Thank you all for the lovely reviews, you´re the best! And sorry for the short chapter, I had the worst flu ever, and I´m still recovering. So this is what I had written before getting sick. Hope you like it. -Lia

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He was still waiting for the pain to come. Hoping for a quick death, but never being too optimistic, he was prepared for the pain. His hand was still curled around Sam´s, her hold tightening. It took a few more seconds before he realized that there was no pain, he was still on his knees.

Slowly he forced his eyes open, the bright lights hurting, blood blurring his vision. He shook his head a little, as to get his thoughts in order, as to make his brains work again. He was still confused after the hit in his head, but he knew they weren´t in that icy planet anymore.

Sam leaned heavily against him, eyes closed, shivering with the cold. Somewhere in the back of her mind she too realized that they weren´t in the planet anymore. An unconscious sob of relief escaped her lips. Anything was better than the death they had just, once again, escaped.

Sometimes it felt like God had definitely planned something else for them than a violent death. It seemed impossible they could cheat the Death itself as many times as they had without any help from above.

Of course, it would have been nice to be rescued before all the interrogation and torture.

But, he wasn´t going to complain. He was as happy as anyone to be rescued at all.

It was a part of their job. The risk they knew they took every time they stepped through the gate. It was acceptable. Not hoped for or anything, but it was the way they lived, and they weren´t ready to give it up. Not yet anyway. But who knew what the life would bring.

Next to Sam, Daniel leaned his hands against the floor for support as he fought against the dizziness. He reached to feel his side, the pain washing over him as his fingers touched the broken ribs. "Son of a..." He gasped out.

Jack was still holding her hand, and she was still leaning against him. Her eyes were closed, but she was conscious.

Pain, she thought. They said it was good you feel the pain, means you´re alive. What a load of crap. The one saying that had probably never felt the real pain. Her whole body was aching, she was shivering involuntarily as the warmth wrapped around her as an invisible blanket. She had tried to keep her eyes open, but it was less painful just to keep them closed.

She tightened her hold onto him. She drew strength from his hold.

"You can let go of her hand now." A soft, familiar voice told him, and his hold onto her only got tighter.

The voice was giving up and moving to see the two other members of their team. Teal´c´s voice was calm as he spoke quietly, but Jack couldn´t hear the words.

But it was the touch of a hand against his forehead that made him groan. He would have recognized that touch from anywhere. "Doc?"

A soft chuckle was definitely something he knew. "What the hell are you doing here?" He blinked several times, trying to see better, and receiving a firm "Don´t do that" from Janet Fraiser.

God he had missed that woman.

Sam lifted her head as she heard him speaking. It was the pain running through her that made her moan and reach for her head with her free hand. There was someone standing right in front of her and she forced her eyes open, blinking a few times before the feel of relief washed over her.

"Dad?"

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