Lost - part 37
I have now finished writing Lost!! Aaaaaaa!! I'll put up the final chapters over the course of the next two weeks . . . and even though I've technically finished it I'm still very very very interested in your feedback/criticisms/suggestions etc, so keep those reviews coming! The last chapter is Chapter 40.
Jack was running. He had no weapons, no radio, nothing to fight with, but he wouldn't need it. He would fight tooth and nail to protect Sam if he must. So on he ran.
Images and memories flashed through his mind. Sam, laughing as they lay in bed together at dawn, Sam, calling his name as they made love. Sam, crying with happiness as they celebrated her pregnancy. Sam, twirling a stray strand of hair round her finger as she worked in the bunker.
Sam, covered in blood after Tomah had shot her.
He ran faster.
Sam struggled as the jaffa dragged her forward and forced her to kneel. She looked up defiantly at the figure looming above dressed in a golden sari and sneering.
"Major Carter. This is a pleasant surprise."
"Jack!" Daniel called. The Air Force colonel had reached the rings, where Daniel had waited for him.
"Where's Sam?" Jack demanded.
"They've taken her, she's on Nirrti's ship. Jack you can't go down there." Daniel said, as Jack moved to the light-sensitive control crystal.
"Why the hell not?"
"You'll be trapped! Jack just stop and listen to me! Sam has the ring control device. Without it you'll be trapped in the lab with heavily armed jaffa pouring in from the ship. You can't help her by going down there."
"So what do you suggest, Daniel? I just sit here and hope Nirrti gives her back?" Jack barked.
"I don't know, just . . . just give me some time."
"To do WHAT?" Jack yelled.
"To reason with Nirrti. Just please don't do anything rash and stupid."
Jack paced around like a caged lion. "My wife and child are up there, Daniel."
"I know." Daniel said quietly. "But for the moment, there's nothing you can do. Nirrti can control the rings from the ship, but we have no control down here. Just let me try this my way. Maybe I can make a deal."
Jack looked up sharply, his eyes full of cold determination. "If it comes to it, offer me to Nirrti. Tell her if she lets Sam go she can have me, and I'll come willingly."
Daniel held Jack's gaze, a cold dread creeping through his being. "Wait with the council." He told Jack, then disappeared.
Sam struggled against the leather straps that bound her to a bed in Nirrti's medical lab. It was useless, she needed a knife, or just something sharp. Daniel had shown up a few minutes previously and told her to hang in there, to which she responded by yelling at him to get her out of there.
They doors creaked open with the trademark ominous groan of all Goa'uld doors. She twisted her head and Nirrti came into her line of sight.
"Your ascended companion wants me to release you." Nirrti told her with cold amusement.
Sam kept her mouth shut. She wasn't giving the snake-head anything to work with.
"However, it seems he has nothing but empty threats to back up his demand, so you will be our guest, Samantha, for as long as you are useful."
Sam closed her eyes and cursed Daniel in her head. You can stop this Daniel, do something.
Nirrti stroked a finger over one of her instruments. "Your body has always fascinated me, Samantha. When first my servants told me they had captured you, I thought to make you my host." Sam resisted the urge to shudder as Nirrti's hand traveled up her leg to rest on her stomach,
"But this . . . this is a far greater prize." Her fingers fluttered over Sam's womb. "An unborn child. Such potential." Nirrti's eyes gleamed. A cold fear gripped Sam's heart.
"You touch my baby and I swear to God, I'll kill you." Sam said quietly, her eyes locked on Nirrti's. The Goa'uld smiled cruelly.
"You are in no position to make threats, Major Carter. The child will be mine, and there is nothing you can do about it."
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