Chapter 9

"Cameron!" Alex exclaimed as she went over to her commanding officer.

"Alex," Cameron said grabbing onto Alex's hand when she reached his side, she was pushed out of the way by the arriving medical team.

Cameron was put on a gurney and wheeled off to the infirmary.

"What in the world happened?" O'Neill asked the arriving team.

"We were captured by Ba'al's forces again." Teal'c replied bluntly.

"Get showered up," O'Neill informed SG-1, "We'll debrief in two hours."

"Yes, sir," Alex said aggravated walking past him and toward the door.

O'Neill gave them a confused look onto why his officer was acting in the manner she was.

"We'll explain later," Scott said walking toward O'Neill and giving him a reassuring pat on the shoulder.

"Ah," The general replied quickly. SG-1 walked out of the gate room.

The team hit the showers and then Alex went to her office and started typing up her mission report, Scott walked into the office and saw her crying.

"Hey," Scott said caringly walking over to his wife, "What's wrong?"

"It's just so hard to recall all of this without breaking down into an emotional wreck." Alex said looking at Scott and wrapping her arms around him.

Scott wrapped his arm around Alex, "Have you gone down and saw Colonel Mitchell, yet?"

"No," Alex said resting her head on Scott's shoulder, letting her tears soak into his shirt, "Why, should I?"

"I think he would like that," Scott said looking into his wife's eyes and wiping her tears away, "Don't you?"

"Yeah," Alex replied, "I guess I'll head down there."

"Good plan," Scott said grabbing his wife's hand and leading her out of the room, "Do you want me to come with you?"

"No, I'm good," Alex said rising up on her tip-toes, kissing Scott.

"Ok, see you later."

Alex started heading down to the infirmary, when she made her final turn, she ran into Daniel.

"Hey, goin' to see Cameron?" Her brother asked her.

"Yeah, did you just come from there?" Alex said looking up at her brother.

"Yeah, he's been wanting you to show up, so good timing on your part." Daniel said chuckling.

"I guess so, well I'm not going to keep him waiting there any longer, see you at the briefing." Alex said walking away and waving at her brother.

Alex walked into the infirmary and saw Cameron laying down one of the hospital beds, with many monitors hooked up to him.

"Hey," Cameron said glad to see his best friend, "Did Daniel tell you I wanted to see you?"

"Yes," Alex said sitting down on the stool next to his bed grabbing his hand, "But, I was already on my way here."

"Oh, so you're like a mind reader of some sort," Cameron said sarcastically squeezing Alex's hand gently.

"No, but that would be cool!" Alex said.

"Well you do know that you're pretty awesome already," Cameron said looking into Alex's eyes.

"I guess, if you say so," Alex said doubting herself.

"You are!" Cameron said encouraging hit teammate to believe him.

"Whatever," Alex said smiling, a nurse walked in.

"Sir," The nurse said to Cameron walking over to check his vital signs.

"Nurse, when do I get out of here?" He asked impatiently.

"Well, we would like to keep you overnight, but if you insist, we can release you tonight." The nurse replied.

"Would it be a big deal if I was released tonight?" Cameron asked anxiously.

"No, as long as you got a good night's sleep, and didn't do anything to overly-active."

"Ok, sounds good, I'll make sure I follow orders, just, please release me tonight," Cameron said pleadingly.

"Ok, we'll release you tonight, but we're going to keep you here for right now." The nurse replied and walked out of the room.

"Hey, looks like I'm getting out of here tonight," Cameron said to Alex.

"Yeah, well, I have to go to the briefing I'll let you know how it goes." Alex said and stood up but was unable to walk away, Cameron was holding onto her hand.

"Come over to my room at 1900, I want to talk to you," He said as Alex turned around to look at him.

"OK, I'll see you then." She said and walked out of the room.

Alex got into the elevator, but, before the doors closed, Scott joined her.

"Hey, Sweetheart," Scott said wrapping his arm around Alex's shoulders.

"Hey, I'm whipped; I just want to crawl in bed next to you and sleep." She said resting her head in the crook of Scott's arm.

"I know how you feel," Scott said chuckling to himself, and resting his head on his wife's.