Author's Note: This is story number 3 in the Tami O'Neill "series". As always, Stargate doesn't belong to me. Hope everyone enjoys, please review!
Bold is symbiote internal, italics is host internal
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Tami was running. Behind her she could hear marching feet of Jaffa and staff weapons going off. Beside her and in front of her she could see her fellow Tok'ra, Samantha/Jolinar, Martouf/Lantash, Jacob/Selmak, and Aldwin/Gerim. They all, of course, were running for their lives from the incoming Jaffa. In front of them, just a short distance away, loomed the stargate, their way to freedom. As long as they could get to it in time.
"JACOB! WHERE?" Screamed Martouf's symbiote, Lantash, as he reached the DHD first, they were always the fastest runner since Martouf had the longest legs.
"TO EARTH! SAM DO YOU HAVE THE GDO?" Jacob yelled back. Sam, who was the second fastest, immediately came to a stop next to Martouf/Lantash and pulled out the GDO, preparing to press in the lifesaving code that would allow them access through the stargate of Earth. Lantash quickly began pressing the glyphs on the DHD, hurriedly dialing Earth before the Jaffa could reach them. Within seconds, the stargate was opened in a bright blue whoosh. Sam immediately entered in the Tok'ra IDC that was given to them by Stargate Command. She and Lantash/Martouf immediately rushed towards the Stargate, pausing at the event-horizon to check on their friend's status.
"GO!" Jacob screamed at them. "WE'RE RIGHT BEHIND YOU! DAMN IT, JUST GO!"
Immediately, the two Tok'ra vanished through the event-horizon, seconds later, staff weapon fire began zooming past them. Staff weapon fire, although extremely inaccurate, was also extremely deadly if you were hit.
"AGHHHH!" Aldwin suddenly screamed as he hit the ground.
"ALDWIN!" Tami and Jacob yelled as one, and without speaking they turned as one and rushed back to their fallen fellow Tok'ra, who was wincing and attempting to stand.
"Are you crazy! Leave me!" Aldwin gasped as Tami and Jacob each grabbed an arm.
"No way!" Tami said, helping Jacob pull the small Tok'ra male to his feet.
"We don't leave friends behind!" Jacob said. They quickly, with Aldwin/Gerim between them, rushed towards the Stargate, staff weapon fire passing them at every step.
"Take him!" Tami said suddenly, letting go of Aldwin's arm as they began going up the steps. She quickly grabbed her Zat'nik'tel, a weapon that her father had affectionately dubbed a Zat gun, and began firing it at the incoming Jaffa.
"Tami!"
"I'll be right behind you! Just go!" Tami said, not bothering to turn around to glance at Jacob, she just continued to fire her Zat'nik'tel at the enemy, just to give enough time to get her injured friend through the Stargate. A few more seconds passed, then she heard the tell-tale suctioning of the Stargate that demonstrates that someone had entered.
Tami! We need to go, now! Tami heard her symbiote, Malek, yell from within her head. That's when she felt the staff weapon fire hit her arm.
"AHHH!" Tami yelled, cringing involuntarily and dropping the Zat'nik'tel. She then felt Malek immediately take control, turn, and launch themselves through the Stargate.
Within seconds, Malek exited through the other side, and wham! hit the metal-grated ramp that the people of Stargate Command insisted lead up to the Stargate. Malek fell upon her knees, and onto her face, and then went head-over-heels rolling down the ramp until she stopped at the end, laying uselessly half on the floor, with her upper half on the ramp.
"We need a medical team to the gateroom! Repeat, a medical team to the gateroom!" Malek heard, and then she felt a large hand over her forehead.
She then heard a loud, familar voice cry, "TAMI!" She immediately knew it was the father of her host, and so opened her eyes to show that they were alive. She could feel her eyes give off an involuntary glow, and she moaned, trying not to move her neck or back. She could tell something was wrong with Tami's vertebrae, it wasn't broken, but something was wrong. She immediately focused her attentions upon healing that spot.
"She's alive Jack. Malek is working on it. Malek? Can you hear me?" It was Jacob.
"Jacob? Something's... wrong... with our... spine." Malek muttered, closing her eyes tightly.
"Is it broken?"
"No... I think... dislocated... or something." Malek muttered, as she felt more hands begin grabbing at her.
"Dr. Fraiser, Malek says there's definitely a neck or back injury." Jacob said. As he said so, Malek felt a needle slide into her side, releasing a substance. A few seconds later, Malek registered it as a substance for pain and a sedative.
"There is? Alright, I want a MRI and..." Dr. Fraiser began, but Malek didn't hear her finish for she had passed out, joining her host in blessed oblivion.