When they arrived Alison went straight over to Sam, not noticing Janet, Daniel Jacob and General Hammond watching in the observation room, she whispered in Sam's ear, everyone strained to hear what was being said and luckily in the quiet environment of the infirmary they could
"Sammie, Sam honey wakey, wakey its okay Sammie I'm here mummies here" She said stroking Sam's hair, they watched as Sam began to wake up, Janet excused herself to go and check on her patient
"Mum" Sam's sleepy voice broke through the quiet
"Sammie your awake"
"Yeh" Sam said barely opening her eyes, Janet in interrupted
"Sam how do you feel?" she asked checking her pulse and breathing
"Sleepy" she responded rubbing her eyes, Alison was subtly pulled back by Teal'c, who had spotted 2 Tok'ra arriving
"The deplantation process is about to begin" he told them, Sam sat up pushing away the cover not realising she was still wearing the dress, Janet tried to fight her pushing her back down
"Please Janet I have to watch" she pleaded, Janet relented instead collecting a wheelchair from nearby, Sam sat in it and was wheeled behind her mum who had begun fighting, they led her into the operating room, only Teal'c and the 3 Tok'ra including Jacob were allowed in the rest fought for seats above, Jack sat one side of Sam, Janet the other both holding a hand in show of support, Sam appreciated it giving them a squeeze her attention solely focused on the room below
They began injecting a substance into the symbiote then carefully making the incision before unravelling it, everyone was silent, the tension in the room was almost visible, Sam sat pale eyes fixed on her mums neck watching the snake being taken out only now fully realising it hadn't been her mum in control, tears rolled down her eyes but she didn't move afraid the slightest movement would change something
Jack in particular, and the rest of the people in the observation room kept flittering torn between concern for Sam and fascination at the operation,
Suddenly Jacob swore dropping the forceps and clutching Alison as she fitted, the other Tok'ra following suit
"What's happening" Sam shrieked calming down as her mum stopped the Tok'ra slowly released their hold, closing up, Jacob met them outside tears running down his face, grief was obvious
"Sam I'm so sorry, it didn't work, Thoth is dead however Ali is hanging on, it won't be for long, Sam she is dying"
Sam surprised all of them by calmly walking into the room with Jacob close behind, Jack went to follow but was stopped by General Hammond putting a hand on his shoulder
"Son I think they need to be alone right now, we need to be ready to pick up the pieces," Hammond warned Jack relented sitting on one of he plastic chairs outside quickly followed by Daniel and Janet, Teal'c stood guard by the door and Hammond went to talk quietly with the 2 Tok'ra escorts
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