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"The crutches already start to bore you?" John asked.

"Yeah, it's terrible, the last time I walked on crutches I missed out on two missions where another scientist found some extraordinary technology which he could not figure out and then broke." Sam answered.

"Well you don't have to worry about that because McKay won't break anything and if he does he will fix it, I'm sure about that. Just dont tell him I said that." John said.

"Of course Col. if you don't tell him I that agree with you." Sam replied.

They walked further down the hallway, where McKay and Keller came around the corner. "SAM!" Jennifer yelled.

"I told you to take some rest just an hour ago."

"But ..." Sam stutterd

"No buts Sam, when I say rest you rest. It's 2 AM, you need to go to bed and rest that leg otherwise it will get a lot worse." Jennifer said a little calmer.

"Rodney lets go!" Col Sheppard said and grabbing Rodney to get out of there

"I will come by you tomorrow doctor for that thing that we were discussing." McKay said to Dr. Keller just before he was dragged out of there by Col. Sheppard.

"Sam I'm not kidding, you've had massive internal bleeding. If you're not careful with that leg" Dr Keller said pauzing for a moment. "it might get really, really bad."

"Yeah, yeah, I know, but I've never been that good in relaxing. Usually General O'Neill, well Colonel O'Neill at the time, had to drag me out of my lab, when we had time off at the SGC." Sam smiled by the idea, how Jack had always tried to invite her fishing or how he came up with yet another weird way to get her away from her science stuff.

Jennifer looked at her, how she smiled at the tougth of him. "But I tought General Landry was head of the SGC?" Trying to figure out if General O'Neill was the guy in Washington that Sam had been talking about in that old Genii underground room.

"Yeah you're right, but General O'Neill is head of homeworld security, in Washington." she added.

"Oh." Jennifer said. A bit to knowingly. And decided to call the head of homeworld security and try to get him down here, maybe Sam would listen to him. And really get some rest.

"What?" Sam asked.

"Nothing." Jennifer replied a little bit too quick and too smug.

"And by the way what were you and Rodney doing in the hallway at 2 AM?" Sam asked as a comeback over het so called nothing.

"Uh well, he owed me a beer, so we drinked and talked and wel suddenly it was 2 AM." Jennifer said quietly.

"So you had a good time, good for you." Sam said in a nice tone because she saw that Jennifer didn't really know whether it was a good thing that she was having fun with Rodney or not.

"You think?" Jennifer asked sincere. They stopped in front of Sam's quarters.

"Of course, it's great. I mean Rodney is great." she paused for a moment where Jennifer looked at Sam awkwardly. "Well I mean he IS rodney, but he has his good qualities. Just don't tell him that I said that."

"No I won't." Jennifer replied. "But you go get some rest now, you need it." Walking away and trying to think about a way to get this General O'Neill to visit Sam.

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"With Chief Hoven, How can I help you?" A female voice answered the phone.

"This is Dockter Keller, I need to talk to General O'Neill it is regarding Col. Carter." Jennifer said trough the phone.

"Please hold." The female voice said. Jennifer hoped that he would take her call because he probably would be really busy. She thought that this might end horribly wrong. But she couldn't think of another way to reach him. To her surprise he picked up the phone almost right away.

"Is Carter alright?" He asked really worried.

"Uh well she is okay but she has a broken leg." Now she was acually on the phone with the guy she really didn't know what to say. "And well you now Col. Carter she never rest, and she kind of mentioned that well, uh you could well…" Oh she was so screwing this up. "Well that you have some ways to get her to leave the base, and actually get some rest." "And she kind of needs that right now, and I can't get her to relax." Ok she was sure he was going to hang up on her. Was she really bothering him with a broken leg? She asked herself.

Jack's heart skipped a beat. She was mentioning him to her co-workers in Atlantis. She wasn't to busy with al the amazing science stuff to think of him or talk about him. "I will clear out my schedule for today and Monday and I will try to get to the SGC today, and to Atlantis I should be there around 17.00." Jack said quickly.

"How can you get them to dial sir?" Jennifer asked, she couldn't help to be curious.

"Well, I'll just say I'm going on a surprise check-up of the Atlantis crew." Jack answered cheerfully. "But I really need to go, if I want to be there at 17.00." And he hung up.

Jennifer put the phone down. Surprised about how easy it was to get him here and him actually clearing his schedule for the next four days. He must really care about Sam.

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"Sam I told you to get some rest." Jennifer said immediately after entering the control room at 17.00.

Sam wanted to reply and to explain to Jennifer that she would be fine and besides she only worked for 8 hours today and 7 of them were spend with her leg up. But she was cut of by Chuck.

"Unscheduled off-world activation." Chuck said.

"Who is it?" Sam asked while she walked with her crutches to the balcony that overlooked the gate-room.

"It's the SGC Col. They want to send someone trough." Chuck answered her question.

Lower the shield. Sam replied directly. She couldn't think of a reason why someone of the SGC would come to Atlantis whereas she hadn't had any appointments with anyone from Earth. She also could not remember any of the members of Atlantis asking for someone. So she'd better meet this person at the gate. Walking down the stairs on her crutches she really had to learn how to go faster she tought by herself.

"CARTER. I believe you have doctors order to stay off that leg!" General O'Neill came trough the gate, directly addressing Sam.

Her heart jumped up and down. The tought of being mad at Jennifer didn't even came up. "Sir what are you doing here?" she asked while trying to get down the stairs even faster.

"We'll make sure that you take some rest with that leg of yours and check up on Atlantis." He grinned at the scene of Sam trying to get down the stairs with her crutches. In the SGC they only had elevators so she wouldn't need to go with the stairs.

When she was almost down those incredible long staircase one of her crutches skipped a stair and of course she fell down. "How cliché." She couldn't help but thinking. But Jack, with his black ops training, caught her just before she could hit the floor, this was even more cliché but she really didn't mind.

"Carter. You should take some rest." Jack said and lifted her from the floor. "So which way are your quarters? And I presume I have the one I alway have?" he casually asked.

"Yes sir. The one right across of those of Col. Carter." Jennifer said quickly before anyone else could answer.

"Ok, then I think I still now the way." He said cheerfully and he walked to the nearest transporter.

Sam felt that she was slowly turning red. Jack, uh the General, carried her down the hall, and she felt the rest of Atlantis staring at her. "Thank you sir." was al Sam could bring out.

"No problemo." Jack answered with a huge grin on his face. While he stepped out of the transporter he looked down at her. Her beautiful eyes met his and he was taken, not watching were he was going anymore, he accidently walked Sam's leg against a high box that was leaning against the wall.

"Arggg!" Sam grimaced trough her teeth. Grabbing Jack's uniform really tight and putting her head against his chest.

"Oh sorry." Jack said immediately. "Are you alright?"

"I will be." Sam sighted in his chest loosening her grip, but keeping her head against his chest. It was really peaceful and it felt almost healing to listen te his heartbeat so close.

"Carter are you sure you'll be alright" he asked and Sam heard he was really sorry about it and was really worried about here leg and in extension worried about her which let her heart beat a little bit faster.

"Yeah. I will be alright don't worry" she smiled, with her special smile, the smile she only kept for him. "So how long are you her for Sir?" She asked lifting her head from his chest.

"I have to be back on Monday." He said stopping in front of her quarters. "So tomorrow we are going fishing." "I'm going to freshen up now and then I will go get some jell-o in the messhall." He put her down, turned around to his quarters and he said: "pick you up in an hour, I want to hear al about Atlantis, because in fact I'm here to check up on this beautiful city. He opened his door and the closed again behind him.