Disclaimer: I do not own Stargate or its characters, thanks for all the reviews they really keep me going especially since this is my first fanfiction so anyway I hope you enjoy chapter 5, sorry about the delay I've had computer trouble. Please read and review.
Chapter 5
Teal'c picked up the blanket and covered Daniel with it again; it had only been 10 minutes since he had taken it off him when his temperature had shot up, now he was freezing again. His temperature had been going up and down for the past 7 hours. Teal'c was really getting worried now, Daniel had been infected for 21 hours now and Sam for 22 ½, in another 3 ½ hours the pain would start, Teal'c was glad he wouldn't see that but he knew Daniel wouldn't be far behind her. Teal'c had informed Daniel of the difficulties Janet's team was having with finding a cure for the virus. He hadn't intended to tell him, he didn't want to worry him, but Daniel had been very persistent in finding out what Janet had wanted. He had appeared very calm when he had told him but Teal'c knew he was scared and if he was honest so was he.
Janet was taking a walk to stretch her legs, she was exhausted she needed to sleep but Daniel, Sam and the villagers didn't have time for to take a nap. Since her arrival here 12 more villagers had got sick and 7 had died, she had to source this thing fast, maybe then she could stop it from spreading any further. A movement in the trees next to her caught her eye, she looked at them but there was nothing there. She thought she might be imagining things, was she really that tired. Then she heard movement, someone was definitely there, maybe one of the village kids playing games.
"Hello, is anyone there?" There was no answer but someone was there, she was sure of it.
"Hello, you can come out I'm not going to hurt you" As she moved closer to the trees she could see someone hiding in the bushes, it was too big to be a kid. She considered shouting one of the officers over but that would probably make whoever it was run off. "Please come out, no one wants to hurt you" that must have worked because the figure stepped out of the bushes. It was a man but he wasn't one of the villagers, his clothes were different, all white, he kind of looked like a scientist.
"I'm Dr Frasier"
"I know who you are, I've been observing you and your people since your arrival. I'm Professor Tempson"
"Professor?" Janet eyed him skeptically "You're not from around here are you?"
"You are correct, I am not. I am a Professor of medicine on my home world, we discovered the Stargate I believe you called it several years ago, however my people very rarely use it"
"So what are you doing here?"
"My people have very weak immune systems, we are very susceptible to disease and bacteria, and hundreds of us die every day from various ailments. I have spent years trying to find a way to boost our immune systems, I came here looking for a way to test my methods on other humans"
Janet felt her stomach churn "you're using these people as test subjects" that's when it suddenly hit her and she felt a sudden wave of anger toward the man in front of her "You caused this sickness didn't you?"
"Yes but it wasn't my intention"
"I think you'd better follow me" Janet motioned for the guy to follow her to the decontamination tent.
Janet took a blood sample from Tempson and asked one of the doctors to run it for her then she turned to Tempson.
"Okay Professor I think you had better start explaining, how did you cause this?"
"As I explained before, I was trying to find a way to help my people, I discovered some naturally occurring chemicals and bacteria which on their own were able to protect the body from certain bacteria and diseases. I decided to combine them to try and create a kind of super vaccine, which would protect my people from multiple illnesses. Enough of my people were already dieing I couldn't risk testing the vaccine on them and potentially causing more death"
"So you decided to come here and risk wiping out another civilization instead" Janet gave him a look of pure disgust and she knew her voice portrayed the same feeling
"I never expected this to happen, I was sure it would work I just couldn't risk any more of my people dieing, I only intended to inject a few of the villagers with the vaccine and monitoring there response. When I got here I dropped a few vials of the virus in the village, it turned into a gas and began infecting everyone, after that it got into the food, once the vaccine gets into the blood it grows into the virus"
"Why didn't you warn the villagers, stop them eating the infected food" Janet watched the look on his face finally turn to one of guilt or at least slight guilt, as far as he was concerned, testing his so called vaccine on the population of this planet was perfectly fine but it was obvious his actions since then somewhat bothered him. "You wanted to keep studying it, find out where you went wrong" it was a statement not a question. Tempson nodded his head slowly
"You are a smart woman, all of my research is at my lab in forest, would you like me to show you where it is?"
"Yes, wait here" Janet left the tent and asked the two officers that were standing guard to watch him closely before heading to Sam's tent.
Jack was furious; Janet had just explained the situation with the Professor Tempson. He couldn't believe that someone could do this to an entire planet and it was his fault that Sam and Daniel were sick now, if he ever got his hands on Tempson he was going to kill him. He looked at Sam she almost looked amused, thinking about it she probably had good reason, he had been pacing around the tent for the last 15 minutes ranting about how immoral and wrong Tempson was. He finally let out a deep breath and sat down in the chair next to her, she just continued to stare at him.
"What?" he asked
"Nothing, you should really calm down though, you don't want to give yourself a heart attack" He smiled at her, even when she was faced with a situation as grim as this she was still a spark of light.
"Shut up you and rest" She smiled back at him and his heart skipped a beat as it always did, he couldn't lose her.
Janet and her team searched Tempson's home and lab for anything related to the virus, he had collected a lot of information.
"How long have you been here, watching these people suffer?" he turned around and looked at her with no trace of the guilt she had seen earlier.
"A while"
Janet gave him another look of disgust and turned to her team "Take everything pertaining to the virus back to the village we'll go through it there" There were several nods and 'yes ma'ams' around the room.
"You know" Tempson's voice came from behind her "You don't have to wear those suits, the only way you can get infected now is if you eat the infected food"
"I'd like to make sure of that myself before I tell my people they can remove them"
It had been 2 hours since Janet and her team had returned from Tempson's lab and she had spent the entire time reading through his notes. She had found out which foods were infected and warned the villagers and on a very high note the disease could only be contracted from the food so no more bio hazard suits, she had just changed out of hers and told Jack and Teal'c, if Teal'c weren't a Jaffa she was sure he would have literally jumped for joy.
Jack was so glad to finally be out of the biohazard suit, it was starting to get a little stuffy in there. He was almost back at Sam's tent when he heard her scream, he sprinted into a run, he knew it was coming and it was right on time.
He ran into the tent and saw Sam on the bed her body screwed tightly into a ball and moaning in pain. He went to her side and sitting behind her he pulled her entire body back to him so she could stay screwed up in her ball and he could hold her letting her know he was there.
