Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink
Sara's diary
Jack -really- doesn't like Russian. Really, really, doesn't like Russians and noticing this I realize that Jack is a very equal opportunity hater. Well, maybe hate is too strong, but then again Jack doesn't like Russians with the same dislike he has towards Goa'uld and Robots. That puts a whole new light on how the other Jack must be handling who he is. I wonder how that robotic me is helping him deal with it.
Well, Reds, Robots and Snakeheads, they're all the same and he's just as not wanting to go to Siberia as he would into Goa'uldtown.
He's particularly not happy about the fact the Russians have a Stargate and apparently know a lot about our operation. I know General Hammond shares this concern, and I do too. I think everyone does, especially the fact that they're request for help also included asking Sha're to go as a 'big gun.' The fact they know about her is disturbing, but more so that they know she's been using her ribbon device enough to be considered a big gun.
We really would have been worried if they mentioned anything regarding Shaun'auc.
All of this means a security leak and that means an investigation is going to happen while our boys and girls are off to Siberia.
I am not looking forward to it and I was right.
You know I've seen the cameras set up and recording for others while they were interviews or interrogated. It is a different feeling when I am the one under the lights and camera.
Afterwards I can't honestly say what the interview was like. Lots of questions asked, facts brought up that I tried not to be surprised with some of them. It was like a trip down memory lane, they even asked about the scifi conventions we've had out tings out. In hindsight I shouldn't have been surprised with those questions. If there was going to be a leak that is an ideal place to have it. With all those costumed and oddly dressed attendees, anyone could have been there.
Sitting with Shaun'auc and her interview was easy going. She hadn't been here long enough to be a leak as she hadn't been outside the mountain yet. The other 'resident aliens' were a different matter. Vin was brought back and talked to. It was my job to help him through the interviews as well. I almost had a giggle fit when bureaucracy demanded that as a thinking, rational being that even General Hammond considers under his command, both Robby and Toto had to be interviewed.
Three guesses who was there with them.
I think Teal'c's laconic replies were well represented by both bots. Our interviewer was thrown off with answers and how much both of them knew. I think when someone reads this report they are going to be very worried. One positive thing though, they helped narrow down the timeline of information and surprised everyone by suggesting that the powers-that-be talk to one Ezra P. Standish of SG-7.
Turned out that he did track down the likely source of the leak, his former boss one Harry Maybourne.
Drey'auc's Day
"This does not seem wise, O'Neill!" I hear my husband say again and it does not take a close association to tell that he is not happy about having to jump out of this aircraft. I try my best to hide my excitement, but that is in vain. Teal'c is not paying attention, O'Neill is trying to keep everyone calm, Daniel Jackson is attempting to keep Sha're calm and Major Carter is trying to talk to Svetlana Markova.
"I am looking forward to this O'Neill," I let slip earning a look from him, my husband, everyone in the aircraft. "We shall fly!"
So many experiences I have had since coming with Teal'c to the world of the Tau'ri. Things few other Jaffa women get to do. Fly through the air, travel to other words, fight beside my husband and now I get to dive in the sky!
Major Carter and Doctor Markova go first. Then my husband goes to the very edge, and I look beyond him to the sky open up before us. What a sight! I have flown on Tau'ri air ships before, but never been at a place to see open air like I do now.
With O'Neill I give my husband a push and he leaves. I lose the fact he does not like this in the joy of having the wind in my face, and the air all around me. Following instructions I pull the device and soon I am jolted upwards and start to float down.
I cherish the moment of spreading my arms out as I fell through the sky as well as now when during this quick descent. I don't think my smile leaves my face all the way down to the quickly approaching ground. Trees and snow come up at me as I land in the snow.
"Gods!" is out of my mouth before I realize it, "Let us do that again!"
O'Neill who lands near me gives me one of his odd looks that I interpret as disbelief then amusement.
"Let's go find your husband," he says and on our way we encounter Major Carter and Doctor Markova, but not Teal'c and that begins to worry me. I hope nothing has happened to him, or Sha're or Daniel Jackson. We have not heard from any of them, and oddly I worry the most about Sha're. Teal'c I am confident he is fine, as well as Daniel Jackson, but Sha're this is so far from her experience as it is mine and unlike me she was terrified of jumping.
Approaching the building we are to meet at this strange mask goes on and we enter cautiously. It is upon entry that we find the others made it and are inside already.
We work towards one another, and nearly surprise Daniel Jackson, which means nearly surprising Sha're. Not a wise act with her clearly wearing the hand of the gods. The glow and sound of it causes Doctor Markova to ask many questions that puts a smile on O'Neill's face as he answers just has she had been his questions.
"I'm afraid that is classified," and I can tell there is great satisfaction in his voice.
I think at first a great battle was fought here in this place, but as we search we find men dead with no apparent cause of death. It is as confusing as listening to Major Carter and Doctor Markova talk.
While the talking is confusing, when it comes time to act, I understand. I am to go with Doctors Jackson and Markova as we go in this craft that is suppose to travel under the water as a ship goes in space. A wondrous notion this is and makes twice in a single day I get to experience a marvel other Jaffa women could only dream of doing.
It is smaller than a Tel'tak or even an Udajeet, though more room for pilot and passengers than an Udajeet. Doctor Markova is our pilot with Major Carter operating the controls to position us so that the Chappa'ai pulls us in and to another world. This one all under water!
Water is above us, below us, all around us. It amazes me until something goes wrong with this submarine. Doctor Markova is confident she can fix it, but Doctor Jackson feels the need to make many comments that I normally hear from O'Neill. Perhaps it is the way the men of the Tau'ri cope with dangerous situation, with only one male present designated to make observations intended to be humorous.
Our situation grows less humorous after Doctor Markova repaired the damage. In fact, I wondered as the glass in front of the submarine vanished as it was crushed if this would be the day I died. I picture Teal'c, Rya'c, and Shaun'auc in my mind and wait. When nothing happens, I stare along with Daniel Jackson and Doctor Markova into water that stays at the nose of the submarine without rushing in to crush us.
Then Daniel Jackson is there, touching the water like the entrance to an active Chappa'ai. It acts much like it, though it does not let him go. I'm there in the next moment, my silent promise to Sha're foremost in my mind, the safety of my team mate following it. I succeed in holding Daniel Jackson in the submarine, just as Doctor Markova holds onto me when something covers us and I am aware of nothing more.
Sha're's story
"I don't want to go Dan'yel, I don't want to go," my grip on his hand is fierce and I hope I am not breaking his hand as I stare out of the back of the plane. So much air, so far to fall. I do not think I have ever been this high before in my life.
My demon has flown in her various chariots, but she had never jumped out of one, nor even considered it at such a height.
"Don't worry honey. Don't worry, we will jump together," Dan'yel tries to reassure me. I suppose the fact we are going to jump together does. However when we get to the end of the plane, I find I cannot move. I have seen Saman'tha and Svet'lana go ahead of us, Teal'c and Drey'auc next and then it is our turn. Now I feel I must be crushing his hand as I grip it.
"I can't move Dan'yel. I can't move."
"Sha're it is easy," he sounds as if he's trying to convince himself and that does nothing to relieve my fear. "Tell you what honey, we're going to try scream therapy."
His strange combination of words dampens some of my fear, and I find myself repeating them, "Scream therapy?"
"Yes, we'll both scream as loud as we can as we jump," and then he does not give me a chance to think more about it as he jumps pulling me with him.
We scream, somewhere in that scream our para-chutes open up and we are yanked up into the air and I find I am screaming even more. I do not think I stop until I am on the ground again and then all I want to do is find my Dan'yel and have him hold me.
Which I do.
Sometime an eternity later we gather ourselves and I slip on the hand of the gods, it is what got me into this. If I find out who has told these Rus-sians about me and it, I feel now I will want to use it upon them.
"Dan'yel?" I say not looking at him but my mind firmly made up.
"Yes Sha're?"
"There will be no more diving in the sky."
"Yes, Sha're."
Teal'c finds us and then leads us to the building O'Neill told us to meet at. It is worrisome that Drey'auc is not around, but Teal'c focuses on getting us to the place and I imagine keeping his mind off of where his wife must be.
We get in and find bodies. Not the worst I have seen since my demon had possessed me, but my heart goes out to the families of these men who will not be going home to their wives and families.
Then we find the others and I nearly use the Goa'kesh'sha on O'Neill as they surprise Dan'yel and I am not thinking of who it might be, I am thinking of the men who are not going home again and determined my Dan'yel will not join them.
There is much talk I do not follow save when O'Neill says Dan'yel is going in a sub-marine. "But sub-marine's sink!" My first experience with them was a few months ago with the Repli-cators. That sub-marine sank, Dan'yel must not go on one of those. Thor is not here to beam him out!
"You must not go Dan'yel!" there have been too many new things. This diving in the sky, dead bodies and now letting my Dan'yel go in a sub-marine, "No, you must not go."
I miss O'Neill's look at Dan'yel which prompted him to take me aside, "Sha're it will be okay. Drey'auc is going with me. You trust her to take care of me don't you?"
"That is unfair," I don't even notice that I stamped my foot, "You know I trust Drey'auc to take care of you. I have since my son was born." It was not with words, but she understood my look even as the demon took control of me. A request to look after my Dan'yel until I could, a promise I know she kept.
I don't want to let him go, and unlike the Tau'ri I have no problems kissing in front of others. I do have a problem letting him go in that less than safe looking sub-marine. It makes me want to do something besides watch it go like I did that other sub-marine when Teal'c and O'Neill wore cameras on their heads.
Teal'c mentions that there are bodies not accounted for and that means we start searching. I find I want to find something.
"Sha're...go easy," O'Neill whispers to me after he notices me swinging my Goa'kesh'sha in wide arcs to the left and right as we move along in case an enemy was to soon appear. I think that and the fact it was charged and loudly so that he sought to calm me down.
"Will Saman'tha be alright by herself?" I whisper as we search. Teal'c takes what I have O'Neill say as point. I suppose it is like a spear or staff weapon, the first part to strike.
"She will, and she's keeping a watch on Daniel, don't worry."
I find thinking about Dan'yel has me swinging my arm around again with the Goa'kesh'sha glowing ready to act at my command. Eventually I calm down enough that it is not charged so noisily.
Then O'Neill finds footprints that lead to this door that looks cold to the touch. A freezer of such size that it amazes me. I have not seen it's like in either our home, nor Sara's or Raine's where I learn to cook in a Tau'ri kitchen.
O'Neill positions me, and then readies himself to fire. Now the Goa'kesh'sha is charged and ready as Teal'c opens the door and we find Maybourne!
I do not recall this evil man's whole name, but I do remember him from both when I first came to Dan'yel's world and that time the aliens took over the base. Maybourne's men had come down to 'rescue' us or so Saman'tha said. I recall having my Goa'kesh'sha pointed right at him, its power humming loudly, the urge to use it on him great. Jack talked me out of it, and it was one of the few times I doubted his wisdom, yet did not want to become as my demon had been, to hurt for the sake of hurting.
Finding him dead does not ease my ire against him, not that he does me the favor of remaining dead. My Goa'kesh'sha glows in readiness the moment his eyes shift, and breath escapes in a vapor.
"O'Neill?"
"Steady Sha're, steady...we don't know what's going on yet," Jack cautions me, more than Teal'c to not take action. It is more of a sense in his tone that I feel his cautionary is more than directed at me.
I wish Teal'c had been more mindful of the caution.
Something went from Maybourne into Teal'c, a great gout of water that went to vapor and from there into Drey'auc's husband. His look of awareness, of knowing how he is, vanished from his eyes. He was not like one possessed of a demon, yet he was possessed of something else.
"Teal'c? Teal'c don't come any closer," I wished my voice did not sound so frightened or shrill. It does not help to hear O'Neill warning Teal'c off, or that I hear the safety of his weapon shift. Jack will fire if I do not since Teal'c is coming my way regardless of our entreaties.
I chose to fire.
Teal'c went flying back into a wall, when suddenly I feel a hand yank at my other wrist and pull. Maybourne is pulling both Jack and I into the freezer where we found him, closing the door after letting us go. Both Jack and I point our weapons at him and find he is most forthcoming with what is going on.
We have to stop Teal'c or rather the thing in him before he goes back to his world and Teal'c drowns.
Jack not only leads the way after Teal'c, but soon out distances me. By the time I catch up, Jack is on the ground, and Teal'c is closing the door to the room where the Russians keep the Chappa'ai. Saman'tha soon is there helping Jack up and we find the doors sealed.
It does not remain sealed for long.
My hand of the gods send them flying away, yet I cannot bring it to bear on Teal'c with Saman'tha and Jack wrestling with him. I only think to do so at all because I know how strong a Jaffa is, Teal'c more so than most. If we are to stop him from going into the Chappa'ai, I must be prepared to use the hand to stop him.
"Teal'c!" I try again having rushed ahead and stand before an active Chappa'ai, "Teal'c please!" I know if it were a demon controlling him there would be little to no hope of his resistance. Yet little is not no hope. I forced my demon not to give away Dan'yel, Drey'auc and Teal'c from their hiding place when Apophis came for Amonet back home on Abydos, and my brother tells me he was able to make his demon hesitate to put up a shield to protect his Ha'tak when the Tau'ri attacked.
I can only hope as I face him and let that grow as he staggers instead of resolutely marching towards me. The buzz of the Goa'kesh'sha wavers only with my resolution. I used it once on him, I must be ready to use it again.
"Teal'c!" I hear both Jack and Saman'tha call out as they struggle to stand. Jaffa strength unrestrained is not easy to overcome or recover quickly from.
Maybe Teal'c heard us, maybe he finally gained the upper hand, I do not know as he doubles over falling to his hands and knees to expel the water that become vapor.
"Sha're!" Jack and Saman'tha are nearly a duet as they shout my name and I see why as the vapor heads right at me. Would my Goa'kesh'sha even harm it? A question I ask myself a heartbeat too late as the vapor is upon me, or would have if it didn't drift up and over my head.
Then Dan'yel, Drey'auc and Svet'lana come flying through the Chappa'ai. Dan'yel would say it was a miracle I was not hit by any of them, indeed Jack does say that. Not that I am fully listening as I tend to my Dan'yel.
Sara's summaries
Harry Maybourne. He had been 'advising' the Russians on how to use their Stargate and had SG-1 as a contingency plan in case something went wrong. Well, SG-1 plus Sha're. I'm surprised he didn't ask for Robby. No I take that back, he probably doesn't trust Robby enough to suggest him as a backup in case things went wrong.
And did they ever.
I know Harry wasn't Sha're's favorite person before, but now he was definitely near the top of her list as those she hates, this time for making her skydive. While Drey'auc loved it and couldn't wait to do it again, Sha're was terrified by it. From what Daniel says she nearly didn't get on the airplane to come home thinking they may have to skydive to get back.
Daniel was also excited about the ruins found in that water world, yet not so much as he wanted to charge off in a sub of our making yet. But he is thinking about it and I think I heard mention of the Navy officer they met a while back when dealing with Replicators, Nathan Bridger as well as Nem from P3X-866.
Teal'c had an interesting suggestion when he heard Daniel thinking of contacting Nem. Apparently during the time loop thing, Jack helped us bring into Area 51 to look around. A fact I still laugh about, not that I can imagine me with a Zat and dressed all in black. It's hard to know how much of that tale was an embellishment by Teal'c or was a factual telling.
Anyway, if Teal'c is right, we have someone here on Earth that can breathe under water. Something I would have scoffed at before the SGC. Now hearing said Abe Sapien does so and is kept at Area 51 is not so unbelievable. Especially if one looks at the source of Teal'c's verification to the existence of Abe, one Dr. Johann Krauss recent addition to SG-13.
I'm not sure we should go to all this trouble, but who knows what possible new allies may bring? Take our recent alliance with the Tok'ra and Re'tu for instance. As I understand it, one of the SG teams is getting a Re'tu. I think it's going to be SG-2 since Robby can see one plainly. If so poor Major Coburn, he's had a lot to adjust to since taking command of that team. First a not-quite-alien-but-super-advance robot, and now an invisible alien. I'd say his team is the dumping ground for weirdness, and yet Dave's SG-13 comes to mind.
I suppose that would be the debate. Would parapsychologist trump a robot and invisible alien? I'm not really sure, not when you throw whatever Dr. Krauss is.
Well the good news is the team is back from Russian and life is settling back down to what is normal, such as it is at the SGC.
