Title: Just Another Night on Earth

Author: Xeen

Email: Xeen@hotmail.com

Status: complete

Category: angst, drama

Pairings: Sam & Jack

Spoilers: Meridian mostly

Season: all of them I guess

Rating: R (probably)

Warnings: violence, character death

Summary: while in battle, things turn real bad

Disclaimer: Stargate Sg-1 and its characters are the property of Stargate (II) Productions, Showtime/Viacom, MGM/UA, Double Secret Productions, and Gekko Productions. This story is for entertainment purposes only and no money exchanged hands. No copyright infringement is intended.

Archive: SJD, Heliopolis

Note: this was written before Meridian was aired. So, if it's not consistent with the show, don't worry:)And once again English is not my language, so please bear with me !

© Xeen (January 2002)
 
 

"Sir, can you hear me?" shouted major Samantha Carter in her comlink. Only noisy interferences responded to her claim.

She was stuck. Like she had never been before.

She managed to hide deeper into the cave and gave a quick glance behind her shoulder. Teal'c was badly injured, blood pouring out of his right leg. Daniel had passed out from exhaustion and pain. She cursed between her dry lips and crawled back to him. She put her head on his chest. He was still breathing, but not for long. Fever was running high and she didn't like the steady whistling his right lung was making.

She grabbed the comlink and cried out again.

"Colonel!? Colonel O'Neill! Please respond! Carter reporting! We are under fire. Repeat… under fire!" she sighed and put a light hand on Daniel's forehead.

"I have two men down, two men down!"

All she was hearing was the static. She cursed again and got back to her previous position. From the dust and swaying of the small trees below, she could tell that they won't be long to get to them. Probably a matter of minutes now.

"Colonel? Carter here, do you copy? We need urgent reinforcement, sir! Are you in any position to dial out and ask for it? Sir…"

A moan from Teal'c and she crouched even more, silencing him with a look and crawling back to the darkness of the cave.

"Major Carter," said the deep voice of the Jaffa before she could reach to him, "it is necessary that you search for rescue. Maybe with O'Neill's help, you should fight your way back to the stargate."

Teal'c closed his eyes and clenched his teeth. She could see the salient bone of his jaw jerking in the dark. Even Teal'c would not resist this situation for long, she thought. Eyes burning with fever, he grabbed her arm and said in such a low voice she had to put her ear close to his mouth.

"You are our only hope major Carter…" he whispered, before passing out as well.

She tilted her head and kissed him gently on the cheek and nodded. He was right.

She silently proceeded out of the cave, clutching her P90, and took the fastest run she could to the position once before occupied by O'Neill.

Nobody from the enemies seemed to notice her escape. She kept running. She was not far from Jack now. She would see him any minute.

She stopped, kneeling down, out of breath and snapped in the comlink "Sir? You there? I'm on my way…"

She took the binoculars out of her right pocket and adjusted the view. "What the heck was that…" Up north. Ten hours. It seemed like a battle dress uniform.

"It can't be," she uttered.

She resumed running, bending down, stumbling on the stones and branches, eyes filling with tears. When she was close enough, she fell down and crawled to the shredded body.

He looked peaceful. At last.

She threw herself on him and oblivious of the enemies, of the stargate and everything she was trained to cope with, she started to yell her grief to the world.

"Jack! Jack! … No!!" "Sam! That's ok, calm down, I'm here… yeah, yeah, that's it," said a soothing voice in her ear. He turned on the light.

A gentle hand took away from her wet eyes a strand of hair and she saw the deep velvet brown eyes meeting hers. "Come on."

"Jack!" she cried. "Oh Jack!"

"Ssshh…I know, I know, you had a bad dream. You're all right. You're gonna be fine."

"I dreamt I… You… you ok?" she said somehow hesitating.

And all of a sudden she remembered. The radiations, the infirmary, the tears in Janet's eyes, Teal'c's embrace, the devastated face of general Hammond and the expression of utter loss on Jack's face.

Daniel was gone.

For ever.

She had no time to talk to him before it was too late. She'll never see his boyish smile and the glimmer in his eyes when he was teasing Jack or challenging her.

"Oh my god," she whispered, her head resting on Jack's chest. "I'm not dreaming now, am I?"

"No honey, you're not," said Jack, hugging her even closer. "There was nothing that you could have done, Sam. It's not your fault…"

She cuddled up in his arms and felt tears rolling down his chin. She moved away from him and gently wiped them away. Then, she managed to look up at him.

"We never found a moment to tell him, Jack," she said, her voice trembling.

"He must have guessed, honey, I'm quite sure," Jack said avoiding eye contact. "And now, he definitely knows."

"You think he's still around?"

"Who knows?" Jack answered, his eyes eventually meeting hers. "At least, Charlie is not alone any more," he whispered, taking her in his arms again. "We should get back to sleep Sammie, it's almost dawn."

Her lips brushed his and she lie down, Jack's body spooning hers. He put his arm around her and she felt his uneven breath against the nape of her neck.  A light snore told her that he was back to sleep. She closed her eyes and the image of Daniel on Abydos appeared instantly behind her closed eyelids.

"Sha're is not alone any more either," she sighed.

Jack's hand shivered on her waist and she fell asleep.

THE END