Chapter 13

Teal'c was walking down the hallway on level 18 heading for Sam's lab when he detected sobs coming from Daniel Jackson's office as he passed it. Pausing and listening carefully, he decided that the sounds were indeed coming from Daniel's office and pushed open the door that sat ajar. Peering inside, Teal'c could make out a person huddled in Daniel's chair behind his desk. Stepping inside and pushing the door closed, Teal'c dropped his voice low so as not to spook the person.

"Is that you ColonelCarter?" Teal'c asked quietly.

"Go away. Leave me alone." Sam said between sobs.

"I can not do so, ColonelCarter. I came to ascertain if you needed my assistance." Teal'c tried to say soothingly.

"I don't want any help, T. I don't deserve it after what I have done to Daniel." Sam wailed.

Taking a seat in the chair on this side of the desk, Teal'c folded his hands in his lap and gathered his thoughts while examining his own feelings on the matter. "ColonelCarter, you are not to be blamed for DanielJackson being ill or for his reluctance to seek medical aid for his condition."

"Yes I am Teal'c, I am to blame." Sam said with self hate in her voice. "I broke his heart and didn't know it. I ignored him while I was selfish. Daniel would never have done that to me."

"While it may be true that you broke DanielJackson's heart, you did not do it intentionally. As for ignoring him, I am as guilty of that as anyone as I left Earth and my friends to spend time on Dakara." Teal'c spoke solemnly. "You were not able to know that DanielJackson knew of your and ColonelMitchell's involvement with one another. You viewed your time with him as a private matter, so that was not selfish."

Sniffing back tears, Sam sat up and looked at Teal'c through puffy eyes. "It is not the same Teal'c, you left Earth to help the Jaffa nation to rebuild, and you did not run off to have a torrid affair. What do you mean that Daniel knew?"

"It was reported that DanielJackson happened upon ColonelMitchell and yourself as you were engaged in a kiss at ColonelMitchell's car prior to leaving the base some time back." Teal'c replied evenly.

Sam's mind starting putting pieces together as fast as it usually did and she gasped. "Oh god, he saw us and figured it out. That must have been when we first got together. That was probably when he started locking himself up in his office. No wonder I never saw him in the cafeteria and he never came around my lab."

"Knowing DanielJackson, those would be valid assumptions." Teal'c replied still keeping his voice even and calm.

"T, I didn't realize that I am in love with Daniel till tonight after I heard he had resigned." Sam said starting to sob again. "I started thinking about how I would never see him again if he left the program and it hurt so deeply. I have been so caught up in having someone to go home with at the end of the day that I didn't even stop to think of how Daniel has been dealing with everything lately. He probably thinks that I am in love with Cam when it is not true."

"I have known that you and DanielJackson have felt deeply for one another for a long period of time, feelings more than simply friendship or that of siblings." Teal'c said bowing his head. "I had hoped that you both would figure this out before it was too late, which I fear is now the case."

"Why didn't you ever say anything?" Sam asked stunned.

"It was not my place; it was something that you both had to discover and acknowledge on your own." Teal'c replied. "DanielJackson spoke of his feelings for you during the pre-marriage ritual for O'Neill; I had hoped that he would approach you with those feelings once he had figured them out. Such was not the case."

"Oh god," Samantha started, "He didn't have a chance, it was the day after Jack and Sarah got married that Cam approached me and we left together. Oh god, he must have thought I was leaving for the day and came up to talk to me before I got off base."

Alarms going off in the hallway stopped any further conversation. The announcement over the intercom for SG1 to report to the infirmary had Teal'c and Sam sprinting up the hallway as if they were under fire. Taking the stairs instead of waiting for the elevator, Sam and Teal'c approached the infirmary from one side as they saw Jack coming from the other. As if still working as a team, they all burst through the doors and came to an immediate halt.

All of the monitors connected to Daniel were going off in alarm and Daniel looked like someone had shot him with a zat. He was convulsing and cascading in and out of existence at an alarming frequency. Mitchell had been pushed back out of the way by Dr. Lam and an orderly as nurses rushed around the room. Over where one of the other beds had been everyone spotted an Asgard stasis chamber sitting open.

"What happened?" Jack yelled over the noise.

"His heart-rate dropped low again and the cascade started back up." Dr. Lam yelled in between other orders. "We can't get a lock on him or stabilize him so I am going to have to put him in stasis.

Grabbing a radio that had been hanging on her belt, Lam started yelling into it. "Odyssey, this is a medical emergency. Lock on to Dr. Jackson's transponder and teleport him into the stasis chamber now!"

After several seconds the radio blared back. "Sorry ma'am, we can not get a lock. His signal keeps breaking up."

"Shit!" Cameron yelled out as he grabbed the radio and jumped on the bed next to the convulsing Archeologist. "Odyssey, lock on to my signal and transport…I have Jackson.

A sudden flash of light followed by another had Daniel and Cameron disappear to reappear in the Asgard chamber. An orderly helped jerk Mitchell out of the chamber as Dr. Lam activated the controls to close the chamber. As everyone crowded around while Lam set the controls to engage stasis, Daniel's body stilled and then seemed to explode in a shower of sparks. Everyone gasped in shock and the Samantha fell to the floor unconscious.