Waw. First we had exams and now we have a long homework project. In every subject. Teachers like to torture us don't they?
Ah well… back to the fanfic. (that I WILL finish, eventually)
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Alex was looking at Sam again. He had no idea what time it was. He didn't care. Time had begun to blend into itself for him. Wait… what was he saying? Of course he cared…. Sam was running out of time, and he had to know how long she had left. He glanced at his watch. 5:00 PM. What had Janet said at that briefing that had been only a few days ago, but seemed like a lifetime?
"The worst case scenario is four days."
That had been three days ago. Tomorrow was deadline day. Alex stared at Sam. What else had Janet said?
"… Infecting the cells… mutating… stop duplicating…"
Alex's eyes widened. No way… he was insane… it would never work… "Cancer…" he whispered. He frantically pressed the emergency call button on his bed.
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"Unscheduled offworld activation. This is not a drill. Unscheduled offworld…"
The klaxon sounded throughout the base. Jack, Cameron, Daniel and Teal'c hurried to the control room. Hammond glanced at them as they walked in. Walter Harriman shouted, "We're receiving SG1's IDC code?"
Daniel groaned. Jack muttered, "Not again…"
Hammond gave the command to open the iris. They waited. And waited. After about ten minutes Hammond was about to shut the gate down. Then a small huddled figure scurried through the gate, it yelled and screamed at them, gesturing at the gate. Jack raised his eyebrows. "I think it wants us to shut the gate down, sir."
The gate shut down. The creature looked up at SG1 and Hammond. Its eyes glowed red. Then it collapsed on the floor in a heap.
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Alex was impatient. He was practically on the verge of screaming. He was jumping up and down in his frustration. He knew how to cure Sam. Or, ok, he had a slight inkling. He gritted his teeth and punched the wall. That calmed him down slightly.
Then a curtain to the right of him was drawn back, and in the cubicle that Jack had been in was a small creature. It was scrawny, but humanoid. It had a small mop of greasy, brown hair. Alex was reminded of Gollum from the "Lord of the Rings" movies. Then it opened its eyes and looked at him. They were red. Alex yelled.
Janet Frasier bustled into his room. "You pressed the emergency button. Do you mind telling me why?"
Alex vented his frustration on her. "I really should complain about the wonderful service in this lovely military hospital base where I am a PRISONER. If I'd been dying you wouldn't have got here in time. I could have been choking on the floor…"
Janet raised an eyebrow. Alex marvelled at how cartoon like she could get it. "Are you done?"
"Well, I did have more, but I feel better now."
"Right. Then maybe you would like to answer my question."
"Cancer." Alex said.
Janet raised her eyebrow again. "What?"
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Alex was amazed at how quickly he had been let out once he had stopped being cryptic. Now he was sitting in the briefing room, with SG1 (minus Sam of course), General Hammond and Doctor Frasier staring at him. It was unnerving.
He cleared his throat. And began. "I know how to cure Sam." He started.
Frasier interrupted "He THINKS he knows."
Alex glared at her.
"I remembered that Dr Frasier had said there was a "virus" infecting her cells, forcing them to stop reproducing. Do I thought about what the opposite to that was. Then I thought about cancer. Cancer makes cells reproduce too much or something. But surely, if we gave it to Sam, it would repair the damage. And then, when all San's cells are acting normally again, we could take the cancer out the way we put it in."
There was a stunned silence. Janet refrained from saying "You see? It's crazy!"
"Are you suggesting that we give Carter cancer?" Jack exclaimed.
Alex nodded.
General Hammond spoke. "How would we get the cancer in and out Alex?"
Alex looked at his shoes. "I haven't actually thought of that yet." He mumbled.
Cameron added his contribution. "Don't transporting devices do that sort of thing? Lock on to specific cells and move them?"
Alex gave him a grateful and relieved look.
Janet sighed. "It just might work, sir".
Hammond nodded. "Thankyou doctor. Now I suggest you find yourself some cancerous cells, right away."
Janet nodded and left the room. SG1 looked at Hammond. He sighed.
"Dammit Jack, I swear you'll kill me."
Jack gave an indignant cry. "What did I do!"
Hammond chuckled. "Brought me out of retirement. Anyway, about this creature that we now have in isolation…"
Alex cut him off. "I have a theory about that too, sir. A little far fetched, I'll admit but… I think he's a human. I think he has the same thing that Sam has. And I also think that that complex was put there for a specific reason. I think that it may be a testing facility, and that weapon is what's being tested. It turns people into monsters just by shooting them. You may think me crazy to say this, but I think it's some kind of mind control. Think about it: You shoot someone with the weapon and they're completely fine. Asleep maybe. But when they wake up, they walk around, giving the "disease" to other people. Pretty soon the whole damn planet has it. They go insane with pain and start doing things that they otherwise wouldn't. They would gladly kill someone. So, all the Goa'uld have to do is round them up and set them on any planet they want. I think that was the general idea. But it's not perfect yet. For a start, I don't think that it's contagious. And I don't think it's supposed to knock you out for two weeks."
"The slaves we rescued were for testing on. I don't think they were specifically chosen, just unlucky enough to walk through that gate. And the monster with the glowing eyes that Mitchell and I saw, is our little friend is isolation. The symbol on he door was on a piece of paper in Daniel's lab. He had written the translation next to it and it was something like "lab 101"."
SG1 and General Hammond looked at Alex incredulously. Alex looked at his shoes, this time out of embarrassment. In the slow was that only Jack O'Neill could say something, Jack said, "I like this kid."
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Yeah, I know… it's so far fetched. What did you think? Thankyou for reading and please review, if only so I know that someone is reading! Ta again.
