"Here Sam drink this. Janet thinks that it should help."

Sam sat up and eyed the cup in her CO's hand warily.

"What is it? Did she saw what was wrong?"

"She's not 100 percent sure what's wrong, and she won't be until we get you back to the SGC. She thinks that it is some sort of virus. Hopefully it's not contagious. As for this," he motioned at the cup, "I'm sure that it will taste just as bad as it looks."

Sam sat up and took a sip and almost spit it back out. He was right, it was horrible, but she forced herself to drink it anyway. She handed the cup back to Jack as a warm tingling sensation came over her.

"Are there supposed to be side effects?"

"Umm, there might be, or it might interact badly with whatever is wrong with you now…"

Sam glared at him, "might interact? As in cause this to get worse?"

He smiled, "you're the scientist Carter not me."

"Ok gang everyone ready?" He looked over his shoulder at the heavily armed people standing behind him. They all nodded, even Daniel.

"Ok let's go. Carter, stay here and get some rest. We're going to find Jacob."

"But sir…"

"It's an order major."

Sam watched them disappear into the dark tunnels. For a moment she thought about defying the Colonels order and following them, but Janet's foul tasting medicine decided to kick in. She curled up beside the fire that Daniel had built before he left and got lost in the orange flames and the eerie glow they cast on the nearby walls. Every demented hallucination from the night before came back to haunt her, but she pushed them to the back of her mind. She wasn't going to let her imagination get the best of her now that her fever was finally dropping.

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"Is it just me or do these footprints keep vanishing into thin air?"

Teal'c appeared at Daniel's side. "It would indeed appear that these tracks end here."

Jack shook his head, "so what, did their owners just grow wings and fly off or something?"

"I was not aware that humans had the capability to grow wings O'Neill."

"They don't it was just…never mind. Let's double back and see if we missed anything. Daniel you go back and check on Carter."

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Lost in the darkness two women crouched low, trying desperately to become part of the shadows. One of them sat hunched over a notebook. She looked up occasionally then back down to continue scribbling madly on the paper. The second woman fidgeted restlessly as she watched Sam sleeping on the other side of the cave.

"The subject appears to have taken some sort of liquid medication that is amplifying the effects of the virus. Perhaps this will give us more insight into the…"

"Shhhh she'll hear you!"

"She's sleeping Mara; besides she'd just think that we were a hallucination again."

"I told you not to move her last time. You almost got us caught. Now there are more of them. We should abandon our research and return to the colony before they find us."

"But we are so close to completion; we'll be the laughingstock of the university if we leave now. You know that our sponsors would never let us live this failure down. Look she's stirring. Time to implement phase two"

"What? Lucy, no!"

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Sam's head snapped up as a rock flew out of the darkness and landed next to her pillow. She reached out and picked it up. It sure felt real to her, warm and smooth. She spent the next few minuets trying to reason it out. If the rock was real, then someone must have thrown it. Or something… No she told herself, it had to be someone.

"Sam, are you ok?"

"Yeah Daniel." She looked up just in time to see a second rock come hurtling out of the darkness. "Daniel look out!" but she was too late, the rock made contact with the back of his head with a sickening thud.

"Daniel!"

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"You hit him you idiot! We got to get out of here! Come on!"

"Where the heck did he come from?"

Mara turned around intent on dragging her companion home behind her, but instead she found herself face to face with a very angry Colonel O'Neill.

"I hope we aren't interrupting anything ladies."

Mara's face went deathly pale, "Uh oh."

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A/N I'm not sure about this chapter. Please tell me what you think.