A/N: Hope you enjoy reading as much as I enjoy writing this.
Summary/Disclaimer: See Chapter 1
Sgt. Williams had stayed far enough back when Major Lorne pulled Colleen off of the land mine that the blast did not impact him at all. As soon as the dust started to settle he made his way to where the two landed. He could see Major Lorne on top of Colleen, almost shielding her from the blast as much as possible.
"Major, Major Lorne, are you all right?" A few coughs and a shake of his head later, Evan was standing up lifting Colleen preparing to carry her back to the gate.
"Yeah, I'm fine, we have to get her back. She smacked her head hard when we landed and her arms and hands have what look to be burns. Run ahead and dial the gate make sure they know we are coming."
"Yes Sir."
"Come on Doc, hang on, Dr. Beckett will hurt me if anything happens to you two."
Adrenaline was pumping so fast through his veins, he didn't notice the pain in his leg, he didn't notice that the ¾ of a mile walk back to the gate seemed to never end, all he noticed is that Colleen didn't wake or stir at all the whole way despite all the bouncing that was occurring.
Within 20 minutes they were back at the gate and all Major Lorne had to do was step through and Dr. Keller and her medical team was standing by, waiting for their patient.
"How is she?"
"Not sure, she hit her head when we landed and from what I could tell there are what look to be burns on her hands."
"How long has she been out?"
"About 20 minutes, and Doc, you need to know something."
"What is it?"
"She told me she's pregnant."
"What?"
"Yeah and Dr. Beckett doesn't know yet so you can't tell him. You have to be the one to treat her."
"Thanks Major." Jennifer and her team ran the gurney down the hall towards the infirmary, calling out for scans to start once they were there to quickly assess what needed to be done.
It was easy to see that she had extensive injuries, her unconsciousness as well as the pregnancy would only complicate things. Cutting her uniform off and removing it, revealed a multiple compound fracture of her thigh bone as well as more cuts and burns caused by either the explosion or the fall itself. This was going to be harder than she thought it was. While Jennifer was trying to care for Colleen in the infirmary, Carson was walking back through the gate.
"Welcome back Col. Sheppard, anything exciting?"
"Nope, just the usual. What was the need for the early return."
"Well it wasn't you that we wanted, we actually wanted Dr. Beckett back."
"Me, whatever for Mr. Woolsey?"
"Major Lorne's team encountered a problem while they were off world." As the words came off of Woolsey's mouth, Carson felt a pain in the pit of his stomach, knowing that Colleen was off world with his team today and hoped that the problem they encountered had nothing to do with her.
"Was someone hurt?"
"Yes, one of the botanists was digging up a sample when underneath they found a landmine, she was brought through the gate about 10 minutes ago, Dr. Keller is working on her in the infirmary now, you might wish to join her, she could probably use the help."
"Which botanist was hurt?"
"Dr. McGinnis." Before Woolsey had finished saying her name, Carson was running down the hall to the infirmary. Col. Sheppard, and Rodney were right behind him knowing that they were going to have to hold him back from trying to take the case over from Jennifer.
His friends knew that he was too close to the situation to be objective enough to treat her, but they were all going to stand there by his side and hold him back and do what they needed to do in order to allow him to be there to sit next to the bed and hold her hand as she recovered from whatever injuries she sustained.
Carson pushed past Major Lorne as he ran into the infirmary to find Jennifer and her team wheeling Colleen towards the OR. His face fell and he was sick to his stomach as he saw her, a breathing tube in her mouth doing the work for her as well as bandages on her hands and arms.
"OK let's go people, we need to get her into the OR now I want to get that leg under a scanner once we are in there, how much damage do I have to work with."
"Jennifer, what happened?"
"Carson, you have to go, you can't be in here right now. Go wait outside I will get you when I know more."
"No I want to treat her."
"You can't, and you know it, you can't be objective here. Now you need to let me go in there and do what I need to do to save her life." With that she nodded to Rodney, their silent code that he needed to step up to the plate and take care of his friend while she took care of the woman that he loved. Turning she walked into the OR and the door closed behind her.
The only thing Carson could do was growl as he watched the doors closed with the woman he loved on the other side getting ready for a surgery and yet he still had no idea what was going on or what had happened. He turned away knowing that looking at the door would just upset him further. Rodney was waiting as he turned, not knowing really what to do, Col, Sheppard stepped up and put a hand on his shoulder a small comforting gesture but one that was needed right now.
"Come on Doc, lets go talk to Major Lorne, he can tell us what happened."
"Aye."
Carson walks back to where Major Lorne was standing in the doorway to see him covered in dirt and bleeding from his forehead, as well as noticing a limp in his stance.
"Doc, she'll be fine, we got here back here fast."
"I know." He paused to look at him and noticed that he was in need of medical care and that's when the doctor in him took over. "Here let's get you looked at shall we?"
"Sure thing Doc."
Carson guided Major Lorne to a bed and put him under a scanner. No concussion and nothing was broken but he did manage to bruise his ribs pretty good and had a sprained ankle. While Carson was wrapping his ankle and placing bandages on his head, Evan retold the story as to what had happened off world that caused Colleen's injuries. He didn't tell him that Colleen was pregnant, he figured that news she would deliver personally once she was out of the woods and awake. He sent up silent prayers that everything would be alright for these two.
A/N: Ok I hope you liked it, please review kindly. Hope to have more up soon.
