Notes: Another chapter. Nicole and Alexander are in our RP and are © Angel Leviathan. The first part of the dream sequence is also from the RP, when Kioko and Fay were trying to reveal their pasts.

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"They're not following us," Fay commented, walking beside her tailed cousin, the group being at least three streets away by now, "They're not going to live long at all with attitudes like that…"

"Even the Angels will be able to take them," Drake shook his head in dismay.

"They're not our concern; they arrive here, they can take care of themselves," Gambit nodded.

Kioko paused, "Guys….I think the Angels just found them…"

"So, staying was obviously the wrong answer?" Jack quipped, looking with dismay at the group of mechs that had surrounded them.

"Yeah…" Daniel nodded, "I think so."

A human soldier appeared from behind the mechs, "You four will come with me; any resistance will result in violence," he said coldly.

"No, really?" Jack snapped sarcastically, "I hadn't noticed.

"Sir…" Sam warned. She obediently began to follow the individual, sincerely not wanting to be blasted to pieces by some machines.

Daniel caught up with her, "So, you're human?" he asked of the solider.

"No talking," he replied, not looking round.

"I believe we should leave any questions until later," Teal'c stated.

"Why do we always end up like this?" Jack asked of the thin air, continuing to follow the group.

Half an hour later and the team had had their weapons taken from them and were being kept waiting in a high story apartment type building, with glass windows all around.

"Wow….you can't even see below that haze of smog…" Sam said aloud, peering out of the window.

"So, this must be the 'upper levels' huh?" Jack snorted.

"Indeed, you are correct," a woman's voice came from the doorway. Two figures approached them, one male, one female, both clothed entirely in black. The woman wore a knee length, tight dress with knee high boots, her black hair cut short with only two strands falling to her waist, "These are the upper levels."

"Where we live a much more comfortable life than you'll ever see down there," the male added, dressed in black trousers and what appeared to be a black silk shirt.

The woman, presumably his wife, glared at him, "Excuse my husband," she started, "He has the tendency to speak out of turn…"

"I think I know somebody like that…" Jack briefly looked across at Daniel, then turning his attention back to the two newcomers.

"My name is Nicole Raven," she continued, "one of the upper ruling class of this nation," she looked each member of SG1 up and down with distain, "You…..are not of our rank. Yet you are certainly not one of the sods."

"Sods?" Daniel frowned.

"Lower class," her husband, Alexander offered the explanation.

"Our cameras reveal that you came through that circular ornament left in the lower levels," Nicole frowned, "Yet that device has no purpose, otherwise we would have figured it out by now…" she fixed first Jack, then Teal'c with a piercing stare, "What we want to know…..is how you, presumably sods trying to get above your station….managed to pull off such a show…"

"Alright," Jack was growing impatient, "First off; we're not 'sods' and don't take kindly to being called one either…" he sounded as if he might start going on a tangent…

"Jack…" Daniel said in a warning tone.

"Let me finish, Daniel…." he held a hand up to silence him, "and secondly; that 'ornament' you got down there; it was no show. It works."

"And does what?" Alexander demanded.

"Connects to other worlds and allows people to pass between them," Sam stated.

Nicole's features were set in an angry line, "You lie. Nothing has ever come of that device; we have advanced technology, vast resources, it is nothing."

Jack shrugged, "Obviously not 'advanced' enough."

She glared, the turning her back on the team, activating a small device on her wrist, "Take the dissenters to a holding cell…if they resist….you know what to do," she swept to the doorway, "Until you are ready to speak the truth…" she left the room.

Alexander still stood there, confused expression on his face.

"Alexander!!" she screeched.

He abruptly followed.

The next thing they knew, a team of eight guards had entered the room. Jack attempted to knock the first unconscious, only to have himself knocked to the floor. Daniel was the next to go, followed by Teal'c, who had successfully taken one of them down. Sam's head hit the glass table and she fell into darkness.

"Mama....what are you doing?" a small, brown haired child looked up at her mother, tail waving absently.

"Nothing you need concern yourself with, dear child," the white haired woman knelt at her level, "Here, take this," she passed a package wrapped in black velvet to her, "Keep them safe for me."

"Mama?" she questioned.

The woman brought a finger to the child's lips, silencing her, "I'll only be a moment, little Kio," she stood, straightening her gown, "You stay right here and keep hidden, okay?"

"....Yes Mother..."

The child watched as the woman she knew to be her mother vanished round the corner of the darkened street, heels clattering on the pavements.

"Halt!"

She didn't move, could feel the fear in the air, though she was sure it was mostly her own.

"Elven dissenter......"

Though the woman was only half elven blood, she had the unfortunate gift of the beauty of her ancestors.

"Get your hands off me you Angel scum!" her mother's voice.

.....a shot......a soft thud.....then nothing.....a scream ripped from a throat.....seemingly her own. The five year old child ran from her hiding place, abandoning the precious package and running to the figure of her mother on the floor, "Mama? Mama!?"

"Get up," a voice, cold, demanding, cruel.

She didn't, simply turned her head to look up at....him?

"I said get up!"

A flame started in her mind, blazed through all her senses until it could take form, eyes turning a deadly black, the child eventually stood, holding her palms out.....the figure in front of her exploded....

A second later, the girl was gone, the package too, as the streets were lit with an amber flame, a thin wail echoing through every mind in the district....

"You have to hang on, please, fight it, come on, no, stay awake, listen to me…!" her own hands covered with blood and a desperate panic overtaking her mind; he had to live, she couldn't let him die, he couldn't die like this, not now…., "Hang on Ja-"

Sam bolted upright, eyes wide, suddenly awake. She tried to slow her breathing as she looked around at the rest of her team, still unconscious in the dark room. She held a hand to her head, eyes still wide in shock at the vividness of her dream, "Woah…"

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