Chapter 18- Invasion and Kawalsky's problem

A/N: I know in the episode that it was Sam that Kawalsky took into the elevator, but I am switching it for this story.

Laura looked up as a red alarm went off and a voice yelled for security to the infirmary as she and Carter reached the control room. Laura had just opened the door and froze. Kawalsky was there, typing what appeared to be coordinates into the computer. "Kawalsky, what are you doing?" Carter asked in shock as Kawalsky grabbed her and threw her to the ground.

"Carter! Captain Kawalsky, stop!" Laura shouted. He then turned to her and his eyes glowed and he went back to the computers. "Close the blast doors!" Laura nearly screamed at a tech as he came to.

"Emergency in the control room! Emergency in the control room!" Carter went to a mike and yelled into it.

Kawalsky grabbed Laura from behind and dragged her out, his hand over her mouth. "Help me, Harcesis," Kawalsky said in the voice of the Goa'uld.

"Kawalsky!" Kawalsky turned to see Jack standing there. Jack's eyes went to Laura briefly.

"Dad!" Laura screamed as she tried to break free and Kawalsky dragged her to the elevators. Laura heard guns being cocked.

"Don't shoot! It might hit my kid!" Jack ordered as Kawalsky dragged Laura into the elevator and closed the door, throwing Laura against the wall.

"You know, they won't let you out of this mountain alive, Goa'uld. When those doors open, they'll shoot on sight. You know that," Laura said as she braced her hands against the wall. In what amounted as desperation Lura reached for the panel that operated the emergency stop switch. Kawalsky grabbed her from behind and tossed her into the wall, causing her to lose consciousness.


Laura woke up in the infirmary with a small groan of pain. "Owww! Laura whimpered, her hand going to the back of her head.

"Miss, O'Neill, are you all right?" The doctor asked coming over to her. He pressed a hand firmly to her forehead.

"I think so. What happened? What am I doing in here?" Laura asked, looking around with her dark blue eyes.

"You've been hurt. You were in the elevator. When the doors opened, Captain Kawalsky asked us to help you and said you'd been hurt," the doctor explained.

"Kawalsky? Doctor, that wasn't Kawalsky. I think he's become a Goa'uld. His voice was like Apophis's voice," Laura said.

"I know. Captain Carter said the same thing and I ran tests. The Goa'uld has wrapped around his spinal cord, but it has not taken full control of him," the doctor said.

"It must be an infant, a Primta. They can't completely take the host, being as they are an immature Goa'uld. Where's Dad?" Laura asked, sitting up.

"In the conference room. Why?" The doctor asked.

"I need to tell him something and you may want to show them the tests that you took," Laura said, standing up weakly.

"Miss, O'Neill, you are no condition to be walking," the doctor protested.

"Probably not, but they need to know this, Doctor," Laura said as they walked to the conference room. Finding it empty, they went to the room where Kawalsky was held.

"Laura!" Jack went to Laura and hugged her tightly.

"I'm okay, Dad. Dad, the doctor has something to show you," Laura said, holding his arm much like she had when she was very little and scared.

"Are you all right, Miss O'Neill?" General Hammond asked concerned.

"My head hurts a little, but I'll be fine. It'll pass. Doctor?" Laura asked. The doctor put in a video that showed an x-ray. Some reddish object was twisted around the spine at the base of the neck. Laura felt woozy. That had to be the Primta in Kawalsky.

"The parasite's wrapped around his spine," the doctor said, indicating the parasite with a pointer. Jack and Daniel went to Kawalsky was strapped to a bed, his back facing them.

"It's a Goa'uld. Probably an infant. Right, Laura?" Jack turned to Laura.

"Right. No more than dealing with a baby. I think that the reason it hasn't been able to take you over completely is it's not mature yet," Laura said, feeling sympathy for Kawalsky. At this moment he was Kawalsky. He hadn't asked for this.

"It's what's causing your blackouts," Jack offered, stroking the back of Laura's neck absently.

"What are you saying? I got one of those parasites in me? Well, how does that happen?" Kawalsky asked in shock.

"We were kind of hoping you could tell us. You didn't feel it happening?" Jack asked.

"No," Kawalsky scoffed.

"When was the first time you blacked out?" Daniel asked.

"I was here. We'd just come back through, from Chulak. I thought it was just from coming back through the Stargate. We were helping that kid. Casey was his name. It was a... a sharp... oh, Jack. I thought I had wrenched my neck. Well, anyway, Casey, he was all right. They took him out of there. Oh, Jack, you gotta help me. You gotta get this thing out of me," Kawalsky said, sounding close to tears.

"That's the plan," Jack said in a hushed voice.

"When I was out, did I hurt anybody?" Kawalsky asked.

"There's one man dead. A few more hurt," Jack said.

"From what you can see, Laura's going to be all right," Daniel said.

"Oh, I didn't mean to hurt you, kid," Kawalsky said.

"I know that. It's that thing inside you. None of this has been your fault," Laura said comfortingly.

"My kid's right. You're not responsible, Charlie. It's not your fault. It's that thing that's inside of you. Look, as soon as they know how to do it, they'll cut it out of you. Right now, you gotta fight it," Jack said.

Kawalsky sighed. "I don't mind tellin' ya, this is scaring me big-time," Kawalsky said with a shaking breath.

"I know. You have every right to be scared. I know I would and I just have the knowledge of what is inside you. But, I think I have an idea. Dad, I need to see Teal'C," Laura said, breaking free from Jack and going to Teal'C's quarters.


Jack opened the door to Teal'C's quarters and Laura, General Hammond, and Kennedy entered behind her. Teal'C was sitting on his bed, his eyes closed. "Teal'C, look this way please," Kennedy said and Teal'C turned to face them, standing.

"What is the emergency? They would not tell me, Harcesis," Teal'C said, looking only at Laura.

"That's none of your concern now," Kennedy butted in.

"Kawalsky's become infected with a Goa'uld," Jack said, earning a glare from Kennedy.

"And you wish to see if I still carry the Goa'uld within me," Teal'C said.

"As much as it sickens me to even ask, yes, Teal'C. I have an idea and if what I'm thinking pans out, we are going to need you and Junior," Laura said with a feeling of revulsion.

"Junior?" Hammond asked.

"Yeah. We had better call the Goa'uld in Teal'C somethin.' Junior's the best I could come up with," Laura said, wrinkling her nose in disgust over what they were about to see.

"Miss O'Neill has a point. Yes, show us the symbiote now, please," Kennedy said. Teal'C unbuttoned his army uniform and the Goa'uld poked his head out with a high-pitched squeal.

"I hate those things!" Jack said, looking away as it appeared to look at Laura and hissed.

"You've seen enough?" Laura asked Kennedy, fighting down the bile that rose in her throat and the symbiote went back into Teal'C's stomach.

"You understand, we had to look and see this-" Kennedy started to say.

"What are it's demands?" Teal'C asked.

"So far, it's only managed to rear it's butt-ugly head whenever Kawalsky blacks out," Jack said. But it's already killed a man," Jack said.

"Then there will be a struggle for the host body. It must have sought a host in desperation before it was mature," Teal'C said.

"We intend to remove it before that happens," Hammond said.

"General, it will kill the host if you try. Once it is one with the host, it is capable of killing him," Laura said.

"So... what do we do kiddo?" Jack asked, a question Laura wasn't sure of the answer to.