Chapter 14- Skaara Lost and a Narrow Escape

They made their way up the hill. Laura, Jack, and everyone stopped as they saw Jaffa and Goa'ulds go through the gate. "No," Laura heard her father say softly as he looked at Skaara's familiar dreadlocks from a distance. Considering how he was going with them, Laura could see it was too late for her father's friend. The Goa'uld had taken him and it would take an act of God to free him from the torment he was probably now in. Laura knew better than to believe that fiction about nothing of the host surviving.

"No," Jack said again and made his way down the hill.

"Dad, stop! It's too late!" Laura said belatedly.

"Skaara!" Jack ran to the gate. Skaara turned back and with a smile threw Jack back with his riband device.

"Dad!" Laura ran down the hill and stooped by Jack's side. Skaara looked at her briefly and went through the gate. A man about her father's age looked at her before going through the gate as well. Something about him was familiar, but Laura couldn't place his face. He went before she could think too much about it.


Aldwin had the strangest feeling as he followed Klorel and his retinue through the gate. The Harcesis girl's eyes were familiar and by the look on her face she had recognized him, even if she couldn't recall his name or where she had seen him before. She had to be Tok'Ra. No Goa'uld Harcesis would live as long as this one had appeared to. They were murdered within minutes. Aldwin wracked his brain. Aldwin's Harcesis had been a boy that had been killed by an Ashrak when he was three seasons. Cordesh's youngling had been hidden and then killed when she was 15 seasons old. The only one that came to mind that would be the right age of this youngling would be Jolinar and Lantash's youngling. Jolinar and her host Rosha had hidden her and wouldn't even tell Lantash and his host Martouf where the girl was. It would bring comfort to Lantash, if this youngling was Norinna, that she was alive and safe. Of course the DNA test had to prove that. Anise could run the test and if she was Norinna, they can then tell the girl's father as he had been worried about his mate, since Jolinar had disappeared a few weeks ago.

Aldwin had been pleased with himself that he had remembered to grab the thin blanket she had slept on in the dungeon. The Tok'Ra DNA and her human DNA would show up in the blanket and also show who fathered her. If they could figure out that it was Norinna, they could bring her back among the Tok'Ra as she would be in danger and it wouldn't be long until another Goa'uld like Apophis tried to kill her. A Tok'Ra harcesis was just as much in danger as a Goa'uld harcesis.


Laura helped Jack up as the wormhole disappeared. "Don't worry, Dad. We'll get him back. I don't know how, but we will," Laura said, squeezing her father's hand.

"C'mon. Let's go!" Kawalsky ordered sharply and Laura noticed the captives coming down the hill.

"Did either of you see the symbols?" Daniel asked anxiously out of breath.

Jack shook his head. "No. I'm sorry, Daniel," Laura said.

"Sir, we've got movement in the trees. A lot of movement in the trees. We got hostiles, Sir. A lot of hostiles moving in," a voice said urgently over Jack's walkie-talkie pinned to his jacket.

"Okay, people, we're going on a little field trip," Kawalsky barked at the group behind them. "Daniel, kid, get busy on that stargate. We got company," Kawalsky said. Well, duh, Laura thought. All the Jaffa coming through the trees was never a good sign. It didn't take a harcesis to see that. Laura and Daniel ran for the gate as Kawalsky barked orders at others.

"Negative. That's my job," Laura heard Jack's voice say faintly. "Captain, help Daniel and Laura. Once you've sent the signal, I want you to go through. Tell them we're bringing company," Jack said. Laura looked down at the DHD device and wondered if she and Daniel could even remember the coordinates to Earth.

Carter moved next to them and dialed in the GPO attached to her arm as Daniel looked at notes. "Hurry up, Daniel! I want to get off Chulak!" Laura complained.

"Dr. Jackson?" Carter asked.

"I know. I have it right here. I have it here. I know I've got it," Daniel said, thumbing through his notes.

'Come on!" Laura nearly shouted.

"Daniel!" Jack shouted.

"Here!" Daniel stopped at a page.

"Go! Go! Go!" Carter said urgently. Daniel showed the paper to Laura who started putting in the coordinates.

"Send the signal as soon as it opens, Captain," Laura said as she punched the fourth symbol.

"Pull 'em out," Laura heard Jack say to Kawalsky.

"Fall back. Fall back," Kawalsky ordered as Laura opened the gate.

"Is it working?" Daniel asked Carter as she tapped in a code.

"Oh, let's hope so," Carter said.

"If not, I'll be the first to know," Laura said as she ran towards the gate and through the wormhole, Daniel and Carter behind her. She turned back to look before running into the stargate and rolling down the ramp at the SGC.