When Sam arrived near the Stargate, some of the stormtroopers
already landed. She saw everyone fighting them
to protect the Stargate at all cost. She was very humbled over their sacrifice
for her SG1 team.
Immediately, she went to work
in helping them out. She did this not in fear of what she went through. She
only had one thing in mind, the man she loved from the moment she stepped into
conference room of Stargate Command.
Sam knew she was new in being
trained as a Jedi Knight, but she had her combat training and the special
training with Qui-Gon. Sam hoped that
would be enough to help her Jedi friends.
She quickly turned on her lightsaber, and darted off to where the action was taking place. Sam
was able to let a few Stormtroopers have
it as she came from behind them. When she came close to her Master's side, she
stated, “I see missed some of the action.”
“Not at all my Padawan the fun just started.”
“You know me Master, I love
the action.”
Several laser bolts hit Sam,
but it did not hurt her at all. What Sam did in reply was release small proton
beams from her fingers at the Stormtroopers that shot her. They were fried instantly.
Corran was amazed.
“I take it that is the energy that Qui-Gon Jinn gave you?”
“Yes, and the reason I was
away for about a week.”
As expected more and more
stormtroopers and Imperial ground assaults continued to the surface. The Jedi
Knights and the Alliance on Dagobah were able to hold their end up. They were
waiting for more ships to arrive to finally end this from the sky.
All the sudden the Stargate
was dialing itself. Sam made sure everyone was a fair distance from the
Stargate.
About after the forth chevron connection Sam got something from the Force. Sam said
out loud, “It is SG1! They are going to walk into an ambush!”
Sam was frantically looking
for an energy source so she can create a shield around them once they came
through. Sam could not find any, so she took a risk. She turned her lightsaber
blade upwards. Sam then touched the top of the blade and moved her hand all the
way down, so she can get all the energy from the lightsaber blade.
When SG1 got on the other side
of the wormhole, they saw Sam. She was with others fighting a battle. Jack and
the others could not see that much because they were being attacked as soon as
they arrived.”
Even with their military
training, they were being out gunned. It was to a point SG1 thought they would
be killed before they could say hello to Sam.
All the sudden they saw an
energy field surrounding them. They heard Sam tell them in their minds, “Get
away from the Stargate. I cannot hold this shield much longer.”
A young lady came to them. She
said, “I am a friend of Sam's. Please follow me.”
They immediately followed her.
When they found better cover, Jack asked, “Are we in OZ?”
The young lady answered, “Not
at the moment Colonel. How much ammo do you have left?”
Jack answered, “Three
cartridges and 2 C4 explosives.”
The young lady asked, “Do you
have to detonate them manually or a timer?”
Jack answered, “Either way.”
The young lady asked, “Then
please let me have them. I can use the Force to
put them in position. When I say now, blow them both.”
Jack nodded. After the young
lady put them in position, she said “Now!”
Both C4 explosives did their
jobs perfectly.
The young lady said after the
smoked cleared from the explosions, “I got to have one of those!”
Jack looked at the damage. He
said with a smile, “They are my favorites too.”
An imperial scout was about to
aim at them all. Teal'c fired two shots with his staff weapon, and the imperial
scout blew up.”
A blond hair man came up to
them. “You three must be SG1 that Sam has told us about.”
Daniel answered,
“Yes we are. I am Dr. Daniel Jackson, this is Colonel Jack O'Neill, and this is Teal'c.”
As they were introducing one
another, The Alliance ships
started to come into the scene.
Daniel asked after Luke introduced everyone around them, “How is Sam?”
Luke answered, “See for
yourself.”
Sam was using her lightsaber
skills and her newly trained skills to finish off the surrounding
Stormtroopers.
“You are right Master. These
Stormtroopers are not all that bright. I had more fun at the bar on Yavin 4.”
“Yes you did. I was there one
day watching you.”
“Really, I would love to have
fought with you side by side.”
Corran smiled, “We are doing
it now. What do you think?”
Sam smiled back, “I love it!”
She said to the Stormtroopers, “Step up!”
After few more bouts with her
lightsaber on the remaining Stormtroopers, Sam asked, “No more?”
Corran sighed, “They seem to
get easier and easier to beat. I personally do not like it.”
“What I have been hearing
about the remaining Imperial Fleet, I can see them deteriorating.”
Sam explained about Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich on Earth.
“Interesting world you have.
It is isolated from so much of the universe and set on so much destruction of
each other.”
Sam sighed, “It is sad at
times, but we are improving, somewhat. The more I went through the Stargate,
the more I came to realize that Earth is ready to know they are not alone
without going on a world panic.”
“When your governments are
ready for us to reveal ourselves, we will do all we can for your world.”
Sam turned around to check on
her friends.
She turned off her lightsaber,
and put it on her belt. Sam gave them all a big smile. She walked closer to
them. They all hugged each other.
Sam introduced her Jedi Master
to them.
Corran replied, “It is an
honor to finally meet you all.”
Jack replied, “Sam here, and
thank you for taking good care of Sam.”
Teal'c bowed. “As a child I
have heard many Jaffa legends about the Jedi Knights. It is a deep honor to be
able to meet you all.”
Mara gave a bow herself, “It
is an honor to meet you and the rest of SG1. From what Sam has told us about
you three, I can rightfully say you have met up to my expectations.”
Jack jokingly said, “We always
like to come to a party. It seems you all can really have them.”
Corran smiled, “This is a
midnight snack to what we have been through.”
Han and Leia were walking towards them.
“Han and Leia, I want you to
meet SG1, my team and friends.” Sam declared.
Han replied, “I thought I
recognized them when I saw what was going on from the Falcon. I am Han Solo and this is my wife Leia. It is so great to
see you all. Sam has told a great deal about you.”
Jack answered, “Mostly good I
hope.”
Sam just smiled at Jack
silliness.
Corran said, “If it was not
for Sam, you three would not be here at all. The Alliance set up the base, but
it was Sam that programmed the Stargate and got it to run.”
Jack smiled, “If I remember
right, she did the same to our Stargate on Earth.”
Sam said, “Now all we need to
do is to find a power source strong enough to dial back to Chulak.”
Jack replied, “None of us are
in a hurry. Besides, we just got here. Hammond ordered us not to come back
without the power source that got us here. I for one do not want to bring it to
Earth anytime soon.”
Daniel said, “Even if we had
the power source, we will not give you the chevrons to dial to Chulak or
anywhere else.”
Sam asked in astonishment,
“There are other Stargates in this galaxy!”
Jack did his little protest
dance, “Sorry Sam. No one is going to Earth.”
Corran looked at Sam, “My
Padawan that is an order. If the Jedi Knights and the Alliance needs to know
the locations of these other Stargates, then that will be kept from you until I
believe you should know.”
Sam replied with a smile, “Yes
Master.”
Corran smiled back, “For the
rest of the week, I want you to stay with your friends. You have learned a
great deal of the Force in result of this battle. It is time that you reflect
on that.”
“At least I want to go back to
Yavin 4. The mess here will take some time to get cleaned up. There is not much
for me to show on this planet. Once you see one swampy spot on Dagobah, you have seen them all.”
Corran replied, “Good idea.
You can show your friends that bar on Yavin 4.”
Sam just smiled.
Jack asked Sam, “What bar?”
“Jack you will love it. Mara
and I had fun expressing our frustrations in that place.”
“An entertainment bar?”
Mara smiled, “It can be
extremely ruff.”
“Cool.”
Han said, “I will give you all
a lift back to Yavin 4 on the Millennium Falcon.”
Corran, Luke, Mara, Sam, and
her SG1 friends followed Han. Jack was very impressed of how the Millennium
Falcon looked.
Jack said, “You have a great
ship Han.”
“She is a beauty.”
Short time after they took off
from the star port, Jack realized that Sam was not in the room. Mara quietly
pointed in the direction she was located.
Jack just smiled.
Mara smiled back.
Sam had her back facing Jack
when he started to walk closer to her.
“I missed you more than you
ever know.”
“Same here Sam.”
When Jack was right behind
her, she turned around. Jack gently wiped the tears off her face.
She closed her eyes when he
touched her face. Jack gently caressed her chin and tilted her head up just
enough to give her a passionate kiss on the lips.
She shared that kiss with him.
They embraced each other. After they kissed they quietly looked into each
other’s eyes.
Shortly after, Daniel and
Teal'c were coming closer. Before they came in eyesight, Sam shouted, “Hi guys.
We are over here.”
When they came closer, Daniel
asked, “You could tell we were coming.”
“Since you came through the
Stargate, I have been using the Force to watch after you all. I never want us
separated again.”
Teal'c replied, “I promise you
Sam that will never happen. We all promised that we will be at your side as
long as you stay in this galaxy.”
“I at least want to finish my
Jedi training here before I go back to Earth. My life has changed and for the
better, I think. I still have a lot to deal with on all the horrors I have been
through, but I am slowly chipping at the ice.”
Daniel smiled, “These Jedi
Knights are very good people, so are all the rest. I think they are helping you
more than you realize.”
“In time I will talk to all of
you about what I been through. I first want to deal with this myself.”
Jack said, “Sam you have dealt
with it yourself already. I think it is time that you allowed others to start
guiding you to the path you want for your life.”
“What I want is you Jack from
the first time I saw you.”
“You got me now, and I will
not leave you this time.”
Sam started to cry. “The last
time I saw you a laser bolt hit you in the chest. It looked like you were
killed.”
Sam cried with her face buried
in Jack's chest.
Jack said gently, “I am her
Sam. I am alive and well.”
Sam finally stopped crying.
She looked at Jack and said, “All that time, I just did not know. I wanted to
believe you did survive somehow, but I did not know. I felt so much alone. I do
not know why I was brought here.”
Jack and the others promised
her that they will not allow anyone to take her again.
“That is another reason I want
to finish my training to be a Jedi Knight before I go back to Earth. I want to
have the ability to defend myself and fight anyone that is willing to take me
or anyone of you.”
Daniel said, “We are very
impressed in what you did on Dagobah, and we thank you for saving our lives.”
Sam smiled at them all, “I was
happy to do it. You all mean a lot to me.”
Teal'c gave her a silent bow.
“You mean a lot to us, Padawan Sam Carter.”
Sam smiled, “It has been
wonderful being with my Master. I was the one that picked him out.” She
explained what Master Corran told her.
Daniel replied, “It appears to
me that you have more light in you than before you were taken from us.”
Sam sighed, “I have been told
that, but at the moment, I do not see or feel it.”
Jack smiled, “It is there just
the same. I even see it all around you.”
The four of them slowly walked
back to the others. There were hearing the growling of both Dentralla and Chewbacca. Sam started to laugh at what Dentralla was saying to
Chewbacca.
Daniel asked, “You can
understand those two?”
Sam nodded while still
laughing. “Dentralla taught me how to understand Wookie speak.” Due to saving
her life one day she sworn a life debt to me.”
Teal'c said, “It seems that
you have started an interesting life here.”
Sam smiled. She said after
looking at all her new friends in the room, “Yes I have.”
Corran said, “If we can only
get her to open up.”
Jack gave everyone a smile. He
asked jokingly, “Want me to beat it out of her?”
Everyone said, “Yes!”
Sam replied, “Hay guys, easy
up.”
Corran replied, “That is what
we are trying to do, but you will not allow us to do so. I have wanted to give
you a good spank bottom for some time now.”
Sam gave her Master a devilish
smile.
It was not long for the
Millennium Falcon to land on the star port of Yavin 4. As they were
disembarking, Jack asked, “How can a moon have a city. How many live on this
rock?”
Mara answered, “It depends.
The Alliance have not yet done any population consensus in this galaxy due to
we are still fighting small factions of the Imperial fleet. We have not yet
been able to keep them from tapping into our data bases to store that type of
sensitive information.”
“You have Sam. She is very
good in security on computers.”
Luke stated, “After knowing
how good she is with our technology, we have thought about that, but we were
concerned about burdening Sam with our problems. You see Jack. You have seen
the better side of her since she had been rescued. She still has a lot of deep
horrible feelings in her. Your arrival could not have come at a better time.”
“She was never one to share
her deep personal feelings.”
Luke told Jack that she had
shared her ordeal with her mother's death. “I feel in the Force that she is
hiding behind that very thing. I think if it was not for her mother's death,
Sam would have been lost a long time ago. Far be it that I am saying her
mother's death is a good thing, but somehow it is allowing Sam to hold on to
reality as she has sense we have known her.”
“I promised Sam I would stay
here with her. I have told General Hammond that I will resign my commission in
order to do so. As far as she is concerned, I am not a Colonel anymore. I feel
guilty that she was taken, and I will do all that I can to bring her back to
herself.”
Mara said, “Be careful Jack,
she has started to become a different woman than you might have known. I cannot
say it is due to how she felt in not going back to Earth. She has a lot of hurt
in her still. It might be you three that can help her release it.”
“How is this Jedi training of
hers helping?”
Luke answered, “It doing a
great deal. I think that is allowing Sam to redefine herself.”
“I for one do not want to take
anything away from her. When I was looking into Sam's eyes earlier, I saw great
anger in her. Before she was taken from us, she was never that way at all.”
Mara said, “In knowing you
three, I can see that. We have seen many that have been tortured, and put into
slavery. There is something a lot more to Sam than simply being kidnapped and
put into slavery.”
“I was a prisoner of war at
one time. I know torture can screw up a person's mind. It took a long time for
me to get over it. Some of it I will never get over. I have learned to move
on.”
Mara said, “You might be the
only one that can reach her. She loves you Jack more than I have seen anyone
love a person. The Force is a powerful ally to a Jedi, but there is nothing
more powerful than love.”
“I love her too. Thank you all
for your love for Sam.” Jack quietly walked off.
Jack was at a distance from
Sam. He wanted to watch how she acted and behaved in this world. It seemed to
him that she had a very good handle on her life here.
From their Force conversations
he had with Sam, Jack saw that she did not feel all that secure of her life in
this world. Jack understood this very well. He went through the same ordeal
when he came back from the POW camp of Desert Storm.
He thought he finally was over
it. Not too long after, his son accidentally shot himself with his own gun. It
took going through the Stargate the first time and Daniel Jackson to pull him
out of that rut when they were on Abydos.
Since the five years of being
with the SGC, Jack had come to realize that he can live on with his life. Now
Jack thought he must convince Sam to think the same way.
Jack finally walked up to
Sam's location. Sam gave Jack a smile. He smiled back.
“I got that Matt Mason Doll.”
Sam laughed. “As long as I
have you to play with, then I am happy beyond anything you can know.”
“Where are Daniel and Teal'c?”
“Corran wanted to show them
the Jedi Knight archive.”
Jack smiled, “We know where
Daniel will be the next few months.”
“I am still amazed on how
Chulak and the Jaffas are so connected to the Jedi Knights.”
“We could not find hardly any
information. We guessed that the Goa'uld had destroyed most of their history.”
“Luke is confident that they
can find something about that era here.”
“Talking about how you are
connected with the Jedi Knights, how are you able to use the Force in the first
place?”
“I really do not know. I just
know I can. Master Corran said it had to do with midichlorians in my blood stream.”
Jack asked with a confused
look, “What are midichlorians?”
Sam smiled, “Midichlorians are
microscopic life-forms that reside within the cells of all living things and
communicate with the Force.”
“In that case everyone can be
trained to be a Jedi Knight?”
“No they cannot. Only the ones
that have a high Midichlorians count, the higher the better.”
“In what we saw you do on
Dagobah, you must have the highest count known.”
“From there scale in measuring
it, my count is off the charts, but I still have a great deal to learn of the
Force. That is why I want to complete my training with my Master. For what I
did in helping you all had to do with a special power that was recently given
to me.” Sam explained it all to him.
“Wow! You do have cool
powers.”
Sam smiled, “I am so happy
that you all are here. I enjoyed the Force communications with you all, but I
needed you here in the flesh.”
“Like I said Sam, I will stay
with you the rest of my life, here or anywhere.”
Sam replied with concern,
“Jack, you do not have to give up your commission just for me.”
“I know that Sam. As with the alternate
reality of us, we both were part of the SGC but
you were not part of the Air Force. This time is different. I will not allow
you to be separated from me again.”
Sam came closer to Jack. Her body was touching his.
Sam said lovingly, “It was not
your fault that I was kidnapped. It was no one's fault other than the one that
orchestrated it.”
“How do you still feel about
that?”
She wanted to run, but Jack
had his loving arms around her.
Jack smiled, “I did say I
would not let you go.”
She smiled back, “I do not
want you to either.”
Sam was quiet. Too quiet to be
the Sam Jack knew.
“Well?”
Sam simply stared at Jack's
chest.
She gave out a big sigh, and
looked into his eyes. “I do not know. I have so many emotions going through me
on all that I have faced, and I am....mostly....frighten over them. I know I
need to talk to others about these feelings, but I just cannot do it. I hear this
person in me screaming to get out, but I am afraid of ...losing control again.”
She quietly put one side of
her face on Jack's chest. Jack hugged her tighter to let her feel she was safe
in his arms.
She continued while still in
the same position, “I thought being Jedi would help me release these feelings.”
“Believe it or not, the Force
and the training are doing just that.”
“It does not feel that way.”
“Just keep on going forward,
and one day you will see it for yourself. It took me a time to get over my
ordeal at that POW camp.”
“How I feel now, I do not know
if I will ever get over what I have been through.”
Jack knew she would, but he
knew telling her would not do any good. He knew that the others have said that
to her before. Jack knew Sam. He realized that she just needed time and a lot
the right thinking. Jack just held her with all the love he had for her. Having
that love allowed her to open up a bit, but not much.
“No matter how hard I thought
you were alive, I could not stop feeling the life was sucked out of....” Sam
just cried.
Jack replied softly, “Let it
out Sam. I am her for you. I promise that I am not going anywhere.”
When she stopped crying she
continued, “When I finally was convinced that you were dead, I completely fell
apart.”
Jack gently grabbed her chin.
He gently turned her head so she could look right at him.
“Look into my eyes. I know I
look like what a cat drug in, but do I look dead to you?”
She answered with tears on her
face, “Jack...my Jack.
She gently touched Jack's face
with both of her hands.”
“You feel real.”
She sniffed a little.
“You smell real. I can hear
your sweet voice in my ears.”
She then kissed him ever so
passionately.
After the kiss, she said, “You
do not taste like a dead man. In fact you taste...”
She kissed him once again.
“Yes you are alive.”
