Ch 6

The next time Carter came to, there was a lot of shouting going on. Ropes were being lowered down towards them, and she could hear Daniel, Teal'c, and the Colonel all issuing orders. Except he wasn't the Colonel...

Struggling to sit up, she suddenly yelled, "He's a GOA'ULD! Daniel whatever you do don't let him out of here!"

She tried to back away as he hurried over to her, looking grim. He pushed up the damp sleeve of her shirt and injected her with something again. She glared at him until she was no longer able to keep herself awake.

The next time she woke up, she smelled the infirmary. She also realized that she felt properly dry for the first time in a while, and she was warm. Her head and leg still hurt, but the pain was dull and no longer almost unbearable. She opened her eyes cautiously and swept the room. Janet was smiling at her.

"Hey you. You gave everybody a pretty good scare."

"Where is everyone?" she asked, swallowing hard.

"They're debriefing General Hammond. They'll be back soon. Colonel O'Neill... Sam, calm down," Dr. Fraiser said firmly, holding her hands out, as Sam had immediately gone back into panic mode and was trying to get out of her hospital bed, despite the fresh cast on her leg and the various tubes and wires she was connected to.

"He told us what happened. He's not a Goa'uld, Sam. I did X-rays just to be sure, I knew you'd want to see them."

She pointed to the far right wall, where normal looking x-rays were indeed displayed. "But..." Sam started to argue.

"The bed of that river was made up of naquada. You two found an untapped resource, you're both going to be up for awards for it no doubt. There are traces of it in the water, and a lot of it got into the Colonel's cut, sort of injected into him from the rock that cut his leg. It's dissipating by the hour."

"Oh my god," Sam said suddenly, covering her face with her hands in embarrassment as she remembered how crazy she had been acting.

Janet sighed. "Nobody blames you, Sam, it was an honest mistake, especially with a bump on the head like you have," she tried to comfort her. "Honestly I'm amazed at how long you were conscious at all down there. From what Colonel O'Neill told me, you were pretty delirious, but it's good that you remained conscious as long as you did. Want me to fill you in?"

"Yeah," Sam said, swallowing hard as she remembered all the horrible things she had said to her CO, and how hurt he had looked by many of them... she sighed. This was not good.

"Daniel and Teal'c were met by some suspicious natives who decided to hold them prisoner first and ask questions later. They were waiting for you guys to rescue them while you guys were waiting for the same thing. Luckily, they eventually convinced the natives they weren't there to hurt or interfere in any way, and were allowed to look for you. Once they had their radios back, it wasn't hard to find you. Apparently you ah, resisted a little bit in the rescue attempt though. The Colonel had to knock you out with drugs and hoist you up out of the cavern you were in himself."

"Is he..."

"He's going to be fine. Seven stitches to the gash on his leg, a few minor scrapes..."

That wasn't what she was going to ask, Sam thought, resigning herself to grim embarrassment.

"How's the patient, Doc?" Jack asked with a grin, leading the way into the infirmary after the debrief, closely followed by Daniel and Teal'c.

He stopped in surprise as he saw that the curtain was pulled shut around Sam's bed.

"She says she doesn't want to see anybody ever again," Janet said with a sigh and a slightly amused look in her eyes, as though she were used to dealing with this lot of unreasonable children.

"Well, that's very Eliza Doolittle of her," Jack said, pulling back the curtain despite Janet's objection and Daniel's warnings.

Sam looked at him in surprise and her plan to ignore the lot of them flew out the window as she found herself unable to stop herself asking, "You've seen 'My Fair Lady?'"

"No!" Jack said defensively as he took a seat on the end of her bed.

Daniel and Janet burst into laughter as Daniel sat down heartily in the chair next to Sam's bed .

"I ah... was flipping through the channels one night and..." Jack started to explain.

"O'Neill, was that not the movie you and I watched last Saturday night?" Teal'c inquired politely, his tone a little too innocent to be genuine.

Jack looked around at everyone: Janet had her usual satisfied smirk, Daniel was sporting the goofy grin, Teal'c wore a rare smile. Even Carter was smiling sheepishly, clearly still embarrassed over the whole fiasco but glad that it wasn't the only source of amusement for everybody . Her eyes were still slightly glazed, indicating that she was still a bit loopy from medication and her injuries.

Suddenly he was so glad to be out of that damn hole, to be safe and dry and not under suspicion of being a Goa'uld that he started laughing too, and as Daniel and Teal'c burst into loud choruses of "The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain!" Sam grabbed her head in obviously faked pain, Janet started objecting that they were disturbing her other patients, and Jack could only shrug sheepishly and mutter, "Ohfercryinoutloud."

The End.

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A/N: Wow, I would consider this my worst story and I think it's probably gotten the most reviews. Thanks everybody, especially the sweeties who said they didn't want the story to end and the ones worried about a happy ending) There's a short epilogue to come, shouldn't take me long to type up once I can find the paper I scribbled it on!