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Saturday-Early Morning

"Hello" A part of Daniels subconscious noted how different her sleepy greeting was from the brisk 'Fraiser' she answered her phone with on base.

"Janet!" Daniel almost yelled into the phone. It had rang five times before she'd answered and he'd been growing more aggitated every second. "Janet you have to come down here." Daniel closed his tired eyes and the sight in the bedroom returned to him, his stomach turned and he felt like he was going to be sick.

"Where's 'here' Daniel?" Janet asked calmly, steadily, as she detected the panic in his voice. "Where are you Daniel?"

"Jack's place" Daniel told her. "Janet something bad happened here. He's not here, I don't know where he is, I should probably have called General Hammond first but when I saw the blood...I, I called you first"

"I'll be right there." Janet promised.

"Thanks" Daniel said, and hung up.

Daniel heard Janet drive in and went to meet her.

"Are you all right?" were the first words out of her mouth as she got out of the car.

"I'm fine" Daniel assured her.

"What happened here?" she asked as they fast-walked toward the house.

"Teal'c and I came by this morning to talk to Jack. He wasn't home but the door was unlocked, which kind of worried us so we went inside. The place looked normal but when we got to his room..." They walked inside and straight to Jack's room.

"I didn't know what to do so I called you." Daniel stopped talking as Janet stopped in Jack's doorway.

"Ohmygod" Janet said quickly. The bed was covered with blood, the sheets, the blankets. Janet looked at Daniel who had paled again. "Daniel why don't you wait with Teal'c while I check this out." She suggested.

Daniel nodded. "Okay" he felt like he should say something, but just slowly backed to the living room to join Teal'c.

"All right guys" Janet came out out of the room removing her latex gloves and looking considerably less worried. "It looks like we can rule out murder"

"What?" Daniel looked up.

"The blood isn't Jack's. It's...feminine." They looked at her blankly and Janet considered the fact that she was a doctor and both of the men present were 'of age'. "It's menstrual" she put it plainly.

"Oh" Daniel's eyebrows went up and he blinked with surprise while Teal'c raised one eyebrow.

"Granted, it's a lot of blood, but strenuous activity can make bleeding heavier, and from some of the other fluids I found...well, you know what I mean."

"So, you don't think there's anything...wrong here?"

"Well, this isn't on my list of Top Ten things I've always expected to find in Colonel O'Neill's house. But if it were anyone else I'd say he drank a little too much, got lucky and we should just get out of here and pretend we never saw anything."

"But since it's Jack?" Daniel asked.

"My theory on what happened is the same, but I'm not going to tell you not to look for him, or his...guest." Janet held a plastic bag in her hand. "I'm going to the base to run some tests. If you find them and need a doctor call me." She started toward the door. "And if he slept withe the wrong person and doesn't remember anything call me, then the lawyer." Janet started to leave then hesitated."In fact, if anything happens, call me"

"Okay" Daniel promised.

"Good luck" Janet offered and left.

Daniel turned to Teal'c "So where do we start?"

"Hello?"

"Hi Daniel" Janet had just gotten back to her lab. "I was wondering if you'd called Sam yet"

"No, why?"

"I called her place and she didn't answer. I thought she might be on her way there."

"No, at first I just wanted to know what you'd say and then, well, Sam gets embarrassed"

Janet grimaced at the idea of telling Sam what had gone on at Jack's last night. "I see your point" It had been wierd enough with her, Daniel and Teal'c knowing. And it was even worse with Sam. No one wanted to think about why it was worse, it just was.

"So was there anything else?"

"No, thanks Daniel"

"Have you found out anything?"

"I was just about to start"

"Well, call me if you need anything"

"Thanks, you too."

Daniel hung up and Janet returned to her tests.

"Are you concerned about O'Neill?" Teal'c asked.

"I don't know what to think Teal'c."

"Whomever O'Neill was with has lost much blood." Teal'c said calmly.

"I know"

"On Chulak it is customary to refrain." Teal'c didn't have to say from what.

"On Abydos too."

"And on earth?"

"It depends on the couple."

"I see"

"Teal'c, about this conversation..."

"I will discuss the topic no further" Teal'c said firmly.

"Thank you"

"Dammit" Janet swore and leaned back in her chair. She couldn't believe this was happening to her. She asked herself why the hell she'd had to run the test in the first place. Why did she have to be so curious? No, curious was probably wrong, she'd needed to know, needed to prove her suspicions were wrong. Needed to eliminate the possibility no one else had even let themselves consider. "Damn" She swore again rubbing her forehead. She'd known there was a possibility, if she hadn't thought there was a chance, she wouldn't have checked. So why had she checked? Why had she put herself in the position to prove Sam was screwing her boss? It was a pretty crass way of putting it, and Janet knew Sam would have been hurt, but right now she wasn't feeling very sympathetic.

It wasn't completely thier fault, they hadn't expected Daniel and Teal'c to walk onto thier own private murder scene. They hadn't expected them to call Janet in, and they hadn't expected Janet to test the blood against Sam's. But they had known they were shattering regulations, they were risking more than thier own careers. They had known the possible consequences of thier actions... Janet rested her elbows on the desk and her head on her hands.

There wasn't a lot of doctor/patient confidentiality in the military. She was obligated to tell General Hammond, and covering for her friend was not an option. Not technically an option. Janet buried the papers in her drawer. She needed Daniel and Teal'c to find them. She needed them to make up a story and clean up the mess so she could pretend she didn't know anything.

If they didn't turn up the general would want to know what she'd found. And she really didn't want to tell him. They wouldn't get any sympathy from a court-martial. Maybe if it had happened on another planet where they'd been stranded for months on end, or on earth while under the influence of an alien organism. But not here on earth, in his room, with blood everywhere...

Janet picked up the phone to call Daniel. She had to know if they were any closer to finding them. She couldn't bear thinking about what might happen if they didn't.