Chapter 8

Alex laid against Cameron for what seemed like ages before she finally cried herself to sleep. Cameron continued to hold her until she stirred, hanging tightly onto his shirt.

Scott walked over and rested his hand on Alex's shoulder, she didn't release Cameron.

"Hey, Sunshine," Cameron said as Alex looked up at him, he wiped the tears away that were streaming down her face.

Alex didn't reply to Cameron, just rested her head back against his chest. Cameron continued to hold her until she built up the nerve to talk.

"I'm so glad your, ok," Alex said, though it was muffled by Cameron's body.

"I'm fine," Cameron stated concerned only for his teammate.

"I don't know what was worse," Alex paused grabbing Cameron's arm and sitting up, "knowing what was going to happen, or actually reliving it."

"Well, none of that matters now," Cameron said pulling Alex close to his body once more, "Can you tell us what happened, from the beginning?"

Alex nodded as she leaned off of Cameron and rested her head on Scott's shoulder, still holding onto Cam's hand.

"Well," Alex started, "I got into the room and he, being Ba'al, hooked me up to an advance memory recall device."

Sam stopped her there and interjected, "What did the device look like?"

"Um..." Alex paused thinking back to her time in the room, "It was a silver-grey color, with a head about the size of a quarter, it had a pin-prick type needle on the bottom, it was inserted into my temple," Alex said as tears started streaming down her face once more.

"It's ok," Daniel reassured her wiping the tears away from her face, "Keep going."

"Next thing I remember, I was in the Hanger bay at the AF academy," Alex paused, "Cam was there, I didn't know what was going on, he told me he wanted me to stay at his house that night,"

Alex's team stared at her with interested faces. Scott was sitting behind her, rubbing her arm gently to keep her calm.

Alex continued, "Cam and I flew our plane through a course of obstacles before going to his house,"

"We went back to your house, Cam, and watched a movie, we watched..."

Cameron completed the sentence for her, "Top Gun,"

"Yeah," Alex took a deep breath, "We watched the movie, and before the movie was over I fell asleep, the next thing I remember was waking up with a migraine."

"Yeah, I remember that," Cameron said as he squeezed Alex's hand, she continued.

"Cam helped me with my headache and then we both went back to sleep." Alex said as she closed her eyes, Scott shook her awake.

"We'll let you sleep after you tell us the rest," Scott told her sternly.

"Ok," Alex said taking a deep breath, "The next morning we went into the AF Hanger Bay and got into our plane, prepping for the final simulation before we receive our pilot's license. Cam and I got in and took off with the flight consent. Cameron and I had no problem flying through the course on our own. It was when we had to fly half-and-half."

"You don't have to go on if you don't want to," Cameron told her, Scott gave him a firm look, "I know the rest do you want me to tell them?"

Alex nodded and closed her eyes and fell asleep in Scott's arms.

Cameron continued for her, talking quietly as not to wake Alex, "Alex was the first to loose control of the plane, her console locked her out, there was nothing she or I could do, then I lost all control of the plane, we crashed, she dislocated her left shoulder, that's why she was holding onto it, that was my signal along with her saying 97, I was knocked unconscious and was in a coma for four months before waking up, unable to walk or talk, I had to learn everything again, I eventually recovered."

Scott was confused, trying to take all this in at once was a big job for him, "I never even heard about this before now, why didn't she tell me?"

"Unfortunately, the crash left her mentally unstable for months on end, she wasn't able to cope with anything, she was depressed, worried that I wouldn't make it out alive. When I did eventually wake up but was unable to do normal functions, she was even more traumatized. She eventually worked out of it, when she knew I was ok."

Alex woke up and Scott wrapped his arms around her, "I am so sorry, I didn't know what happened."

"It's fine, you didn't know, I could never build up the nerve to tell you." Alex said leaning up against her husband.

"Alex, are you ok?" Daniel asked his little sister concerned.

Alex got up from leaning up against Scott and made her way over to her brother, she wrapped her arms around him and he embraced her back.

"I'm fine, just a little shaken up," Alex said resting her head on her brother's shoulder.

"Ok, just let us know if you need anything, we'll try our best to help," Her brother replied holding her tightly to his body.

"I need to get out of here!" Alex replied annoyed, "I can't stand going through that again."

"We're trying Sunshine," Cameron said walking over to Alex.

"I know, try harder," Alex said annoyed, resting up against Daniel and falling asleep.

Alex slept in Daniel's arms for a couple hours, this was before Cameron came over and woke her up, telling her that they were going to get out of the cell.

"Sunshine," Cameron said patting Alex on the arm abruptly waking her up, "We've got to go, we have a small window of opportunity, but very small."

"Got it," Alex said, standing up with the help of her husband.

"We're getting out of here!" Scott exclaimed quietly shaking his wife gently holding her shoulders.

"Yeah," Alex said looking up and back at Scott.

"Shh," Cameron said sternly as he opened up the door to the cell the serpent guard had forgotten to lock.

Alex and SG-1 crept around the hat'ack vessel quietly, until they reached the ring platform.

"Don't wait for me!" Cameron exclaimed motioning his team over to the ring platform, "I'm right behind you."

"Alex," Scott said gently, grabbing her arm and pulling her toward the ring platform.

They all heard the Jaffa patrol coming; Cameron eventually joined his team down on the surface, with a severe weapons burn on the side of his stomach.

"Oh my gosh!" Alex exclaimed looking at Cameron's blood stained shirt, "You've been hit."

"I know that, Rivers, now get to the gate." Cameron said pushing her along.

When Alex reached the gate Daniel was already at the DHD, the dial home device, dialing the address of Earth's gate. Alex pulled out her GDO and entered her personal IDC, signaling the SGC to open the impenetrable iris and the other end of the wormhole. When the team got the go-ahead they stepped through the gate, Cameron close behind.

The team heard gun fire coming from behind them they all ran through the gate.

"Close the iris!" Cameron screamed once he got through the gate, and then collapsed to the floor, on the hard metal ramp that led up to the gate.