Jack's car was sitting at the traffic lights and within a split second there was a nauseating crash of metal on metal as a car smashed into it at high speed on the driver's side. His car was thrown across the street and flipped onto its side, glass flew everywhere and bits of metal were hurled into the air.

Sam wasn't fully unconscious when the car finally stopped moving. It had been flipped onto it's side when it was impacted and she was nearest the road. She felt like her world was spinning and she managed to lift her head slightly from where she was slumped against the door. She couldn't really comprehend what was had happened, she felt disoriented and like she was ready to pass out but as she slowly tried to pull herself together her first coherent thought was of Jack. She turned her head slightly and saw him slumped in his seatbelt, his body limp and hanging towards her. It seemed like the seat belt was the only thing stopping him falling out of the seat and on top of her. She tried to speak but found she couldn't. She tried to call out to him, call his name, ask him if he was alright, anything. She was screaming at the top of her lungs but no sound came out, only a hoarse whisper.

Her right arm was trapped underneath her weight and she could barely move because the seatbelt was so tight. She tried to move her other arm and just about managed to twist her left hand to unbuckle her seat belt but it wouldn't move because it was too tight. She thrashed uselessly in the seat, the accident leaving her shocked and clumsy. Tears began to fall down her face as she had flash backs to the car crash that stripped her of her memories… but she knew who she was… she knew where she was, knew the man beside her… her lover… her Jack.

She stopped, took a few deep breaths and managed to calm herself slightly. She pulled her right arm free cutting it on a piece of broken glass as she did so, but barely registered the pain due to the adrenaline coursing through her system. Managing to pull some slack into the seatbelt she pressed the release button again and it unclicked causing her to fall forwards.

She immediately looked up at Jack and tried to kneel, sit… anything to be able to get to him. She looked at his side of the car. The impact seemed to have wiped out most of the back of the car and had caused a massive dent in the front (nothing compared to the back) and caused the glass in every window to shatter.

"Jack" Sam tried to call to him, but her voice was hoarse. She reached up to him and felt for a pulse… she could feel something but didn't know if it were really a pulse due to her hands shaking so much.

She was just freeing him from the seatbelt when she heard glass smashing and strong arms wrapped around her waist that started to drag her out of the broken windscreen. She felt the release on his seatbelt give and she managed to break Jack's fall to where she had previously been kneeling and could have sworn she heard him groan her name before she was pulled completely free of the car.

She tried to fight the arms around her managing to finally find her voice and yell at them to stop.

"No… no… I have…back… no…Jack."

She finally managed to scream, "JACK!"

"You're not going anywhere… major." A cold voice whispered into her ear.

She turned her head slightly as much as the pain in her neck would let her and saw a burly man with a gun placed against her forehead. She though she recognised him, but pulling her from the car and hauling her upright had caused her head to spin and her eyes to become blurry.

"You got away from us once… you won't get away again."

The pain in Jack's head felt like a sledgehammer and he ached all over. He had shooting pains along his left side and he could barely move his left arm. Everything was blurry but through his semi-conscious state he heard her… herd Sam scream his name and suddenly the haze cleared enough for him to decipher where he was… and that Sam wasn't there.

He turned his head and saw his windscreen smashed to pieces and he moved his right hand slightly to put his weight on it and felt coldness. He glanced down and saw he had put his hand on the concrete of the road that lay underneath him through the smashed passenger side window. He glanced out of the windscreen and saw her… Sam…and then he saw the gun.

"No" he whispered more to himself than anyone else. He moved himself around to try and get to his dashboard compartment and retrieve the gun he kept in there but only really having the use of his right arm made that difficult. He managed to pull it open and fished inside for the gun.

Manoeuvring himself from inside the car and out of the windscreen took more effort than he thought and he ended up tumbling out and landing on his side with a groan.

"Sam", Jack called out to her as he tried to get to his feet.

The only thoughts running through his mind were of how he had promised to keep her safe, how he had just gotten her back, how much he loved her.

Jack kept the gun held in his left hand as best he could with what little motor functions his hand was allowing from that arm and pushed himself up from the street. It hurt to move and as he stood he did so almost crouched trying to relieve the pain inside him… pain that right now seemed more emotional than physical.

His back was to Sam and her captor and he switched the gun to his right hand and suddenly turned to face them, gun pointed at him.

"Ah ah! Colonel… I don't think that's a very good idea do you? Wouldn't want me to blow your girlfriends brains all over the street now would you?" The man said cruelly.

She tried to shake her head to remove the haze that partially obscured her vision. Her vision cleared enough for her to see Jack emerge from the wreckage of his SUV. She took in Jack's appearance, blood trickled down the side of his face from somewhere atop of his head, there was blood staining his shirt and his left arm seemed broken by the way he was holding it against himself.

Sam tried to twist her head while her captor's attention was on Jack. Upon seeing his face a flash of a memory came to her. The man holding her was one of the doctors who had been treating her when she was first diagnosed with the amnesia.

"Dr… Dr…Bennet?"

"Oh you remember me… I'm touched" he spoke sarcastically, then his voice dropped "…that was my cover-up Major."

"Let her go!" Jack yelled from across the street, his fingers still wrapped around the gun, his feet moving forwards ever so slightly.

"Now Colonel, I've told you once… I'll kill her if you don't drop the weapon." And as if to emphasise his point he pressed the barrel of the gun into her forehead, causing her to wince and cry out.

Jack's eyes locked with Sam's. His eyes held so much pain and grief that just seeing him look at her like that caused tears to well in her eyes.

Sam tried to struggle against him but he just pressed the gun to her forehead with even more force. "Don't even try to escape or I'll kill you Major… and then I'll kill your boyfriend." Then he directed his gaze at Jack again. "Now… put… down… the gun."

Jack wanted to kill this man more than he had ever wanted to kill anyone in his whole life… wanted to empty every last bullet in the cartridge into the son of a bitch… but not at the expense of Sam's life. He couldn't fire at the man due to the way he held Sam against his body and Jack knew that any shot he fired would hit her first.

Jack looked at Sam, begging for forgiveness as he bent down."

"No Jack! Don't… NO!" Sam yelled as he placed his gun on the floor.

"I'm sorry Sam." He whispered as he straightened back up.

"Now kick the gun towards me." He told Jack.

Jack placed his foot next to the gun and he kicked it so it slid towards him, the sound of the metal scraping the concrete almost like a sound of defeat.

"Thank you." He spoke with a cruel menace in his voice and with no warning moved the gun from her forehead and fired at Jack.

"NO!!!!" Sam screamed. Her insides flaring, feeling as though her body had been ripped apart. "JACK NO!" She screamed and tried to free herself as she saw Jack fall to the floor.

Without warning there was a second gunshot and his grip loosened on her as he fell to the floor. She turned and saw Daniel standing by the open door of Teal'c's SUV and pointing a gun.

Now she was free from his grip Sam ran over to Jack and nearly collapsed to the floor beside him, her knees feeling weaker with every step she took towards him.

He was lying face down on the ground and Sam grasped his shoulder and rolled him over towards her, his body seemed heavy.

"Jack… Jack…" Sam begged.

His face showed no sign of movement, his body still. She pressed her hand to his chest and felt something wet and warm. She lifted her hand and turned it over. "Oh god" Sam whispered, her hand was covered in his blood. Sam placed her hands on either side of his face.

"Jack, Jack… please wake up."

Thoughts ran through her mind, things she hadn't said to him, things she hasn't done. She couldn't think straight, she felt light headed and wanted to vomit. Jack was lying in her arms bleeding and she felt like she couldn't do anything about it. She couldn't help the man she loved, the man who had gone to the ends of the earth and beyond to find her when she had been lost.

"Come on Jack, please, I need you… please" Tears were rolling down her cheeks as she cradled his body to her.

She felt helpless, she didn't know whether to scream, to cry, her breaths were coming in short gasps as she clung to him, her world becoming darker as she felt her head becoming heavy and her body drooping.

As Daniel came running over he was met with a sight that made his blood run cold. Just as he slowed to a stop Sam passed out over Jack's lifeless body.

OK, I'm SO sorry about the lack of update. I have been so busy with exams, coursework deadlines, illness and so much other stuff it's just knocked me for six.

I'm gonna try and work on the last chapter(s) ASAP (who knows you might even get another update today!)

I'm on antibiotics at the moment and am trying to take it easy the next few days, so I'm gonna do so by reading (and hopefully writing) as much fanfic as possible.

Love to you all!!!

xxxx