Jack, Daniel, and Teal'c all sat in the observation lounge that overlooked the isolation room. Janet had finished the surgery hours ago but, she hadn't allowed visitors. It was no wonder either. Even before Sam had been taken out of the gate room she had started convulsing. She was unconscious by the time they started the surgery and even with the anesthesia she still continued to convulse. Most were small but every once and a while they had been so strong as to nearly pull Sam out of the anesthesia.
Janet and the others couldn't find a way to stop them but, Sam needed surgery immediately so they had had to be very careful. They also had to stop mid-surgery numerous times because of the convulsions. But, now surgery was over, Sam still had minor convulsions and Janet stepped out of the Iso room. The three waited silently and didn't even look at her as she entered the observation room. Not even Teal'c could tear his eyes away from Sam.
Janet sat down heavily next to Daniel and took a deep breath. "Considering how touch and go surgery was she's doing well. We were able to stop any bleeding and repair a lot of damage. We had to reset her arm, I don't know if it was when she landed on the ramp or beforehand but, she damaged her left wrist again."
"What about the rest of her injuries," Jack asked as he continued to study Sam.
Janet hesitated a moment but, just a moment. "It's going to take a while to try and categorize her old injuries but, when she came through the gate … more than half of her ribs are broken. Her left wrist and hand are shattered and her left collar bone is broken. Her right scapula is fractured and her shoulder was out of socket, her right wrist was broken too. The shins in both her legs were broken, the right worse than the left. Her left ankle is sprained pretty badly – her right ankle is broken. When she came in the bone had broken through the skin. Her right femur is fractured as well.
"Whoever did this was careful not to break any of her facial bones …"
"You mentioned old injuries," Teal'c offered, still looking at Sam.
"From what we can tell so far she has several broken bones that have already healed or are still healing. The bruises," Janet's voice cracked ever so slightly. Enough for them all to notice but no one said anything as Sam started to convulse. It stopped quickly and Janet let out her breath. "It's just bruises on top of bruises. If this was a Goa'uld they either didn't have a sarcophagus or they wanted to perpetuate the pain."
"They didn't have one," Jack offered. "There wouldn't be a point in keeping her in pain if they had one; they would have enjoyed killing her too much …" Everyone sat in deathly silence; they didn't budge when Hammond walked in.
"Doctor," he asked as he placed a hand on her shoulder. Janet sniffed a moment as she watched Sam convulse again.
"They're not seizures. They're more like muscle spasms' that attack her entire body," she offered as this tremor took a bit longer to stop than the previous one. "She's got a concussion but, there's no damage to her brain. So far the only thing we know is that her convulsions increased when we put her under anesthesia. We had to take her off during surgery – they got too bad to manage during the surgery. She remained unconscious, thank god but, when we reduced her anesthesia the convulsions decreased as well … Unconscious or not … she was in pain during the surgery … there was no other way," she whispered as Hammond squeezed her shoulder and Daniel blindly reached out to take her hand.
Before more could be said Sam started to convulse again but this time there didn't seem to be an end in sight. Janet had run out of the room leaving the others to watch as medical staff rushed around trying to help Sam. It didn't work. Before Janet even made it into the Iso room Sam woke up, screaming in pain. The convulsions seemed to grow and she cried at the pain. Jack had beaten the others out the room and as he rushed the short distance to Sam's bedside he didn't even notice the people who stood stock still in the hallway.
Jack and Janet stood on opposite sides of Sam's bed as the other men came into the room. Sam was staring up at the ceiling as tears rolled down the sides of her face. The scream still hadn't stopped and the others wondered if it ever would. Whatever was causing this pain wasn't letting up. Janet gently placed a hand on Sam's check and immediately Sam sought her out.
"Please," Sam ground out through the pain as she grasped Janet's hand. " … Janet … please … make it stop!" Sam cried harder as the convulsion continued to rip through her. Janet looked up to each one of the men, finally settling on Jack. There was nothing she could do and they all knew it. They had to stand there and watch as Sam was tortured by some invisible force, unable to do anything to stop it or ease her pain.
