3 months later
"Incoming wormhole!"
"Are we receiving a signal?" General Hammond asked as he heard several thumps against the iris.
"Yes sir. It's Max."
"Open the iris!"
As the iris slid open rocks started flying through the gate striking some of the SF's positioned around the room. Max soon cam flying through, literally. She hit the ramp and flipped a few times before sliding the rest of the way down.
"Medical emergency to the in the gate room!"
General Hammond rushed over to the motionless girl, followed shortly by Dr. Fraiser and her team.
"Sir." Janet said indicating she need him to move. Max had come to rest on her side, her back was facing Janet but she could see that Max was in bad shape. Carefully she rolled Max onto her back, horrified at what she saw. Max was severely beaten, her face was bloody and swollen, the injuries recent yet dark bruises had already began to form.
"I need a neck brace and a backboard now!"
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"Report." Hammond whispered causing Janet to jump.
"I'm sorry sir. I should have come."
"It's alright."
"It's hard to see this." Janet looked up at him worry and concern clearly played across her face. "It looks like she's been stoned. There are bruises everywhere, there appears to be a broken rib and a concussion but I need to wait for the test results to be sure. And there's this. She came back without shoes. My guess, whoever did this, did it with her own boots. The good thing is they didn't break it."
General Hammond looked at the distinct boot print bruise then back to her face. It had been a long time since he'd seen someone so beaten. "Will she be okay?"
"We gave her blood."
"Is that safe?"
"With her adaptive body, yes. But she does have human blood, O neg to be exact. She should heal quickly, there isn't even a scar from the wound she left with. What I'm worried about is brain damage. She was struck several times in the head."
"Medical team to the gate room." The loud speaker cried. General Hammond, Janet, and two nurses took off.
"What's going on?" Hammond asked.
"It's SG-1 sir. They're back ten hours early."
SG-1 stepped through the gate, mud caked and looking pissed. Thankfully they didn't appear to be injured.
"What happened to you?"
"Planet was booby trapped." Jack scoffed.
"Any injuries?" Janet asked as they moved down the ramp and stood in front of her.
"Carter got sliced by one."
"I'm fine sir." Sam shot him a look of death.
"All of you report to the infirmary."
"Janet I'm fine."
"Major Carter the wound appears deep." Teal'c added.
"Thanks." They moved into the infirmary and Sam took off her button down shirt leaving the plain black tee. The cut on her forearm was bandaged but blood was already seeping through.
"It doesn't even." Sam stopped mid sentence and looked across the room. Janet saw who she was looking at.
"Sam." Janet tried to get her attention before Sam rushed over to Max.
Too late. She was already by Max's bedside everyone else close behind.
"Whoa." Jack said as he moved to the right of Sam. "What happened?"
"We don't know. She wasn't conscious when she came through the gate." Janet sighed. "Rocks came through first, then Max. We aren't sure if she was thrown or she took a running leap on the other side."
"Wait." Jonas looked shocked. "Your saying she was stoned?"
"It looks like she was beaten first, then stoned."
Sam swallowed a lump and turned to face Janet, her hand resting on Max's bed. "What planet was she on?"
"You can't go."
"Janet I need to know."
"Carter."
"Colonel, I ju." Sam winced as a hand clasped onto her wound, there was a warm feeling then nothing.
"Hey," Sam gave her a 'I can't believe you just did that' look.
"Well she's awake." Jack smiled. "How ya feelin'?"
"I."
"And don't you dare say your fine." Jack threatened light heartedly.
"I hurt."
"Can you heal yourself?" Janet asked, wishing she had asked the last time Max was here.
"Not really."
"That's not a no." Jonas stated.
"There was a theory, before the Goa'uld." Max coughed causing pain to shot through her body. "Use another like a conductor. But there was no need for this since only a very few could not heal."
"Hey you can use me." Jack offered.
"Wouldn't work, men and women have different energies."
"Oh." Jack almost sounded disappointed.
"Then I'll do it." Sam shrugged.
"No one's doing anything." Janet cut in. "You said it was only a theory. You have no clue how it will effect Sam, or your self. I can't let you do it."
"Aw come on Doc. What could it hurt?" Jack asked.
"Please. My head hurts bad."
"I can give you medicine for that."
"Your pain medicines didn't work last time."
"You never told me that!" Janet was surprised. "We could have tried something else."
"Janet, let her try this." Sam said, half curious to see what would happen.
"I don't like it. But. If you promise to stop if anything seems off or if there is any sort of pain."
"I will." Max nodded and turned to Sam. "Are you sure? Janet's right I don't really know what will happen."
"No I don't mind." Sam smiled. "What do I do?"
"Put one hand on my forehead and I'll hold the other one."
"If you let go the it will stop the process." Max told Sam.
"Don't worry I won't."
"If anything is wrong. Let go. I don't want to hurt you."
"I will."
"Janet she's lying." Max stated.
"Hey!"
"I'll keep an eye on her." Janet smiled.
"Here we go." Max said, closing her eyes.
"Whoa."
"Carter?"
"It's alright sir. It feels strange that's all."
Janet, satisfied for the moment, turned her attention to Max. the swelling was going down and the bruises were fading but Max was beginning to sweat. The bruises all but faded away and Janet silently wondered what was going on under the bandages.
"Hey doc." Jack called snapping her from her thoughts.
Looking back Janet saw Sam with her eyes closed trying to hid the pain she was in. Janet moved to their clasped hands and pulled them apart. Sam fell to her knees coughing. Max passed out.
"Damn it Carter." Jack picked her up and placed her on the bed next to Max's.
"You were to let go if it hurt." Janet scolded.
"It wasn't that bad." Sam tried to sit up causing another coughing fit.
"What happened here?" General Hammond asked as he walked in. "Major? Dr?"
"Max woke up and I'm really not sure what happened but she used Sam as a sort of go between to heal herself." Janet saw the red bandage on Sam's arm and moved over to look at it. Cursing to herself for forgetting about it.
Sam felt someone remove the bandage on her arm. "Sam what happened?"
"Max healed it." Sam answered coughing again.
"What? When!" Janet demanded.
"She grabbed my arm, when she woke up." Sam squeezed her eyes shut as the coughing and pain increased. "Ah, my chest feels like it's on fire!"
"Try not to talk." Janet moved over to the drug cabinet. She pulled removed a syringe and the sedative, filling it quickly as Sam's coughing slowed. Moving back to Sam's side she injected her.
"Janet, no." more coughing and a look of betrayal, Janet knew how much Sam hated to be sedated.
"Good night Sam."
"That's low." Jack said as Sam's breath evened out.
"Colonel." The general's tone was warning. "Dr. what happened here?"
Janet moved next to Max and removed one of the bandages on her head. She was amazed to find the wound was completely healed. "What ever she did sir, it worked. I won't know more until I run some tests."
"Colonel, Teal'c, Jonas, we'll debrief in ten minutes. I want you to get cleaned up first. Dr. I want to know exactly how those two are doing as soon as you do." With that the general turned and left.
Janet sighed then went about getting blood samples from both Sam and Max. She then filled out the proper forms and called for two of her nurses.
"Send these to the lab, they're waiting for them. I need chest x-rays and MRI's on both Sam and Max. I also want Max's right leg x-rayed again. Bring me the results as soon as they get here, along with Max's original results."
"Yes Ma'am."
Janet retreated to her office, she hated the waiting. She was drained but she decided to start working on the pile of paper work on her desk, instead of grabbing a quick nap.
"Dr."
Janet felt someone shaking her. Her mind struggled for a moment. 'Damn it! I fell asleep.' She thought as she quickly sat up. She was still at her desk, looking over she saw an Airman holding a fairly large folder. The test results.
"Thank you Airman." She said taking the folder. There were three folders inside, one marked Major Samantha Carter, the other two were Max's with a time. 'Sam first.' Janet thought. She flipped through the results, everything was normal. 'Okay, maybe the pain was a side effect.' She then tuned to Max's folders, first skimming the original results. She was very close on her original evaluation. There were two broken ribs, not one; her lower left lung had collapsed; she had swelling on the brain; and there were no visible fractures on her leg. Okay on to the good news.
"No sir. We saw no life forms." Teal'c stopped when he saw Janet in the door way.
"Ah, Dr. come in." General Hammond stood.
"Thank you." Janet moved to the briefing table and sat down. "Please continue."
"That's alright Dr. how are the girls?" The general asked.
"Max had major damage to her brain, collapsed lung, two broken ribs, and the obvious cuts and bruises." Janet took said in one breath. "Now the bruises and cuts from her head, neck and shoulders are gone. There are no signs she ever had trauma to the head, and her lungs are fine. However, her ribs are still broken, well more like cracked-which is better but they are still going to hurt. Her arms, back and legs are still covered with bruises and a few minor cuts. All in all she's in much better condition now."
"And the Major?"
"She's fine."
"Hey doc, we were there. She didn't look fine to me."
"The only thing I can think of is the pain was some sort of side effect. Think of it like electricity, it would have traveled up her arm across her chest and down the other arm. We have no idea how long Major Carter was in pain before I broke them apart. It might be very effective in small doses. But I recommend that whatever Max did not be done again. Sam should be fine when she wakes up, which should be soon."
"Um."
"Yes Colonel you can go sit with them." Janet answered before Jack could ask his question.
"General?"
"Go ahead son. We're finished here."
"Incoming wormhole!"
"Are we receiving a signal?" General Hammond asked as he heard several thumps against the iris.
"Yes sir. It's Max."
"Open the iris!"
As the iris slid open rocks started flying through the gate striking some of the SF's positioned around the room. Max soon cam flying through, literally. She hit the ramp and flipped a few times before sliding the rest of the way down.
"Medical emergency to the in the gate room!"
General Hammond rushed over to the motionless girl, followed shortly by Dr. Fraiser and her team.
"Sir." Janet said indicating she need him to move. Max had come to rest on her side, her back was facing Janet but she could see that Max was in bad shape. Carefully she rolled Max onto her back, horrified at what she saw. Max was severely beaten, her face was bloody and swollen, the injuries recent yet dark bruises had already began to form.
"I need a neck brace and a backboard now!"
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"Report." Hammond whispered causing Janet to jump.
"I'm sorry sir. I should have come."
"It's alright."
"It's hard to see this." Janet looked up at him worry and concern clearly played across her face. "It looks like she's been stoned. There are bruises everywhere, there appears to be a broken rib and a concussion but I need to wait for the test results to be sure. And there's this. She came back without shoes. My guess, whoever did this, did it with her own boots. The good thing is they didn't break it."
General Hammond looked at the distinct boot print bruise then back to her face. It had been a long time since he'd seen someone so beaten. "Will she be okay?"
"We gave her blood."
"Is that safe?"
"With her adaptive body, yes. But she does have human blood, O neg to be exact. She should heal quickly, there isn't even a scar from the wound she left with. What I'm worried about is brain damage. She was struck several times in the head."
"Medical team to the gate room." The loud speaker cried. General Hammond, Janet, and two nurses took off.
"What's going on?" Hammond asked.
"It's SG-1 sir. They're back ten hours early."
SG-1 stepped through the gate, mud caked and looking pissed. Thankfully they didn't appear to be injured.
"What happened to you?"
"Planet was booby trapped." Jack scoffed.
"Any injuries?" Janet asked as they moved down the ramp and stood in front of her.
"Carter got sliced by one."
"I'm fine sir." Sam shot him a look of death.
"All of you report to the infirmary."
"Janet I'm fine."
"Major Carter the wound appears deep." Teal'c added.
"Thanks." They moved into the infirmary and Sam took off her button down shirt leaving the plain black tee. The cut on her forearm was bandaged but blood was already seeping through.
"It doesn't even." Sam stopped mid sentence and looked across the room. Janet saw who she was looking at.
"Sam." Janet tried to get her attention before Sam rushed over to Max.
Too late. She was already by Max's bedside everyone else close behind.
"Whoa." Jack said as he moved to the right of Sam. "What happened?"
"We don't know. She wasn't conscious when she came through the gate." Janet sighed. "Rocks came through first, then Max. We aren't sure if she was thrown or she took a running leap on the other side."
"Wait." Jonas looked shocked. "Your saying she was stoned?"
"It looks like she was beaten first, then stoned."
Sam swallowed a lump and turned to face Janet, her hand resting on Max's bed. "What planet was she on?"
"You can't go."
"Janet I need to know."
"Carter."
"Colonel, I ju." Sam winced as a hand clasped onto her wound, there was a warm feeling then nothing.
"Hey," Sam gave her a 'I can't believe you just did that' look.
"Well she's awake." Jack smiled. "How ya feelin'?"
"I."
"And don't you dare say your fine." Jack threatened light heartedly.
"I hurt."
"Can you heal yourself?" Janet asked, wishing she had asked the last time Max was here.
"Not really."
"That's not a no." Jonas stated.
"There was a theory, before the Goa'uld." Max coughed causing pain to shot through her body. "Use another like a conductor. But there was no need for this since only a very few could not heal."
"Hey you can use me." Jack offered.
"Wouldn't work, men and women have different energies."
"Oh." Jack almost sounded disappointed.
"Then I'll do it." Sam shrugged.
"No one's doing anything." Janet cut in. "You said it was only a theory. You have no clue how it will effect Sam, or your self. I can't let you do it."
"Aw come on Doc. What could it hurt?" Jack asked.
"Please. My head hurts bad."
"I can give you medicine for that."
"Your pain medicines didn't work last time."
"You never told me that!" Janet was surprised. "We could have tried something else."
"Janet, let her try this." Sam said, half curious to see what would happen.
"I don't like it. But. If you promise to stop if anything seems off or if there is any sort of pain."
"I will." Max nodded and turned to Sam. "Are you sure? Janet's right I don't really know what will happen."
"No I don't mind." Sam smiled. "What do I do?"
"Put one hand on my forehead and I'll hold the other one."
"If you let go the it will stop the process." Max told Sam.
"Don't worry I won't."
"If anything is wrong. Let go. I don't want to hurt you."
"I will."
"Janet she's lying." Max stated.
"Hey!"
"I'll keep an eye on her." Janet smiled.
"Here we go." Max said, closing her eyes.
"Whoa."
"Carter?"
"It's alright sir. It feels strange that's all."
Janet, satisfied for the moment, turned her attention to Max. the swelling was going down and the bruises were fading but Max was beginning to sweat. The bruises all but faded away and Janet silently wondered what was going on under the bandages.
"Hey doc." Jack called snapping her from her thoughts.
Looking back Janet saw Sam with her eyes closed trying to hid the pain she was in. Janet moved to their clasped hands and pulled them apart. Sam fell to her knees coughing. Max passed out.
"Damn it Carter." Jack picked her up and placed her on the bed next to Max's.
"You were to let go if it hurt." Janet scolded.
"It wasn't that bad." Sam tried to sit up causing another coughing fit.
"What happened here?" General Hammond asked as he walked in. "Major? Dr?"
"Max woke up and I'm really not sure what happened but she used Sam as a sort of go between to heal herself." Janet saw the red bandage on Sam's arm and moved over to look at it. Cursing to herself for forgetting about it.
Sam felt someone remove the bandage on her arm. "Sam what happened?"
"Max healed it." Sam answered coughing again.
"What? When!" Janet demanded.
"She grabbed my arm, when she woke up." Sam squeezed her eyes shut as the coughing and pain increased. "Ah, my chest feels like it's on fire!"
"Try not to talk." Janet moved over to the drug cabinet. She pulled removed a syringe and the sedative, filling it quickly as Sam's coughing slowed. Moving back to Sam's side she injected her.
"Janet, no." more coughing and a look of betrayal, Janet knew how much Sam hated to be sedated.
"Good night Sam."
"That's low." Jack said as Sam's breath evened out.
"Colonel." The general's tone was warning. "Dr. what happened here?"
Janet moved next to Max and removed one of the bandages on her head. She was amazed to find the wound was completely healed. "What ever she did sir, it worked. I won't know more until I run some tests."
"Colonel, Teal'c, Jonas, we'll debrief in ten minutes. I want you to get cleaned up first. Dr. I want to know exactly how those two are doing as soon as you do." With that the general turned and left.
Janet sighed then went about getting blood samples from both Sam and Max. She then filled out the proper forms and called for two of her nurses.
"Send these to the lab, they're waiting for them. I need chest x-rays and MRI's on both Sam and Max. I also want Max's right leg x-rayed again. Bring me the results as soon as they get here, along with Max's original results."
"Yes Ma'am."
Janet retreated to her office, she hated the waiting. She was drained but she decided to start working on the pile of paper work on her desk, instead of grabbing a quick nap.
"Dr."
Janet felt someone shaking her. Her mind struggled for a moment. 'Damn it! I fell asleep.' She thought as she quickly sat up. She was still at her desk, looking over she saw an Airman holding a fairly large folder. The test results.
"Thank you Airman." She said taking the folder. There were three folders inside, one marked Major Samantha Carter, the other two were Max's with a time. 'Sam first.' Janet thought. She flipped through the results, everything was normal. 'Okay, maybe the pain was a side effect.' She then tuned to Max's folders, first skimming the original results. She was very close on her original evaluation. There were two broken ribs, not one; her lower left lung had collapsed; she had swelling on the brain; and there were no visible fractures on her leg. Okay on to the good news.
"No sir. We saw no life forms." Teal'c stopped when he saw Janet in the door way.
"Ah, Dr. come in." General Hammond stood.
"Thank you." Janet moved to the briefing table and sat down. "Please continue."
"That's alright Dr. how are the girls?" The general asked.
"Max had major damage to her brain, collapsed lung, two broken ribs, and the obvious cuts and bruises." Janet took said in one breath. "Now the bruises and cuts from her head, neck and shoulders are gone. There are no signs she ever had trauma to the head, and her lungs are fine. However, her ribs are still broken, well more like cracked-which is better but they are still going to hurt. Her arms, back and legs are still covered with bruises and a few minor cuts. All in all she's in much better condition now."
"And the Major?"
"She's fine."
"Hey doc, we were there. She didn't look fine to me."
"The only thing I can think of is the pain was some sort of side effect. Think of it like electricity, it would have traveled up her arm across her chest and down the other arm. We have no idea how long Major Carter was in pain before I broke them apart. It might be very effective in small doses. But I recommend that whatever Max did not be done again. Sam should be fine when she wakes up, which should be soon."
"Um."
"Yes Colonel you can go sit with them." Janet answered before Jack could ask his question.
"General?"
"Go ahead son. We're finished here."