i know i'm slow on this one! dont shoot me... please? cowers anyway, a recap... Jack and Daniel have fallen deathly ill as a result of an alien fruitand Sam is trying find a cure with a team of experience doctors.

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Sam and the various teams under her made slow headway on the cure. It was slow, but it was a cure all the same. Although Carter's field of expertise was astrophysics, she knew a great deal about medicine and the matter concerned the life of her friend and commanding officer. Not only that, but she was certainly willing to learn from the more experienced doctors.

She ran around like a madwoman checking on everyone even though she was the least experienced person on the scene. The doctors took one look at her, assured her all was fine, and returned to their work.

Sam sat down; irked that she couldn't really help. Well, she could, but all the doctors had it down pat. So instead the major brought out her laptop and 'hacked' into the work the doctors were doing. Not really hacking as much as viewing privately – they were all using the base's internal workspace. She frowned; one of the doctors – a Doctor Maya Caroff – was not using the workspace. In fact, one needed another password to get into her workspace. Carter looked up and searched for the doctor in the room.

Ah! There she was; sitting at the other end of the room they were all using. She was by herself and not on the "forum" of the others. Curious, Sam went for a chat with the recluse.

"Hi!" Sam greeted her kindly. The doctor turned her screen away from her before looking up at the scientist.

"Oh! Major, I'm sorry. Hello!" She was nice enough if not a bit paranoid.

"It's fine. What are you working on," she asked and paused. "If you don't mind my asking of course."

"No no no no… it's fine. Pull up a chair and I'll explain," Maya said in a hushed voice as if to keep the others from hearing her. Sam looked around and grabbed the nearest chair and sat down.

"Ok… so this is what I'm working on…"

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

All the doctors began to become suspicious when Carter didn't do her half-hourly check-ups. Instead, she had been chatting with that female doctor… what's her name… Dr. Caroff for the last two hours. The two of them must have had something because they were talking animatedly now with Carter nodding her head enthusiastically and pointing to the screen of Caroff's laptop.

Needless to say the men were jealous that the beautiful major hadn't come to them and looked at what they were doing with such excitement. They had seen Sam cross the room to Caroff with a curious and 'what-are-you-doing' face on, but soon after they became best friends when Caroff explained something.

"I see what you mean!" Carter said in awe. She liked this woman, not only was she smart and thought out-of-the-box, but she picked up on small things that most of the other doctors in the room didn't. Caroff was a clever woman and a great doctor.

Now advancing along with Caroff's solution much quicker, they could have the inoculation done within hours. That included test runs on the computer and on living blood cells. Except one thing.

They ran into a minor problem – of course.

It was Caroff's decision to release her mysterious work into the workspace. All the doctors stopped and stared at what they had done. Carter winked at Caroff and strode to the front of the room to address all of them.

"Okay people, we have an advanced form of the cure for the colonel and Dr. Jackson. It seems to work properly until this... doctor?" Sam nodded to Caroff who started up a presentation of the cure in action. This was relayed to the projector and was shown on a giant white screen.

They saw the cure take over the bad cells, essentially eat them and get ride of them. Later, most of them grouped together and floated down to the liver to get processed. When there, the liver got rid of them and that was that.

The others that didn't follow the group stayed behind to see if there were anymore errant cells to destroy.

"Dr. Caroff, could you please advance this to approximately three hours later?" Carter asked. The slides sped ahead and slowed again to the normal pace.

The cure, falsely colored a dark blue, went up to a normal cell and flooded it with a small virus. In turn, the virus destroyed the normal blood cell and the disease started all over again. The slides ended and the room went dark. Someone flipped the lights on to reveal a very somber looking group – they knew this was going to be a hard one. Sam looked even more shaken.

"I think we have a large problem on our hands folks so let's get working on it."

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