Disclaimer- Don't own em..go fish
A/N- I reposted this because it's been betad now. Thankyou Tricia :D .Ok, I
know that this is probably not all medically correct, and I'm sorry but I
can't do much more with my current level of education in that field, give
me a couple of years and it'll all be good
: )
"Colonel, thank you for getting here so quickly." Hammond greeted Jack as he arrived in his office. Jack stepped in, looking puzzled as he saw Janet Fraiser sitting in the office.
"No, problem sir, what's up?" Jack asked sitting down.
"SG-3 has reported that some natives they encountered on P79-461 are exhibiting signs of flu. It seems Captain Harris has taken ill while off world. He must have been incubating the virus before he left." Hammond reported.
"So...what's that got to do with me sir?" Jack asked still puzzled.
"Well, as you know, both Dr. Jackson and Major Carter are off world with other teams and Teal'c's visiting his family. SG-8, the medical team, is also currently off-world on another assignment. Dr. Fraiser has volunteered to go and treat the inhabitants currently suffering from the virus and immunise the rest."
"Ah." He said sarcastically, letting Hammond know his explanation was not helping him.
"I would like you to accompany Dr. Fraiser. SG-3 is stuck in the caves were the natives dwell." He said. Fraiser looked at him indignantly.
"With all due respect, sir, I don't need a babysitter." She said.
"I am quite aware of that of that, Doctor, but I don't send one person teams off-world." He replied.
"Yes, sir." She said through gritted teeth.
"You'll leave in forty minutes, dismissed." Hammond ordered.
"Oh, come on, Doc, this'll be fun. A nice little trip through the gate, some flu infected natives. Lots of fun." He said in his practised sarcastic tone as the walked out of the office.
"Oh, yeah, sure." She replied acidly.
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"You think you brought enough stuff, Doc?" Jack asked as Janet made her way into the gate room carrying her two med packs.
"I had to bring enough vaccinations for the entire population at this encampment." She replied. "Sir." She added as an afterthought.
"Ah, well that makes it all right then." He jibed, she growled at him, not looking forward to the next couple of days. The gate kawooshed into life and they headed up the ramp, neither hesitating to step through the shimmering pool. "Ah, trees, that makes a change." Jack spoke as soon as his mind processed what he saw when they reached the other side. Janet ignored him.
"The caves are this way." She pointed in a northern direction, starting to walk without waiting for Jack. He followed her without saying anything, afraid that he'd piss her off more than she obviously already was. They walked in silence for about two hours, Jack was walking a little ahead of Janet, his longer legs combined with her heavy packs making it difficult for her to keep up. They arrived at the mouth of a network of caves, there were several openings in the rock face. They looked to one another.
"Which one?" Jack asked.
"Lawlins never said." Janet replied shrugging. Jack put his hand to his radio.
"O'Neill to Lawlins..." The only response was radio static. "O'Neill to any member of SG-3..." Still silence. He looked to Janet, and shrugged.
"Lawlins did say that they were having trouble with the radios in the caves."
"I guess we gotta do this the hard way. What you say, Doc, start at one end and work our way down?" He started towards the furthest opening, his question not really being a question but an order. She followed behind. Again they fell into a silence, simply following through the passages in the cave, O'Neill dropping beacons behind them as they went. After hours of walking in circles they gave up and headed back out of the cave. The entered the next one, beginning the same process, after about an hour following the same passage, they reached a dead end, a large cavern. "This looks like it could be habitable." Jack stated hopefully.
"Yeah, but I can't see any signs that anyone's living here." Janet countered.
"Agreed, lets mo-" Jack was interrupted by a low rumbling sound. Suddenly Janet leapt forward.
"Colonel, look out!" She yelled, pushing him out of the way with surprising force. Jack stumbled backwards, falling over, hitting his head off a boulder on the ground as he went and blacking out. He woke up, trying to regain his senses as he saw that the mouth of the cavern they were in had fallen in on itself, on top of the small doctor. He barely registered that the exit was also blocked. Jack ran toward the spot where Janet had fallen. She was lying completely still. Thankfully, she hadn't been completely buried in the cave in, the impact of one of the larger boulders causing her to fall forwards, away from the main path of the other falling rocks. But the ones that had hit her had certainly hit her hard enough. Jack knelt down beside her, afraid to move or touch her in any way but frantically needing to try to find a pulse. He gently felt the side of her neck, breathing a sigh of relief when he found her pulse, slow as it was. He looked her over trying to assess her injuries. She had a nasty looking gash on her temple, her left arm was definately broken, because it was not supposed to look like that, and she had several cuts and bruises all over her. And that was just what he could see in a quick glance, never mind the probable concussion and internal injuries.
"Oh, God." He heard himself say. He decided the best thing would be to try and wake her up, at least she could tell him what to do. "Come on, Doc, wake up." Nothing. "Janet, don't do this to me. Wake up." Still nothing. "Come on, Janet, you've got to wake up, you're scaring me here."
"Nice.to know.you care." She whispered. Her breathing was laboured, her eyes were opening but they were still half-shut. She started to try to move. He put his hands at either side of her face, keeping her head still.
"Don't try to move." Jack said, frantically looking around for one of her med-packs. She let out a low moan, the pain increasing. "Hey, take it easy, Doc."
"Easy for you to say." She growled through gritted teeth.
"I know." He sympathised. "I can't see your packs anywhere. Do you know where they went?"
"Sorry, I wasn't really paying a-" She stopped mid-sentence, crying out in pain. "attention when I was being crushed by the rocks."
"There's certainly nothing wrong with your sense of humour."
"I learned from the best." She managed to get out before crying out again.
"Awww, jeez Doc, your flattering me." She laughed, sparking a coughing fit. Jack tried his best to hold her head still but gave up when she began coughing up blood, "Oh, God." He repeated when he saw how much of it there was. He allowed her to turn her head to the side, deciding that if she could turn her neck by herself then it was ok. She stopped coughing, a trail of blood flowing down the side of her face. Jack tenderly wiped it off, moving to her right, taking her right hand in his own. She was gasping from breath, struggling to take enough in. She was trying to say something, Jack leaned down, his ear turned towards her mouth.
"Lung..collapsed.." She managed to choke out. Jack caught on quickly, realising he must have been out longer than he thought, and jumped to where the rocks had collapsed, starting to dig, desperately looking for one of the med-packs. He found one, unfortunately, it was the one containing the vaccines. He searched for the other one containing the general medical supplies for a second before being struck by inspiration. He went back over to Janet, pulling out one of the needles from the pack. He squeezed the syringe, emptying the contents of it, and pulled off the plunger, making a make-shift valve. "Doc, listen to me, I don't know what I'm doing here ok? I need you to show me what to do." He held the valve in his mouth, ripping her jacket off with his knife, getting access to her chest. Janet was going distinctly blue now, struggling to stay conscious. "Janet, you need to show me where to put this." He took her hand again, placing it over her rib cage, she moved her hand to where the needle needed to go. "Ok, hold on. This is going to hurt." He said jabbing it into the place where she had pointed out. She gritted her teeth, her breathing easing as the air drained from her chest.
"Thanks." She gasped.
"No problem." He smiled, putting the movable part back in the syringe to close the valve. "How you feeling?" He asked.
"Peachy." She coined one of his favourite phrases. He smiled again.
"Just hang on for a little bit, Doc, I'm gonna get you out of here." He said standing up, looking around the cave. He looked back to Janet, her eyes were closed. "Doc?" He said kneeling down again. "Doc, you gotta stay with me here, ok?" He cupped her face in his hand, "Come on, Janet, you gotta wake up. You have to stay awake." She slowly opened her eyes. "That's better."
"I can't." Her voice trembled as she spoke in a soft whisper. "It hurts." She gritted her teeth against the pain, trying to stop herself from crying out.
"I know it does." He lowered his hand from her face, taking her good hand again, "But I also know that you are strong enough to get through this. I am going to get us out of here, you've just gotta stay with me until I can find the way out. Ok?" He asked, gently squeezing her hand, offering her some comfort. She nodded. "Ok, keep talking Doc." He said standing up again. "How's Cassie doing in school?" He questioned, trying to make conversation.
"Fine." She replied drowsily.
"Doc? Come on, you gotta give me more than that." He sighed, trying to keep her talking as he moved around the sides of the cavern, finding no exits, he returned to the side they had entered from, shaking his head when he looked at the full extent of the cave in. It would take him days to dig through that, he was lucky if Janet had hours. He suddenly realised he still hadn't got an answer from her, he returned to her side, her face was screwed up in pain, she was shaking, breathing quickly. He had no idea what to do to help. He couldn't find her other med-pack in the rubble and unless she wanted a flu jab he was pretty much all out in the supplies area. He didn't even have the basic field kit, that had been classed extraneous for this mission. Which had made perfect sense at the time since he had been taking the CMO along on the mission to a friendly planet. Her breathing slowed as the pain subsided. "You ok?"
"Dumb question." He smiled at her response,
"I can't find your other pack, and there's no other way outta this cave so we're gonna have to wait a while for someone to come find us." He set it to her straight.
"That could take days."
"Come on now, positive attitude. Where's Miss Glass Half Full." She didn't answer, her eyes slowly closed, "Janet!" He yelled frantically, "You have to stay awake!"
"I'm tired." She mumbled.
"I know, but you have to stay awake, ok?" He asked forcefully,
"..kay.." She replied sleepily. Her face screwed up in pain again, and a low moan escaped from her lips.
"So, tell me about Cassie." He went back to the only subject he could think of that they had in common, aside from the SGC of course.
"I wouldn't...ah..want to answer on her behalf." Her breathing was still heavy, and her sentence interrupted by her trying to stop herself from crying out in pain.
"What?" Jack was confused by her response.
"I'm apparently too-" She bit down on her lip taking several deep breaths before finishing. "Overbearing."
"Oh, she reached that stage has she?" Jack smiled, as she nodded slightly in response.
"She said.aaaah.that she has a right to be screwed up since.ah.I can't keep a boyfriend long enough for her to have a male role model in her life." Her eyes were growing heavier as she spoke.
"Ouch." Jack sympathised.
"Yeah."
"That why you were so pissed off?" He asked, she nodded slightly again,
"Sorry." She said quietly,
"Don't worry about it." He said, looking around again quickly, when he looked back to her, her eyes were closed again. "Doc!" He called in alarm.
"Just resting." She mumbled.
"Rest with your eyes open."
"Can't." She replied, still mumbling, before before another coughing fit wracked her body. There was more blood this time, lots more blood, and Jack was beginning to panic a little, not that he was showing it. He moved behind her, gently lifting her to lean against him to stop her from drowning in the thick dark fluid. When she stopped coughing once again she was unconscious. Jack cursed himself for not keeping her awake. He laid her back down, releasing his make-shift valve as he heard her breathing become more laboured. He looked at his watch, they'd been on the planet for seven hours now. SG-3 would have been looking for them by now, so give them two hours to get back to the 'gate, half an hour for a S&R team to get ready, another two for them to get to the caves and say one for them to find the cave in. Jack mentally tallied, that meant he only had to keep the Doc going for oh, five and half hours. He doubted if she had that long. But he'd be damned if he was going to let her go without a fight.
TBC
"Colonel, thank you for getting here so quickly." Hammond greeted Jack as he arrived in his office. Jack stepped in, looking puzzled as he saw Janet Fraiser sitting in the office.
"No, problem sir, what's up?" Jack asked sitting down.
"SG-3 has reported that some natives they encountered on P79-461 are exhibiting signs of flu. It seems Captain Harris has taken ill while off world. He must have been incubating the virus before he left." Hammond reported.
"So...what's that got to do with me sir?" Jack asked still puzzled.
"Well, as you know, both Dr. Jackson and Major Carter are off world with other teams and Teal'c's visiting his family. SG-8, the medical team, is also currently off-world on another assignment. Dr. Fraiser has volunteered to go and treat the inhabitants currently suffering from the virus and immunise the rest."
"Ah." He said sarcastically, letting Hammond know his explanation was not helping him.
"I would like you to accompany Dr. Fraiser. SG-3 is stuck in the caves were the natives dwell." He said. Fraiser looked at him indignantly.
"With all due respect, sir, I don't need a babysitter." She said.
"I am quite aware of that of that, Doctor, but I don't send one person teams off-world." He replied.
"Yes, sir." She said through gritted teeth.
"You'll leave in forty minutes, dismissed." Hammond ordered.
"Oh, come on, Doc, this'll be fun. A nice little trip through the gate, some flu infected natives. Lots of fun." He said in his practised sarcastic tone as the walked out of the office.
"Oh, yeah, sure." She replied acidly.
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"You think you brought enough stuff, Doc?" Jack asked as Janet made her way into the gate room carrying her two med packs.
"I had to bring enough vaccinations for the entire population at this encampment." She replied. "Sir." She added as an afterthought.
"Ah, well that makes it all right then." He jibed, she growled at him, not looking forward to the next couple of days. The gate kawooshed into life and they headed up the ramp, neither hesitating to step through the shimmering pool. "Ah, trees, that makes a change." Jack spoke as soon as his mind processed what he saw when they reached the other side. Janet ignored him.
"The caves are this way." She pointed in a northern direction, starting to walk without waiting for Jack. He followed her without saying anything, afraid that he'd piss her off more than she obviously already was. They walked in silence for about two hours, Jack was walking a little ahead of Janet, his longer legs combined with her heavy packs making it difficult for her to keep up. They arrived at the mouth of a network of caves, there were several openings in the rock face. They looked to one another.
"Which one?" Jack asked.
"Lawlins never said." Janet replied shrugging. Jack put his hand to his radio.
"O'Neill to Lawlins..." The only response was radio static. "O'Neill to any member of SG-3..." Still silence. He looked to Janet, and shrugged.
"Lawlins did say that they were having trouble with the radios in the caves."
"I guess we gotta do this the hard way. What you say, Doc, start at one end and work our way down?" He started towards the furthest opening, his question not really being a question but an order. She followed behind. Again they fell into a silence, simply following through the passages in the cave, O'Neill dropping beacons behind them as they went. After hours of walking in circles they gave up and headed back out of the cave. The entered the next one, beginning the same process, after about an hour following the same passage, they reached a dead end, a large cavern. "This looks like it could be habitable." Jack stated hopefully.
"Yeah, but I can't see any signs that anyone's living here." Janet countered.
"Agreed, lets mo-" Jack was interrupted by a low rumbling sound. Suddenly Janet leapt forward.
"Colonel, look out!" She yelled, pushing him out of the way with surprising force. Jack stumbled backwards, falling over, hitting his head off a boulder on the ground as he went and blacking out. He woke up, trying to regain his senses as he saw that the mouth of the cavern they were in had fallen in on itself, on top of the small doctor. He barely registered that the exit was also blocked. Jack ran toward the spot where Janet had fallen. She was lying completely still. Thankfully, she hadn't been completely buried in the cave in, the impact of one of the larger boulders causing her to fall forwards, away from the main path of the other falling rocks. But the ones that had hit her had certainly hit her hard enough. Jack knelt down beside her, afraid to move or touch her in any way but frantically needing to try to find a pulse. He gently felt the side of her neck, breathing a sigh of relief when he found her pulse, slow as it was. He looked her over trying to assess her injuries. She had a nasty looking gash on her temple, her left arm was definately broken, because it was not supposed to look like that, and she had several cuts and bruises all over her. And that was just what he could see in a quick glance, never mind the probable concussion and internal injuries.
"Oh, God." He heard himself say. He decided the best thing would be to try and wake her up, at least she could tell him what to do. "Come on, Doc, wake up." Nothing. "Janet, don't do this to me. Wake up." Still nothing. "Come on, Janet, you've got to wake up, you're scaring me here."
"Nice.to know.you care." She whispered. Her breathing was laboured, her eyes were opening but they were still half-shut. She started to try to move. He put his hands at either side of her face, keeping her head still.
"Don't try to move." Jack said, frantically looking around for one of her med-packs. She let out a low moan, the pain increasing. "Hey, take it easy, Doc."
"Easy for you to say." She growled through gritted teeth.
"I know." He sympathised. "I can't see your packs anywhere. Do you know where they went?"
"Sorry, I wasn't really paying a-" She stopped mid-sentence, crying out in pain. "attention when I was being crushed by the rocks."
"There's certainly nothing wrong with your sense of humour."
"I learned from the best." She managed to get out before crying out again.
"Awww, jeez Doc, your flattering me." She laughed, sparking a coughing fit. Jack tried his best to hold her head still but gave up when she began coughing up blood, "Oh, God." He repeated when he saw how much of it there was. He allowed her to turn her head to the side, deciding that if she could turn her neck by herself then it was ok. She stopped coughing, a trail of blood flowing down the side of her face. Jack tenderly wiped it off, moving to her right, taking her right hand in his own. She was gasping from breath, struggling to take enough in. She was trying to say something, Jack leaned down, his ear turned towards her mouth.
"Lung..collapsed.." She managed to choke out. Jack caught on quickly, realising he must have been out longer than he thought, and jumped to where the rocks had collapsed, starting to dig, desperately looking for one of the med-packs. He found one, unfortunately, it was the one containing the vaccines. He searched for the other one containing the general medical supplies for a second before being struck by inspiration. He went back over to Janet, pulling out one of the needles from the pack. He squeezed the syringe, emptying the contents of it, and pulled off the plunger, making a make-shift valve. "Doc, listen to me, I don't know what I'm doing here ok? I need you to show me what to do." He held the valve in his mouth, ripping her jacket off with his knife, getting access to her chest. Janet was going distinctly blue now, struggling to stay conscious. "Janet, you need to show me where to put this." He took her hand again, placing it over her rib cage, she moved her hand to where the needle needed to go. "Ok, hold on. This is going to hurt." He said jabbing it into the place where she had pointed out. She gritted her teeth, her breathing easing as the air drained from her chest.
"Thanks." She gasped.
"No problem." He smiled, putting the movable part back in the syringe to close the valve. "How you feeling?" He asked.
"Peachy." She coined one of his favourite phrases. He smiled again.
"Just hang on for a little bit, Doc, I'm gonna get you out of here." He said standing up, looking around the cave. He looked back to Janet, her eyes were closed. "Doc?" He said kneeling down again. "Doc, you gotta stay with me here, ok?" He cupped her face in his hand, "Come on, Janet, you gotta wake up. You have to stay awake." She slowly opened her eyes. "That's better."
"I can't." Her voice trembled as she spoke in a soft whisper. "It hurts." She gritted her teeth against the pain, trying to stop herself from crying out.
"I know it does." He lowered his hand from her face, taking her good hand again, "But I also know that you are strong enough to get through this. I am going to get us out of here, you've just gotta stay with me until I can find the way out. Ok?" He asked, gently squeezing her hand, offering her some comfort. She nodded. "Ok, keep talking Doc." He said standing up again. "How's Cassie doing in school?" He questioned, trying to make conversation.
"Fine." She replied drowsily.
"Doc? Come on, you gotta give me more than that." He sighed, trying to keep her talking as he moved around the sides of the cavern, finding no exits, he returned to the side they had entered from, shaking his head when he looked at the full extent of the cave in. It would take him days to dig through that, he was lucky if Janet had hours. He suddenly realised he still hadn't got an answer from her, he returned to her side, her face was screwed up in pain, she was shaking, breathing quickly. He had no idea what to do to help. He couldn't find her other med-pack in the rubble and unless she wanted a flu jab he was pretty much all out in the supplies area. He didn't even have the basic field kit, that had been classed extraneous for this mission. Which had made perfect sense at the time since he had been taking the CMO along on the mission to a friendly planet. Her breathing slowed as the pain subsided. "You ok?"
"Dumb question." He smiled at her response,
"I can't find your other pack, and there's no other way outta this cave so we're gonna have to wait a while for someone to come find us." He set it to her straight.
"That could take days."
"Come on now, positive attitude. Where's Miss Glass Half Full." She didn't answer, her eyes slowly closed, "Janet!" He yelled frantically, "You have to stay awake!"
"I'm tired." She mumbled.
"I know, but you have to stay awake, ok?" He asked forcefully,
"..kay.." She replied sleepily. Her face screwed up in pain again, and a low moan escaped from her lips.
"So, tell me about Cassie." He went back to the only subject he could think of that they had in common, aside from the SGC of course.
"I wouldn't...ah..want to answer on her behalf." Her breathing was still heavy, and her sentence interrupted by her trying to stop herself from crying out in pain.
"What?" Jack was confused by her response.
"I'm apparently too-" She bit down on her lip taking several deep breaths before finishing. "Overbearing."
"Oh, she reached that stage has she?" Jack smiled, as she nodded slightly in response.
"She said.aaaah.that she has a right to be screwed up since.ah.I can't keep a boyfriend long enough for her to have a male role model in her life." Her eyes were growing heavier as she spoke.
"Ouch." Jack sympathised.
"Yeah."
"That why you were so pissed off?" He asked, she nodded slightly again,
"Sorry." She said quietly,
"Don't worry about it." He said, looking around again quickly, when he looked back to her, her eyes were closed again. "Doc!" He called in alarm.
"Just resting." She mumbled.
"Rest with your eyes open."
"Can't." She replied, still mumbling, before before another coughing fit wracked her body. There was more blood this time, lots more blood, and Jack was beginning to panic a little, not that he was showing it. He moved behind her, gently lifting her to lean against him to stop her from drowning in the thick dark fluid. When she stopped coughing once again she was unconscious. Jack cursed himself for not keeping her awake. He laid her back down, releasing his make-shift valve as he heard her breathing become more laboured. He looked at his watch, they'd been on the planet for seven hours now. SG-3 would have been looking for them by now, so give them two hours to get back to the 'gate, half an hour for a S&R team to get ready, another two for them to get to the caves and say one for them to find the cave in. Jack mentally tallied, that meant he only had to keep the Doc going for oh, five and half hours. He doubted if she had that long. But he'd be damned if he was going to let her go without a fight.
TBC