So I hope you guys enjoy this chapter. I'll try and start writing the next one as quick as possible, which is probably soon. I was going to wait another day but I decided not to be cruel and post it now. Thank you for all the reviews!
Oasis
Chapter 1
"Deja Vu"
The remaining members of SG-1 and a couple other SG teams stood at the end of the ramp as the gate activated with a loud clash. Sam checked her weapon once over and looked at her team as they too checked their gear.
"Good luck," Landry's voice boomed from the door.
"Don't worry General. As you said this is going to be a peaceful knowledge seeking mission" Mitchell pointed out and began walking up the ramp.
"Still be careful. Teams move out!"
"Colonel, sir," the new resident archeologist of SG-14 stuttered as he spoke to Mitchell, "Its an honor to work with your team, sir."
"Uh, thanks" he rolled his eyes and stepped through the gate. Sam and Teal'c stepped through together holding their breath. The world swirled around them then bang they stepped out of the other side of the gate. The village not far from there was surrounded by high stone walls that connected to an abandoned royal fortress.
"We are supposed to speak with their leader Talin before we start looking around," Sam said as she began walking forward.
"SG-3 stay at the gate. SG-14 and 15 come with us." Mitchell waved his hand motioning them to follow. "Well isn't this lovely weather. I guess this is what happens when you don't check the forecast before booking your vacation."
"This isn't a vacation, Cam."
"Indeed."
"Well it looks like two people aren't very chipper today."
"According to Talin, this planet rarely has sunshine. Its a very damp planet so their winters are rather severe."
"Their winter isn't near is it?"
"No. Oh and Cam, you know why I'm not in the mood for jokes."
"I know."
"Seven years."
"This is amazing! Some of this writing could be thousands of years old and I haven't started referencing yet but I think that wall over there talks about a great flood that hit here. Oh and the writing seems to have semetic origin" the young Archeologist rambled as he tried to move over to one of the walls near a vendor.
"Colonel Mitchell, Colonel Carter, Teal'c; it is a pleasure to finally meet you. I see you have brought friends."
"They are the ones that we told you that were going to look around."
"Of course," Talin nodded, "your friend can be free to look at our writings if he wills it."
"Thank you, sir! Do you have any records..." he began but Talin cut him off.
"Our records are all stored in the only temple inside the town. You can find it down that path."
"Thank you, sir."
"Your other friends can be free to look all they wish as well." SG 15 and 14 began to migrate away to look around.
"We wanted to talk to you about," Sam began.
"The Ori."
"Partly."
"How we've remained untouched by them," he continued and began walking down the road with them. "I must say I cannot answer you on that one, it is a mystery to myself as well."
"About your people..."
"They do not know of the Ori, and I would rather it that way." Stopping he looked them all over. "I believe it is best if they do not know. On the subject of your rather peculiar friend he may find friendship with our historian. He is out with his wife right now but I'm sure he will be back into town later. Or if you would rather tonight I could take you all to his house. It is quite the walk but worth it."
"Where does he live?"
"He has two homes, one at the far end of our village and the other outside over on that ridge. That is where he spends most of his time raising his family."
"How about weapons? Do you have weapons?"
"Cam," Sam hissed silently at him and hit him in the side.
"Hey! It was a perfectly good question!" he snapped back at her with a hint of playfulness and a background of bitterness.
"Cam..." Sam began but she stopped as she saw Talin watching them with amused eyes.
"Before you bite off his head I would like to agree with him. It is a good question." As they began to walk again they found that many looked up and gave them a smile accompanied by a nod. "We have some weapons, most are from the time in which this planet was ruled over by the Goa'uld. Legend has it that a warrior came through the stone circle and chased the darkness away then gifted this planet invulnerability against the rest of the universe."
"That's just a legend, right? Or you guys are way too lucky." Talin chuckled at Cam causing his light blue eyes to sparkle with a youthful vitality that very little elders still possessed.
"I would like to believe that we are just lucky."
"How long ago would you say this happened?" Sam asked.
"Many a year ago, I know it is vague but none of us know. It was not in my elders time nor was it in theirs before them. It is just known that something sent them away." Reaching the outer courtyard of a stone building covered gingerly in moss they stopped. "This is where the royals of our village use to live, but once we transferred to a state of government that promotes equality we have since made it a school and hospital."
"So the Royals went along with this willingly? Sorry to rain on your parade but it sounds a little to easy."
"It was not, the Royal family though good often was power hungry. They were forcibly stripped of their title. The ones left of their family still stay in the village as one of us and as members of the council."
"So no killing? Beheading?"
"Sorry to disappoint you, but even amongst a mutiny we are a peaceful people."
"Sam, is it just me are these people just a little too 'zen'," he whispered in her ear, "I'm sensing skeletons in the closet. Major ones." Elbowing him in the side Sam surveyed the landscape over the buildings.
"Other than your Historian does anyone else live outside of the village?"
"Not if they can help it, Samantha Carter."
"Then why does he?"
"I myself don't quite know. He's a very curious gentleman but we owe him much so we try not to question him. Even through all of his oddness no one was surprised when he wed. She herself is one of a kind, there is definitely no one like her."
Sg-15 made their way down one of the paths out of the village. Alongside the path were stone markers covered thickly by moss and the stone that could be seen had evidence of the beginnings of erosion. The Colonel Pierce kicked one of the rocks and sighed.
"Something wrong sir?"
"Oh nothing, I'm just having a weird feeling."
"Weird feelings, sir? Should we fetch a doctor?"
"Not that kind of feeling."
"A psychiatrist then."
"Major can I kill him?" Pierce asked a member of his team half jokingly.
"If you want to do all that paper work, then its your funeral."
"Good point, I just feel like we're really going to find something."
"Like that time you thought you kept thinking you were going to find a rare tablet but you found a skeleton instead?"
"No, entirely different. It feels sort of like, Deja Vu." As they ended the path they saw two figures at the edge of lake with their foreheads pressed together sharing quick frantic kisses. They stopped and stood there gaping as they watched them holding each other as if their life depended on it.
"Well, sir. You walk in on people making out often?"
"Quiet, you're ruining the mood," his team looked at him as if he had come from another world, "oh fine. Sorry to interrupt you! Just want to ask you some questions, then you can get back to being frisky." The two stiffened and turned around blushing with the face of two children that got caught with their hands in the cookie jar.
"Sir..." one of the members of the team began but Pierce was already catching on. It took him a moment for him to notice the similarities and it took him another moment to notice that they weren't similarities they were exact copies. Pierce wasn't a betting man but he would bet that they weren't copies either.
"Holy Hannah."
To be Continued...
So did you like it? I would love to hear all of your opinions. Oh, and I'm assuming that it was Pierce in the episode Fallen, thats kind of why I called it Deja Vu. Since he seems to have a habit of finding him. If Pierce died in an episode and I don't remember...well then I guess its more AU then I thought it was.
Love,
Shinki
Jarrod Kane :"Do you ever give up?"
Dr. Daniel Jackson: "Not until I'm dead."
Pause.
Daniel Jackson: "And sometimes not even then."
