A/N: Sorry for the delay but i've been packing and starting back at uni, my internet access is limited during the week, but posting should continue, there might just be a few days delay between posts.

"Colonel." Janet said as she walked into the infirmary.

"Have you thought of anything?" Jack asked.

"Jacob was able to give us an idea what triggered the retrovirus."

"What was that?" Jack inquired.

"The planet where you had to rescue Daniel and Teal'c. The Tok'ra abandoned that planet not just because the tunnels were unstable but because they hit something which gave off something which was toxic and attacked the naqquadah in the blood. Now with the Tok'ra short term exposure maybe up to 24 hours can be cure by their symbiotes, as is the case with Teal'c."

"And because Sam doesn't have a symbiote just the naqquadah it made her like this?" Jack guessed.

"Unfortunately yes."

"I shouldn't have called her in. We could have rescued them with out her. It's my fault."

"Colonel, you couldn't know this would happen. No one on Earth could have. You can't blame yourself, Sam wouldn't blame you. And even if she knew there was a chance of this happening she would have probably gone anyway. It was Daniel and Teal'c; she would go after them just like she would you."

"So what do we do now?"

"Jacob's going to look at Teal'c's blood work and see if he has an antigen. But right now we need to get her temperature down. I have a nurse preparing an ice bath. While we're doing that I want you to go and get something to eat."

"I want to stay with her."

"I know, but she's going to need you over the next few days and we need you to keep your strength up. Go and eat something and come back in half an hour."

"Janet..." Jack started.

"Don't make me called General Hammond and have him make it an order."

"Okay." Jack conceded.

"Well her temperature is down a degree." Janet announced. "Do you have anything?"

"Teal'c blood works shows nothing." Jacob replied.

"And I don't have any of the equipment or the time that the big drug companies who developed the anti-virus did and without a sample of what triggered...."

"Jacob, the pathogen is in the ground right? Down in the pit probably."

"Yes. Where are you going with this?"

"We need to send someone to collect a sample. Although it took the three or four hours to construct Sam's web."

"Dr Fraiser."

"Selmak." Janet said.

"The Tok'ra have a ship in the vicinity of that planet. Perhaps if we were to gate to a near by planet we provide assistance and ring a team down to collect the sample."

"That will work. Daniel and Teal'c will presumably want to go but Teal'c should stay here. I'll get a few people together while you talk to the Tok'ra." Janet said.

"We'll need permission." Jacob said.

"Jack will sign off on it. But someone else is in charge at the moment until Hammond gets back. If they say no, pick up the red phone. The President likes Sam."

"Doctor stay here and keep working on alternatives. We'll get you that sample." Jacob said.

"Daniel." Janet said slightly out of breath as she rushed into his lab.

"Janet is everything okay is Sam..."

"Sam's still the same. Jacob is going to contact the Tok'ra they have a ship in the vicinity of the planet and we need a soil sample and air sample from down in the pit. The Tok'ra can ring you in and out."

"You want me to go and collect the samples?"

"Yes. I ran into Hannah she's going to go with you and so if Ferretti."

"When do we leave?"

"As soon as possible so get geared up I'll have collections containers waiting for you in the gate room."

"Jack doesn't want to go?" Daniel asked.

"We're leaving him be for now. Going to get Jacob was one thing, this is another."

"I'll be ready in ten minutes." Daniel said.

"Thank you Daniel."

"Hey it's Sam. The woman is like the big sister I never had."

"I know."

"Do you know what she told me right before she passed out?"

"No."

"That I should ask you out."

"Really."

"Yes." Daniel confirmed.

"Maybe we should leave that discussion until Sam is better."

"Okay."

TBC