Chapter 6

"Hey, Shrimp," Cameron said, wearing his flight suit.

"What?" Alex asked confused, the last thing she remembered was being trapped on Ba'al's ship, and now she was in the hanger bay at the AF academy.

"I just said, Hey, is something wrong?" Cameron asked as he walked over to her and placed his flight helmet in between his ribs and his arm.

"This is all wrong," Alex muttered to herself.

"You've been at this base for six months now; there is nothing wrong with the hanger bay." Cameron said as he put his hand on Alex's shoulder giving her a concerned look.

"No, not the hanger bay," Alex paused and rubbed her temple, "Everything."

"Nothing is wrong, shrimp." Cameron assured her, "You need to go to the infirmary.

"No, I'm fine." Alex replied as she grabbed her helmet from the lockers and headed back to Cameron.

"You know, I don't think you are; you're claiming that everything is wrong, nothing is wrong." He said as they both walked over to their plane. Alex had been Cameron's co-pilot since the beginning of flight school.

"That's because everything is wrong!" Alex raised her voice in annoyance.

"Nothing is wrong, now I want you to stay at my house tonight, so you don't loose it and commit suicide, or anything else." Cameron said as he climbed into the driver's seat of the two person plane. Alex climbed into the plane behind him.

"I remember this," Alex stated to herself.

"What?" Cameron asked from the front seat, buckling the restraints.

"Nothing, let's go." Alex said from the back as she clipped the air mask to the other side of her helmet, and it clasped around her mouth and nose.

"Flight, this is Blue Leader, do we have ago?" Cameron asked flight controls through the microphone in his air mask.

"All clear, Blue Leader," Flight informed the two through the microphones.

"Preparing for take-off," Cameron announced to his co-pilot. Alex grabbed the joy stick in front of her; she loved flying and wished she could do it more often.

Ever since she took her job at the SGC, she only had rare occasions to go flying in the planes. She loved every minute she was able to.

"Radars are clear." Cameron said into his microphone after turning on the engines.

"You are clear for take-off, Blue Leader," Flight Control announced through the communication system.

"Ready, Shrimp?" Cameron asked his co-pilot.

"Always, Shaft."

Cameron pushed the plane into action taking off from the landing platform, pilots never got used to the rush of take-off.

"We have air, Flight." Alex announced.

"Good to hear it, Blue Leader."

Cameron and Alex stayed up in the plane, running the complete training course in the plane. Cameron eventually informed his co-pilot it was her turn.

"Switching to secondary controls," He announce over the microphone.

"Thanks, Shaft." Alex replied as she felt the weight of the joystick shift, she had to use all of her strength to pull them out of the nose dive.

"That was close, Shrimp," Cam said concerned, "What's going on?"

"Not time for small talk, Blue Leader." Flight informed the two pilots up in the plane.

"We know Flight, Shrimp almost lost control of the plane." He informed flight through the communication systems.

"Be careful up there, Blue Leader."

"Planning on it, Flight," Alex finished and shut down her mic.

"Switching back to primary controls," Cameron informed Alex.

"My fun's over?" Alex asked her comrade.

"Your fun is over," Cameron stated blandly, "Coming in for a landing, flight."

"Copy, Blue Leader," Flight informed the young pilots, "The deck is open,"

Cameron brought the plane in for a rougher landing than usual. He quickly brought the plane to a halt. Cameron climbed out of the plane and put up his hand for Alex. Alex grabbed his hand an jumped out of the plane.

"Go and get changed, meet me in the front, I'll take you to my place." Cam informed his young friend.

"Of course, Shaft," Alex said walking off in the direction of the locker rooms. "See ya, soon."

Cameron headed of in the opposite direction towards the men's locker room.

Cameron was done changing before Alex. He was waiting out in the front lobby for her, he saw Alex coming.

"Hey," Cam said noticing the dazed look on his best friend's face, "What's wrong?"

"Everything is wrong!" Alex said confused on why she was recalling this memory, and why it felt so real.

Cameron wrapped his arms around Alex, she hugged him back.

"Did that feel wrong?" Cameron asked.

"No," Alex confessed stepping back looking into Cameron's eyes.

Cameron gently rubbed his hand across Alex's cheek.

"Let's go home." Cam stated grabbing Alex's shoulder and leading her out of the lobby and to his car.

Alex got into the passenger's seat and Cameron climbed in next to her, placing they keys into the ignition.

Alex knew at this point in her life, Cameron and her were very good friends, it was not unusual for her to spend the night at his house. They drove home in silence, once they got to his house, they both walked in.

Cameron hung up his coach and threw his keys on the counter.

"So, you want to watch a movie, Shrimp?" Cam asked Alex as she sat down next to him on the couch.

"Sure," Alex replied, she remembered that they watched Top Gun, this time when she was here.

"Ok, how's Top Gun?" Cam asked standing up to put the movie in.

"Great," Alex said chuckling to herself.

Cameron put the movie in and fast forwarded through the previews. He sat back down and put his arm around Alex. Alex snuggled in close and they enjoyed the movie together.

When the movie ended Cam looked down and saw Alex asleep in her arms. This was a usual occurrence for his Conrad.

Cameron picked up Alex and took her to the guest room. He removed her jeans and replaced them with a pair of pajama pants.

Cameron walked back out of the room, leaving the door open. He walked into his own room, he stripped into his under-shirt and boxers. Cameron climbed into his bed and fell asleep.

He awoke to the sound of crying coming from hallway. Looking over at the clock he realized it was 2:30am. He got out of bed walking toward the door, not caring he was wearing boxers and a tee-shirt.

"Alex?" He voiced, concerned.

"Yeah," Alex replied weakly.

Cameron saw her sitting up against the door frame of her room.

"Hey," Cameron walked over and squatted down next to Alex, concerned, "What's wrong?"

"Headache," Alex replied, "Bad."

Cameron knew what it was like when a bad one struck.

"I'll be right back." Cameron said, Alex grabbed his shirt sleeve before he could stand up, "I promise."

Cameron stood up after Alex let go of his sleeve.

The headache was not the only reason why she was crying. Alex remembered this migraine hitting her last time, when she actually lived the memory. The other reason she was crying was because night after her migraine, Cam and her crashed the plane, both severely injured, him more than her. She did not want to relive that memory again. She thought maybe Ba'al would disconnect her from that retched device before it came to that.

Cameron was back quickly with a glass of water and two large capsules in his hands.

"Here," Cameron said holding out the pain meds to Alex, "They'll help with the pain."

Alex gratefully took and swallowed the pills.

"Thanks," Alex said as Cameron took her into his arms.

He gently wrapped his arm around her, letting his tears soak into his tee-shirt.

"Ok," Cameron said, pulling himself and his Comrade off the floor, "Let's go and get some sleep."

He led her back to the bed in the guest room.

"Lay down, get some sleep," Cameron said, setting Alex down on the bed.

"Night, Cam," Alex said, resting her head on the pillows, and pulling the covers up to her chin.

"Night, Shrimp," Cameron said, and without realizing what he was doing, bent down and kissed her forehead.

When Cameron knew she was asleep, he walked back into his bed room and slept till morning.