Caldwell and Chuck Be Careful What You Wish For part ten
CALDWELL AND CHUCK [inspired by the wonderful keira marcos story ‘the ties that bind’]
BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR part ten
The next morning the phone rang to wake them up and they dragged themselves out of bed and into the shower. They washed each other and kissed got dressed and went down for breakfast. Before they left the room Steven insisted he wear the red collar and leash.
“Not good for the military if I kill someone at a conference Chuck” so Chuck wore it for breakfast. Back in their room as they were packing Chuck tried to remove the collar, Steven leant over and stopped his hand “No Chuck, I will just pay for it at the desk, I’m sorry you think I am being a dick but I won’t settle until you are back home naked alright?”
Chuck laughed “Well alright but its back to naked at home”. Steven stopped and watched Chuck checking to see if they had forgotten anything, he had called his house home and for some reason that made Steven’s stomach do backflips.
The black car drove them to the airport, in the airport Steven kept a tight hold on Chuck’s leash, going back in first class was just as much fun for Chuck as coming out and his antics made Steven laugh. Before the plane landed Chuck turned to Steven and took his hand “I just want to thank you for this weekend, it is a memory I will treasure forever” and then he gently kissed Steven. Steven kissed him back “Chuck when we get home I have a gift for you” Chuck’s face lit up “Something for us to play with?” “Yes my pretty little sub something I think will entertain you” Chuck stared at him “Cool”. Steven laughed he knew after his reaction to someone touching Chuck ‘sealed the deal’ so to speak. He could not get the picture of someone else’s hand on his sub out of his head. He needed to collar Chuck for his own peace of mind as well as the fact that he loved him. He knew it now with all his heart and soul he would happily die for the man beside him.
At the terminal in Colorado Springs, they had to walk back to the car and Chuck admitted he could get very used to the black car’s that ferry you door to door, Steven laughed, “Is that not lazy Chuck besides you would get a fat ass with no exercise”, Chuck snorted, “I get plenty of workout’s with you of the sexual kind”. They both laughed at that.
On the drive home Chuck fell asleep in the car, Steven smiled he looked cute like that, he pulled the SUV into the gas station on the highway and filled up, he quickly went to the restroom and paid. When he got back to the car Chuck had gone, Steven thought he must have woken up and gone to the restroom, he locked the car and went looking for his sub but it then occured to him Chuck would not just have done something like that without finding him. Steven started to panic, he ran into the gas station “Have you seen a thin sub, brown hair, brown eyes in jeans and a green t-shirt?” The garage owner said no but he did have surveillance, he goes into the back room and comes out ten minutes later looking shocked, Steven jumped over the counter.
On the surveillance tape as soon as Steven entered the restroom, a black van pulled up next to the SUV and pulled open the door. As Chuck slumped over and woke up, a pad was pressed to his face and he was pulled out into the van and they were gone. It took less than two minutes on the screen. Steven could feel himself starting to get angry, he showed the garage owner his ID, he ejected the tape and said thank you to the owner for his help, he got in the car and hit the gas, speeding down the highway looking for a black van, but there were none to be seen.
He pulled into town and stopped at the Sheriff’s station, “Hi” said Frank until he saw Steven’s face. Steven gave him the videotape and he put it in. It came up on all the screens and as Steven saw it again, he rushed outside and vomited on the road. Frank came out “I have started the BOLO we can’t make out the number plate, maybe your people can?” Frank gave him back the tape with a bottle of water. “Steven we will find the bastard’s and we will make them pay”.
Steven got in the car and drove home like a maniac. As soon as he got inside he rushed to his bedside drawer and got his spare ear piece, he clicked it on “Caldwell to Deadalus, who is on duty?” “Major Grant here sir I thought you were on vacation” Caldwell growled “Beam me direct to General O’Neill’s office NOW”
He materialised in front of Jack and just pulled him from his chair into the control room. He gave the videotape to Walter. When it comes up on the screen everything goes deathly quiet, Walter gasped “Chuck”. Walter started to take the tape apart pixel by pixel. O’Neill is shouting left and right and Caldwell just sagged and the General and Daniel caught him. Daniel said he will get some food and coffee.
Sitting in the General’s office, Caldwell looked up “Why him Jack?” “Probably to get to you, by the way was that a collar he had on?” and he explained to Jack what had happened at the weekend in Vegas and that he had planned on giving him his real collar tonight. Caldwell covered his face with his hands “We were so happy, he makes me laugh, the sex is explosive, I...I… love him”.
The General smirked “Oh fuck you’re in trouble, it‘s just bloody awful when you love them”, Daniel said “I heard that” as he came back with sustenance. They forced some food and coffee into Steven and dragged him to the infirmary but the report came back ‘ok just a bit shocked’
Jack goes “Well there’s a surprise!”
Walter called, he has a number plate, the van was abandoned at a nearby mall obviously changed cars but looking at the surveillance cameras in the area.
Walter asks if they should postone the Atlantis check in but Caldwell said “No they have a right to know”. Dr Weir appearred and saw Caldwell, “Steven I thought you and Chuck were on vacation?” Steven choked out “We were” then he can’t speak and he just dropped into the chair.
“Jack what is going on? Where is Chuck?” demanded Elizabeth.
“About 90 minutes ago Chuck Campbell was kidnapped from Colonel Caldwell’s car when they were stopped to get gas”. A pin drop could have clanged in the Atlantis gateroom. Rodney and John appeared “Do you need us to come through to help kick some ass General” asked John, “No we have plenty of people here who like Chuck and are happy to kick some butt, including one who wants to collar him” and Elizabeth smiled “Yes, we knew”, Steven looked up “How did you know, I didn’t even know” asked Steven. Elizabeth smiled again “Steven, two days for a contract, are you two simple?” and the control room laughed.
Walter piped up “The van is registered to a comapny called Digitech”. Rodney clicked his fingers, “That moron, used to work there, Chuck always told him to drop dead, thought he was god’s gift, fuck why am I so bad at names?” Caldwell stood up “Do you mean Dr Mark Walton?” Rodney nodded “Yes, yes that idiot, he went to Digitech but the NID were worried he would be an easy security threat. Lot of dodgy stuff he had done to sub’s in his past”. “WHAT” yelled Caldwell “I just decked him yesterday for grabbing Chuck’s arm”.
“Thanks Rodney, we’ll get onto that” said Jack and Daniel ran after Steven who could be heard breaking things and swearing, and muttering ‘should have killed the fucker yesterday’.
Shepherd said “Wish I could be there for the party, could someone film Colonel Caldwell when he gets there. I think it would be worth watching” Jack snorted. Walter said “Transmission complete” Jack said “Atlantis check in each day, ok, we want to keep you in the loop” “Fine, speak to you again same time tomorrow” said John “Atlantis out”.
Daniel called Jack and said Caldwell was in the gym. Jack went down and found Caldwell laying into Teal’c like there was no tomorrow, just hitting and hitting him, the one guy he could not hurt until he just sagged. Teal’c and Jack pulled him up and carried him to his quarters, as they laid him in the bed, he was mummbling “My pretty little sub, I need my pretty little sub”.
As they left Daniel curled into Jack. “We might lose two not one” said Daniel. Jack nodded.
That night a full staff worked the night shift, there seemed to be something wrong with Chuck’s transponder it seemed to blink on every now and again, it seemed to be intermittent and odd and hard to pinpoint, something was obviously blocking the signal but it was breaking through occasionally.
At 7am a young female technician sub rushed into the General’s office “Sir I need to speak to the Colonel urgently”. “Why” asked Jack “When I was looking at the transponder blips I noticed something, if you look at them together they give you morse code”, Caldwell walked in. “What did you say?” “Sir the transponder jumps seem to be in morse code, it has been repeated 5 times” Caldwell looked at her “What does it say?” She went “Oh sorry, it said ‘the tree’ ‘the tree’ five times does that mean anything to you and technician Campbell?” He shouted “YES” he grabbed her and kissed her, “Thank you, thank you” and rushed to the control room. “Wow” she said “That Chuck is a lucky bastard”. The General raced after the Colonel, he had got them to train the satellites onto Pike National Park.
“If you want to hide you do it in plain site, right where my house is” said Steven. He was on the phone to someone named Frank and he kept relaying where to get tighter imaging. Jack said “Steven who’s Frank?”, “Local Sheriff, new townies up at the new lodges on west side of the forest”, instructed Caldwell. The satellite narrowed and there were two large cars outside two cabins, “Go to infra-red” said the General. On the screen appeared three men at a table obviously playing cards and behind them a thin guy tied to a chair and there was another guy hitting him across the face.
Caldwell yelled “Right the fuck now Jack” they ran down to the gateroom, a couple of the gate teams were waiting, Daniel handed Jack and Steven a vest and guns, they put them on.
O’Neill stated loudly “Ok guys, we get Chuck, they get dead, don’t get in the Colonel’s way, we clear” “Sir, Yes, sir”, “Deadalus now please” and they reappeared outside the cabin, and surrounded it quickly and quietly, then stormed in. Chuck was tied to the chair naked, he was bleeding from several wounds, at some point they had taken off his collar. Caldwell went nuts he just shot them all at point blank range in the head. He cut the ropes off his sub, picked him up in his arms. Steven got Jack to relay them both to the infirmary while the soldiers cleaned up the mess “So Smith you get that on tape for Atlantis?” The General asked “Sir, Yes, sir”. “Good copy to them in the transmission tomorrow and one for me please”. “Sir, Yes, sir”.
As the General walked in the infirmary he could hear someone cursing and thought it a shame he had not got to shoot one of the bastards. Doing that to a sub that was not yours and doing it to damage level, people like that deserved to be slaughtered by an annoyed Dom.
Dr Janet Fraiser came around the curtain looking murderous,the General stepped back,even he was not brave enough to cross this Dom in her infirmary “You alright Dr Fraiser?”
“Just ensure me all those bastards are dead” the General looked at her “Well the Colonel was a little upset and they all resisted so they all got very dead. Do you want to see the tape?” “Yes please, bloody bastards, they abused him even in the short time they had him, I would have liked to dissect them all alive” she said vehemently.
‘Woah memo to self never piss off the Dr’ Jack thought “How are Chuck and the Colonel?” he asked.
“Both are in shock, Colonel Caldwell is furious, Chuck was bleeding heavily, the left arm needed surgery, I put in a new transponder” she replied. The General swore “I think I would like a do-over, a quick death was too honourable for the fuckers”.
Colonel Caldwell came around the curtain he looked haggard, as if he had aged 20 years. “He is beginning to wake up”. Jack realised it was Steven who had been cursing after Janet told him what they had done to him, ‘fuck it’ he was annoyed.
“Has anyone found Mark Walton yet?” Steven asked “No, not yet” just then Walter came through on the radio “Sir, Mark Walton tried to get on a plane to Brazil at Colorado Springs Airport, customs spotted the fake passport and then saw a BOLO out for him”. Jack looked up “The Sheriff again” Caldwell nodded. The General was now pleased he would have someone to vent on “Why don’t we go get him?”Jack grinned. Steven smiled “Yes, why don’t we?”. Chuck yelled and Steven ran to the bed.
Chuck was shaking in the bed “Oh god, sorry Steven thought I was still back there in that god awful room. So did you get my message?” Steven nodded “The transponder yes we got it” and he kissed his lips gently, they were bruised as well as the rest of his face. “The hard part was getting them to hit me in the first place” announced Chuck, “What” they all stated. He looked at them surprised“Yeah I had to, if just one part of my arm bled it was suspicious so I made them mad enough to hit me to make me bleed so as not to notice the blood on my arm when I was doing the signals. I realised they were dampening it somehow, I just had to give it and my arm jolts in morse code, that’s why my arm is so bad, knocking it on the corner of the chair”. Steven, Dr Fraiser and General O’Neill looked at him amazed. “You do know who did this don’t you? The moron said I was going to turn him down for the last time, stupid fucker. Where is he?” asked Chuck “At customs waiting for us to go get him” said General O’Neill. “Can I come?” said Chuck “No Chuck you just got fixed, see that word fixed and not dead or bleeding” growled Steven.
Chuck sulked “Alright you can go Colonel but only if I get one of my kisses” “What kisses?” The Colonel asked “The deep hard ones that make me go all floaty”. “Chuck your lips are bruised” said Steven “All the more reason to have great kisses” answered Chuck. The Dr giggled and then the General laughed. They both watched as the small sub browbeat his big Dom into giving him the kiss he wanted.”You bloody stubborn exasperating man. You’re in a hospital bed” stormed Steven “So what, it’s why you like me” grinned Chuck. Steven stopped and said “Yes it is”. He gently pulled Chuck to him and gave him his deep breathless kiss and as they broke apart they both laughed, it was exactly what they both needed.
The General coughed, as Steven and Chuck turned, Walter came back on the radio, “Sir, the IOA have asked can we stop the Colonel killing Dr Walton? They want to question him sir”.
Chuck grabbed Steven’s arm with his right hand “Steven calm down, I don’t want you to kill him.” said Chuck. “He deserves to die for hurting you” stated Steven, barely containing his rage. “Well the IOA must have a reason for wanting to question him, that’s not to say that when you get there you can’t punch him in the face again with my blessing” said Chuck.
The General laughed “I like him Colonel, come on let’s go get the weasel from customs and see if we can scare him in to saying why the IOA want him”. The Colonel looked at his sub, he did not want to leave him but he desperately wanted to hit the man who had tried to take him away from him. Chuck smiled “It’s ok, go get him and be a big scary Dom. Dr Fraiser will spoil me while you are gone. One more of my special kisses before you leave please”. Steven smiled, he realised Chuck really understood him so he kissed him long and deep and left him with Dr Frasier who said she needed to check him over now anyway with Steven’s permission. Steven looked up “Only you Janet, I can’t bear the thought of anybody I don’t know and trust touching him. Just you until I get back”. Dr Fraiser nodded “You have my word that I won’t leave him
Colonel Caldwell”.
Chuck woke up to see Steven asleep in the chair by his bed, he was holding his hand. He moved his fingers and Steven woke up, Chuck edged to the side of the surgical bed and lifted the covers, “Get in” Chuck said smiling. Steven pulled off his boots and slid in behind his sub. They spooned together, Steven careful not to touch his bandaged arm and then both fell back to sleep. Thirty minutes later, Dr Janet Fraiser walked in through the curtains and smiled ‘this would help them both feel better’ she thought. She checked the monitors and left the two lovers to sleep.
The next morning Chuck woke up to people giggling, Steven was still asleep behind him. Dr Fraiser walked in “Good morning Chuck how are you feeling today?”
“Much better actually, why is everyone giggling?” whispered Chuck. She smiled “Well I don’t think my nurses and orderlies are used to seeing the Colonel tucked into bed with his sub looking so cute. You do make a cute couple you know”. Chuck grinned “Has he not been sleeping?” He asked. Dr Fraiser replied “Not really, I heard he worked out in the gym with Teal’c until he just collapsed of exhaustion” Chuck scowled.
Steven woke up and pulled Chuck back into his arms as he sat up on the bed. He knew he was being weird but he just had to be touching Chuck right now. Steven knew it would be a while before he would be able to stop physically being in contact with Chuck and be alright with it. Dr Fraiser said “Well Colonel I think you both need a shower. I’ll take off the bandage and you can both use the medical shower here” she quickly took the bandage off, sprayed the wound with a waterproof dressing, disappeared behind the curtains and came back with some bath towels for them, “I’ll get someone to fetch your bag from your room so you will both have clean clothes” Dr Fraiser said before she left them alone.
She left them to get out of bed. Steven held him in his arms and trembled. They had both been so afraid they would never get to feel each other like this again. Finally Steven whispered “Lets go shower, I need to touch you naked Chuck”.They walked out from behind the curtains and to the end of the infirmary to the showers. Once inside Steven helped Chuck undress due to his am and they got in the shower.
They just held each other and then Chuck kissed Steven and the dam broke, they realised they were both crying but the shower was washing them away. “Steven I love you” Chuck whispered “I was so scared I would not get to tell you that. So I just want you to know I love you” Steven pulled him in and began to renew his bite on Chuck’s neck, it had faded slightly and Chuck moaned as he heard Steven whisper “My mark, my sub”. Steven was crying, Chuck could feel them on his neck. Steven choked “God Chuck I thought I might never see you again, I love you too. When we get home I have a collar for you. I bought it when I bought your suit” Chuck gasped “That long you have loved me that long?” “Yes” said Steven “Elizabeth said we contracted after two days if we did not realise that I wanted to collar you, then we were both simple” and Chuck burst out laughing. “Well so much for my new collar being a surprise when we get back”. Steven grinned then they just kissed and stroked each other. They both began to get aroused and just took each other in hand and both knowing what the other liked brought each other off quickly. It felt wonderful to be touching each other like this again.They leaned into each other gasping then Steven said “We better get out before we look like prunes”.
Wrapped in towel’s, they found their bag on Chuck’s bed and Steven helped Chuck apply some tollan cream and get dressed and got dressed himself “Looks like I’ll be taking care of you for a change” Steven said as he smiled. Chuck put his right arm around his Dom’s waist and turned his head and kissed Steven softly then smiled “I can’t promise to be a good patient, I like your punishment’s too much Master” and Steven burst out laughing.
As Steven was kissing Chuck, Dr Fraiser and General O’Neill walked in through the curtains.
“Well someone looks and sounds better”said the General. Steven grinned “Well yes we both do now, Dr would it be alright to take Chuck home? My local Dr is a friend and could check him daily.” Dr Fraiser checked Chuck’s arm “Let me bandage up the wound but that should be fine and I will see you both on Monday before you go back on the Deadalus”
Chuck said “So what did I miss yesterday about that weasel Mark Walton?”
Steven and the General looked at each other, Chuck frowned, what the hell had he missed while recovering from his ordeal.
TO BE CONTINUED…….
BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR part ten
The next morning the phone rang to wake them up and they dragged themselves out of bed and into the shower. They washed each other and kissed got dressed and went down for breakfast. Before they left the room Steven insisted he wear the red collar and leash.
“Not good for the military if I kill someone at a conference Chuck” so Chuck wore it for breakfast. Back in their room as they were packing Chuck tried to remove the collar, Steven leant over and stopped his hand “No Chuck, I will just pay for it at the desk, I’m sorry you think I am being a dick but I won’t settle until you are back home naked alright?”
Chuck laughed “Well alright but its back to naked at home”. Steven stopped and watched Chuck checking to see if they had forgotten anything, he had called his house home and for some reason that made Steven’s stomach do backflips.
The black car drove them to the airport, in the airport Steven kept a tight hold on Chuck’s leash, going back in first class was just as much fun for Chuck as coming out and his antics made Steven laugh. Before the plane landed Chuck turned to Steven and took his hand “I just want to thank you for this weekend, it is a memory I will treasure forever” and then he gently kissed Steven. Steven kissed him back “Chuck when we get home I have a gift for you” Chuck’s face lit up “Something for us to play with?” “Yes my pretty little sub something I think will entertain you” Chuck stared at him “Cool”. Steven laughed he knew after his reaction to someone touching Chuck ‘sealed the deal’ so to speak. He could not get the picture of someone else’s hand on his sub out of his head. He needed to collar Chuck for his own peace of mind as well as the fact that he loved him. He knew it now with all his heart and soul he would happily die for the man beside him.
At the terminal in Colorado Springs, they had to walk back to the car and Chuck admitted he could get very used to the black car’s that ferry you door to door, Steven laughed, “Is that not lazy Chuck besides you would get a fat ass with no exercise”, Chuck snorted, “I get plenty of workout’s with you of the sexual kind”. They both laughed at that.
On the drive home Chuck fell asleep in the car, Steven smiled he looked cute like that, he pulled the SUV into the gas station on the highway and filled up, he quickly went to the restroom and paid. When he got back to the car Chuck had gone, Steven thought he must have woken up and gone to the restroom, he locked the car and went looking for his sub but it then occured to him Chuck would not just have done something like that without finding him. Steven started to panic, he ran into the gas station “Have you seen a thin sub, brown hair, brown eyes in jeans and a green t-shirt?” The garage owner said no but he did have surveillance, he goes into the back room and comes out ten minutes later looking shocked, Steven jumped over the counter.
On the surveillance tape as soon as Steven entered the restroom, a black van pulled up next to the SUV and pulled open the door. As Chuck slumped over and woke up, a pad was pressed to his face and he was pulled out into the van and they were gone. It took less than two minutes on the screen. Steven could feel himself starting to get angry, he showed the garage owner his ID, he ejected the tape and said thank you to the owner for his help, he got in the car and hit the gas, speeding down the highway looking for a black van, but there were none to be seen.
He pulled into town and stopped at the Sheriff’s station, “Hi” said Frank until he saw Steven’s face. Steven gave him the videotape and he put it in. It came up on all the screens and as Steven saw it again, he rushed outside and vomited on the road. Frank came out “I have started the BOLO we can’t make out the number plate, maybe your people can?” Frank gave him back the tape with a bottle of water. “Steven we will find the bastard’s and we will make them pay”.
Steven got in the car and drove home like a maniac. As soon as he got inside he rushed to his bedside drawer and got his spare ear piece, he clicked it on “Caldwell to Deadalus, who is on duty?” “Major Grant here sir I thought you were on vacation” Caldwell growled “Beam me direct to General O’Neill’s office NOW”
He materialised in front of Jack and just pulled him from his chair into the control room. He gave the videotape to Walter. When it comes up on the screen everything goes deathly quiet, Walter gasped “Chuck”. Walter started to take the tape apart pixel by pixel. O’Neill is shouting left and right and Caldwell just sagged and the General and Daniel caught him. Daniel said he will get some food and coffee.
Sitting in the General’s office, Caldwell looked up “Why him Jack?” “Probably to get to you, by the way was that a collar he had on?” and he explained to Jack what had happened at the weekend in Vegas and that he had planned on giving him his real collar tonight. Caldwell covered his face with his hands “We were so happy, he makes me laugh, the sex is explosive, I...I… love him”.
The General smirked “Oh fuck you’re in trouble, it‘s just bloody awful when you love them”, Daniel said “I heard that” as he came back with sustenance. They forced some food and coffee into Steven and dragged him to the infirmary but the report came back ‘ok just a bit shocked’
Jack goes “Well there’s a surprise!”
Walter called, he has a number plate, the van was abandoned at a nearby mall obviously changed cars but looking at the surveillance cameras in the area.
Walter asks if they should postone the Atlantis check in but Caldwell said “No they have a right to know”. Dr Weir appearred and saw Caldwell, “Steven I thought you and Chuck were on vacation?” Steven choked out “We were” then he can’t speak and he just dropped into the chair.
“Jack what is going on? Where is Chuck?” demanded Elizabeth.
“About 90 minutes ago Chuck Campbell was kidnapped from Colonel Caldwell’s car when they were stopped to get gas”. A pin drop could have clanged in the Atlantis gateroom. Rodney and John appeared “Do you need us to come through to help kick some ass General” asked John, “No we have plenty of people here who like Chuck and are happy to kick some butt, including one who wants to collar him” and Elizabeth smiled “Yes, we knew”, Steven looked up “How did you know, I didn’t even know” asked Steven. Elizabeth smiled again “Steven, two days for a contract, are you two simple?” and the control room laughed.
Walter piped up “The van is registered to a comapny called Digitech”. Rodney clicked his fingers, “That moron, used to work there, Chuck always told him to drop dead, thought he was god’s gift, fuck why am I so bad at names?” Caldwell stood up “Do you mean Dr Mark Walton?” Rodney nodded “Yes, yes that idiot, he went to Digitech but the NID were worried he would be an easy security threat. Lot of dodgy stuff he had done to sub’s in his past”. “WHAT” yelled Caldwell “I just decked him yesterday for grabbing Chuck’s arm”.
“Thanks Rodney, we’ll get onto that” said Jack and Daniel ran after Steven who could be heard breaking things and swearing, and muttering ‘should have killed the fucker yesterday’.
Shepherd said “Wish I could be there for the party, could someone film Colonel Caldwell when he gets there. I think it would be worth watching” Jack snorted. Walter said “Transmission complete” Jack said “Atlantis check in each day, ok, we want to keep you in the loop” “Fine, speak to you again same time tomorrow” said John “Atlantis out”.
Daniel called Jack and said Caldwell was in the gym. Jack went down and found Caldwell laying into Teal’c like there was no tomorrow, just hitting and hitting him, the one guy he could not hurt until he just sagged. Teal’c and Jack pulled him up and carried him to his quarters, as they laid him in the bed, he was mummbling “My pretty little sub, I need my pretty little sub”.
As they left Daniel curled into Jack. “We might lose two not one” said Daniel. Jack nodded.
That night a full staff worked the night shift, there seemed to be something wrong with Chuck’s transponder it seemed to blink on every now and again, it seemed to be intermittent and odd and hard to pinpoint, something was obviously blocking the signal but it was breaking through occasionally.
At 7am a young female technician sub rushed into the General’s office “Sir I need to speak to the Colonel urgently”. “Why” asked Jack “When I was looking at the transponder blips I noticed something, if you look at them together they give you morse code”, Caldwell walked in. “What did you say?” “Sir the transponder jumps seem to be in morse code, it has been repeated 5 times” Caldwell looked at her “What does it say?” She went “Oh sorry, it said ‘the tree’ ‘the tree’ five times does that mean anything to you and technician Campbell?” He shouted “YES” he grabbed her and kissed her, “Thank you, thank you” and rushed to the control room. “Wow” she said “That Chuck is a lucky bastard”. The General raced after the Colonel, he had got them to train the satellites onto Pike National Park.
“If you want to hide you do it in plain site, right where my house is” said Steven. He was on the phone to someone named Frank and he kept relaying where to get tighter imaging. Jack said “Steven who’s Frank?”, “Local Sheriff, new townies up at the new lodges on west side of the forest”, instructed Caldwell. The satellite narrowed and there were two large cars outside two cabins, “Go to infra-red” said the General. On the screen appeared three men at a table obviously playing cards and behind them a thin guy tied to a chair and there was another guy hitting him across the face.
Caldwell yelled “Right the fuck now Jack” they ran down to the gateroom, a couple of the gate teams were waiting, Daniel handed Jack and Steven a vest and guns, they put them on.
O’Neill stated loudly “Ok guys, we get Chuck, they get dead, don’t get in the Colonel’s way, we clear” “Sir, Yes, sir”, “Deadalus now please” and they reappeared outside the cabin, and surrounded it quickly and quietly, then stormed in. Chuck was tied to the chair naked, he was bleeding from several wounds, at some point they had taken off his collar. Caldwell went nuts he just shot them all at point blank range in the head. He cut the ropes off his sub, picked him up in his arms. Steven got Jack to relay them both to the infirmary while the soldiers cleaned up the mess “So Smith you get that on tape for Atlantis?” The General asked “Sir, Yes, sir”. “Good copy to them in the transmission tomorrow and one for me please”. “Sir, Yes, sir”.
As the General walked in the infirmary he could hear someone cursing and thought it a shame he had not got to shoot one of the bastards. Doing that to a sub that was not yours and doing it to damage level, people like that deserved to be slaughtered by an annoyed Dom.
Dr Janet Fraiser came around the curtain looking murderous,the General stepped back,even he was not brave enough to cross this Dom in her infirmary “You alright Dr Fraiser?”
“Just ensure me all those bastards are dead” the General looked at her “Well the Colonel was a little upset and they all resisted so they all got very dead. Do you want to see the tape?” “Yes please, bloody bastards, they abused him even in the short time they had him, I would have liked to dissect them all alive” she said vehemently.
‘Woah memo to self never piss off the Dr’ Jack thought “How are Chuck and the Colonel?” he asked.
“Both are in shock, Colonel Caldwell is furious, Chuck was bleeding heavily, the left arm needed surgery, I put in a new transponder” she replied. The General swore “I think I would like a do-over, a quick death was too honourable for the fuckers”.
Colonel Caldwell came around the curtain he looked haggard, as if he had aged 20 years. “He is beginning to wake up”. Jack realised it was Steven who had been cursing after Janet told him what they had done to him, ‘fuck it’ he was annoyed.
“Has anyone found Mark Walton yet?” Steven asked “No, not yet” just then Walter came through on the radio “Sir, Mark Walton tried to get on a plane to Brazil at Colorado Springs Airport, customs spotted the fake passport and then saw a BOLO out for him”. Jack looked up “The Sheriff again” Caldwell nodded. The General was now pleased he would have someone to vent on “Why don’t we go get him?”Jack grinned. Steven smiled “Yes, why don’t we?”. Chuck yelled and Steven ran to the bed.
Chuck was shaking in the bed “Oh god, sorry Steven thought I was still back there in that god awful room. So did you get my message?” Steven nodded “The transponder yes we got it” and he kissed his lips gently, they were bruised as well as the rest of his face. “The hard part was getting them to hit me in the first place” announced Chuck, “What” they all stated. He looked at them surprised“Yeah I had to, if just one part of my arm bled it was suspicious so I made them mad enough to hit me to make me bleed so as not to notice the blood on my arm when I was doing the signals. I realised they were dampening it somehow, I just had to give it and my arm jolts in morse code, that’s why my arm is so bad, knocking it on the corner of the chair”. Steven, Dr Fraiser and General O’Neill looked at him amazed. “You do know who did this don’t you? The moron said I was going to turn him down for the last time, stupid fucker. Where is he?” asked Chuck “At customs waiting for us to go get him” said General O’Neill. “Can I come?” said Chuck “No Chuck you just got fixed, see that word fixed and not dead or bleeding” growled Steven.
Chuck sulked “Alright you can go Colonel but only if I get one of my kisses” “What kisses?” The Colonel asked “The deep hard ones that make me go all floaty”. “Chuck your lips are bruised” said Steven “All the more reason to have great kisses” answered Chuck. The Dr giggled and then the General laughed. They both watched as the small sub browbeat his big Dom into giving him the kiss he wanted.”You bloody stubborn exasperating man. You’re in a hospital bed” stormed Steven “So what, it’s why you like me” grinned Chuck. Steven stopped and said “Yes it is”. He gently pulled Chuck to him and gave him his deep breathless kiss and as they broke apart they both laughed, it was exactly what they both needed.
The General coughed, as Steven and Chuck turned, Walter came back on the radio, “Sir, the IOA have asked can we stop the Colonel killing Dr Walton? They want to question him sir”.
Chuck grabbed Steven’s arm with his right hand “Steven calm down, I don’t want you to kill him.” said Chuck. “He deserves to die for hurting you” stated Steven, barely containing his rage. “Well the IOA must have a reason for wanting to question him, that’s not to say that when you get there you can’t punch him in the face again with my blessing” said Chuck.
The General laughed “I like him Colonel, come on let’s go get the weasel from customs and see if we can scare him in to saying why the IOA want him”. The Colonel looked at his sub, he did not want to leave him but he desperately wanted to hit the man who had tried to take him away from him. Chuck smiled “It’s ok, go get him and be a big scary Dom. Dr Fraiser will spoil me while you are gone. One more of my special kisses before you leave please”. Steven smiled, he realised Chuck really understood him so he kissed him long and deep and left him with Dr Frasier who said she needed to check him over now anyway with Steven’s permission. Steven looked up “Only you Janet, I can’t bear the thought of anybody I don’t know and trust touching him. Just you until I get back”. Dr Fraiser nodded “You have my word that I won’t leave him
Colonel Caldwell”.
Chuck woke up to see Steven asleep in the chair by his bed, he was holding his hand. He moved his fingers and Steven woke up, Chuck edged to the side of the surgical bed and lifted the covers, “Get in” Chuck said smiling. Steven pulled off his boots and slid in behind his sub. They spooned together, Steven careful not to touch his bandaged arm and then both fell back to sleep. Thirty minutes later, Dr Janet Fraiser walked in through the curtains and smiled ‘this would help them both feel better’ she thought. She checked the monitors and left the two lovers to sleep.
The next morning Chuck woke up to people giggling, Steven was still asleep behind him. Dr Fraiser walked in “Good morning Chuck how are you feeling today?”
“Much better actually, why is everyone giggling?” whispered Chuck. She smiled “Well I don’t think my nurses and orderlies are used to seeing the Colonel tucked into bed with his sub looking so cute. You do make a cute couple you know”. Chuck grinned “Has he not been sleeping?” He asked. Dr Fraiser replied “Not really, I heard he worked out in the gym with Teal’c until he just collapsed of exhaustion” Chuck scowled.
Steven woke up and pulled Chuck back into his arms as he sat up on the bed. He knew he was being weird but he just had to be touching Chuck right now. Steven knew it would be a while before he would be able to stop physically being in contact with Chuck and be alright with it. Dr Fraiser said “Well Colonel I think you both need a shower. I’ll take off the bandage and you can both use the medical shower here” she quickly took the bandage off, sprayed the wound with a waterproof dressing, disappeared behind the curtains and came back with some bath towels for them, “I’ll get someone to fetch your bag from your room so you will both have clean clothes” Dr Fraiser said before she left them alone.
She left them to get out of bed. Steven held him in his arms and trembled. They had both been so afraid they would never get to feel each other like this again. Finally Steven whispered “Lets go shower, I need to touch you naked Chuck”.They walked out from behind the curtains and to the end of the infirmary to the showers. Once inside Steven helped Chuck undress due to his am and they got in the shower.
They just held each other and then Chuck kissed Steven and the dam broke, they realised they were both crying but the shower was washing them away. “Steven I love you” Chuck whispered “I was so scared I would not get to tell you that. So I just want you to know I love you” Steven pulled him in and began to renew his bite on Chuck’s neck, it had faded slightly and Chuck moaned as he heard Steven whisper “My mark, my sub”. Steven was crying, Chuck could feel them on his neck. Steven choked “God Chuck I thought I might never see you again, I love you too. When we get home I have a collar for you. I bought it when I bought your suit” Chuck gasped “That long you have loved me that long?” “Yes” said Steven “Elizabeth said we contracted after two days if we did not realise that I wanted to collar you, then we were both simple” and Chuck burst out laughing. “Well so much for my new collar being a surprise when we get back”. Steven grinned then they just kissed and stroked each other. They both began to get aroused and just took each other in hand and both knowing what the other liked brought each other off quickly. It felt wonderful to be touching each other like this again.They leaned into each other gasping then Steven said “We better get out before we look like prunes”.
Wrapped in towel’s, they found their bag on Chuck’s bed and Steven helped Chuck apply some tollan cream and get dressed and got dressed himself “Looks like I’ll be taking care of you for a change” Steven said as he smiled. Chuck put his right arm around his Dom’s waist and turned his head and kissed Steven softly then smiled “I can’t promise to be a good patient, I like your punishment’s too much Master” and Steven burst out laughing.
As Steven was kissing Chuck, Dr Fraiser and General O’Neill walked in through the curtains.
“Well someone looks and sounds better”said the General. Steven grinned “Well yes we both do now, Dr would it be alright to take Chuck home? My local Dr is a friend and could check him daily.” Dr Fraiser checked Chuck’s arm “Let me bandage up the wound but that should be fine and I will see you both on Monday before you go back on the Deadalus”
Chuck said “So what did I miss yesterday about that weasel Mark Walton?”
Steven and the General looked at each other, Chuck frowned, what the hell had he missed while recovering from his ordeal.
TO BE CONTINUED…….