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Jack sat down and pulled his wedding ring out and looked at it and Daniel noticed.

"Don't worry Jack, everything will work out."

"I hope so Daniel, I really hope so", then he put it back in his pocket.

When Sam and Pete went for their walk, they were quiet for few minutes.

"Sam, I want you to leave the SGC."

Sam stopped in her tracks and turned to look at Pete; she was angry again.

"What?" Sam said in an angry tone.

"I want you to leave the SGC."

"No, they need me there."

"There are plenty of scientists there."

"Yes there are but none of them are experts when it come to the Stargate and I'm the one who designed the dialing program, along with a multitude of other programs and that is not including the alien devices that I have worked on that come through the gate."

"So teach someone else what to do."

"No"

"Sam" He was getting angry by this time.

"No"

Then she started walking away a little faster. He caught up with her and grabbed her arm and swung her around so she was facing him and then he grabbed her other arm.

"Yes you are, you are going to do what I say, or else."

"No."

She managed to pull away from him and he slapped her across the face. She punched him in the nose and it started to bleed.

"Don't you ever dare to hit me like that again."

Then she started to walk back to camp, the side of her face was stinging by that time and she looked at her watch. She knew that there was twenty minutes left before they could send Pete back through the gate. She knew that he was following her and by the time they returned to camp, Jack was having his shower. Sam went straight into her tent. Both Daniel and Teal'c saw her red cheek and her eyes. They could see that she must have been crying and then they saw Pete holding a hanky to his nose. They looked at each other and then back at Pete. They stood up as he approached,

"Pete, did you hit Sam?"

"She hit me?"

"Did you hit Colonel Carter first?" Teal'c asked

"No, I slapped her"

"So she then, what, punched you in the nose?"

"Yes"

"Why?"

"I want her to leave the SGC" Daniel and Teal'c were shocked.

"She said 'no' didn't she?"

"Yes. She spends too much time under that damn mountain and off world."

"Well, that is her choice, not yours and not mine."

"Well, things are going to change when she returns and I'm going to make sure of that."

Daniel went to step in front of him but Teal'c put his hand on his shoulder to stop him from hitting him. Then Teal'c stepped forward and looked down at Pete. He showed Pete that he was not happy with what he had done to Sam.

"If you harm Colonel Carter ever again, I will torture you myself."

"You will go to prison if you hurt me."

"I am not from Earth and I am not the only one who would take great pleasure in torturing you."

"You see Pete, Sam has thousands of friends, not just on Earth but across the galaxy. So if they find out that you forced Sam to leave the SGC they would probably cut all ties with Earth. She has saved billions of people and aliens lives over the years, so you wouldn't stand a chance against all of them." Daniel said.

Then Jack arrived back at the campsite and he could see that Daniel and Teal'c were angry. They were standing in front of Pete and Sam was no where to be found.

"Where's Carter?"

"In her tent Jack; you better go and talk to her."

"What happened?"

Jack just threw his things into his tent before walking over to the line to put his wet things on it.

"Pete here hit Sam" Jack turned around to look at them.

"He what?"

"He hit Sam?"

"You bastard."

Jack started heading towards him and Pete started running. Jack caught up with him at the swimming hole. Teal'c followed, while Daniel went to get Sam. Jack tackled Pete to the ground. He turned him over and was just about to hit him when Teal'c stopped him by grabbing his wrist. Pete could see how angry he was.

"O'Neill, he is not worth it" By that time Daniel and Sam arrived.

"Jack!" Daniel called out.

Jack turned to see Sam standing there and he could see that she had been crying. So he got up from the ground and then Pete got up.

"You can't even hit me, can you General?"

Jack turned around and looked at him; he took a step forward clenching his fists. Pete took a step back and then Jack did it again, until Pete was at the edge of the swimming hole.