Title: Blue pt 4

Rating: Teens for some swearing

Archive: SJD yes, just ask if you want to!

Spoilers: Everything up to season 8

Season: After season 8, the four still are SG-1

Summary: The govt puts pressure on the SGC to find more ancient information, and the team must deal with the fallout. S&J

Disclaimer: Not mine don't sue me!

AN: Sorry it took a while for the update! And thank you so much of those who wished for a safe year for my boyfriend! I hope so too lol! I hope you all like this! Feedback is loved!

Driving their Artic Cats a bit further, the team reached the bottom of the mountain foundation. The temperature rose to 60 degrees causing everyone to start stripping off all of their extra layers.

"Do you think we're gonna need these once we get inside?" Daniel asked.

"Doubt it. Let's just take lighter pieces just incase."

Daniel followed Jack's lead and started to pack lighter garments into his pack. Not that he could fit much more. His pack was always the fullest. He figured you never know when a full on allergy attack could happen. True, the attacks weren't as bad as when he first started, but when they did, he didn't want to feel as geeky. Space money was still a nick name he was trying to get rid of.

"Where do we get in?" O'Neill looked curiously around the area, not seeing an opening in the wide mountain. Lots of rock, but no opening.

"Perhaps we should look," Teal'c offered.

Not that he would ever tell anyone, but Teal'c really didn't want to climb the mountain at all. He wasn't scared, he just didn't like doing it. And that's what he could continue to tell himself. Consider the physics' of it; a large, bulky man climbing very high can fall very, very hard.

"Sir! The bluff seems to have an entrance if we climb it," Carter called and pointed up about 50 feet holding one of her doohickeys he wasn't allowed to touch.

"Alright, let's go up." Teal'c tried to hide the shiver that shot down his spine.

One by one, the team made it up. Teal'c was the last, stating that he could try to catch anyone if they fell. Trying to put off the inevitable was usually impossible, so he climbed as best as he could.

"Doin' alright big guy?" Jack grunted as he helped pull him over. Teal'c just nodded.

"Whoa it's hot," Daniel commented as he pulled off his last layer of clothing to expose his green t-shirt.

Sam agreed by pealing off her last layers as well. When the long sleeved shirt came over her head, she felt eyes on her. Swiveling, she couldn't help the heat rush that rose in her body, lingering in certain areas longer than others. Jack's glare made her feel completely naked, and what was worse, she didn't mind.

Still crouched on the ground, Jack let his eyes rise from her feet to her face shamelessly. He knew that Teal'c and Daniel weren't looking at him or Sam. After he saw the flush rise on her face he let a victorious grin creep out.

'Safe place, safe place, safe place," she chanted over and over again in her head as she turned away from him. Looking at Teal'c who was finally turning his normal color, she could almost see the same mantra in his head.

"Daniel, which way are we going?" Jack asked after reliving himself of his extra oppressive clothes.

"There's a path leading that way," Daniel commented slowly, pointing to their right.

"Alright, sounds good."

Daniel led the pack with Sam, chit chatting about the beauty of the land. Teal'c and Jack held the back with Jack yammering on and Teal'c nodding along. The land truly was beautiful. Sam couldn't remember the last time she saw the grass and trees this green. It almost seemed too green, but they weren't on Earth. Walking through a clearing, they saw something no one would forget.

"Oh, now THAT'S a pond!" Jack exclaimed at the sight.

Two hundred feet round, the most beautiful expanse of water laid in front of them. The water was a dark, cerulean blue with the green reflections of the trees painting pictures and dancing with the waves.

"That's, wow. Amazing," Sam stuttered out.

Just looking at the scene before them had an astounding calming effect. Forget about the blue candle from Teal'c, this was her new happy place! She would've given anything at that moment to just strip down and slip in the serene water.

"You should see the pond at my cabin," Jack breathed into her ear.

Holding back a yelp, she couldn't help a surprised expression cross her face and took a step forward. She was so mesmerized by the lake that she didn't hear him sneak up behind her. And why did he get to play all the games? It was her turn, damnit, and she wasn't going to fool around with it.

"Oh really? Maybe I will have to see it soon," she replied with a deep, even voice and a smirk in her eyes.

Jack raised his eyebrow and allowed his surprise show through. Innocently, Sam smirked back, not backing down. She couldn't remember the last time she flirted with anyone like this. And it was exciting! She felt free, and felt like a woman for once on a mission. Not to be out done, Jack smirked right back at her, not breaking the gaze.

"Uh, guys? Mind if we move on?" Daniel asked, clearly confused. Looking to her left and his right, they saw two very bewildered teammates who witnessed their competition.

"Lead on!" he said with his best joking command voice and walked past Daniel. Sam followed and smiled at her bemused buddy.

They had been walking around the lake for a half hour in compatible silence. Taking in the beautiful layout before them was enough entertainment. After a team has been working together as long as they have, sometimes no one needed to be saying anything.

Teal'c was pulled out of his serenity by the hairs standing on end on the back of his neck. Gripping his staff weapon and bit harder, he could sense something out there. Glancing over at his leader, he saw Jack grip his weapon harder as well. A footstep broke a branch, altering Daniel to be on alert. Sam was tense before the noise.

A war cry from behind was followed by a troop of native people rushing out of the trees. Although the looked primitive and related to the Native tribes of America, the weapons they were carrying certainly weren't. A short, dirt colored staff that Jack guessed was three feet in length was circled by three circular bulbs, growing larger towards the front of the weapon. The front was a colorless bulb inset into the larger.

"We can take 'em," Jack assured his team.

There were about twenty people running towards them, but they've faced harder odds. Granted, they usually had super-human strength or a super weapon or something, but he wasn't going to bring that up now. An ominous power-ing up sound shook them to their core, and Jack was the first to see the inset of the weapon change to a very angry red.

"Get down!" he shouted as he hit the grass beneath him.

A ball of energy flew over his head and he hazarded a look back to see the rest on their bellies. From his position on the ground, he pulled his weapon up his body and shot into the crowd. But they kept coming, unfazed by the spray of bullets he was shooting at them.

"Into the trees!" he ordered.

Sam ran to the trees as fast as she could. When she and Mark were little, they would race into the trees and see who could climb up the giant Oak tree in their front yard the fastest. But when she was running for her life, the game was a lot less fun. As soon as they made it to the tree line, she knew that it was over.

Daniel was taken down first and tied with his hands and ankles tied behind his back with a rope attaching the two. Sam was pulled out second, and Teal'c and Jack came out after, all attached the same.

Jack, Teal'c and Daniel were thrown into a line close to the shore of the lake, but they took Sam ten feet away and threw her onto her back. After letting out an 'oompf' from getting the wind knocked out of her, she kicked the closest attacker hard with both of her feet.

"That's it! Kick 'em harder!" Jack yelled. Daniel joined in the bantering.

She did manage to take down two of her attackers, but they quickly overcame her. They backed away after, allowing her team to see the blood on her face. Panting from exertion, she tensed, waiting for the next attack. She didn't like the way they were looking and circling around her. Grunting to each other, they were making wild gestures with their hands and pointing at her.

"Daniel," Jack quietly asked for an explanation.

"Try to get out of your ropes," he whispered, answering Jack's silent question.

With another vivid cry, the attackers lunged at her. Sam had never appreciated her ALICE vest more than at that particular moment. She kicked and twisted and turned and threw every other maneuver she ever learned into her ground fought battle.

Thankfully, they stopped trying to 'take her', as she rationalized it. Two left and returned with a very large stone. As they started to tie a harness around it with the same rope SG-1 was tied up with, Jack pulled at his bonds harder. But was it too late?

The attackers took another rope (Daniel wondered where they kept it all) and attached it to Sam. She struggled against them for a third time, but she knew it was in vein. Her body was too confined and too tired to win any type of fight.

"No! Stop this!" she yelled at them as four of them dragged her into the water. Two of them swam with the stone, and two of them pulled Sam's struggling body into the lake. When the reached the middle, the dropped the stone, and let go of her.

"No!" she managed to gasp out before she was pulled under. Sinking under the water, Sam felt her life bubble to the surface as she sank to the watery depths.

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