Tegan Chronicles
Origins 1
It had been almost two months since Janet had confessed her feelings to Tegan, and Tegan was still holding the ball. Janet told herself it was SG1's busy mission schedule, all the while reminding herself it wasn't like she had someone else waiting in the wings.
Spring was finally starting to bloom and things had fallen back into an almost easy camaraderie between them. At least things were no worse than they'd been beforehand. It was the first weekend since then in which SG1 wasn't off world and both Cassie and Janet were taking advantage of that and the unseasonably warm April weather. Janet had packed a picnic lunch and invited Tegan and Sam to come along to the park with them.
Sam sat beside her on a park bench under the shade of a large willow that was just beginning to bud. Janet looked over at her staring off in the distance watching Tegan and Cassie kick around a soccer ball while Shadow chased them. They were really enjoying themselves, laughing and joking around while Cassie tried out some of her newest defense moves on Tegan.
"Jealous?" Janet asked casually.
"Not at all." Sam put her hands behind her head, intertwining her fingers and leaning back. "I'm too old to keep up with a teenager less than twenty-four hours after kicking some Jaffa butt."
"Oh, is that what it is?" Janet laughed quietly. "And here I thought you enjoyed my company."
"I wouldn't be here if I didn't."
"I know." Janet nodded. "I just figured you'd want to spend time with Cassandra since you haven't really gotten to see her in a while."
"I'll get to spend some time with her after she wears Tegan out, or vise versa. Right now I want to spend time with my friend."
Janet smiled.
An hour later Cassie and Tegan were still going at it strong, "Does she ever slow down?"
"Which one?" Sam leaned forward.
"Tegan, I already know Cassie won't drop til the sun goes down."
"Tegan won't even drop then." Sam looked back out onto the field. "The only time she stops is when you're standing over her with the proverbial whip in hand, or she's been hit by zat fire."
Janet nodded, she could remember a time or two when Tegan had gone down with out being injured or hit by a zat blast. "So, are you hungry?"
"Starved." Sam rubbed her stomach.
Janet stood up and stretched before calling across the field, "Tegan, Cassandra, lunch."
Janet spread out a blanket on the ground while Sam retrieved the cooler and picnic basket from Janet's Land Rover. After she sat them down by the blanket she looked over to see Cassie and Tegan starting to head towards them, with Shadow hanging back a few paces. "What do you need me to do Janet?"
"Nothing." Janet pulled the ham sandwiches out of the cooler and started arranging the other various food items she'd packed.
Sam watched as Tegan stepped closer to Cassie, almost tripping as she threw her arm around the girl's shoulders. She thought the gesture was strange, considering Tegan was usually reserved in showing any kind of physical emotion. It was then Sam noticed it wasn't so much a palling around act. "Uh, Janet?"
Janet looked up to see Tegan leaning heavily on Cassie as their progression ground to a snail's pace. Shadow was sticking close to her other side. "Grab my medical bag out of the back of the car."
Sam took off in a sprint for the car while Janet sprinted toward the middle of the field. She stopped a few feet short when Tegan collapsed into a small ball on the ground. She'd intentionally rolled into a fetal position.
Janet was at her side the second Tegan's moan reached her ears. "What's wrong?"
When the huddle mass didn't answer, Janet looked up at Cassie. "I don't know."
"It's ok." Janet soothed the worried teenager as a breathless Sam approached with her medical bag.
"What's going on?"
Janet shook her head in frustration as she opened her bag.
"Make it stop." Tegan half pleaded and half yelled as the pain in her chest increased beyond what she thought was possible.
"You've got to tell me what's wrong." Janet put her hand on Tegan's back.
"Pain." Tegan curled even more on herself as Sam motioned she was calling the base for a medical transport. "In my – chest."
"Sharp? Dull?"
"Hurts," Tegan gasped. "Hell! Crushing."
"Heart attack?" Cassie asked anxiously.
Janet looked up at her daughter with uncertainty in her eyes, as Tegan rolled away from her.
"Mom!" Cassie panicked as she looked to the spot Tegan should have rolled to. She'd vanished into mid air.
Janet jumped to her feet and wrapped Cassie in protective arms, "Sam?"
She shook her head and shrugged. "The Asgard?"
A few seconds later Sam spoke again, this time into her mobile phone. "Colonel, I was calling for medical transport when Tegan just disappeared."
"What do you mean she just…" Suddenly Jack wasn't standing the snack food isle of his local grocery store anymore. He looked up to see Sam standing there in front of him. "The Aagard."
"Colonel O'Neill, Major Carter." It was Thor who addressed them. "Where is Major Kiser?"
"We were hoping you could tell us." Jack looked around the ship.
"I do not understand."
"She just disappeared." Sam stepped forward. "We thought maybe you had transported her."
"Loki."
"Loki?" Jack questioned.
"It is as we expected."
"You mind filling us in?" Jack rocked back on his heels.
"In time, we must find Loki and Major Kiser first, before Loki does something rash."
"Rash?"
"I think he means unthinkable sir."
"I got the picture Carter."
"We believe Loki has stolen one of our ships to come here and find Major Kiser." Thor spoke again after they'd been transported to the control room. "I need your help Major Carter to find the ship. It would be cloaked."
Sam stepped up to the controls and began to manipulate them.