"Medical team to the embarkation room!" The Sergeant yelled into the loud speaker. Sam and Teal'c were fine, but they had returned through the gate carrying Daniel, who had been stabbed in the lower abdomen by a sharp rock after falling from the zat blast. Carter helped them to lift Daniel onto a gurney and Teal'c ran gracefully down the ramp, through several halls, and burst in on General Hammond's briefing with another SG team.
"Teal'c what's going on?" Teal'c didn't even take a second to catch his breath.
"Colonel O'Neill has been taken as a host to a Goa'uld." General Hammond looked completely horrified.
"Is he already in the infirmary?"
"He disabled Major Carter, Daniel Jackson, and myself and then left through the Stargate. However, I believe Daniel Jackson saw the address. He is currently in the infirmary with an injury." General Hammond nodded and dismissed Sg-6.
"Lead the way." In the infirmary, a nurse was stitching Daniel's wound already; a process he did not take happily to.
"General, I just wrote down the, ow! Sorry, I gave the address to Sam and she's checking it in the dialing computer. Sir, we have to go after him." He pleaded.
"I know son, don't worry. If the address checks out, I'll approve an immediate rescue mission with SG-3 on the assist." Daniel would have jumped up and hugged the General if he wasn't otherwise preoccupied. In the control room, Sam was already ordering an immediate dial of the coordinates and was overseeing a M.A.L.P.'s journey from storage to the gate room.
"Is everything handled here major?" Sam only nodded. Her anguish seemed to be beyond words. The General sensed this and placed a hand on her shoulder.
"Major…Sam, why don't you go and get cleaned up? There's nothing more you can do here." Sam nodded thankfully and stalked off to the women's locker room. She slammed the door shut behind her and glared around to make sure the room was empty. Without even taking her clothes off (not that it mattered as she was soaked from the trip to the planet), she stood in an icy shower, her tears mingling with the bitter cold water pouring down her face.
Her mind was full of thought of the Colonel; laughing as they told jokes over pizza and Star Wars at his house, lying in his arms in the Antarctic next to the second gate, and especially of the look on his face when he wouldn't leave her on a Goa'uld planet when he couldn't get through the shield. With these images darting around under her eyelids, Sam could barely breathe. She covered her face with her hands and slid down the blue-tiled shower wall and sat crying on the floor.
"Major Carter?" Teal'c had entered the room, and seeing Sam's bag on the floor, went to investigate. When he found her in the shower, she didn't even look up. He reached up slowly and turned off the water, also grabbing a towel that he wrapped around her shoulders. Teal'c sat on the ground next to her and placed an arm gently around her; an embrace that she imitated, hugging him around the middle and crying into his side. The two sat there silently for what seemed like hours, wondering how they were going to save Jack, wondering if they even could.