DISCLAIMER: I do not own anything from Stargate! I own Ahmes, but I do not own her as a species from the Stargate franchise…if that makes sense.
Ahmes is 12 years old, almost 13. Hope you enjoy~!
FAR FROM ABYDOS
! ~ SG1 ~ !
CHILDREN OF THE GODS
Daniel managed to get Bolaa to tell him what he saw. Someone who was Ra but not Ra, they took Sha're and Skaara through the gate. She opted to ignore what was being said, not wanting to have a possibility that others like That One were alive. Ahmes worked as fast as she could but the device had its limits. She surrendered herself to accept she couldn't save everyone.
"AHMES!" Kawalsky forced Ahmes to face him and listen. "Are there any more creatures like Ra?!" She shook her head and said there shouldn't be. A memory surfaced in her mind, Ra taking her from the place she feared and walking past the dead bodies of other lower ranking goa'uld he killed. There shouldn't be any more of the creatures like Lord Father, she confirmed. He killed them all way back then.
Everyone froze at the sound of the gate activating with an incoming wormhole, everyone hiding and grabbing the fallen weapons to kill the enemy that could be coming through. The ones that did come through stopped on their footsteps at the sight of the primitive humans lying on the ground. The final traveller, highly decorated from head to toe, could not believe what was before his eyes. Never before have the Abydonains been more grateful to see the decorative man they called God.
Eyes glowed at the sight of the injured and dead people in front of him and demanded to know what happened.
"Are there others?" Ahmes demanded in Goa'uld, leaving Kawalsky's side and quickly standing in front of Ra. "Did you lie again! Are there others like you!" Ra looked at Ahmes for the first time in years and he had nearly lost her again due to his ignorance.
"Kal'ma* Daniel," he called out to while descending the platform. "Take Ahmes and the Tau'ri back to your world. I will have the Jaffa armies ready for the threat." Kawalsky grabbed Ahmes and held her while she fought to get closer to Ra.
"Ra, that creature had glowing eyes just like you," Daniel told him. "What is going on?" Ra looked at the younger man and sighed, telling him he will gate to Earth when the information is available. Daniel had come to know Ra well enough to accept his word on the matter, nodding and addressing the Abydonians weeping over their fallen. Ra dialed Earth and watched as the Tau'ri went through, hating the sound and sight of Ahmes so angry at him, but for now he had many people to save.
Ahmes and Kawalsky came through the wormhole just as the iris closed, Hammond explaining what it was and the purpose of it. He was rather shocked at the state the girl was in, not injured but clearly even more angry than he had been at Jack for not disclosing the alliance Ra made with Earth. She was like a fish out of water and Kawalsky asked someone to bring something to calm her down. The medics had nothing for her and with Ahmes getting worse by the second Kawalsky jabbed at the pressure point in her neck, letting her go with heavy gasps.
Stronger than I thought, he marveled. Jack passed Daniel and took Ahmes from the platform, noting with concern that her pulse was still quite fast even unconscious. Hammond ordered him to take both Ahmes and Daniel to the infirmary, his voice becoming much louder and leaving no room for Daniel to argue when he protested.
Ahmes woke with a start not long after having been laid down for some time. She recognised the concrete walls but it didn't calm her any.
"Well, well. Look who's awake," Kawalsky said from the other side of the comatose Ferretti. "Finished your beauty rest princess?"
"Shel nok*," Ahmes grimaced at him. Now she remembered why she was asleep in the first place. "How is he?" Ahmes asked, motioning her head to Ferretti.
"Doc says he's gonna make it," Kawalsky told her with a tired smile. Ahmes wondered how long he had stayed awake at Ferretti's side for. "Jack'll be back soon for you. You just need some rest after getting worked up so much." Ahmes sucked her bottom lip in shamed at how she had acted back on Abydos and just getting back to Earth. She laid back down on the bed with a huff, noticing that the pillow wasn't as hard as they looked.
I don't like the pillow, Ahmes thought with a pout on her face. She didn't like overly soft pillows. Thinking back to when she first started living with Jack, the language barrier between them was their most prominent annoyance after she began sneaking into his bed because the pillow in her room was too soft.
"I'm sorry," Ahmes said. Kawalsky looked back to the girl from his friend but she kept her eyes aimed at the ceiling. "I shouldn't have done that. Before." The man smirked at her; Ahmes didn't need to see him to know he was doing it. Her mind had touched his as soon as they were in close proximity before, and feeling the worry in him subside was enough for her to let it go.
Just this one time though, she told herself. I'm hiding his shoelaces next time.
"Princess of not, you're just a kid," Kalawsky justified.
"And a that you will stay," Jack said from the doorway. "Let's go." The girl obeyed her guardian and removed the sterilized sheets around her. With the tedious debriefing that Jack had had to endure and worrying about what would happen, both with regards to the Abydonians and his own men, Jack hadn't had time to get anything for Ahmes to wear.
"And you'll apologise to your father when he gets here," Jack told Ahmes. She squeaked loudly with horror written all over her face before lowering to the ground in a state of despair muttering in, what the men thought, Abydonian, Only now did they wonder how many languages Ahmes could actually speak. Ahmes stopped shivering and mumbling when the familiar warmth of Jack's clothes surrounded her, looking around to see he had put his jacket over her.
Ahmes' darker arms slid around Jack's neck while his larger arms took hold of her and picked her up. Ahmes sense the great pain deep inside him grow, the heartbeats she felt in his chest speeding up in physical response. Only once before did she need Jack to hold and carry her like this, except this time she reminded him of Charlie and not the incident. Keeping her trapped with his warmth and scent reminded her of being with Ra as a young child too, so she understood why he thought of his own child.
"Hey," Jack suddenly spoke. Ahmes realised that Jack had been carrying her when she turned and saw Daniel in front of them. Her face grew hot and made the mature decision to bury herself into Jack thinking she would somehow disappear. She hadn't even sensed the people around her the entire time.
"They don't know what to do with me," she heard Daniel say. "And I don't know what to do with myself." Neither man said anything for a few moments but Ahmes knew Jack was deciding on something from the way he was rubbing her back. The pat he gave not a few seconds later meant his mind was made.
"Come on," Jack said to Daniel. He started moving again and Daniel was given no choice but to follow as Ahmes had reached her hand out to attach herself to him. Even though this world was his home it wasn't the home he loved, and Ahmes knew that better than anyone.
Ahmes was asleep once again before the trio had reached the surface. She didn't even wake up when Jack handed her over to Daniel when he got in the car, freeing Jack to drive back to their home. The scholar began to feel sorry for the other man when the realisation came that Ahmes was like a koala on a gum tree. The princess was not intending to let go of him, and the attempt to pry her off him into her bed or on the couch nearly landed Daniel in a physically awkward position.
"You think Ra enjoyed this?" Jack asked, holding onto the beer he brought to Daniel. He glared silently while shifting the sleeping girl into his lap before accepting the bottle.
"He certainly didn't enjoy the party," Daniel ground out. Jack raised his eyebrows and indicated for him to continue. "It was a big, big party about a day after you were gone and Ra announced they would be a free people. Ahmes convinced him to stay for it. We were both fairly embarrassed by the praise and thanks the people gave us."
"It's amazing you turned out so normal," Jack joked tiredly. Daniel smiled at him.
"Well, if it wasn't for Sha're I prob-…," Daniel paused when the reminder returned that his wife was stolen. The great pain and anger that rose cause Ahmes to wake, but she didn't open her eyes and rather waited to see if she was needed to calm him. "She was the complete opposite of everyone else and practically fell on the floor laughing every time I tried to do some chore they all took for granted. Like um, grinding yaphetta flour."
How do you go wrong with that?, Ahmes wonder. She hadn't been able to help prepare food often but even she could grind yaphetta flour. Not that Ra had approved when she showed off this particular skill.
"Have you ever tried to grind your own flour?" Daniel became nostalgic, already missing the world he came to love. Ahmes moved her head into a more comfortable position and listened to the sound of Daniel's heartbeats while she began to fall asleep again. Her movements raised some alarm in Daniel but calmed down when Jack told him she was just getting more comfortable.
Jaffa-Kree hurried into the room and laid down beside Jack, watching Daniel with Ahmes.
"How'd they handle Ahmes leaving?" Jack asked. Daniel looked at the other man sadly. "That well, huh?" Daniel took another swig of his beer and felt the effects of the alcohol on his weakened constitution.
"What time is it anyway," Daniel asked. "I must have 'gate lag or something." Jack scoffed at him and made a comparison with Sarah, realising his mistake when Daniel inquired about her and increasing Ahmes' interest in their conversation. The woman had been gone by the time she had been passed to him by Ra and, like Charlie, was a taboo subject.
"Oh, probably, uh, never." Jack told Daniel. "She was already gone when I got back, and never met Ahmes when Ra brought her here." Ahmes felt guilt rise in Jack.
"I'm sorry," Daniel said, unconsciously adjusting his hold on Ahmes to cradle a child.
"Yeah, so was I. I think in her heart she forgave me for what happened to our kid she just couldn't forget." Jack confessed. "While I'll never forgive myself, but Ahmes helps me forget, most of the time."
"You know, Ra said his only regret was not being able to give Ahmes a mother," Daniel told Jack. "He had hoped that you would do that to her." Both men quietly looked at the girl resting in Daniel's arms and contemplated on her future now that the gate had been reopened.
Daniel returning to Earth meant that the treaty was null. There was no doubt the System Lord would take his child back from them. Ahmes also realised this when the mention of her Lord Father came into conversation. She fell into an uneasy sleep once again, dreaming of a palace with a harem of women all dressed in white and a gold mark of the ruling lord. A creature emerging from the belly of a woman, releasing a scream Ahmes hoped to never hear again.
I am VERY HAPPY to have your input to change several things that will happen in future episodes. I feel like this could be something we ALL make rather than something I do.
Hope you enjoyed this little segment, and thanks for reading! The next instalment will come in about a week. It takes me a while to write and I am easily distracted.
*Kal'ma (GOA'ULD) "child".