AN: not much to say about this except that it was a pain and took twice as long as it should have.

Let me know what you think :O)

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"How's she doing?" Cam asked Carolyn as they stood and watched Vala and her daughter sleep.

"Most of the stimulant is out of her system. She's lucky if it had been anyone else, apart maybe from Sam, it would have killed her. She'll be pretty weak for the next few days or so."

Cam looked at her and could tell there was something she wasn't telling him. "Carolyn what else is it?"

"She's recovering from the initial overdose but the long term problems… to be honest there's no way to know if she'll ever fully recover; mentally or physically." She signed "Liver, kidney and heart problems could develop, she's now at a much higher risk for a stroke and there's no telling what the effect on her immune system will be."

"What about mentally? I mean, this is Vala we're talking about, as far as we know she's the only person to survive being a host and still be sane." Carolyn gave him a look. "Well, relatively sane."

"Until she's assessed properly and we know exactly what's happened over the past 4 years… like you said she's the only person to survive being a host, it could be that she's mentally strong enough to over come this or it could be that this is what finally pushes her over the edge, there's no telling right now. All we can do is wait, it's up to Vala now."

Cam put his arm around her and gave her shoulder a reassuring squeeze. She smiled up at him and they returned to watching mother and daughter sleep.

It was nearly 10 minuets before Cam thought to remove his arm.

***

By dinner time there own memory devise had arrived, they where hoping that they could remove Ba'als devise using their own controller before Vala woke up properly.

Woolsey had other ideas though.

"General I think it is the best way to find out the truth of what has really been going on these past years! We can not simply rely on what Miss Mal Doran tells us."

"Mr Woolsey are you honestly suggesting that we interrogate Vala using the same methods that Ba'al has used against her?"

"I am simply suggesting the best way to get to the truth and before you waste time arguing more I have the full backing of the IOA and the President on this. We all feel that this matter must be dealt with as quickly as possible, either this will prove her innocence or we will find out exactly what Ba'al has planned. Or would you prefer we interviewed the child?"

Landry let out a long slow breath, if the President was behind this idea there was really nothing he could do to stop it. "Fine, as soon as Dr Lam says she's stable and coherent enough."

"Thank you General."

***

Carolyn wasn't happy about this decision but orders where orders and there was nothing she could do. Vala was medical stable and the sedation was beginning to ware off by the time she was fully conscious a visual up link for the memory devise had been set up.

"If at any point during this I think it's placing too much stress on her we stop. Understand?" Carolyn told Woolsey, who would be conducting the 'interview'.

Only he and Carolyn would be in the room with her but SG1 was in the observation room above watching.

"O.k. Miss Mal Doran, lets start from the beginning."

Vala closed her eyes and tried to concentrate on when Ba'al had first captured her. The images that appeared on the large screen where blurred and flickered as Vala tried to remember how it all began, an image crystallised but it was clear that it was not what they where looking for.

Ba'al and a female Gou'ald where standing over a young Vala as she lay on some kind of large table.

"Do you approve my Queen?" Ba'al asked the woman.

She smiled at him and ran a finger down seductively down his cheek. "She is perfect, my Lord"

As quickly as it had appeared it was gone as Vala dragged her thoughts away from it and another image appeared. Vala began to speak as the memory played out for all to see.

"I was on Marius when his Jaffa found me…"

The jaffa entered the small bar, there were 6 of them in total, walking up behind Vala they used a zat gun to subdue her before she even had the chance to turn fully round to face them.

"When I woke up I was in one of his privet rooms on his ship."

Vala groaned as she awoke and looked around. Instead of the cell she was expecting to find her self in she was in what appeared to be a large bed room, lying on a huge bed. The room was dimly lit but she could tell from the décor that she was on a Gou'ald ship; no one else in the galaxy had this much of an enthusiasm for gold walls and naked flames. Looking down at herself she began to panic as she realised that while she had been unconscious someone had changed her clothes. Instead of the well worn black leathers she had been wearing she was now in a white flowing dress.

She got up and began to explore the room more, desperately trying to work out who was holding her. She got her answer as she turned to face the bed full on and there above it was Ba'als emblem embossed onto the wall.

A normal person would have screamed in this situation, shouted for help, banged on the doors and begged for someone to let them out. Vala, however, had been in this position before and knew it would not only be futile to do this but that it would waste precious energy she might need later.

"It was 3 days before we arrived at a planet, they transported me down by rings and he was there, waiting for me."

The flash of light from the rings dissipated and Vala saw Ba'al standing before her, a grin on his face.

"My dear Qetesh, I see you have finally decided to leave you friends. I never could understand why you persisted in staying on their primitive planet or why you allied yourself with them." He approached her and ran a finger down her cheek. The Jaffa holding her prevented her from moving away from the touch. "I must admit when news reached me of your leaving it was just what the inspiration I needed." He came even closer to her now, whispering right in her ear. "You will be my final revenge." The words sent a shiver down her spine but she still had enough courage that, when Ba'al took a step back, she spat in his face.

"I'll never help you." She told him, her voice defiant.

He laughed at her before bringing the hand bevies up to her forehead and using it on her. "You have no choice."

"I was there nearly a week before I fully understood what his revenge would be. At first I thought it was to win me over as an ally, to have me in his power the same way he had Qetesh, he certainly treated me that way. I wasn't put in a cell and I had almost free reign of the palace. I couldn't escape though; there was always Jaffa with me, 4 of them at the least." She reached out for the glass of water beside her and Carolyn had to hold it for her as her hands where shaking so much. "It wasn't… it wasn't until the first night he came into my room that I…" She paused and the imagines on the screen blurred as she tried to repress the memory of that night but there was still no mistaking what she had meant, the brief and blurred pictures told a very definite, and violent, story. "That was the first time I tried to escape."

Vala looked out of the window of her room, she was 2 flights up but she knew this was the only way out. The rest of the palace was crawling with Jaffa and there was 2 posted outside the door to her room.

She climbed into the window and braced herself before jumping out of it. She landed with a thump and her already battered body protested loudly at the further abuse. It was almost pitch back, the only light on the whole planet coming from the palace behind her and the small slither of moon that was out. It was a warm summer night but she still couldn't stop herself from shivering. Way in the distance down the wooded hill she could see a clearance, if there was a Gate on this planet this is where it would be.

It was hard going through the woods, she was injured both from her fall and from what Ba'al had done to her earlier in the night. Before long she heard the sounds of the Jaffa beginning their search for her and she picked up her pace, if they made it to the gate before her she wouldn't stand a chance.

She ran, low branches and bushes whipping at her legs, stone cutting up her bare feet, her vision impaired by the darkness and her left eye being swollen shut. Her breathing was hard, her heart drumming against her chest, as she reached the clearing and could just make out the shape of the gate. Running faster towards it she didn't even see the Jaffa standing in the darkness beside it until he fired off a shot from his zat gun.

"He came into my room every night after that, I don't know how long for but there was snow on the ground when I realised I was pregnant. I knew then what he truly wanted, what his ultimate revenge would be. It wasn't me as a prisoner or even as his partner, it was as the mother of his child. I didn't think it could get much worse, but it did."

Ba'al stood off to the side while the 'Doctor' worked on Vala.

She screamed and cried out but the two men simply ignored her. She gave another long scream and this time it was followed by the cries of a baby. The Doctor cut the cord and cleaned her off before handing her up to Vala. She cradled the tiny baby in her arms and tears flowed down her face, both in happiness and sorrow, she lent down and kissed the girl on the forehead.

Ba'al cam over and stood over them. "Name her." He told Vala, he had a grin on his face but it was one of pure evil rather than one of happiness.

"Tali." She whispered, the name was one of her own peoples meaning "gift from god", ironic but then naming Adria after her evil stepmother had been as well.

Ba'al took the child from her mother's arms, ignoring both their protests, and looked her over. He smiled again. "Yes…She will make a fine host…" He didn't look back as Vala screamed at him to bring her daughter back, he simply told the Doctor to "fix her."

As SG1 watched the view screen from the observation room they all felt their eyes burn with tears, or anger, as they saw Vala be separated from yet another one of her children. Vala herself had drawn further into herself as she had relived the event. Her knees where drawn up to her chest with her arms wrapped around them and her head placed atop of them. Her breathing was harsh and the heart monitor Carolyn had her hooked up o was beginning to beep faster and faster.

"Col. Carter! Get down her and get this thing off of her." Carolyn ordered, drawing out a syringe filled with Valium. "Vala you need to calm down, you're hyperventilating, you need to breathe…" but it was no use, Vala was too lost in her own memories to register the world around her.

Sam ran into the room with the controller for the devise as Carolyn pushed the meds into Vala's IV. As she shut it off and removed it the last image was frozen on the screen; Vala begging for her daughter to be brought back to her, Tomin at her side.

As Vala calmed and drifted off in a drug induced sleep Carolyn turned to Woolsey. "I think that answered your questions, she's done for the day." There was no room for argument in the tone of her voice.

Woolsey was flustered, he had honestly expected that Vala had been involved with Ba'al in some plan against Earth but what he had just witnessed was truly harrowing.

"Yes…well I'll inform the IOA and the President that Miss Mal Doran poses no imminent threat to Earth. Excuse me."

When he got to his office he went into the bottom drawer and produced a bottle of Scotch, pouring himself a good 3 fingers worth he swallowed it in one go. He slammed the glass back onto the table and took a moment to calm himself before picking up the phone.

***

On the very edge of the solar system a ship dropped out of hyperspace.

"My Lord, we have arrived." The Jaffa at the helm reported.

"Cloak the ship, take us in to Earths orbit." Ba'al ordered.

"Yes my Lord."