After discovering that Sam couldn't walk Jack carried her out to the infirmary where Janet kicked in and took over.
"She's got a fever" she muttered as she thought of what to do. Sam tried to follow the thoughts she was hearing but with Jacks and Janet's overlapping each others it was hard to focus.
"Sam, are you in any pain?" Janet asked as she passed a light over the red eyes but the pupils were too small to detect a change. Sam panicked, she couldn't talk. Sam just nodded and Janet looked at her curiously
"Where is the pain?" she asked cautiously and Sam tapped her temple. Sam could faintly understand Janet think of a head ache over the bustle and Sam sprang into alert mode.
"What is it?" Janet asked puzzled and Sam pulled the pen and notepad out of Janet's pocket. She could barely look at the paper long enough to scribble a note on the page.
I can't talk, I don't know why or how but I've lost the ability to talk. Sam passed Janet the page as she covered her eyes to block out the blinding light. When Janet passed back the pad Carter held a sheet over it to block out the glare as she wrote.
I have a throbbing migraine and I can't focus in light. Could you dim the lights? Or turn them off? I see better in the dark Jack turned the lights directly over Sam off and she smiled at him.
What other symptoms do you have? Janet scribbled on the page and Sam rolled her eyes
I'm not deaf. I can hear you perfectly well though it's a little hard to block out the other voices Sam wrote and they both went wide eyed and Sam heard Jack think something about nutcases.
"What other voices?" Janet asked as she glanced around the almost empty room
Your thoughts. I can hear them. She wrote and Jack started to panic both visually and mentally. She couldn't hear Janet's thoughts over Jacks racing panic and she couldn't help but be curious as to why he was stressing and then she concentrated on listing to the baffle. Jack spotted her interest and all of a sudden the thoughts stopped only to start again with 'what's 63 divided by 9?' Jack tested her. Carter grinned and held up 7 fingers. Jack stared amazed then started doing the math in his head. She could hear the rhythmic tune you would hear out of a 6 year old who was reciting his times tables.
'5 times 9 is 45 and 2 times 9 is 18 so 45 add 18 is, well 40 add 10 is 50 and 8 add 5 is 12 so that's 62. Ha you're wrong' he almost laughed but Sam picked up the pad and wrote: 8 add 5 is 13. Jack went bright red while Janet stifled a laugh.
"Well I'm going to give you some Ibuprofen which should help the fever and the head ache" Janet smiled as she handed her the pills 'this sounds like Hysteria but how is she hearing our thoughts?' Janet thought to herself and Sam stared at her wide eyed Hysteria? She wrote in a panic
"Well a lot of your symptoms are similar; it could be an advanced form. Have you had any hallucinations or memory loss?" Janet asked and Sam shook her head. Sam began writing her symptoms down and Jack took the distraction as a good opportunity to slip out unnoticed. 'She can here my thoughts, this can't be good' he thought as he walked towards Daniel's quarters.