The Tegan Chronicles
Intuition and Lies 9
Daniel jumped up when he heard the harrowing cry. His eyes were wide with fear and pain. Janet glanced at him and then up the monitors that were alarming from the elevated heart rate and blood pressure spike. Her fingers found Tegan's radial pulse with expert precision just as her vitals fell back into a normal range. "She's been doing that on occasion. A different name each time."
Daniel grabbed his crutches to help him balance and lessen the pain in his leg. "That's a good sign right?"
Janet gave a tiny shrug that was unnoticeable under her white lab coat. "I'd like to say yes but she remains unresponsive."
Daniel nodded.
"You should probably go lay down for a bit and elevate that leg." Janet pointed to it as Teal'c came in. "And I'd like to keep the number of visitors to a minimum when I can."
"Alright."
"Have I come at an inconvenient time, Dr. Fraiser?" Teal'c asked,
Janet smiled at his formal wording. "Not at all Teal'c, but you might want to have a seat."
"Any luck?" Sam looked up when Jack appeared in the doorway to her lab.
"No." He raised his eyebrows. "You?"
"No sir."
"Hey." Daniel came in behind Jack. "Any luck?"
"No," They answered in unison.
"You're not supposed to be walking." Jack pointed to Daniel's injured leg.
"Yeah, well I wouldn't exactly call it walking." Daniel held up the crutches to make his point.
"How's Tegan?" Sam pointed to a chair for Daniel to sit in.
"Teal'c is with her, and Janet's hovering." He shrugged with his brow. "Has anyone tried contacting the Tolan, you know just to see if they changed their mind?"
"Yup." Jack leaned against the door frame. "Same old same old."
"What exactly do we need?" Daniel looked at sam.
"A miracle." Jack watched Daniel shift his weight in the chair trying to get comfortable.
"Pretty much." Sam agreed. "I mean even the most advanced prototype prosthetic that we've got isn't going to let Tegan keep her job. We just don't have anything that works like a real limb at this point."
"Well, someone should make one." Jack stated the obvious.
"Even if we could make a prosthetic that worked like the human arm, there's no way to interface it with her brain."
Jack walked over and picked up a pen from Sam's desk. "They need to make a Bluetooth thingy that can communicate between the head and the arm."
"Sir!" Sam's face lit up. "You may have done it again."
"Done what?" He looked at Daniel who shrugged.
"Remember when we went to P7J-989?"
"That's the planet with those nasty virtual reality chairs we couldn't get out of right?" He nodded while making a face.
"They have the technology to interface with the brain, we have the technology to make it wireless."
"Wouldn't it need a power supply?" Daniel interrupted.
"I don't think so." Sam thought for a second. "The body has it's own electrical system and we could tweak it to make it run off the natural elements in her body."
"I hate to rain on the parade here;" Jack waved his had in the air. "But we're still missing an arm in this equation."
"What about Harlan?" Daniel pointed out.
"Our counterparts where supposed to destroy the gate when we came back, remember?"
"Oh yeah." Daniel frowned at Jack.
"I think we could make it sir." Sam was already writing something on a piece of paper. "I can get with some of our technicians."
"I'll talk to General Hammond and get approval." Jack tossed Sam's pen back on her desk and turned to walk out.
"Teal'c," Tegan's voice broke on the word. "It's me, it's Major Kiser."
"I know who you are Tauri." Teal'c pointed his staff weapon at her, her wrists were chained from shackles that hung from the ceiling of a mothership.
"Apophis is not a God."
"Liar!" He engaged his staff weapon. "Tell me your iris code."
She was thankful that he'd at least forgotten his when he was brainwashed into believing he still served Apophis. "Come on Teal'c you can fight this. There's no reason to resort to violence."
"Tell me what I want to know and I will make your death quick and painless."
"I can't do that."
"Then you must suffer for your insolence."
"After all we've gone through together and you're going to treatment like this. Like I'm some kind of prisoner."
"I am only going to ask one more time. What is the code to the iris."
"Take your best shot Teal'c, you know I can't tell you."
He lifted the staff weapon and aimed at her left arm. The blast blowing away the lower half of her arm.
"TEAL'C!"