Mr Mal Doran

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Chapter Two

~0i0~

The instant the SF's took Daniel from her Vala sank to the metal ramp, hand over her mouth, and began to shake uncontrollably.

"Hey, Vala?" One of the med staff reached to help her up. "Can you stand?"

"No." Her gaze flicked to the control room, then over to Colonel Reynolds who stood nearby. She managed to call out the intel on the rest of SG1, before she swayed. "I'm fine. Leave me alone."

Ignoring her plea, and with the help of another medic, they pulled her to her feet. "We're going to put you on the gurney."

Eyes firmly following Daniel as he was wheeled out, Vala shook her head. "I can walk. Reynolds? Did you get all that? Mitchell, Sam and Teal'c are counting..."

"I did." The colonel answered moving in her direction. "We're ready. Now go get checked out."

"After I check on Daniel." Suddenly her legs gave way.

Reynolds pushed through and whisked her up into his arms. "I've got her." He placed her on the gurney and looking up into the control room he spoke. "SG-3, SG-5 and SG-12 are ready to go, sir."

When he received the nod, Reynolds signaled the troops, stood back and waited for the Stargate to activate. "We'll bring them back." He called out dashing up the ramp.

~0i0~

He woke in a panic, eyes painfully opening to thin slits and shifting around seeing everything in a blur, unsure of where or even who he was.

"Relax, Daniel. You're safe. You're going to be okay. Do you know where you are?"

Staring at the women he tried to focus but it caused him too much pain.

"You're home Daniel. You're safe. It's me, Carolyn. Dr. Lam. I'm going to give you a sedative, and then we have to do a little surgery..."

"Where..." he crocked out, "where's my... my wife?"

Carolyn faltered in her ministrations for a mere second. "Sha... Sha're?"

"Huh?" He replied then slipped into darkness.

~0i0~

As if catapulted Vala sprang from the chair the second the surgery doors opened. "How is he?" Unexpectedly, tears sprang into her eyes and she blinked furiously.

A nurse approached. "Vala, Dr Lam told me if you were still sitting out here to tell you to go to the infirmary, it's going to be a while before they're done and more before anyone can see him. She received a report that you haven't showed up for your post mission. Someone will come find you." The nurse disappeared back through the doors.

Vala left, but instead of going to the infirmary she made her way up to the control room to check on Mitchell, Sam and Teal'c.

Somewhere along the way she must have passed out because she woke in the infirmary with Mitchell, and Sam, each holding their sides, and dressed in hospital garb, Teal'c with an arm in a sling, Landry and Jack surrounding her bed.

"Daniel?" She queried.

"Not awake yet, but it's looking good." Jack reported then looked away fingering the equipment nearby. "Or sorta good, but not great, but alive and..."

"Jack, did you elope?"

His head snapped back around to stare at her in disbelief. "Excuse me?"

"Elope. Mitchell said something about Jack eloped."

Jack looked up to the colonel who was busy picking lint from Vala's covers.

"He said something about dumb posts and Jack eloped. Can I go see Daniel?"

"No," Carolyn said coming into the infirmary, "you cannot see him now. We have to get him into recovery and comfortable. When he wakes, maybe then. And Jackalope is a mythical creature that lives in Colonel Mitchell's head."

Concerned, Vala asked, "Is he okay?"

"The colonel or Daniel?" Carolyn grinned. "We won't be sure until he wakes up."

Vala scowled, "What are you keeping from us?"

"Nothing, right now we have to see how his memory is. He should be fine."

"What does 'he should be fine' mean?" Vala pushed up on her elbows in in the bed.

"Let me get him settled and myself cleaned up and we can all talk then."

"That doesn't sound very comforting. What is it, Carolyn? What's wrong with my Daniel?"

"It's just that before we went into surgery he asked where his wife was."

"Vala?" Cam patted Vala's knee. "Let's let the doc do her job."

Carolyn met Vala's eyes. "I promise to let you know as soon as he wakes up."

Suddenly Vala grinned wide. "Which wife did he ask for?"

~To Be Continued~