A Candle in the Dark chapter 4
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A/N: there seem to a lot of you who are sceptical Sam would have tried such a thing, but don't forget my original summary; particularly the "Is some other force controlling her?" bit, so bear that in mind in the irrationalness (is that even a word?) of her decision…
(This chapter is more kinda short, I wrote this in a bad mood and I apologise for nothing. so beware)
They were all sitting in the surprisingly spacious vehicle, except for the medical team, who were still tending to Sam.
Jack was absorbed in thought, but Teal'c saw to interrupt him.
"O'Neill, are you okay?"
Jack looked up and snapped
"Oh yeah, super. My 2IC is lying there and its my fault."
Daniel looked up surprised and was about to say something, but O'Neill got there first.
"Sorry Teal'c." Jack sighed as he rubbed his temples. Daniel was still wondering how the other man was possibly to blame.
"Err, Jack, how is this your fault?"
"I froze. I know what to do in that type of situation and I didn't do it."
Janet who had been half listening to this conversation chose this moment to interrupt.
"Colonel, you're in shock. And I'm assuming its you that applied the tourniquet"
Jack looked up and nodded vaguely
"Well, that probably saved the Major's life. As it is, the amount of blood she has lost has me quite worried, if you hadn't have acted as you did, she would have bled to death."
"Doc, I know how to do CPR and I just stood there." Jack almost whispered, baring his soul for her to see.
Daniel chose this moment to butt in again.
"Jack, so do I, but that didn't stop me from going blank and forgetting"
"Colonel, being in a battle situation is completely different to facing such things in a supposed safe environment." sighed Janet "For starters; in a combat situation adrenaline is coursing through your system, helping you make split second decisions. Going into shock slows all those reactions down."
After a slight pause she continued.
"Its NOT you fault" she enunciated each word carefully, praying that it would sink into the stubborn man's mind.
Feeling nothing else she could say would make much of a difference, she turned back around to tend to her patient.
Eventually after a journey that seemed to last forever, the ambulance arrived at the mountain, and Sam was wheeled out on the gurney into the lift, heading for the infirmary. Somehow, the gurney with Sam, Jack, Teal'c, Daniel, Janet and two unnamed medical staff all managed to squeeze into the lift together and waited for the journey down to level 27; the infirmary.
Once there, Janet, Sam and the medical staff all hurried over to the operating theater to perfect the makeshift stitches performed in the ambulance and put a cast on Sam's wrist. Daniel tried to follow but was soon stopped by one of the nursing staff, leading them to beds in the infirmary to allow them to wait for Sam and so that the nurse could check them over.
Eventually stitching and so forth was over and done with and SG1 were all in the infirmary. Doctor Fraiser came back over to check on them all looking very tired and slightly sad. She then proceeded to take out (in SG1s opinion) her most prized possession- her penlight, and opened Sam's left eye to look at her reactions.
"What the hell?" murmured Fraiser looking puzzled.
"Doctor Fraiser is something wrong?" questioned Teal'c
"Err, yeah" said Janet, quite distracted.
The male members of SG1 looked up puzzled and saw what had Janet so perplexed. Glancing at Sam's eyes, expecting to see glittering blue eyes, they were shocked to see total blackness: the pupil, the iris, cornea, everything.
Suddenly with startling speed Sam sat up, eyes inhuman and spoke with a strange disembodied voice
"WHAT HAVE YOU DONE? THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE MY BODY NOW!"
…TBC…