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Chapter Thirty-Seven - Forgotten Memories

"How does it know how to do that?"

"I don't know Teyla, memories must be past down from each parasite to another and it's learnt how to adapt to the changes. Must be one of the survival techniques."

"Nurse, can you pass me some morphine over? At least that will ease the pain she must be experiencing right now."

"This didn't happen, when you ran other tests on Major Lorne?"

"His parasite probably didn't see them as a threat, Rodney."

Elizabeth suddenly started going into convulsions, Carson and Teyla helped to hold her down.

"It's killing her Carson, do something."

"What else can I do, McKay?"

"Give it something else to attack."

Carson was about to ask the nurse for something when the heart monitor flat-line. "No… not now Elizabeth, come on." Carson looked at the screen and could see that the parasite was gone.

Rodney did the same. "It worked, the parasite couldn't hold it off; either that or the transformation is complete."

"Right now it doesn't mater either way unless I can get her breathing again," Carson moved Rodney out of the way to begin the respiration procedure. The nurse stood by to help if needed."

Rodney and Telya waited at the foot of the bed, concern for their friend's safety in their eyes as the two medical staff members worked to bring her back to life.

"Come on Elizabeth." Whispered Rodney after a minute had passed and no signs of progress showed.

Rodney turned the other way when Carson announced that he was going to try the respatory machine one last time after the three previous attempts had failed.

"Clear!" Yelled the nurse.

Teyla watched as they hit her again, and again nothing happened. A tear fell down her right cheek as Carson packed away the machine and a solemn sadness filled his eyes.

Rodney couldn't bear to look at anyone and walked out of the room. The nurse was just writing down the time of death as instructed by Carson, while he began to cover up Elizabeth face with the bed cover, when a light beep could be heard from the scanner.

The heart monitor had started up again; Carson almost did a double take when he heard it again and quickly pulled back the covers. "That's it lass come on." He said as he took her hand and squeezed it tight to help push her on.

After a few seconds the heart monitor produced a more regular beat and Carson felt movement in her hand as though she tried to squeeze his back.

He breathed a sigh of relief when he felt the movement and nodded to Teyla to let her know she was going to be ok.

Tears of joy flooded Teyla's eyes. Remembering Rodney had walked out the room she quickly ran of to find him to let him know.

He hadn't gone very far when she caught up with him, she found him crouched in a ball near the lift at the end of the corridor.

She ran up to him and placed a comforting hand on his shoulder "Rodney… She's going to be okay."

Not sure he heard right, he looked up at her face whipping his own tears away at the same time. "She's okay, she's breathing again."

"But the monitor…"

"It started up again just as you left." Teyla helped him to his feet.

Both arrived back in the Infirmary just as Elizabeth's eyes started to open her eyes.

"You made it love," Carson said.

"I made what Carson, why am I here? What's been happening?"

"What's the last thing you remember?"

"Flying back to Atlantis in the Puddle Jump…" Using her hands Elizabeth pushed herself up. "John where is he?"

"That was just before she was bitten." Rodney announced.

"That was almost twelve hours ago, you don't remember anything after that?" Carson asked as he pushed her to lie down again.

Elizabeth shook her head; her mind was a complete blank from the past twelve hours.

"I guess the parasite was more in control than we thought, you had one inside you Elizabeth. But it appears to be gone now."

"You can get rid of the one inside John?"

"I'll need to find an easier way to do so, but I think so, yes."

"Permission to go and find him, Doctor Weir."

"Permission granted Teyla, just be careful and bring him home."

"We will, coming Rodney?"

"Try and stop me."

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