Chapter 8 – With You

Spoilers: Threads – Season 8 - AU from thereon

Pairings: Jack & Sam of course

Summary: Sam is waiting desperately for Jack to return through the wormhole.

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This was originally the conclusion, but I decided to add more chapters!.

The wormhole disengaged some 38 minutes later without anyone coming through and as the event horizon disappeared, Sam all but collapsed into Daniels waiting arms, unable to contain the pathetic sob that escaped her lips. Before he could say anything, the klaxons sounded again and the wormhole was re-established. Once again the iris wouldn't respond, so they could only assume it was the same traveller trying to come through.

Once again they stood and watched nervously, it seemed like forever and once again they waited and waited. Suddenly a lone hooded figure stepped through the shimmering puddle, their face indistinguishable. As they proceeded down the ramp, General Hammond gave the order for the armed personnel to stand ready.

"General" Sam exclaimed, trying to hold back her tears "it could be Jack"

"I'm aware of that Colonel" he said and then directed his voice to the microphone in front of him. "Please identify yourself"

The stranger stopped on the ramp and looked up through the window. They still could not make out a face, but the figure continued to stare, directly at Sam.

The hooded figure did not move until General Hammond spoke again, more forcefully this time "Please identify yourself"

"It's good to see you sir" the figure replied as the hood was removed, "it's even better to see you again Samantha"

"JACK" she screamed before she turned and made her way to the gate room.

He met her with open arms "God Jack, it's so good to see you, everyone had given up hope of you ever returning" She sobbed into his arms

"Everyone Carter?"

"Not me, I never gave up hope, I knew you would do everything in your power to come back to me to us"

"And here I am"

"Just hold me Jack"

As General Hammond entered the embarkation room he said "Jack, it's certainly good to see you again"

"You too Sir, thank you"

"Well, Jack, you know the way to the infirmary, off you go"

"Yes Sir, just a little busy at the moment, do you mind if she comes with me?"

"No of course not. Does this off world journey require any debriefing?" queried General Hammond.

"Youbetcha it does. I've got news that'll knock your socks off". Jack said on his way out the door

As they walked to the infirmary, Sam couldn't bring herself to let go of Jack. "God I can't believe you're home, are you Ok? What happened? Where did you go?"

"Whoa, one question at a time please, I'm still a little muddled here"

"Sorry"

"No problem. 1st question, I'm fine – peachy in fact, I'll tell you later what happened and I went to the new Asgard home world"

After Jack was cleared by the doctors they immediately set out to report to General Hammond.

When he arrived at the conference room, Daniel and Teal'c were waiting for them, as was General Hammond.

"It is good to again O'Neill"

"Thanks T, it's good to be home"

"Let's see, it started with those nightmares I was having about Sam and the baby, not pleasant, anyway, the ancient crap was triggered by remote by the Asgards, don't ask me how it worked from so far away. Anyway, after the trigger finally located the correct memory implant, I dialled up the address and off I went"

"Why did the ancient download work so quickly this time" asked a curious Sam.

"They reckon its because I had it twice before – Go figure. Anyway apparently I had some memory of how to encase Earth in a force-field if we were globally attacked again and they thought it was good time to implement it. They're going to help build the thing – Cool huh".

"Why were you away so long?" Asked Daniel

"Well had to gate to some place, then the Asgard picked me up in a "Daniel Jackson" class cruiser. Can you believe it, what they couldn't pick me up in the "Jack O'Neill"? Anyway I couldn't gate direct to their location because we don't have enough power to go that far yet. So there wasn't any reduction in my mental abilities – that's what they said anyway, they put me into stasis for the journey. After we were done, they sent me home through their super gate, it was a kick ass ride"

"Why didn't you come through the first time?"

"Something about the stability of the worm hole, I don't know, they used a lot of big words" and then looking at Sam lovingly, "you would've understood."

"So everything's ok now?" Sam asked quietly

"Sure is, can we go home now, I'm dying to sleep in my own bed"

Looking at General Hammond, Sam asked "May we leave sir?"

"Certainly, I'll arrange to stay a while longer so Jack can have some downtime"

"Thank you Sir" Jack replied as he stood and took Sam by the hand. Before leaving the room, he added "Thanks for looking after the place for me and now, I'm gonna take my gorgeous pregnant wife home"

Tbc…