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"Janet?" Sam stood as the doctor entered the hallway outside the infirmary.
Janet raised a placating hand. "He's stable." She sighed. "We were able to get a steady heartbeat, and he's breathing on his own again."
Sam looked to the two men beside her, all three of them still fully geared, and then back to Fraiser. "Can we see him?"
Janet nodded. "You can go in, but he's not awake."
Jack took a step forward. "What's the matter with him?"
Folding her hands in front of her, grasping Daniel's chart, Janet sighed. "That's a little trickier." She answered. "Honestly, I don't know. As I said, he's not conscious and he doesn't have rapid eye movement –"
"Is he in a coma?" Sam interrupted.
"No." the doctor dismissed. "An MRI and an EEG showed brain activity inconsistent with a coma." Janet shrugged helplessly. "I can't explain it. He's not sleeping and he's not comatose. The most I can tell you right now is that he is alive. I'm afraid until I know more about what happened, I can't give you any answers, and I can't treat Daniel." She paused momentarily, "You don't know what happened? If he touched something or..."
Jack sighed in frustration and dropped his head, staring at the ground. "Well, it is Daniel." He answered mirthlessly.
Janet just stared for a minute, wanting very much to give the remaining members of SG1 the answers they wanted to hear. Before she could say anything else, a nurse joined them in the hallway.
"I'm sorry to interrupt, Dr. Fraiser, but General Hammond would like to see all of you in ten minutes. He'd like to debrief." She informed them.
Janet nodded. "Thank you, Lieutenant." She turned to Colonel O'Neill. "Colonel, I'm going to check on Daniel once more and then head over to the briefing room. There's nothing more you can do for him right now, so I suggest you use the ten minutes to get changed."
O'Neill nodded wearily and removed his cap, bending the rim anxiously as he turned and walked away. Teal'c nodded solemnly as he followed, and Sam gave her whispered thanks and gave the doctor's shoulder a light squeeze.
Sighing again, Janet turned and pushed through the double doors, planning to stop first in her office to change out of her own gate travel gear before checking on Daniel, hoping that maybe in the five minutes it would take her to get back into her normal uniform, something would change with his condition so that she wouldn't have to report the same uncertain news to General Hammond.