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Chapter Four:- Worst is yet to come

Six hours had passed before Carson had given Dr. Weir the all clear. He had found an antidote and treated the infection straight away, by injecting it so it mixed with her blood to get rid of the poison. When Elizabeth came too, she had found not much progress had been made in capturing the creature from when she arrived in the infirmary.

The most annoying thing was that she was stuck with a sling rapped around her arm for the next week or so, since the snake and managed to break a bone in her forearm and it needed time to heal.

She couldn't remember much of her ordeal. Just that the creature was chasing her down corridor by the crew quarters and the next thing she knew was waking up in the infirmary.

John once again entered the infirmary. He'd been back and forth keeping her up to date with the information. Even though radio would have sufficed, he wanted the excuse to check up on her from time to time and not have Carson chuck him out the room for disturbing his patients.

Elizabeth pushed herself up into a seating position once he reached her bed and waited for whatever news was to follow.

John waved his arms about in frustration as he sat down in the visitor's chair. "Even with the improvements made to the computer systems from our last encounter with these snakes, it's still seems impossible for us to track the damn thing. At least before it showed up on sensors when it was ready to attack, now it's just random."

Elizabeth watched as the lights in the Infirmary began to flicker, guessing this place was going to be the next casualty in that department. "Don't suppose the power failure could be causing the sensors to malfunction?"

"It's plausible, McKay thought the same thing, but until we find the cause of the problem we won't know for certain?

Elizabeth rubbed her forehead when it started to ache a little and this got John concerned.

"You ok?"

She waved him off. "It's nothing. I'm fine."

"You don't look fine." John was about get Carson when Elizabeth grabbed his arm to stop him from getting out of his chair. Considering her fragile state her grip was pretty strong. "I'm fine honest. Just a mild headache that's all."

John wasn't convinced. "You should still get it checked out."

Carson must have heard the commotion for he was by her bedside in seconds. "Upsetting my patients again Colonel?"

John looked at Elizabeth to persuade her to tell him.

She sighed and looked at Carson. "I told John it's just a headache. I'm fine really."

Carson fished out his pen torch to double check his patients hypothesises and shone it at her eyes. "I'll be the judge of that."

Elizabeth found the light rather brighter then she would've expected and it must have shown for she didn't stop blinking. This got Carson to run a few other rudimentary checks whilst John sat watched with a worried look on his face.

"Pupils are slightly dilated and your body temperature seems to have dropped a little. Nothing uncommon, your body is probably experiencing the after effects of the shock to the system."

Carson went to his office, only to return with what looked like painkillers. "Take a couple of these and plenty of rest, you should fill much better by morning."

John nudged her arm playfully when he left. "See. You didn't have to suffer all that."

Reaching for the glass of water with her free hand, she later swallowed the tablets down in one go. "Trust me, I have suffered worse headaches."

"Why do you always push yourself to heard? It's not much of a walk from your office to the infirmary to grab a couple of painkillers when you need them or best off all you could always ask me to get them if needed."

Elizabeth slid down into her covers again in order to get some sleep. "Not now John. Must rest."

John sighed, if Elizabeth wasn't his boss and able to get out of conversations that easy he would've pushed harder. Instead he got up to leave, but he hadn't gone far when she called him back.

"Pass me another cover would you John. It's freezing in here."

John was sure something wasn't right, how could she be cold in the one blanket she had already and he didn't even have his jacket on. "Sure thing."

Elizabeth took it from him, and he help place it over her before leaving. He turned in time to see her snuggle up as tight as possible in order to keep warm.

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