Back on the base in the infirmary everyone was rushing around trying to figure out how to help Major Carter's current situation. Janet had asked Jack to wait outside just till they got Sam a little more comfortable, so all he could do was sit and wait and hope everything was going to work out fine. Although judging by the look on Jacob's face as he stood around a monitor screen talking to Dr Frasier, that he managed to see when he poked his head around the corner to see what was going on, he had to prepare himself for anything good or bad.

Jacob left the infirmary and leaned his back up against the wall and slowly slid himself down to the floor till he was almost sitting down and rested his head against the wall. He thought he was alone in the corridor he hadn't noticed Jack sitting just a short distance from him.

"Jacob, how is she?" he asked although by the look on his face he had his answer

Jack walked down the corridor to where the older man sat and sat down beside him. Jacob had been there for him to talk to in the past when he needed to talk to him, especially with the stuff over Kanan, but right now he looked like he could use someone to talk to.

"I did it, it's my fault, I should be in there, not her" Jacob said

"You did what Jake" Jack asked since he wasn't making much sense

"She's ill because of me" he said

"How?" Jack asked

"Does it matter?" Jacob replied

"Well yeah, I might be able to help" he said

Jacob got to his feet "Jack, Jack, Jack" he let out a slightly amused laugh at what had just been said "you don't get it do you, all the technology I can use and I can't help her, so how can you" he asked abruptly getting to his feet.

"OK Jake listen to me, its just the flu that's all, granted a bad case of the flu, but it's just the flu, doc Frasier will have her as good as new in no time, don't worry she'll be just fine" he said trying to convince himself of what he had just said as well as Jacob. But he couldn't Jacob's current state was enough to see to that, in all the years he'd know the man he'd never once seen him like this.

A silence filled the corridor where the two men waited it seemed to last forever but only a few minutes past

"We were being attacked" Jacob said

"Who? the Tok'ra" Jack asked

"We couldn't see them, they used the same type technology as us but it was more advanced, we had no way to know" Jacob said

"Know what?" Jack asked

"Their weapons contained a poison" he continued

"Oh" he replied looking down at the floor

"Its effects were immediate, we were loosing a lot of good people, when the opportunity came I made it to the gate and contacted George to see if some backup could be sent to help out while we evacuated our base" Jacob said. "SG-1 were the first to arrive with SG-3 to provided cover fire for us while as many as possible made it though the gate" he continued

"As they do" Jack replied

"I turned my back for a minute to help an injured Tok'ra I never saw it" Jacob said

"Saw what?" Jack asked

"I heard Sam, shouting at me to get out of the way, she was running towards me, so I knew she'd seen something, but I couldn't see him, I should have seen him" Jacob said in his increasingly distressed state

"I take it Sam" Jack would have finished his sentence but Selmac started to speak in Jacob's place.

"Forgive me host, he's not dealing with this situation very well" Selmac said

"Well, what do ya think, he'd be doing, he's kid is in the next room in from what I can gather rough shape at the minute" Jack replied slight agitated at the fact he was talking to Selmac.

"During the evacuation your Major Carter, shielded my host from getting shot with the poison by allowing herself to be injected with it" Selmac said pausing for a minute and allowing Jacob to speak again.

"We got back to the SGC Dr Frasier gave her a clean bill of health, the poison didn't have any effect on humans just the Tok'ra" Jacob said

"What's all this got to do with Sam now though, I'm guessing this was month's ago" Jack replied

"Before she knew about Connor" Jacob replied

"So this has nothing to do with those events then? Jack asked hoping for the right answer but some how he just knew he wasn't going to hear what he wanted

"I never thought it would cause any harm to her, she was given a full medical, nothing was found" Jacob replied

"Yeah, so you've said" Jack replied

"She carried Jolinar that's what the problem is, why she's sick" Jacob continued

"I'm sorry Jake you've lost me" Jack said a little confused as to where the conversation was heading

"The poison, it was designed to kill the symbiote and its host, Dr Frasier ran tests on some of the Tok'ra that later died on the base, she found that the poison works sort of like a cancer, it would attach itself to the protein marker left in our bodies caused by becoming a host, she still has the protein marker left by Jolinar Jack" he said

"But she's not a host so she's going to get better right? Jack asked

He didn't need to answer that, he could tell the answer just by looking at him

"How long?" Jack asked

"Twenty four hours maximum" he replied

"That's it?" Jack asked

"I'm sorry Jack I can't help on this one, there's nothing I can do" Jacob said walking back to where he sat and rested his hand on his shoulder.

Jack stood up and walked away from Jacob without saying a word "where are you going Jack?" he asked

He didn't reply he just kept on walking trying to get the news to sink in.

A/N Keep the tissues handy there's more