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"Is it my fault? Do you think I gave her such a shock that she just… shut down?"
Alex grinned, "Nah, I don't think so. Did you honestly think she was pregnant?"
Jack looked uncomfortable. "I don't know… I guess not, because if I had honestly thought that, I wouldn't have asked her. I'd have been too scared of finding out."
Jack stopped, surprised at himself. He NEVER told anyone how he felt. And here he was, talking to a 14 year old kid. A voice in his head whispered he reminds you of Charlie… he shut it up, quickly.
Alex nodded understandingly. "Do you love her?"
Jack stared at him, taken aback by the directness of his question. He opened his mouth to answer, when Janet came over. "What have you done to her now?"
Alex opened his mouth to answer but Jack shot him a warning look. He knew Janet and her magnificent array of amazingly sharp needles far better than he did. Janet shook her head.
"She's out cold. Just like before, she should be waking up. She's just… asleep.
Jack and Alex jumped as a monitor beside Sam's bed started beeping at an alarming. Once again, Jack and Alex were ushered from the room by an extremely worried Dr Frasier.
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Cameron prepared to face Alex for the first time in two weeks. He'd been out of line before, and he knew it. It wasn't the poor kids fault that he'd been hit by something.
And he certainly hadn't deserved Cameron's little hissy fit. Cameron got up from his desk and got ready to go and apologise. He didn't like it but he guessed it had to be done.
Just then the rest of SG1 came trooping through the door. Alex looked upset. Jack looked worried. Daniel looked concerned. And Teal'c looked… like he always did. Blank. But quite worried. Ok, now Cameron was concerned.
"What's up? And where's Sam?"
Alex looked at Cameron. He looked like he might cry. Daniel spoke, "Er, Sam's been taken into isolation. The thing she's been hit by is basically eating her from the inside. I didn't get the whole story but that's the general idea. She could die."
Cameron gained an extremely shocked look. Jack grimaced. "Geez, Daniel, could you be any more direct?"
Cameron felt extremely uncomfortable. But he'd decided to apologise and he was gonna do it. "Alex?"
Alex looked at him, wondering if he was in for more yelling.
"I'm sorry for blaming you. And yelling at you. And blanking you. I realise now that it wasn't your fault. Actually I realised before, but I had to blame someone. I'm sorry. I hope we can start again."
He put his hand out. After a few moments Alex shook it. Cameron smiled. Then he frowned.
"What did you say about Sam?"
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SG1, minus Sam, sat in the briefing room. Jack and Daniel were playing with pens. Cameron was fiddling with his hair. Teal'c was sitting perfectly still. And Alex was reading the mission brief for his second mission: "Get help from the Asguard/whoever the hell can help us".
General Hammond walked in and they all stood up. Then, behind, came Vala De Moran, one of the people they had rescued. She had been in hospital.
Daniel resisted the urge to run a mile from her. Alex took her in as General Hammond told them to sit down. She was average height, had dark, long hair and she looked quite confident. And she was looking at him in a way she wished he wouldn't.
General Hammond spoke. "Alright people. We have a slight situation here. Colonel Carter has been infected by whatever the hell it was she was shot with. As of yet, we are not sure what it is. Doctor, would you care to explain more?"
Janet nodded from the door. "Sam is basically being eaten alive by this thing. I believe they are a type of virus that are slowly infecting each and every cell in her body, forcing them to mutate and stop duplicating. In short, Sam is likely to be dead within two weeks, or possibly less than that."
A stunned silence was shared by all in the room. It was broken by Jack choking out the words, "Worse case scenario?"
Janet frowned, trying to stop herself from crying. "The worse case scenario is five days."
Alex had never felt so bad in his entire life. All the guilt came flooding back in one breathless second. It was his fault. He had been cocky enough to suggest a rescue. He had been careless and set off the alarm. He hadn't recovered quickly enough from whatever he'd been hit by. And, most stupid of all, he hadn't been covering Sam and had let her get hit. He felt like curling up in a ball and dying. But he didn't.
"I think we should go back to that planet." He heard his voice say.
"Find the weapon. Maybe it could help. We could find out how it works, and from that, make a cure?"
Everyone around the table stared at him. Alex stared defiantly back. Then he spoke again.
"And even if this mission isn't authorised, I'm going anyway. It was mostly my fault. I owe it to Sam to at least try and help her."
Again, he wondered about court marshal.
He stood up. Slowly, Jack stood up too. "I'm with ya, buddy."
Then Teal'c. "As am I."
Daniel and Cameron stood up at the same time. "Let's do it!"
Alex grinned at his new found friends. They were gonna find it. They were gonna make Sam better. Or he'd die trying.
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Alex stood in the gateroom, waiting to go. SG1, SG5 and SG13 were all going.
Jack stood up on the ramp after the gate opened. "Ok, the basic plan is to go there, trash the place, find that damned weapon, rescue any more slaves, and get back here in one place."
Cameron smiled. "Sounds like a plan."
Alex nodded, determined. Then he jammed his cap firmly on his head, gripped his side arm and walked through the gate.
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Personally I thought that was a bit too cheesy with the "or die trying" bit. What did you think? Thankyou for reading and please review.
