Hope Comes Home
Chapter 1
The Stargate activates and General Jack O'Neill and Sg-1 run into the control room.
"No teams are due, are we receiving any incoming signals?" asks General O'Neill.
"Yes sir, but it's not one we've had before," reports Sargent Siler, "it reads Oma Desala."
"Open the iris!" Dr. Daniel Jackson yells as he runs down the stairs for the gate room.
"Do it," O'Neill orders before Siler reacts.
The iris opens and out steps a girl around the age of fifteen, with past shoulder length, light brown hair slightly tinted with blonde, brown eyes and about 5feet, 5inches. As she steps through the wormhole, she clenches at her chest heaving, "Please... help...me," she's able to say before collapsing unconscious on the ramp. All this while everyone looks on as well as Daniel from the bottom of the ramp.
"Get a medical team down there," orders O'Neill while he runs down the stairs with Colonel Carter and Teal'c following. "Carter, would you check her for you know, if there's something inhuman in her?"
"Yes sir," Carter replies while she walks up and crouches down next to the girl, at the same time the medical team arrives. "Sir, the only thing I sense is small amounts of naquida in her blood, nothing else," reports Carter.
"Alright, why don't we let the med team do there job and find out what's wrong with her," O'Neill replies and signals for the medics to bring the girl to the infirmary.
In the infirmary, the girl in hooked up to life support while Sg-1 stand near her bed, O'Neill walks in, looks at the girl and stops short of which Carter notices.
"Sir, is something wrong?"
"I, um, didn't notice in the gate room but," looks shocked, confused and slightly worried,"she looks almost exactly like my mom, besides the hair. I have a picture of her when she was a teenager, about her age," he answers looking at the girl.
"That's...well...strange."Daniel says with uncertainty in his voice.
"So..,"O'Neill still feeling a little uneasy about the situation,"besides that fact, what else do we know about her?" As he asks this, Doctor Lam walks over.
The doctor looks worried as she answers O'Neill's question,"Sir, about her condition, with all due respect, I have no clue. All we know is she needs to be kept on life support. That's all we can do for her now."
O'Neill, still looking worried, "Peachy, well try and find out as much as you can doctor."
"Yes sir," Doctor Lam replies, with a bow of her head she leaves.
"Anyone else want to add anything?"
"Well sir, I've been thinking," Carter says looking at the girl with the familiar crease in her forehead.
Leaning towards Teal'c, O'Neill whispers,"when does she stop?" Teal'c, of course, raises his eyebrow.
Continuing, pretending she didn't hear his comment, "I've been asking myself why Oma Desala would have sent her and why here?"
"Perhaps to Oma Desala, this girl can be considered valuable to the Tarea," Teal'c assess' with a rise of his eyebrow.
"But valuable how?" Daniel asks as they all turn to look at the still girl.
All of a sudden, a large, bright light forms at the ceiling, drifts down above the girl and stays above her for what seems like eternity for the others. The light stays there until the machines next to the bed come to life, beeping rapidly just before the doctor and nurses rush in.
"What is that?" one of the nurses ask.
"I think it's Oma," Daniel replies, which he receives a look from O'Neill of disbelief. "What?"
"Daniel, you can't tell that from just a big, honking light!" O'Neill replies with a hint of sarcasm while he turns to look at Daniel.
"It is Oma sir,"Carter replies with a smile forming on her lips.
"For crying out loud Carter! How..." O'Neill stops when he turns around to come face to face with Oma Desala.
"O'Neill," Oma greets him with a bow of her head.
"Hello Oma, ah, it's not like it's not nice to see you and all, but what are you doing here and who is this girl?" O'Neill asks.
"All will be answered in time. First I must make sure the girl will be alright."
"What's wrong with her, or what was wrong with her?" Daniel asks just noticing the girl is off life support with just an iv unit dripping into the back of her hand and seeing a nurse swiftly putting a cannula into her nose.
"It was a flaw in the system, that is all, a signal when to let me know when to send her here through the Stargate," Oma answers.
"Sir?"the doctor comes towards them, "her vitals are up and so are her life signs, I've never seen anything like it. She is now breathing on her own, that's all I can tell you for now sir."
"Thank you, why don't we so continue this in the briefing room. Doctor, please inform me is there is any change," O'Neill said and with a nod from the doctor they left.