The next morning Sam woke up, and got dressed for her morning exercises. She saw C-3PO sleeping.
She quietly wrote a note for him to give to Jack. After writing the note, she used the Force to gently tape the note to C-3PO chest.
Sam smiled at her accomplishment, and quietly left the house with her backpack she packed last night.
She sprinted to the track she had designed.
The site also had a gym, which had weight machines of all kinds and all sorts of gym equipment. She wanted to fix the place up not just for herself, but anyone that is willing to go for a full exercise work out.
Before she went to Dagobah, Mara and she used it a lot. They spared one another all the time.
This morning she was alone and was happy for that. It allowed her to think of what she really wanted to do with her life now that she can go back to Earth or anywhere else for that matter.
Since the Stargate is fully operational, she was free to go where she pleased. She realized she has to make peace with her kidnapping and other horrific experiences before she put one toe through the Stargate.
What she has not told anyone, except for C-3PO, she had experienced a lot more than being an average slave.
When she was telling him some of what she could understand that she went through, she thought he would short circuit. She thought she would do the same. So far she had not, and she was grateful of that.
She took off her backpack, and set in on a bench. She unpacked it. She ran a couple of laps without the Force. She had to exercise her own body first before she could exercise her Force skills.
She did after all design the place to help release her tensions from her horrific experiences. It was also a darn good way to keep in shape. Unfortunately, the Force cannot get rid of body fat and build up muscle strength.
Right after the two laps, Sam concentrated on the Force to run three more laps. She was running a lot faster than before. It gave her a rush. It was nearly like flying in a jet. This time she was in control of her action through the Force. It was perfect and wonderful experience.
After she stopped she saw Jack standing there. Sam walked up to him. Sam smiled, “Good morning.” They kissed, and Jack replied the same.
“I saw you running very fast.”
Sam replied, “If I was not running to the track and two laps before I used the Force, I would not be sweating at all.”
She called the tower several feet on a bench with the Force. When she grabbed it, she dried her face and neck off. Without looking at it, she did the same with the bottle of water. After drinking a sip or two, she offered Jack a drink.
He took it, and took a swig. After drinking, he handed her back the bottle.
“What can you not do with the Force?”
She smiled after drinking from the bottle once more. “What I can do is not all that much. I have been in training for a little over a month now.”
“How long will you be training?”
Sam wiped her face once more, “It depends. How I have been doing, Master Corran said it could be a year or two.”
Sam attached the water bottle on her belt, and put the towel around her neck. Sam asked, “You sure you want to stay here that long?”
“I told you I will stay here all my life if I have to...just to be with you.”
Sam smiled, “Thanks love.”
Sam and Jack kissed passionately this time.
After the long passionate kiss, Sam just froze with her eyes closed. When Sam finally opened her eyes she was looking into Jack's eyes.
“Did tell you I love you?”
Jack acted like he was trying to remember something important. “I believe you have.”
Sam smiled.
“Since my Master has given me the week off, I think I should take you all out for breakfast.”
Just then, Daniel and Teal'c came in sight.
“You knew they were coming?”
Sam nodded with a smile on her face.
When they came in earshot, Sam asked, “Want to go out for breakfast?”
Daniel answered, “Yes. I am very hungry.”
Sam smiled at him.
“Let me get cleaned up first. There is a shower in the gym. Give me a moment boys.”
After Sam took off, Daniel asked Jack, “How is she doing.”
Jack answered, “Under the circumstances, she is holding on.”
Teal'c said, “I had a long talk with Mara Jade Skywalker last night. She thinks that Sam has dealt with something a lot worse than a normal slave, and that is horrific in itself. Mara told me that Sam has been talking to that gold humanoid droid.”
Jack asked, “You mean C-3PO?”
Teal'c just nodded.
“She told me that last night. Even she cannot understand how she can so easily talk to him, and not one Jedi, including her Master.”
Teal'c replied, “It might be due to the fact that she promised C-3PO to keep quiet about it.”
Daniel stated, “That is not good. To Sam that can easily mean she has not said anything. No wonder she is still hurting. By talking to C-3PO under that promise is simply allowing him to be a storage container. Sam still has all that still in her.”
Teal'c replied, “Maybe not. It might be that she has so much in her that it does not look like it is helping her. I think C-3PO made this promise on the condition that she talked to him.”
“Could be. They appear to me to give that droid a lot of respect. There may be more to these droids, or at least that one then the sum of its parts.”
Jack replied, “Mara and Luke was telling me last night that we could not have come at a better time. I am planning to stay with Sam. You two will need to go back to the SGC on Earth and tell Hammond.”
Teal'c replied, “Since you are no longer in charge O'Neill, I cheerfully decline that order.”
Daniel seconded the motion.
Teal'c said, “She is our friend as well. We will stay with here too. It is also by General Hammond's command that he did not want us to come back until we give him the power source to dial 9 chevrons. I personally do not have it on me. Master Bratac was not in any hurry to give it up anytime soon.”
Sam came out and said with a smile, “Thanks for staying. Yes I am torn between two worlds, but I am happy you all are in mine.”
The three of them replied, “Our pleasure.”
Daniel asked, “How can we keep a secret from you?”
Sam answered with a devilish smile. “I did not monitor all of what you all have said, just the last part about staying here with me.”
Daniel replied, “We meant it Sam. You mean everything to us.”
Sam smiled, “You three mean everything to me. Buying breakfast is the least I can do for you. If I understand the General right, he wants me back as well as the power source. Since you all, and my Master will not allow me to travel through the Stargate anytime soon, then that means you three will have to stay with me.”
Teal'c gave that look of extreme interest. “I do like your logic Padawan Sam Carter.”
Sam smiled, “We can walk to where we will be eating if you like. It is not far.”
Daniel replied, “I hope you have enough money to pay for all four of us?”
“Last night Mirax gave me a fair amount of credits. It does not cost much to eat here on Yavin 4 anyhow, so please get what you want.”
It did not take them all that long to walk to the nearest cafe. Sam knew it had the best breakfast on Yavin 4, not counting Mirax cooking.
After they ate, she showed them around. She was starting to feel more of her ole self. That gave her more hope to cling to. She had her new friends in this galaxy and her old friends from Earth.
She was almost to the point she was thinking she was over all that hurt. The next stop was that bar. When she came in, everyone greeted her. She told everyone there, “I want you to meet SG1 from my home world.”
Everyone was ever so happy to meet them.
The bartender said, “The round of drinks for Sam and her friends are on the house.”
Everyone was have a wonderful time. She was indeed feeling like her regular self. After a time, she was looking elsewhere. Jack whispered in her ear, “There is someone that is very large. Is he one of those Huts you talked about?”
When she turned to look, she dropped her glass. It shattered. She froze in fear.
The first person that tortured her to the utmost in her life was standing right in front of her. Everyone in the bar knew who he was. From the looks of her expressions they had a clear idea what horrors she went through.
She cleared her mind of her fears, and answered Jack, “He is not a Hutt. His name is Telk.”
A man near Jack whispered in Jack's Ear, “From the reaction that Sam has shown, he tortured her many, many times over.” He also explained how. Jack got so angry he was about to jump out of his seat to kill that fat ass bastard.
The bartender said, “Let Sam do it. Trust me, it will do her the most good.”
All the sudden nearly a couple of dozen men came inside right after Telk.
Jack whispered angrily, “That fat bastard is a coward!”
The first man that whispered to Jack said, “Since Terrell is in the hardest prison in the galaxy, this fast bastard, as you called him, is the head of the drug trafficking of a drug called spice.”
A voice in the crowd said, “Sam he is all yours we will greet the rest!”
Before anyone knew it, there were flashed of lightening hitting all Telk's guards. After Teal'c, Jack, and Daniel turned off their zat guns, Teal'c replied, “Now he is yours.”
She jumped from her table and charged at him.
After Telk finally saw her, he gave her a wicked smile.
She very angrily kicked that smile off his face.
As Telk fell on his very fat ass, she spitted out with all the anger in her, “You want to torture me, then you are going to have to do it with your bare hands!”
Telk replied, “My pleasure. Before Telk could fully stand, she did a martial art move to kick Telk's legs from under him. He fell hard on his back.”
Spite his size, he was able to get up very quickly, and pull out a weapon. Before he had the change to use it on Sam, she Karate chopped it out of his hand. She then swung her body to use all her might to kick, with both feet, him squarely in his chest.
Being so fat, Telk hit two tables in such a way that caused them to hit him at the same time like two large symbols. Moments afterward, Teal'c threw a table at her.
It was moving too fast for her to dodge it in time. She very quickly called her lightsaber and cut the table completely in two. The thrust of the table cause the two pieces to fly in opposite directions until they both ram into two different tables of opposite sides.
As quickly as the lightsaber cut the table, it was back on her belt. She said with the utmost hate, “Killing you, I will not need a lightsaber or the Force!”
“Many have tried bitch, and I am still alive. I will torture you a lot worse than I ever done. When you cry for mercy, I will see you die with a drunkenness of laughter.”
Sam allowed him to hit her couple of times before she kicked him ever so hard in the throat with her right foot. Telk nearly had a fountain of blood coming out of his mouth.
She yelled out, “Taste the blood of all that you have tortured and killed. Death is far too easy for the suffering you have caused for so many. I rather see you rot in the prison hold with Terrell.”
Just then several Alliance guards came in and took Telk away. SG1 raced to Sam's side.
Everyone cheered for Sam. Jack and Teal'c helped her to a nearby table. The blows that Telk swung at her crack a few ribs. Two more Alliance guards came with a medical gurney that floated in the air. Jack and Teal'c helped her onto it.
Sam put herself in a Force trance to help her body heal.
Daniel asked one of the guards after he did a bio-scan of Sam, “How is she?”
“She just broken a few ribs, but she is starting to heal. Sam must have strong abilities with the Force to heal herself this quickly.”
Corran walked in, “Take her to the nearest hospital just in case.”
The guard replied, “Yes sir.”
Off Sam went.
Corran ordered all of Telk's guards to be removed immediately.
Corran then bowed at SG1, and thank them for helping Sam in defeating him.
Teal'c bowed back. “Thank you for training her. If it was not for that, she would have not spared his life. Sam has the honor of Jedi Knight.”
“Yes she does. She did not kill him because of what I taught her my Jaffa friend. She spared him because she finally escaped from the prison that son of a Hutt did to her.”
Daniel asked with excitement, “So she is free now?”
Corran did not smile, “Not yet, but she has passed the halfway point.”
Jack said, “Now she has to choose from both worlds.”
“Yes she does, and she has chosen to be with your world. She does not care if you are still part of the Air Force or not. She will always be at your side. As long as I can still train her, she will become a great Jedi Knight.”
“If she wants to go back to Earth right now, there are plenty of places to continue to train Sam at the SGC.”
“For now my friends let's be at Sam's side.”
Everyone at the bar said, “Tell Sam to have a speedy recovery from all of us.”
Jack smiled, “I will. Thank you.”
**********
When they got to Sam's room, Sam was already sitting up. Sam gave them all a smile.
Jack said, “Wow! You kick his ass like no one's business.”
Sam laughed, “He did ask for it.”
Teal'c replied, “That would be an understatement beyond anything I can imagine.”
“I thought of you three when I spared that ass hole.”
Teal'c said honorably, “In that case and by tradition of this galaxy, SG1 owes you a life debt.”
Jack and Daniel second the motion.
Sam gave them all a warmest smile she could give them. Daniel and Teal'c gave her a hug. Jack did the same thing, but he gave Sam a passionate kiss to go with it.
Jack said, “I love you Sam, and proud of you in holding back to do the right thing.”
“After I had the time to think about what I did, I am proud of myself too. As I have said right there. Killing him would not do a damn bit of good. It would be wrong for all the others that have suffered under him. If I killed him, it would be like killing a mockingbird.”
Corran was confused.
Daniel explained about a novel titled, “To Kill a Mockingbird.”
“I see there are many wonders on Earth, but I knew that the moment I laid eyes on Sam.”
“Thank you Master.”
Corran said, “Sam it will be an honor to call you a full Jedi Knight.”
Sam protested, “Master! Not now.”
Corran smiled, “Not now my Padawan. You have done the greatest thing any Jedi Knight has ever done, and I am proud of you than I could ever be. I also would like to have you with me as much as possible.”
“It has been an honor to serve under you Master. Even when I become a Knight, I will always show you the same respect and love as I have done.”
Sam cringed a little. She was not fully healed.
Jack said, “Everyone at the bar said to have a speedy recovery.”
Sam smiled. Sam closed her eyes and put herself into another Force trance, to heal herself completely this time.
The medical droid came in. “I take it that Sam is healing herself again?”
Corran answered, “Yes she is. She should be fully recovered by late this evening.”
The medical droid said, “I will come back and check on her then.”
After the droid left, Corran said to them, “I now will leave her in great hands.”
Daniel tried to get Corran to stay.
“It is meant for all of you to be at her side when she wakes up. It was you all that made the difference in Sam's life today.”
Jack said, “Thank you....Master Corran.”
Corran smiled before he walked off.
SG1 stayed with Sam all night long. When Sam finally woke up, Sam smiled at them all.
Teal'c asked, “How do you feel?”
“Tired. I am healed, but tired from it all.”
The medical droid came in. He said, “You are up.”
He went to the controls near the bed.
The droid pressed a few buttons. After a few moments the droid said, “Sam appears to be fine. She just needs to sleep for the rest of the evening. When she wakes up, she can leave.”
Sam replied, “I too tired to argue with you.”
Teal'c said, “Let me stay with Sam. I do not need sleep. I should have no problem meditating right here.”
The medical droid said, “I can lower the light to any level you prefer.”
Jack said, “I rather stay here too.”
Sam insisted, “Jack, get your rest...Please.”
Jack replied with a grin, “I am too tired to argue with you.”
Sam smiled.
Daniel said, “Good night Sam.”
“Good night.”
Jack gave Sam a good night kiss.
Both Jack and Daniel left.”
When Sam went back to sleep, Teal'c told the medical droid to lower the lights. When the lights were at the right level, the droid quietly left.
Sam quietly said, “One day I would love to meditate with you, Teal'c.”
“It would be an honor for us to do that. It is an honor to be at your side once more. Rest now from your ordeal today, so one day you can heal from all that you have suffered. Good night, my friend.”
To help her fall asleep, she forced herself to remember all the wonderful adventures she had at the SGC.
Before she fell asleep she said, “I will heal from them, thank you.” The thank you she was referring was not only for them being there in person, but all the memories they gave her while being a part of SG1.
The next morning Teal'c and Sam was already up when Jack, Daniel, Mara, and Corran came in.
Mara smiled, “How do you feel?”
“Like I slept far too much. I am not used to it here or on Earth. I feel that I need to...”
Corran interrupted, “Walk around that track of yours.”
“Okay. I will walk and take it easy. I think I did enough to deal with my negative feelings for a while.”
Mara said, “I am sorry I missed it. Jack told me the explicit details, but there is nothing like being there.”
Sam smiled, “Being here in this room is enough for me.”
Mara smiled, “You are a sweet person Sam. I am happy to know you.”
Sam smiled back, “I was thinking the same thing about you girlfriend.”
The medical droid said, “Sam Carter, you are allowed to leave. Please take care of yourself.”
Sam stood up and said, “I have all these men with me. I cannot see myself any other than being safe.”
Teal'c said, “Indeed.”
They all left the room. There was a transport waiting.
Sam replied, “Hold it guys. I am not pregnant!”
Daniel replied with a smile, “Just take it as a thank you for all the guys at the bar.”
Sam smiled, “Those nuts. I think I must have hit some of them too hard.”
Mara laughed.
They all allowed Sam to enter first. Jack followed, so he could sit right beside her. When everyone else entered, the driver drove to Sam's track and field. Sam had a big smile on her face when she realized everyone at the bar was there.
When Sam finally came out of the transport, she laughed with delight. “It is wonderful to see you all here.”
The bartender said, “The least we can do for someone that gave my bar the best fight of the century.”
Sam laughed. Sam gave the bartender a hug. “Thank you.”
The bartender said, “For what you did yesterday, the drinks you get for now on are on me. That includes your friends.”
Sam just smiled. Jack handed Sam a drink.
The bartender replied, “Counting this one my friend.”
“What will I get if I beat the hell out of the person that is responsible of bringing me here in the first place?”
One of the bar members said, “Spite how you got her, I will be sad as hell when the day you leave us.”
Sam replied, “So will I. You all are the greatest.”
Everyone gathered around Sam.
They all said, “HIP, HIP HURRAY!! HIP, HIP HURRAY!! HIP, HIP HURRAY!!”
Sam was crying for joy.
Jack said, “I finally did something to surprise you.”
Sam asked with astonishment, “You are responsible for all this?”
Jack smiled.
Corran answered, “Jack designed the entire thing. Sam gave Jack a big smile. Sam gave him a big hug. After the hug she gave him a big kiss.
The sunrise glowed through the clouds behind them as they kissed ever so passionately. Everyone cheered. Both Sam and Jack smiled as they were kissing. For a moment they stopped kissing, and just looked into each other’s eyes. It did not take long before they were caressing each other and kissing once more.
Just then sun rays burst through the clouds. If one looked at Sam and Jack at the right angle, it would look like they both together wore a halo of majestic light that was shinning into the heavens.
The bartender said, “They do love each other.”
Corran replied, “Yes they do.”
Mara Jade Skywalker replied, “I see a wedding in their future.”
**********
That night Sam lay in the bed with Jack. All they did was lay close and kiss each other ever so passionately. They also caressed each other. They did not have to do any talking, but they did communicate through their love.
It was not long till they fell asleep in each other’s arms. They looked extremely peaceful as they slept. They had their arms around each other that looked so graceful. It is something that one might see in a beautiful painting, the painting of love.
