Stigmatised

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Gater101

S~J~S~J~S~J

Frozen, I turn towards the beds and look at the figure under the swarm of now unmoving medics and nurses and doctors. I walk towards the bed and look down at the motionless body and tears spring instantly into my eyes.

I look up when I hear the soft patter of a woman's bear feet on the floor beside me and I remember Sam. I look at her pale, frozen features and reach out and pull her close to my body. She curls her head into my chest and I can feel my checked shirt begin to dampen under her eyes.

"Sam, I'm so sorry," I mutter but I know that my words are nowhere near enough to comfort her – they are not even enough to comfort me. I had lost one of my best friends and so had she, and the best I could do was 'sorry'.

Tears clog my throat and burn my eyes but I try not let them fall, trying to be strong for Sam.

"Dr. Jackson, Colonel O'Neill is ready to be moved out to the Air Force Hospital. Will you be accompanying him, or will Major Carter?" Dr Warner asks of me and I try and ignore him. "Dr Jackson?"

I turn to him with wet eyes and a wet face.

"I'll stay here. Sam can go with Jack." I turn back around and watch as Janet's body is wheeled away, obviously down to the morgue.

"What happened, Daniel?" Sam asks me later, as we sit in her room as she gets ready to go with Jack.

I look at her in a way that tells her she doesn't want to know.

"Daniel, I have to know."

I continue to look at her and then nod.

"Okay, well, Jamron is Apophis. Kynthia knew this and still allowed it to happen. Apophis approached-"

"Daniel, I know all of this. Get to the point. What happened to Jack and Janet?" She asks with fresh tears in her eyes.

"Well, Jamron is Apophis as I told you. The device in her heart? Yeah, it wasn't a bomb, it was a transport vessel that disintegrated after it went through the 'gate releasing the symbiote. Don't ask how because even I know we thought that thing inside her was solid. Anyway, Jack went down to the lab and she was going crazy, screeching and threatening and the usual Goa'uld-y attitude. Then she pulled out a hand device and blasted Janet..." Tears spring into my eyes and I close my eyes to try and encourage them to leave. "Then when I arrived she was using the hand device on Jack. Everyone seemed to shocked to do anything, it seemed as though they were under some sort of spell. It was horrible Sam. I couldn't move, then from nowhere there was a shot from a gun. It was Teal'c." My words are severely disjointed, I know this and I can't seem to fix it. "That's when the klaxons went and everyone seemed to snap out of whatever they were under. That's all I remember until I made it to the infirmary. And Janet..."

Sam is by my side in seconds and we cry for a few emotive minutes until there is a knock on her door.

"Yes?" She asks as she answers it.

"Are you ready ma'am?" A young male airman asks.

"Yes."

With that Sam turns to me and smiles "You can stay here as long as you want." And then she leaves.

I look about and realize there is somewhere else I have to be.

END

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