She renewed her concentration. She slid the alien device on her hand but it did not spring to life. It remained a cold metal artifact. Dr. Warner stared hopefully at her, as he held the forceps with the bloody sliver of plastic. She began feeling desperate as the blood welled from O'Neill's chest. Sam felt the presence of the men beside her, Teal'c and Daniel whose trust and confidence in her gave her the strength to renew her effort and the device sprang to life as the glowing power flowed into O'Neill. When she was confident the chest wound was healed she aimed the device at his leg. The power flowed through her as she gave of herself to the man she realized she loved and would save at any cost. She would continue until O'Neill was healed or the device drained every bit of energy from her body. As the glow ceased Sam's knees gave way beneath her. Teal'c placed her in the chair and covered her with the blanket. He placed her near to O'Neill.
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Dr. Warner examined O'Neill as quietly as he could and was totally surprised to see the General looking at him.
"How's Sam?" he spoke in a strong even voice.
"Just exhausted sir. How are you?"
"Fine…I'm fine" he sounded surprised himself at the admission. "Tired though, I could sleep for a week."
Dr. Warner patted the sleepy man on the shoulder and said "You do that General and we'll be back in the SGC before long."
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"Hey Daniel, how you doing? Mind if I stop in and say goodbye to my girl? I got to go back to Denver."
"I think she resting."
"With O'Neill?"
"No ..well yeah, he's in there."
"Just a quick peck on the cheek." And with that he slid into the room.
The sound of the struggle woke her. There was someone hovering over the General, definitely not hospital staff not SGC. Her eye's darted around for a weapon when she heard O'Neill, thrashing in the bed, gasping for breath as he was being smothered. She grabbed the cafeteria tray and brought it down on the general's attackers head, as the omelet and hash browns flew through the air.
Her shouts brought the SFs and Daniel and Teal'c into the room. Pinning O'Neill's attacked on the floor, they turned him over to see Pete Shanahan.
"Son of a bitch"