"Janet? Do you have a minute?"
"Hold on." Janet looked between the microscope and the notes she was taking.
"I can come back. This may take a while."
"No, no. I'm almost finished." Janet scribbled down a few things then looked up at Sam smiling. "I'm due for a break anyway. Do you want to go to the commissary?"
"Um, no. Can we go to your office?" Sam asked.
"Sure." Janet's smile disappeared as she noticed how nervous her friend was. They walked in silence, Sam fiddling with what looked like a blood stain on one of the folders. Only after they were in the office, door securely closed behind them, did Janet speak again. "Is everything okay Sam?"
"I, uh, I got this for you." Sam handed over the folder. Janet looked at Sam confused. When she started to open them Sam placed her hand on Janet's stopping her. "I don't want you to get upset."
Janet looked at the folders again, suddenly worried their contacts. Looking more closely at the stain on the folder she saw it indeed was blood, surrounding a cut in the papers. She suddenly realized, with absolute certainty, these were Sam's Manticore files.
"Sam I can't."
"Janet please. I want you to have these. What I went through—I don't want it to be for nothing. Don't think about where it came from, just look at it like a text book on transgenic's. I want you to be excited about stem cells or sequenced DNA, or whatever it is that you find exciting."
"The way this information was obtained." Janet started to argue, looking at Sam with this lost, sad look.
"Shit. I don't know who told you about that, but that information is important. I'd do it again, even knowing that bastard would stab me."
"Wait! Sam you broke mission parameters and got your self stabbed, hell almost killed, for this!"
"I told you that is important!"
"It's not worth your life!" Janet yelled.
"Damn it Janet. I went through hell during those few weeks! That data, those notes, they cover one of the worst times of my life. Every painful detail analyzed. There was no way I'd let that be destroyed, not when I know it could help you to understand me better. If I did, then all my suffering would be for nothing."
"Sam." Janet looked like she was ready to cry.
"Please. I want you to have this. I want you to read it, think about it, and be amazed by it."
Janet sighed. She was curious, that was the whole problem, and now Sam was telling her it was okay, okay to be curious, excited and amazed by what she was. Slowly she opened the folder on the top, flipped through a few pages, skimming them as she went. Something caught her eye and she read over it more carefully.
"Sam some of this information, it could be harmful if it gets out."
"All if it would be harmful."
"No." Janet looked at the paper again. "Take off your cammie blouse."
Sam did as she was asked, once it was off Janet moved around behind her.
"Move your arm some." Janet said pushing gently on Sam's left arm, then started running her hands down her side.
"What are you doing?"
"According to that, there's a spot between your 7th and 8th rib, just below your left shoulder blade they call a control point."
With only a little more pressure then a feather light touch Janet ran her hands over where she thought the area was.
"What do you think it is?"
"I'm not sure, it didn't go into . . ."
Janet was cut off when Sam screamed and fell to the ground.
"Sam! Sam talk to me!" Janet shook her friend. Sam was curled up on her side, breathing hard, with her eyes screwed shut. Feeling for a pulse and finding it way too rapid, Janet jumped up and grabbed her phone.
"No." Sam managed to croak out. Janet put the receiver in its cradle and moved back next to Sam.
"Can you open your eyes?" Janet asked, noticing Sam's breathing was already returning to normal.
"I think we know what it's for now." Sam said opening her eyes.
"I am so sorry."
"Don't be." Sam started feeling her left side.
"What are you doing?" Janet said grabbing Sam's wandering hand.
"Trying something." Sam easily slipped from Janet's grasp. "What I don't understand is why I didn't know it was there. I mean I shower everyday and I've never fallen to the ground screaming before."
"That's strange." Janet said as she watched Sam's hand press on the same spot she had seconds before, without the accompanying pain.
"Do it again." Sam said, looking at Janet.
"No!"
"Come on Janet. It has to be some sort of fluke."
"I will not intentionally cause you pain."
Sam grabbed the pen from Janet's pocket, sitting up she started poking herself again, this time with the pen.
"Am I even close?" Sam asked.
"You've hit it several times actually."
"Do it again."
"I will not."
"Don't make me get Colonel O'Neill. I'd really rather not fall down screaming in front of him."
"Fine, but remember you asked for it."
Sam managed to hold in the scream but again her body went lax and she slumped back down to the floor.
"Ah, what the hell?" Sam finally muttered.
"Maybe there's an explanation in the files."
"Maybe." Sam sat up and rubbed her side. "Hey. Let's call Teal'c."
"What? Why?"
"Well maybe this has something to do with you being human. Teal'c's not human, I want to see if it works for him."
"Sam no."
"Come on." Sam picked up the phone and paged Teal'c to Janet's office. "I want to know. You can't tell me you aren't the tiniest bit curious."
"Well, yes, but."
"But what? It hurts? It only lasts for a little bit." Sam opened the door when Teal'c knocked. "Come in, I need you to do me a favor."
"Sam I don't think this is a good idea."
"I know you don't, but show him the spot. I don't want Teal'c feeling me up."
Teal'c raised an eyebrow, he wasn't sure what was going on but he had often seen Major Carter in such a state when she was on the breakthrough with one of her, doohickeys, as O'Neill called them.
"Alright, but sit down." Janet waited for Sam to sit before she showed Teal'c where to press.
"Are you sure that's it Janet?" Sam asked when nothing happened.
"Well yea." Janet said brushing over where Teal'c just had his hand causing Sam to fall back in pain. "Oops."
Teal'c straightened up, looking back and forth between Janet and Sam. "Should you not call for assistance DoctorFraiser?"
"No, she'll be alright in a moment." Janet shook her head. "Thank you for your help Teal'c, but if you could not tell anyone about this just yet I'd appreciate it. I don't want this to be common knowledge until I know more about it."
"Do not worry DoctorFraiser, I shall tell no one." With that Teal'c turned and left, unsure if he wanted to know what was going on or not. He just shook his head thinking how strange the Tau'ri could be at times.
"Oops?" Sam wheezed as she sat back up grinning. "You knock me on my ass and all you say is oops?"
"Yes." Janet said folding her arms across her chest, a mischievous grin spreading across her face. "So I'm guessing it only works with humans, but how did they accomplish that? I mean I could understand if your whole body was sensitized but one square inch?"
"Hey let's get Dad here."
"Do you think her knows, or knew about this?"
"No, I want to know if it works with a blended person. I'd hate for a Goa'uld to be able to use that against me."
"Maybe we could get Jonas to try too." Janet thought. "Does this only work for humans or does it expand to humanoids? If it doesn't' work for General Carter maybe something about the Goa'uld. . ."
Janet stopped her passing to look at Sam who was laughing so hard tears were streaming down her face.
"What's so funny?"
"You." Sam said trying to compose herself.
"Me? You started this Miss 'Let's call Teal'c'."
"I did. I guess I'm just glad you're relaxing." Sam said, sobering some. "You know. I wonder how we didn't notice this before."
"The only reason I'd be pressing on your ribs there would be because you were injured."
"If you hit it I would have contributed the pain to the injury." Sam said. "So what are we going to do about this?"
"We should definitely call your father, and we'll have to tell the General. There may be something more on it in the things you brought me. Let me read through all this, it could be something that has an on/off switch." Janet said, again flipping through the papers.
"An on/off switch?"
"Why not?"
"What do you mean why not? Geez, tell her to have fun with it and she tries to give me an on/off switch! Fine! Make fun of me. See if I care. I'm going to my lab." Sam said with a huge smile on her face. She left the office, still talking.
Janet smiled to herself as she listened to her friend's voice fade away. Sitting down Janet pulled over the folders and continued reading the paper with the information on the control point. On the next page was the molecular structure of what could only be described as a chemical 'off' switch.
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There you go guys. That's all I've got. I hope you enjoyed the story and hopefully I'll have another one started soon, but as it stands I don't even have an idea. Let me know what you liked or didn't like in this story so I know what I should/shouldn't do with the next one. Thanks again for all the reviews! You guys are great!