Title: lost - forgotten
Author: PapayaK
Category: Hurt/Comfort, Angst, Team
Spoilers: None that I can think of
Summary: Jack's in trouble again
Muse has been really sleepy for too long so I'm posting this before she wakes up and sees what I've been doing
Disclaimer: Don't own 'em. Just having fun.
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Cage clanged shut. No medicine. He was dying. They were letting him.
He curled up in the back corner.
Prayed he wouldn't dream.
"Sir."
A whisper.
He must have dozed off. He roused himself. If only he could stay awake, then he wouldn't dream. Of a life he could never have.
"Sir."
"Jack."
More whispers in the dark.
But he was awake.
His head hurt.
"O'Neill!"
Teal'c?
"T?" he croaked. Surprised at the sound of his own unused voice.
And then they were there. The faces from his dream. Carter, Daniel, Teal'c
And he remembered vaguely.
Remembered his friends.
His job.
His name.
His life.
No!
They were opening the cage. Touching him. Holding him. Helping him.
Gentle- careful.
Talking to him.
To him.
He fought them. This wasn't right. Not right for 'Uman.
It had been so long.
"Sir, please. You've been drugged."
Hands on his shoulders. "O'Neill. You must remember."
"Quiet."
Danger.
"Come with us." Those eyes, "Please."
Kind eyes. Loving eyes. Pained eyes.
He put out a hand to her.
She touched him.
And then they were out in the woods, moving fast.
Hands never left him, helping him along, lifting him when he fell.
The pain didn't matter.
The glow of the 'gate ahead.
They helped him sit to the side of the gate as Daniel went to dial.
Teal'c standing watch.
Concerned faces.
He smiled, splitting his lip. He touched the wetness. Hadn't smiled in weeks. Forgot how.
Again he put one hand out to her. She helped him regain his feet as the gate opened.
Afraid to meet her eyes, "Car-ter?"
Smile, "Yes, Sir."
He pulled her to him, held her, buried his face in her neck.
She hugged him back.
Held him.
He wasn't 'Uman. He was human – He was Colonel Jack O'Neill. And he was going home.The End