Incaceration
Incaceration
by Venom_69
Title: Incaceration
Author: Venom_69
Email: venom69@antisocial.com
Category: Action/Adventure, Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Romance
Season: Season 4
Pairing: Sam/Jack
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: adult themes, violence
Summary: SG-1 are incacerated and they have to rely on each other to survive.
Disclaimer: Stargate SG-1 and its characters are the property of Showtime/Viacom, MGM/UA, Double Secret Productions, and Gekko Productions. I have written this story for entertainment purposes only and no money whatsoever has exchanged hands. No copyright infringement is intended. The original characters, situations, and story are the property of the author(s).
Title: Incarceration
Author: Venom_69
E-mail: venom69@antisocial.com
Rating: PG-13
Category: Angst, Romance, Action/adventure Pairings: Sam/Jack
Content Warnings: Angst, slight torture Summary: SG-1 are incarcerated and they have to rely on each other to survive
Season/sequel: Any
Spoilers: Beneath the Surface
Archive: Heliopolis and my very own Venom's Sam and Jack site. (In the Heliopolis links section)
Disclaimer: I don't own these people. If someone wants to give them to me then I wouldn't say no. Hell, I'd settle for Jack. < eg > Author's notes: I thought to myself; Self, stop doing the romance crap and get some angst into your fic's. This was the result, and it has the romance crap in it too.
Feedback: Hell yeah!
Dedication: For LEW, as always. For Jenny, thanks for all the feedback and for Mark J, who was on his 'death bed' for a few days. g Date: 1-9-2002
~*+*~
The smell was the first thing that hit me. The putrid stench that rose off the ground to meet my disgusted nose made me wonder how the people could stand it, but I guess they had other things to be concerned about.
After being led through an intricate maze of tunnels, we were disarmed and roughly pushed into a small cell and I was grateful that they'd kept us together. Obviously they weren't used to people trying to escape, they don't see us as much of a threat without anything but the clothes we have on.
I pace like a caged tiger for a few minutes. I'm not so big on enclosed spaces. I wouldn't call it claustrophobia, I'm not quite that bad, but I do get a little nervous.
Glancing around at my team mates, I notice that they are all surveying the walls of our cell, no doubt looking for an escape route. I wish them luck, I think there's Naqaduah in the walls, so we won't get through them anytime soon. Call me pessimistic. The only other opening in the room is the tiny window on the door.
"You okay?" The Colonel asks me, placing a gentle hand on my arm to stop my pacing.
"Yeah." I breathe, running my hand through my tousled hair.
"We'll get out of here." He tells me, and I can't help but smile glumly at his small attempt at reassuring me.
"Yes sir." I reply, and the door to our cell opens and we all instinctively move to the back of the room, leaning against the wall.
Daniel cradles his injured- most probably broken- arm to his chest. When we were captured, one of the guards backhanded me and Daniel, sending him flying into a tree. The way he was hit made his body spiral towards the trunk, breaking his arm. I was lucky, but I can feel the bruise forming on my left cheek. It stings, but I'll live.
Whoever captured us aren't Jaffa, their very unorthodox as far as Jaffa go, and they don't have any of the tell-tale signs of being God worshipers. And they don't have pouches in their stomachs, their midriff baring shirts tell us that much.
Surprisingly they spoke English, but their weapons were primitive in comparison to our P-90's but still enough to do some serious damage if they wanted to. There doesn't appear to be any form of hierarchy with them, but one man seems to be some sort of leader, and it's him that steps towards us, standing in front of five other Teal'c sized men.
"You." He points to Daniel. "Come with us." He orders and my peripheral vision shows my friend looking around at us nervously.
"I don't think so." The Colonel replies sarcastically and the man slaps his cheek. I briefly wonder where he got his combat training from, I could hit better than this moron.
"Now." The man orders and grabs Daniel's arm, thankfully his un-injured one. His other arm is swollen and looks very sore. Daniel reluctantly let's himself be led away and before we have anytime to react, they've all left and the door has been shut and locked after them.
I wonder exactly what they'll do to him, but I'm smart enough to have a fair idea about what's going on. I feel myself wince as a scream is heard, the noise echoing off the walls.
It's Daniel's scream, I can tell.
The Colonel punches a wall as another scream bounces off the walls, the sound loud enough to reach us. He goes to hit the wall again and I grab his arm.
Turning to look alternately at my face and the hand that was holding his arm. "We might need that hand to help get us out of here, sir." I explain, my voice low.
Whatever happened to the people who thought that we were God's? That, I could live with.
About half an hour goes by with me pacing and the Colonel muttering sweet nothings to himself. None of us speak, until Teal'c breaks the silence. "They are returning." He informs us and we all move back to the wall.
The door is flung open and Daniel is thrown in, crumpling to the floor like nothing more than a rag doll, tears in his eyes. The Colonel is taken next, his threats of maiming them silenced by the promise of killing one of us if he doesn't go quietly.
The moment the door is closed, I rush to my friend's side, Teal'c directly behind me. I cradle his head in my lap, making a mental list of his injuries.
He has a long cut from his eye to his mouth, but it doesn't seem too deep, his arm is twisted at a strange angle and I think they may have done more damage than his run-in with the tree. His jacket is gone and his shirt is ripped in a few places, baring some blood stained skin. I pull the black material up to reveal a few cuts along his stomach, but they're not very deep either, which is a good thing.
"Where's Jack'?" He mutters incoherently, his voice slurred with pain.
"Gone to get you some coffee and morphine." I lie, using the hem of my shirt to stroke away some of the blood that's seeped out of the cut on his face
Daniel smiles before passing out from the pain. I take the opportunity to move his damaged arm from it's prone position, back to the way he had it before he was taken. It he wakes up before the Colonel returns, then I'll ask him what they wanted to know.
At the very least the Colonel hasn't screamed yet.
He doesn't wake again, and Teal'c silently picks him up and moves him to a corner of the room, standing guard over his friend. I contemplate moving over to him and resuming the position that I was in, but the door opens again and the Colonel is thrown in, landing partly on top of me.
The man debates which one of us to take next, but sees it as too much of an effort to get the Colonel off me, and gestures for Teal'c to follow him. When he refuses, the man points his staff, which has a very long arrow attached, at me and Teal'c understands what he means and goes without protest.
The limp body of my CO rests over my legs, his face buried in my crotch. Under different circumstance I might like this, but I have to move him and calculate his injuries.
I turn him over as he groans and opens his eyes to look at me. He has the same cut on his cheek that Daniel does and his jacket is missing too. Although his shirt is worse that Daniel's but there isn't any blood underneath.
"Hey Carter." He moans, pulling himself up into a sitting position to lean against the wall.
"Hey Colonel. I thought you were going to stop boxing with Teal'c." I smile, my small attempt at humour is obviously appreciated.
"Yeah well, you know me." He shrugs.
I move over to sit next to him against the wall and he leans on me. "Are you okay?" I ask.
"Scream." He tells me.
I turn, confused. "Sir?" I ask.
"When they take you, scream." He elaborates and I cringe at the thought. I know that they're going to take me, I can see it coming.
"Scream?" I repeat.
"Can I be honest with you?"
"Always." I nod.
"They'll cut your cheek. From here." He touches below my eye. "To here." He touches the top of my mouth. "And all they want to hear is you scream." He tells me, suddenly staring at me, lost in thought.
"Yes sir." I reply, silently hoping that they'll stop whatever they plan to do to me if I scream.
The Colonel and I don't speak again, but we silently agree to move over to Daniel's side and watch over him. I wonder about his statement, I didn't hear him scream while he was gone, but maybe it just wasn't as loud as Daniel's.
I can't tell how long Teal'c was gone for, I think I dozed off for a little while. But my eyes snap open when the door opens and Teal'c is pushed in, the same cut on his cheek and a few around his serpent tattoo.
Then they take me.
~*+*~
They cut my cheek, like the Colonel said they would, and it hurt. But they were considerate enough not to cut my bruised cheek. I scream like the Colonel told me too, and they laugh. They actually stand back and laugh as the blood trickles down my cheek.
I expect them to return me to the cell, my jacket was removed before they tied my hands up above my head with Naqaduah enhanced restraints. They're restricting and if I move around too much then my body'll swing.
Instead of returning me to the rest of my team, the leader pulls out a very large knife, with dried blood on it. My friend's dried blood. He pulls my shirt out of my pants and brings the knife to my throat. "I could slit your throat." He grins, pressing the knife into my flesh a little harder.
He trails the knife down my throat and hooks it under my shirt, tugging a little and I hear the material rip and I feel the blade barely touching my stomach as it rips my shirt straight down the middle. He cuts the sleeves and pulls the shredded black material out of the way to leave me clad in my black bra and combat pants.
Smiling at me, he cuts across the top of my breasts, the blade piercing my skin as more blood seeps out of the wounds. These cut's are deeper than the one's we all got on our cheeks. Shame I don't have any antiseptic handy, the lacerations that he makes on my chest will more than likely become infected without treatment. A few deep cuts on my stomach complete the picture and I can't hold back the whimper as the knife comes dangerously close to my belt.
I once saw an episode of Oprah where they talked about survivors of female genital mutilation and the knife resting at my belt is making me recall what all of the victim's went through, in great detail. Oh, God.
Suddenly, he throws the knife to the ground and as he turns back to me, his fist connects with my face and the bruise that was forming has no doubt just become ten times worse. He steps back from me and lands a hard blow to my stomach, this time with his leg.
My head snaps to the left as he punches me a few more times, including a few more blows to my stomach which now has blood flowing freely from the wounds which he's managed to open even further with his feet. A few hits with a thick piece of timber to my stomach and behind my knees later and his grin is huge now.
The restraints are let loose and I fall to the ground, my bruised legs unable to support my weight at the moment. The leader leaves the room and two guards come up to me and each take turns at punching me, before they drag me back to the cell. They didn't try to rape me, so I'm thankful for small mercies.
I try to take in my surroundings, maybe familiarise myself with the tunnel in the hopes of escape, but the blows to my eyes are blurring my vision as I fight the losing battle with unconsciousness.
I'm unceremoniously dumped into the cell and they leave without taking any of my friends. "Jesus Carter." The Colonel breathes, crawling over to me. "Hey." He whispers, cradling my head in his lap, wiping back my fringe from my face.
"Hi." I murmur. "How's Daniel?" I ask, turning my neck to try and get a better look at my friend.
"He'll be alright. Teal'c is looking out for him. You want my shirt?" He offers and I suddenly remember that I only have my bra on.
Before I have the opportunity to reply, the door opens and a tray is placed on the floor. From what I can see it's water and gruel, much like the crap we were given on Caldor's planet.
The door closes again and the colonel goes over to the tray, bringing it back. "Hors d'oeuvres?" He quips and I smile. He passes two bowl's to Teal'c and then hands him two cups of water for them.
Daniel moans a little and rolls over, his eyes flying open as he rolls onto his arm. The pain is enough to bring him out of unconsciousness. He and Teal'c begin to eat in silence and the colonel rips off a part of his shirt and dips it in the water.
"It'll sting." He warns and I nod, gritting my teeth as he wipes my lacerations, cleaning off as much of the blood as he can.
~*+*~
"Trust you to want to catch Z's on the job." The Colonel jokes, stroking my forehead rhythmically.
"'M 'wake." I mutter.
I open my eyes to look up into his concerned brown one's. "Have a nice nap Major?" He quips.
"Yes sir." I nod, wincing slightly as my headache worsens in protest at the action. He helps me to sit up to rest in between his outstretched legs, leaning against his bare chest. "Your shirt?" I question.
"We used it to clean up everyone's wounds. Teal'c offered to give you his, but we thought that we should try and keep junior out of sight. And space monkey's was in threads too." He shrugs.
"Where are they?" I ask, looking around the empty cell. I wonder if they've both been taken together this time.
"In another cell. They were both taken away and I saw them being tossed into another room about three door's down." He replies, gently playing with my hair.
"Are we going to get out of here?" I ask, resting my head on his shoulder.
"Yes." He answers, without missing a beat.
"Good. I'd kill for a bath at the moment." I laugh, the action sending a shooting pain through my stomach.
"If we get out of here, you and I can share my Jacuzzi, deal?"
"Deal." I smile and clutch my ribs as another, stronger, wave of pain shoot's through me.
"You have a few broken ribs." He explains.
"Figured that." I mutter through gritted teeth.
"Sleep Carter." He orders.
"I thought that you said I was sleeping on the job." I smile.
He drops a kiss onto the top of my head. "Smart ass." He mutters and I close my eyes, safe in his warm embrace.
~*+*~
"Chocolate." I sigh.
"Hockey." He replies in turn.
Near as I can tell, we've been here for almost two and a half months. The days are routine now, we don't get breakfast- and I'd kill for some bacon at the moment-, a guard takes Jack around ten, Earth time, and he comes back after an hour or so and then they take me. It's the same thing every time, they re-open the cut's on my body, occasionally adding more to the collection. They throw a few punches and I'm sure that my face is black, blue and purple by now. I think the cut's on my chest are infected, and I'm pretty sure that there is some moss or fungi growing in there, they sting and itch like crazy. Jack threatened to tie my hands together if I didn't stop scratching.
Occasionally screams echo through the corridors and bounce off the walls. They aren't Teal'c or Daniel's. At least, I don't think they are. I hope not, for their sakes.
We haven't seen Daniel or Teal'c in a few weeks. Last I saw of them was Daniel and that was only because my torture session coincided with his one day. We didn't speak but I silently asked if he and Teal'c were okay, and he silently replied that they were coping. He silently asked about Jack and I, and I replied in kind.
Yes, it's Jack now. Calling each other Carter and Sir seems stupid, since we only have each other to rely on. We usually make lists of the things that we miss to pass the time, but we talk. A lot, but never about any of the people we left behind.
I must admit, there are a few things that I'm thankful for. Like Jolinar, for example. I'm very glad that she screwed up my body chemistry, one more thing that I don't have to be concerned about. I doubt that Thaley, the male leader of this place, would have a stock of tampons around here.
They haven't come for Jack yet today, I doubt they've forgotten, despite the fact that there must be hundreds of other souls to torture in this place. Thaley likes to keep to his schedule, I've noticed that. Food is never given to us at the same time each day, sometimes not at all, but we're beaten at the same time every single day.
I wrap my arms around Jack's waist, careful of both our wounds. He replies in kind and I rest my head on his shoulder and listen as footsteps come closer and closer to our cell.
The door opens with unusual anger only seconds later and Thaley orders us to both follow him. Which we do without a word.
Once, just after SG-1 was taken, Jack protested very loudly about being taken away and we tried to escape, but we failed and they beat him twice as hard for the aggravation we caused. So we didn't try it again. Our strength is slowly being drained, blood loss and lack of food aren't helping our situation in the slightest. And I'm slightly concerned about hypothermia.
We follow the leader, his guards behind us. I take a glance through the small window that leads to the other half of SG-1's cell, and I see two people.
Two women to be precise.
Where are my friends? Were they killed? Did all of the beatings finally take them out? Were they hit in the head and the trauma caused a death that we have all secretly prayed for at some point or another?
I don't have time to ponder my questions as we're thrown into our 'regular' beating room. They tie us together this time, our arms raised above our heads and bound together.
And then they start to beat us.
~*+*~
I groan, and open my eyes. It's pitch black, as usual, but I just see the outline of Jack on the other side of the cell, un-moving. I don't remember much about what happened. Something about us paying for our friends escape.
Escape?
Daniel and Teal'c got out of here? Part of me is hurt that they didn't come for us, but most of me is elated that they got out of here, they'll come back. And bring re-enforcements to get Jack and I out of this hell hole.
Jack? I crawl over to him, using my arms to drag my limp body, the cold ground tearing at my already bleeding stomach. I reach him and collapse, my head next to his.
Before the world goes blank, I send a silent plea to Daniel and Teal'c to hurry up, I don't know how long either of us can stand this existence.
~*+*~
I let my eyes flutter open, reluctantly.
The light hit's me, burning my retina's and I shut my eyes tightly, trying to protect them against the blinding light. I don't understand. Whether I'm just confused, delirious or disorientated, none of which would be a first, I don't know.
I bring my hand up to cover my eyes, tentatively opening them, weary of the brightness that surrounds me. I'm not in the cell anymore, that much is clear, it's too clean, and I'm in a bed. I don't even think I'm on that planet anymore.
Looking around frantically, I ignore the pain that my eyes feel from the light. Where am I? Where's Jack? It's almost time for my beating, if my body clock is what it used to be. Where the hell is Jack?
"You're awake." A voice comments, walking into the room. I don't look at her, that only makes the beatings worse, but her voice is gentle and caring. Probably another damn trick.
A hand reaches out to touch my shoulder, and it's too small to be Jack's. I have to get out of here so that I can find him, I need him. Doing the only thing I can think of, I turn my head as the hand relaxes a little. I open my mouth and sink my teeth into the flesh, not releasing my teeth until I taste blood in my mouth.
"Sam!" The voice cries and I roughly push it's owner out of the way, getting off the bed and running to the door.
I navigate my way through the corridor's, trying to find Jack. Everything is different here. There are still people in rooms, but the doors are open and they aren't battered and bruised. They're in clean clothes, and after quickly looking down at myself, I notice that I am too. I spent God knows how long in nothing but my pants and bra, they took our boots away months ago.
Running past an empty room, I give a startled cry as my arm is grasped, pulling me inside. A hand clamps down over my mouth, while the other now holds my waist. I struggle against my captor, but the last ounce of strength I have, which could quite possibly be nothing more than adrenaline, is quickly dissipating.
"It's me." My captor whispers and I stop struggling, realising who it is that's holding me.
The hand comes away from my face, and joins the one around my waist. "Jack." I whisper, my voice shaky.
"In the flesh." He chuckles.
We pull apart and resume our embrace on the floor. The dirt and dreadful smell of the small room is comforting, a constant that we are now used to.
"Did they come for you?" I ask, not needing to elaborate any further. We don't speak of the beatings, we stopped doing that a while ago, our time together is cherished and the bad things that they do shouldn't invade our time.
"No. You?"
"No." I shake my head against his chest, and feel that he also has clothes on. It's the same, white gown that whoever captured us this time gave us. "It was so bright." I whisper, relishing the chance to be held by him in the dark, as usual.
"I know, Sammy, I know." He murmurs, stroking my hair, which is getting longer. His fingers stop their caress in my hair and I look up at him, confused. "It's clean." He tells me in amazement.
I finger my hair, unable to remember if it was ever a colour other than reddish-brown. He's right, it feels silky, no dirt or dried blood that I have become so used to. I touch his head. "So is yours." I return and he follows my lead and touches his own head.
"Wonder why." He comments absently, returning his fingers to my scalp.
"Maybe they want to sell us." I shrug. It wouldn't exactly be unheard of in this place. I've seen prisoners, dragged from their cells. And I've heard the guards telling them that they were being sold to the highest bidder. If they keep Jack and I together, then I don't care.
"Sleep Sammy." He whispers against my hair, and I close my eyes.
~*+*~
"I don't understand it sir, she just lashed out." A voice says, it's the same voice that was with me before. I stay in Jack's embrace, my eyes closed. They don't need to know that I'm awake yet.
"Should we call Makenzie?" Another voice, a male one, asks.
"I don't know sir. The only thing that I can say for certain is that separating them would be a very bad idea. You saw what Major Carter did to my hand, and Colonel O'Neill tried to hurt one of the nurse's and then himself. The only words I've heard either of them speak are each other's name. They're dependant on each other, sir, and separating them would be a very big mistake." The woman says. I almost regret biting her, she seems content to let me be with Jack, and that's always a bonus.
"Agreed Doctor." The man returns.
"Sammy." Jack breaths against my neck, dropping a kiss on it as he's done every morning for as long as I can remember.
"Colonel O'Neill?" The man asks, walking around to face us. My eyes remain open, but I'm squinting a little, the light is still way too bright.
We both stare blankly at him. He doesn't look like Thaley, but he does appear to be some form of leader, the woman called him 'sir.' He's short and is wearing a blue uniform, and he has a large stomach.
"Major Carter." He nods at me and I continue to stare at him. Why hasn't he taken Jack yet? They always do, no one ever stands beside our bed and looks at us. And there's compassion in his eyes. What the hell is going on? What are they playing at?
He reaches out to touch my arm and Jack's hand flies out and grasps his wrist, a move that I didn't expect from him, and we can read each other pretty well. "No. Don't hurt her, no more." Jack pleads.
I look at his hand, which is still holding to other man's and I notice that Jack isn't trying to hurt the man, he's just trying to stop them from taking me. Which he knows will earn him a beating worse than usual.
"Jack, I'm not going to hurt her, none of us are." The man assures. I think I know him, his face is familiar. Hose? Homer? Hammer? Hammond? Hammond!
"Hammond." I whisper and the man pulls his hand away from Jack's grasp and looks down at me.
"Yes." He nods. "That's me."
"Please, no more." I whisper, tears streaming down my face. Jack holds me tightly as I cry, his rising chest a comfort to me.
"Sam, we're not going to hurt you. We're here to help you." He tells me and I look at him, hope coursing through me, but wary in case of another trick. It wouldn't be the first. Hallucinagenic's were slipped into our water, that much I'm sure of.
Another man comes up behind him, his arm in plaster. "Daniel." I whisper, recognising him instantly. The cut on his cheek seems to be healing alright, although his face is still a multitude of colours, he looks well.
"Hey Sam." He smiles and sit's down in the chair by the bed. "Jack." He nods.
"Arm?" I question.
"Broken." He sighs. "But Janet says that it'll heal nicely."
"Janet?" I ask.
The woman, who's hand I viciously bit, walks over to stand behind Daniel, keeping a fair distance from me, understandably of course. "Hey." She greets, wary that I'll 'lash out' again.
"Your hand?" I ask, concerned.
"It will be fine. That's quite a set of fangs you've got there." She smiles. I don't return it.
The room lapses into an uncomfortable silence and I concentrate on Jack's warm breath, tickling my neck.
~*+*~
We sit together, huddled on the bed as he speaks to us. Daniel said that this man's name is Makenzie, and he was trying to help us 'deal' with what happened.
I haven't seen Teal'c yet, apparently, according to Daniel, his symbiont was badly injured and he needs time to heal. Jack won't speak to anyone but Daniel or I. Since the day, almost two weeks ago, when I saw Janet and Hammond, I haven't spoken to anyone apart from Jack or Daniel.
Makenzie is talking about something, but neither of us are listening to him. "Major Carter!" He snaps, annoyed, he's been here for an hour and neither of us have even bothered to look at him. I turn my head from it's study of Jack's cheek to face him. "I said is there anything you wish to discuss."
His harsh tone is enough to make me flinch and go as stiff as a board, Thaley used that tone on numerous occasions. Jack feels it and turns to face the man who he thinks has hurt me. "Leave her alone." He growls.
"I am trying to help." He replies, slightly calmer.
Jack narrow's his eyes. "Don't you dare hurt her!" He shouts and Makenzie gets up and walks out of the room, quite obviously disturbed by Jack's outburst.
I can hear Janet and Makenzie talking just outside our door. "It's fascinating!" He exclaims. "It's like they're dependant on each other, almost like an addiction! We could learn so much from observing them and I think that given time, we could make some major breakthroughs in our psychological understanding of the human. . ." He stops, Janet's voice interrupting his.
"You son of a bitch!" She shouts. "Those people in there are my friend's, not lab rat's for you to study! They need help, not someone who wants to watch their interactions, their pain and take notes for the sake of science. If you can't do the job you were asked to, then I will!" She cries, walking into our room, surprisingly calm for a woman who was screaming at a colleague not half of a minute ago.
Jack and I briefly glance at each other, and turn back to her. "Thank you." We whisper in unison.
"I just want what's best for you guy's. I want you to get better." She sighs, slumping into the chair.
"Teal'c?" Jack asks.
Janet masks her surprise at hearing him speak alone, and focuses on answering the question. "He'll be alright. Junior is taking care of him, and he should be back on his feet in a week or two." She smiles. "He sends his best wishes, and hopes that he can see you soon."
"How did we get here?" Jack and I both ask. It was a question that had been bothering me, obviously it had crossed Jack's mind too.
"Daniel and Teal'c came back a month ago, but were so badly injured that they collapsed in the 'Gate room. They were unconscious for almost two weeks. When Teal'c came to, he told us where you were, and how to get there. The General re-called every unit the SGC has and, from what little I've been told, they all went in gun's ablazing. They brought you two out of there and we brought you to the AF hospital. You guy's both woke up about four days after you were brought here, bailed on us, we found you in the janitor's closet and you know the rest." She shrugs, knowing that we can pretty much fill in the blanks. We both nod, we do understand.
Sharing a brief, silent, conversation with Jack, we turn back to Janet and proceed to tell her everything that happened on P9S-881, watching as her eyes go wide in a mixture of horror and shock.
~*+*~
"What are we going to do today?" Jack asks me, tracing lazy patterns on my back. I shrug and lean up to briefly kiss him.
We were released from the Air Force Academy Hospital almost a month ago, despite Doctor Makenzies protests. He claimed that we weren't 'emotionally ready' yet, and in a way, much as I hate to admit it, he was right. Then again, Janet wouldn't have allowed us to leave if she didn't think we were ready.
She had kept both of our houses spotless for the months we were away, and we were both very grateful. I moved out of my house, and into Jack's. We do everything together at the moment, I don't think either of us can stand to be alone anymore, and we were so reliant on each other while we were incarcerated, I guess it's only natural that we stick together now.
The scars that we obtained are a constant reminder, but we've learnt to adapt to them, like everything else. The world seemed like a very scary place a month ago, but with Jack beside me, I'll get though it. And I'll help him through it too.
Jack's hand stops tracing the irregular patterns on my bare back and rolls so that I'm pinned beneath him.
I guess I know what I'll be doing today. And besides, we have a Jacuzzi to visit later.
~*+*~
The end.
I speak my mind, that's why I don't say much.
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