Woah, thank you SO much for the overhwelming amount of reviews! I love you all so very much! Heres the update! Yeees, they WILL get longer...eventually...I know it picks up length around chapter 10. I had no idea they were THIS short until I posted them in the documents section :-/ But it's where the suspense needs to beeeeee! Please, enjoy!
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Chapter 3: Infirmary and Explinations
Last time: She looked at him from beneath her eyelashes, and opened her mouth to say something but couldn't. Cursing, O'Neill took the two giant steps to Sam's side. He managed to grab her shoulders just as her world went black.
Sam woke up in a large, secluded room in the infirmary under the bright florescent lights. She groaned softly and pushed herself up on the bed to find herself looking at the concerned faces of her friends.
"How are you feeling, Sam?" Daniel said, coming over to stand next to her bed. "You almost took a nasty dive, back there. Lucky Jack was there."
Sam's cheeks heated and she flicked her eyes to the Colonel. He murmured something, shrugged and looked down. "Better," she said.
"Do you have any idea what may have caused your reaction, Major Carter?" Teal'c asked from the corner of the room, looking at Carter evenly.
Sam shook her head. "Janet doesn't know?"
"No clue," Daniel said. "She's guessing that the shock of learning we've been gone for seven months might have gone to your head. But as a precaution…"
Jack jumped in, his voice tart. "She's shoved us all into this nice cozy room until she can figure out if there's anything wrong with us," he paused. "Or if we're really us."
Sam hung her head. "Sorry, sir," she muttered.
"It's not your fault, Carter," he said dryly, still looking away. The thoughts were eating him up on the inside. Suddenly he snapped. "Does anyone remember anything?"
Three heads were swung from side to side. No one did. O'Neill let his head fall into his hands. "Of course not."
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"From what I can tell, sir, they're the same SG-1 that went through the gate seven months ago," Janet said. "None of the results say other wise."
Hammond nodded his head. Though the news was good, he felt it would be easier to accept had it not been SG-1 who had returned. "Perhaps they had a similar encounter as when only they could see the man…."
"Urgo, sir?" Hammond nodded again, and she continued. "That's the best explanation I can come up with, sir, we'll just have to go with it for now."
Again, he bobbed his head. "Tell them they're free to leave the infirmary," he said. On second thought he added. "But not the base. Not yet."
"Yes, sir."
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The door clicked open and four heads spun to look at it. Janet held back a laugh as she held the hopeful curiosity in four eyes. Folding her clipboard up to her chest, she smiled and said, "General Hammond gave you the all clear. You're free to roam the base."
"Finally!" Jack yelled, jumping off the chair and making for the door. He looked at his other three team-members, all who were hesitating. "Well?"
Daniel held up a finger to signal him to wait, and turned to Janet. "Is there anything to suggest why we lost our memory?" he asked, folding his arms over his chest after readjusting his glasses.
Dr. Fraiser shook her head. "None that I can find. We think it may be the same sort of technology that made you lose sense of time before you started seeing Urgo."
Jacks face fell and he, along with the others of his team, groaned. "Well we'll find out if when we eat, things start tasting better. Can we get out of this room now?" he hissed, looking at his friends. When they still seemed hesitant, he barked, "Let's go!"
Sam was the last one up, and O'Neill waited at the door to make sure she left. Before she could leave, however, Janet stepped in. "If you don't mind sir," she said to O'Neill. "I'd like to talk to Sam alone for a moment."
O'Neill looked her up and down for a moment, shrugged, and shut the door behind him with a last comment of, "Make it snappy."
Janet gestured back to the bed. "Sam, you might want to sit down."
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