Counterparts

Disclaimer: I don't own Buffy, Stargate or any of the other universe or characters that shall be mentioned here.

Summary: Searchers of Merlin's Avalon cave find a second long range communication device, or at least that's what they believe.

Timing: Stargate Season 9 just before Beachhead

Author's notes: This is just something that's been bouncing around in my mind for quite a while now. This is going to be a short fic and no sequels are planned-in fact I intend to finish this fic very quickly. Now on to the story

Chapter 2 Awakenings

The Infirmary a short while later

"Doctor is there any change?" asked General Landry.

He was in the infirmary, officially he was checking on all the now coconscious members of his base, unofficially he was checking to make sure his daughter, Dr Lam was okay. The doctor filling in for the unconscious Dr Lam was a new arrival to the SGC, a Dr Jean Gray. She was a tall-distinguished looking redhead that was also a great geneticist; in addition to her other doctoring skills-people with multiple talents were always welcome in the SGC.

"I can't find anything wrong with them," she was saying, "The biometric readings match those of Vala and Dr Jackson when they were using the other Ancient device but Dr Lee assures me that the device is currently inactive."

"What are you saying doc?" retorted Landry in confusion.

"They're dreaming sir and we don't know when they're going to wake up…or even if they're going to wake up," Jean said unhappily.

Fear gripped General Landry as he thought of his sleeping daughter, concern for her well-being plagued him, please, please wake up Caroline! I don't know what I'd do if I lost you! He thought in horror.

He swallowed, "Is there anything that you can do?" he asked eagerly.

Jean mournfully shook her head, "We can only wait and hope sir."

Landry swallowed once and gazed or to were his daughter was lying on a bed hooked up to the monitors, sleeping peacefully, his gaze never left her as he spoke, "Fine keep me posted, I'll be in my office." He walked out of the infirmary despite all his misgivings.

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The Infirmary, A few hours later

It was a few hours later and still there had been no change in any of the affected members of the SGC. Teal'c had arrived an hour ago and was standing vigil over Daniel Jackson hoping that his friend would awaken soon.

All of them had been slept silently, and so the medical staff wasn't paying as much attention tot hem as they should have been. On her bed, Fred twitched. If someone had been paying enough attention, they would have seen her jaw begin a process of clenching and unclenching rapidly. For her mind was racing now with images that were foreign to her.

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Dust…

Cough…blood, coughing blood, so weak. It's so hot in here, feverish, why can't I breathe? What's wrong with me? WHAT'S WRONG WITH ME?

Aaah…pain. I don't want pain, I've had enough already!

Pain-soul searing pain, no I've had enough, stop! STOP!

Pain wracked Fred's mind and her body began to twitch as a whole. Images flashedWesley, Angel, Lorne and the rest. The images moved away getting further and further away from her mind's eye. She tried to latch on to them. For an infinitesimal moment she was holding Wesley-no he was holding her!

Her fingers started to slip from his. She could feel darkness closing in on her.

Wesley! her mind screamed, Wesley! I don't want to go! Wh-why can't I stay?

They lost contact and Fred slipped into the waiting abyss.

She did the only thing she was left with; she screamed.

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Jean was just checking Dr Jackson's vitals when she heard a gut wrenching scream from further down the line of beds. She spun around quickly to see the source of the scream and she wasn't the only one.

There was Dr Burkle thrashing about in her bed screaming hysterically, Jean watched as the nearest nurse had rushed to Fred's side and tried to restrain her.

Jean rushed to the bed, going to help the nurse but as she watched Fred punched the nurse viciously in the jaw. The nurse dropped like a sac of potatoes, knocked out.

"I need a little help here!" shouted Jean, quickly getting over her surprised shock. "Dr Burkle, stop!" she shouted at Fred.

Fred turned towards Jean and locked eyes with her.

Jean stopped rushing towards Fred as she saw the look in the little woman's eyes. They were crazed, filled with more than gleam of what Jean had seen in only the most psychotic of mental patients. With this in mind she moved to the nearest medicinal cabinet and began searching for the strongest sedative they stocked.

The two SFs posted in the infirmary rushed Fred, each grabbing for an arm as they attempted to restrain the slim psychotic woman…but Fred was too fast for them and she slipped away from them heading for the door as fast as she could.

She was nearly to the door when Teal'c came up behind her and grabbed her, lifting her bodily up. She didn't hesitate and the others in the infirmary watched as she brought head back as fast and hard as she could straight into Teal'c's nose.

CRACK!

You could hear his nose crack from the other side of the room but despite the pain and blood now steaming down from his nose, Teal'c held on to her and kept her in midair.

Fred continued to kick and scream as the SFs reached them and took a hold of her legs. The three of them now carried her back to her bed, still screaming frantically.

They managed to get her into the bed and restrained without any other mishaps.

Jean approached with the sedative, "Hold her arm still, I have to sedate her," she ordered.

Teal'c and one of the SFs grabbed her right arm and held it steady for the doctor who approached rapidly and inserted the needle with little fuss.

Fred reacted as soon as the sedative hit her bloodstream, her furious struggling stopped, the breath went out of her and they heard her mutter in a low mournful voice, "Wesley, why can't I stay…" she passed into unconsciousness.

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"Doctor, what happened? You said that Dr Burkle awoke?" questioned General Landry as he entered the infirmary.

They were still in the Infirmary and Jean was seeing to Teal'c broken nose, "I don't know sir. She woke up screaming sir, completely hysterical, she knocked out a nurse, evaded two SFs and managed to break Teal'c's nose when he grabbed her, before we managed to sedate her." Jean explained simply.

"Dr Burkle did what!" exclaimed General Landry in surprise.

"Dr Burkle brog my noth," said Teal'c with respect in his voice that such a small person had managed to so injure him.

"She broke your nose?" repeated Landry in disbelief.

Teal'c raised an expressive eyebrow at the General and said, "Indeed."

"Wow, I didn't know she had it in her," Landry muttered in respect of the petite scientist. "Where is she now?" he asked of Jean.

"We've placed her in isolation and are waiting to see what happens when she wakes up," Jean answered immediately.

"What about the others?" Landry asked.

"They're still unconscious, no change yet, though I've asked for more security just in case the wake up as hysterical as Dr Burkle."

"Good, keep me posted," and with that he left the infirmary, his gut coiled and burning with anticipation and fear, would Caroline wake up like this? Oh god he hoped not.

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The Infirmary, a couple of hours later

Jean was watching the others like a hawk; she didn't want a repeat of what happened with Dr Burkle. Teal'c was also standing there with her. She watched as Colonel Mitchell started to twitch.

"Careful, Colonel Mitchell may be awakening," she warned her staff.

"Indeed," Teal'c said as he walked over to stand by Cameron, ready for anything.

Colonel Mitchell groaned in his bed and said, "What the frell hit me this time?" he demanded irately.

Jean shared an apprehensive glance at the strange word Cameron used with Teal'c, before cautiously approaching the Colonel, "Colonel Mitchell are you alright?" she asked slowly.

Cameron's eyes flew open and they quickly locked onto Jean, "Who the frell are you?" he demanded, hostile, he tried to get up but the bed restraints held him down, "And why the hell are you holding me? I'm warning you if you frelling Peacekeepers don't let me go right now, I'll give you another demonstration of my wormhole weapon!" he threatened them, his eyes clouded with anger and much to Jean's discomfort, they held a gleam of insanity in them, ""

Teal'c raised an eyebrow at Cameron's wormhole but didn't say anything. Jean on the other hand said, "Peacekeepers? Are you feeling okay Colonel Mitchell? What's the last thing you remember?" she questioned.

Cameron gave her a scrutinizing speculative look, "Look Red, are you feeling okay? Cause I ain't no Colonel and I sure as hell ain't this Mitch character whoever he is. The name-as if you didn't know is Commander John Crichton, now why don't you run along and get whoever is behind today's mind frell…cause if you don't I'm going to get mad and trust me you don't want to see my little wormhole show," He again threatened angrily, before shooting her a confused look, "Didn't Commandant Cleavage and Grasshopper, clue you Space Nazis in, that wormhole weapons are very bad for everyone's continued survival?"

What the hell is he talking about! Commandant Cleavage? Grasshopper? Thought Jean in utter confusion.

She shared a look with Teal'c who actually looked slightly bewildered at what the Colonel was saying-no Commander Crichton was saying.

"And what's with big and intimidating here? Just so, you know, Tiny here doesn't intimidate me at all! I've been kicked by bigger and scarier than him!" Crichton added snidely.

She turned back to Crichton/Mitchell and opened her mouth to speak but stopped, she didn't know where to begin-what had that device done to make first Dr Burkle so violent and Colonel Mitchell think her was someone named John Crichton?

"Cat got your tongue Red?" John quipped sarcastically, "Could you at least tell me where you're holding? Cause I sure as hell don't remember how and where you kidnapped me."

Teal'c answered before she could, "WE did not abduct you, you are not Commander John Crichton, you are Colonel Cameron Mitchell of the United States Air force and leader of SG-1 here at the Stargate Command on Earth, you were knocked unconscious by an unknown device created by the Ancients," he stated simply.

John snorted, "Tell me another one, this ain't Earth I closed of the wormhole leading to Earth," he looked around at the room he was in, "And the Ancients a better facsimile of Earth than this last time I met 'em."

Teal'c froze in surprise; he was claiming to have met the Ancients?

Meanwhile, Jean was starting to wonder if that Ancient device was some type of delusion inducer because things were rapidly not making any sense.

"Commander, I assure you everything we say is the truth," she assured him confidently.

For his part, John opened his mouth to retort but suddenly he just stopped. He became slack jawed and just lay there looking straight ahead, a few seconds passed before he finally uttered in stunned disbelief, "Uh wow…I have a headache."

"Commander are you okay?" Jean asked concerned at this sudden remark.

John opened and closed his mouth a couple of times before replying slowly, "That's debatable at the moment-and oh, it's Colonel not Commander…I'm back." Cameron remarked at the end.

"Colonel Mitchell?" said Jean cautiously.

Cameron shook himself, once before answering, "Yeah, I'm back, it's me again," he reassured her.

"Colonel Mitchell what happened?" asked Teal'c seriously.

"The damn device and activated by itself, that's what happened!" complained Cameron irritably, "What about the others?"

"Daniel Jackson, Vala and Dr Lam are still unconscious, Dr Burkle has awakened," Teal'c answered.

"Okay, another question…why am I restrained to the bed?" Cameron asked pointedly.

"When Dr Burkle awakened, she proved to be uncontrollably violent I was forced to sedate her right away," Jean explained.

"Oh…why'd she become violent? And can you please remove these restraints?" Cameron asked pleadingly in the case of the second question.

Jean undid the restraints and Cameron sat up, rubbing feeling back into his arms, "Thanks," he said.

"We don't know what happened to her, and she's currently still sedated," Jean answered.

"Colonel Mitchell, what happened to you?" Teal'c asked.

Cameron shakily stood up and shook himself, "Trust me you're not going to believe me." He said, "And I think maybe you aught to call General Landry before I say anything."

"Why would we not believe you?" asked Teal'c while raising an expressive eyebrow.

Cameron turned to look Teal'c right in the eye. This was when he noticed Teal'c's bandaged nose, "Uh Teal'c… what happened to your nose?" Cameron asked curiously

"Dr Burkle broke it when she awoke," he answered simply.

Cameron's reaction was immediate, "She what!"

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Next time: More Awakenings