"Don't try to move son, you are injured very badly" the white haired man said as the patient blinked several times.
"Do you know where you are?" he asked, a soothing smile on his lips, reaching up to his eyes.
All he was able to do was blink his eyes and very slightly nod his head since he was completely strapped in and unable to move, he didn't know if that was because he was weak, or was he actually strapped in, or was he paralyzed, the horror of that thought showed in his eyes and his mind shouted at him to rise from the bed.
"You can't move now, son, don't try to" the old man tried to sooth him with a gentle voice.
"Do you know what happened?"
What DID happen? He thought to himself, he could vaguely remember driving but he wasn't sure if that had anything to do with it, he also remembered some sort of explosion but he surly couldn't figure out what that had to do with anything.
He slightly shook his head, answering the negative to the man's question.
"Well you just rest now" his eyes drifted upward to signal the nurse on his other side to insert the syringe full of sedative into his IV line. Moments later his vision became blurry and his eyes were too heavy to keep open any longer, he drifted off.
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"Sir?" the nervous corporal stood by General Hammond's office door at Cheyenne Mountain Complex awaiting his authorization to enter.
"Come in" the General ordered, his face still buried in the file he was reviewing, he asked without looking up.
"Have all personnel reported for duty?"
"No Sir" came a mumbled answer, though it did cause George to lift his eyes at the tall slender woman standing in front of him.
"Who's late?" he asked, his voice stern and hard as the poor corporal's knees threatened to crumble beneath her, she had just transferred from the academy not even a month ago and she still feared most of the things she saw and the people she met.
Since late the previous night George received an urgent message that something was wrong, and that the base should go on alert, which meant recalling everyone that had left the base. And that meant most of the people since he had just given them all a few days of down time, only leaving emergency personnel at the base.
"Dr. Daniel Jackson" she answered.
"Oh he's always late, I'm sure he'll show up in a couple of hours, he can't tell time" The General joked mostly to himself since the young woman probably didn't know Daniel as well as everyone else did.
"There's more Sir" her voice was a tender whisper. George's attention went to the Corporal's face as he nodded slightly for her to continue.
"Major Samantha Carter and Colonel Jack O'Neill"
"What about Teal'c?" the General asked fearing his number one team was missing.
"He never left Sir" she answered softly
"Did you try reaching them at their apartments?" he asked as she nodded
"OK send the SF's to each of their addresses" he ordered.
"Ah, Sir, Col. Makepeace already ordered that, the apartments were empty, they are no where to be found and all their cell phones are unreachable"
That made George even more worried then before, the alert came from an unknown source and now his best team is actually missing?
"Check the local hospitals and morgues" he ordered but his voice trembled as he said it and even the young woman could hear the fear behind those words.
"Yes Sir" she saluted and turned to leave.
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