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Rating: K

You really had to twist my arm for me to write a sequel.

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Chapter 2

Jack placed the phone back on the receiver still in shock at the news that had come from it. She was back. Not totally awake, but slight movement after 8 months of nothing was as good as awake in Jack's mind.

Suddenly springing to life he sprinted all the way from Sam's office to the infirmary, quite a few floors above and he was puffing and panting by the time he skidded into the isolation room.

"Lee!" he barked as he bent over double to catch his breath, "Update."

"Neural responses are up, and she seems to be responding to stimuli, though she is yet to open her eyes." Jack stared at Dr. Lee before he brushed past him to Sam's bed. After 8 months in a bed her skin was pale and waxy looking, and her hair had grown out, now framing her face in ringlets. But to Jack she still looked amazing.

Dragging a chair over he sat down and gently picked up her hand and stroked it lightly.

"Carter?" he whispered as her eyelids fluttered at his touch before he was finally, after so many months of being denied, given access to her bright blue eyes.

"Hey…" he said quietly as he motioned for Dr. Lee to come over, who had been trying to look busy and give them a couple of moments to themselves.

Peering over at her, Dr. Lee finally spoke, "Welcome back to the land of the living Sam." He gave a wide smile as he checked her pulse, and her pupil response time both of which were well within the normal range.

"We'll have to do some scans of course, but they can wait a bit." He said to Jack as Sam continued staring at Jack, as though amazed that he were actually there, "I'll just go off and uhh…check some things." And nodding to his associate bustled him out of the room, leaving Jack and Sam alone.

"You gave m…us quite a scare Carter." Jack said, still stroking her hand absent mindedly. She simply blinked back at him as tears welled up in her eyes. Moving his hand up to her face he gently wiped the tears from her cheeks. She opened her mouth to speak, but nothing came out as she as Jack realized where his hand was and let it quickly drop to the edge of the bed, where it began plucking at a loose thread in the blanket.

"Sir." She finally rasped out as Jack looked into her blue eyes, he could so easily drown in those eyes, to get lost in the depths of that blue ocean that stared back at him, "what happened?"

Jack took a deep breath before he began, "You, Daniel and Teal'c were on a mission, the terrain was more steep that you thought, there was what appeared to be a temple at the bottom or a ravine, it wasn't far to repel down the cliff. You were first to go down, and you slipped…and you hit your head on a rock," Jack paused as he saw the pain register on her face, "that was 8 months ago, you've been in a coma since then."

"8 months?" Sam whispered as fresh tears welled in her eyes.

"Yeah, it was touch and go there for awhile Carter." Jack said quietly as he expertly plucked the thread on the blanket

"Sir, when can I get out of bed?"

"Umm, well, you've got an awful lot of physical therapy ahead of you Carter, you'll have to start of slow, lots of water therapy and such, you may not be able to…well…umm, it'll be a long time before you can do anything of that sort." Sam simply stared at him with those wide blue eyes, as she gave a weak smile.

"Better get started then huh Sir?"

Hope you enjoyed Chapter 2, Chapter 3 will be up shortly.