Sam's POV
Lantash got me a zat gun, so tonight I'm gonna go and try and free my team mates while he handles the Minerva bitch. I'm really worried for him and Martouf, but I need to believe all will go well.
I still almost can't believe he is alive! We 'just' need to get through this, then we will be together all three.
Right now there's nothing to do except wait. It gives me lotsa time to think. I know I want to be with him. There is no other way. I don't know how, but either he will go to Earth or I - I will join the Tok'ra. I never thought I'd consider giving up my position at SGC, but it's not like I would give up my dream of working in space. In a way I would be closer. I would be living on another planet. With an alien.
I almost giggled at how ridiculous it all sounded. If someone had told me this ten or even five years ago I would not have believed them .
I don't yet know if I wanna be a Tok'ra all the way - taking a symbiote. But I guess I probably will. Partly because it's gonna be hard living among the Tok'ra and not agree to help when someone who will probably be a friend by then, needs my help. Partly because I want to live with Martouf and Lantash for as long as possible. Otherwise, I would die of old age while he still is as young as the day I met him.
It would also give me more time to see the universe and study alien technology. I wonder if the Tok'ra will allow me to work as a scientist some of the time? They do have scientists - like Anise or Malek. However, I don't want to work with Anise!
I lie down and soon my thoughts go to Lantash and Martouf and the wonderful time we spent together a few hours ago. They are so sweet and thoughtful - and very very skilled. And handsome. And intelligent...ok, girl, get a grip on yourself!
I shake my head at myself. I'm fallen harder than I thought! That's for sure. I smile to myself.
It is now evening and after a short visit Lantash has gone to meet Minerva. I am very nervous. She is dangerous. However, she thinks Lantash is completely in her power, so she will get a surprise! I laugh to myself, a little evilly at the thought of her surprise when Lantash kills her!
I find my zat and sneak out. No one is guarding. They all think I'm dead. That's an advantage right now. Lantash has told me how to find the holding cells. I sneak there, pressing against the walls and hiding behind pillars and in crevices.
Now and then a Jaffa almost sees me, but I make it all the way without dangerous incident! I shot the two guards three times and they disappear. I hurry down the corridor and find the cell with my friends in.
'Daniel, Colonel, Teal'c!' I whisper.
'Carter!' Jack says, looking surprised and relieved. 'Decided to pay us a visit, did ya?' He tried to hide his worry between bravado, as usual.
'Sam - we thought you were dead!' Daniel exclaimed.
'Indeed the Jaffa told us Minerva's underling - the minor god Tinia - had killed you after using you for pleasure.' Teal'c said.
I flush. 'Well, I'm not dead as you can see.'
'Tinia looked an awful lot like Martouf, don't you think?' Daniel remarks as I use the zat gun to open the cell door.
'Yeah, tell me it wasn't that snake who had faked his own death to follow his instincts and be a Goa'uld! ' Jack said enraged.
'Lantash isn't a snake - and not a Goa'uld either! But yes, it's him and Martouf. They didn't fake anything but their also not dead! Minerva took them here and tried to brainwash them and make Lantash turn Goa'uld, but fortunately she failed. Their themselves.'
'So he didn't take the opportunity to force himself on you? ' Jack looked searching at me. I flush again.
'He would never do that!' I know this with certainty. He has absolutely proved himself that he would never behave like that, even brainwashed. feel pink in my cheeks again at the thought of the actual truth of how wonderful and thoughtful a lover he is. I also realise the others see it on my face.
'Carter don't tell me you slept with him.' Jack looks horrified.
'That's between me and him - and Martouf.' I tease. 'Now we need to get out of here before the Jaffa find out the guards are gone. Lantash is killing Minerva, so we should soon be able to flee.'
We hurry through the corridor and up the stairs. I see a Jaffa that I shoot with the zat, then we hurry on to the room I was hiding in.
Lantash POV
Minerva has dressed herself in something slutty and I feel even more revulsion at the thought both of her and of how I could have wanted her only a day ago! Now I only want to kill her and get away from here, saving Samantha and her team and go back to the tunnels.
Martouf and I are so happy! Samantha loves us! I feel tempted to daydream, but Martouf reminds me that I must focus on the task at hand. Knowing he is right, I steel myself and bow deeply for Minerva.
'My goddess. Minerva, you are easily the most wonderful sight I have seen in my life!'
'Ah, you flatter me, Tinia! Come here and show me, instead!' She begins to open her dress and leans back on the bed.
'You honor me.' I put on my most reverent and at the same time hungry expression. It is easy - I just think of Samantha.
Just before I am about to sit on the bed, I take my hand out of the pocket I have hidden it in, to hide that I am wearing a hand device. I flip it up and activate it, pointing at Minerva.
She looks at me in shock.
'Tinia...what are you...'
She doesn't have time to say anything further as I hit her with the ribbon. She gasps and I feel the satisfaction of finally killing her. Punishing her for what she has done to countless of innocents. Among those my beloved Jolinar.
I consider torturing her, but it does not really have any appeal. I am not a blood thirsty person. I am happy to just see her dead.
'Minerva - know that I am Lantash of the Tok'ra and I am killing you...executing you, for your crimes against innocents.'
I give her a final blast with the ribbon device and she is killed, thrown against the wall. I quickly check on her to see that she is dead. She is. Satisfied this is the case I take out a zat and shot her three times. I don't want her Jaffa to come and revive her - their god - in her sarcophagus, in a mistaken sense of loyalty.
I have never understood how anyone could think someone was a god when that someone could be killed. But the Jaffa apparently is able to do this double-thinking and pick up their dead god, revive him or her, and then carry on thinking it is a god! Weird.
I go to her computer and download any useful information she has and hurry out the door, taking care to walk dignified if I should meet any Jaffa. I meet a few, and flaunt my hand device, letting it glow slightly when they look at me.
None of them decides to dare talking to me. There are advantages to them thinking me a god - and right now an angry one at that!
I get to the room I left Samantha in, and she is there, with her team mates.
'Samantha. Beloved.' I hurry to her and take her in my arms. She embraces me, clearly having been worried.
'Lantash - I was so worried. I am relieved to see you alive and well.' She hug me closely.
After kissing her for a while, I become aware of someone harumphing. I look up and notice her friends again.
'If you are quite ready, then perhaps we could leave this place? Unless you find you like it better her.'
That damn O'Neill is looking at me with challenge in his eyes. I again feel like hitting him over the nose. He is ridiculously attentive over Samantha. My Samantha! How dare he!
Martouf feels like me, but we both know Samantha needs to be able to work with O'Neill, so we control ourselves.
'I am not a Goa'uld, if that is what you are implying, and I have no wish to become one. I have arranged for transport, so you will all follow me and we will get away from here safely.'
I lead them to where Minerva kept her ships and to the teltac I prepared earlier today. No one is around and we get safely inside and take off as soon as the doors are closed and we clear the opening in the roof.
It is only moments later when we are safely in hyperspace. I let Teal'c take over the piloting, going to Samantha. Finally, I begin to feel safe.
'Samantha. My beloved.' I embrace her and kiss her.
Martouf's POV.
Lantash gives me control and I continue kissing our beloved. We are finally safe.
The journey to the nearest safe planet take a few hours. O'Neill is complaining a little from time to time, but he seems grateful to be free. Perhaps he will consider that we are not his enemy - though I guess we are his rival, from the way he is looking at Samantha.
Fortunately, Samantha is sitting with us, and assuring me she loves us.
She seems to be considering something, and shortly before we land, she pulls me aside.
'Martouf - and Lantash. You know I love you. And I have decided I will be coming to live with you - with the Tok'ra.' She looks nervous. 'Do you think I will be welcome?'
'I am sure you will be welcome! We often think of you as one of our own. I will not be a problem.'
She looks relived. 'I am glad.' She kisses me. 'I look forward to my life with the two of you.' She smiles happily.
All is good. I think about how good life is as we walk through the gate to the Tok'ra base planet Lantash and I have now been stationed at - soon with Samantha!
