Confirming Carter Day2

By RibaldWriter

Day Two

Interior-Dr. Andi Samuels Bedroom

0840 Hours

Carter woke up the next morning, feeling better than she had in years. She sat up in the bed, looking around. She was still in Andi’s bed, alone this time, but she smelled coffee, and knew someone was in the suite with her.

Swinging her feet over the side of the bed, she stood up, stretched her arms over her head, then bent over at the waist, touching her palms flat on the floor. She raised up slowly, then repeated the move.

“Okay, that’s weird.” She said to herself. “I wasn’t limber enough to do that yesterday.”

She stepped over to the mirror, and ran her fingers through her hair. fluffing it up, then finger combed it out into her usual shag. Leaning in, she looked at herself closely in the mirror. She thought she could see subtle changes in her skin. Nothing major, just that the crows feet around her eyes didn’t appear as prominent.

The smell of coffee in the air got her attention again, and she followed it out into Andi’s office. Jennifer and Andi were sitting at the breakfast bar, both of them looking tired and worn.

“Morning girls!” Carter said brightly, as she walked into the kitchen. “How’d you two sleep? I went out like a light...and damn, I feel great!” She leaned across the counter, puckering her lips and making kissing noises. “Give us kiss! Mwwwwahh!” she said, then turned and looked around the kitchen.

She picked up the coffee pot, poured a cup, and took a sip. She made a face, and poured in a dollop of milk, then added a spoonful of sugar. Stirring it a little, she took another sip, and grimaced at the taste. She added three more spoons of sugar, and tasted it again. “Ahhhh, that’s better.” She muttered as she turned and looked at the two doctors. “Okay, what’s the plan fo...What? Why are you looking at me like that?”

“You just put four spoonsful of sugar in your coffee.” Jennifer said slowly. “You usually don’t use sugar. Or milk.”

“Yeah, I know. Carter said lightly. “I just got a taste for something sweet this morning.” She turned and opened the freezer door and looked inside. “You got any ice cream in here?” She said over her shoulder to Andi as she poked around.

“No, I need to get some from the commissary. Sorry.”

“That’s okay. Would one of you call down to the mess and ask them to send up a couple quarts? French vanilla and chocolate ripple would be great!” She turned and looked at the other women. “Wanna see something kewl?” She asked. Taking a couple steps back, she put her feet together, bent over at the waist, and touched her palms to the floor again. She held the position for a few seconds, then stood up, throwing her hands out like a gymnast nailing a perfect ten landing. “Tada! I couldn’t do that yesterday.”

“Come out here. Colonel. We need to take a look at you.” Keller said. She slid off her stool and picked up her medical kit from the floor.

Carter came around the corner and stood in the center of the room. “Before you do anything else, Jenn, Do you have a light? Like a flashlight, or something you can light up my skin with? I thought I saw something, and I just wanna make sure.”

“Sure, I have this small one in my bag.” Keller said, digging around for a minute, then holding up a penlight. “Will this do?”

“Beats the hell outta me,” Carter giggled. “You’re the one that’s gonna be using it. Come over here and look at my face, especially around the eyes, and the corners of my mouth.”

“Your speech pattern is different.” Samuels said softly. “It’s more colloquial than usual. You tend to be more formal, even in informal settings. And you’re using slang and contractions, where you normally tend to use proper English.”

“And that’s a bad thing, how?” Carter asked, pulling a stool out from the bar and spinning it around. She hopped up on it, and tipped her head back as Jennifer moved in front of her.

“I didn’t say it was a bad thing. I just pointed out that it was different.” Andi said lightly. “But it might be something we need to watch. Personality changes could be a problem.”

“Good point.” Sam said, nodding slowly. “Okay, Jenn. Look at the crows feet around my eyes, and the laugh lines around my mouth, and tell me if you can see any changes.”

Jennifer shined the light over Sam’s skin, leaning in to examine it closely. “I think you’re right, Colonel. The skin around your eyes appears tighter.” She reached up and ran her fingertips lightly around the corner of Carter’s eye, then stretched the skin slightly, and released it. “The skin feels softer and more supple too. You haven’t applied any lotions, creams, or anything like that this morning have you?”

“Nope, I fluffed up my hair a bit before I came out, but that’s it.” She looked back and forth between the two doctors. “Hey, can we hurry this up, or can we wait till after I hop in the shower? I’d like to freshen up a little, if you know what I mean.” She gave Keller an exaggerated stage wink.

“I don’t see any reason why not.” Keller said, stepping over to her medical bag. She pulled several items out and sat them on the counter. “But I want a blood sample first.” She pushed Carter’s sleeve up, and tied a rubber strap around her upper arm. Tapping the inside of her elbow, she found a vein, and picked up the syringe, easing it into her arm. When she was satisfied it was seated properly, she pressed the vial up, and watched it fill with blood. She removed the first vial, and quickly filled two more.

“You didn’t swab that.” Carter said as she watched her mark the vials and put them in her bag.

“Waste of time, this is better.” Keller said offhandedly as she sprayed an antiseptic on the puncture as she removed the syringe and sat it on the counter. She held a piece of gauze over the wound for a moment, then put a drop of clear gel on it. She waved her hand over it for a few seconds, then poked it with her finger. “NuSkin. Better than band-aids for small wounds. waterproof too.”

Reaching into her bag again, she pulled out two small plastic sample cups. “Spit.” She said, holding one under Carter’s mouth. Sam spit in the cup, and Keller put the lid on and marked it. She held the other cup out. “I want a urine sample too.”

“Excellent, cuz I really gotta go!” Carter said, hopping off the stool and whipping the gown off over her head, dropping it on the floor. She grabbed the cup out of Keller’s hand, and skipped down the hall toward the bathroom, disappearing inside. Her head reappeared a moment later. “Either of you wanna come with? Might be fun!” Her voice came down the hall, echoing from the confined space of the bathroom. “And I haven’t heard anyone order any ice cream yet. Hellllooohhh?”

“I’m going to join her.” Andi said, unbuttoning her top as she went. “She needs someone to observe her, and to make sure she’s okay.” She stopped, and looked at Jennifer. “Why don’t you order that ice cream, and three breakfast trays, then come join us. There’s plenty of room for three.”

“I...wha...you can’t...” Jennifer sputtered as she watched Samuels drop her pajama top to the floor as she turned into the bathroom door. She stopped, staring after her, then went over to Andi’s desk and paged the mess on her comm.

“Mess hall, Sgt. Stevens.” came a response after a moment. “Can I help you?”

“Yes, this is Dr. Keller. I need some food delivered to Dr. Samuels quarters. We’re working with Col. Carter today, and won’t be able to come down to eat.”

“Yes, maam. What would you like?”

“Let’s see, How about a dozen eggs, half scrambled, half scrambled with cheese, A dozen strips of bacon, six sausages, six biscuits, and six pieces of toast, don’t butter it, but send butter up with it. Oh, and hashbrowns, or fried potatoes, whichever you have. Both if you have both.”

“What kind of sausage? We have links, patties, and smoked.”

“Six of each then, and gravy. Do you have any gravy today? If you do, send up a pint.”

Yes maam. Is there anything else?”

“Ice cream. We need two quarts of french vanilla, two chocolate ripple, one strawberry, and one rocky road. Can you read all that back to me?”

The mess sergeant repeated her order quickly, and she confirmed it, then added, “Oh, and if there’s no answer at the door, just have them leave it outside. We’ll get to it.”

“Yes maam. It should be there in about fifteen minutes. Call it 0920 hours.”

“Thank you.” Keller said, shutting off the comm.

She looked down the hall, and thought she heard the faint sound of giggling coming from the bathroom. Curiosity got the better of her, and she crept quietly down the hall. The sounds from the bathroom got louder as she got closer.

“Oooohhh, that feels good Andi! Fuck! I love it when you rub my G-spot like that.” She heard Carter gasp. “Why didn’t anybody tell me about this before? Oh, oh shit! Yeah! Do it like that...Oh god!”

Keller stepped into the bathroom, her eyes going wide when she saw Carter leaning back against the wall, with Samuels kneeling between her legs, pumping her fingers slowly in and out of her pussy. She felt a shudder run through her, her own pussy fluttering and moistening at the sight of the two women together. “Oh my god.” she said softly.

Carter looked up, grinning when she saw her. “Jenn! Come on in! You gotta try this G-spot thing! Oh...My...Gawwwwdddd! It is In-FUCKING-credible!”

“I...I don’t kno...”

“Oh, come on! Don’t be a party pooper!” She grabbed the shower wand off the wall, and held it at arms length, pointing it at Keller.

Jennifer squealed and jumped back, but a second too late. The front of her scrubs were soaked.

“Goddammit Colonel! You can’t do that!” She sputtered.

“Call me Sam,” Carter laughed, pointing the sprayer at her again. “Now get naked and get yer ass in here. You need a shower anyway!”

Andi looked up at Carter from between her legs, her fingers brushing lightly over the swelling bump of her G-spot. “Rub your clit, Sam. Or do you want to see if you can cum just from this?”

Carter looked down at her, then back at Keller, then down at Andi again. “Why don’t you rub it for me Andi?” She purred, reaching down and wrapping her fingers in the older woman’s hair, pulling her face toward her gently. “With your tongue.”

Jennifer whimpered as she saw Samuels tongue slip out, then dart into the fur fringed cleft of Carter’s pussy slit. She looked up, and saw that Carter was staring at her. She looked back down at Andi, then back up at Sam, and slowly lifted the hem of her scrub top, pulling it up over her head, and dropping it on the floor. She opened the front clasp on her bra, and shook it off her shoulders, making her small, pert tits bounce on her chest. The tie on her pants came loose next, and she pushed them down over her hips as she walked toward the shower stall. She pushed her panties off and stepped into the stall, taking the hand wand from Carter, and sprayed herself down quickly.

“T...try it o...on your cl...clit, Jenn!” Carter panted as she scrunched down against the wall, spreading her legs wider around Andi’s hungrily sucking mouth as she bent her knees a little more. “Oh sh...shit, Andi! Yo...you’re good at th...that. God! I...I think I’m gonna cum already!”

Jennifer saw a shiver run though her body, then her legs started shaking as she started cumming. “Shit!” Jennifer grunted as she saw Carter start to collapse. She just barely got her arms around her as she started to fall. Holding the colonel in her arms, she was surprised when she felt her arms slip around her neck.

“Hi, Jenn.” Carter purred in her ear, then kissed her lightly on the neck. She drew her tongue slowly up under her chin, and licked at the cleft as she moved up over it.

Keller started to pull back, but she gasped suddenly as she felt Andi push her legs apart, and plant her mouth right on the hair lined lips of her pussy mound. Her tongue snaked between the fleshy labia, and darted up inside the tight ring of muscle guarding her cunt hole. Jennifer squealed, then gasped, and Carter chose that exact moment plant her lips over hers, her tongue darting into her mouth.

Jennifer tried to pull away, but Carter had her arms wrapped around her neck, and Andi had one arm wrapped around her hips. Andi’s other hand was pressing up between her legs, and she could feel two stiffened fingers trying to enter her pulsing pussy. Jennifer surrendered to the dual assault, tightening her grip on Sam, she let her own tongue slip out, lapping and lashing it over her boss’s. Her legs parted of their own accord, allowing Andi full access to her juicing cunt slit. She purred into Sam’s mouth as she felt the probing fingers slip up inside her, then start stroking in and out slowly.

Andi turned on her knees between the two younger women. She had two fingers of one hand firmly embedded deep inside Keller’s creamy cunt hole, and she returned her other hand to Carter’s wide spread pussy slit. She eased her fingers back up inside her pussy, and started moving both hands slowly in and out, then pulling them down, centering her fingertips over the twinned G-spots. She started turning her head, her tongue lapping at first one, then the other furry cunt slice, trying to pleasure both women at the same time.

Carter was kissing Jennifer hungrily, her eyes closed, her breath harsh and panting through her nose. Jennifer was equally excited, and she pressed her body forward, rubbing her tits over Sam’s, enjoying the way the older woman’s full, fleshy tit mounds felt against her own smaller ones. She spread her legs a little wider, bending her knees slightly and arching her hips forward at Andi’s face.

Andi was stroking both women’s G-spots rhythmically, whimpering as she felt them swelling slowly under her fingertips. She moved her mouth from ones drooling cunt slice to the others dripping pussy hole, her tongue licking and laving all around between each set of puffy lips, darting out to slap and slither over stiff, throbbing clits. She was tormenting them both equally, trying to get them both to cum as quickly as she could.

Sam stiffened, and her creaming cunt channel clenched and quivered around Samuels’ stroking fingers. She groaned into Keller’s mouth, and her tongue went into overdrive as she dipped and darted it in and out of her mouth. Jennifer grunted as she felt Carter stiffen against her, and she squatted onto Andi’s fingers, forcing them deep into her juicing pussy hole. She started cumming with Sam as Andi locked her lips around her clit, nipping and nibbling at the tender bud eagerly.

Both women shuddered and spasmed on either side of Samuels, and she kept up her frantic licking, stroking and slurping, trying to drive them both over the top.

Jennifer cried out into Carter’s mouth, then jerked back, losing her footing and barely stopping herself from falling on the floor. She fell back onto the bench seat in the corner, her ass perched on the edge, her legs spread wide apart. Samuels dove on her exposed beaver, her tongue stabbing up inside hungrily. She sucked and slurped at the tight, spasming hole for a moment, then moved her head up and plastered her lips around the twitching bud of her clit. She sucked at it, munching it between her lips as she eased three fingers up inside Keller’s clasping cunt hole. Her found the swollen bump of her G-spot, and started stroking it gently in time with the sucking action of her lips.

Keller screamed as her pussy erupted under Samuels combined oral and digital onslaught, and steaming girl cum sprayed from her quivering cunt hole, soaking Andi’s face, and running in pearly ribbons down over her heaving breasts. Jennifer finally couldn’t take anymore, and pushed Andi away, slipping off the bench and curling into a ball on the shower floor.

Andi stood up, and Sam opened her arms, smiling as the older woman stepped into them, sliding her own arms down around her waist. They kissed lightly, and Sam licked the sticky girl cum from her cheeks and chin. “Wow, she tastes good!” she giggled. “I’m gonna have to munch on that muff myself, sometime soon!”

Andi laughed, and hugged her tighter, then relaxed her grip and started to pull away, but Carter held her in place.

“You haven’t cum yet.” She said.

Andi grinned. “Yeah, I did! I was cumming like crazy doing both of you at the same time! Damn, Sam! You were right, That was fun!”

Carter laughed with her, and hugged her tight, rocking them back and forth. they both looked down when they heard Jennifer groan. Carter let go of Andi, and grabbed the hand wand, pointing it down at Jennifer. “Hey Jenn, you okay down there?” She hosed her down, working the spray up and down over her body. She looked at Andi, arching one eyebrow and holding up the sprayer.

Andi stepped back, holding her arms up, and Sam sprayed her up and down. She moved the nozzle between her legs, and Andi squatted, spreading her pussylips, and rocked her hips back and forth over the spray. Taking another step back and to the side, she moved under the main shower and rinsed quickly. She reached out and grabbed a towel, and started drying herself as she stepped from the stall.

“Why don’t you see if you can get her up and going.” She said to Sam as she moved toward the door. “I’m gonna check on the food!”

Carter laughed, then dropped to her knees, brushing the hair away from Keller’s face. “How ya doin’ down there Jenn?” She asked. “Think you can get going on yer own, or you gonna need help?

Jennifer opened one eye, and she smiled wistfully. “I could use a hand getting up, but I’ll be okay on my own after that.” She rolled over onto her knees, and held her hand out. Carter got to her feet, and reached down, taking her hand and pulling her to her feet. She guided her into her arms, and kissed her lightly, then stepped back and moved under the shower spray. Scrubbing herself quickly, she watched Jennifer the whole time.

“We’ll check on you if we don’t see you in a few minutes, okay?” She said as she took a towel from the rack, and started drying herself. When she saw Jennifer nod, she stepped from the stall and left the bathroom.

Keller slumped against the wall, unable to believe what had just happened. She had never had a lesbian experience, and she was stunned that when she did, it was a threesome. She finally pushed away from the wall, and stepped under the shower, rinsing off quickly. She decided that she could take a longer shower when she got back to her quarters. Turning off the water, she got the last towel from the rack, and walked out of the bathroom, drying herself as she went down the hall to Andi’s office.

Interior-Dr. Samuels Office

0945 Hours

Samuels saw the message light on the comm flashing as she walked into her office. She pressed the play button, and the message began.

“Dr. Keller, this is Sgt Stevens in the mess. We had a mix up, and your order never got sent out. We’re sorry about that, and we’re putting it together now. Everything you ordered is being made fresh, so it should be nice and hot when it gets there. We’re sorry for the incontinence. Your order should be there no later than 0950 hours.”

She glanced at the clock, and grinned when she saw that it was just rolling over onto 9:48 AM. Just then, the door chimed.

“Wow, talk about timing.” She muttered as she moved toward the door. She was about to press the door release, when she caught sight of herself in the wall mirror beside the door. She was naked, her hair still dripping from the shower. Looking around the room, she spotted the gown Sam had dropped, and scooped it up, pulling it over her head and smoothing it down over her body. Shaking her hair out, she hit the door control, and it slid open.

“Hi there,” she said to the steward. “I’ll take that. Put it on Dr. Keller’s tab, and give yourself a big tip!”

The steward grinned, and pushed the cart though the door. “That’s okay, maam. We’re eating this one. Bad mojo screwing up the big boss’s breakfast, if you know what I mean.”

“I’ll take care of it for you.” She laughed, “But thank you. We may be calling down for our meals for the rest of the day, and maybe tomorrow, we’re not sure yet. We’ll have to let you know.”

“Thanks for the heads up. I’ll let Sgt. Stevens know. Have a good day, Maam,” He turned and walked down the hall, heading for the porter.

“Food’s here,” she yelled, then saw Sam coming out of the bathroom drying her hair.

“What? It’s just now getting here?” Carter said, her face clouding up.

“They had some kind of mix-up, and the order never got sent out. So they made it all fresh. It just now got here. Everything should be hot off the grill.”

Andi started taking lids of plates, and opening containers. Warm clouds of steam wafted up from the cart, filling the room with a riot of aromas. She opened the doors on the bottom of the cart, then closed them quickly when she saw 6 cartons of ice cream sitting on a sheet of dry ice.

“Jezzus! What did she order?” Samuels laughed.

“A little of everything,” Jennifer said as she walked into the room. “I figured we’d be hungry by the time it got here. I know I am!” She looked back and forth between the other two women. “I’m gonna call down to the infirmary and have some scrubs sent up. I wear a medium, what sizes do you want?”

“I’ll take a large, I like mine loose.” Carter said as she picked up a plate and started heaping food on it.

“I’m going to throw on a gown, I hate scrubs. Mainly because I have a big ass.” Samuels said.

“You do no...”Carter began, then she leaned around Samuels and grinned. “Yeah, you do have a big ass, don’t you? And you took my gown, you bitch!” She picked up a biscuit and threw it at her. Samuels caught it in midair, and threw it back.

“Hey! if you two are gonna have a food fight, get your own damn food!” Keller laughed. “All this is mine, and I’m taking it out onto the patio.” She started pushing the cart toward the door.

Carter followed her, still loading her plate, and taking a bite off the occasional item. Sam went outside, but Jennifer hesitated at the door. Sam pulled the cart the rest of the way out, still piling food on her plate.

“What? You afraid someone is going to see you? We’re a hundred stories up for chrissake.” Carter laughed. Just then, a jumper cruised by slowly, barely fifty feet away. Carter dropped to her knees behind the railing, and Keller skittered back inside quickly.

“What’s the matter, Sam? You afraid someone’s going to see you?” Jennifer giggled as she watched her crawl quickly through the door, and pull the curtains closed.

“Shit! The foods out there!” Sam laughed. “Andi, you got something we can wear till Jenn gets us some scrubs up here?” She glanced over by the chaise, and noticed the pile of clothes she’d left there. “Never mind, I’ll just wear what I come in with!”

She went over and picked up the fatigue blouse, pulled it over her shoulders and buttoned the middle three buttons. The blouse came down over her hips, so she decided not to bother with the pants. She felt the breast pocket vibrating, and she reach in, pulling out her comm unit. Putting it over her ear, she stepped back out through the patio door, and retrieved her plate.

“Sheppard to Carter, come in colonel. Sheppard to Carter, respond please.”

The jumper was slightly higher now, but it was obvious that it was doing a sweep of this building, looking for something. She tapped the comm, and said, “Go ahead John. What can I do for you?”

“So that was you just now. Sorry about that.” Sheppard said, barely able to keep himself from chuckling. “Was that Dr. Keller with you?”

“John, I’m in the middle of som...I was about to eat breakfast. Did you need something?”

“I was told you would check in this morning, and I haven’t heard from you.”

“So instead of calling the person you knew I was staying with, or sending someone to check the quarters you knew I was in, you decided to take a jumper and go peeking in windows?” She paused, letting that sink in. “Please tell me that’s not what’s happening here, John.”

“Uh...no maam. I was out showing some of the jumper trainees how to maneuver around buildings in the city.” He said slowly. “We just happened to be in the area, and thought we spotted someone.”

“I see.” Sam said icily. “We’ll have to talk about this later. But back to my original question. Was there something you needed?”

The jumper dropped down, and took up station twenty feet from the building. She could clearly make out Sheppard in the pilots seat, and Rodney McKay riding shotgun.

“She’s not wearing pants.” she heard Rodney say in the background as she watched him turn in his seat, looking into the cargo bay. “I’m not kidding, that’s why she’s standing so close to the rail like that!”

“John, tell Rodney to shut up. and tell him that its none of his business what I’m wearing, because he’s never getting close to it anyway!”

“You just did Colonel.” Sheppard laughed. “We’re on vox over here.”

“Good. But as you can plainly see, I’m fine. Now would you please go away? My breakfast is getting cold.”

“Yes maam. We’ll reach out through Dr. Samuels if we need you for anything. My apologies.” The jumper backed away, turning as it started to rise slowly. Sam grinned, and just before she was out of its view, she stepped back, turned around, and lifted the back of her blouse, mooning the jumper.

“I saw that.” Sheppard said quietly, then added. “I’m off vox.”

“Good. I was hoping you would. Anyone else?”

“Huh uh. If I ditch the baggage, can I get another peek later?”

“Maybe.” She laughed. “Depends on how I feel later. I’ll call you.”

“Copy later. Sheppard out.”

The jumper turn and accelerated quickly, and was out of sight in seconds.

Interior-Dr. Samuels Office

1310 Hours

Breakfast turned into an extended affair with Carter regaling the doctors with stories of her experiences at Stargate Command. Keller had heard most of them before from Sam, or Rodney, but Samuels sat spellbound as she listened to the firsthand recounting of what she’d only read about. She peppered Sam with an almost non-stop barrage of questions.

Breakfast also lasted longer than normal because Carter excused herself twice, disappearing once into the bathroom, the second time into Andi’s bedroom. She was gone about ten minutes each time, and from her flushed, rosy appearance on her return, it was obvious she had been masturbating.

When they were done eating, Jennifer took the samples she had taken down to the infirmary to be processed. She was gone several hours, and when she got back, Sam was chasing Andi around the apartment.

“Hey, what’s going on here?” She said as she danced out of the way. Sam had leapt over the chaise, diving for a shrieking Samuels.

“What? Oh, hi Jenn.” Andi panted. “Timeout!” She yelled, then ducked and dodged out of Carter’s reach. She squatted down in front of her as she struggled to her feet. She was tapping one hand over the other, make a “T” in her face. “Timeout. Jenn’s back.”

“What the hell are you two doing?” Jennifer yelled.

“Wow, who pee’d in her cheerios?” Carter grumbled, walking into the kitchen and pulling a wad of paper towels off the roll. She started blotting at her skin as she glared at Jennifer.

“We were playing tag,” Andi laughed. “And she’s it!”

“I had you! If she hadn’t gotten in the way I would have had you.” Sam said as she came storming out of the kitchen. “I was this close, and BAM! there’s a body in my way.”

“I moved.” Jennifer said.

“Yeah, you did, didn’t you?” Sam said, suddenly sounding much calmer. “Whatcha got there, Jenn?”

“Test results.”

“Anything interesting?”

“That’s what we’re gonna try to find out.” Keller said, dropping the folder on the table. “You two want to help me clear off the table?”

“You guys take care of that, will you? I’ll be back in a minute.” Sam said as she walked down the hall into Andi’s bedroom.

“Not again,” Jennifer said with an exasperated sigh.

“Hey, fiddle fiddle, girlfriend likes to diddle...” Samuels laughed. She sobered up a little. “That’s the third time since you left. What’s that, five times so far today?”

“Yeah. Twice during breakfast, then three more. Shit, I’m starting to feel a little inadequate. And jealous.”

They finished clearing the table, moving everything back onto the cart.

They were sitting at the table going over the reports when Sam strolled back it.

“So what’s the verdict?” she asked brightly. “How long have I got doc? I can take it!”

“Bad news, Sam.” Jennifer said, looking up at her soberly. “As near as I can tell from this, barring accident, or injury, you’re good for another hundred years or so.”

“Really?” Sam said, leaning over the table. “Show me...”

Jennifer reached up and flicked her under the nose when she was close enough.

Sam jumped back, barely managing to avoid falling over a chair.

“I told you she’d fall for it.” Andi giggled, holding her hand up. Jennifer high fived her, and they turned and looked at Sam.

“Have a seat, Sam.” Andi laughed. “We were just going over some of this stuff. We really haven’t gotten into it yet.”

Carter got situated, and the doctors started going over the test results with her.

“Everything here shows that you’re healthy.” Jennifer told her. “Your blood sugar is a little higher than on previous tests, but you had sugar in your coffer before we took blood. That could account for the spike in the blood sugar.”

“What’s got us stumped is the personality changes. Especially the increased sex drive.”

Carter nodded, but didn’t really seem to be paying attention.

They continued for a few minutes, pouring over the data. Keller kept glancing over at Carter, sitting across the table from her. She noticed that she had one hand under the table, and seemed to be squirming around more than she normally did.

“Sam?” Keller said quietly as she stopped her review of the test results she’d been going over.

“Hmmmmm?” Carter purred, a soft smile on her lips as she leaned back in her chair, her eyes closing.

“Um, are you masturbating?” Keller asked.

“Huh?” Carter’s eyes popped open, and she looked down between her legs. The fingers of one hand were nestled between her fur fringed pussylips, moving gently over the soft, moist flesh. “Damn, I guess I am. I didn’t even realize...I’m sorry. Please go on Jennifer.” She said. She moved her hand from between her legs, and brought it up in front of her face, looking at it as she turned it back and forth. Jennifer gasped, and Andi smiled as Carter slipped the juice slickened fingers into her mouth and started licking them clean.

“Let’s change the subject.” Samuels said. “We can get back to your test results in a minute, Jenn. Sam, when we were talking yesterday, you said you had only masturbated two or three times a year previously, and that it was difficult for you to achieve orgasm. Do you remember that?”

“Mmm hmm,” Carter said, taking her fingers out of her mouth and licking her lips. “Yeah, and it really sucked too. And I always felt like shit afterward.” She looked over at Samuels. “Why bring that up now?”

“Well, would it surprise you to hear that you’ve masturbated at least six times that I know of today, and had three orgasms in the shower earlier?” Samuels said lightly, watching Carter closely.

“Really?” Carter grinned. “Have you got another one of those gowns I can wear?” She said as she stood up and started walking toward the bedroom. “I’ll be back in a minute.”

“No, Sam. Come sit down. We need to talk about this.” She turned and looked at Keller. “Go back to the blood tests. Do you have the toxicity report in there somewhere? I want to see something.” She looked up, and saw that Carter was still moving toward the bedroom, skipping along lightly.

“Sonofabich,” Samuels laughed, glancing at Keller. “Gimme minute.” She got up and jogged after Carter.

“Sam,” she said as she grabbed her arm and turned her around, pushing her against the wall. She put her forearm across her chest and held her as Carter started to resist. “Sam we...”

“Mmmmm, Andi wanna play with Sammy?” She giggled, leaning forward, trying to kiss her.

“No, Sam! Goddammit, you listen to me now...”

“Please, Andi! I...it hurts. I...Please?” Carter whimpered, her eyes filling with tears.

Samuels glanced at Keller, then turned back to Sam. She leaned close and pressed her lips to Carter’s, her free hand dropping down between her legs, cupping the lightly furred mound of her pussy. She was sopping wet, and Andi’s fingers slid easily between her puffy pussylips. She stroked her fingers gently up and down, finally settling them over her clit, and started stroking it lightly.

Carter groaned into her mouth, her arms snaking around Andi’s back as she spread her legs wider, arching her hips up at her stroking fingers. She shuddered, then groaned into Andi’s mouth as she kissed her hungrily, and warm pussy juice trickled over Andi’s fingers.

Samuels started to move her hand away, but Sam dropped one hand, grabbing her wrist, stopping her. She writhed against her as she pulled her hand tighter against her, trying to work it up and down.

Andi put her fingers back on her clit, and started stroking again, and Sam stiffened, orgasming almost immediately. Samuels kept up her steady, gentle caresses, guiding her through three more climaxes, each progressively stronger than the last. Finally, Carter slumped against her, panting for breath.

Samuels looked over at Keller, motioning her over with a wave of her hand. She eased her fingers from between Sam’s legs, making her whine unconsciously. “Help me with her.” she whispered as Keller came close. “Let’s put her on the chaise. I don’t want to leave her alone right now.”

Keller moved to the other side of Carter, and they walked her back down the hall, and got her settled on the chaise. “Hold her up, I’ll be right back.” Samuels said, and walked quickly down the hall, stopping and opening a set of double doors. She pulled a gown from a hanger, looking toward Keller as she held it up. “Want one?” She asked. When Jennifer shook her head, she pulled another down for herself and joined the other two women.

Stepping up behind Sam, she held her shoulder, and looked at Jennifer. “Put your hands around her waist, under the blouse, and slide it up, we’re gonna take it off over her head.” She put her hands under Sam’s arms, getting a handful of material in each hand, and started pulling it slowly upwards. The blouse slid off easily, and Andi dropped the gown over her head, and they got her arms into the sleeves. The gown dropped around her waist, and they eased Sam up onto the chaise.

Jennifer started pulling the gown down over her hips, but Andi stopped her. “Leave it, she’s just gonna pull it up eventually anyway.” Jennifer looked at her quizzically. “Take my word for it. Let’s see those toxicity reports. I’ll show you what I’m talking about.”

They went back over to the table, and Samuels stopped, pulled the gown she had on over her head, dropping it on the floor at her feet. She pulled the fresh one over her head, and looked around the room. “Damn, someone’s gonna have to clean this place up soon.” She muttered.

“Not gonna be me.” Jennifer giggled, then shot a look toward Carter. “And I doubt if you’re gonna get much help from our peerless leader either.” She sat down, and started shuffling through the pile of reports in front of her. Finding the one she was looking for, she slid it over in front of Samuels. “Toxicity report. What are you thinking Andi?”

Andi ran her finger down the column of figures slowly. “Did you test for alien pathog...oh, here it is.” She picked up a highlighter and ran it across a line near the bottom of the second page. “Look at this. These numbers for the korathis are way out of whack. There’s actually more of it in her system than she originally ingested. Several orders of magnitude more as a matter of fact.”

She looked at Keller. “I based my study on testing Beckett’s people did on this herb. Do you know if any of the test subjects show any unusual reactions to it? The human ones? I don’t recall any notations of that in any of the case histories.”

Jennifer shook her head. “Not that I know of, but it was a very short study. I think it was like, four months? And there were only seven human subjects. And three Athosians. From what I was told, its just a harmless herb. Most Athosian women use it their whole lives with no ill effects.”

“Well, we’ve got one human woman showing odd...I don’t want to go to ill yet...effects from it.” She glanced over at Carter, and looked back at Jennifer. She grinned and jerked her head toward the chaise. “what did I tell you?”

Jennifer looked over at the chaise, and gasped when she saw Sam, apparently asleep, curled up on her side, her hand between her legs, her fingers working lazily in her crotch.

“Anyway, back to these numbers. Her initial exposure was less than one milligram. We started with thirty milligrams diluted in twenty-four ounces of tequila, twenty-four ounces of a bitters mix, and sixteen ounces of water. The water was in ice form, so probably isn’t a factor. She had, call it twelve ounces total of the margaritas. I had an equal amount at the same time. So now we’re way under a milligram, and into microgram levels. Call it closer to three micrograms. That’s less than two tenths of one percent of what the Athosian women take on a regular basis.”

Samuels shook her head as she looked at Keller. “But these numbers show considerably more of the substance in her blood by volume. And there’s no way she could have gotten more on her own, I don’t keep any here. I have to sign it out from the dispensary on a by use basis. And she hasn’t been anywhere else in the last twenty-four hours.”

She looked over at Carter, then back at Keller again. “Is there anyway she could be producing it on her own? At least, the active components?”

“We don’t know what the active components are, or at least I don’t right now.” Keller said. “I’ll have to review the material, and talk to the people that were involved in the study. It’s possible that she could be producing any number of substances as a result of this exposure.”

Jennifer looked over at Carter, then stood up and paced back and forth for a moment. “There’s something else we need to talk about Andi.” She paused, then turned to face her colleague. “She...she’s not fit for duty in this condition. I’m going to have to relieve her of command eventually, if she doesn’t show improvement soon. And I mean today.”

“I know,” Samuels said. “I thought of that too. I think you should go talk to Sheppard, and do it now. We don’t know enough to diagnose, much less try to begin any kind of treatment.”

“I wanna go home...”

Both women turned and looked toward the chaise, but Carter was gone, already on her feet, moving toward the door.

“Whoa, Sam.” Andi said as she ran after her, catching her at the door. “You’re in no shape to be going anywhere right now.”

“I’m fine, sweetie.” She said lightly, leaning close and kissing her on the cheek. She looked over at Keller. “And you’re right Jennifer, I’m not fit for duty at the moment. You know what you have to do, right?

Keller nodded, her eyes tearing up. She shook her head, and took a deep breath. “Yes maam. I’ll take care of it.”

Carter nodded. “Good. Now come with me, I’ve got something I’d like to show you.” She pressed her hand to the pad beside the door. Nothing happened.

Turning slowly, she looked at Samuels, her face clouding over. “Why is the door locked, Andi?” She said coldly.

“Because I didn’t want you wandering off when I wasn’t looking.” Samuels said, looking her in the eye. “I didn’t want you to hurt yourself...or do something stupid.”

“Oh...good idea. Would you unlock it please? I want to show you something. And I think it will solve some of the problems that are going to come up.”

Andi keyed in a code, and the door swooshed open. Carter took her hand and led her into the corridor. She looked back over her shoulder at Keller. “You come too, Jenn. I want you both to see this.”

She touched the pad next to the porter, and the door swooshed opened. “You should code this too, Andi.” She said as she stepped in and started tapping on the pad on the porters wall. “I probably won’t be coming back here, but a little security never hurts, ya know.” The doors swooshed shut behind Jennifer as she stepped in.

Interior- Carter’s Suite, Tower Fifty-Eight

1350 Hours

Sam hit the pad one last time, and the doors opened behind them.

“Remind me to set up access codes for both of you before you leave.” She said as she stepped out of the porter. “You won’t be able to get back here without one.”

Keller and Samuels followed her out, but stopped in their tracks when they saw their surroundings. They had come out directly into a room, not a corridor the way most porters did. And what a room.

The arched ceiling was fifteen feet high where it met the walls, but soared to almost twenty-five feet at the peak. The entire expanse glowed softly over the richly appointed interior. The room was filled with long, low couches, tables that appeared to have been carved from single pieces of wood, and the carpet was some sort of animal fur that they sank into, almost ankle deep. Tapestries and paintings adorned the walls, while knick knacks, and other objet d’art were strewn about tastefully.

“Oh...my...gawddddd!” Samuels muttered.

“You like it huh? So do I.” Carter chuckled “I found this place the first week I was in Atlantis. I was doing a walking tour, hitting random addresses in a porter, and I landed here one evening. I’ve been making little changes as I moved some of my stuff in over the last few months, but what you see is basically how I found it.” She walked toward an arched doorway across the huge room. “Lemme show you the best part.”

The doctors followed her, stopping again as they stepped through the doorway.

“Fuck me...” Keller gasped, her mind barely able to take in the incredible vista spread out before her.

“Why Jennifer, I never thought you’d ask!” Sam laughed, tickling her under the chin, then spinning and running across the room, diving headlong onto a huge bed in its center.

The room was more than fifty feet across, and over thirty feet deep, the three outer walls each made up of single sheets of floor to ceiling glass. Even from where they were standing, the view was incredible. The back wall was a hand carved bas-relief in some shiny black material neither of them recognized. The huge bed nestled in under it, and a long shelf with different sized nooks under it ran just over the width of the bed.

The bed was at least fifteen deep, and twelve feet wide, and looked like it could easily sleep a dozen people. Sam had grabbed a long, thick round pillow, and was hugging it as she rolled around on the bed.

“Oooohhh, I knew these things were gonna come in handy someday,” She giggled as she rolled over, straddling it, and started humping back and forth slowly. “Um, I’m gonna...uh, you know...is that okay?”

“Knock yourself out.” Samuels said as she walked over and looked out the windows. She was facing the central tower, and Atlantis was spread out below her. She walked along the wall, turning when she reached the corner and walking down it. The side wall had an ocean view, and the sun shimmered on the water like diamonds. She looked over her shoulder, and saw that Jennifer was walking toward the other side wall, equally spellbound.

“Jennifer,” She said, then pointed at the doorway when Jennifer looked at her. She glanced at Carter on the bed as she walked by. Sam was humping and writhing happily on the pillow, and Samuels couldn’t see any reason to disturb her.

“She’d lucid, and appears to be capable of rational thought.” She said as they stepped into the adjoining room. They went over and sat on one of the couches in the center of the room. “Her cognitive processes seem to be unaffected, it’s just that this new, sexual element appears to be overriding everything else at the moment.”

Jennifer nodded. “I think you’re right. She was masturbating while we were reviewing some of the test results with her, I’m sure of it. If she hadn’t leaned back and closed her eyes, I might not have noticed.”

“She’d been going at it for almost ten minutes before you said anything.” Samuels said, grinning at her. “I made some notes of my observations if you want to look at them. But the fact that she could participate in the conversation we were having, shows that she is still highly functional.” She paused, looking at Keller closely. “I’d like to test that further if we can.”

“Okay, that’s not a bad idea. What did you have in mind?” Keller asked.

“Well...besides what happened in the shower earlier, have you ever had a lesbian experience?”

Jennifer blushed, and before she could say anything, Samuels continued.

“I didn’t think so. It’s ok, not everyone is into it.” She grinned at Jennifer. “Bu...”

“It wasn’t unpleasant. I...I actually kind of liked it.” Jennifer said softly, Blushing furiously, but maintaining eye contact with Andi.

“Really? Do you think you could...” She paused and took Jennifer’s hand. “Do you think you could do to Sam what I did to you? I need her in a state of extreme sexual stimulation so I can hit her with a barrage of high level questions. Based on her responses, oral sex is the fastest way to get her there, but it’s kinda hard to talk with your mouth full of pussy, you know?”

“So you want me to...to..”

“I want you to eat at the “Y”, muff dive, slurp on the bearded clam. Yeah, I want you to eat her pussy, Jenn. You think you can do that?”

Jennifer laughed and squeezed Andi’s hand. “Oh my god, Andi, what are we doing?”

“We’re treating our patient. And we need to get back to her, I don’t like leaving her alone.” She stood up, pulling off her gown and laying it across the back of the couch. “And that’s gonna be rule number one from now on. She is never, and I mean never, to be left alone. She already had one cardiac event, and I want to make sure she doesn’t do it again. Or at least someone should be with her if she does.”

“We’re going to need some help. That means staff, which means more people that know about this.” Keller said as she stood up. She looked at Andi standing naked in front of her, and shrugged, pulling off her scrub top, then pushing her pants down over her hips. She laid them on the back of the couch next to Andi’s robe. “I have a few people on my staff that I trust completely to be discreet about this, but I think we can wait a couple of days before we start pulling anyone in. I want to talk to Sam, and see what she thinks before we go making plans that affect her.”

“That’s a good idea,” Samuels said, stepping closer to Jennifer and slipping her arms around her waist. She leaned forward, her lips pressing against hers. Jennifer tensed up, but relaxed after a moment, and let her lips open to Andi’s probing tongue. Andi kissed her gently for a moment, then pulled back.

“Good girl,” she smiled, then gasped as Jennifer pressed her lips back against hers, kissing her hungrily. The kiss only lasted a few seconds before Jennifer pushed her away.

“Oh shit, I’m starting to like that!” She panted. She grinned at Andi. “Let’s go look in on the boss, shall we?”

They went back into the Other room, and Sam was still busily humping on her pillow. She was on her back now, and she had her arms and legs wrapped around it, and she was frantically humping her hips up at it.

Andi looked over at Jennifer, lifting one eyebrow. Jennifer nodded and took off at a dead run, diving onto the bed next to Sam. Andi laughed, then followed, just at a slower pace.

“Hey!” Carter yelled when Jennifer jerked the pillow out of the way, Then sighed and purred, “Oh, nevermi...OHSHIT...Do that some more!”

Jennifer pushed her legs apart, looking at the hair lined slit of Sam’s pussy for a moment, then plastered her mouth to it, letting her tongue slide from her mouth and slip up between the soft, juice slickened lips. Moving her hands up, she pushed Sam’s legs up higher, and wider apart. She spread the lips of her pussy with her thumbs, and slapped her tongue up and down over the soft, slippery flesh.

Andi crawled up onto the bed and moved over next to them. She pushed the pillow off of Sam and reached down, grabbing the hem of her gown, pulling it up over her. Sam raised up slightly so Andi could pull the gown off of her, then grinned up at her as she slid down on the bed next to her.

“Hi! This was your idea, wasn’t it?” she laughed. She looked down at Jennifer as she eagerly munched on her juicy muff. “Mmmmm, you’re pretty good at that, Jenn” She said huskily. “You sure you never did this before? Oh...Ohhhhhhhhh!” She put her hand on the back of Jennifer’s head. “Ne...nevermind! Don...Don’t stop! Oh shit! Please don’t stop!”

Andi reached over and started squeezing one of her breasts, then leaned over and sucked one stiff nipple into her mouth. She chewed on it lightly, lashing it with her tongue. Sam’s back arched up as she pressed her tit up at Andi’s sucking mouth. She whined when Andi pulled her mouth away.

“Sam, what’s pi?” She asked softly.

“3.14159265.” Sam answered immediately.

“And what’s the square root?”

Carter turned her head and looked at her. “You’re testing my cognitive abilities, aren’t you?”

She closed her eyes, and humped her pussy up at Jennifer’s face. “Lick my clit, Jenn. And stick a couple fingers in too.” She looked at Andi again. “Tell her how to do the G-spot thing, Andi. That’ll be kewl!”

“Come on, Sam. What’s the square root of pi?”

“Lick my titty again and I’ll tell you...”

Andi leaned back down and sucked Sam’s nipple back into her mouth. She clamped the spiky bud between her teeth and bit down on it, shaking her head like a dog. Relaxing her grip on it, she cupped her breast in her hand, and sucked lightly on the nipple, letting her tongue lash around over the bumpy ring of the areole.

“Mmmmmm, that feels sooooooooo good!” Sam gasped.

Andi pulled her lips off her tit with a loud slurp, and smiled down at her. “Okay, what’s the square of pi, Sam?”

1.772453849892854yadayadayada, ad nauseum, ad infinitum....” She said quickly, then added, “Like you’d know anyway.”

“Ya got me there, Sam. Where are we?”

“Tell Jennifer how to do the G-spot thing first.”

“What, no! Now you listen to me...”

“No, you listen to me, Dr. Samuels. I’ll participate in your testing, but you have to give me something in return. Quid pro quo. That’s only fair.”

Andi stared at her in shock, taken completely off guard by this sudden reappearance of the career Air Force officer.

“That’s right, Andi. I am completely lucid, and for the most part, completely in control of my faculties...Well, kind of.” She paused, and her features softened again as she smiled. “And if you two want to have private little chats about me, I suggest you go to another building. Or at least another floor.” She grinned wolfishly. “It seems that my hearing has improved quite a bit in the last few hours.”

Andi nodded, and looked down at Jennifer.

“Jenn, put two fingers in to the second knuckle. Press your fingertips against the upper wall of her vagina...”

“Pussy.” Sam corrected her.

Andi gave her a withering glare, but Sam just grinned at her.

“Press them against the upper wall of her pussy. You won’t feel anything at first, but you’ll be able to tell by her reactions if you’re in the right place.”

“Yeah buddy...”

“Be good, Sam!” Andi laughed. “As she gets more aroused, you’ll feel a slight swelling under your fingers. It will grow as she gets more excited. I’ve felt it get as large as a marble, so don’t be surprised.”

“Let’s see if we can get it as big as a baseball!” Sam cackled as she shimmied and writhed under Jennifer’s busily sucking mouth. She turned her head, and saw Andi scowling at her. “Okay, a tennis ball...a ping pong ball?”

“Anyway, you’ll want to work on her clit at the same time. The more excited she gets, the more you’ll need to work in her clit. Vary your strokes, and alternate between licking and sucking.” She looked back at Sam. “There, satisfied?”

Sam grinned back at her. “Nowhere close...God, I can’t believe you asked me that!” She swatted at Andi’s head, making her dodge back quickly.

“That was kinda dumb, wasn’t it?” Andi laughed. “Now tell me about this place, Sam.”

“We’re on the one hundred forty-fourth floor of tower fifty-eight, southwest pier of Atlantis, in the Pegasus galaxy. This room is fifty-three feet wide, thirty-six feet deep, and fifteen feet high, for a total vol...OOOOOOhhhhh!”

She stopped abruptly as Andi pinched her nipple sharply.

“Too much?” She asked.

“Not at all,” Andi said lightly. “Tell me more, but just the useful stuff, okay?”

“Hmmmmm, I’ve been doing modifications to the buildings systems. None of the elevators will go below one thirty-one, and none of the porters in the city will go to any floor above one thirty without a code. That was the first thing I set up. I also changed the buildings parameters in the city database, so it shows up as only having a hundred thirty floors. Didn’t want anyone to come nosing around, ya know?”

“Why? Those seem like some extreme precautions.” Andi said.

“The IOA is going to try to replace me at some point. I like it here, and I don’t think I ever want to leave. Earth will be dull after this.” She said quietly as she pushed Jennifer away and rolled over. “Let’s take this into the other room. I think I need something to drink.”

Getting to her feet, she bounced to the end of the bed and hopped off, walking slowly toward the door. “You two coming? Or do you want some private time?” She spun around, walking backwards, pointing her hands at them from waist level like a pair of six guns as she leered at them.

Andi and Jennifer looked at each other, then scampered off the bed after her. Sam started talking as they caught up to her.

“This suite takes up this entire floor, I’ll show you around later. The next two floors down have two suites each, the next three under those have four, and everything else down to one thirty-one have six each. I haven’t looked below that, so don’t ask.”

“I wasn’t going ask about any of that, but okay.” Andi said. “You said something about getting something to drink. Where’s the kitchen? And where can I pee?”

“The kitchen is just down the end of the hall here, and one of the bathrooms is right next to it. More like a powder room, actually, but you can pee in it I guess.”

“Excuuuuuse me.” Jennifer said as she skittered by and skipped down the hall, disappearing through a door.

“Guess she has to go too.” Sam said lightly. “Let’s go on to the kitchen, she can catch up. Can you wait? I can show you where another bathroom is if you can’t.”

“Oh, I don’t have to go.” Andi said. “I just like to know where the bathroom is for when I do.”

“I’m the same way. But there’s five bathrooms in this place. The master is just off my bedroom, then there’s this one,” She waved at Jennifer sitting on the toilet as they walked by. “There’s another powder room off what I think of as the office, then there are two more off the other two bedrooms.”

“Only three bedrooms? I would have thought there’d be at least five with a place this size.”

“You’d think so, wouldn’t you? But the other two bedroom are, oh, I’d say seventy percent the size of mine, and one of them has two beds in it. I think it was the kids room. They were more interested in living space I guess.”

Interior-Kitchen

1510 Hours

“Wow!” Andi gushed as they walking into the kitchen. Polished metal cabinets lined two sides of the room top and bottom, with a space between. There was a thick stone countertop in an “L” shape stretching from wall to wall in each direction, and a double sink was centered on each side. The third side, where they had entered, had a wide, double refrigerator on each side of the entryway. the fourth side was another window wall, which seemed to be a favorite of the designer.

A long glass and metal table dominated the room. Easily twelve feet long and five feet wide, it had three metal chairs on each side, and a larger one on each end.

Sam stepped to the left and pulled open the door on one of the fridges. “There’s juice, milk, soft drinks, and water on this side.” She pointed over to the fridge on the other side of the doorway. “Alcohol and frozen foods are in the other one.”

She walked over, opened a cabinet, and pulled down three big glasses. Coming back, she lifted a panel, revealing an ice maker. Handing Andi a glass, she held one of the others under the spout, and filled it with ice.

“Does Jennifer use ice?” She asked Andi. “I never noticed.”

“Sure do,” Jennifer said as she walked into the room, holding out her hand.

Sam handed her the glass of ice, and Andi stepped back, opening the refrigerator door. “Drinks.” She said.

Jennifer reached in, grabbed a bottle of grape juice, and walked over, pulled a chair out from the side of the table and sat down.

Sam held the glass of ice out to Andi, but she shook her head, and picked up a bottle of orange juice. Sam reached in and grabbed two cokes, and they joined Jennifer at the table.

Sam took the place at the head of the table away from the windows, and Andi walked behind her, taking a seat across from Keller.

“Okay,” Sam said when there were all settled. “You have more questions. Let’s hear them.”

“How do you feel?” Andi asked her.

“Physically, emotionally, otherwise? You wanna narrow that list a little?”

“No, I don’t.” Andi said. “Start with how you feel physically, right now, then we’ll go from there.”

“I feel pretty good, actually. I tend to be a healthy person, so that’s not unusual. I do generally feel...better is the best I can give you. I feel stronger, and I think my stamina is increasing too.” She looked over at Jennifer. “I suppose you’re going to want to run some kind of tests on me over the next few days?” Jennifer nodded. “Okay, there’s a gym, pool, and sauna up on the next floor. I guess we could do stress testing up there.”

She turned back to Andi. “I mentioned that my hearing has improved, becoming more sensitive. Well, my other senses appear to be doing the same thing. Especially smell, at least, that’s the one I’m noticing most.” She smiled at them, then continued. “I not saying that you stink, but if this keeps up, we’re going to have to make arrangement to have anyone that comes up here shower before they do. With unscented products.”

She got up and walked over to the freezer, and pulled out a small tub of ice cream. She got a spoon from a drawer and returned to the table. She frowned when she opened the container, noticing that were only a few spoonsful left. “Oh, this is not good.” She sat the container down, and stood up, walking toward the door. “Come with me. Both of you.”

They followed her down the hall, into a smaller room. Sam moved behind a richly carved wooden desk and sat down, touching a panel on the desk, bringing a lighted keyboard embedded in its surface to life. “I hate this thing.” She muttered to herself, then looked up at them.

“Give me a fourteen character alphanumeric string that you’ll remember. You first Andi.”

“Can I use my name, with numbers in it?”

“Sure, that’ll do for now.” Sam said. “Good thinking. okay, you’re 1andi1samuels1, all lower case. Jenn?”

“1hothotdoctor2.” Jennifer said, keeping her face as straight as she could.

Sam laughed as she typed it into the system. “Our dreams betray us.” Andi said quietly. Jennifer punched her in the shoulder.

“Okay, Jenn.” Sam smiled up at her. “You are now 1hothotdoctor”, she paused, then added, “2.”

She stood up, and came around the desk. “Now that both of you can come and go at will, would one of you PLEEEEZZZ, go get me some ice cream! I’m having a major sugar jones, and I know there’s some at Andi’s place.”

“I’ll go,” Andi said. “I know which porter to hit, and I know right where it is. what else do I need to bring back?”

“A few of those gowns, I like the way they feel. We need to stock up on those. And you two need to start making notes as we have these little chats. Remind me to get you some tablets for that.”

She leaned back against the desk and looked at them. “Jenn, this might be a good time for you to go have that little chat with John.”

“No.” Andi said. “She can do that after I get back. I was serious Sam. There is going to be someone with you 24/7 from now on. You no longer have a private life, everything you do is going to be observed and monitored. Is that clear?”

Carter just looked at her, then sigh and nodded. “Then you two are going to need some relief. Jenn, contact three people in your department and brief them on what’s happening. Tell them that this is their new duty assignment until further notice, and have them plan on staying here. We can assign them suites on the lower levels. I doubt they’ll complain about that, it’s a major upgrade.”

“Andi, I don’t like being told what to do. But you seem to have a knack for it. I’ll defer to your judgment when it doesn’t conflict with mine, except for anything medical, where you two will have final say. Is that acceptable to you?”

“Yes, and thank you,” Andi said, leaning forward, kissing her on the cheek. “I’ll go get your junk food now.”

“Let’s go back in the kitchen, Jenn.” Carter said lightly. “I hope that ice cream hasn’t melted yet.”

Samuels went out to the porter, and touched the symbols for her local porter. She stepped out into the corridor and walked quickly toward her quarters. Moving inside, she went to the hall closet and started going through the gowns, then just pushed them all together, pulled them out, and threw them over her arm. She went into her bedroom next, and got her stash of Thumper and her pipe from the nightstand. She stepped into the bathroom to get her toothbrush, and caught sight of herself in the mirror, noticing that she was still naked.

While she wasn’t uncomfortable with nudity, she wasn’t normally a nudist by nature. But she had a feeling that she was going to be spending alot of her time sans clothes in the near future.

Going back out into the main room, she spotted the food cart and grinned. Emptying it quickly, she started piling things on it. Her laptop, a stack of files, then the gowns. She went into the kitchen to get the ice cream. She opened the freezer, and stopped. It wasn’t there. Going back out to the food cart, she opened the doors, and saw it sitting on what was left of the slab of dry ice. She picked one up and opened it. Still solid, she thought, and put it back.

Looking around the room, she spotted Carter’s uniform blouse on the floor, and went over, digging the comm unit out of the pocket. She tossed it on top of the pile on the cart, maneuvered it over to the door, and hit the pad. She moved quickly down the corridor to the porter, turned around, and pulled the cart in behind her. Entering her code into the pad, she tapped in the symbol combination for Sam’s building.

“Little help here!” She yelled as she turned the cart sideways in the porter.

Carter came jogging out of the hallway, a spoon in her hand. “Where’s the ice cream?” she said as she skidded to a halt. Andi opened the cart doors, and Sam squatted down looking them over. “Lessee, FV, french vanilla, CR, chocolate ripple,” She picked one of the CR tubs up and pried the lid off, dropping it on the floor. She stuck her face in it, making ‘numm, numm, numm’ noises as she licked at it.

She stood up, digging the spoon into the tub, scooped up a spoonful and shoveled it into her mouth, her eyes rolling back in her head, a look of absolute delight spreading across her face.

Jennifer came strolling in a moment later, wearing her scrubs. She walked over and held her hands out, and Andi heaved the gowns into her arms. She gathered up her laptop and files, and stepped out of the porter, picking up the lid to the ice cream as she went by it.

“Are you just gonna leave that in there?” Jennifer asked as she threw the gowns over the back of the couch. “And did you go out dressed like that? Or should I say, undressed?”

“Yes and yes,” Andi grinned. “I didn’t notice I was naked till I was already back at my place.”

“Okay, I’m going to go down and talk to Col. Sheppard. I might be a while, I want to make a few other stops on the way back. I’ll drop the cart off at the mess hall.”

“Jenn, are you going to take a shower? Or at least wash your face?” Andi asked her.

“What? Why?”

“Because you smell like pussy, dumbass. I can smell you from here.” Sam said as she walked toward her bedroom. “She was just trying to be polite!”

“Oh my god! I do! Gimme a sec, I’ll be right back.”

She took off down the hall, disappearing into the bathroom.

“So much for help,” Andi muttered, picking up the ice cream and stacking it on top of the cart.

“Leave the strawberry on the cart.” Carter yelled from the bedroom. “I can smell that shit from here, and it makes me wanna wretch. Write that down. No strawberry allowed!”

“Picky bitch,” And muttered.

“I heard that!”

“You did not! You’re just fucking with me!” Andi laughed.

Sam stepped into the doorway. “Oh yeah? I’ll have you know, that while I can be a bitch, I am not the least bit picky! And I really can smell that strawberry from here. I’m not kidding Andi, it’s making me sick to my stomach.”

Jennifer came back out of the hallway, her face freshly scrubbed. “You want some help with that ice cream?”

“No, I got it,” Andi said, gathering the cartons up in her arms, heading for the kitchen. She stopped and came back, stopping Jennifer before she could close the porter doors.

“Are you going to go by the dispensary, Jenn?” Andi asked as she stood in front of the porter.

“I can, I’m going to the Infirmary, and it’s right next store. What did you need?”

“Can you get me an ounce of Goorm? It’s an Athosian herb, and if you chew a little of it, it counteracts the affects of Tuumpor. Brings you right down, no hangover.”

“Okay, but you’re gonna have to start being careful with these alien substances.” Jennifer said softly. “I mean, look at what you’ve gotten us into, fucking around with things you don’t know about! This is al...”

“No, it’s not.” Carter yelled from the bedroom. “Super hearing, remember? Get her what she wants Jenn, and get us some of that other stuff too! The shit she smokes!”

“Damn, that’s gonna take some getting used to. Gonna have to get her some ear plugs.”

“Good idea,” Carter yelled from the bedroom. “Bring me back a box. Some nose plugs too, or some of those clip things.”

Jennifer flipped her the bird, grinning wickedly at Andi.

“You’re lucky she can’t see through walls yet.” Andi whispered.

“Did she flip me off?” Sam yelled. She came stomping into the doorway. “Tell me you didn’t just flip me off you little...”

Jennifer hit the symbol for the porter closest to the Ops Center, and the doors swooshed shut in front of her.

Interior-Ops Center, Central Tower

1435 Hours

Keller stepped out of the porter and jogged up the stairs to the Ops Center. She walked along the back wall, going down the short hallway to the CO’s office. Looking in through the open door, she saw that it was empty. She went next door, to the deputy’s office, and saw Col. Sheppard working on a stack of reports.

Knocking briskly, she smiled when he looked up.

“Jennifer, come in.” He said lightly, pushing the stack of folders to one side. “What can I do for you?”

“I’m here in an official capacity, John.” She said as she stepped into the room, closing the door behind her. “As Chief Medical Officer of Atlantis, it’s my responsibility to inform you that I have determined that Col. Carter has become unfit to perform her duties, and that I have relieved her of her command.” She paused and took a deep breath, then continued. “I have reviewed my findings with Col. Carter, and she agrees with my determination. My findings have also been confirmed by Dr. Andi Samuels, a consulting psychiatrist, who was initially called in to consult on an unrelated matter.”

“What the hell?” He said quietly, as he looked up at her, his face ashen. “What can you tell me about her condition? I’m going to need some information to pass along to the IOA, and the Pentagon.” He paused, and stood up, coming around the desk to stand in front of her. “That can wait, though. Between you and me, how is she, and what can I do to help? This entire base is at your disposal, you say jump...”

“Thank you, John. She’ll appreciate that. I’m sorry, but I am not at liberty to discuss her condition with you at the moment, on a formal, or informal basis. I hope to have more information in the next few days.”

“The IOA isn’t going to go for that Jennifer, and you know it! Protocol states that the relieving official must provide documentation supporting any action taken against a Commanding Officer...”

“Except when the named Commanding Officer concurs with said action, and agrees in writing.” She reached into her pocket, pulled out a neatly folded piece of paper and handed it to him. “As I said, she agrees with my determination, and has stated such, in her own words.”

He read the letter quickly, then sat it on the desk behind him. “I accept your decision based on the evidence provided. Please inform Col. Carter that I will be assuming her duties, effective immediately. I will also inform the chain of command of your actions, and my support of it.”

He waved toward the couch behind her. “Sit with me for a minute, will you. This is alot to take in all at once, you know?”

They sat down, and she took his hand, holding it both of hers. “We’re sorry that we had to take this step, John. But there was really no other choice.” She paused, looking around the room, then leaned close to him. “Are there any recording devices active in this room at the moment?” She asked quietly.

He looked at her, then took off his comm unit, turned it off, holding it up so she could see it was inactive, then tossed it on the desk. He stood up, and walked over to the door, opened it, and stepped out. Jennifer followed him as he moved quickly down the short corridor. He stopped facing a side wall, pressed his hand against it, then stepped through the panel that slid aside. Jennifer followed him, and the panel slid shut behind her.

The small room was bare except for two chairs and a small table.

“Only three people know about this room. And one of them is dead.” he said as she pulled out a chair and sat down. “I found this room the first year we were here, completely by accident. I was running down the hall, tripped and fell against the wall, and the panel opened. You have to have the ancient gene to open it. It’s also DNA coded now, so I’m the only one that can open it. I’ve had the pleasure of sharing this space with both of my base commanders. We use it for confidential meetings.”

He pulled the other chair around so he was sitting right in front of her. “You can speak freely here, Jennifer. I understand that you have doctor patient confidentiality to worry about, but anything you can tell me will help.”

“I can’t tell you much, because we don’t know much. She’s given me permission to bring you into the loop on a limited basis.” She paused, and reached out to take his hand. “She has had an adverse reaction to a substance commonly used by Athosian women, which has also been tested on a small pool of Terran women, none of whom showed any ill effects, to my knowledge. I still need to review the case histories, because I wasn’t directly involved in the study, it was done before I got here.”

“Her condition has both mental and physical effects. The physical effects actually appear to be a benefit at the moment, at least for her. It’s looking like at least one of them is going to be a pain in the ass for the rest of us for a while.” She paused again, and gave him a weak grin. “I’m sorry, that was mean. Her hearing and sense of smell have become incredibly sensitive in the last 12 hours. I don’t have any other information on other physical effects, because we haven’t been able to do any tests, and she hasn’t revealed anything. She’s not being uncooperative, at this point, its just that she hasn’t noticed it yet. She revealed the hearing and smell issues as soon as they became apparent.”

“And the mental effects?”

“I have very little leeway on what I can discuss with you there. We don’t have enough information at the moment to make a clear diagnosis. All can tell you, is that she is being effected to the point where she is not able to perform her duties. She is also not able to care for herself. She has demonstrated a lack of control that puts her health, and life, in jeopardy.”

“What do you need from me?” He asked quietly. “Like I said, all you have to do is ask, or say that you want something, and I’ll do whatever it takes to get it as fast as we can.”

“I’m going to be drafting some of my staff from the infirmary, three to begin with, I’ll give you names after I decide which ones. I’m also going to be requisitioning equipment from the infirmary. I may also need you to special order some supplies and equipment from Earth, probably on a rush basis.”

“Okay, don’t worry about requisitions, just take what you need, or tell me what you want, and I’ll have it delivered. We’ll worry about the paperwork later.”

“If I make a request for anything, I’ll want it to be delivered to the infirmary, that’s going to be my processing point. Some areas are already set up as clean rooms, so it will be easier to move materials from there.”

“What the hell does that mean, Jennifer?”

“It means that she is under an unofficial quarantine at the moment, which I will make official the second I feel anyone, including you, is stepping out of bounds. Because of her enhanced sense of smell...John, she smelled strawberry ice cream from over fifty feet away, and it made her physically ill. We have to be very careful what comes into her residence, so everyone and everything is going to need to be screened and cleaned before we bring it in. “

“Wow, I knew she hated strawberries, but I didn’t think it was that bad.”

“It is, I’m going to have to go through her records with a fine tooth comb looking for any mention of sensitivities. But you know how she is, she keeps her mouth shut and just sucks it up. This is gonna be tough for a while. we’re going to end up stumbling across things one at a time.”

“One thing I will need you to order is tablet PC’s, I’m going to need at least six to start, as soon as you can get them. And were you serious about taking what I want? Because if you were, I’m going to strip the infirmary. I won’t take the one of a kind items, but I need testing and diagnostic equipment, and supplies. I’ll also be taking bulk materials from the commissary and mess hall. We’re going to have to start preparing meals on site. And as our staffing needs go up, so will what we need. Oh...ear plugs, I doubt if there are any of those in the infirmary. How about the shooting range, or anywhere else that requires hearing protection? I need a box, no, make that two, we’re gonna try to see if that helps.”

“I said take what you need, and I meant it, and I have a box of tablets sitting in my office. You can take them with you, or I’ll have someone bring them to the infirmary as soon as we’re done here. I can get the ear plugs too. Is there anything else you can think of off the top of your head?”

“No, I’m going to have to reach out as we figure out what we need. But there is one last thing. I doubt if there is anyway you can keep the fact that she’s been relieved quiet, but if you can keep it to as small a group as possible...”

“Don’t worry about that,” he grinned. “Later this evening, Col. Carter is going to be recalled to Stargate Command for an unspecified period of time, for a classified mission. The gate room and Ops Center are going to be cleared before we do the dial up. That’s all anyone is going to know.”

“You can do that? Wow, do you think you can get away with it?”

“We did it twice with Elizabeth,” he said. “And no one was the wiser. It won’t be a problem.”

“Okay,” Jenifer said, looking at her watch. “I need to get moving. I have several hours of work I need to catch up on in my office, and I need to get an inventory of what I’m going to take. I’ll send you an itemized list as soon as I can.”

They stood, and Sheppard held at his hand. Jennifer looked at it, then stepped closer and put her arms around him, hugging him tightly, and burying her face in his chest. She held him for a moment, then stepped back.

“Sorry,” She said. “But I needed that.”

“It’s okay,” He said lightly. “I think I did too.”

Interior- Bedroom

1520 Hours

“Can we talk about how we’re going to work the logistics of all this?” Andi asked, running her hand lightly up and down over Sam’s back.

“Mmmmm hmm,” Sam purred, hugging her pillow as she shimmied up and down over it. They were lying on the big bed in her bedroom, both of them naked, and had just finished a frantic sixty-nine session that had left Andi weak and exhausted. As usual, Sam appeared energized by it.

“I already gave Jenn an outline, and she’s going to line up equipment, supplies and personnel while she’s out. As chief medical officer, it’ll be easier for her to get it done.” She opened one eye, and looked at Andi. “Do you mind if I...”

“Go ahead,” Andi grinned. “But you’re on your own this time. You wore my ass out! And you really don’t have to ask.” She paused, then continued, “I...I have to tell you something Sam. I...I’m sorry this happened to you. It was stupid of me to expose you to an alien substance without your knowledge. I...”

“Stop.” Sam said, grinding her loins down onto the pillow, and moaning deep in her throat. “Ahhhhhh, Oh Andi, you don’t have anything to be sorry about. If the IOA didn’t replace me, I would have ended up resigning, and trying to disappear into the city eventually. You have no idea how unhappy I was, and it wasn’t just because of sex.”

Hugging the big pillow tighter, she writhed and humped her ass up and down frantically. “I...oh god, ungh, ungh! Fuck! Yeah...Nnnnnuuunnggghhh!” She groaned as a small series of climaxes surged over her. “Wow” She panted, gasping for breath. “That was a good one! Quick too!”

Andi laughed, running her hand down and stroking her sweaty asscheek, making her jerk and moan again. “You know, I um...I actually like watching you when you...play. I’ve never been especially voyeuristic, but the way you respond to stimulus, from a clinical point of view, is amazing. From a personal point of view...” She rolled over, then reached out and took Sam’s hand, drawing it down between her legs.

“Oh my god!” Sam whispered and she ran her fingers over the sopping wet slit of Andi’s pussy. She pried the puffy lips apart, easing her fingers slowly up into the warm, wet depths of her pussy.

Andi let her stroke them in and out a few times, then pulled away, rolling back over onto her stomach beside Sam. “But back to logistics?”

Carter nodded. “I’d like you and Jenn to take the suites on the next floor down. Assign one of the others on forty-two to Sheppard, leave the other one free. Put the first group of staff on forty-one, leave thirty-nine and forty empty for growth, and setup thirty-one as office space. I want both you and Jenn to have an office down there. That’s gonna be our ingress point.”

She rolled over, pushing the pillow aside and slid off the bed. “I’m thirsty, and I need to pee. Let’s take this in the kitchen. I’ll meet you there.” She walked over and went into the bathroom, closing the door behind her.

Andi got up and went out into the central room, then into the bathroom off one of the other bedrooms. She turned on the shower, then sat down to pee. Getting into the shower, she noticed that there was no soap, so she just rinsed off, standing under the steaming spray, sighing happily as it pounded on her. After a couple of minutes, she shut the shower off, grabbed a towel, and dried herself as she went back into the central room. Picking up a gown from the back of the couch, She pulled it over her head, and went into the kitchen.

Sam wasn’t there yet, so she got a couple of glasses from the cupboard, filled one with ice and sat it on the table for Sam, then got the bottle of orange juice from the fridge. She was pouring a glass when Sam walked in, running a towel over her head. She was still naked.

“You took a shower too, huh?” She laughed, coming over and wrapping her arms around Andi. “Doin’ the nasty is dirty work!” She kissed her lightly, then opened the fridge and took out two cokes, and sat them on the table. She went back over to the freezer, and got a carton of ice cream, and sat down at the table.

“Damn, she muttered. “I forgot...”

“To get a spoon.” And said, holding one out to her. She pulled out a chair and sat down, looking at Carter. “And there’s no soap in the other bathroom.”

“I’ve got some in the pantry. And one of the suites down on thirty-one is a supply room too.” Carter said as she popped the top of the ice cream and dug out a big spoonful. “I’ve been stealing stuff for a couple months and stashing it there. I wanted to be ready.”

“You were really planning on hiding out here? Just dropping off the radar and becoming invisible?”

Carter nodded. “But this is gonna make life alot easier on me, I think. Here’s what I see happening over the next few days. The IOA and the Pentagon are gonna shit a nail when they hear I’ve been relieved of duty. But they’ve both been satisfied with my performance, or so I’ve been told privately by sources I trust.”

“But they won’t wait long. The wolves will start to gather fast. So I think I have a week, ten days tops, before they start trying to replace me.” She grinned at Samuels. “I want to be ready before that. We’ll do whatever tests you and Jennifer want, I’ll cooperate. But I’m working on the basis that you will not be able to come up with a treatment, much less a cure, in the window I have to work in. You with me so far?”

Samuels nodded.

She opened a coke and poured it into the glass, then opened the other one and took a drink from it while she waited for the foam to settle in the glass. “Tell Jennifer to do some tests on why I’m craving sugar. I usually don’t use alot of it, but right now, I can’t seem to get enough.”

“I’m going to resign both my command and commission before they have a chance to ask for them. That puts me in a better bargaining position. I’m going to request that I be allowed to stay in Atlantis, as the permanent head of an independent department for research and exploitation. The exploitation part is really gonna grab their nads, and clinch the deal.”

“What kind of exploitation?” Samuels asked. “This is a clandestine operation. How are you going to get anything out.”

“Atlantis has things that people in the Pegasus galaxy want, and they’ve only seen a fraction of what’s available on Earth. Even if we hit a road block trying to go earthside at first, we can cut the budget for this place in half just by marketing to the locals, instead of giving it away.” She took a sip from her coke. “But the IAO controls the gate now. They say who and what goes through it. I’m positive that once they see the numbers, they’ll be falling all over themselves to make it happen. It wouldn’t surprise me to see the Earth gate moved out of Cheyenne Mountain, and into an accessible warehouse facility to handle the volume. And we have A ZPM, so shipping to Earth, is alot cheaper than shipping from there right now.”

“What kind of numbers are you talking about? And what kind of products did you have in mind?”

“I don’t know about the numbers, I haven’t made them up yet!” Carter grinned. “But the first product I plan on offering is that...what did you call it, Thumper? That’s a good name by the way. Good marketing potential.” She reached out and took Andi’s hand. “You have any problem with becoming a top lieutenant in a drug cartel, Andi?”

“Not at all. I use it myself, and have been for months. I have yet to see any negative side effects, and there’s an antidote that brings you right down, with no hangover. Package them together, and we can put half the drug cartels on earth out of business in less than a year. The other half would limp along for a while, but go under eventually too. That’s a selling point for the IOA.”

“That’s what I was thinking. Make sure to put that in your report. I’m going to want testing on both human and alien subjects. We’re going into both galaxies with that one. The only downside I see for going earthside is that the alcohol industry is going to take a hit too. That’s a powerful lobby, so we’re gonna have to be careful there.”

She got up and went over to the freezer and got another carton of ice cream, french vanilla this time. “We got off on a tangent.”

Carter sat alternating between the ice creams. She looked at Andi. “I already have an escape plan in place.” She said quietly.

“I wasn’t going to ask about that. Need to know item, and I don’t.” Samuels said lightly. “Based on what I’ve read about you, and from what you’ve told me, I figured that you would.”

“It only made sense. Elizabeth Weir gave me the idea. She was going to do the same thing.” She took a bite of ice cream before she continued. “I only met her a few times, but we really hit it off. Her death hurt me deeply. But when Daniel and I came to Atlantis looking for information on the Ancients, and to setup the stargate to block the Ori supergate, we spent some time together, and she told me what she had in mind. She knew that she wouldn’t be able to stay on Atlantis, but she loved the Pegasus galaxy, and there was nothing left for her on earth, her relationship had faltered, and she had no relatives...”

She smiled wryly. “Sound familiar? Anyway, I have an advantage she didn’t have. I’ve been working with Ancient technology for over a decade, and aside from McKay, I probably have a better understanding of it than anyone else in the universe. That’s another reason I think I’ll get my way when I hit the IOA with my proposal.” She grinned again. “He thinks he’s so damned smart! And he is, but he doesn’t think things through. I’ll be glad to be done with him.”

She leaned back and stretched, yawning as she did. “I think I’m gonna take a nap. Wanna come with? If you don’t, I promise I’ll be good.”

Andi shook her head. “No, I want to get started on a few things. I brought my laptop up, so I can do some work. And I think I want to check this place out, maybe go down and stake out a claim on my suite.”

“You’ll have to wait on the suite. The doors have to be coded so you can open them.” Carter said as she stood up. “I’ll see you in a bit.”

Interior-Dr. Keller’s Quarters, Central Tower

1525 Hours

Jennifer took the box of tablets with her, and stopped by her quarters first. The message light on her comm was flashing, but she ignored it. She went into her bedroom and started pulling clothes out of drawers and throwing them on the bed, then stopped. She thought about it for a minute as she looked at the pile, and decided that she actually preferred the Athosian gowns that Andi wore. Opening a different drawer, she pulled out all her sports bras and panties, and put them in a separate pile on the bed.

Going into the bathroom, she got her toothbrush, and made a mental note to get a box from the commissary. She didn’t know if Sam had one in her suite or not, but having spares couldn’t hurt. As she came out, she spotted her comm unit on the nightstand. She snatched it up and dropped it in her pocket, then grabbed the clothes off the bed and went out into the main room.

Picking up her backpack, she dumped it out on the couch and stuffed the clothes inside, then went over to her desk and closed her laptop, unplugged the power cord and stuffed them into her backpack next. She pawed through the stuff she had dumped, picking up a few items, putting them back in the bag, and left the rest sitting. She took a quick look around the room, then threw the backpack over her shoulder, picked up the box of tablets, and left.

Interior-Infirmary, Central Tower

1540 Hours

Her next stop was her office in the infirmary. She breezed through the door, and was relieved to see that they weren’t very busy, there was only one patient being treated. The attending looked up as she came in, smiled and waved, then turned back to his patient.

Keller sat the tablets and her backpack down by the door, and went into her office, closing the door behind her. She started making lists of supplies and equipment, then connected a portable drive to her computer and started downloading the medical database onto it. She wasn’t sure Sam had network access from her suite, and she wanted to be able to look at the available research without having to run back and forth.

She was finishing up the supplies list when there was a knock on the door. She looked at the clock, and was amazed to see that almost forty minutes had past. “Come in,” She said lightly, smiling when she saw one of her nurses, Tammy Ford open the door. “Tammy! I was going to come looking for you. Come in, and have a seat. And close the door.”

She waited till Tammy got settled, then leaned forward, clasping her hands in front of her on the desk. “We’ve had an incident, Tammy, and I’m going to need your help. If you’re willing.”

“Of course doctor,” Tammy said, leaning forward of the couch. “I’d be...”

“Don’t jump in until you have the big picture, Tammy. You may not want to be involved once you do.” She paused, looking at her carefully. “What I’m about to tell you is classified, well above your clearance level I have to add, but I have confidence in your discretion. If you decide to accept my offer, you’ll be transferred from the infirmary to a new duty station, and to new quarters as well. Unfortunately, this assignment will also mean than you will be effectively cutoff from other base personnel, until further notice.”

She paused, letting what she had said sink in for a moment. “Should I continue?” She asked.

“Yes maam,” Tammy answered, leaning back on the couch, and crossing her legs. “I’d like to hear more.”

“Good, I thought you would. There’s been an...incident...with Col. Carter. She’s had an adverse reaction to an Athosian herb, called korathis, are you familiar with it?”

“Yes maam, I was involved in the study that Dr. Beckett did...not quite three years ago, I think it was. I documented the human subjects and did the follow-ups on them for the next two years, I’m still documenting one subject...”

Keller sat staring at her, open mouthed, unable to believe what she was hearing.

“Doctor? Dr. Keller? Did I say something wro...”

“Yeesssss!” Jennifer yelled, rocking back in her chair, pumping her fists up and down in the air. “I finally got a break!”

“You’re hired,” Keller laughed. “Oh my god, Tammy! I can’t believe my luck! I haven’t even looked at that material, and the first person I talk to was involved in the fucking study! Damn! This is incredible!”

“Dr. Keller, I need to te...”

“You just became my resident expert on this shit. Besides helping to care for Col. Carter, you’ll have to work with Dr. Samuels and me trying to figure out what caused the problem. With your background and experience, you’re going to be our best resource for a while, so you’re probably going to be putting in some long hours for a while.”

“Dr. Keller? Can I say something?” Tammy asked, leaning forward on the couch.

“Huh? Sure. I’m sorry Tammy, but its been a really weir...”

“I’m the subject that I’ve been documenting. I’ve been taking korathis myself, on a daily basis, for almost three years. I was one of the original human test subjects. I continued the research on my own, just out of curiosity.”

Keller just stared at her again, then a slow smile crept across her lips. “Well aren’t you just full of happy little surprises today.” She said slowly. She checked the file transfer, and saw that it was done, so she disconnected the drive, then printed out the lists of supplies and equipment. She got up from behind the desk and walked to the door. “Follow me, Tammy. You just went on the clock.”

“Vie been on duty for three hours, doc...”

“My clock, hon. And call me Jenn, or Jennifer. You can call Dr. Samuels Andi. I’ll have to let our problem child decide what she wants you to call her.” She handed Tammy two of the lists, and the portable drive. “Give those to someone and tell them to have everything on them stacked and ready near the transporter no later than 1800 hours. If they have a problem with it, have them call Col. Sheppard. Hold onto that drive. It has the medical database on it, and we’re gonna need that.”

“Yes maam.” Tammy said, and headed for the back of the infirmary.

Jennifer walked next door to the dispensary, smiling at the clerk. “Hi, I need a few things.” She said, handing him a list. “How long will it take you to put all that together?”

The clerk looked over the list, then looked up at her. “I don’t see a problem with any of this. It’ll take a couple of hours to get some of these quantities out of stores, but we have most of it on hand, and I can put alot of it together for you now, if you want to wait.”

“Excellent. But I’ll come back when you have everything. Now, do you have any toothbrushes, or do I need to go to the commissary for that?”

“I can hook you up with those. How many did you need?”

“Gimme a dozen each medium and firm. And do you have any unscented, unflavored tooth paste? If you do, just give me a box to go. And I need an ounce of Tuumpor, and an ounce of Goorm.”

“You’ll have to sign for those last two, they’re classed as controlled substances.”

“That’s fine. I’ll be back in a few minutes, okay?”

He nodded and disappeared as he walked behind a set of shelves.

Jennifer went back into the infirmary, and saw Tammy coming toward her. “Any problems?” She asked.

Tammy shook her head. “Stevens bitched about giving up a portable scanner, especially when I told him I wanted the good one. But he shut up when I mentioned Col. Sheppard. We’ll have to look to make sure he doesn’t try to screw us when we come back to get it though.”

Jennifer laughed and pulled her off to the side. “I’m gonna tell you more about what’s going on once we get out of here, okay?” Tammy just nodded. “I thought we had some laminar air curtains around here somewhere. You got any idea where they might be?”

“I just saw a stack of...I don’t know, fifty of them in one of the storerooms. Four footers, battery powered, good for two years.”

“Goddamn! I’m on a streak! The way my luck is running, I’m probably gonna get eaten by a wraith before this day is out, but I’m gonna ride it while I’m hot.”

Tammy just looked at her, not used to hearing her talk like this.

“Ok, get a cart, and have someone help you load a couple dozen of them on it, we’ll be taking them with us. Try to save room for that box by the door and my backpack if you can. Okay?

Tammy nodded and Keller headed back for the dispensary again. The clerk was back, and had a small box and two bags sitting on the counter. She looked in both bags, and nodded, then picked up the clipboard and signed at the X’s. The clerk took the clipboard back and sat it on a desk behind him.

“We’ll have your order ready for you as quick as we can. This stuff going offworld?”

“Something like that. I’ll be back around 1800 the pick up some stuff from the infirmary, I’ll get it then. Just have them stack it next to the porter.”

He nodded and walked away.

She put the bags on top of the box and went back into the infirmary, sitting everything down on the box of tablets. As she stood up, she saw Tammy coming toward her again. Stevens was behind her, pushing a cart full of boxes.

Damn! This girl is good, she thought. Sam’s gonna love her! She laughed suddenly as she caught her own, internal, double meaning.

“Just put that box by the door and my backpack on the cart, and leave it by the porter, we’ll take them from there.” She told him, trying to get herself under control. “And Stevens, any equipment that doesn’t have wheels on it needs to go on a cart, okay?”

He nodded, and pushed the cart out the door.

“You ready to go?” She asked Tammy as she headed for the porter.

“Yes maam. Can we swing by my quarters so I can pick up a few things?”

“No, we can do that later when we come down to get the rest of the stuff. Either me or Dr. Samuels are going to have to escort you for the first few days. I’m sorry, but that’s just the way it is.”

“I understand doc...Jennifer. I was part of the original expedition, so I’m used to it.”

Jennifer hit the pad, and the porter doors slid open. The cart from the mess hall was still sitting in it. “Damn, I forgot all about that.” She muttered. “Gimme a sec,” She said to Tammy, then stepped into the porter, turned the cart around, and pushed it out into the hall, parking it against the wall. She grabbed the supply cart and started pulling it into the porter. Tammy gave it a push, and followed it. The doors swooshed closed behind her.

Jennifer tapped her code into the panel, then pressed the symbol combination for Sam’s suite. “Shit. I forgot to tell you what to expect. I’m sorry Tammy. But you’re a smart girl, and I think you can handle what’s coming. I’ll try to give you more details later. I promise.”

“After some of the shit I’ve seen in the last few years, Jenn. very little is going to surprise or offend me.” Tammy laughed. “So relax, and let’s go take care of our patient, shall we?”

Jennifer stepped to the side of the door, and looked at her. “You go out first. You know, in case something bad happens. My luck has been just too damn good this afternoon!”

“Gee, thanks. I can see you’re gonna be even more fun to work with than usual.” Tammy said with a smirk as she pushed the cart forward. The doors swooshed open, and she pushed it out into the room.

Interior-Carter’s Suite, Tower Fifty-Eight

1705 Hours

“Fuck me!” Tammy muttered, stopping as she took in the room she’d just stepped into.

“Did I hear another volunteer?” Sam yelled from the bedroom. She came strolling out a moment later, naked, and rubbing her eyes.

“I have gifts,” Jennifer said, giving Tammy a cold stare. “And company. Where’s Andi?”

“Right here,” Andi said, walking out of the kitchen wearing a dark green gown. She was eating out of a carton of ice cream.

“That better not be one of mine!” Sam said, her face clouding up.

“Oh shut up! It’s rocky road. You didn’t show any interest in that one.” She looked over at Tammy. “Who’s your friend Jenn?”

“Yeah! She said she wants to fuck!” Sam laughed

Tammy walked over and stood in front of Sam, looking her up and down. She reached up, pinching one of her nipples between her fingers, then dipped her fingers between her legs, running her fingers up and down the length of her pussy slit.

“How many times have you masturbated today colonel?” She asked as her fingers settled on Carter’s clit. She started stroking it gently, and Sam moaned, bending her knees, spreading her feet wider apart.

Sam did some quick mental arithmetic. “E...eleven.”

“How many times have you climaxed?” Tammy asked.

“I...oh shit, ungh...I uh...I don...don’t know.”

“Think about.” Tammy said, lessening the pressure on her clit. “Take your time. You were there, you know. Now tell me.”

Sam’s eyes shot open, and she stared at Tammy. “Ei...Eighty...maybe more.”

“Are you just making up a number so I’ll make you cum?” Tammy asked, grabbing her clit between her thumb and forefinger, squeezing rhythmically.

Sam nodded her head vigorously, never taking her eyes off Tammy.

“I’m your new best friend colonel. And you’re never going to lie to me, ever again. Are you?” She squeezed her clit gently, making her whimper.

Sam shook her head violently back and forth. “SS...Sam...”

“I couldn’t hear you Col. Sam. You’re never going to lie to me, are you? When I ask you a question, you’re going to answer me honestly, and directly, aren’t you?” She squeezed her clit again, and one of her other fingers slipped inside the cream soak hole of Carter’s pussy. “You can never lie to me if I’m going to help you. Do you understand?”

“Y...Yes.” Sam panted. “Always the tr...truth.”

“Good.” Tammy said softly as she stepped closer. “Put your arms around my neck. and hold on, okay?” She slipped her other hand behind Carter’s back, and started working her fingers in her crotch.

Seconds later Sam was shuddering violently, her arms clenching around Tammy’s neck, then she slumped against her. Tammy worked her hand between her legs for over a minute, making her jerk and writhe mindlessly against her. Finally, she eased her fingers from between her legs, bent her own knees, and slipped her arm under Carter’s legs, lifting her from the floor.

She looked back over her shoulder. “Where’s her bed? Through there?” She asked indicating the doorway with a nod of her head.

Jenn and Andi both nodded, their heads going up and down like bobblehead dolls.

“You two stay here. We’ll be with you in a few minutes.”

She carried the semi-conscious Carter into her bedroom. “Doctor’s, bunch of fucking idiots. Make a mess, and leave it for the nurses to clean up.”

Tammy laid her out on the end of her bed and slid up beside her. She laid her hand on her on her stomach, running it in soft, gentle strokes over her skin. Carter opened her eyes, turning her head to look at her.

“Hi. I’m Tammy Ford. I’m going to be your new nurse. Is that okay with you?”

Sam nodded, and kept her eyes on her.

“Can you tell me what those two morons have been doing to you? I take it one of them overdosed you on korathis, and now they don’t know what to do about it?”

Carter nodded. “No...well, kinda.” she said slowly. “I took a tiny amount, and Andi took the same dose, at the same time.”

“But right now, your sex drive is ramped up, and all you want to do is cum, as often as you can, as many times as you can?”

Sam nodded again. “Had no sex drive before. Kinda like this.”

“I can understand that. I feel the same until I come down.”

Sam’s eyes widened.

“Yeah, I take korathis every day. Have been for over three years. That makes me the resident expert.” She moved her hand down onto Carter’s wrist, and felt her pulse. “Your heart rate is back to normal, and you’re breathing regularly. You feel up to going out and talking to them?”

They went back out into the central room. Tammy walked over and held her hand out to Andi. “I’m Tammy Ford, doctor. Jennifer, I’m going to need to see any records you’ve been keeping on her, especially any medications.”

“I need something to drink,” Sam said as she walked by. “I’ll be in the kitchen.”

“That sounds like a good idea. I’ll come with you.” Tammy said. She turned back to the two doctors. “I’d like to see everything you have as soon as I can. From what she’s told me so far, this is more than a simple overdose.”

Both doctor nodded, and started gathering up their notes. Suddenly, Andi stopped. “Hey, who put her in charge?” She asked Jennifer.

“I did,” Sam yelled from the kitchen. “She’s the only one that sounds like she knows what she’s talking about!”

“She’s right you know. Apparently Tammy worked on, and was a subject in Beckett’s trials on korathis.” Jennifer said “She has hands on knowledge, and she uses the stuff on a regular basis. If she wants to be in charge, I’m gonna listen to her.”

She stepped over to the cart and pulled open the carton of tablets. She pulled four of them out, piled her laptop, and files on top of them, and headed for the kitchen.

Interior-Kitchen

1735 Hours

Sam was sharing a carton of ice cream with Tammy when Jennifer walked in. Dropping everything on the end of the table, she slid a box down to each of the women, and put one in front of two empty chairs as she walked by. She got a glass from the cabinet, and filled it from the tap.

“I talked to John, and it’s official, you’ve been relieved of duty. There will be no official announcement, you’re going to Stargate Command this evening on a super secret mission. Apparently they’ve been through this before.”

Carter nodded. “And the rest of it?”

“We can pick up equipment and supplies from the infirmary at 1800 hours. I haven’t been to the commissary or mess, so I haven’t made any arrangements for food. I wasn’t sure what we’d need. I figured we could make a list, and I could submit it and pick it up tomorrow.”

“Oh, I brought some laminar air curtains. I thought we could put them up, and put a damper on the smells issue.”

Sam nodded and looked toward the doorway.

Andi came into the room, and sat an armload of papers on the table. She went over and got a glass from the cabinet, then the orange juice from the fridge.

“Is that all you drink?” Carter asked her.

“No, but this fresh from concentrate, and has pulp in it. The cadillac of orange juices. I’m drinking it till its gone.”

“Don’t bother. I have twelve cases downstairs, and we can always order more.”

“How about cokes? That’s my next choice. But you’re killing those two at a time. Didn’t want to step on your toes.” Andi grinned.

“Got two hundred cases of those downstairs too. But thank you.”

Tammy looked around the table. “Whenever you ladies are ready to get to work, let me know. And where can I get one of these cokes?”

“Cokes are in the fridge, ice in the dispenser next to it. Glasses are in the cabinet behind me to my left.” Sam said lightly.

“But before you get anything to drink Captain, you’re gonna lose the fucking attitude.” She said, her voice hardening. “You don’t like doctors? Big whoop. These two stepped in a pile of shit, and didn’t even scrape it of their feet before they were trying to figure out how to get it off of me. She paused. “Is that understood?”

“I never said I didn’t like doctors, Colonel.” Tammy said easily, looking her in the eye. “What I don’t like, is seeing patients mistreated, and that’s what I believe I was seeing when I came in here. The fact that you were wandering around naked, and that I was allowed to masturbate you, without an objection from either of them, then take you into another room, unsupervised, doesn’t bode well for the quality of treatment you’re receiving.” She looked back and forth between the two doctors. “Do either of you want to dispute that?”

Keller and Samuels both shook their heads.

“Why did you handle her like that, masturbate her, I mean?” Samuels asked. “How did you...”

Tammy glanced at her. “She had vaginal fluids all over the insides of her thighs, her skin was flushed, and her nipples swollen and erect. Her eyes were glassy as well. Add what Dr. Keller had told me about her having an adverse reaction to the korathis, and the best way to get her attention was obvious.”

Tammy turned back to Sam. “You said you put me in charge because, ‘She’s the only one that sounds like she knows what she’s talking about’. I’m working on zero information other than what I’ve gotten from conversations and observations.”

She paused, looking around the table, then looking back at Carter. “Your hearing has become significantly more sensitive, considering that you heard one of them say something quietly from over forty feet away. I didn’t hear it. Jennifer says that your sense of smell is affected as well as well. And judging by the way you’re wolfing down that ice cream and chasing it with a coke, I bet you’re having serious sugar cravings, that tells me that the binding agent was probably some complex sugar. Next, based on your reaction to stimulation, you look like you’ve been given a hyper dose of the herb, or at least reacted to five or more of the active components.” She looked at the two doctors. “It takes a minimum of five of the seventeen basic components of the herb to get any kind of reaction.”

She glanced as Sam, then back at the two doctors. “How was the initial dosage administered, and in what quantity? Be specific please.”

“The initial exposure was thirty milligrams of a liquid korathis distillate, diluted in twenty-four ounces of tequila, twenty-four ounces of a bitters mix, and sixteen ounces of water.” Andi said, sliding her notes over in front of Tammy. “The water was in ice form, so probably isn’t a factor. She had, call it twelve ounces total of the margaritas. I had an equal amount at the same time. Based on dilution, we determined that she initially ingested approximately three micrograms of the herb.”

“I doubt the alcohol was the problem. I use korathis with alcohol all the time, including tequila. The bitters mix is a more likely suspect, lots of complex sugars in that for it to bind to.”

She looked down at the notes Andi had given her. “But your math is off, what she ingested is closer to twelve micrograms, and you’re assuming even distribution of the liquid in the mix. You stirred it a few times, then let it sit?” She asked, looking at Samuels.

Andi nodded.

“So she could have gotten as much as half of the korathis, or fifteen milligrams in the twelve ounces of margaritas. I’m assuming you felt some effects of the herb, considering you ingested a similar amount?”

Samuels paled, “Oh my god, she’s right.”

“Yeah, I am, but that that works in our favor. Where did you get the korathis solution? Did you make it yourself, get it from the dispensary, or from an offworld source?

“From the dispensary.”

“You just got lucky. I make the solution that they dispense. Do you still have the original container? Or can you describe it to me?”

“It was a standard, two inch clear glass bottle with a black top. It had a lot number printed down the side. I have the original container in my office. I can go get it if you want.”

“Later maybe, if you signed it out, I can get the lot number from the log. Age could be a factor, it might affect potency. They’re not supposed to keep anything made in house more than thirty days, but things get missed, and people cut corners. It happens everywhere, can’t be helped.”

She looked down at Andi’s notes in front of her. She had her finger in the middle of the page as she slid it over in front of Andi.

“Is this time accurate?”

“Yes. I have a video of the first session, and I verified the timestamps.”

She turned and looked at Sam. “I’m sorry, Colonel, but you’re screwed. Forget about a cure. We’re looking at management now. With the miniscule dose you were given, it should have lasted less than an hour. We’re almost twenty-seven hours into this, and the effects are increasing, aren’t they?”

“Yes.”

“I’ll want a list of every change you notice, no matter how insignificant. We’re not going back ladies,” She looked around the table. “Understand that now. We’re looking at managing the effects, with an effort on minimizing them if possible. I doubt if this is going to be a life saving effort, unless the colonel overstimulates herself into cardiac arrest.”

Andi blanched, while Keller looked down at the table, and Carter grinned.

“Oh, she’s already done that. I take it that’s how you got involved Jennifer?”

Keller nodded. “Tammy, I think it might be best of you gave Sam and Andi your resume now.”

Tammy nodded. “I’m thirty one years old, I hold Masters degrees in Organic Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, earned concurrently from Harvard. I also have a PhD in Pharmacology from Johns Hopkins, where I also did my nursing training. I worked at JH for two years, The Mayo Clinic for three years, before I recruited as an original member of the Atlantis expedition. I’ve been in Atlantis ever since.”

She turned and looked at Carter. “I know what I’m talking about Colonel. You can either fire me, or put up with my attitude. But do it now, I’d like to get something to drink.”

“Glasses are in the cabinet behind me to my left. Maam.” Sam grinned

Tammy got a glass, filled it with ice, and grabbed a coke from the fridge. She sat down again, and looked at Sam as she opened the coke and poured it down the side of the glass.

“So what did you think of the heart stopper, Colonel? Wild ride, huh?” She looked around the table. “Done that myself a couple times. Lemme tell ya girls, ain’t nuthin’ like it. Isn’t that right Colonel?”

“You can call me Sam,” She said. “And yeah, it was. I thought going through the wormhole was trippy at first, but it got passe after a while.” She looked back and forth between Andi and Jennifer. “She’s right, there is nothing like it. I can’t even begin to describe it to you. And that will never get passe.”

She turned and looked at Tammy. “Twice?”

Tammy nodded. “Not intentionally, and under supervision both times, during the trials. Once with manual stimulation of the clitoris and G-spot, the second time with electro-stimulation. My heart rate hit two fifty-five on that one.”

She grinned wickedly.

“What?” Sam asked her.

“Evil thought. What else is on the table?” She looked at Jennifer. “You mentioned new quarters?”

“No, I want to know.” Sam said. “Come on, it couldn’t have been that bad.”

“Okay,” Tammy laughed. “I was thinking, we get you trained up on a defibrillator, then you and me kick back, watch Andi’s video, and take turns riding the lightning!”

“Oh my god!” Jennifer squealed.

Andi jump up, “Are you out of your fucking mind?” she yelled, then stormed out of the room.

Sam burst out laughing, in seconds, she was laughing so hard she fell out of her chair. She recovered quickly, but when she climbed back into her chair, her cheeks were wet, and she was still gasping for breath.

“Oh shit, she’s thinking about it.” Jennifer said.

“Well, she can push it right out of her head, except as a fantasy, cuz it ain’t never gonna happen.”

“I’m not kidding, Sam.” She said, watching her closely. “I’ll revive you if we fuck up, and let you go too far. But I will not allow you to intentionally put your life at risk in pursuit of a cheap thrill.” She took her hand. “I’ve been where you’ve been, I know what it’s like. You don’t have to go there again. There are other places, and I can teach you how to find them, if you’ll let me.”

“I’d like that,” Sam said, closing her fingers around Tammy’s. She glanced over at Jennifer. “Can we put her in one of the other bedrooms, instead of downstairs? There’s lots of room.”

“Well, that just means there’s an extra suite for later use...”

“Whoa! Did you say suite?” She looked back and forth between the two women. “I’ve been rotating sharing a tiny room with different people for four years. If I can have a space to myself, I want it!”

“Ok, let’s get you some codes, and we’ll take you down and show it to you.”

Interior-Tower Fifty-Eight

1830 Hours

The four of them went down to one forty-one in the elevator. They stepped out into the corridor, and Sam looked at Tammy.

“There’s four suites on this floor, all of them basically the same. You want an ocean view, or a city view?” Carter asked as they stood in the corridor.

“Ocean,” she said, looking up and down the corridor.

Carter led them over to a door, opened a panel and removed a crystal, turned it over, and put it back. She tapped on the panel, then turned to Tammy.

“Put your hand on the pad.”

Tammy put her hand on the pad, and the door swished open. Sam tapped on the panel a few more times, then put her own hand on it. She looked at Andi and Jennifer.

“You too. I want senior staff to have access to all the suites we’re going to be using. Somebody make a note of that.”

Tammy stepped inside as Andi and Jennifer both tapped out a note on their tablets, then Andi stepped up and pressed her hand to the pad. Jennifer followed suit after Sam made another adjustment. When they were finished, Carter removed the crystal, turned it over again, and replaced it.

Tammy was coming out of a doorway as they walked into the suite.

“Are the others decorated the same way?” she asked Carter.

“No, the styles vary. You don’t like this one?” Sam grinned.

“Not really,” Tammy grinned back. “A little too eurotrash for my taste.”

“Okay, the other ocean view is just down the hall.”

They went out, and Sam repeated the process on the panel outside the next suite, talking them through it this time. “I’ll give you all access from my office later, so you can do this as we add staff. I’m already keyed on the lower levels, I just hadn’t gotten to these yet.”

Jennifer made a note of the process, and added a reminder to update the access codes.

They went inside, and Tammy gasped.

“Welcome home!” She whispered, looking a round the room.

The floor was tiered, the level they were on was floored with a warm grey stone. The next level was a dark hardwood, and there were tall lamps in each corner, filling the room with a soft glow. The bottom level was a large pit, fifteen feet across, carpeted with a dark material, and three sides were lined with big, fluffy pillows.

There was a fireplace on the inside wall facing the door, with a large monitor over it.

Tammy stepped down into the pit, and yelped, then started jumping around on it. “Hey, come check this out! It’s a waterbed!” She flopped down on it, and started rolling around, kicking her feet up in the air happily.

They others came down and joined her, all of them bouncing and rolling around on the spongy surface.

“I don’t think it’s water,” Carter said as she poked at the surface with her fingers. “I think it’s some kind of gel. Let’s see if we can find a knife, or a sharp object. I wanna check this out.”

“Don’t you dare!” Tammy yelled, leaping to her feet. “Find another one to play with. This one’s mine!” She hopped out of the pit and ran across the room, disappearing through a doorway. “Got a bedroom here. And the view is fantastic!”

She came running out, turned down the hall, and disappeared again. “Found the kitchen!”

Sam went down the hall and found her opening cabinets and poking around.

“Nice.” she nodded as she looked around. It was a smaller version of the kitchen in her suite, but the cabinets were wood grain, and the table was wood too.

She opened the refrigerator, then closed it, then slid the panel on the ice maker up. She held her hand under it, and ice started pouring out.

“We’ll have to get you stocked up, but the ice maker works.” She said as she stepped up behind Tammy and slipped her arms around her waist. “You wanna go christen that pit? That looks like it might be fun!”

Tammy leaned back against her, letting her head rest on her shoulder. “Not right now, I’d like to get my korathis from my quarters first.” She turned her head and looked at Sam. “You need a fix? We can go in the bedroom...”

“No, I’m okay.” Carter laughed. “I just thought it might be fun.”

“Me too,” Tammy laughed. “But I wanna be juiced when we do it. Might be the only way I’ll be able to keep up with you!” She pried Sam’s hands loose, and turned around. “I was serious earlier, Colonel. I’m going to be your new best friend. And I’m going to help you go to places you may never have imagined.” She paused, looking into her eyes. “But I’m also a medical professional, and your well being is always going to be my first priority. I need you to understand that.”

Carter nodded. “Thank you,” She said softly. “I think I’m going to lose control at some point, I can already feel it happening.”

“You will, I’m pretty sure of it. But we’ll be there for you. I’m planning on being with you around the clock until we get some kind of monitoring system set up.” She took Sam’s hand and led her out into the main room. “I’m going to want you to wear a small monitor. It looks like a bracelet, and you won’t even notice you have it on. I’m also going to want cameras in every room in your suite, so someone can have eyes on you at all times.”

She looked at Keller as she came out of a doorway. “What’s the rest of this place look like?”

“I counted seven more rooms.” Jennifer said. “Two more bedrooms, an office, a den slash library, a small gym, and a storage room. There’s only three bathrooms.”

“Only three bathrooms she says,” Tammy said, grinning at Carter. “I’ve been using a communal bathroom for four years...This is gonna be great!”

“Can we go look the other suites?” Jennifer asked. “I’m curious about what I can get.”

“Sure, Let’s go.” Carter said, leading they toward the door.

They went up to forty-three. This time, there were only two choices. They coded the pads on both doors, and entered the city side suite.

“Dibs.” Samuels said, looking around the room. This one was done in a rustic motif.

“I’m gonna check out the other one.” Keller said. “Be right back.”

Andi walked from room to room, while Carter and Tammy lounged on a big couch in the main room. Keller came back less than a minute later.

“Can I look at one of the suites on the next floor? I really don’t like either of these.” She said in a whiny voice.

“I don’t care,” Carter laughed. “I don’t imagine you’re gonna be spending much time in it, but whatever floats your boat.”

“Andi!” she yelled, “We’re going down to forty-two. Come on, you can check this place out later.”

Samuels came through the doorway and headed toward them. “I like the way they decorated here. I think whoever lived here was about my age. There’s women’s clothes in one of the closets. They look like they may fit me too.”

They went down to the next floor, and Jennifer danced and fidgeted while they coded the pads. She pressed her hand to one and didn’t even step inside, but turned around and opened the door to the other suite.

“Yeah, I can live here.” She said quietly.

The main room was decorated in an almost Danish modern motif.

“Okay,” Carter said softly. “I...I need to go upstairs. You guys can check out your new digs.” She looked at Tammy. “Would you come with me?”

“Of course,” Tammy said, taking her hand and leading her into the elevator.

“Thank you.” Carter said quietly, her voice weak. She had started perspiring lightly.

“No, wait a minute.” She opened the doors and leaned out. “Jennifer! I need you.” She called out.

Keller and Samuels came running out of the suite, and ran to the elevator.

“What happened?” Keller asked as she took Carter’s wrist, checking her pulse. She dropped her arm and lifted an eyelid. “Her pupils are dilated, and her pulse is weak, but steady. Let’s get her upstairs.”

She turned around, and stopped Samuels as she stepped into the elevator.

“My medical kit is still in your quarters,” She said. “Go get it. And bring that portable defibrillator too.”

Samuels nodded and took off down the corridor.

“Bring that korathis bottle too!” Tammy yelled as the doors closed.

Interior-Carter’s Suite

1850 Hours

Tammy was holding Sam up against the wall. When the doors opened, she scooped her up in her arms and headed for the bedroom.

“Get a bucket of ice, a cup, a couple cokes, and some ice cream.” She said to Jennifer over her shoulder. “Her blood sugar may have dropped, so let’s rule that out first.”

Jennifer took off for the kitchen, while Tammy took Carter into the bedroom, and laid her out on the bed.

“Yo...you’re st...strong,” Sam said weakly as Tammy pulled her up higher on the bed, wanting to get her away from the edge.

“I can bench press three-fifty, no problem. You’re nothing.”

She took her pulse, then ran her hands over her body. She rolled her up on one side, and ran her hand over her back, then did the same thing on the other side.

“You’re running a temperature, and I bet your blood pressure dropped too. This isn’t blood sugar.” She put her hand behind Carter’s head, and lifted it, then eased it back down on the bed when she grimaced.

“Okay, you haven’t been out of my sight for more than a couple of minutes since I got here. How often have you been masturbating today, every fifteen minutes?” Carter shook her head. “Thirty? Another shake. “Every hour? Carter nodded this time. “Less.” She whispered.

Tammy looked at her watch. “Okay, it’s been almost two hours since I did you in the living room. How long before that?

“Just...finished.” Carter said slowly.

“Okay.” Tammy said. “Can you spread your legs?”

Carter groaned, but her legs opened, and she drew her knees up slowly, and they fell out to the sides.

“Good girl,” Tammy said as she slipped her hand down between her legs. Her fingers stroked up and down slowly between her pussylips. “Dry. That’s not good, the korathis should have you dripping like a faucet.”

She heard Keller come in behind her. “It’s not blood sugar, but let’s get some fluids in her anyway. You do that, but gimme some of that ice first.”

Jennifer held out the bucket, and Tammy scooped out a piece of ice.

“This is gonna be cold, Sam, and it may even be painful, but it’s not gonna hurt you.” Tammy said as she moved the ice down between her legs. “Ready?”

Carter nodded, then gasped as Tammy pressed the ice into her crotch and ran it up and down over the fur lined outer lips. Opening the inner lips with her fingers, she ran it slowly up and down, finally settling it on her clit, holding it there.

Keller got her arm under Carter’s shoulders and started giving her small sips from the cup.

Tammy popped the ice cube into her mouth, then put two fingers in as well. She slobbered all over them, getting them wet, then put them at the opening of Carter’s pussy and eased them through the tight ring of muscle. She started stroking them in and out, twisting them back and forth slowly, not stopping till they were buried knuckle deep inside her.

She looked up at Carter’s face, then glance up at Keller. “She’s lubricating, and it looks like her color is improving too.” She said.

She started moving her fingers slowly, beginning to masturbate her gently. She brought her thumb down, and started massaging her clit lightly. Drawing her fingers back, she pressed upwards with her fingertips, moving them in slow circles over her G-spot. She felt the tender gland swelling almost immediately under her fingers, and she took that as a good sign.

Carter’s hips started moving, humping up toward Tammy’s probing fingers.

“How you doing up there, Sam? Feeling any better?”

Carter opened her eyes and nodded. “Yes. That...feels good. K...keep it up?” She said.

“You sound better too.” She glanced up at Keller. “I think we have a new...symptom, or problem, I don’t know which. But it looks like we may be looking at a time constraint here.”

“C...cum.” Carter said softly, her hips arching up higher at Tammy’s fingers.

“Sorry, Sam.” She said, and started moving her fingers faster, pressing her fingertips harder against her G-spot. Her thumb pressed down on her clit, moving in time with the fingers inside her.

Carter started breathing harder, and in less than a minute, was coming in harsh, gasping pants. She had pulled her feet up higher, and was lifting her ass off the bed, humping her cunt down onto Tammy’s fingers as hard as she could.

“More.” She panted as she writhed and jerked on the bed.

“More depth?” Tammy asked, pressing her fingers in deep. “Or more fingers?” She pulled her fingers back down, going to work on her G-spot again.

“Both.” She said, looking down at her. “Three fingers. F...fuck me hard and fast. Th...then do the G-spot t...thing again.”

Tammy eased her fingers out of her now sopping wet pussy, added another finger, and eased the bundled digits back inside. She started pumping them in and out slowly, but steadily picked up the pace as she fucked them in and out of her. She leaned down and pressed her lips to the top of her pussy slit, letting her tongue slip out and lash across the stiff nubbin of her clit.

Samuels walked in just then, and her eyes widened as she took in the scene in front of her.

She walked over and sat Keller’s med kit on the bed beside her. “I left the defibrillator in the other room. You figure out what’s wrong?”

Carter had her hand on the back of Tammy’s head as she humped her pussy up at her face. She was groaning and whimpering steadily as Tammy sucked on her clit, nipping it lightly between her teeth, making her jerk every time she did. Tammy’s fingers were pounding roughly in and out of her pussy, and Carter stiffened suddenly, her body arching high off the bed, then falling limp.

Tammy pulled her face away, and eased up the frantic stroking of her fingers. She kept them inside her, and pressed her fingertips onto her G-spot again.

“Jennifer, let’s let her calm down a little, then we can give her an exam. In the meantime, let me show you something.”

Both doctors leaned close as she spoke to them.

“Her G-spot is a little over an inch inside, on the anterior wall of her vagina.” She tapped her fingertips against it lightly, making Carter jerk, then went back to rubbing it lightly. “As you can see, it’s extremely sensitive. It feels like it’s about the size of a marble right now.”

She pressed her thumb to Carter’s clit again, and started sweeping it slowly back and forth. “Watch what I do, and note the position of my fingers. Inside, just to the second knuckle. It’ll be different on you, but you’ll learn.” She started moving her fingers and thumb in time with each other. At the same time, she brought her other hand up, resting it lightly on the soft curly hairs of her pubes, just over her pussy slit, the fingers pointing downward.

“Put your other hand here, not here.” She said pulling it up just over her bush. “If you press here, you’re pressing on her bladder, and you’ll just make her want to pee.” She moved her hand back down and pressed her fingers gently into her pubes. “Press down lightly, while at the same time, increase the pressure directly on the G-spot.”

Carter groaned, her hips humping up at the invading digits, and a small stream of liquid squirted from the top of her pussy slit.

“Relax the pressure with your outside hand, and keep up a steady stroking inside. Give her thirty or sixty seconds, then repeat.” She pressed down on her pubes again, and Carter grunted, her legs spreading wider as a jet of liquid spurted from her, soaking Tammy’s fingers and the back of her hand.

Andi looked at Carter’s face. She was flushed, and breathing heavily, but not showing any signs of distress. She looked down at Tammy. She was intent on her purpose, her fingers moving gently inside Carter’s pussy, her thumb brushing over her clit.

“En...enough.” Carter panted, reaching down, trying to push her away.

“Just one more, Sam,” Tammy said lightly. “Then I’ll let you rest.” She tapped her fingertips against her G-spot several times, then pressed down firmly into her pubes, her other fingers digging into her G-spot while her thumb ground her clit into her body.

“Nuuuuunnnnggggghhhh!” Carter grunted, as her jaws clenched, the cords on her neck standing out sharply. Her whole body stiffened, and she jerked and twitched mindlessly, lost in the fury of a mindblowing orgasm. Thick streams of fluid erupted from her pussy, coating Tammy’s arm, and soaking the front of her scrub shirt.

Tammy kept up the pressure from her fingers for almost a minute, while Keller and Samuels watched, enthralled. She relaxed the pressure slowly, moving her hand off of Sam’s pubes, bringing it up to brush a few drops of girl cum from her face. She kept her fingers in Carter’s pussy, and looked over at Keller.

“Check her pulse, will you? It feels strong, but I want you to feel it.”

Keller took her wrist, checking her pulse. She nodded at Tammy. “Feels good to me, let’s let her come down a little, then we can check her out. Let’s go in the other room, and let her rest for a little while.”

“No,” Tammy said as she eased her fingers from Carter’s pussy, then slid up and laid down next to her, taking her in her arms and cradling her gently. “You two go. I’ll be with you in a few minutes.”

She turned her attention to Sam, stroking her gently, whispering softly in her ear. Sam relaxed against her, and her arm around her back as she buried her face in her shoulder.

Interior-Carter’s Suite

1935 Hours

Tammy walked into the main room about fifteen minutes later. “I don’t mean to be a bitch all the time, but don’t you two know anything? Haven’t you ever heard of cuddling? That’s a human being in there, and she needs to know that we care about her, not just that we’re going to take care of her.”

She sat down on the couch across from them. She leaned back against the armrest and kicked her feet out.

“I’m sorry,” Keller said softly. “You’re right. But I’m used to keeping professional distance. I’ll have to try to get over that. How is she?”

“Feeling much better. She’s in the bathroom. She had to pee, and I think she’s gonna take a shower.” She looked down at the front of her shirt. “I probably should have joined her.”

“But I’m glad you brought that up Jennifer.” She said as she sat up, leaning toward them. “I already told Sam this, and now I’m going to tell you.” She said, looking back and forth at them. “You can fuck her and play with her as much as you want, that’s going to be an important part of caring for her anyway, as you just saw. But we’re medical professionals, not her sex slaves. You already know that, but it has to be said so there’s no confusion. Are we in agreement?”

Keller and Samuels both nodded.

“The next item. No one else touches korathis from this moment on. I’m already using it, and will continue to as a reference model so we have something to compare what’s happening to her with. I have detailed records going back to the beginning of Beckett’s original study, and there’s no point in putting anyone else in jeopardy. And I also don’t want to stop using it because, A, I don’t know what going cold turkey would do to me, and we don’t need more headaches right now, And B, I really like it!”

“That’s a good idea.” Samuels said. “Would you get us your records so I can take a look at them?”

“They’re already in the medical database.” She glanced at Keller. “That hard drive is on the kitchen table by the way.”

“Okay, that reminds me,” Keller said, making a note on . “I need to ask Sam if she has network access to the Atlantis mainframes. I...”

“Not yet,” Carter yelled from the bedroom. “But it’s an easy fix, and was on my to do list.”

“Jezzus, that is really...”

“Annoying?” Carter laughed as she walked into the room. “I bet it is. We’ll try those ear plugs when we get them. It’s not any easier on me you know. I hear every fart, gurgle and pop this place makes, and I think I can feel the building swaying too.” She looked at Samuels. “Did you know your heart make a little gurgling noise, then goes through a triple beat cycle every few minutes? You’ll want to get that checked.”

Samuels’ mouth dropped open and she stared at Carter. “Are you serious? You’re not messing with me?” Carter shook her head. “Okay, thanks. I’ll get that looked at.”

“Tomorrow.” She looked at Keller. “Make it happen. And I want a review of the results.”

She sat down on the couch next To Tammy, taking her hand and squeezing it gently. Leaning over and kissing her lightly, she grinned wolfishly at her. “You reek of pussy! You can use my shower. Apparently, there’s no soap in the others.”

Tammy nodded. and squeezed her hand back.

Carter looked around the room, then back at her medical team. “What time is it getting to be? And can any of you cook? I’m getting hungry!”