(A/N:: Enjoy! Sorry about the delay... bad bad delay... Possibily one more chapter to go D
Ryan)
She had sat in the same position for hours, unaware of the creeping pain in her joints. Nurses had come over several times to determine if she needed anything, but she never heard them speak. All Sam wanted to do was to make sure Jack, her Jack was fine. All she could think of was the persistent worse case scenarios (a bad habit picked up from Jack), all ending in Janet telling her that Jack was dead. Teal'C and Daniel had been by and stayed for a short while before going to debrief General Hammond on the state of the mission.
It was near dinner time when Janet came out to tell her that Jack would be fine, and that he had suffered a lot of damage that would heal with time. What ever had attacked him had become infected, and coupled with the blood loss had made things a bit touch and go for Jack for a short while.
'Sam, go and eat. The Colonel will be here when you return,' sensing the objection she was about to receive she added quickly 'I'll make it an order if I have to,' in a slightly sinister tone that demanded no objections.
Sam sighed whilst getting up from the uncomfortable chair, stretching as she did so, realising the pain she was going to suffer for the next couple of days. Turing and walking towards the exit of the Infirmary, she gave Janet a small smile and said 'Thanks' before searching out the other members of her team and Mess hall.
'The Colonel's going to be fine,' Sam told the Daniel and Teal'C, 'Because of the blood loss and the infected wounds, he might take a bit longer to recover, but he'll be fine.' Same picked up another slice of the cafeteria pizza, glad that Janet had the sense to send her away for food.
Daniel and Teal'C's meeting with General Hammond had gone well, just telling him of how they found Jack, and that nothing untoward had happened to them on their journey. They had spent much of the debriefing discussing the possibilities of why the seeming kind people had suddenly turned against them. There was one other issue that the general needed to talk with Sam specifically with was the nature of her link with the Colonel through her dreams, and the letters - something which Sam herself did not know much about. It appeared that Jack knew more about the subject than she did, evident in the first letter that she had gotten from him in the desk drawer.
There was a commotion at the Mess hall entrance. The remaining members of SG-1 instantaneously got up and moved over to see what was going on… and burst out laughing when they got there. There was Colonel Jack O'Neill, leader of SG-1, in a heap on the floor, covered in some poor sergeants coffee and trying to fend off the nurses, from which it had appeared he'd escaped.
'Thanks folks, here I am wounded and needing help escaping the clutched of the evil Doctor, and your laughing at me…' he said, sounding even more desperate - and causing the rest of the team to go into more laughter. The laughter allowed the tension that had built up over the past few days in the attempt at finding him to be released, making everyone feel better.
It was two weeks before Colonel was allowed to do any kind of work again, which included (thankfully for him) paperwork. So it was a surprise when he entered his little office in the Cheyenne Mountain complex that it was tidy, and that there were no memos or important looking folders and files hanging around the place. He looked around suspiciously, expecting all the work to fall out of one of the many metal cupboards or to be bursting out of one of the drawers in his desk. Instead everything was devoid of paperwork, the drawers all neat and tidy and the metal cupboards containing nothing in the way of urgent paperwork.
Sitting down at his desk he noticed two things: one, his gameboy had been returned from its' time of being held hostage by Carter, and; two, a letter address to him written in a neat and tidy hand that he would recognise anywhere. Unable to decide between turning the gameboy on and seeing if Carter had in anyway sabotaged it or to read what she had written… for a moment he wondered how she knew he even had an office, it was one of his best kept secrets. Besides he really enjoyed hanging in Carter's and Daniel's offices, scaring them into believing he really would break or destroy one of they toys. Jack wouldn't ever do anything like that on purpose, but it distracted them from thinking he actually did work… 'Ah I digress again,' he thought. He took the letter first, wondering what Same would have written that could not be talked about…
Dear Colonel O'Neill,
Hmm… it's hard to write a letter you know? I managed to find the letter you wrote to me before we left for our mission and it gave me such hope that you were still alive… but that is beside the point I think.
I bet before you opened this you never even knew that I knew where your office it located. Do not worry, I haven't told the others that you have an office and that you actually do paperwork… I think Daniel would choke on his coffee should he find something like that out. As you can see I tidied it up a bit… and did almost a months worth of your paperwork… hey… don't give that look of disbelief, I was on downtime too. I figured if I did this it would be more appreciated than you coming back to an office stacked high with paper… maybe we should all go computerised? I digress…
After you were ordered back to the Infirmary by both Janet and General Hammond, the General requested a talk. It was about the nature of our (for lack of better words) mind-link. You see, for me to convince him to let me be on the rescue mission to find you, I had to tell him about the dreams and the other letter that you had sent to me. Eventually I got to go, but under the condition that the link is discussed further when we returned. So the General and I talked, and he informed that at that moment he has no intention of telling the Chief of Staff, the President or the NID that we are mentally connected. This is for several reasons, mainly because he doesn't want to lose to experiments by the NID… he also said that unless it affects our work ethic it will remain a secret with him… naturally Teal'C and Daniel know, something like this I couldn't just keep from them.
Enjoy the rest of your downtime… I think I spied a yo-yo somewhere in your top drawer,
Sincerely,
Carter
P.S. I tinkered with your Gameboy, should play even faster know! Enjoy, Carter.
Jack smiled as he re-read the letter a couple of times, before picking up the Gameboy and putting it in his pocket. Walking out of the room, he turned off the lights and locked the door, glancing at one of the reasons his office was one of the best kept secrets before walking down the hall. It was time to annoy Daniel.
'Dr. Jonathon' was all that was written.
(So... hope it wasn't too bad. Please tell me what you think! D)
