Sticks and Stones - Chapter 38 - by Emma Nisbet (grnfield)
# Chapter warning - death of a (minor) character in this chapter #
Sam and Lou stifled gasps and looked at each other in confusion as Osiris voiced his desire. Trapped as they were in the tunnels they could do nothing to help the two Lieutenants below them. Davies had mercifully remained unconscious until this point but Sam noticed that his eyes were now open and that he was silently watching Sands being held at the mercy of Osiris.
As they watched it became clear that that the System Lord was expecting a reply from the terrified Jimmy Sands.
When no reply was immediately forthcoming the Goa'uld slid his gold encased hand further down Jimmy's face until he had the young man gripped tightly around the throat. Squeezing hard enough to impede the Lieutenants breathing Osiris also kept up the pressure on the young mans hair with his other hand and leant right down until the pair were eye to eye.
"I said…" he hissed, "That I want SG-1. I do not expect silence in reply to my request. You will answer when you are spoken to."
Struggling for air and panicking badly, Sands started to splutter. Osiris slowly loosened the death grip around his throat finally allowing the young man to speak.
"Th…th…there is no SG-1," he gasped.
Osiris's eyes flared and he let out an infuriated roar. Without a moments hesitation he stood up to Sarah's full height and used his Goa'uld supplied strength to pull Sands up by the throat. The young man automatically found his feet but then coughed and frantically started to claw at Sarah's slender arm as he slowly started to suffocate.
Davies could stand by no longer and attempted to rise to his knees to help his friend. The Jaffa noticed his movements and immediately the terrified young man found himself lifted to his feet and held between two huge warriors. With his choke hold still around Sand's neck, Osiris looked over at him with distain and under his scrutiny Davies promptly became a quivering wreck.
"You Tau'ri will defy me no longer. I warned you that I could inflict a far greater pain than my Jaffa and you will not lie to me again. I want you to tell me the gate address where SG-1 can currently be located, and I want you to tell me now."
"B…b…but…" Lieutenant Davies was by now panicking so badly that he could barely speak.
"You…Will…Tell…Me…Now." Osiris spoke, punctuating each work with a flexing of his hand around Sands' throat. The young man was barely conscious by now and had stopped scrabbling against the arm that held him. As Osiris squeezed harder his eyes started to roll back in his head and the only thing stopping him crashing to the floor was the hand around his neck.
Davies squeezed his eyes shut, trying to cut out the awful vision of his friend's suffocation. Hesitantly he said, "I…I…can't…I…can't…can't tell you w…what you…you want to know. I can't…can't…r…r…really I can't."
Osiris flew into a frenzy at this. In a moment the petite body of Sarah Gardner lifter poor Jimmy Sands clear off the ground by his throat and shook him - hard. Sam and Ferretti heard his neck snap from their hiding place in the ceiling and both had tears shimmering in their eyes as they saw Osiris discard the now-limp body and toss it aside like a piece of garbage.
The sight proved too much for Mickey Davies and his legs gave way beneath him. Held up only by the two Jaffa who were flanking him the young man dissolved into sobs. "I…it's t…t…true. There is n…n…no SG-1."