A/N: Here's Chapter two! Enjoy and remember that reviews are much loved and appreciated. Cookies for all chapter one's reviewers!
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Stargate Command's new guest entered the infirmary timidly, accompanied by Sam, Daniel, Teal'c and General Hammond. Doctor Fraiser nearly dropped her clipboard when she caught her first glimpse of her.
"Hi Janet. This is our new… friend… R'aine." Daniel said, giving Janet some time to recover. R'aine batted her eyelashes at him.
Janet flashed him a grateful smile, put down her clipboard and turned her attention to the strange little purple-haired alien standing before her. "Where did she come from? And where are her parents?" She couldn't possibly have been more than seventeen years old. 'R'aine' as she was called, was a sight to behold indeed.
R'aine gave her a strange look. "The woman who raised me died many years ago."
"I'm sorry, I…"
She held up a hand and shook her head. "I am three hundred and eight years old, and-" She stopped speaking and eyed Jack, still lying on his bed. "You have wounded!"
Before anyone had a chance to react, R'aine had stridden over to his bedside and in an extremely dramatic fashion, placed an ivory hand on Jack's pale cheek. She smiled at him and said something in a strange language. Everyone looked at Daniel questioningly but he simply shrugged. He had no idea. The various occupants of the room eyed each other suspiciously. Even Teal'c seemed to look a little skeptical until a soft blue light began to emanate from the place where R'aine and Jack touched.
Janet dashed over and practically threw R'aine across the room. Jack was beginning to stir. She gasped and turned to the one who had saved Jack O'Neill's life, unable to find words for the current situation.
Jack was awake in an instant. "What the hell was that?" He sat up and nearly jumped out of his bed. "Whoa!" He had obviously seen R'aine. "What the hell is that?"
"Well sir, that just saved your life." Sam said. R'aine looked a little hurt by Jack's little outburst, however correct Sam thought he was.
"Oh…. Thank you?"
Doctor Fraiser, who had finally found her voice cleared her throat and addressed the General. "Sir, Colonel O'Neill appears to be in perfect health. With your permission I would like to run a few tests on our little miracle worker."
"Well Doctor, I think that's up to her."
Janet looked at R'aine eagerly and she nodded her consent. "Of course you may. I take immense joy in helping friends in need." The smile that came across Janet's face was so enormous that one could swear it would crack.
"Why don't we move this into the briefing room?" Hammond suggested. "Doctor Fraiser, if you find anything interesting meet us there and bring her with you. Understood?"
With a positively gleeful "yes sir" the Doctor took R'aine by the hand and led her to one of the beds. Teal'c helped Jack up and they along with Sam, Daniel and General Hammond headed to the briefing room.
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"So you're telling me that this strange little elf girl came through the gate and saved my life?"
"Actually O'Neill, it appears that R'aine is over three hundred years old." Said Teal'c in his usual stoic manner.
"Ah."
"Is it just me or is there something not quite right about her?" asked Daniel.
Sam smiled. "Actually Daniel I think the problem is that there's nothing wrong with her at all. It's unnerving."
Everyone was snickering when an extremely out of breath Janet burst into the room dragging R'aine behind her.
"She's unlike anything I've ever seen! Her blood is made up of some kind of substance that none of us know anything about, and her brain capacity is exponentially-"
"Put it in your report, Doctor." General Hammond cut her off, knowing full well that it would be much clearer (and quieter for that matter) in writing. Doctor Fraiser nodded. "In the meantime, sit down both of you."
They both obliged. Janet took a seat next to Teal'c and R'aine sat next to Daniel. Actually she had scooted her chair rather close to Daniel's. Jack gave him a mock smile and wiggled his eyebrows.
"So R'aine, are there others like you?" Daniel asked, squirming a little in his seat. Clearly he was extremely uncomfortable, and Jack knew that everyone in the briefing room was doing all they could not to holler with laughter.
Rain's eyes sank a little bit and she took a deep breath. "I do not remember much of my home world."
"Why not?"
"When I was very young, I mercilessly abducted against my will by a strange being. I was taken to a lab where they performed painful experiments on me. Day in, day out all I knew was agony and suffering." R'aine's eyes filled up with tears and she paused. Daniel took this as an opportunity to shuffle his chair away from hers. "When they were through with me, I was cast into the wilderness as if I was an old piece of trash. Unwanted and unloved."
R'aine went on… and on… and on about how a nice old lady found her and raised her as her own. Everyone else exchanged shrugs and glances. Every time it appeared she was through, she began telling them about another tragedy she had overcome or accomplishment she had made at some point in her three hundred and eight year life. Sam was staring off into space, probably thinking about some new doohickey that was sitting in her lab. Daniel was edging his chair further and further away, Janet had begun to write her report, General Hammond was just looking pissed off, and Jack was battling a throbbing headache.
"And that is when I decided to travel the universe doing good for all."
"Okay! I think that's enough for now. My head is killing me." Jack stood up and a wave of dizziness washed over him. He put his hands on the table for support. "General? Can we break for lunch? Please?"
"I am in agreement with Colonel O'Neill General Hammond. I am I need of a rest also." Agreed Teal'c.
"Allright, we will continue this at 1500 hours. Dismissed."
Daniel was up and out of the room before R'aine had a chance to follow.
"Sir, I have some painkillers in my lab." Sam said.
Jack smiled, but winced as his head pounded again. "Thank god for you, Carter." He steadied himself and strode over to the door, holding it open for her. "Come on. I can hear those pills calling my name."
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"Here they are." Sam said as she triumphantly pulled the tiny bottle from a particularly messy drawer. She turned and handed it to the Colonel. "Sir I'm so glad you're all right. For a while it looked like we had lost you."
He gave her a lopsided grin and popped two of the pills. "It's gonna take a bit more than that to get rid of me, Carter."
He opened his arms for a hug and she gladly accepted. She walked towards him, wrapped her arms around his neck and buried her head in his shoulder. He was so warm, not cold like he had been when he was lying unconscious in the infirmary.
Suddenly he went limp and heavy in her arms. "Sir?" She pulled away and he fell to the floor unconscious once again. Sam raced to the phone and tore it off its cradle. "Get me a med team in here right now!"