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Title: The New Ones

Time: End of season 5, after "Menace." Proceeds past season 5 and will stop... somewhere. Most events post-season 5 will be very different or not happen at all.

Style: Adventure, Drama, Romance

Ships: Sam/Jack, Daniel/Janet

Rating: T

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Chapter 1

Ian glanced at the display screen to his left. "Damn it," he cursed under his breath. He moved his fingers rapidly on the touch screens that surrounded him. "Jolinar!"

Jolinar came running into the small cockpit of the ship. She rested a hand on Ian's shoulder as she looked at the display he pointed to. "How many?" She asked as she lazily traced the symbol on the shoulder of his black jacket, an upside down "V" with two solid circles above it.

He looked up at her and shook his head, mystified. Jolinar could see the fear in his soft blue eyes. She reached out her handand gently trailed her fingertips across his cheek. He wasn't afraid to die. She knew that. They were both soldiers and expected to die on this mission, but he was afraid of failure. He knew what this mission meantto all of them, especially her. The base of their Solari allies was supposed to be secret, but obviously someone had found out about it.

He looked back to the screen and pointed at the scans of the ships. "Two Trien cruisers and one Ardai destroyer in geosynchronous orbitabove Detri," he said.

Jolinar frowned and leaned down to study the screen more closely. "Ardai? That's impossible, Ian. Ardai don't make incursions into our universe with ships. They only send covert teams."

Ian shrugged. "Look at the scan, Jolinar. The ship matches the records the Solari gave us. It's amazing to actually see one. How the hell did they find out about the base?"

"Solari dissidents. The situation within the empire is breaking down," Jolinar replied definitively. She tilted her head to the side and bit her bottom lip as she considered this development. "Are we going to be able to reach the base?"

"If I transfer all the power from weapons to shields, maybe I can keep us from getting blown apart the second we uncloak," he said as he tapped some codes onto one of the displays, trying to figure out how to force as much power as possible into the shields.

Jolinar sighed heavily and crossed her arms. "How long till we reach the planet?"

"Thirty-seven minutes. Let's hope the Solari can keep them at bay till we arrive," he said, glancing at her with a poignant smile, staring into her green eyes. "So, without any luck we'll be dead in an hour."

Jolinar nodded and a reached a hand towards him. "Put it on autopilot, Ian."

He raised a questioning eyebrow. "This mission is everything. I need to stay here. Every minute I prepare increases our ability to succeed. I can't risk wasting one minute that might save your life."

"My life," she said mockingly. "It's just borrowed time, Ian." She licked her lips tentatively and swallowed hard. "We will succeed. We have no other choice. Please, Ian. This is it. This is all we have left." She blinked back the tears that threatened to betray her. She had promised herself she would be strong. Weakness was a luxury they could not allow themselves.

He acquiesced and tapped his fingers on a small touch display on the arm of his chair. He took Jolinar's offered hand and stood up, following her out of the cockpit. The ship's compartments were cramped. It was a small and quick attack frigate. Built by the Solari, the ship was meant for war not comfort. She pulled him into their bunk room, though it was barely big enough for the two of them. She turned to him and sought his lips hungrily as she pressed a touch screen by the door, causing a long narrow slab of metal to emerge from the wall. Only a thin mattress covered the one-person bunk they'd shared for months in their covert missions in the war against the Goa'Uld and Trien.

He felt her nails trailing on his neck as she fell back on the bed, pulling him on top of her. "Jolinar," he whispered breathlessly, running his fingers through her short, spiked, blonde hair and kissing her face. Her svelte body anxiously writhed beneath him.

Jolinar smiled as he whispered into her ear, beautiful words of a language he always used while they made love. She didn't know the language herself, knew it was just one of many his father had taught him as a child, but she understood what he meant. A genuine laugh came from her lips as he tugged at the neck of her white bodysuit, baring her right shoulder. She slid her arm free from the skintight suit and sighed contentedly as he kissed her shoulder and down her arm. He clasped her hand and pulled her fingers to his lips. He ran his fingers over the implant set flush with her skin on the bottom of her wrist. The implant, an upside down "V" with two solid circles above it, was of a dark blue metal and was cool to the touch and was matched by one on her other wrist, one on the back of her neck, and one on the back of each of her calves. Ian had identical implants on the same five points of his body. He gently traced the "V" on her wrist with his fingertip and looked at her, hope and despair intermingling in his eyes.

"Everything for Vani," he whispered.

"For Vani," she replied softly and slid her arm around his neck, pulling him back to her. "We have to save our world, but first let's save each other."


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