Kajos: Sorry for how long the update took. I've been swamped with work.

The Chinese was long cold in the half empty boxes on the floor around the teens as they lazed on the sofa's in the den starring at the television. It was a Wednesday.

"I think we should head to bed. James, school tomorrow and all that." Jon said standing up and stretched.

"I think I'll stay up a bit longer." James replied not looking away from the screen.

"James, your gonna need to get up earlier tomorrow, it's likely that you'll take longer to remember in the morning in different surroundings."James refused to look at Jon when he said that. "Daniel has briefed me on the dreams. It's not an issue I'm going to see it someday."James turned off the television.

"I know but I still don't like it. I hate how crazy I am in the mornings. I hate not knowing my own name or language." He had his head in his hands.

"Well, I'd rather see it before it happens in the middle of school and I'm sat there calling Daniel for help." James laughed at that mental image.

"Okay to prevent your embarrassment I'll go to bed."

"Thank you." Jon stated firmly and offered the younger teen a hand up.

James died that night. He didn't scream. He went quietly in his sleep. The screaming came afterwards, it woke Jon. He lay in bed listening and not waking him. Daniel had told him about the couple of times he'd risked waking him. Apparently waking him in the middle was worse than waiting and normally any screaming or stuff like that ended fairly quickly. Tonight it lasted ten minutes but it was sole destroying listening to the wails of utter despair. It left Jon unable to sleep.

That morning James was worse than ever. From what Jon could tell he had no language capability at all just kept crying. He knew Daniel had told him to leave Jon to it but he couldn't in the end he went in and gathered the distraught boy into his arms. He gripped on with his hands in firsts in his shirt leaning completely against him as he wailed. Jon rubbed is back in circles hoping to sooth him. Slowly he quietened. Jon stroked his hair until he looked up.

"Jack?"

"Hey James, I'm here. What happened?"

"I'm not sure. Ask me later."

"Okay."Jon said before they both suddenly realised that Jack was still holding him and James' grip hadn't loosened. They both moved apart at the same time so that Jon was stood next to the bed and James was sat up properly in bed. "Well, we're running late, so I'll put some food on while you sort yourself out." Jon said before beating a hasty retreat. James sat for a moment before shaking himself and getting dressed in the clothes he laid out the night before. Then headed down to the kitchen.

"Hey feeling better?" Jon asked as he served up breakfast.

"Yeah, I remember what happened now. I died was only about two when I woke up. Sorry about that, I hate this whole thing." James said keeping his eyes on his food.

"That's fine James it's not like you have any control over it."

"Yeah, that's why your here."

"That and I'm your best friend so I'm not going to abandon you with all this shit." Jon said in between shovelling food into his mouth.

"I know. None of you will, it's the only thing that keeps me going." James said smiling and looking around at the people in the photo's that were as evident in the kitchen as any other room of the house. 'The Team' stood posed together in so many placed with Cassey, Rya'c , Bra'tac, Janet, Hammond, Himself, and Jon in some of the more resent ones. There was even a picture of the four kids in SG jumpsuits taken the last time they were all on base at once, they'd been nick named SG Jr on base. The family, stood together against anything and James knew that this was something they'd all support him through. Finally they finished and left the plates for later instead heading out the door to prevent them being too late for class.

James sat through another agonising day of class praying that he wouldn't go insane or forget English or any of the hundred other things that could happen. He could only relax in Physics and Computing when Jack was in the same class. It had been so bad that morning. He reckoned based on some web surfing he'd skipped around 200 years and moved west by several thousand miles. The worst part had been that morning had been worse than the first morning because he had no understanding at all when he woke. He had been like a small child in front of Jack and how comforted he'd felt being held by him. He had known for a while that Jack would be seeing him at the his most vulnerable but it was only now that it really impacted on him that that meant not only when he was at his most vulnerable but also when he was most vulnerable in every other life.

"James!" His teacher shouted at him jerking him back to his current lesson looking sheepish as the rest of the class chuckled.

It was another two days before things really kicked off. The mornings had still been fairly embarrassing but James was starting to deal with it. What he wasn't ready for was he sudo dream self living through being sold as a servant and beaten repeatedly. He had woken up that morning drained beyond belief and by the time he reached Jack's Hockey game that evening he had just about been awake long enough to watch it but had fallen asleep waiting outside the changing rooms.

Jack heard the scuffle outside the room straight away and held back assuming it was just some of the guys. It wasn't until the door slammed open that he realised something was wrong.

"Jon!" One of the other members of the team shouted. "Your boyfriends just gone psycho on the captain." His eyes were wide in terrified fear. Jack dropped the shirt he'd been about to put on and ran outside knowing that James could be dangerous. The Captain was huddled into the wall and while James yelled at him in some other language with a knife he'd gotten from somewhere and kicked him occasionally.

"James!"Jon yelled trying to get his attention. The teenager looked round at him and then pointed the knife at him. Jon put his hands out in a calming gesture. Showing he had nothing in his hands. "Look, no threat here. You don't need the knife." He said softly edging forward. Until he was in arms reach of the weapon. James didn't look like he would be backing down. "Sorry about this James." Jon said before grabbing his wrist and pushing James against a wall holding him there with his weight. "Run!" He shouted back over his shoulder at the still huddled Captain. He then slammed James wrist into the wall forcing him to drop the knife he then kicked out the way ignoring James yells and struggling attempts for freedom. He flipped him round pulling his wrist up behind him and forcing him to his knees. He now had him under control but what he needed to do was pull him out of this. Jon moved carefully wrapping one arm round him to pin the other arm at the front before leaning on him. "James I need you to calm down and listen to me. I need you to think about your name James. About me Jack, I need you to remember that we're at the ice rink and I'm freezing because I didn't have time to put on a t-shirt or anything. I need you to relax and stop fighting me so I can let you go and put one on before all the people I'm damn sure are now watching decide to get involved and make this worse. Please James. Remember." As he spoke the body stopped struggling and relaxed. James' head fell forward. "James?"

"Yeah." he said quietly.

"Good. I'm going to let you go now." Jack let go of his bruising grip on his wrist and moved back standing up before holding a hand out to James, who took it. They turned to face the rest of the corridor together. A small crowd had gathered while Jack subdued his best friend. The couch and remaining members of the Hockey team who hadn't already left or run off scared when the flashback started along with several male members of staff who had been there for the game and the principal.

"Both of you will report to my office now!"

They sat outside the office for around two hours before Daniel and the Colonel arrived. The both looked furious though the Colonel was winning that game by miles.

"Three days! We leave you alone three days and a kid has been hospitalised!" Before either of them could reply to the military man's accusation the office door opened and the principal beckoned all four of them inside.

"Well... this incident has to be one of the worst moments of my career to be honest. Tom Rutherford has had to be sent to hospital to check he has no internal injuries from the beating he received at the hands of your ward," He said addressing Daniel, "and on arrival at the scene he was found wrestling over a knife with your nephew and they then processed to have a wrestling match it seemed. Do either of you have any explanation for you action or for that matter why you were carrying the knife."

"I was not carrying the knife! Rutherford provoked the whole thing." James said. Daniel held up a hand.

"I think I would like to hear the boys version from the start."

"Thank you Mr Jackson that sounds a very sensible suggestion." The Principal said obviously wanting to slam the book on the two of them and have done with.

"I was waiting for Jon outside the changing rooms to head back with him for the night since Colonel O'Neill and Daniel were both on call." James decided now was not the time to be informal. "Rutherford came out and saw me sat on the bench. He stared to make comments about my friendship with Jon and my availability to sleep with men for a fee at which point I got a bit ticked off. I stood up and he pulled out a knife. I asked him to put it away and he continued to threaten me with it. After that I remember him hitting me across the face with the hand holding the knife and then kneeling in front of the wall and Jon saying something about being freezing." He finished. The Principal clearly did not believe him. Jon picked up where he left off.

"I can't say what happened immediately after that but when I entered the corridor I found Tom on the ground and James had obviously taken the knife from him. He seemed to be talking non-sense so I took control of the knife made sure Tom was out of the way and then subdued James until I was certain he was no longer a threat. I believe this was an episode of his Gatsta Syndrome." Jon said using the name of the fake syndrome that they had coined for referring to James problems.

"Well that clears that up. We'll have words with the boys about managing things better when we're not around." Jack said standing to leave.

"That is not an explanation!" The Principal cried,

"Actually on James return to school you were informed that he had been diagnosed with Gatstas. The symptoms of which include vivid night terrors and periods of delusion during which the subject is prone to emotional and physical outbursts. We're told it was most likely the effect of James upbringing. You were also informed that for that reason Jon had been taught to deal with any such outbursts safely and was to be contacted immediately. It also appears that Tom Rutherford did in fact provoke this outburst."

"According to Tom, James here was waiting for him in the corridor and made a comment about Jon being a better candidate for Captain before attacking and beating him to the floor and brandishing the knife at him when Jon here emerged."

"For one I don't want to be a captain and James knows that and for two pardon my French but James couldn't give a flying fuck about hockey."

"Really? He has observed every practise and game since his return to school, or at least everyone you have."

"Jon is James lift back to the house after school. I work late and can't collect him from school and since his diagnosis he has been unable to get a licence. Add that to the fact that James is not allowed at any time to be left unsupervised as he can be as harmful to himself as other during those periods he had no choice but to sit in on practises and games." Daniel said stiffly.

"If he wasn't supposed to be unsupervised why was he on his own in the corridor?"

"Oh for crying out loud. He's fine. Even during his episodes he doesn't attack unless provoked. It is deemed safe for him to be on his own as long as some one can get to him if there is an issue and Jon was on the other side of the door and had the situation under control with in seconds of being notified. Right?"

"Yes, Sir."

"Now that's sorted, I would like to get James to his doctor and check that his wrist is okay." Daniel said indicating the wrist that was swelling and possibly damaged from Jons rough handling. A bruise was also beginning to form across his cheek."

"Mind if I tag along, that was a rough game?"

"And I need to write up my report." The Colonel chipped in.

"Thank you for your time Principal Bone, I'll have the doctor drop you a phone call to make sure you are fully aware of the extent of James condition. So there are no further mix ups. I'll also be in touch about the homophobic bullying and discrimination against my ward." All four of them stood and left the room. It was unsurprising that two men that had dealt with interplanetary incidents including murder had managed to deal with the school Principal in under ten minutes. That said both teenager knew they were for it when they reached the mountain as both the others had had to be called in from off-world.

After James had gone through a three hour medical, and Jon had been patched up from the various grazes and knocks he'd taken on the ice they both proceeded to the briefing room. Where the colonel was finishing up his report while Daniel looked over some translations forcing the two boys to wait and draw out their suffering. Finally the colonel closed his laptop and looked at them.

"Well?" He said questioningly.

"I appologise I was tired and didn't realise that that could lead to a flashback. Both I and the new doctor agree that it was most likely down to the fact that unlike the previous memories these ones are traumatic and in some ways reflective of my own childhood possibly making me more susceptible."

"So you were tired and less stable than normal... and you thought that in that state it was a great idea to leave him where he was likely to come across hockey players who evidently had a grudge against him."

"I'm sorry, I made it clear to the team that James was to be left alone, unfortunately as you heard that and he continuous presence lead to certain members of the team developing misconceptions. Thus today's altercation."

"Yes, you see this is an interesting situation. I am required to consider this both as your uncle and your boss. Not only did you get in a fight at school that required me being dragged into the principals office, which by the way I really don't like, you also failed to follow your task which is to control James in the case of a flashback and stop him from harming himself or anyone else. I'm going to have to reprimand you for that."

"I know sir." Jon said keeping his answer short.

"Hey this wasn't Jacks fault. I shouldn't have let Tom get under my skin like that and I should have told him how tired I was and used the game to sleep instead of watching."

"Yes and for that you will also be disciplined. You two seem to have forgotten that you are the future of this command, that doesn't mean you can do as you please in fact it means you learn to follow orders and act in the interest of others. Me and Daniel have discussed the matter and agreed that you will both receive two punishments. An official one for failing to follow protocol and second based on the fact that we are the closest things you have to parents and we don't take that responsibility lightly." Both boys gulped not liking the sound of two punishments. Daniel took over at that point.

"Jon since you seem to have forgotten the need to be aware of your surroundings and not rely on some ones word entirely you will be furthering your education in the kitchens for the next three months. Dinner shift everyday as soon as your done at school. James meanwhile we feel needs to learn to keep his head and follow orders so you will be working on the base IT desk. You will both follow the orders of those place in charge of you and you will not use this as a reason to let school work slip in anyway. Understand?"

"Yes sir." came to voices in unison.

"As for your less formal punishments, Jon you are to deal with this situation with the hockey team and you won't be attending to watch or watching a game on TV for the next three months." Jons face fell in horror and James braced himself for what would be required of him. "James you will be collected from school by an airman on days where Jon has hockey practise from now on and you will treat them with respect. You will also be banded from games consoles for the duration of you punishment. I know it seems harsh but hopefully you will both learn from this. I would have expected better from a former officer of the united states air force and someone as intelligent as you James. Hopefully both of you will take this more seriously now, we all saw today that people get hurt over things like this and if it happens again we most likely will have to pull James from school and public interaction and you Jon will be buried in a dead end job without a qualification to your name."As the Colonel finished both teenagers looked as shame faced as they should and the two men left them in the briefing room alone.

"I didn't think this was going to that much of a mess up." James said sitting down at the table.

"They can't put the public in danger and today just shows that if I had been any longer than I was or less lucky you could have stabbed Tom and killed him."

"So we learn from this and make sure it doesn't happen again. I can learn to manage this and keep it under control."

"And I'll learn how to deal with it when you can't." Jon said reassuringly. "Do you want me to drop you off?"

"No point Daniel won't be home yet and I'm not allowed to be on my own."

"Well come round to mine and pick up your stuff then we can hang until Daniel gets back."

"Okay."