"Alex!" Cian shouted. He didn't know what happened, he'd just handed it to her. She was just sitting there screaming like the device was burning her but she wouldn't let go. He tried grabbing, pulling, shoving her but to no avail, she wouldn't give it up. "What's happening! Tell me!"

They were making a terrible racket and she wouldn't calm down. Her eyes were squeezed shut, her breath sharp and rasping.

"Cian! Alex!" Sam's voice came from right next to him. He was visible. Sam's voice was shocked and frightened. They had just appeared out of nowhere, Jack and Daniel were slower on the uptake and only looked up when Sam's startled cry caught their ears.

Alex's breathing calmed slightly, she had a soft sheen of sweat across her forehead and her eyes were still closed. Cian's breathing was nowhere near as steady, he felt as if his heart was in his throat, his palms were moist and he couldn't get his heart to quiet.

"Cian! What's happening? What has she done?" Sam said moving Cian out of the way to take Alex's pulse.

"I...I...thought…" Cian began but he couldn't end his sentence. He hadn't thought at all.

"What happened?" Jack asked putting a comforting hand on the boy's shoulder.

"I just handed it to her," Cian mumbled fighting back tears.

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"What's happening?" Alex asked the woman. She could feel a great sense on unease creeping over her mind. This woman didn't look at all friendly and warm like she had at the graveyard. She seemed sinister and cruel; her eyes were slits and her smile unnerving. It sent shivers up her spine.

"Sure," the woman sneered "I'll tell you," the woman gestured to the orb in the centre of the room "All you have to do is put them together,"

Alex looked down at the device in her hands, the metal glinted evilly. Something wasn't right. "How?"

"What do you mean 'How'?" the woman screeched. "Don't play games with me Goa'uld!"

"I'm not a Goa'uld!" Alex shouted indignantly.

"Put them together!"

"Make me!" Alex said stamping her foot rather childishly.

"You don't want that," the woman threatened. She waved a stick thin arm and bony fingers in Alex's direction and the device split open to slide into a star shaped disk. "Don't make me ask you again,"

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"WOOH!" Jack shouted as the device in Alex's hands split open with a menacing hum. Letters of some language burned onto the smooth surface and Alex screamed. "Alex! Can you hear me? Can you tell us what's happening?"

Cian had filled them in on everything that had conspired from the moment he found out nobody could see him. SG-1 were as confused as the two children had been, there was obviously an unknown force playing with them, manipulating.

"Daniel do you recognise this text?" Sam asked and Daniel drew nearer to get a better look.

"It looks Ancient, but it's crude," Daniel said peering at the glowing figures "It's like it's been handwritten, quickly,"

"Do you know what it says?" Jack asked impatiently.

"Well I think this symbol means 'conqueror' or 'invasion',"

"Oh great, not another one," Jack quipped "Can you work out what the others say?"

"I'll need my books," Daniel said and rushed from the room.

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"Put them together!" the woman was getting more and more frustrated with Alex who refused to budge from her current position by the door.

"Why? What would happen?" Alex said grinning at the woman's obvious annoyance with her.

"You'll know as soon as you do. As. I. say!" the woman emphasized each word she practically spat at Alex.

"You do it," Alex said and she tried to drop the device but it wouldn't fall from her grasp.

"That is impossible," the woman scoffed.

"So…" Alex grinned "You need me,"

"Don't be ridiculous!" the woman yelled "I need no one,"

"That must be lonely," Alex said in mock sympathy.

"Don't ridicule me!" The woman's eye narrowed further, if that was even possible "Do you know what kind of power I possess? You Goa'uld greatest weakness is your arrogance,"

"I'm not a Goa'uld!"