Disclaimer: All character references and appearances to those related to Stargate: SG1 are not of my own creation. The plot and rest of the characters are of my own making.

Prologue - Delivered Unto This World

Escape had always been an exhausting prospect, and executing the notion had not proved the young woman wrong. In fact, she had never been more numb and detached from her physical body in her life, causing her to wonder if she was really even alive. For a moment, it didn't seem that it would really matter, but the weight of reality soon returned to her mind, and she knew that if she died now her guilty conscious would force her to roam the site of her death for eternity.

Painfully, she forced her eyes open and took several deep breaths, each of which sent pain searing through ever nerve in her body. Many things seemed to be broken, and she wouldn't be surprised if she were soaked in blood and covered in wounds. Intellectually, she knew that it was either the mark of shock or blood loss that made her so unfocused, but even that realization drifted into a sea of blissful nothingness. Only her call of duty, her last desires, forced her to keep moving.

For the most part, she seemed to be like any other human being, which was why she had chosen the small ship and navigated it with her instincts to a place where she and her daughter could live peacefully… fate, however, had its own wishes. All around, she could see the twisted metal of the wreckage and smiled grimly. It was by cruel fate's hands that she had not died on impact, and she was eternally grateful for her last chance. All certainties of normalcy would be ruined if she had not lived long enough to mask the origin of mother and daughter's descent.

Weakly, she forced herself to stand and showed some unnatural resilience that, torn as her body and mind were, she could still manage to move at all. Step by wavering step, she came to the pod where her young daughter slept, only an infant, yet an infant so dangerous to the Master's plan that he had ordered her death along with that of her mother. She would have died soon anyway… she was no fool and the end results of his experiment, though seemingly successful, had caused a rapid deterioration of her mind and body. She simply gave herself to the very cause of their soon to be execution, and found herself flawlessly free.

If only she hadn't known that her daughter had survived as well. As any mother would, she felt worry again as she removed the child from the escape pod and pulled the infant into her arms. So small and helpless, and yet she couldn't rely on her own mother to carry her to safety. How easy it would have been to feign heavy amnesia and wander helplessly into one of their smaller towns and drink on the minds of the people there until she knew enough and could place her child into loving hands. If only, if only. She shook her head and lowered herself to the ground, feeling the child breathing deeply in her slumber.

There was only one last thing for her to do. She closed her eyes and the metal slowly began to seep into the ground. Not melted, yet no longer of its original material. It flowed, into the ground, under the ground, then was no more. All that was left were the deep gouge and scorch marks left by the impact and the dragged trail leading to them. Far off, she faintly heard a strange noise that approached. Probably the locals of the town who had seen the crash landing coming to investigate what would soon be a corpse and their newest member. She smiled, blissfully unaware of the tremendous paperwork and strange mystery she and the child would create, or what would become of the infant she had brought into existence and delivered with all of her love onto a place she had thought was safe.

Author notes: Well, I started it. It wasn't meant to be long because it's only an introduction and teaser about the upcoming character's life. I suppose I'll tell you now that the time setting is an AU future, sometime after the fall of the System Lords and Ori, yet the government, being a pain in the butt, will not have yet released information about the Stargate publicly. Also... don't worry about the shortness about the introduction. It's more about the fact there's not much to say than my lack of writing. Things will get more interesting and the chapters will get longer from here on.

This particular chapter is about 18-20 years prior to this point in time. I'll tell you now that I actually stopped watching Stargate and never followed through to it's ending, though I own the DvDs up to season 6 and will review them for some background. If you take note in my profile, this is how I usually write story-wise. I don't know what else I'll do or who I'll add or how this will all end yet. I'm still toying around with the extensive freedoms I'm giving myself. I might check out a written summery of how the Stargate series ended…

… and may I say that I'm still rather annoyed at Stargate: Atlantis. Mostly because years before it's release I was doing a roleplay very similar to it. A Stargate-OC crossover. I'm trying to not go there for the sake of saving some canon-ness, but no promises . (btw, my ideas for Atlantis owned theirs).

Rei