Sam groaned as the grey blur that surrounded her gradually came back into focus. Her head was pounding beneath her temples and the world seemed to swim as she pushed herself groggily up.
'Janet?' She had been in the infirmary so much now (both on her account and the rest of her team) that she felt completely comfortable with missing out the entire 'where am I' routine. Instead she got to skip onto the 'why am I here' instead.
'You collapsed in the control room.' the SGC's CMO replied to the unasked question, coming out of her office.
'Oh. Can I go now?' She started to roll off the bed, only to be stopped and rolled back on by the Doctors firm hand.
'There are still some tests that I need to run and more than a few things that the General is more than a tad curious about. Such as how you knew that wasn't SG8 coming through that wormhole.'
Sam looked down at her hands and began picking apart the edge of the sheet covering her.
'I really don't...'
'Sam' Janet said moving round to look at her friends face, rescuing the blanket from Sam's hands before it got decimated by any more nervous fiddling. 'This is me. What happened?' she asked again in a gentler voice.
Sam took a deep breath 'I'm not crazy. But, but I saw it happen. Before it did I mean.'
Janet raised an eyebrow. Much as she wanted to believe her friend, and as many strange things she had seen since working on the Stargate project, seeing the future was a new.
'Are you sure? It's not just a dream that you mistook. Or one of Jolinars memories?'
'I am not crazy.' Sam repeated again, this time with even more vehemence. She glared at Janet before adding 'And I can tell the difference.' The memory of Daniel's short stay with Dr. Mackenzie flashed through her mind, and she struggled to control her shudder. What if no one believed her? She should have just stayed quiet, hoped these premonitions would go away or that she'd learn to live with them. Anything was better than spending the rest of her days in small, padded, white room.
'Sam.' She looked up into Janet's concerned eyes. 'Honey, I don't think you're crazy. When did this start? Have you had any more of these...' Sam frowned as the Doctor searched for an appropriate word, as she finally settled for '...visions?'
'Oh yeah. Just a few'
'Tell me.'
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The remainder of SG1 looked up hopefully when Janet entered the briefing room. Holding up her hands to forestall Jack and Daniels immediate queries after Sam she sat down at the briefing table and at the Generals nod of consent began to speak.
'She'll be fine, although I'm still not sure as to why she collapsed in the first place.'
'And her knowledge of SG8?' the General intoned.
Although it wouldn't have been visible to anybody else, to somebody who studied the Tau'ri as much as Teal'c, the slight hesitation in the Doctors reply and the uncertainty in her voice were blatant.
'Well firstly I gave the Major another cat scan. The results are ... interesting, to say the least.' She handed round several copies of the scans. Teal'c looked at his curiously, studying the various shades of colour that patterned the printout. After giving them another few minutes to study the sheets, the Doctor began again. 'The first sheet shows the scan when the entity was in her. Like I explained before, some areas of her brain were dormant, others much more active, like a stroke victim. However once the entity had left, her brain functions seemed to return to normal.' She indicated the second sheet. 'But now... its, I can't explain it, Sir. This part of her brain has become active again. It should be dormant.' She pointed to one area of colour on the last scan. 'It's beyond my experience.'
If Teal'c had been partial to expressing his emotions he would have frowned. Since he wasn't though, he asked 'Doctor Fraiser, although I am concerned over Major Carters condition, I do not see how this is relevant to the situation engaging SG8.' Staying quiet, General Hammond again, nodded his agreement to the question.
'Well, I want you to bear with me, because we're not quite sure. And keep your minds open.'
'Hang on a minute. What do you mean you're not quite sure?' Jack accused, leaning forward onto the table.
'And what do you mean by keep your minds open?' Daniel chimed in.
Teal'c kept stoically silent, but raised an eyebrow. Hammond gestured for Janet to continue. The lengthy pause before she started was apparent to all in the room this time, not just Teal'c.
'Well, after talking to Sam, it seems this isn't the first, uh, incident.'
'WHAT!' Jack's chair flew back against the wall, as he stood up. 'What the hell caused it to happen in the first place?'
Janet glared at the irate Colonel before continuing, pointedly looking away from O'Neill. 'We normally only use around 10% of our brain's total capacity, but in several cases of people displaying parapsychic abilities, they have shown unusual brain activity'.
'Like this in Sam?' Daniel interjected.
Janet nodded. Teal'c was about to enquire how this had occurred when the Doctor carried on. 'We can't be sure what caused it at the moment, there are any number of events that could have stimulated this brain activity; the entity, that virus you picked up from P9X 641, a remnant from Jolinar, being downloaded into a computer, even being shot twice with a zat' Teal'c noticed how O'Neill blanched at the last suggestion, still not sitting down. 'We really have no way of knowing since we can have no idea how any of these phenomena affect the brain chemistry.'
'Yeah, but why didn't she tell us?' The Colonel was not to be placated.
'Would you tell anybody if you thought you were having premonitions. Very accurate visions.' At Daniels calm voice saying the unbelievable, Jack sank back into his chair, missing the pointed glare from Hammond. 'That is what they were, right? And that's how she knew there were Jaffa on that planet?'
Again there was a pause before Fraiser continued. She looked down at the table, before raising her eyes' to meet those of four anxious men. Well three anxious men and a Jaffa, Teal'c amended to himself.
'Yes. Sir, as far as we know, since the Entity left her body, Major Carter has gained what appear to be precognetic abilities.'
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