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Sorry this one is so short. The next one will be longer but I just needed to set the scene first for the next bit.

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Chapter 3

Malek faced the three people in front of him and waited for them to speak. He didn't know how to start conversation off; this would be difficult even if he didn't also love her as well. Jacob watched him nervously whist his son in law walked back and too and his granddaughter just cried into her hands.

She was the first to speak. "Is mom okay Uncle Malek? Uncle Amb? Please answer me!" Twilight said with tears in her big blue eyes. She was now nine years old and her blonde hair was tied back in a braid. She was a beauty but she was also and ultimately a tomboy, forever causing trouble and annoying her Tok'ra and human family. They all loved her regardless of how often they had to tell her to 'shut up' or 'quit pranking them.'

She was and always would be the light of her parent's lives but she was also the current bane of her uncle's life. Neither one wanted to tell her that it wasn't okay. That there was a chance that it may never be okay again but they tried there hardest to. Malek just stared at the blue crystal in front of him and started to speak.

"Physically yes…" began Malek. This is going to be just as hard as we feared Amb, if not harder.

Let me take over then beloved, I might be able to phase it in a softer way that you can, Amb replied.

No, I will continue. You will no doubt say something we will regret in the end.

"That's good news then?" muttered Martouf but he still felt uneasy. After 188 years alive you learnt that sometimes even the best news may come back to snap you in the arse.

Plus, I heard a 'but' in there as well thought Lantash, we don't know what Ba'al did to her or what horrors she has suffered.

Lantash, please don't! I don't want to hear this; our Samantha is home and back in our arms. Isn't that all that counts in the end?

"But… but she has no memories of any of us and all that she knows of the Tok'ra are the negative fairy tales that she has been taught, where we are demons sent to destroy the Gods and corrupt people. In her mind we are the beings that send people to hell. She just remembers living on Londris all her life. In short she hates us and believes that we just wish to hurt her… and the child that she is carrying," finished Malek and he lamely added "we are really sorry for the hardships you must face, forgive us for bringing you these ill tidings."

"No! No! No!" Shouted Lantash; as much as he had readied himself for the worst he still couldn't believe it. "You must be mistaken, Samantha could never hate us! We love her and she knows that, so go back to her and tell her that the joke is over and that we're not buying it! It is most definitely not funny!"

"It is no joke Lantash, surely you know this?"

Martouf snatched control off his life partner just to say, "Child? She betrayed us and she also despises us. What's the universe coming to?" He then dropped to the floor and started to cry and seconds later Twilight joined him and he wrapped his arms around her and they just sat there, a father and daughter together mourning the loss of someone who they loved so much and the fear of a very steep slope that they needed to climb in order to get her back.


Both Malek and Amb hated themselves. They had told them and then they had very quickly walked away almost as if, if they could distance themselves from the pain it would ultimately hurt less.

We are bastards of the first degree Malek. We should have comforted them rather than walking away when they needed us the most.

Yes I know we are but how would we have helped them whist in tears ourselves. There was no point adding to their misery, we should help Samantha and help her heal. I believe that is the best way to comfort our friends.

The tunnels passed in a blur of blue and grey as people passed by them. Lets find Anise; she will know how to help. The human mind is a specialty of hers. It didn't take them long to find her in her lab. "Anise? A word please." Malek waved and called her to him and fully explained what had happened in the past few weeks.

He finished his explanation with; "do you have any way of returning Captain Carter's memories to her?"

"Yes but if she has been a prisoner of Ba'al it might be for the best if she never remembers."

"I know but my thoughts are with her family. They are distraught and they need her back. They love her."

"As you wish. She may not thank you for it in the end though."

"I know." He hesitated. "She may learn to hate me in the end but sometimes you have to do what is right, rather than what you personally want. Please lead the way…"


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