ROAD TO RECOVERY

Starzangel

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Title: Road To Recovery

Author: Starzangel

Disclaimer: Sadly, none of Stargate SG-1 is mine. I only borrowed the concept and characters to have fun (but gain no profit) writing this story, which is mine.

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Note: This is a collection of short fics that lead on from where my other story, 'Fallen Angel', ends. ('Fallen Angel': Daniel returns. A story inspired by 'Full Circle' / loosely based on the start of season 7.)

Stargate SG-1:

Road To Recovery

By

Starzangel

1.

GUARDIANS

Summary: Teal'c watches over an ill Daniel.

Guardians

Daniel Jackson almost totally blended in with the starched white sheets. Strands of light-brown hair stuck to his forehead and beads of sweat glistened in the dim light. His eyes moved restlessly behind their closed lids, pain lines deepened and his grey lips parted in a weak groan.

A tall, broad-shouldered, dark-skinned figure stood at the end of Daniel's bed, his hands clasped behind his straight back. The grim-faced Jaffa swallowed and slowly shifted his weight from one foot to the other, wishing he could ease his friend's suffering.

Movement caught the edge of Teal'c's vision and he turned to the doctor, a silent plea on his face that would have seemed emotionless to all but those who knew him.

Dr Fraiser shifted her gaze from her patient to acknowledge Teal'c's look. Tiredly, she slipped from her stool in front of the computer she'd been working on and crossed the SGC infirmary to the drugs cabinet. The doctor drew up a top-up dose of painkiller into a syringe and went over to Daniel's bedside.

Janet pressed a palm against Daniel's hot forehead and he stirred slightly. Her face troubled with empathy, the doctor injected the drug into the intravenous drip tube. The medication coursed through Daniel's circulatory system and he quietened, falling back into deep, healing sleep.

Janet Fraiser placed a comforting hand on Teal'c's arm for a moment, before going back to her paperwork.

Standing rigid, Teal'c remembered the time not so long ago when the situation had been reversed. He had lain in that bed recovering from the ill-effects of sharing his symbiote with Bra'tac, which had almost killed all three of them. Daniel, still an ascended being but in Human shape, had appeared beside the bed. Teal'c knew that if it were not for Daniel aiding him through his dreams while he lay at Death's door on a muddied beach littered with dead Jaffa, he would probably have crossed the threshold. Daniel had been his guardian through that time, as he had been for O'Neill when he was repeatedly tortured to death and revived by Ba'al. Now Daniel was in need and it was Teal'c's turn to be the guardian.

Above Colorado Springs the sky darkened as the sun slid below the horizon, but far down within Cheyenne Mountain Complex, Teal'c remained at his post watching over Daniel.

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