He heard her voice. He was sure that he had been drugged and knew that he was severely injured. What he needed to do was get information and access the situation. And most of all he needed to get her, to get his team to safety. He would order her if he could, beg her if he must, but he had to get her to leave him and get them home to safety. It was too hard to get 'Carter' out of his mouth and so gasped. "Sam."

She felt his fingers grasp her arm, a trembling yet iron grip.

"Ssam."

"I'm here sir."

"Daniel?"

Daniel bent lower over the bed. He had not realized at first that Jack could not see him. He wondered if he could see Sam.

"He's right here sir."

"Jack" with that Daniel touched Jack's arm.

"Teal'c?"

"He didn't come with us."

Jack knew now for sure there was no way they could be able to get home with him in tow; so he made the hard choice. One that Daniel had made many years before.

"Get to the gate… watch you back."

"You're going to be alright. We're staying with you"

"No… order…leave me…go" with this the alarms on the monitors were screeching causing him to become even more agitated. He tried to sit up, grasped even tighter to her arm. The sheet covering his leg blossomed with red as he struggled.

"Go now, they're coming…I'll watch your back."

"Sir, we're home, on Earth, you're safe. I won't leave you."

A nurse came in and told them to leave, admonishing them for disturbing her patient. Before Carter could tell the woman just where to go, Teal'c walked into the room carrying a small case directly from the SGC. Following Teal'c were more personnel from the infirmary of the SGC, dismissing the nurse and taking over the care of General O'Neill.

Dr. Warner entered the room with charts and X-rays. He asked that all nonessential personnel leave the room so that he could examine the patient. He had seen Jack when he first arrived at the hospital but needed to consult with the other doctors that had examined O'Neill and procure all documents in reference to his hospitalization. Then he needed to determine if it was safe to transport the General to either the infirmary or the Academy Hospital. Dr. Warner, however, deemed it to dangerous to give O'Neill any more tranquillizers or opiates and so asked Lt. Col. Carter to remain and talk to the General and try to soothe him. Due to the severity of his knee injury he deemed that the orthopedics ward of the Academy Hospital would probably be the best bet for saving O'Neill's leg, if that were humanly possible or more experienced at amputation. Teal'c had other ideas.