Stargate
Infinity Series: Reunited Revamped

By GM Grantham

After the events of 'Flesh and Blood', Daniel and Vala share some alone time and discover some very interesting things about one another. Meanwhile, the battle against the Ori continues.

Spoilers for 'Flesh and Blood' through The Quest, Part II

Nothing of Stargate SG-1 is mine…no matter how I wish it was.

This chapter is rated PG-13.

A/N: This story fills in the time between Flesh and Blood, Morpheus, and The Pegasus Project, and The Uninvited. It also offers a possible explanation as to how Daniel and Vala came across the non-Ancient names of those two planets. And on another note, for the purposes of my story I will be ignoring the episode Insiders, but I'll be including The Uninvited. Also, I will be disregarding the episode 200


TEN

"So how does it look?"

Carolyn grinned. "Congratulations, Cam. You can come off the crutches."

"That's what I'm talkin' about!" He hopped off the bed, wincing slightly at the pain in his shin.

"Slow down, tiger. I only said that you could come off the crutches. You need to rest that shin for a while longer before you're back in action."

Cam snorted. "What do you suggest I do? Sit around and knit?"

Carolyn paused. "You COULD go with my father to his cabin. He's been planning the trip for a couple of months now and it would be good for you two to spend some time together…"

"You're going to see your mother, aren't you?"

Carolyn looked at him, puzzled. "How did you know?"

"I remember your father mentioning that you'd been planning to," He paused. "Wait a minute…is this your idea or his?"

Chewing her lower lip, she paused. "His. But I think it would be a good idea, Cam. A male bonding thing."

He sighed. "Alright…on one condition."

Her eyebrows shot up. "Yes?"

He grinned. "That we try that new position I've been telling you about."

She frowned. "That's blackmail."

He shrugged. "That's the offer. Take it or leave it."

She smiled, shaking her head. "I won't let you forget it if you go back on your word."

He smirked. "Oh, I won't. I won't."

/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\

After the events of The Uninvited

Vala looked up when she heard the door to the office open and saw Daniel enter.

"Did you find anything new?"

Daniel shook his head. "Nothing we don't already know. What about you? Were you able to decode the rest of the records?"

Sighing, she shook her head. "Nothing. I…"

Suddenly, the ring of a cell phone penetrated the silence. Daniel dug into his pockets, at last finding the phone.

"Jackson." His eyes widened slightly. "When?" He nodded. "Where are you?" He pulled a pad and pen toward him jotting something down. "Got it. We're on our way."

Vala frowned as he hung up the phone and dropped the pen. "What's going on?"

Daniel ran his free hand through his hair and sighed. "Jack's in the hospital."

She looked at him in surprise, her mouth open slightly. A moment later, she grabbed their jackets from the chair, tossing Daniel his, both of them exiting the office.

/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\

A couple of hours later, the two entered the emergency room at Penrose Hospital and approached the nurse's station, the heavy thunder rumbling loudly outside.

"We're here for Jack O'Neil," Daniel said breathlessly.

The nurse looked up. "Are you family?"

Daniel paused and Vala nodded. "I'm his sister-in-law and Daniel's his brother."

The nurse eyed them suspiciously for a moment before looking up Jack's information. "He's just been moved to room 225 from the ICU."

Daniel nodded, thanking her and dragging Vala toward the elevator.

/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\

The environment in hospitals had always irked him. He supposed it was because many who came to the hospital were dying and that ominous fate hung in the air like a vapor on a humid day. The cold air, also a gloomy sign of death, never failed to give him goosebumps and the silence that filled the rooms and corridors was more deafening than a thousand ear-piercing screams.

Daniel frowned slightly as he and Vala entered to find Sam sitting at Jack's bedside, her eyes red and her face wet with tears.

"How is he?" Vala asked.

Sam's grip on the unconscious Jack's hand tightened and she swallowed roughly, clearing her throat. "Stable…for now."

Daniel sat down in the chair next to hers and hugged her tightly, allowing her to use his shoulder for a pillow.

"What happened?"

She shook her head, wiping away the tears with a hand. "I don't know. One minute he was cooking something on the stove, the next…he'd collapsed." She sighed. "I realize now that I should have taken him to the infirmary on base. If this is an alien virus…"

Daniel rubbed her back soothingly. "Now that he's stable, maybe we can move him."

Vala frowned. "We can hardly move him out of here like this," she said, indicating his unconscious state.

The three looked up to see Cam and Teal'c enter. Cam frowned, laying a comforting hand on Sam's shoulder. "Is he alright? What happened?"

Sam sighed, closing her eyes. "He's stable for now. He just…collapsed." She paused. "We need to have him transported to base in case this is an alien virus."

"Way ahead of you. Carolyn's right behind us with a quarantine team and a presidential order," Cam said.

Though she smiled on the outside, on the inside Sam wanted to scream. She'd given one of the paramedics a bloody nose when he'd denied her demand to accompany Jack to the hospital in the helicopter.

Naturally, they'd allowed it after that. Some of her earlier panic had dissipated now that he was stable, but the doctors couldn't find anything wrong with him other than a low white blood cell count. They were still waiting on the blood test results to determine if the cause of the low immune cell count was cancer.

She shuddered at the thought of it, not wanting to believe his collapse could be the result of the late stages of cancer. Besides, he hadn't shown any other symptoms that related to late-stage cancer. He'd been recovering from a very intense cold the last few days, which could explain the low white blood cell count.

And he'd been acting oddly since yesterday afternoon. He'd fallen asleep immediately after an extremely short love-making session this morning and he'd been even more irritable than usual. She'd mentally shrugged off the last two as part of his recovery, but now she was beginning to wonder if there was some kind of alien cause for his unusual lack of energy.

"Sam." She was pulled from her thoughts by Cam calling her name. She shuddered, goosebumps prickling her skin. "The quarantine team is here. They've almost got him ready to transport."

She nodded, standing. "I want to ride with him."

Daniel frowned sympathetically. "I know you're worried about him, Sam. So are we. But they don't have room for you. Why don't you ride back in my jeep? We'll stay behind him the whole way."

She paused before reluctantly agreeing. "Okay."

He smiled weakly, squeezing her hand. "Everything's going to be alright. Have a little faith."

With a nod, she hugged him tightly, burying her face into his shoulder. Daniel wrapped his arms around her, rocking her gently until he felt her relax. He smiled, pulling back.

"Are you going to be okay?" he asked.

She smiled weakly, nodding. "I'll be fine."

Carolyn sighed. "He's secure. Let's go."

The team rolled him away and Carolyn placed a comforting hand on Sam's shoulder. "We'll do everything in our power to help him.

"I know," Sam said softly, nodding.

The others then followed Carolyn out of the room, staying close behind Jack as he was wheeled out to the transport vehicle.


A/N: I hope you all enjoyed this chappie! Sorry it's so short. I wanted to add the cliffhanger in the right place. I actually came up with the idea for Jack's trip to the hospital just the other night. Can't remember how really as I was half-asleep. Read on to find out just what's going on with Jack. The Ori plot will continue after Jack's situation has been resolved.

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