A/N: Here's an update the boring stuff is almost over!!!! YAY!

Thanks for hanging in there!

Disclaimer: DO NOT OWN SGA


"So, let me get this straight, you want to take Sg-1 with you with only a few marines as back up?" Jack sounded pissed.

"Jack, why don't you get a cup of coffee, while you're at it get me one too." Landry said.

Jack knew he wasn't being rational he was scared as hell for his best friends and the woman he loved.

"Yeah, good idea." He stalked out.

"Where were we Colonel Carter?"

"As I was saying we have no contemporary intel on this planet, but from the combined experience of the SGA-1, and SG-1 we are confident that the two teams along with Major Lorne and a contingent of Marines, in three jumpers will be more than adequate.

Along with naquadah generators, and supplies, we will bring with us ordinance and two Mark V nuclear devices. The mission as we see it is to investigate the cloning facility, look for power sources such as ZPM's, and to find the Ancient healing device.

The planet is on the outer edge of Pegasus away from the Milky Way. SGA has only begun the grid search of worlds in that area so very little is known. We considered sending a MALP, but decided doing so would eliminate the element of surprise. Essentially it will be a snatch and grab, and as stealthy an operation as possible. Are there any questions?"

"Just one, when can you be ready?" The president said through the video conferencing device.

"In three days sir." Sam replied.

"Thank you Colonel Carter and Sg-1, and SGA-1, we will give you our decision in two hours, Woolsey you stay." The president dismissed them and they all exited the conference room.

"I can't believe I just met the President of the United States."John was grinning.

"Yes he's a great guy and an even better leader." Jack walked up to them coffee in his hands.

"You know him?"

"Well we have worked closely with him and the Joint Chiefs; you know the whole saving the planet thing." Daniel replied.

"Listen Sheppard, if you want to talk about—"

"Thanks General, but uhhh—"

"I lost my geek too… watching Daniel die was the second worst thing I ever experienced."

John felt his eyes fill and his throat tighten. "Yeah, it sucks."

Jack put his hand on John's shoulder and squeezed it gently. "Colonel we're a very unique bunch, no one else can really understand what this life is like. We are a family, we take care of one another, and no one, I mean no one gets left behind. So yeah we're going to take out a Wraith cloning facility but as far as this family's concerned we're going to save Rodney."

John nearly lost it, and Jack patted him and let his friends takeover. John could feel Sam and Teyla's feminine touch, Radek's hand on his shoulder, and he could feel Ronon's huge arms encircling them all.

They held on to one another for a long time, until Teyla said, "Let us go to see Rodney." They broke apart and walked quietly to the infirmary.


Rodney lay with his back bowed, clenching his jaw and clutching the sheet with one hand and Jennifer's with the other. He had an IV of chemo flowing into the port in his chest and was now having CSF removed for the intrathecal chemo to be injected.

"Hang in there Rodney, we're half way there."

"Aye lad you're doing great." Carson's voice was thick with emotion at the suffering Rodney was enduring, knowing it may be for naught.

Jennifer couldn't speak for fear of failing to be positive. Being a doctor made it virtually impossible, knowing what they were up against with this disease. Rodney's ALL staging was at IV now and with the CNS involvement things were as near hopeless as you could get. One thing was in their favor, that this was Rodney's first chemo treatment, and often the best results are with the first round it is later that chemo stops working, and bone marrow is the last option.

"Okay Rodney take a deep breath and try to relax your muscles. I know it's hard but it will make it easier on you." The Navy doctor told his old friend.

Oh God that hurts, my head feels like it's about to explode, and this crap is making me freeze.

Rodney gasped, as the pain in his head seemed to be progressing geometrically.

"Almost done Rodney," Chris said calmly.

"Shhh you're doing great." Jennifer ran her fingers gently across her fiancée's pale and glistening brow.

"Oh God… please hurry, I think I'm going to p—"

"Whoa Rodney try not to move, I know it's hard," Chris said as Jennifer placed a kidney shaped emesis basin next to the ailing physicists head.

"Go ahead lad he's finished but take it easy, we need to lay you flat on your back."

Rodney began vomiting making his head explode in a brilliant agony. The pain made him lose consciousness.

"Bloody Hell!" Carson stalked out into the hall, he couldn't take it anymore.

He was standing there fuming and pacing when the Atlantis contingent walked up lead by Samantha Carter.

"What's wrong Carson!" John ran up looking panicked.

"I—I don't, I—I can't …"

"It is alright Carson we understand. Is Rodney through with his procedure?" Teyla asked with gentle concern.

Carson slumped down in the chair beside the door to the isolation room, and buried his head in his hands. "He's suffering, we're basically torturing him. I can't believe how brave he is."

"Carson, is he, you know okay?" John knelt down to the troubled Scotsman.

"Aye as okay as you can be with poison being injected into your veins, and spine."

John paled and nodded as he stood up and walked away.

"I'm sorry, I just feel so helpless. He's holding his own, I'm the one falling apart… He's amazingly brave, he always has been." With that, Carson walked off down the hall in the direction John went.


Rodney awoke on his back, shivering and trembling, his head screaming and his stomach roiling. He groaned and someone placed a cool cloth on his aching brow.

"Thanks," he croaked. "How much longer?" he waved his hand at the bag hanging next to the bed, never opening his eyes.

"Not much longer and then you only have five more treatments."

"Great… I can't wait." He sighed and fell back asleep.


"Sir, I think we need to check this out." Landry said.

"Are you positive this isn't really about McKay?"

"Well he is an extremely important member of our team, and as he says the most brilliant scientist in two galaxies." Woolsey replied.

"I'm sure, I've read his file, and the man is a force of nature. But can we afford to risk all the others for him?"

"Mr. President, this mission is necessary we can't afford to ignore the threat of a Wraith cloning facility, as for Dr. McKay he is an asset we would be foolish not to try to save." Richard Woolsey had known this man a long time since he was a Senator he had no fear of being blunt with him.

There was a pause and the President sat back and crossed his arms, thinking.

"I think you're right. General, give them everything they asked for and divert one of the Asgaard tech ships with a full complement of pilots, just in case."

"Thank you sir."

" I hope we get what we want out of this, the alternative is unthinkable. Goodbye Woolsey, … General keep me posted."

"Yes sir."

The screen faded to the Presidential seal.

"Richard, are the up to this? With McKay being so ill, are they going to be...distracted?"

"I assure you their concern for Dr. McKay will not distract them or cloud their judgment. These people understand the fate of two galaxies ould be riding on the outcome of this mission."

"Good to hear. Now why don't we get some lunch and then tell them our decision?"

"Harriman?" Walter came running in.

"Get Mr. Woolsey and me whatever they're offering in the mess and then go find Sheppard and his gang and get him in here, along with Jackson and the others."