disclamer This writer does not own Stargaten SG1, or any of the SG charters. but the OC Ember is MINE. MUHhahaha.
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********Ember's quarters*********
Ember lay with her head hanging off the bed as she contemplated the past 24 hours, in which time she had gone from a routine mission with her team to a whole other realty. Her head starting to hurt from all the blood rushing to it, she pushed off flipping off the bed she sat
cross-legged on the floor, closing her eyes she did what she normally did when she need to clear her mind and think, though she usually did not do it alone.
Taking a deep breath she pictured a plank piece of white paper in her mind then the paper formed a box, light spilled from everywhere. Thoughts and memories began to appear unbidden, they were of her own world, her team laughing as they ate on some distant planet on a mission, or of the time she had been with the Goa'uld Artemis and the painful memories that accompanied it made her head hurt again. Ember turned in her mind trying not to look at some of the floating memories, she instead focused on certain memories effectively drowning out the sound from the others. In this mind-scape she had to be careful she did not fully control what she saw or heard when she did this it was like opening a door into her mind and memory and she was unable to control what came through. She walked briskly trying to get past all the memories so that she could completely clear her mind to think about what had happened and how she was here, but as she strolled past one memories in particular she froze and turned to face it completely despite knowing it wasn't a good idea.
**Memory**
Charlie laughed as he dropped yet another fruit that he could not name on Cassie's head, the girl in response jumped up to the lowest branch pulling herself up she picked one of the strangely neon purple colored fruit and dropped back down, causing Charlie to laugh. "Whats wrong Cassie? need help to climb the tree?"
Cassandra only smiled as she drew back her arm and lobbed the soft-ball sized fruit at her tree-ridden team-mate. The fruit caught Charlie in the chest knocking the air out of him and causing him to tumble from his perch.
He then lay on the ground as leaves drifted down landing on his face. "Whats wrong Lee? Need help climbing the tree." Cassie mocked back. Charlie groaned "I think you broke my.."
"Pride?" Came Embers voice.
"Weren't you two supposed to be helping Rya'c scout for food?" She asked as she came out of the temporary tent that was serving as base camp while they were on this planet.
Cassandra bowed her head shyly both of Ember's team mates did not even attempt to hide their grins knowing she wasn't truly mad.
"Here." Charlie held up one of the fruits that moments ago were serving as dodgeball above his head. "We were collecting food, this is a fruit I have decided to call purple-dodge-fruit." He proclaimed still laying flat on his back.
Cassie chuckled nodding in agreement.
Ember put her hands on her hips a smile tugging on her lips. "Oh? Well then I apologize, and where may I ask is the pile of fruit you have worked so hard to collect?"
Neither answered knowing both that they were found out and that their leader found this just as funny as the two of them did.
"Oh but there is no pile" Came a voice "They were to busy throwing them at each other to collect any"
All three of them smiled as the final member of SG 3 emerged from the tree line carrying dinner. "Well I on the other hand have caught our supper." Rya'c held up his catch proudly his team cheering.
"Yeah! Fresh meat I'm starving!" Cried Charlie pushing himself up from his bed of grass.
Ember reached into her bag pulling out the equipment to start a fire as Rya'c cut down Charlie's joy.
"And who might I ask said you or young Fraiser could have any of my catch?"
Ember focused on starting the fire and hiding her laugh as her teammates picked on each other.
Charlie's enthusiasm dropped like a flying rock. "Oh come on Rye, you know we would've helped you out eventually, we were just messing around.… Please, let us have some…."
Charlie turned his pleading eyes towards Ember "Ember can't you make him share?" She held up her hands
fire-starter in one hand and wood in the other "Charlie that's Rya'c's catch, I'm not gonna force him to share what he worked to catch, but I think perhaps maybe if you ask nicely…."
Rya' c sat and started to prepare the meat, he glanced up raising an eyebrow towards the two. Cassie walked forward "Rya'c if you would please share your supper then the next time you all come to my house I'll bake you a personal pie only for you."
Ember surpassed a laugh at Charlie's face of disbelief as Rya'c nodded thinking about it.
"With your mothers secret recipe? "Cassondra and nodded. Rya'c nodded "It will be my pleasure to share this meal with you Young Frazier."
Charlie moaned "Oh come on thats not fair! Thats bribery"
His team all gazed at him.
"Indeed it is my friend."Rya'c responded.
Charlie sat down beside Ember with a huff. "Well what am I gon…" Charlie grew suddenly silent and slumped over then Rya'c did the same.
Ember and Cassondra jumped their feet but it was too late, Cassondra fell with barely a soft cry of pain than Ember felt a sharp needle like pain on the back of her neck and she too fell to the ground.
**end memory**
Ember spun away from the memory before it could finish, she remembered all too well what happened to her and her team on that particular mission. She pushed the thoughts aside, quite literally and finally made it past the last line of floating memories to her intended destination.
A set of blast doors stood before her completely on their own, she knew from experiences that if she were to walk around them they would appear to be just a pair of blast doors, instead she walked through them finding herself in the Stargate control walked to the console and sat down in the chair on the right, she focused on a memory from a while back a lecture Carter had been giving her on gate applications, an image of Sam materialized in the chair to her left.
"Now remember the Stargate creates a stable, artificial wormhole between itself and another Stargate, allowing near-instantaneous travel from gate to gate. It does this by cutting a hole in space and time, but…" Sam held up a finger to into size her point "Not the dimensional walls, the gate is simply not designed to travel between dimensions, in fact.. Ember are you paying attention?"
Ember smiled at the memory and nodded to the image of her friend. The hologram Carter continued "in fact the gate builders put in special firewalls to prevent
Multi-dimensional travel. Understand?" The image faded. And she sighed in frustration. "I know that Sam! But if the gate didn't send me here then how am I here?"
Another image appeared unbidden it was of Jack.
"You know kid we've seen a lot of stuff come through that gate, some of it we were prepared for…. But most of it we weren't, we've seen some people use the Stargate in ways we haven't even thought of, which is saying something considering how many scientists and technicians we have working on it all the time. But I'll bet you the comic strip in my news paper" the image of Jack waved a paper at the gate. "That there are yet still more things that are going to come through that gate that are going to surprise us and expand our knowledge of the gate and our universe." An image of Ember appeared behind the chair that the Jack image was sitting in, the image of Ember laughed "You surprise me with how deep and profound your thoughts are sometimes Jack"
Both images began to fade. " Ah but what else am I to do while I fish but think about my place in the universe….and pie I like thinking about pie too." Jack's image completely vanished. "Ok, ok enough pulling up my leg Jack I'll go fishing with you." The Ember image looked real Ember in the eye and smiled before vanishing.
"Thats it! Thanks Jack." Ember opened her eyes, she was back in the temporary quarters she had been assigned.
She stood and found her legs wobbly from sitting down for so long and her injured arm was throbbing, she glanced at her watch and realized she had been sitting for over tree hours *wow time flies wen you stroll down memory lane*
She leaned on the bed *I need some pain killers and some food I'm starving* "Lieutenant Stephen?" She called.
The door opened but was not the Lieutenant, instead a female Sergeant peeked in. " Lieutenant Stephen has been released, I am Corporal Woodland. Is there something you need?" Ember studied her for a moment, the name rang a bell but she couldn't place it, not recognizing her a sad feel grew in her heart, she shook her head. "Um yeah I need to speak to Major Carter…So if she could come here, or maybe I could go to her…"
The Corporal thought about it for a moment. "I'll radio the Major and see what she wants to do." Corporal Woodland stepped out and closed the door.
While she waited, Ember stretched, working the soreness out of her arms and legs being attentive of her wounded arm.
Corporal Woodland peeked back into the room."Ma'am?"
Ember stopped mid-stretch "Hm?"
"I've been instructed to take you to Major Carter's lab"
Ember sat up groaning as she did.
"Are you ok?" Ember nodded "My arm is trying to stitch itself back together so it hurts." The Corporal looked at her confused but Ember just shrugged. "Better not to ask…..Corporal, what is your first name anyway….if you want to tell me that is."
She looked uneasy for a moment then she decided.
"My name is Madison, ma'am" Ember smiled "I think that name is beautiful." The Corporal smiled for the first time since meeting Ember. "Thank you Ma'am." Ember headed toward the door "You are very welcome Madison." The Corporal stepped to the side letting her pass. "follow me please Miss Ember…." Maddie trailed off as if a thought had popped in to her head. Ember smiled as she walked followed by Corporal Woodland. They were almost to Carter's lab when Corporal Woodland stepped forward to walk beside Ember a questioning look on her face, Ember couldn't help but smile "Something on your mind Corporal?" She nodded "Yes but its a stupid question"
Ember chuckled "No such things as a stupid question, because a question is your brains way of learning, the more you learn the more your brain asks to learn even more. It's human nature." That made Maddison stop, and Ember blushed "Sorry I read a lot of books when I first got to earth of my reality, I have a tendency to sound like an Alteran sometimes. Anyway what was your question?"
Maddison still looked confused but replied. "I was wondering if you were a Miss, Ma'am, or a Mrs?"
They stopped right in front of the door to Carter's lab, and Ember looked at Maddison, a strange sad smile pulled on Embers lips. "Just Miss is fine." Maddison nodded and leaned over and knocked on the door.
The door opened to review Carter speaking with the voice of a goa'uld "Hello Mortals."
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