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Ch 5: The failed escape.

They snuck through the large green forest, trying their best not to be seen. It wasn't as easy for Teal'c, who was being extra careful with Carter in his arms. She was moaning and muttering under her breath, which caused them to be even more cautious.

Felipe glanced around cautiously, his gun aimed out a bush; after a moment of looking, he turned and nodded to Jack and the rest of them.

Jack nodded back; he motioned for Teal'c and Daniel to follow him. He began to crawl towards Felipe, wishing the bushes that filled the forest were taller so he didn't have to crouch down as much; it was really beginning to bother his knees. "Whatcha got for us?" he asked pulling his binoculars out of his pocket and began looking at them.

"The Stargate is not surrounded," Felipe said quietly. "No one is there."

Jack aimed his binoculars towards the Stargate. "Could be a trap," Jack muttered. "We need a distraction…" he sat there for a moment and turned to Teal'c. "Okay, Teal'c, as soon as I leave, hurry to the Stargate. Daniel you dial faster then you ever have before. Felipe, you can go with them." He began to slowly stand up.

"What about you? What are you going to do?" Daniel asked, worrying he might do something foolish.

Jack turned back to them. "Saving Carter and the rest of you, now do as I said, that's an order!"

"But Jack!" Daniel complained.

"DO IT!" Jack shouted a little too loudly. He stood up and looked around, seeing no one there, he walked out of the forest of bushes and towards Stargate.

Daniel wanted to jump up and stop him from doing whatever he had planned on doing. But he knew that Jack wouldn't stop until Sam was okay.

Felipe on the other hand, couldn't watch Jack do this on his own. So he stood up and hurried over to him.

"What are you doing?" Jack snapped looking around. He didn't want anyone else involved with his plan.

"I could ask the same thing." Felipe replied.

"You-" He didn't have time to finish his sentence, he heard something moving from behind him, he barely turned around. He saw the glint of weapons inside a clump of bushes near him. He pushed Felipe to go. "RUN!"

"After them!" one of the men shouted. Dozens of men hurried out from bushed and began their pursuit on Jack and Felipe.

"I thought you knew it was a trap!" Felipe shouted while running right behind Jack.

"I did!" Jack shouted back. The men behind them began to shoot at them. "Come on!" Jack ordered. He jumped over a fallen tree and ran as fast as his legs would carry him.

"I can't!" Felipe shouted as he dropped to the ground.

Jack turned back and spotted him on the ground, holding onto his shoulder. The Colonel sighed, and ducked as shots were fired over his head. He hurried back to Felipe and grabbed him. He put his arm around Felipe and began to hurry down the path with him.

"I am truly sorry, O'Neill…" Felipe muttered.

"Just shut up right now, I don't want to hear any of your excuses." He looked down at his shoulder. "How is it?"

"I will live." Felipe replied simply. "We must hurry be-…fore…"

Jack looked ahead to see at least half a dozen people standing not to far from them, weapons aimed and ready to fire. "Holy crap."

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As soon as Jack disappeared out of view with the men right behind him, Daniel jumped up and ran over to the DHD. He immediately began to dial earth's Stargate address as fast as he could.

Teal'c quickly followed. He looked around suspiciously, feeling as if they were not alone. "Daniel Jacks-" his voice could not be heard as the 'whoosh' shot out of the Stargate.

"Let's go, Teal'c!" Daniel shouted, feeling a little like a coward. Daniel was about to run through the gate when he realized that Teal'c was no longer following him. He turned around to see three men with weapons pointed at him as well at Teal'c. "This can't be good…."

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Jack sat on a hard, cold floor in a cell type room, leaning against the wall. Felipe and another man he had yet to meet were the only other occupants. "How's the shoulder?" he scooted closer to Felipe to take a better look.

"It will heal." Felipe said. He turned and looked at Jack carefully. "I hope they managed to bring Major Carter home."

Jack nodded. "Yeah, so do I." He sighed slightly.

Felipe nodded slowly. "You have feelings for her, and yet you act like it is an evilness to have them. Why is that?"

Jack cocked his head and picked up a small rock off the ground. "Because… where I'm from, I can't have any feelings for her." He tossed the rock against the wall.

"And yet you do."

Jack looked away, embarrassed. "Yes, I do."

"Why does your planet not allow for you to have feelings?" Felipe asked; he could not picture someone telling him who he could like and who he couldn't.

Jack stood up and dusted off his pants. "Because they're stupid."

Felipe smiled slightly. "I concur. If we make it out of here, I want to meet this person who came up with this 'stupid' idea."

Jack chuckled. "Yeah, maybe you'll be able to change it, huh?" he smiled fondly at him.

"I would try, for you." Felipe smiled back.

"Thanks, that makes me feel really special." Jack rubbed his forehead tiredly. "So, what are they going to do with us?"

Felipe stiffened. "They will question us, they will try and make us tell them where my race has went. If we don't, they won't stop there."

"Torture?"

"Yes."

"Great."

"Aren't you little Mr. Know-it-all?" a voice came from outside the door. Felipe and Jack instantly looked up. The voice chuckled and the door opened. "Hello, Felipe."

"Calvin? I should have known it was you who started this." Felipe said rudely. "Such a cowardly way, but then again, you are a coward aren't you?"

Calvin growled. "This was not my decision! This was a mistake!"

Felipe stared at him unconvinced. "Right. You just decided to attack us by mistake. How'd you work that out?"

"Be silent, Felipe." Calvin ordered. "This 'war' as some of your people call it, is a mistake. It was not supposed to happen."

"Well, it IS happening!" Jack snapped. "Whether it was supposed to or not, I really don't care, I just want out of here."

Calvin fell silent. "I'm afraid I can't do that." He said. "Although if it were up to me, I would have."

Felipe rolled his eyes. "Yeah right." he muttered low enough that only Jack could hear him.

Calvin ignored him. "I hope they treat you well enough. I must go; I was not supposed to be here. They will get suspicious." He made his way to the door and knocked on it, a minute later it opened and Calvin quickly disappeared behind it.

Jack slowly turned to Felipe. "So…" he said in a to cheery sort of voice. "How do you know that guy?"

Felipe sighed and rested his head against the wall. "He- he is my brother, a traitor."

"Your brother?" Jack asked, disbelievingly.

Felipe nodded. "Yes, my family and I no longer consider him to be part of our family." He said ashamed. "He left us, so that he could join them… they were more powerful, he said."

They sat in silence before Jack decided to speak up. "Well, I'm sure he would-" he didn't get to finish his sentence before the doors opened, right behind it came three bodies. Jack looked down at the bodies and began to panic. "Teal'c?" he scrambled up onto his feet. "Carter!" he hurried over to the motionless figures.

Felipe followed Jack, holding his hurt shoulder in his hands.

Jack carefully rolled Sam's body over. If it was possible, she looked worse then ever before, as if she had been baked in an oven for the last three days. Jack didn't move at first, they should have made it though the Stargate! What happened? Why hadn't they? Jack touched Sam's forehead, thankfully her fever hadn't gotten any worse, but it hadn't gotten any better either.

Felipe touched Teal'c's arm, which caused him to jerk awake. He quickly sat up. "O'Neill?" he asked.

"Yeah, I'm here buddy…. What happened?"

Daniel groaned and slowly sat up, rubbing his forehead. "We were surrounded. There were at least a dozen men… I think. Right, Teal'c?"

"Indeed." Teal'c was already looking for a way to escape.

"Major Carter needs help badly." Felipe said, not taking his eyes off of her.

They all turned to him. "Thank you! I didn't know that!" Jack said rudely, he rubbed his eyes.

"No. You don't understand, I-… she- Major Carter has 'Wild Fever'." He said. They all stared at him blankly. "Wild Fever is the most deadly fever there is. My people used to believe that our ancestors were mad at us for not following the old ways, so they sent down a sickness to wipe us out. I don't believe that however, but many of my people do. Wild Fever is extremely contagious, as it is deadly."

Daniel looked at everyone. "Why haven't any of us caught it then? Besides Sam that is…"

"I have only heard of woman catching it before. I do not know why men do not." Felipe said.

"AHH!" Sam's screams filled the hall, as if she was being tortured. But what was going through her mind was worse then almost any kind of torture. "NO! Don't leave!" she sobbed. "Please! I- dad! Mom! Can- JACK! Sir-"

Daniel looked up at Jack, as if waiting for an explanation, knowing that he couldn't give him one.

"Carter, wake up!" Jack said, slapping her cheeks. He didn't know why, but he felt a little embarrassed about Sam calling his name. "Carter! I am ordering you-"

Even Teal'c seemed a little uncomfortable. "Major Carter."

"CARTER!" Jack shouted, panicking. This shouldn't be the way he remembered her by. But deep down inside, he had a feeling this might be the last time he'd see her alive, he didn't know why though.

"NO!" Sam sobbed, harder then ever. "NO! NO!" She began to roll around viciously.

"Carter! Knock it out!" Jack demanded, he carefully took her shoulders and held her down. "Come on, wake up!"

"Sam?" Daniel asked, holding back some tears. He crawled over to her and picked up her hand. "Sam?"

Felipe sat next to her, shaking his head slightly.

"No! This- HELP! AHH!" Sam shouted in pain. "Jack! SIR! S-"

The door burst opened and Calvin walked into the room, looking angry at first, but then anger turned to concern. He slowly made his way to look at Sam. "What's wrong with her?" he asked, trying to act as if he didn't care.

Felipe looked up at his brother madly. "She's dying." He snapped. "She has wild fever."

Calvin swallowed. "Oh." Was all he could come up with.

"SOMEONE!" Sam sobbed. "STOP! He- you- AHH!" Her eyes opened and she sat up, trying to catch her breath while crying.

"Hey, it's okay…" Jack said in a comforting voice. "It's okay, everything's going to be alright." He slowly put his arm around her shoulders. "Shh…"

Sam was beyond embarrassed, but she couldn't stop herself from crying, the harder she tried, the harder it came. What was happening to her? Why was it showing her the worst memories she'd ever had? Why was the pain so strong? Why was she so weak?

"Sam," Daniel said, he let go of her hand. "Do you need some water or something?"

Sam wiped away her tears and shook her head. "No," she muttered. "I…" she swallowed, her throat was to dry to talk. She grabbed her stomach.

Jack knew what was going to happen next, he pulled some of her hair out of the way while she threw up a couple of times. "You okay? Feel any better?"

Sam shook her head. "No." came a raspy reply. She looked at the mess she had caused in disgust. She placed her hand on her forehead and began to rub it.

"Got a headache?" Daniel asked.

She nodded slightly, not being able to talk.

Calvin looked at her. "I am sorry I cannot do anything for you." He said simply, he turned to leave.

"You can!" Felipe shouted. "You just decide not to!"

Calvin hesitated then quickly left the room, the door slamming behind him.

Sam groaned again, the pain was too much… she had no energy left to support her. She slowly began to slip backwards, she put her hand to the ground in an effort to stop herself, but she couldn't. Jack felt her slipping; he tightened his grip around her shoulder and began to slowly lower her to the ground. "Carter?" Jack asked.

"Sir…" came a raspy reply. "I… can't… move my… legs." She said between deep breaths. "Not at… all." She licked her already dry lips. "I… can't feel th-… them." She felt another tear escape her eye.

Jack sat there in shock, staring at her. Had she gone paralyzed? He turned around to look at Felipe for an explanation.

Felipe only shrugged. "I do not know why. None of my people had the same symptom."

Jack felt a small fire of hope inside him. "So, it's possible that this isn't Wild Fever?"

Felipe shook his head. "No, I am sorry, but it defiantly Wild Fever… but, your bodies are made differently, it could just be another side affect…"

The fire of hope was gone just as quickly as it came. "Okay… do you think that you can somehow talk your brother into letting us go?"

Felipe shook his head. "No."

Jack nodded. "Of course not," he muttered quietly.

"So how are we going to get out?" Daniel asked staring down at Sam. "Or, better yet, how are we going to get Sam out?"

"I don't know, Daniel!" Jack shouted. "If I knew, don't you think I'd tell you?"

"Sir…" Sam whispered. "Don't worry… about me, just… find a way out… and go."

"No, Carter, I'm not leaving you behind!"

"Sir you don't… I'll only slow you down." She whispered. "I-"

"Carter," Jack began, sternly. "I am not going to leave you behind. Never. Under no circumstances.".

"Sir… Daniel and Teal'c-"

"We will not leave you, Major Carter." Teal'c interrupted.

Daniel stared. "Sam, we don't leave each other behind. Never."

Sam smiled slightly. "Thank you, guys, but-"

"Carter, I order you not to try and make us change out minds about that! Got it?"

She nodded slightly. "Yes 'ir."

Jack sighed; he closed his eyes for a second and leaned back against the cold wall. What was he going to do? He couldn't think properly. The only thing he could think of was getting Sam out as soon as possible.

"Jack, you okay?" asked Daniel, looking concerned.

Sam moved her focus to Jack, who was still leaning against the wall. "Sir?"

"I'm fine…" Jack said. "Just a bit tired, that's all… had a really bad day ya know."

Daniel nodded. "Yeah."

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