but as long as he left her friends alone she could temporarily forget about him.

TBC