While Daniel and Riley were talking, Teal'c went off to medicate and Jack decieded to check up on the kids. He made his way to the infirmary and walked in to find Janet watching as Jesse tried to make Ethan feel better. "Don't worry, Eth," she said, as she tossed a red ball in the air only to have it go through the ceiling tiles. "Oops."

"Way to go, Sis," Ethan said, as he sat up. "I'm bored. Can't we go somewhere else?"

"Like where?" She shot a glance up at the hole in the ceiling. "We can't leave the SGC until we're cleared. You know how long those things can last."

"Yeah, but it's not fair. We're finally back home on earth, and we can't even go outside."

"I know, Eth." Jesse then spotted Jack standing in the doorway. "Hello, dad."

Janet turned to face Jack and shot him a smile. "I'll let you guys be alone."

"Thanks, Janet," Jack said, as he sat down on a stool next to them. "We need to talk."

"I bet," Ethan said, as he shot Jesse a smile.

"What?"

"It's just Ethan never really got the chance to talk to you guys," Jesse began, as she looked up at the hole in the tile. "He always wanted a chance, and ironically he got what he wants."

"Well, what shall we talk about?"

"I want to know what you're like," Ethan said, as he moved so that he was closer to Jack. "I never got to know you as much as the others did."

"I'm gonna leave you guys talk and go see where Riley went," Jesse said, as she got to her feet and headed for the door. "I'll be back in ten to check up on you, Eth."

"Riley's talking to Daniel," Jack called out, as she walked out the door, and then turned his attention on the boy in front of him. "Okay, what do you want to know?

"Everything."

"Okay." Jack then began to tell him his life story and Ethan just soaked it in.

It didn't take Jesse very long to find Riley and Daniel. From the look on Riley's face, they were deep into conversation and didn't want to be bothered. So she then took the opportunity to go have a chat with her mom. She found Carter in her lab running some tests on the serum. "Hi," she called out from the door, startling Carter. "Sorry, didn't mean to startle you."

"It's okay," Carter said, as she turned to face Jesse and shot her a smile. "How's your brother?"

"He's good, he's having a nice long chat with dad. He'll probably want one from you before too long." Jesse walked up, took up a vial of the serum in her hands, and began to play with it.

"Don't do that." Jesse set it down, and she began to fiddle with some of Carter's machines. "Stop it." She then smiled. "You remind me of Jack."

"Really? How so?"

"He fiddles with my stuff." Jesse quickly put her hands behind her back and shot her a smile. "It's okay. I was hoping you would stop by."

"Really, what for?"

"I need for you to tell me all you can about this serum. How is it made?"

"Riley told you. It's harvested from asgard slaves. He knows more about it than I do."

"How did you two meet?" Carter sat down on a stool as Jesse did only to watch a frown come across the girls face. "Jesse, you all right?"

"We meet the night of your guys' execution. He stopped me from going to attack Hathor and saved my life. I then turned my rage on him and gave him a beating."

"Really?"

"Yeah, then Cassie stopped me. She explained that he was a good guy. Then she handed me Ethan. I thought that I had lost him in the huge explosion at the house." She got to her feet and started to pace. "We've been on the run for our lives ever since. It was hard for us to raise Ethan, and now he's dependent on this stuff." She took up the vial and threw it across the wall. It exploded against the wall and she jumped back. "Wow, it never did that before."

Just then Riley and Daniel ran into the room with concern on their faces. "What happened?" Riley asked, as he ran up to Jesse's side and looked her over. "Are you okay?"

"I'm fine," she began, as she pointed at the burnt spot on the wall. "I just learned that's what happens when you throw some of the orange serum at a wall. It blows up."

"Really?" Daniel asked Carter, as he went over and touched the wall. "Wow. That's something."

Suddenly an alarm went off, and a voice came over the intercom. "Captain Carter and Daniel Jackson please report to the infirmary. Captain Carter and Daniel Jackson please report to the infirmary."

"Ethan," Jesse said, as she took off in a blur leaving them all behind her. She reached the infirmary in seconds only to find Ethan have a seizure on the bed with both Jack and Janet trying to hold him down. "Ethan?" Janet looked up at her with a scared look on her face. "What's wrong with him?"

"He won't stop," Janet explained, as she went to get a tranquilizer. "Hold him down, sir."

"He won't be able to." Ethan then threw Jack aside like he was more than a paper doll. "See, I told you." She then shot a glance at the door to see that they others have arrived. "What took you so long?"

"We don't have the ability to run as fast as you," Daniel said, as he watched as Ethan began to seizure again. "What's wrong with him?" Janet went over to Jack and helped him to his feet, only to have him shake his head to clear it.

"His body is adapting," Riley said and went to stand next to Ethan. "Jesse went through it."

"I don't remember it being this painful though," Jesse stated, as she grabbed onto Ethan, and held him down. "You think I would remember it."

"It wasn't as painful because you didn't have the orange serum in your blood fighting it." Riley took the syringe from Janet and nodded to Jesse. "Hold him."

"No, please, don't," Ethan cried out, as Jesse held him down as Riley stuck him in the arm with the needle. "You promised that I wouldn't get hurt." He then threw Jesse back, with enough force that she flew back into the wall and fell to the floor. "I hate you."

"Ethan, stop!" Riley ordered him, as he forced him to look at him. "You just hurt your sister. She would do anything to protect you."

"I don't care anymore."

"Really?" Riley then slugged him in the face, knocking him unconscious. "I don't care for your tone." He then went over to Jesse's side and helped her to her feet. "You all right?"

"I'm fine. I forgot how strong you can be, once the little buggers inside you activate. I don't remember being so mean though."

"He's going threw withdrawal," Janet said, as she came up to check Jesse out. "He threw you pretty hard."

"I'll be fine. What do you mean withdrawal? There's still some serum left."

"His body has rejected it. So he's in withdrawal for the moment. With whatever's inside of him, he's going to be a handful."

TBC