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Chapter 4

"Dead?" Colonel Mann gasped looking a little faint. The other members of SG2 had similar looks and had both sat down.

"I am sorry, his injuries were too severe and we were unable to save him"

"I want to see the body" Janet stated.

"I'm afraid that is also not possible"

"Why not?" Jack asked angrily.

"In addition to the injuries your man sustained in his fall, he also contracted a virus which is highly contagious. It has been causing a lot of problems among our citizens for many weeks now"

"Why didn't you tell us about this before now, you never even mentioned this before" Colonel Mann stated and Jack could tell he was barely containing his anger.

"We did not see the need, it does not concern you"

"Does not concern us" Colonel Mann shouted "We were at risk of being exposed to this virus the entire time we were here"

"We have ways of quarantining infectious bodies; we can have some equipment sent here and you can hand the body over to us" Janet said.

"I'm sorry, we have our own ways of dealing with this, the body will be sent to the incinerators"

"What?" Jack said now finding it difficult to control his own temper "We want the body back"

"That is not possible, I'm sorry" the woman said as she turned and walked out of the room.

"Great" Jack said turning to the others in the room "Okay, we may have all been exposed to a virus. Captain Green take Daniel and Janet back to the stargate and contact Hammond, let him know what's going on and have him send through whatever equipment you need to test us all"

The three of them nodded their heads and walked out of the room. "We need to speak to whoever that woman was" Jack said with a questioning look at Colonel Mann.

"Lady Dallen, she's a member of the council"

"Well we need to speak to her about this virus and try getting Major Daltons body back"

- - -

After tracking down Lady Dallen they had spent half an hour arguing with her and got nowhere in terms of retrieving Daltons body. They had also been told very little about this virus. Janet had taken blood samples from all of them and both she and Sam were running some tests on them.

"Do you think there even is a virus?" Mann asked.

"I don't know, it seems kind of convenient and the fact that you haven't heard anything about it the entire time that you were here bothers me but we can't afford to be wrong. We'll just have to see what Janet and Sam come up with" Jack answered.

"What about the trade negotiations we were doing with these people, are they still going to go ahead?" Green asked sounding exhausted.

"That's not my call"

"Well we can't find anything" they all looked up as they heard Janet's voice and saw her and Sam walking into the room.

"So if there is a virus we haven't got it?" Mann asked.

"I can't be a hundred percent sure, I don't know what I'm looking for"

"Alright then" Jack said drawing everyone's attention to him "Colonel Mann take the rest of SG2 back to the gate, contact Hammond and tell him to set up quarantine. Take the blood samples with you and go back to earth. We'll stay here and continue to look into what happened to Major Dalton and try and get the body back. Janet, you'll need to stay here in case we reach a compromise and they let us see the body but won't let us take it".

"Providing they haven't incinerated it already" Mann said angrily.

Colonel Mann reluctantly agreed to go back to earth and Jack waited until SG2 had packed up all their gear and the equipment Janet had used to test their blood and left the room before continuing.

"Daniel, Sam, Janet, you three stay here and try and convince them to at least let us see the body. Teal'c you and I are going to take a look around outside this building. I'm willing to bet that there is a reason they have all this security".

- - -

"How hard can it be to track down a council member, with the amount of security they have you'd expect someone to know where she is" Sam said, she was getting really frustrated. They had been searching the building for Lady Dallen for the last two hours and no one seemed to know where she was. They had even considered speaking to another member of the council but they were all either unavailable or no one knew where they were.

"Something's going on" Daniel stated

"Let's just keep looking, if we haven't found them by the time Jack and Teal'c get back we'll…I have no idea" Sam said as she through her hands up in surrender and carried on down the corridor.

Daniel sighed and looked at Janet who was watching two men having a heated discussion and then both walk away quickly.

"You okay?" Daniel asked.

"Yeah, I just thought I heard them mention the stargate" Janet said and then shook her head and went after Sam. Daniel continued to look down the corridor for a moment before joining Sam and Janet.

- - -

Jack and Teal'c walked through an area filled with buildings just like the Council Building and Jack was beginning to find the constant white annoying. They had been walking around for almost three hours when they rounded a corner and found themselves at the edge of open grassland. At the other side of the grass land behind a large fence which was being heavily patrolled was the city they had seen from the stargate. There was more colour and more variety in the types of building. However on closer inspection they could see that the city didn't look at all friendly. It looked more like a series of the kind of dim, dingy alleyways that people were told to avoid walking down.

"Think this was where Major Dalton wondered off to when he was attacked?" Jack asked Teal'c rhetorically who nodded his head.

"Let's check it out" Jack gestured to a small opening in the fence where there was no patrol nearby.

They both headed toward the opening and were able to slip through the broken fence. "Okay, which sinister looking alleyway do you want to go down?"

Teal'c merely raised an eyebrow and Jack sighed and picked one at random. They walked down the street, every few minutes someone would try to grab them or start yelling abuse at them. They saw a man try to rob a woman so Teal'c merely grabbed the man and told him he should leave. There were several fights started around them and they did their best to avoid being shot by what was obviously this planets version of a gun.

They had only been walking for twenty minutes when a group of men jumped out at them and made a swing at Jack who barely had time to dodge it. Another man lunged for Teal'c who hit him and knocked him into the another man who was about to go for Jack.

"Hell no" Jack said as he saw the two men go flying, he really wished he had his weapons with him now but the Aderens had taken them when they had entered the building and wouldn't give them back. "We're out of here".

Jack and Teal'c both ran off in the direction they had come before the three men had time to recover.

"I think Major Dalton was definitely attacked" Jack stated as the both walked quickly through the streets.

"I agree"

TBC