Tegan Chronicles

Masked Microbes 4

"Colonel?" Janet continued to examine her patient. Jack was always a pain to have in the infirmary but this took the cake.

"Opps." Jack held up the IV line he'd just pulled apart while blood back flowed through the port going into his vein and trickled down his arm.

"Colonel O'Neill," Paige saved Janet the trouble. "Big, Long, Dull…"

"Needles." He finished for her. "You don't have the balls."

"You should've woken me up." Paige admonished Janet as she tended to the mess Jack was making. "I don't know how you managed the last eight hours."

"I've been an angel." Sam piped in.

"You have been an extremely oversized nuisance in Dr. Fraiser's gluteus maximus." Teal'c looked over at Daniel and raised his eyebrow.

"That's supposed to be a 'royal pain in the' OW!" Jack pulled his arm back. "That's my arm hair."

"Sorry." Paige grinned lightly.

"I have not," Sam protested. "Have I?"

"No Sam." Janet sighed as she looked over Tegan's monitor readings. "You just need to rest. All four of you need to rest."

"But I am not tired."

"Me either." Jack agreed with Teal'c.

"All done Colonel," Paige stepped back.

"It better not fall apart again."

"If you don't pull on it, it won't come apart." She shook her head and looked up at Janet. "How's she doing?"

"I don't know." Janet ran a frustrated hand through her hair.

"She's just sleeping Doc." Jack offered with child-like innocence.

"Yup," Daniel sat Indian style in his bed. "Sleeping beauty, she just needs a kiss from her handsome prince."

"That would be me." Jack pulled the covers off.

"I believe Daniel Jackson said handsome."

"Very funny Teal'c." Jack pulled on the side rail Paige had pulled up when she finished fixing his IV. "Hey Doc, lower this thing will ya?"

"I will not." Janet glared at him. "I meant what I said about restraints sir."

"But," He paused in thought. "Maybe Danny's right."

"She needs a kiss?" Paige groaned in disbelief.

"You could use one yourself." Jack pointed out none too nicely.

"And I suppose you're just the man to do it?"

"Hey I want in on that action." Daniel smiled.

"A minute ago you wouldn't even let me look at your toe." Paige reminded him.

"I do not understand what lips have to do with feet." Teal'c raised a customary eyebrow in Paige's direction.

"Where'd Sam go?" Janet peered at the male part of SG1, her gaze narrowing on Daniel. "You deliberately distracted us so she could sneak out."

"I didn't sneak out." Came the blonde's soft voice floating up from somewhere on the other side of her bed. "I fell out of bed."

Janet rushed over and knelt beside her. "And just how did you manage that?"

"I don't know." She lied.

"You were trying to sneak out, weren't you?" Janet nodded to Paige who silently offered to help the shorter doctor lift Sam back into bed.

"Maybe?" Sam answered as Janet pulled the blanket up over her legs.

"Uh huh." Janet pressed her palm into her forehead and closed her eyes. "Airman Copley would please go get the restraints out of the supply closet."

"I won't do it again." Sam's eyes watered. "I promise."

Janet felt Paige put a hand on her shoulder just as Jack yelled. "Hey she's waking up! Kiser wake up!"

Janet glanced over at the redhead, her hair was still damp from Jack's impromptu shower. Janet moved to her side as Tegan's head turned to face Colonel O'Neill.

"That's it Kiser wake up! Let me see those pretty green eyes."

"Colonel," Janet shook her head to get him to be quiet and it seemed to be working. She reached up and brushed an errant strand of hair off Tegan's forehead. "Tegan?"

The infirmary was quiet, except for the beeping of equipment, as everyone held their breath. Ten seconds, thirty, a whole minute.

"She moved her head, I saw it." Daniel tried to contain his excitement. "Come on Tegan, open your eyes!"

Janet pulled out her pen light and checked Tegan's pupils, she looked at Paige as she dropped the instrument back in her lab coat pocket. "Within normal limits, but there's no change from earlier."

"Doctor, how are they doing?" It was General Hammond's voice that sounded from the infirmary's main entrance.

"They're driving me crazy, sir." Janet smiled sadly her eyes motioning to Tegan. "Except this one, I almost wish she was up to her normal antics. She's still unresponsive sir."

"No, she's not." Colonel O'Neill argued.

"And when did you go to medical school Colonel?"

"Not you too?" Janet stepped forward. "Are you feeling ok sir?"

"I'm fine Doctor." He assured her. "Am I not allowed to be sarcastic from time to time?"

"No sir, I mean yes sir. Just not now. I can't keep them in bed, or quiet. It's like a zoo in here sir."

"Can't you sedate them?" General Hammond looked at his prized team.

"Under the current circumstances, sir, I'm afraid of what it will do."

"She's alive." Jack reminded everyone he was still in the room.

"Yes Colonel she is." Janet wasn't sure where the comment had come from.

"She moved her head."

"She's still not responding to painful stimuli." Paige announced as she manually checked her pulse.

"But she's still in there." Daniel insisted.

"No body said she wasn't in there." Janet looked curiously at him.

"Just making sure," He looked at his hands resting in his lap, the moment of soberness passing quickly. "I'm hungry."

"You just ate."

"An hour ago," Jack complained as he started picking at the tape securing his IV.

"I'll be in my office if you need me." General Hammond made a hasty exit.

"Colonel O'Neill, leave it alone." Paige was already pulling his hands away.

"I could eat an army of horses."

"Ewww." Sam looked at Teal'c.

"Dr. Fraiser?" Julie held up the restraints she'd retrieved.

"Just put them over there." Janet pointed to an empty bed. "Go tell Marcus it's his turn to cover you."

"Yes ma'am."

"But I like Julie better than Marcus." Daniel's whining wasn't getting any better.

"I'm sure she appreciates the sentiment Daniel, but Julie needs to rest." Janet looked at Paige.

"Go on, I'll take over from here."

Janet shook her head.

"She won't sleep until Tiki's out of the woods." Colonel O'Neill looked over at Tegan again. "Wake up Tiki!"

"I do not believe Major Kiser likes to be called Tiki, O'Neill."

"I know big guy, that's why I do it." He picked up his pillow.

"Sir?"

"What?" He repositioned it and rolled on his side so he was facing Tegan. "I'm just getting comfortable."

"Pillow fight?" Sam grinned lightly. "Seriously Janet?"

"I wouldn't put it past him Sam." Janet looked over at Daniel who was pointing to the ceiling and counting something in his head. "Right now, I wouldn't put it past any of you."

"Medical team to the embarkation room! Medical team to the embarkation room!" The sounds of the klaxons startled Janet and for a minute she wondered who was still off world, then it hit her like a ton of bricks. Her dream forgotten she raced down the corridors afraid of what she might see.

"We really didn't need a whole medical team." Tegan looked up as Janet came in behind a still groggy eyed Paige. She was checking Sam's pulse again before letting the medics take her to the infirmary. "She wasn't feeling well and we started back to the gate. She lost consciousness about ten minutes ago. Vitals are stable…"

After reporting everything she thought was pertinent to Janet and handing Sam's care over to her, and finishing the post mission debriefing Tegan returned to the infirmary where Paige did her post mission physical.

She was sitting by Major Carter's bedside when she began to rouse. "Hey Sam, how are you feeling?"

Blue eyes burned holes into the redhead, and an angry voice answered. "Fine."

"Ok?" Tegan wasn't sure why the hostility, and decided to stay as neutral as possible.

"When can I get out of here?" The blonde demanded.

"Dr. Fraiser is following your care." Tegan pointed out.

"Get her."

Tegan wrinkled her brow momentarily. "Ok. I'll go get Janet."

"I'm right here." Janet stepped around the curtain. "How are you feeling Sam?"

Sam stared at Tegan for a few seconds.

"I'll leave you two alone," Tegan excused her self.

Sam watched Tegan leave with something a kin to detestation flaming in her eyes. It was something Janet had never witnessed in her friend. "Sam?"

A low growl escaped from her throat before Sam turned to Janet, her gaze softened. "I want to go home."

"I know." Janet responded to the plea. "But you've still got a fever, and you need to be here. Besides we're on lockdown, flu quarantine."

"Fine," Sam huffed. "Can I at least go to my quarters and get something?"

"You know I can't let you leave the infirmary." Janet shook her head. "What do you need? I can pick it up."

"No." She responded a little too quickly. "It's nothing. I'm tired."

"I'll let you rest." Janet watched as Sam settled on her side with her back to her before returning to her office.

"Major Carter?" It was one of the nurses who found her over by the sterile instrument packs.

Sam ignored the nurse, carefully placing the tape back over the pack she'd just rummaged through.

"Major, you should be in bed."

"I was looking for paper and a pen." Sam turned to face the young woman. She couldn't remember her name, someone new on base.

"I'll get it for you, but let's get you back to bed first."

Sam agreed and let herself be lead back to the bed she'd recently vacated. "You know what? Just forget the pen and paper. Could you send Major Kiser in instead?"

"Sure." The nurse nodded before excusing herself.