Half an hour later and Janet was stabilized though very sick. Daniel and Cass were sitting on a bed, Cassandra on Daniel's lap snuggled up to him.

Doctor Warner walked over to them solemnly.

"Cassandra...Daniel... I'm afraid Janet has contracted an infection. Now due to the surgery Janet's immune system is significantly weaker than before, this means that her body is going to find it much harder to fight this infection than it normally would. The infection she's contracted is very severe. We can't say where or why she contracted it. All we can say is that while she's stable she's also in critical condition. This could go either way...the next 24 hours are going to be critical. I am so sorry."

"Oh my god." Cassandra commented quietly.

"I knew something was wrong as soon as I saw her. She could barely open her eyes, even back in Kelly's universe. Why couldn't we detect anything then?"

"The infection was probably just beginning to show symptoms and it was probably put down to the effect of the surgery she had been through and the anaesthetic. Dr Jackson I am very sorry, but be assured that we are doing everything in our power to help Janet fight this infection."

"Can we sit with her?" Cassandra asked, looking at the area where Janet was now resting which had been curtained off.

Dr Warner nodded.

"Cassandra, Daniel, we are giving Janet drugs to try and bring down the high fever and to strengthen her immune system enough so she can fight this infection. She is hooked up to a lot of monitors so please don't be afraid of all of the tubes and machines in there. We've also had to put her on a ventilator to help her breathe and relieve some of the stress on her body. We're also afraid that she slipped into a coma during our efforts to stabilize her. We've scheduled her for an MRI scan later, but I want to tell you now...the longer she's unconscious, the more chance there is that she may not wake up. We have high hopes that she will...but we wanted you to be made aware of the chance."

Daniel nodded solemnly.

"We''ll have someone come by every quarter of an hour to check on her, if you need me please call." Dr Warner told them.

"Dr. do you think she'll get through this?" Cassandra asked quietly.

The Doctor turned to face the young woman.

"Your mother is a very strong woman. I'm sure..."

"Dr. I'm not a child. Now do you personally think she's going to live through this?" she asked again, Daniel turning to face the doctor also who looked at the floor.

"I really couldn't say." He told them both. "I'm very sorry." He added then leaving them to spend time with Janet.

"Come on sweetie." Daniel told Cassandra taking her hand and leading her over to Janet.

The sight that they were confronted with as they stepped behind the curtain which the doctors had closed around Janet was a sight neither, even with plenty of warning could have expected. The woman who just this morning had cheeks full of colour and shining brown eyes was now lying on the bed, her face pale and her eyes closed, droplets of sweat covering her face. Tubes covered her body while monitors beeped all around her, another tube was taped to her mouth helping her breathe.

Daniel sat down at her side and leaned over kissing her fevered forehead, Cassandra sat down next to him.

"Please baby you have to get through this..." he pleaded with her tears falling from his eyes onto her forehead.

Cassandra rubbed his back, then started to cry too.

Daniel wiping his eyes on his sleeves turned to Cassandra and put an arm around her.

"She looks so weak Daniel. I've never seen her like this. What if she can't fight this Daniel, I mean I know she's strong, but she looks like she could break or something...I guess I just always thought she was infallible or something."

"I know she looks weak, but Cass she's a fighter, she always has been." Daniel told Cassandra trying to reassure her.

"I don't think I could stand to lose her. God...I've said so many nasty things over these last few years, I guess because of hormones or whatever...I never meant any of them but I'm so scared she doesn't know that...I don't want to be alone." The young woman told him tearfully.

"Sweetheart you aren't alone and of course she knows. Cass, Janet loves you more than anything, she can't stop talking about you and all your achievements. She loves you so much honey...and so do I. You're my family now and I'm right here okay. We gotta help each other through this."

Cassandra nodded getting off the bed and settling in a chair beside it, Daniel then sitting the one next to it and taking Janets hand.

Daniel and Cass heard footsteps. They turned round to see Sam, Jack and Teal enter all ashen faced.

"We just heard...oh my god.." Sam commented looking sadly at her best friend. "Daniel what...?"

"She's got an infection Sam... and her body may be too weak to fight it." He replied sadly.

"What you mean we could lose the Doc? No way...she was fine before." Jack told the group looking at the frail figure on the bed and realising just how different things would be for all of them without her around.

"Well Jack she obviously isn't now. She can't even breathe on her own." Daniel told him. Holding the hand, he was holding up to his cheek.

"Daniel I'm so sorry." Sam told him putting a comforting hand on his shoulder.

"Me too." He replied quietly, kissing Cass, who was now leaning on his shoulder, on her forehead.

"How are you doing kiddo?" Sam asked kneeling down next to Cass.

Cassandra looked at Sam with tortured eyes and burst into tears, Sam taking the child in her arms.

"Hey it's okay, she's gonna be fine." Sam replied though not so sure herself.

"Sam she's not...look at her. We can't pretend she's gonna get better..."

"Shush." Sam soothed stroking Cass' hair. "She would never leave you honey, or Daniel. She's not going to give up without a fight."

"I just want my mom back." Cassandra told Sam.

"I do too." Sam replied sincerely, looking tearfully at her best friend.

"I do indeed believe she will beat this infection Cassandra. Dr. Fraiser loves her family too much to leave them behind. She is a very compassionate woman. One of the most compassionate I've met." Teal'c told Cassandra.

Cassandra got up and walked over to him, giving him a hug.

"Thank you Teal'c." She told him sincerely, sniffling.

Jack patted Daniel on the shoulder then walked over to Sam helping her up.

"Hey Carter, what do you say we leave these guys and go get some air huh?" he asked her seeing how upset she was getting.

Sam nodded allowing Jack to lead her out of the room. Teal'c followed behind. Cass meanwhile went and sat back down, pulling her knees up to her chest and wrapping her arms around them.

"This is Kelly's fault." She told Daniel angrily.

"Cass don't go there." Daniel replied putting a gentle hand on her shoulder.

"No Daniel it was. I mean if she hadn't gotten sick, and you hadn't come here and asked mom for a kidney then she would never have gotten so sick as she is now. She wouldn't be dying like she is now."

"Cassandra..."

"Things would've been fine if it wasn't for Kelly...don't you see that. I'd have my mom and you'd have the woman you love. I hate her."

"Cassandra don't say that." Daniel replied.

"Why, it's the truth, I do hate her. She's taken my mom away from me." Cassandra shouted.

"Sweetheart whatever you believe this is not Kelly's fault. This is not anyones fault." Daniel told Cassandra as calmly as he could.

"Why are you defending her?" Cassandra shouted.

"Cassandra you're just looking for someone to blame and it isn't Kelly." He told her putting his hands on her shoulders to try and calm her down.

"It is Daniel...why, can't you see it?" she asked him.

"Listen to me, no-one could have known Kelly was going to get as sick as she was, even her parents, it just happened like when you got sick not so long ago...you remember that?" he asked.

"This isn't the same." Cassandra told him.

"No but it's similar. Honey your mom didn't know you were gonna get sick, none of us did, but you did get sick. Now Janet couldn't do a thing to help you, and she felt so terrible...you shoulda seen the state she was in. If she could have given a kidney to you to save you she would have, all of us would have but the only person to help you was Nerrti. Kelly didn't ask to get sick honey, she didn't ask your mom to give her a kidney she was in exactly the same situation as you, with only one person able to save her. You can't blame her for getting that infection like we can't blame you for getting as sick as you did and we can't blame her for your mom giving her a kidney. I'm sure their Janet would've done if she wasn't pregnant...she felt just like your mom did when she couldn't help you. Cass your mother didn't want her counterpart to go through she had when she couldn't help you...she did what was right and Kelly was too sick to ask for any of it. Don't blame her. If you wanna blame anyone blame me, it was my counterpart who came through and asked for the kidney."

"I don't blame you Daniel." Cassandra replied.

"And you shouldn't blame Kelly. Honey I know you want to blame someone but there is no blame...this...it just happened no matter how upsetting that fact is for both of us."

"I just...why did it have to happen...to her of all people. Daniel she is the most incredible person I've ever met, taking me in the way she did and loving me like I was her own. I guess I just feel guilty because I love her just the same...and I don't think I've ever really told her."

"She knows honey." Daniel replied wrapping his arms around the teenager.

"Mom is really lucky you know that?"

"What for?" Daniel asked her.

"For having you." Cassandra replied then once again turning to her mother and praying with all her might that she would pull through this.