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So, for the past two days Teal'c, Jack, Daniel and Dr. Fraiser took turns watching over Kirsten. For the first few hours her dreams seemed to be calm, but after a while, they seemed to crescendo into horrible nightmares. Teal'c knew in her dreams she was fighting something. Once and a while her arms would go up slightly as if to block something, and then she'd bring them back down into her lap. Since she was obviously fighting the nightmares her brother thought it would be appropriate to give Kirsten her trusty staff and something to make her feel comfortable.
Teal'c rummaged through her room expecting to find a teddy bear or a stuffed animal Jack O'Neill told him children loved to have while in the hospital, but he found none. The only other thing she 'owned' was the Alice in Wonderland book she liberated from Daniel. So, he grabbed the book and her staff and brought it down to the unconscious girl. He sat down in the chair before wrapping Kirsten's fingers around the golden staff. Teal'c waited what seemed like forever before she finally calmed down in her dreams.
The girl actually instinctively brought the staff closer to her body to feel more protected. Once Teal'c thought she was comfortable enough, he began to read out of her favorite book, but he found it hard to know where she left off. There seemed to be many bookmarks. He thought maybe that she liked a line from that page so she marked it. Not knowing what else to do Teal'c started at a random bookmark and began to read aloud to his unconscious sister.
" The caterpillar and Alice looked at each other for sometime in silence: at last the Caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth, and addressed her in a languid, sleepy voice.
' Who are you?' said the Caterpillar.
This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation. Alice replied, rather shyly; 'I hardly know, Sir, just at present at least I know who I was when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.'
' What do you mean by that?' said the Caterpillar, sternly.' Explain yourself!'
' I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, Sir,' said Alice,' because I'm not myself, you see.'
' I don't see,' said the Caterpillar.
' I'm afraid I can't put it more clearly,' Alice replied, very politely,' for I can't understand it myself, to begin with; and being so many different sizes in a day is very confusing.'
' It isn't,' said the Caterpillar.
' Well, perhaps you haven't found it so yet,' said Alice;' but when you have to turn a chrysalis, you will some day you know, and then after that into a butterfly, I should think you'll feel it little queer, won't you?'
' Not a bit,' said the Caterpillar.
' Well, perhaps your feelings may be different,' said Alice:' all I know is, it would feel very—Daniel Jackson?" Teal'c closed the old book and turned to find Daniel standing at the foot of Kirsten's bed with a very big smile.
" I see you have ' liberated' my book as well, Teal'c." The Jaffa smiled in return.
" It is good to see you, Daniel Jackson." Both men turned their gazes to the sleeping girl.
" I can see why Kirsten found this book so interesting." Teal'c turned his head and cocked an eyebrow in a classic Teal'c ' I don't understand' way.
" Well, to begin with, Alice was suddenly put into a weird world where everything was not what it seemed. She meets many different people she can relate to in the other world where she came from and she if very confused. From all the different 'changes' she can't seem to know who she really is. Kirsten's life so far kind of shadows the book." Daniel smiled as he adjusted his glasses with his right hand. Teal'c and Daniel watched Kirsten sleep relatively nicely before Dr. Fraiser ran into the room.
" Janet! What's going on?" It looked like she ran from the first floor of the base to the infirmary.
" No time to explain. We have to get Kirsten up!" The doctor hastily rummaged through some needles in a drawer before pulling out the right one. She turned and faced Kirsten's bed while getting the syringe ready with the correct amount of the substance inside. Just as she inserted the liquid into Kirsten's IV drip Jack charged into the infirmary.
" What the hell is going on? Fraiser you almost took me out in the hallway!" the angry Colonel stormed to Kirsten's bedside right next to Daniel.
" I'm sorry Colonel, but I realized something this morning while I was getting here. I know we were going to wake Kirsten up today anyway, but something told me that putting her to sleep for so long was bad idea and that I—"
" Muh...evil...waffles...of doom..."
" Kirsten?" Daniel asked slightly worried.
" Wha... what's going on?" She struggled for a second to get her eyes to open.
" I'm sorry I woke you a little earlier than two days but—"
" How early?" the girl's eyes snapped opened very worried that something happened while she was asleep regaining her strength.
" If you mind was weak while you were sleeping, then Bastet would try and take over again." Everyone wore a look of shock on their faces, they never thought of it that way.
" Are you saying every time I go to sleep, there's a risk of Bastet taking over?" Dr. Fraiser nodded solemnly.
" Ha!" was the first sound they heard before Kirsten started to laugh insanely. Still holding her staff, Kirsten wrapped her arms around her stomach feeling the pain from laughing so severely.
" Kirsten!" Jack couldn't believe what he was hearing. It was a few moments before Kirsten calmed down enough to speak clearly.
" Look, if Bastet really wanted to take over, she'd have done it by now. Plus, I don't think she wants to anymore."
" WHAT?!" Jack screamed.
" Well, we've been talking and she said she wants to be good from now on. Also, I don't think she has any other choices open right now. BASTET! Don't say that! That's rude! I darn well know what you feel! Don't back sass me! BASTET THAT'S NAUGHTY LANGUAGE!" Kirsten stopped screaming and looked up at everyone. Kirsten nervously laughed.
" What the hell was that?"
" You mean you can talk to Bastet?" Kirsten's heart rate began to increase on the monitor.
" Well...umm... look I'm still kinda tired. I assure you Bastet isn't going to do anything evil for a while. I just want to rest some more. How about you guys come talk to me again tomorrow?" She smiled and laid back down in her bed to fake sleep.
" You heard the girl, everyone out!" Dr. Fraiser smiled teasingly and herded the three men out of the room.
So, for the rest of the day they left Kirsten in her bed alone, but once and a while Dr. Fraiser would come in and change her IV bag, her temperature, and then leave to do some other doctor-y things. At three in the morning, Kirsten cracked an eye open to make sure no one was there. Satisfied with the surroundings she whispered to her staff.
" Staff, knock out the cameras." The staff glowed for a second and the red lights on the cameras slowly died out.
Kirsten hastily got out of bed and ripped the IV out of her hand. She slowly crept to the door and checked the hallway before stealthily making her way to her room, and down every new hallway she disabled them for a short time just to make sure no one caught her. She checked the last hall to her room and ran down it excited to get her gear on and leave, but in her haste, forgot to turn that hallway's cameras off and her room's camera. Kirsten opened her door to find all of her things had been cleaned up. She growled at the thought of someone coming into her room without her permission, but dismissed the feelings quickly when she realized that her things were moved around. It took her five minutes to find her spandex suit.
She shed the thin nightgown and hastily put her suit on then a khaki colored cape. Her door opened just as quiet when she opened it getting in. While she was on her way to the Stargate computer room she told herself that she was going to save Sam no matter what. When she finally reached the room with the dialing computers, Kirsten raced to the main one and sat down trying to figure out how the stupid computer worked. Just when she thought she couldn't remember, Bastet flashed the second to last symbol in Kirsten's mind.
" Thanks, Bastet..." Kirsten pressed enter on the keyboard, grabbed her staff, and headed out the door to the Stargate.
Because the front blast door was closed, Kirsten didn't even see the four guards in the departure room. She just saw the first guard and immediately attacked him with her staff and sent him flying into another, knocking them both unconscious. The third and fourth guards got a few rounds off before the zat blast from Kirsten's golden staff.
Right when the last guard fell, the Stargate finished dialing and the wormhole glimmered before her. With her legs shaking in slight fear, Kirsten walked up the ramp. When she reached the event horizon she just stared at it, taking in all it's beauty before taking the final step through the Stargate.
RING RING!
"Uh..." Jack rolled over in his bed and slammed his left hand down on the annoying alarm clock.
RING RING!
"Dammit!" He cursed and finally got out of bed to answer the phone. "Yes?" he asked with a very annoyed voice. "Oh sorry General, I didn't know it was you. Yes... yes... WHAT? Yeah sorry I'll be right over. Do what? Yeah I can pick up Daniel on the way there. Yes Sir." Jack slammed down the phone, but kept his hand on the phone, his mind was racing. Why did she go? Was she planning on going in there to save Sam without a good plan and no back up? Jack quickly dressed and charged out of the front door to his house and drove hastily down the dirt road into the city to pick up Daniel.
"As you can see here on this clip, she got out of bed, snuck to her room, changed and left through the Stargate." General Hammond stopped the tape all of SG-1 were watching, obviously Kirsten wasn't as talented as she thought.
"What do we do now?" Jack asked completely shocked that Kirsten actually was pulling off a plan they all thought was going to take a small army of men.
"Nothing. She somehow blocked the planet's number in out database. We've already tried to dial the planet five times, but every time we try the wormhole won't engage." Hammond sat back down in his comfortable chair at the head of the table. This wasn't looking well at all.
"So you're saying ' All we have to do it wait', right?" Daniel asked still very worried for both Sam and Kirsten. He somehow felt responsible. Jacked scratched his head in an annoyed manner,
"I hate waiting games..."
Right as Kirsten stepped through the Stargate, she expected an all out attack, so she thought shield. When she didn't hear or feel anything she slowly opened her right eye and then her left. There seemed to be a light purple colored shield surrounding the girl.
"Wow..." Then she noticed that not even one Jaffa was guarding the Stargate to make sure no one came back for Sam.
So Kirsten slowly crept as silently as she could to the town. Just as she got a few yards away from the town, she noticed the intense smell of fire. Kirsten rushed through the brush that separated her from the town and when she arrived, she wished she hadn't. Very few houses were left standing, but all the rest were burned right to the ground. Half burned bodies littered the ground with expressions of surprise and fear.
The very sight made Kirsten's stomach churn, she turned around to empty pure stomach acid on the ground. When her stomach was happy with the emptiness of itself Kirsten turned around again to check the town of any survivors, but all she found were corpses. Kirsten tried to not look at the faces of the corpse's as she made her way towards the area were Osirius's ship was. She was glad to make it to the edge of the forest on the other side so she didn't have to smell and see all the dead bodies. When she got closer to the still invisible ship Kirsten made sure to walk as quietly as she could in her human form.
She promised herself before she left through the Stargate that she didn't need Bastet's power to defeat an evil basterd like Osirius. Just as the teenage girl made it to the edge of the clearing that held Osirius's ship, she found not one Jaffa guarding her ship. Not one glider flying around trying to blast her to smithereens. She took a few more cautious steps to see if something would happen. When nothing did happen she took a few more, but just as she took her third step forward, the door to Osirius's ship flew open. The sudden shock of the door opening made Kirsten hold her golden staff in front of her hoping it would act on it's own, and it did.
A light purple force field surrounded her in a spherical shape. Kirsten slowly opened her eyes to see that nothing was attacking her. Right when she realized that the shield surrounding her shimmered and then disappeared. Kirsten knew right then that she had to kill Osirius. There was no other way. Her left hand went up and unclipped her cloak and it floated to the cold hard ground.
" I'm coming Sam..."
"What are you laughing at?" Sam demanded in an angry tone. From where Sam was chained up on the wall she couldn't see the screen Osirius was looking at. She didn't turn to look at Sam, but she did answer her.
"Looks like your hero is here. Poor girl..." Sam gasped in surprise.
Kirsten actually came back for her. But... Jack knew the dangers of coming back. How did she get through the Stargate without getting in trouble? While Sam was thinking, Osirius got out of her captain's chair and left through a door.
"Wait! Where are you going?" Osirius only smirked and continued on through the door. Sam only had to wait five more minutes before the door to her right opened and Kirsten charged through the room in her spandex leotard.
"Kirsten!" Sam called out.
"Sam! Are you okay? What are you... wearing?" It looked just like what Osirius was wearing but all black.
"I'm fine... look Osirius left and I don't know why. If we leave now, we can make it before she comes back and—"Kirsten and Sam's attention were caught when the door that Osirius left out of opened suddenly. Kirsten reacted with hostility and got her staff ready. The staff grew longer and became a spear from Kirsten's reaction to the door opening. Just as Kirsten began to calm down, a voice called out to her.
"I see you have come back once more to me, my pet." Kirsten's eyes wildly searched the room, but she couldn't see the body that belonged to the voice. "Have you come to kill me, my pet?" Osirius teased.
"The choice of who lives and who dies is no one's choice. But you seem to like to cross that line. So now I have no other choice but to kill you." The sudden crescendo of laughter made Kirsten and Sam jump a bit.
"You are nothing but a child. But if you come with me, in time, you will become the best assassin the gou'ald system lords have ever seen!"
"Pfft, I'd rather live a boring normal life than live with you. Heck, I'd rather DIE!" Kirsten charged forward to where she thought Osirius was standing. All she hit was air.
"You can not hit what you can not see. Admit it, you need to transform to defeat me."
"NEVER!" Kirsten turned to her left and cut down slamming her spear onto the floor. " AH!" a cut suddenly appeared on Kirsten's right arm. The blood instantaneously began to flow down her arm.
"Kirsten!" Sam called out, very worried.
"Don't worry Sam, I'm—AH!" Another cut across her left cheek.
"You can not win like this. Transform!" Kirsten was having a hard time pin pointing Osirius's position. As long as she stays invisible, Kirsten will never get her.
"I need a plan..." Kirsten whispered to herself.
She knew that Osirius really wanted her to transform, and Kirsten knew that she never wanted to give Osirius what she wanted. Ever. Before the teenage girl could think any longer, she felt somebody's breath crawl across her neck. Just as Kirsten was beginning to turn around, Osirius stabbed Kirsten on her right should and dragged it across her back and stopped at her left hip. The pain was too much and Kirsten collapsed on the floor.
"KIRSTEN!" Sam screamed.
From where Sam was still chained up, the wound looked very serious. It looked as though the blood would never stop flowing. From Kirsten's point of view, on the floor, she could see Sam's mouth moving, but she heard nothing. Kirsten tried desperately to get up and back on her feet, but she could only flip herself on her back. When her back came in contact with the hard metal floor, Sam heard a splat noise that made her skin crawl. Slowly, Kirsten's eyes were glossing over; showing a sign of death that no one could reverse.
"Get up!" A familiar voice called out in her head.
"Bastet?" Kirsten whispered back in her head.
"Are you really going to lose to her? Get up, please!"
"I can't... I lost... I'm sorry Sam..."
"I believe in you, Kirsten. You have the strength. My strength, Sam's, Jack's, Daniel's and Teal'c's strength. If not for me, then for them, please get up and fight."
"I don't know... my body... everything hurts... I'm not even a good fighter."
"Her guard is down! Attack now!"
"But—"
"NOW!" Kirsten's eyes suddenly snapped opened.
She took her staff and stabbed it into the air right above her. A rain of blood droplets splattered all over her face. Osirius's invisible shield wavered, and then died down. Kirsten saw that Osirius was checking her body to see if she alive or not, and Kirsten had caught her off guard and stabbed her right in the heart. Kirsten put her right foot on Osirius's stomach and kicked her off her bloody staff.
"Kirsten! Are you okay?" With the help her staff Kirsten was able to stand and look Sam in the face.
"If you blow up a mother ship's main computer I won't be able to fly, right?" Sam nodded." You have some C-4, right?"
"Yeah, my bag is right over there." Sam turned her head to the right and both saw her black bag.
Kirsten slowly hobbled over and searched the front pockets until she found five pound of C-4. Kirsten turned with great effort and hobbled once again over to the ship's main computer. Then Sam gave her instructions on how to program the time and Kirsten set the bomb. Then the girl slowly made it back to where Sam was chained up and easily cut the metal to set Sam free. When Sam got her balance back, she wrapped her arms around Kirsten's shoulders and both of them left the ship to death with it's master, Osirius.
"Sir! The gate is dialing." The chevron guy announced surprised. General Hammond immediately spoke into the speaker next to him.
"SG-1 to the dialing room immediately!" Hammond knew he didn't have to repeat himself. All of them were worried for Sam and Kirsten. She now had been gone for three hours and the Gate still didn't work dialing to that planet. To make sure that the Gate wasn't broken they dialed to the Alpha site and established a wormhole just fine. A few minutes later Jack, Daniel and Teal'c made it into the Gate room.
"What are the coordinates?" Daniel asked hopefully.
"P4-375. Osirius's planet..." the Chevron guy trailed off. When the seventh symbol was locked, and the wormhole stabilized, they all waited anxiously for a signal.
"Come on, Sam..." Jack urged. It took a second more, but the signal for SG-1 came through and the Chevron guy opened the iris without the General's permission. Two figures slowly made it down the ramp, and one was barely holding on to the other.
"We need a medical team!" Sam screamed as Kirsten collapsed onto the hard metal ramp. The four men in the dialing room all watched with slightly relieved feelings that both of them came back, but the shape that Kirsten was in didn't look too promising. Hammond looked over to see that the three men were already speaking with Major Carter.
"Sam!" Daniel called out and she turned to show them the full view of her dress that reminded them of Osirius.
"Guys..." Sam sounded very relieved.
"Great! Now I have a real live manikin to try ALL my dresses on." Jack joked.
"Yea good to see you too, Colonel." Sam smiled.
"What transpired on the planet, Major Carter?" Teal'c asked while standing in a rest position with his hands behind his back. Sam sighed tiredly.
"I'll tell you in the mission briefing."
"Kirsten just suddenly ran into the room. I told her then that Osirius left and that if we hurried we could escape. The door that Osirius left out of suddenly opened and Osirius started to talk, but we couldn't see her. I then realized that she had the invisible technology that other gou'ald system lords had. Kirsten tried to hit Osirius with her staff spear weapon, but she couldn't see her. Then the fake god encouraged Kirsten to transform, but she didn't want to. Somehow, Osirius got behind her and sliced her back. Kirsten just fell onto the floor like a limp doll. I thought she was dead," Sam paused trying to erase the picture out of her head.
The sight of Kirsten's eyes slowly glossing over as Death slowly started to take her away," Her lips were slightly moving, it was like she was talking to someone in her head. Suddenly her eyes just snapped open and stabbed the air above her with the spear. Osirius's invisibility slowly wore off and Kirsten kicked her to the side. Then, Kirsten went over to my bag and planted some C-4 on the ship's main console, she released me and we made it back to the gate. But while we were dialing, we both realized that I left my GDO in my bag and it was too late to go back and get it. So Kirsten simply told her staff to manipulate some frequencies the Stargate makes to match the GDO signal." Everyone remained silent while they thought. Kirsten actually killed someone?
" So, Doc, how's Kirsten doing?" Jack tried to sound positive, but the wound on her back looked really bad.
" Well, she's stable for now. She has about thirty stitches in her back that's keeping the skin together. We were lucky that the wound didn't get infected because it was so big, but I guess from the powers she got from Bastet, one of them might be healing. I'm guessing she will be awake and fully conscious in about three to four days. All we have to do now, it wait." Jack grumbled angrily.
" I hate waiting games..."
DQ: YAY! I'm done! I told you I'd be done by Sunday! Anywho, only one person is signed up for my email thingy that let's you know the progress on every chapter and when I update. So please sign up! Thanks to Stargatemom for the first person to sign up! I LOVE YOU! but seriously i love all my readers, so if you want to get the max love ever! Sign up... or just be regular reader, which is fine to!
Tinisha: Her next update will approximately be two weeks from now. Both of us apologize for the lack of updates during the school year, but Dragon Queen does have homework and soccer and only has about an hour every day to work on the chapter. Please, at this time, be patient and stick with us,
DQ: How do you... do that...?
Tinisha: Do what?
DQ: My muse has mysterious powers I will never understand.... Anywho I suggest all of you buy Yoko Kanno's music! Especially from Cowboy Bebop and Wolf's Rain! It's what got me to keep going. I just love the first and second CDs from Cowboy Bebop... heh.... Anywho,
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