would you believe that i actually forget about this one! it doesnt help when you go to camp for four weeks either... once again... i'm incredibly, incredibly sorry... i'll try to update this now that i have a working plot again... i didn't have anything to work with before... now i do! YAY! if i have any medical concepts that need to be tweaked or if anyone could help me with the medical terms... feel free to tell me!

thanks for your patience... and now... Chapter 15!

The next day, Sam came in with Teal'c to check up on Daniel and Jack… to see if they had any pressing needs. She walked in smiling, remembering last night's trip to the bathroom. That was interesting…

They were as white as ever – even with their tans.

Sam was shocked; they'd declined that much since last night! She trot over to Janet and asked her a few questions.

"Janet, what happened?"

"The disease is eating up their red blood cells. It's kind of like leukemia, but the white cells are actually eating the redones." Sam's face lost the rest of its color. Not only was there no treatment for leukemia, but this was a more serious and deadly version.

"Did you try radiation therapy?" she asked quietly. Janet nodded.

"The scientists are working on something that will slow down the mutant white cells. Hopefully it will kill off the mutant ones and leave the healthy cells, but that's a best case scenario." The major looked down at her feet then looked back at the colonel and Daniel.

"Thanks Jan." The doctor patted her back and Carter left. Janet stared after her and slowly shook her head.

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Lunch was a lonely and quiet hell.

Yes, Teal'c was there and that was rather comforting to her, but Teal'c didn't say much. Sam kept stealing glances at him, hoping that he might say something. Apparently her mind games paid off.

"Major Carter, is there something you wish to talk about?" She nodded while chewing her food and wondering what to say.

"The colonel and Daniel can't be helped as of now… the damned fruit introduced a disease which makes their white blood cells destroy their red ones." Teal'c nodded in understanding. "They only ate one kind of fruit… the scientists said the other kind was…" A sudden thought hit her. "Got to go Teal'c! I'll explain later!" With that she ran out the commissary door. Teal'c looked after her with a raised eyebrow.

She ran to the elevator and punched the button for the level of the invading plants. Earlier that day, Siler and his crew had cleared the plant out of the elevator shaft and controls.

"Come on… come on…. come on…" she anxiously urged the elevator on. Carter jumped from foot to foot. And finally! The doors opened to green plants. Grabbing a nearby basket, she ran off into the thicket. She saw a few of the pink-purple Boraples and a lot of the darker purple fruit. She quickly snagged one of the Boraples and at least a dozen of the dark purple ones.

After grabbing this, she zipped off back to the elevator. It was busy. She waited then, impatient, ran to the stairwell and right past the funny Marine.

"Hi mam!"

"Hi major!" Sam tore off in search of her friend Janet Frasier. Down the stairs she ran and out the door. She ran straight into the Lair and past her teammates.

"JANET!" Startled, the doctor looked out from her office.

"Hi Sam, what can I do for you?" Flushed, Sam explained.

"I got an idea. See, these darker variant," Sam held up one of these, "may be used to counteract the Boraples. The doctors had said that this version was poisonous. The Boraples aren't poisonous… if you can eat them in moderation. So if these fruits are the opposite of the Boraples…"

Janet smiled finishing Sam's sentence. "… then they might be used to save Daniel and the colonel!"

"Exactly!" Impressed and refreshed, Janet and Sam debriefed the general and then ran it by the scientists working on the cure. Carter made it known to the group that she would like to help now. They were more than happy to let her help.

"Well then, let's get rumbling!" she said to her crew, smiling in triumph.