Good morning campers. Here's chapter 14.

Thanks to Naliza, my wonderful beta.

And thanks to everyone who reviewed the last chapter. You guys always make me smile!! Computer chocolate for all!!

SG-1 and co. aren't mine but my birthday is coming up in a couple of weeks. I've got my fingers crossed.

After a few seconds the emergency lights came on, in the few seconds of darkness Sam had pushed the computer away from herself and seemed to be staring at it with contempt and shock. She stood suddenly and approached the guard.

"I need to see General Hammond, now."

"We need to stay here Ma'am."

"No Sergeant, this is an emergency," she ordered.

"I think General Hammond will have enough to deal with at the moment Ma'am. Besides, Dr Fraiser said that you weren't to leave the lab."

"I don't care what Janet said and trust me, General Hammond will want to hear this," Sam said, the panic slowly creeping into the edge of her voice.

"Okay," the SF agreed, still obviously unconvinced.

They walked quickly to the control room, Sam was almost running, forcing the SF to match her pace. They found Hammond in the control room as expected. He was trying to work out why, for the second time in the past week, one of the most secure computer systems in the world had been brought to a complete standstill. He looked hassled, as did Sergeant Davis, who was frantically trying to regain control of the computer system. Davis looked relieved as he saw Sam enter the room.

"Major, should you be here?" Hammond asked tactfully.

"I need to speak to you Sir," Sam replied simply.

Her tone and the timing of her arrival made it clear to Hammond that this had to be important.

"My office?"

"Thank you Sir."

"I need answers Sergeant," Hammond pressed as he turned to head to his office.

"Yes Sir," Davis replied, the exasperation and stress showing in his voice. Just how he managed to be on duty when these things happened was beyond him. With a deep sigh he went back to work.

Sam and her ever present guard followed Hammond out of the frantic control room and into the relative quiet of the briefing room and through to Hammond's office. He ordered the guard to wait outside, the Sergeant was unconvinced but was not about to go against the word of a two star General, he valued his job too much.

"Major, what can I do for you?" Hammond asked, as directly as possible but without being too blunt.

"The problem with the computers. It's crashed the dialling and main base systems and brought down the main power grid, right?"

"So I'm told but exactly how do you know that Major?"

"Because I did it," Sam stated simply.

"You did what?"

"I did it. I remember doing it but I couldn't stop myself. It was only when the system shut down that I realised what I'd done. I'm sorry Sir."

"The way it's been explained to me by Dr Fraiser, it wasn't exactly your fault, you had no control over your actions. What I want to know is if you can fix it, we can deal with why this happened later, once we have control of the gate back."

"Yes Sir, I know exactly what's wrong so I can fix it pretty easily."

"Well you'd better get to it. We can discuss this further when the computers are back up."

"Yes Sir."

Sam ran back to the control room, she was surprised at how well Hammond had taken the news. She had just admitted to sabotaging the base computer systems and he had not even admonished her, not yet at least.

To her credit, she had the system functioning within twenty minutes. Davis gave her a look bordering on awe as the system rebooted.

With some trepidation she went back to Hammond's office, she knew that she could face a court martial for what she had done and so had no idea what to expect from this meeting. She knocked on the door and entered when instructed, nervously she sat down across from Hammond.

"I take it the computers are back up?"

"Yes Sir. All base systems are functioning normally Sir."

"And you were the cause of this computer 'glitch'?"

"Yes Sir. I was working on a report in my lab and then I found myself bringing down the computer systems. I couldn't control my actions Sir. I believe that I may also be the cause of the previous incident."

"But you don't remember that?"

"No Sir but the way that the system went down on both occasions are too similar for it to be a coincidence, the only major difference being that the power grid was affected this time. And to be honest Sir, if I was going to consciously bring down the base computers, that's how I'd do it.

Hammond nodded as he tried to get his head around what he was being told.

"Sir, I understand the seriousness of my actions and am willing to accept any punishment you may deem necessary," Sam said formally, standing to attention.

"I think we're getting ahead of ourselves Major. You are under the influence of an alien technology of some kind according to Dr Fraiser. I will, however, ask that you remain in your quarters or the infirmary. And Major, please stay out of the computer systems until this is sorted out."

"Yes Sir, thank you."

Sam figured that she should head to the infirmary to inform Janet about this latest turn of events. She was more shaken by this than she would admit. If her paranoid delusions, which seemed to result in homicidal tendencies, were not enough to deal with, she now had to accept the fact that she had turned saboteur.

Janet looked slightly hassled when Sam arrived in the infirmary, it being populated with people who had suffered minor injuries when the power had gone out. Sam smiled slightly at Sergeant Siler, who was on a bed, with his foot elevated. Janet came over as she saw Sam hovering by the door.

"What happened to Siler?"

"He dropped a wrench on his foot and broke a toe," Janet answered, rolling her eyes. Siler seemed to visit the infirmary almost as often as SG-1. "Is everything okay?"

"This is my fault," Sam explained, indicating the people waiting for treatment.

"I don't understand," Janet replied, her eyebrows furrowed.

"I sabotaged the computers. I shut down the dialling computers, I caused the power grid to go down."

"Why?"

"I don't know, it was different to before. I wasn't paranoid, I wasn't doing it for any reason I know. I just couldn't stop myself. So more tests?" Sam asked, knowing her friend well.

"Not too many but you know the drill."

"Far too well," Sam agreed.

Janet was in her office, everyone had been released from the infirmary except Sam who was reading in a quiet corner. Janet looked up as one of the nurses entered with a large envelope in her hand.

"Here's the electron resonance scan you wanted."

"Thanks Connie," Janet replied. She eagerly took the envelope and extracted the contents. Putting the film on the viewer, Janet smiled slightly. She was not happy about the fact that it showed an implant deep within the brain tissue but happy that she could confirm why SG-1 was acting so strangely, that they could finally understood why they were acting angry, paranoid and selfish. Now that they knew what was wrong, they could try and fix it.

Just how to fix it was way out of her area of expertise, surgical removal was out of the question, without causing irreparable brain damage anyway. This was more Sam's area of expertise.

She just hoped that her friend could go for long enough without doing anything out of character to sort this problem out.

There was chapter 14, some positive progress here. Hopefully some more to come in forthcoming chapters but things are not wrapped up yet, not by a long shot.

I'd love some feedback on this if it's going.

Take care and thanks for reading.