"Please," Sam shouted, "Please just go Jack, run."

He shook his head again, feeling tears in his eyes, "I'm not leaving you Carter; you're not going to die."

She gave him a pained smile, "Sir please, I'm going to die here, you don't have to join me."

"But I might as well; if I go back through that gate without you and you die I might as well have died here with you." As he spoke tears began streaming down his face.

Sam reached up and brushed the tears away, "There's nothing you can do, nothing you could have done."

He shook his head, "I never should have left you out here Carter, we're meant to stick together."

She gave him another weak smile before she started coughing and grabbed at the staff blast wound in her side, holding Jack's hand over it even tighter as he tried to get on the pressure bandage. "Please," she begged again after the coughing had stopped, "Someone has to go back through and tell my dad I'm sorry and my brother that I loved him."

"I can't leave you here to die alone Sam," Jack said as he finally did the bandage.

In the trees they could hear the Jaffa getting close. Jack looked down at the woman in front of him and said, "I'm not leaving you here Sam. We either go together or neither of us does."

Sam looked him in the eye and saw that he was serious, as serious as he had been on the other side of the force field. She looked down at her still bleeding side and then looked him in the eye and nodded, "Together sir."

He grasped her hand and pulled her up and together they ran towards the gate, Sam leaning heavily on Jack and with each step he took more and more of her weight. They reached the gate and Jack propped her up against it before dialling quickly. "At least Daniel and Teal'c got through," Sam said as a staff blast whizzed over their heads and hit the spinning gate.

Jack nodded and then put his arm back around Sam as the wormhole engaged. He took a quick look behind them and saw the Jaffa getting ever closer. "Run," he said to Sam.

The two of them took off as fast as they could, Jack mostly dragging Sam with him. They jumped through the gate just as another staff blast hit Sam in the leg. They rolled down the ramp and heard the iris close. Jack moved for the medics and Sam looked up at him and said, "I don't think I'll be running anytime soon," before she fell unconscious.

Sam is obviously fine after a few weeks in the infirmary with Jack visiting with blue jello whenever he got the chance