Title: Precog
Author: Abigor
Spoilers: lots for entity, tiddly one for legacy and ITLOD, and probably a few others that I can't remember.
Rating: PG-ish
Email: Shunt511@aol.comAuthors Notes: Please, please, read and review, cos this is the first attempt at a story that I've posted. Even flames will be appreciated, since at least they show somebody has read the story. Even if they did think it was crap. And thank you to my friend Catherine for reading through the first couple of pages for me, even if I did have to spend more time just explaining what was going on since she doesn't even watch the show. And these notes are going on way to long, so I'll shut up now.
Precog
'Very good SG1, you have a go, be ready to leave for P4X 735 tomorrow at 0900. Dismissed' General Hammond intoned before heading for his office, no doubt to fill out some of the copious paperwork that the SGC seemed to acquire. While the other members of SG1 started to rise, to prepare for the mission, Daniel noticed Sam remained sitting. Her face was pallid and her eyes slightly unfocused. He wondered if she had actually heard any of the meeting at all.
'Major, you with us?'
'Huh?' Daniel watched as Sam's head jerked up in response to Jack's voice.
'Debriefings over. You planning on moving?'
She mumbled apologetically as she gathered up the mission notes and then hurried out of the room. Daniel and Teal'c exchanged looks, as her back disappeared from view. When Daniel turned around, Jack had a troubled expression on his face.
'It's too early, she shouldn't be going out in the field yet'. Jack had already, noisily, made his view quite clear to the General earlier, before the debriefing.
'Doctor Fraiser has assessed that Major Carter's health is satisfactory'. Jack glared at the Jaffa, who in return raised a customary eyebrow. 'You do not trust Doctor Fraiser's judgement?'
Jack carried on glaring at him, as together the three male members of SG1 left the briefing room and headed in the direction of Daniel's lab. Although he wasn't as vocal about it, Daniel did share Jack's view; two weeks was not long enough to get over your body being possessed (again) by another life form and then being downloaded into a computer mainframe.
But he did wonder whether part of Jack's protectiveness was actually guilt; after all, he had effectively killed Sam. And then there was the fact that Jack was a master at guilt.
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As Sam left the briefing room she couldn't dissipate the feeling of dread that had slowly accumulated in her stomach as the debriefing had progressed. Unwilling to say anything she just hoped that everybody else blamed her reticence on the...incident, rather than the mind numbing fear that jumped to her mind every time P4X 735 was mentioned.
It was stupid. It was a milk run, an easy recon on an uninhabited, undisturbed planet that would usually be given to one of the other teams, rather than the SGC's elite flagship team.
But even though she kept telling herself this, she couldn't shake the feeling that it would be disastrous. Her teammates were worried about her, she knew that, but what could she say; hey, I have a bad feeling about this, can we just not go? That would definitely get her straight back into the infirmary, a place she had spent too long at recently, or worse another trip to Doctor Mackenzie.
As she entered her quarters Sam mentally shook herself; she must be just nervous, some subconscious thing about not wanting to have her body taken over. Again. Surprisingly.
Sighing internally, she lowered her self onto the thin, lumpy mattress and started to undo the laces on her boots. Janet had 'encouraged' (well, ok, ordered) her to take more rest and not to exert herself. Not that she would actually sleep much. That had been another thing she had been keeping from her teammates since the 'incident'. She had promised them that she was sleeping, after initially, not allowing herself to for almost 48 hours after being 'downloaded' back into her body.
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SG1 stepped out of the wormhole and into... fog. Lots of fog. It was a deep, clammy mist, which was so thick Sam could barely see in front of herself, let alone the rest of her team. While the Colonel grumbled about the MALPs incapability's to correctly tell them a planet's weather, they cautiously made their way off of the Stargate's dais.
'Jack, it might be better if we all hold onto each other' Sam heard Daniel's voice venture out from the gloom.
'What is this? A school field trip now?'
'No, but we don't want to wonder off and into... something' Daniel argued, while Sam carried on cautiously forward. It was disorientating to say the least.
'Aagh!' She grunted as she hit a hard object with her leg.
'Like that.' finished Daniel
'Carter, you ok?' The Colonel worriedly asked as Sam felt the object she had just walked into.
'Yeah. On the upside I found the DHD...' she started, trailing off when she heard an audible click from close by. She instantly recognised it, as did the rest of the team.
'Everybody get down!' yelled the Colonel, but it was too late. Sam could vaguely see blurs of light energy through the cloying mist, but she could hear in acute detail as three of them hit flesh. She started to crawl over to where she had last heard the Colonel. She could feel the damp grass and muddy earth on her fingers before she bumped into something warm. She immediately started to shake the body, when aghast, she lifted her trembling hands off the body. Even though she couldn't see it, she could clearly feel the blood clinging to her skin.
'No.' she whispered, while she felt towards where she thought his face would be. Her hands froze when she felt the glasses. 'No, Daniel'. She could feel tears starting to build up in her eyes, and then throwing caution to the wind she yelled out, 'Colonel! Teal'c! Sir!'
Her heart felt numbed when there was no reply from her teammates. However there was a reply from behind her, when a staff weapon fired one last shot, hitting her squarely in the back. She could feel the agonising pain starting spread and consume her and then she began to fall forward onto Daniel's corpse...