"Where were you?"

Kerry put a hand to Janet's forehead, "You're burning up Janey."

"I know. It'll pass, where were you?"

Kerry sat back and regarded her friend from Med School. "I have no idea where we are, you expect me to know where I was? I'm still not sure that I'm not just having a tremendous and complete mental breakdown. What did she do to you?"

Janet shrugged and put her hand to her head, "Yanked around my DNA a bit, poked and prodded me to see if she could figure out how I'm alive when I shouldn't be."

Kerry closed her eyes and tried to forget the pain in her knee and shoulder, "Will Cassie be okay?"

Janet shook her head, "I don't know. Did you... did you do anything, wherever you were?"

Kerry groaned, "I think I hallucinated my father. Except he kept claiming that he wasn't a hallucination, and he helped me out a bit, I think..." Kerry shook her head, "Weirdest concussion I've ever had I have to say that."

Janet paused, then dove in, "Maybe it wasn't a hallucination. We've met a race of beings, at one point they were humanoids, nearly human even. They... ascended to a higher plane. There are also a few of them who help us, humans, Jaffa, those who wish to, also ascend to a higher plane."

Kerry finally looked at Janet. "So, you're saying my father's a... higher beings? That makes my head hurt." She paused, "Is that what happened to you Janey?"

Janet was silent for a long time, either figuring out her answer or whether or not to tell Kerry anything. "For the most part when formerly human ascended being decides to come back to Earth, or is sent back, they're put back without their memories, usually any of them. I... I don't think I ascended, and judging by the grumbling in Goa'uld Nirrti was doing, she doesn't think I did either."

"They have a language?"

Janet stood carefully with a look of pain on her face and held a hand to Kerry. Kerry carefully stood too and limped her way behind Janet to one of the walls. "Before, I wasn't sure, but no I am. We're in some sort of base of the Four Races."

"Janet, why are you telling me all this." Kerry continued, mostly under her breath, "Especially when I only understand one idea in ten you're saying."

Janet put an arm around Kerry's shoulder, mostly to keep herself from falling. Of the two, Kerry was slightly more steady at that moment. "Most so I stay conscious."

Kerry put an arm around Janet as well. "Four Races then. They have names? Or should I make up some for them. The Nina, the Pinta, the Santa Maria and Bob."

Janet smiled, "The Asgard, the Furlings, the Nox and the Ancients, they called themselves the Alterans. Supposedly we... humans from Earth are the legendary Fifth Race, whatever the hell that means."

"Ah..."

Janet smiled again, just a bit, "I skipped over the part about what they are. The Four Races."

Kerry inclined her head, "You did. For all I know they could be a boy band."

"They're like... well, they were like this part of the Universe's UN. For while they even had a deal with the Goa'uld to protect certain planets, including Earth, from Goa'uld attack for awhile. But, I guess, from what I've learned from a perusal of the pertinent files, we defeated the Goa'uld pretty handily with the help of the Tok'ra and Jaff..."

Kerry cut Janet off, "Wait, Stop. I... Jaffa are the guards, foot soldiers? With the baby snakes in their guts."

"Basically, yes."

"Who are the Toke Ra?"

"Tok'ra. Doesn't every war have people from the bigger, badder, warlord-y side who form a resistance inside their own people?"

Kerry frowned, "So they're Goa'uld who fight against their brothers."

"To simplify them, sure."

Janet was silent for just a bit too long and Kerry spoke up, "Cassie will be okay. It sounds like these snake guys want to, uh... infest her... not hurt her."

Janet sighed and leaned her head against the wall. Kerry put her hand on it and they both nearly jumped out of their skin when it lit up. Kerry caught Janet with an oof since she caught her with her bad side, the side she'd landed on in her tumble down the hole.

They both back up and the wall stayed on. Kerry glanced over at Janet and back to the wall, "Why.. how... it's like the chair."

Janet's attention switched from the wall to only Kerry, "Chair? A chair that lit up?" Kerry nodded, "This is when you saw your father?"

"Yes."

Janet shook her head, "Can you help me down to the floor. I think I'm about to pass out."

Kerry somehow managed to get both of them to the ground without either breaking anything and the wall went dark as suddenly as it had come on. "Now what?"

Just as suddenly the door opened behind them and Cassie flew in, crashing to the floor with a thump. Nirrti entered the cell and dragged Janet back out with her. Kerry tried to fight the dark haired woman, but Nirrti was at full strength and Kerry was definitely not.

Kerry sagged to the ground as the door of their prison closed again. She looked up at the dark wall, "but maybe it didn't used to be a prison cell."

She heard a groan and carefully scooted over to Cassie, "Hey... still alive."

Cassie had a look of horrible pain on her face and was pointing at her right shoulder. Kerry frowned, "Is it dislocated?" Cassie nodded, "Did it come out forward or backward?"

Cassie shook her head and spoke through gritted teeth, "Don't know."

Kerry carefully inspected the shoulder with her eyes and fingers, and then without any preamble pushed Cassie's arm back towards her into its socket.

An 'ahhh' exploded from Cassie and she closed her eyes, "Thank you."

Kerry sat back and looked around the room, "Nothing around you and Janet seems to make any sense, but medicine, that is the same everywhere it seems."

Cassie spoke up, "Actually..."

Kerry cut off her Resident, "Just... I don't want to know anymore. Everything you tell me just... For just a second here I'm going to pretend that I'm stuck in some human crazy person's basement on Earth. No light up walls, or... or any of it."

Cassie tilted her head, "I wonder why..."

"Doctor Fraiser."

Cassie's jaw clicked shut, "Right. Thoughts to self. Aye Chief."

******

Molly Legaspi rested her chin on her husband's shoulder. She was nearly as tall as he, though she wasn't as broad in the shoulders. She had curly dirty blonde hair that was slightly heavier on the brown than blonde and hazel colored eyes that seemed to some days be blue and others be green. And when she was truly angry they seemed to go gunmetal gray.

"What's he doing?"

Kevin shook his head, "I have no earthly idea hon. It looked sorta like math, but I don't think it's real math. Looks like no math I've ever seen before. I think he's freaking out. Still no... what's his name?"

"Carlos. He only got off his EMT shift a couple of minutes ago. He'll be here." Molly shook her head, "He's such a little contradiction."

The front door bell rang and Molly kissed the side of her husband's head. "I'll get it."

Molly disappeared and Kevin kept watching Henry hunched over his piece of paper. He glanced where Juliana rested in an old crib they'd still had. Henry also wouldn't let them split him from his sister.

Kevin turned as he heard his wife and was presented with a young looking man he assumed was Carlos. "Kevin Legaspi."

Carlos shook the proffered hand, "The tall blonde one's twin brother." He walked into the guest room and Henry dropped everything and ran into his Uncle's arms. "Hey bud. Do you and Jules want to blow this pop stand?"

Henry nodded enthusiastically. Carlos went over to the crib and picked up Juliana as Henry retrieved her diaper bag. Carlos stopped at the room's door and spoke, "Thank you for taking care of them."

Kevin shook his head, "It was no problem, and Kim's not usually like that, leaving her responsibilities hanging like that."

Henry looked up at Molly, "Thank you Mrs. Legaspi."

Molly smiled, "You've very welcome Mr. Weaver."

With that Carlos led Henry out the front door as Molly put her arms around her husband, "I'm going to go hug our kids."

******

"Are we there yet?" Both Sam and Marks glanced over at Kim, who had the decency to look sheepish. "I know, I'm only on the bridge if I shut up and stay quiet."

Sam looked forward yet, "Marks, I want an update from the SGC once we come out of Hyper drive."

"Yes Colonel, and..." He smiled towards the front screen, "We're nearly there."

******

Kerry stood as Janet came stumbling in. It had been close, but the wall had just barely faded back to its dull appearance as Nirrti appeared. Janet met Cassie's eyes, but both women stayed silent as Nirrti yanked Kerry from the room and the door closed behind them.

Janet frowned, "What's going on Cassie? The wall was on, could Kerry read it?"

Cassie shook her head, "Of course not Mom. No, ah, Kerry had a less... philosophical I guess you could call it, solution to our problem."

"Oh?"

******

Kerry had been trying to move the second after Nirrti had put her under what really looked like a demented shower head. But nothing would move but her mouth and eyes. "You can't, won't get away with this. People will miss us."

Nirrti looked up and spoke in her freaky half growly voice, "You will be thought to be dead. The people of your planet are in the dark about the rest of the universe. So focused on their petty squabbles over inconsequential amounts of land. You are an interesting specimen. The other two were nearly bawling like one of your infants after they were put where you are."

Kerry met Nirrti's gaze and held it as long as she could before the alien looked back down at her readings. "Pain and I have a nice old history. Not to mention I'm a cuss worthy bitch when I need to be, plus..." Kerry realized she could almost move her head. "They know what the hell's goin' on. I don't. Ignorance is bliss."

Nirrti opened her mouth, but Kerry cut her off, "And I don't want to know."

"That is why you will never be more than our hosts."

The anger had been simmering almost since she'd disappeared from the exam room. Right under the surface and then something about Nirrti's sentence, perhaps its content, or maybe just her tone ignited it. It was like a warmth through all of Kerry's muscles and she was moving and out of the Goa'uld's contraption.

Nirrti's mouth dropped open as she let go of Kerry and the ER Chief crumpled to the ground. Nirrti stumbled one way, then the other, then fell to the ground.

Kerry should have stayed on the ground herself, but instead she climbed to her feet, it was in her bones to help someone, even if that someone had been trying to kill her or at least study her like a lab rat, moments before. Nirrti was the parasite inside the black haired woman according to the female Fraisers. That didn't mean that the host deserved to die.

The parasite was almost dead, it waited and waited. Its host prone on the ground, until the redhead was right over it, then with all the strength the host had left in it, jumped up, shoving the one who killed it towards the still on machine.

The parasite collapsed back down to the ground, letting the host take over for its final few moments of life. A smile came to the host's face, finally released from the hold of Nirrti at the same time that Kerry let loose an unearthly scream.