Fire
With the first X-303 going into full production the SGC was sending out teams scouring planet after planet in search of ores necessary to build the immense ship. This was how the members of SG-1 found themselves in a small village.
It was the dry season, the crops were in and the landscape was covered with dry withered vegetation. The sky was an odd color reminding O'Neill of tornado weather in the plains. Some ominous clouds piled up in the sky but hadn't shared their bounty. Only some bolts of lightening crackled in the arid air.
Then there was a cry of 'fire'. O'Neill looked around the village expecting to see one of the huts ablaze. But it was the wooded hillside – a forest fire. Fire like a living thing flowed down the hillside devouring everything in its path. A stiff wind drove the blaze before it and instantaneously the air was filled with smoke.
Jack had remained in the village with Daniel making nice with the natives in hopes to make an alliance. Teal'c and Carter had gone up the foothills gathering soil samples, looking for traces of the necessary metals.
There was no way Jack could get to them. There are people here that need to get to safety. He was torn, he'd have brave the inferno for her. He had to rely on Teal'c, he knew Teal'c and trusted his brother and so got on with the task at hand and hoped. Scooping up children and leading women and the elderly through the choking smoke, stinging throats and eyes, to safety while the village men douse the huts with what little water they had.
The wind shifted and the fire burned itself out. It was almost over as fast at it has begun. There was a rumbling in the heavens and the rain fell.
And off to the east Teal'c and Carter were walking to the village. O'Neill could breath again. It's not only his feelings for them but her brilliance was the hope for Earth's future and Teal'c was the hope of the Jaffa race. Daniel smacked him on the arm with relief and O'Neill smiled and the rain fell in torrents.