Altered Stargate SG-1

The First Commandment

It was just another normal day, that wouldn't last long, thought Jack. For the day before Sam had called her father, General Jacob Carter, telling him about their engagement. And now they were waiting at Peterson Air Force Base for General Carter to come see his daughter and new fiancé. "Sam, I got your back."

"My back, Jack? I'd be worried about yours if I were you," Sam said laughing.

"Very funny Sam." And just then the blue and the stars could be seen as General Carter came through the gates.

"Sam." Carter said sternly. "Are you going to introduce your friend."

Sam looked flustered. Jack had seen her face down a number of alien obstacles. But her father walks up to her and she turns back into a twelve year old. "Dad, this is Colonel Jack O'Neill; my Fiancé."

"Well, Air Force, I'm impressed. What do you do in Cheyenne Mountain?"

Jack sighed, "I'm sorry General but our work is classified."

"You work together? What about the fraternization regulations?"

Sam took her father's arm and led her away to the side, "Dad, I am happy, we are getting married."

"But your career…"

"My career is safe Dad, Jack would sacrifice his own career for mine, but it won't come to that. I work in Deep Space Telemetry, it's not like we're in the thick of it or anything."

"But Sam, what I don't get is why you are in that mountain when you could be joining the NASA Program. And what is a trained Black Ops doing working in a mountain in the middle of Colorado."

"Dad, there is more to our jobs than you could possibly know… I just want you to trust me, for once." Sam said through her teeth. "Now, we're going to go to lunch, you are going to be pleasant to Jack, and in two months you will come to the wedding, make nice with Mark and we will deal with our problems later, but do not bring Jack into this."

Jack looked shocked, "Wow, you sounded just like your mother."

The Next Day the SGC

Hammond had called SG-1 in for a brief meeting, they were going to a planet where their SG team had radioed in but no one had come through. "Your mission is to go through the gate and figure out what happened and to bring our team home. The team was lead by Captain Jonas Hanson. Here are the personal files. Review them, and you go through the Stargate in under two hours. Dismissed."

As Hammond left the room, Jack saw the look on Sam's face, "What's that look for?"

"What look?"

"When Hammond said Captain Hanson's name, you had a look."

"Jack… Jonas and I knew each other in DC when I worked at the Pentagon. We were engaged."

"What happened?"

"I found a side of him that I didn't like."

"What did he do?"

"I… it's nothing."

"I can see that it's not nothing. What happened."

"He hit me." Sam said in a whisper, than held her head up high, "He only had the chance to do it once. I was out the door."

"That's my girl." Jack said in a smile.

Two hours later the team was stepping through the gate onto the planet. Sam couldn't breath for a moment through the humidity. There were lots of trees, but it still felt thick and dense from the heat. "No birds." Sam noticed.

And then, out from nowhere Lt. Conner came up, taking Daniel's gun and pointing it at Daniel and then Carter, and back to Daniel, O'Neill was scared, he'd never felt scared like this before, "Lt. Conner? What's going on. We got your signal six hours ago, no one came through, why?"

"Hanson."

Sam looked nervously at Jack, "Where is he? We have to talk and find out what happened."

"Don't" Connor cried

"Why?" Jack asked. Connor pointed down at the ground, to see chared bones and dog tags. "What happened."

"He's out of control."

"Captain Hanson?" Carter asked.

"maybe it was the sun, radiation." Conner suggested.

"What?" Daniel asked, looking about, "your saying the sun did this to Franks?"

"No sir, Captain Hanson did that to Francs."

"What?" Sam asked, he might have hit her once, which ended their relationship, but he couldn't have… "Why?"

"For trying to go back through the gate."

"We were trying to warn you, the people here think he's their god! But it's more than that, Hanson believes it too."

Jack turned to Sam, motioning her to the side, "Sam, take Conner through the Stargate, report to General Hammond about what's happening here."

"No. You are not doing this, using orders to protect me when you know that I have a way to get to Hanson."

"If he could hit you while he was sane, than what's he going to do minus a few faculties Sam? You know that we are either bringing him back to face a court-marshal, or not. You know what the 'not' means."

"I don't understand how this could have happened to Jonas, but if your going after him, than I am coming with you."

Conner heard their conversation, "You can't go after him. He has hundreds, thousands of people who believe that he is their god. They'll die for him, they'll kill for him."

"Not your problem, I need someone to report to the General, and that's you."

"No, sir." Conner answered.

Jack was getting frustrated, "No sir? Does it say Colonel anywhere on my uniform?"

After a long conversation, Jack gave in, "Fine, well, we're off to see the wizard."

Sam nodded, "Everyone make sure that they put on fresh sunblock every hour. The sun's radiation is so intense that we'll burn even in the poring rain."

"Thanks for the tip." Jack answered, and took a tube out of his vest pocket and started covering himself, and then helped Sam with the back of her neck, while she did his, "To OZ."

The next night, the group was awakened by a group, Hanson had sent them and the next thing they knew the people were gone and So was Conner. "They were probably instructed to just take Conner. Send us a message that Hanson's in Control."

"Sounds failure." Sam said gritting her teeth. "He likes control."

Daniel looked around at Jack who had decided to take the rear, "What did you see in him?"

"I don't know. I guess I've always had a soft spot for the lunatic fringe. He was… charming."

"Charming is good."

"I don't know, I should be more surprised by this than I am, but I'm not. He had this in him Daniel, too many ears of Black Ops."

"So what makes Jack different?"

"Jack let me see his dark side. I didn't have to force it out. I've seen his good and bad days over loosing Charlie. Jonas would have hid it all until it exploded."

"Look like it did." Daniel said, thinking of the Captain who was convinced that he was a god. Then he almost bumped into Teal'c as he stopped suddenly, "What?" Teal'c didn't have to answer as they all saw the people tied to poles, with Connor on the end.

"I'll be back in 30 minutes." Jack said, and left despite the three others arguing with him, "Sam, watch my back, I'll need your help to get in the door."

"Understood." Than taking the initiative, kissed Jack, "stay safe, Jack."

"Always do."

They had been waiting and watching for about twenty minutes, when Sam saw one of the currently crazy soon to be court marshaled officers beating to death one of the workers. She couldn't take it anymore, "I'm going down there." She said finally, "I'm not going to sit here while he beats that man to death."

And she left. "We should have stopped her." Daniel said.

Teal'c looked at Daniel, "We would have failed."

Ten minutes later, Jack got back just in time to see his beautiful and tough fiancé punching out one of Jonas's officers. The two sides of him were conflicted, one side was saying, that's my girl, but the other was yelling at Sam for telling him to stay safe and then going straight into the lion's den. And not the cowardly kind. "Well, I always knew that she was the best way to get in." And they set to planning a way in, and in doing so found a man on the inside to help them.

Meanwhile, Jonas's man brought the Captain to her former fiancé. "Hello Jonas."

"Sam. You never thought I'd amount to anything. It's a great leap from Captain to…"

"What's happened to you Jonas."

"Me? What about you. I've heard the rumors sleeping with your CO."

"That's none of your business."

"Well now that you're here… you can help my people. They are human beings, like us, but they are living in these caves in squalor."

"And you think that by working these people to death and posing as a god…"

"I hate that word, I am NOT posing! It's a matter of definition. They need me, they believe in me and because they believe they work."

"To death."

"I'm building a civilization, there are going to be sacrifices. I'm building a great people…"

"In your image."

"Yes. It will be great, you'll see."

"You knew that I would come didn't you."

"Off course, I was your one failure, the one with the broken wing that wouldn't heal. That's why you dumped me for a colonel that will cost you your career. You know, Colonel O'Neill and I are much alike."

"Your nothing like him."

"I had hoped that you would understand what I am trying to do. Than you would come back to me."

Sam didn't wait any longer. She saw her hand gun and took it, aiming it at the first man she had promised to love forever and he had thrown it away. "Do it." Jonas screamed. "That mean's your truly over me if you can kill me. Besides, what's a few deaths compared to the 'greater good' you're so big on."

He stepped forward, "But you can't, can you." He took the gun from her hand and laughed, "You see, Sam, you still love me."

"I stopped loving you the moment you hit me. That was the moment you lost me."

"Come with me Sam, you will see." Sam followed Jonas into the tunnel, and he showed her the shield.

"So this is it. You want me to turn this on for you. But what if I don't."

"Than we will watch every one of the cave dwellers die in the sun; along with your beloved Jack O'Neill."

Sam started working on the technology, once she figured it out, she figured that she had better stall. "What if I can't turn it off?" In a case of really bad timing, Jack was lead through the door. "Jack!"

"Carter…" He said a look in his eyes, telling her to play along.

"Shoot him." Jonas told his men.

"No!"

"Then turn it on. If it works I'll spare him." And then Sam turned it on.

At the Stargate

"My children. Today is a great day! "The sun stood still in the heavens, and hasted not to go down about a whole day. I have the power to help, and to cast down. But fear not, stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord. Today, we will bury the doorway, that brings forth demons who threaten to undo us. But first I will send those evil undoers who have already invaded our world, back to the hell from whence they came." He points at Jack and Conner. He dialed in Earths address, while Sam stood eyes locked with Jack. She could not loose him, not like this. "Fear not, for I the lord your god, control the gateway to the underworld."

"You said you wouldn't kill them. Without sending the code through they'll die."

"Please Sam, I'm having a moment here." Hanson said than yelled to the people below.. "I am the lord your god, there is nothing I cannot do. No one is greater then I. No one is more powerful then I. Throw them in."

Sam jumped forward, "Please Jonas, don't do this. If you care for me at all, you will spare these men. One of whom is the father of my child."

Jack's head snapped around. "What? When?"

Sam looked at Jack, "Later. Please Jonas."

She didn't have to beg anymore, when Daniel showed up with one of the locals holding Teal'c staff weapon. "Wait, stop!"

Sam didn't wait, she kicked Jonas down, who had pulled out his gun and he backhanded her. When Jack saw this he was prepared to tackle this man himself. "This man is not a god! Daniel said trying to explain it to the people. "Listen to me, no matter what Jonas has shown you or done for you, he is not a god."

Jonas retaliated, "Don't you listen to him! They are demons, agents of the devil! I am your savior!"

"We're not demons! For crying out loud. Sam, you okay."

"Yeah." She said, getting up and heading to Jack.

Jonas grabbed her after having tried to turn on the machine and nothing happened but a pretty light show. After the signal Teal'c activated the other half of the shield. "I'm taking you with me." Jonas said. Jack tackled the insane man who was bent on killing his love. Sam fell on the ground and could only watch as the angry ex-cave dwellers threw them into the gate.

Once they had finished setting up, Jack looked at Sam, who felt a little distant. "Are you okay, I know that was a little difficult, you were engaged to the man."

"It's not that… It's just… He practically begged me to end it, and I could it. He used it as proof that I still loved him."

"You're my Sam. You could never kill a man in cold blood."

"Thanks, Jack."

"So, we're having a baby?"

"I just found out this morning. I wanted to tell you, but I wanted it to be a surprise."

"Have you talked to Janet?"

"She says I'll be able to go through the gate until I'm about halfway through my second trimester."

"How about we keep this from your Dad until after we say 'I Do.'"

"That would probably be best."

"Hey Daniel, looks like your little one will have a cousin pretty soon."

TBC…

A/N: Hope you like it, next up: Brief Candle.