TITLE: Prodigal Children
AUTHOR: Vid Z.
TIMELINE: Season 4, ep Prodigy
PAIRING: Jack/Hailey
WARNINGS: character deaths, but not really, they don't die for good. I never kill my fav characters for good. Just read and find out!
DISCLAIMER: All publicly recognizable characters, settings, etc of the TV show Stargate: SG-1 are the property of their respective owners. The original characters and plot are the property of the author of this fic. The author is in no way associated with the owners, creators, or producers of any media franchise. No copyright infringement is intended.
SUMMARY: Zan could swear on his pet hcir's grave that he's never before met Kiria d'Vsiur'ke, but the soul looking back at him from her eyes was familiar. Check inside for warnings.
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Their relief to have survived was short lived.
As they were still congratulating each other Jack's keen ears caught a perplexed murmur of one of the SFs. "What's that glowing thing there?"
Dread already filling his stomach he glanced back towards the Gate where his eyes quickly found the small golden light buzzing around, seemingly confused at the change of environment.
Suddenly the light shot out in his general direction and, upon quickly looking to his side, he saw it's target was Hailey.
Since shouting a warning and waiting for her to respond would take too long he simply yelled "Get down!" to the whole assembly and dove for the diminutive Cadet.
He got to her just in time, knocking her to the ground and covering her body with his own, as the alien firefly shot through the air where Jennifer had been just a moment before.
Beneath him Jennifer's eyes widened when she saw the firefly zoom over them, then a sick look came to her face when the firefly suddenly engaged into the beginning of a loop who's completion took only a fraction of a second.
Jack and Jennifer had time to only look into each other's eyes as the firefly completed the loop and shot downward, piercing both their hearts with one swoop, making the last sight either of them saw, before they died, each other.
It was as if a bullet from a Kalashnikov was tearing through his body and he knew the moment his heart had been ravaged. The pain was overwhelming, yet he had no strength to vocalize it. His sight began to dim, his senses and body shutting down, when he saw the corresponding look of immesurable pain in the brave Cadet's eyes under him. For that brief moment in time they saw eternity in each other's eyes. In the microsecond before he died a strange throught went through his oxygen deprived brain that it was somehow fitting that they'd died in each other's arms, holding their gazes into eternity. It was selfish, but he'd never wanted to die alone. Then there was only dark and he knew no more.
The neck muscles of the body that had once been Jack O'Neill, which were keeping his head up, relaxed and his head fell forward, his forehead settling on the forehead of the young woman beneath him, their sightless eyes locked together in death.
The assembled members of the SGC could only watch with horror as the firefly did a loop that would make a Top Gun Graduate proud and spear two of their own.
Jack and Jennifer's dead bodies twitched a couple of times as they sagged bonelessly. There was no doubt they were dead and the knowledge slammed into the survivors. They could see a large pool of blood forming beneath their two former comrades as Sam's agonized wail rang out. "Noooo! God no!"
Suddenly the lightbug appeared near the main Embarkation room fuse and leeched power from the system, making lights and computers flicker. In a last, suicidal attack of madness and rage it shot itself towards the bodies of the two soldiers and, upon colliding with them, burst into flames which quickly spread over the two corpses.
The heat of the flames was immense, not letting anyone get close, but as quickly as it had started it also died out, having exhausted it's fuel. Thankfully the two soldiers had already handed over their weapons and ammunition before they'd perished, otherwise the from-the-heat-of-the-fire exploding bullets could've killed someone. The stench of burnt flesh, bones and vaporized bodily fluids filled the huge room until the powerful ventilation system kicked in and sucked it out.
General Hammond, the surviving members of SG-1, the scientists that had been on the planet, Sergeants Harriman and Siler, SF's, the Embarkation room and Control room crews could only stare helpless at the huge pile of ashes that had once been the 2IC of the facility and a young, promising Cadet.
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TBC, this is not the end. I know it started out angstily, but have no fear this is not the end of Jack and Jennifer!
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