A/N: Okay, this one has lots more Nicole in it - and some Bobby at the end. But mostly Nicole messing with Sam and Jack.
Sam was awake some minutes before she opened her eyes. Moving as little as possible, she tried to gage how bad her situation was. Her hands and legs were tied together and there was something strapped to her stomach. She had to breath using her chest instead of her full diaphragm, making for a very uncomfortable situation. She wondered if the object strapped to her stomach was hurting her baby – and she prayed to any god that might be real and listening that her baby would be okay.
"Colonel, I know you're awake," she heard a woman say in a British accent. "Your breathing's sped up."
Sam slowly opened her eyes, coming face to face with her abductor, "You know you won't get away with this, Nicole." She wasn't exactly sure it was Nicole Wallace/Lt. Croydon, but who else would have the gall to kidnap her? Everyone at the SGC liked Colonel Sam Carter Ph.D. She'd made the 'Gate work.
Nicole's smile widened into a grin as she digested this information, "So Bobby is here. How utterly delicious. But you're forgetting one very important thing, Colonel – I have you and your unborn baby as hostages. Surely you don't think your husband would intentionally kill his child for the second time?"
Sam's eyes widened slightly. She knew about Charlie and the baby. She knew she was married to Jack. The other thought that went through her mind was that Nicole obviously hadn't read the mission report on the alien entity that had invaded the SGC and Sam's body a few years before. Jack had killed her to save the base.
"Where'd you get your information from?" Sam asked, her face and voice cold and detached from the situation. It was the only way she knew to deal with this. Nicole didn't have the torture devices of the Goa'uld – all she could throw at Sam was mind games. Games Sam refused to play.
"Now, now, Colonel. I'm the one who's asking the questions here. How long do you think it will take for Teal'c and Lt. Newsman to get out of the room I left them in? Once they're out, no doubt they'll go try to find General O'Neill, and darling Bobby. Is Alex with him? Oh, no matter. Bobby's here."
There was something in the way Nicole talked about Bobby that tipped Sam off to her true motivation. She was in love with Bobby. It seemed to be more of an obsession, but Sam had spent eight years trying to act like she wasn't in love – she knew the signs. Taking slow, deliberate breaths, Sam said, "Do you ever wonder why he doesn't love you, Nicole?"
Nicole stood up and stalked over to Sam. Pulling Sam's head back by her hair she knelt down and whispered, "He does love me, Colonel Carter. Why else would he keep on coming back to me and letting me get inside his head?"
The telephone/intercom rang and Nicole let go of Sam's head to answer it, allowing Sam the opportunity to study the woman who held her captive.
"Hello?" Nicole answered cheerfully.
"We want to talk to Colonel Carter," the voice on the other end said abruptly.
Nicole's smile was mad and wild, "She's rather tied up at the moment. Can I take a message for her?"
"No. But I'll talk to you instead. Give me my wife back."
"Oh, is this General O'Neill? It's marvelous to hear your voice at last. I've heard so much about you. But I don't think I want to talk to people who leave guns lying around where little children can pick them up. Just because of that, Colonel Carter has some very heavy explosives strapped to her stomach."
"DON'T YOU DARE TALK TO ME ABOUT CHARLIE!" Jack yelled into the phone, causing Nicole to take it away from her ear and wince slightly.
"Aren't you afraid?" Nicole asked, her psychotic smile firmly in place as she spoke, "Aren't you terrified out of your mind that it will happen again? To the unborn child your … lovely wife is carrying?"
"It won't happen again," Jack whispered. "And my gun was safely put away, Nicole." He hung up the phone, knowing that he lost the round and it was time to regroup.
Nicole cocked her head to one side after she hung up, before turning to Sam, "You need to teach your husband some manners, Colonel. I find it surprising he rose as far as he has with that record of his."
Sam stared at her coolly, not letting her rage and anger show on her face or in her voice, "You don't know anything about him."
Nicole plopped down on a chair close to Sam, leaning forward intently, "Then tell me. Tell me all about how he still wakes up with nightmares from his time as a POW. Tell me how good he really is in bed, and how long it takes for him to have you screaming with pleasure. Tell me, Colonel Carter."
Jack stared at the phone, unable to get control over his emotions – his anger and his fear. How the hell did she know all of that? How the hell did she know Sam was pregnant? How did she know they were married? How …?
Jack felt an arm on his shoulder, and he turned to find Daniel staring at him. The words the archeologist said during their first suicide mission to Abydos rang throughout Jack's mind: "No one here wants to die. It's a pity you're in such a hurry to."
"Daniel," it was all Jack needed to say.
Daniel nodded once before turning to Hailey, "Can you tell me which rooms are locked off from here? Other than the one Teal'c and Newsman are in?"
Jennifer nodded, and typed in a code to the computer. She looked up at him after a minute, "There's another supply room locked off – I tried opening it but it seems she welded the door closed. My guess is she knows she's not getting out, sir, except by someone beaming them out."
Daniel looked at Jack, "Why don't we just beam them out?"
Jack shook his head, "She said Carter has explosives strapped to her, Daniel." He turned to Bobby and Alex, "Would she hesitate to kill her if she thought she wasn't getting out of here alive?"
Bobby and Alex exchanged a look, wondering how much they should tell the distraught General. It was finally Bobby who said, "She's not stupid … if she knows there's no other way off this ship, then she will kill Sam."
A/N: Sorry about the lack of Bobby/Alex - they get their turn for the next few chapters. Don't worry. Please review.