Disclaimer: SGU and it's Characters belong to their respective owners which, sadly, is not me. I do, however, own Alex and her story line and squad, etc, etc. This has come from my mind because my mind knows no boundaries.

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=Alex's P.O.V=

I groaned softly and wiped at the sleep in my eyes before looking towards TJ as she settled on the edge of the bed. "Hey"

"Hey, how're you feeling today?"

"Like shit still" I mumbled softly sitting up cross legged on the bed before clearing the sticky sleep from the corners of my eyes.

"Did those pain killers help?"

I shook my head and groaned softly. "Not a bit"

"Alright," She twisted her lips. "Well I've got limited things to work with"

"Don't bother wasting your supplies on me TJ," I yawned and stretched slightly grimacing at the pain flaring through my aching muscles. "I can fight through this, it's not my first run with it and I managed to make it last time"

She gave a reluctant nod. "Alright but you tell me if it gets any worse"

"Trust me love it's going to get worse, much worse and there's shit all either of us can do"

She sighed softly and nodded. "How are you coping with everything?"

I shrugged lightly. "Coping fine, what about you? You look a bit stressed"

She smiled tiredly and rolled her shoulders. "It's difficult to keep everyone on this ship healthy with next to no supplies, hopefully the next planet we find after this ice planet will have something we can use on it"

I nodded lightly and leant forward stretching my spine. "I'm sure we'll find something soon," I nodded to the grey metal wall beside us. "Destiny knows when we're in trouble"

She smiled softly. "Yeah, she does doesn't she?"

"So how're Young and Scott doing out there on... what the hell was it Eli called it? Hoth?"

TJ nodded and laughed softly. "Yeah, they're fine, Rush doesn't want me telling them about what's going on around here with those... bugs flying around"

I rubbed the back of my neck. "Yeah I would air on the side of caution and go with him on that one, Young will want to come back if you tell him and we need as much of that ice as he can get his hands on"

She sighed. "How do you deal with being in charge and making decisions like that Alex? It's so tiring"

I chuckled softly and rubbed at my temples wishing I hadn't. "You learn to deal with it, you adjust and adapt to it," I shrugged lightly. "Some are born to be leaders and others aren't, we're each given a calling in life and some of us find it easily where as others don't; I was born to work with my hands, to dismantle and repair, you, well you're a damn good doc and a much better bedside manner than some of the docs that have patched me up over the years"

"I'm not a doctor"

"You're the only one we've got Tam, that makes you a doctor in my book, you don't need a fancy degree to be one, I mean shit that's just a piece of fucking paper but then again that's pretty cheap advice coming from a woman with four fancy bits of paper"

She gave a brighter smile and laughed. "Thank you Alex"

"No problem, anytime you need a pep talk come see me" We both gave a laugh and fell into silence for a moment.

"Well I've got other patients to see and they should be bringing some ice back soon"

I gave a nod and curled back under my blankets throwing them up over my head in an attempt to sleep again.

I stumbled slightly into the hall from the bathroom and groaned feeling my guts twisted in a stabbing pain as I started to amble slowly back towards my quarters. Fucking body, fucking period, why the hell did I have to be the one that gets the vicious pains every month. Usually I could just grin and bear it but combined with the skull splitting headache I had it made me want to curl up like a baby and cry until it was over and done.

I stalled in the middle of the hall and inhaled slowly before exhaling just as slowly staring at the cloud before me, it was like a million tiny bugs had swarmed together to create one big swarm.

I tightened my arm around my torso at another stab of pain and reached out leaning my palm against the wall briefly before standing up straight again before inhaling sharply and started to breath shallowly as the swarm started slowly towards me.

I stood still and felt a calming warm wash off the swarm before it circled my body and came back in front of me before slowly stretching out to take on the shape of a man, I recognised the outline straight away, it was Rush.

They reached out with an arm, I tried to resist but couldn't and reached out towards them mirroring their move, the palm I touched was warm and vibrated with each tiny entity, the pain radiating through my body disappeared slowly into nothingness for a moment before ebbing back into my veins. I slowly let my hand fall back to my side before smiling slightly and watched the swarm morph back into a disorganised cloud as the ships comm. Crackled overhead.

"This is Lieutenant Johansen, we have a situation, it's under control but as a precaution I ask everyone to return to their quarters and remain there until further notice, thank you"

I sighed softly looking back to where the cloud had been a moment ago and found it gone. I shook my head lightly and ambled back towards my room before letting the door slid shut behind me and throw me back into the darkness I'd locked myself away in since I'd first started to feel like shit.