IM SO SORRY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PLEASE DONT KILL ME (FALLS TO KNEES AND BEGS)

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Jack walked out of the quarantine area of the infirmary to find Janet having a whispered yet heated argument with the nurse at the door.

'…the hell did this happen?'

'I don't know, Doctor, I've only just come on duty…'

'Well, who was supposed to be here?'

'I don't know, I'd have to check the roster…' with a frustrated sigh, Janet turned away from the woman and rounded on the SF by the door.

'What about you? Why in god's name did you let her past?'

'She said that she just wanted to stretch her legs, and that you had given her permission to go out of the infirmary is she stayed on this floor, so I let her out. Once she was past me, she turned around and tackled me, stealing my Zat and running for the elevator.'

'Why didn't you contact anyone?' Janet's voice had steadily been getting louder and louder as she questioned the man, until she was basically shouting at him.

'I tried- she had disabled all the phones in the immediate area…'

'Are you kidding me? If you expect me to believe that she would be able…' Janet cut off when she heard a voice quietly call out from behind her.

'Actually, I can. I did it with my computer. I made a virus which I programmed into the closed circuit phone lines and intercoms for all the floors between 15 and 27.'

There was a stunned silence for a moment as everyone looked over to the apparently helpless woman lying in the bed in quarantine, and Jack swore he saw Sam smile. A moment later, Janet turned back to the SF at the door, slightly calmer than before.

'Sorry, I shouldn't have jumped to conclusions like that. What happened next?'

'I tried to call people over both the phone lines and the intercom, and after they were both unsuccessful, I tried to go to another floor. The elevator was out of service, which I'm guessing was another virus?' Everyone looked over to Sam, who nodded in confirmation.

'I made it impossible for the elevator to travel up floors for a period of half an hour, so I could go down to the gate room but no one could call the elevator back up so they could come and stop me.'

'You really did think of everything, didn't you, Carter?'

'If I had, I'd be happily dead right now. I didn't know there was a briefing on today, or else I would have closed all the blast doors over the windows so you couldn't see.' The joking air in which Jack had made the comment evaporated in an instant, and Jack felt his stomach drop at the blunt comments. Somehow, he had deluded himself into thinking that, merely because he had rescued her, Sam was somehow going to want to live once more. Janet placed a consoling hand on Jack's arm.

'Don't worry, Colonel, it's merely the effects of the disease taking hold. Once we have her re-connected to a drip, I'll give her an antidepressant, which should get rid of these suicidal notions of hers.' Slightly comforted by this, Jack glanced at his watch.

'We should probably get back to the briefing room- Hammond and the others will want to know what happened…' as if right on cue, Daniel and Teal'c appeared at the door, their concern obvious on their faces.

'How's she doing?'

'Alright, I guess. She certainly hasn't been dumbed down by this disease.'

At Teal'c and Daniel's confused looks, Jack explained the viruses that Sam had created to ensure her trip to the gateroom went undetected. Daniel let out a low whistle, and Teal'c nodded once.

'It is hard to expect less from Major Carter.' Janet opened her mouth to speak, but Jack cut her off.

'Let me guess, doctor. You need us to vacate the room and stop aggravating your patient so you can put her on a drip to make her go back to normal.' Janet smiled and nodded apologetically.

'Sorry, guys, but you probably need to get back to General Hammond anyway and finish that briefing.' The men nodded and made to leave, but just before they got out the door, Jack turned back.

'Oh, and Doctor? Make sure you keep Carter away from any computers from now on. We'll get the General to send up some more SFs to help with security.' Janet nodded before returning to her patient. Jack chanced a glance after her towards Sam, but his stomach dropped once more when he saw she hadn't moved since he had put her down on the bed, merely staring at the ceiling directly above her. With a disheartened sigh, he walked out of the room with Daniel and Teal'c and into the elevator.

The elevator doors slid smoothly open, revealing the unusually barren hallway that led to the gate room. The three men walked silently down the hall and up into the control room, which was now devoid of the unconscious scientists and militia that were lying there before. The only person in the room was Walter, who was typing into one of the control panels near the dialling computer. He looked up briefly, giving the team a sympathetic smile, before retuning to his work. The men paused a moment, gazing silently out the thick glass into the gateroom, to the spot where Sam's life very nearly came to an end. Shaking off an inexplicable feeling of unease, Jack lead his team up the metal staircase and back up to the briefing room, where they could see General Hammond talking on his red phone, doubtlessly with the President. The three men sat back down at the briefing table, silently contemplating what had just happened.

Teal'c pulled one of the discarded mission reports across the table and began to leaf through the pages, reading the information that he would be required to know for his new mission to Washington. Daniel followed suit, reading his own copy of the report with a dissatisfied expression on his face. For something to do, Jack pulled the report towards him as well and flicked open the file. Reading what was written there, he began to understand why Daniel wasn't happy with what he was supposed to do. Always preferring to be the negotiator, Daniel was way out of his element with the tasks he had been assigned. The report all but told them to break into the NID and steal the medicine if they refused to cooperate, without worrying about consequences.

Jack was beginning to wonder why he wasn't going instead of Daniel when General Hammond seemed to finish up his conversation, hung up, and made his way back in to the briefing room. He sat down with a sigh at the head of the briefing table, running a hand over his sleek head.

'I've had the blast doors to the gate room manually sealed by the maintenance staff until further notice. There isn't anyone off world currently, and we've sent a request to our allies for them not to travel to Earth until we have this situation back under control. We do not want something like this happening again.'

Although Jack doubted that Sam would reattempt something like that any time soon, especially now that she was being put on the anti-depressants, he was still deeply grateful for General Hammond's gesture. The General reached out for his copy of the mission report and opened it up, glancing over the material there once more. Directing himself towards Daniel and Teal'c, he opened his mouth to speak, but was cut off by Jack.

'General, what I really don't understand is why Daniel gets to go and I don't. You know Daniel, sir, and he's really the type to negotiate, not the type to steal. With all due respect, sir, I'd think my special ops training would put me in a better position to go than our good archaeologist over here.'

General Hammond sat, contemplating the men before him for a moment. The real reason he had not put Jack on the team was that he had though he would appreciate being able to stay with Major Carter, but after seeing this reaction he obviously wasn't as concerned about that as he had thought.

'Well, Colonel, if you would really like to join the others…'

'I'm afraid, General, that won't be possible.'

The five men turned their heads to the source of the sound to see Doctor Fraiser standing at the top of the stairs from the control room. At General Hammond's gesture, Janet walked into the room and sat down in the chair next to Daniel. A fleeting realisation of this crossed Jack's mind and made him internally smirk, but he quickly pushed that aside so he could concentrate on why he wasn't allowed to go on this mission.

'What's the problem, Doc?' Janet sighed and stared at the papers before her, not seeming to be able to sum up the energy to say what it was she had come to tell.

'Doctor Fraiser?' Still no response.

'Janet?' At the sound of Daniel's voice Janet looked up, and after the reassuring look he sent her way, she seemed to be able to say what she had come to say.

'Colonel, our tests have finally come back from the lab with 100% conclusive results…and they say that everyone is in the clear, except…except they are saying that you show signs of the bacteria in your system.'

Silence reigned the room for a moment, no one was sure what to say, or if they had indeed heard Janet correctly.

'Wait, what?'

'Your blood tests have come back, and they say that you have the Plague too.'

Jack sat in silence, not sure what to make of the new information. He felt numb, not sure how he was supposed to feel. He knew something along the lines of grief was normal, but he was as of yet completely devoid of any emotion. In his silent thought, he heard someone begin to question Janet about the news.

'But what about that vaccine?'

'The bacteria must have been in the body's system before I administered the drug.'

'Why's it taken so long to…?'

'I honestly don't. I'm afraid to report that we have confirmed that this is a new strain of the Plague, it would seem a mixture between the three different types of the Plague that we have here. Because of this, I have no idea how it progresses, or how long we have to find a drug to fix this thing…Colonel, are you listening?'

'What?' Janet empathised with the man; she knew what he was going through, she'd seen plenty of others go through it before him, and knew that there was little to no point repeating herself.

'We'll need to take you up to the new quarantine room- we've finally been able to set up the new isolation chamber from Washington and were just about to send Major Carter there as well.'

'Yeah, sure, you betcha…'

Jack hauled himself to his feet, and followed Janet out the door, leaving three very concerned men behind.

'How did that happen? I thought we had it under control…'

'I believe Doctor Fraiser mentioned that O'Neill had the bacteria within his body before he was administered the vaccine.'

'But aren't we all in danger again…?'

'I do not believe so. If he had the bacteria within him before being vaccinated, the medication would have done nothing. Seeing as none of you had the bacteria before being vaccinated, you should not be in any danger.'

The three men were silent for a moment, before General Hammond cleared his throat and looked back down at the papers before him.

'Well, it seems that we are even more desperate for this medication than before, so I think we're going to have to send you off earlier than planned. I can have a plane ready to go in a couple of hours…' General Hammond paused in his speech when he saw the other two men with him jump to their feet, their eyes trailed on someone entering the room from the door behind him. He turned around, and felt a boiling anger at the sight of the person before him.

'What the hell are you doing here?'

'I heard that there was something wrong with Major Carter?'

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