Reflections
Chapter 8
Notes: freaking notes!
Spoilers: There but for the Grace of God, Point
of View, Shades of Grey, Nemesis.
Thanks to Farzana, my wonderful beta.
Again, still looking for beta work; if you need
one, write me.
Sam gave a sigh as she looked up the hallway,
the coast was clear and she had a blinding headache.
"Carter, lets
go." Col. O'Neill ordered, unaware of Sam's discomfort. Sam kept up but her headache was
distracting. They were coming up on
thirty six hours in Jack's reality and she was beginning to think that it was
going to be less that 48 hours before she couldn't go on.
Jack had gone to the
Asguard via the address where Sam and Thor had destroyed the 'O'Neill' and he
hadn't returned yet. Since his
disappearance sg-1 had found the remaining SGC members and those who hadn't
made it.
Makepeace and Hammond
were being held for torture, but apparently Daniel was dead, though there was
no evidence proving it. His
disappearance was suspicious. Tebias had survived the invasion and was making a
mess of things. Sam suspected she was
one of the causes of her pounding head. Sam also suspected that she wasn't the only one holding off wringing
Tebias' neck.
So
far, sg-1 had escaped being caught themselves while they freed the prisoners,
but the Goa'uld were no fools and it was becoming harder and harder to evade
them.
Sam blinked and
followed Col. O'Neill as they crept down the hall to the embarkation room,
hopefully to find Apophis and kill him before he could make more trouble for
them. Jack peered through the doorway
and set his eyes on Apophis for the first time since arriving at this
world.
"Teal'c?"
Jack blinked, it wasn't Apophis at all: it was Teal'c who was leading the
attack against earth. Jack backed out
of the doorway and ordered a retreat away from the room.
Once they were far
enough away, O'Neill filled them in. Sam and Daniel looked pretty surprised, but Teal'c raised an eyebrow, as
always, and looked impressed.
"Teal'c isn't
even a Goa'uld, and yet..." Daniel mused.
"Do you doubt
the T-man?" Jack asked.
"No, I, I,
I..."
"He can do
whatever he sets his mind to," Jack quipped.
"So what's the
plan?" Daniel asked, looking between Teal'c and Jack. "Are we going to wait for Jack, I mean
the other Jack, or are we going to do something?"
"If the Asguard
come through, we won't need to, but Jack has been gone a while, and it's
getting harder to keep you out of the way of the Jaffa." Major Carter
stated, un-necessarily. "Sir, in
my opinion, I think we need to get moving. I don't know how long it's going to take the Asguard."
"Hey, Thor'll
come through!" O'Neill protested.
"Sir, I agree,
but the Jaffa are becoming very thorough and we may not be able to stay out of
their way long enough."
"I concur,
O'Neill, we should prepare a plan in case Colonel O'Neill is not
successful." Teal'c advised.
"And we still
have a room or two full of survivors not yet evacuated." Nodding, Daniel
added his own two cents.
"Ok, then. I guess it won't hurt to be prepared. Let's go."
Sg-1 turned back to their stronghold to think
up... something.
Teal'c strutted down
the hall toward the embarkation room, another Jaffa's metal uniform gracing his
strong body. He carried his staff and
tried to look as powerful as he could, which wasn't hard. All Jaffa he met on his little journey all
bowed to him and gave him confused looks as they passed. Teal'c felt good having people look up to
him and praise him, it was something he wasn't used to, but could become
accustomed to it easily.
He
entered the room; "Jaffa kree!" All the Jaffa turned toward him at the sound of his familiar voice. Lord Teal'c nearly fell over he was so
surprised to see himself, that is Teal'c. "What is this?" Teal'c bellowed toward his counterpart. "Who are you?"
"Who are you, to
take such a voice with me?" Lord Teal'c cried angrily waiving his staff in
Teal'c direction.
"Arrest this
impostor!" Teal'c shouted at the Jaffa. "Take him away immediately."
"No, I am the
true Lord Teal'c, it is he who shall be arrested!"
"He is
wrong!" This loud banter went on
for several minutes until Teal'c lost his patience and charged. He hit Lord Teal'c hard in the chest with an armor clad fist.
"I do not know
who you are, but you are no match for me." Teal'c stated steely.
"I am Lord
Teal'c, I defeated the false god Apophis and took reign over my planet to save
my people from slavery." Lord Teal'c struck back and the two men became
involved in a fierce battle. The Jaffa,
so baffled they merely stood around them in a circle and watched. No one saw the entrance of the sg-1 and the
few who remained well enough to fight; slowly, silently the small group took
out as many Jaffa as they could without being seen.
Sam still continued
to fight the blinding headache that dominated her thought. She paused behind a Jaffa to rub her eyes,
and when she turned back to zat him, she met him face to staff weapon. He reached down and pulled her to her feet
and right off them, she dangled above the floor by her neck and could do
nothing to save herself.
Jack looked over to
see Sam being dragged off by the Jaffa who had not warned the others of her
presence. He didn't like the way the
Jaffa was looking at her. He motioned
to Daniel what he was going to do and gave him instructions to follow, then he
crept away in the direction that the Jaffa and Sam went.
"Sam where are you,"
he asked the air, peering into each door way he passed. Jack came to the end of the hallway when he
heard a light thump and a scrambling sound from just around the corner. With his zat pulled and cocked, he crept
around the bend to find Sam fighting the lustful Jaffa off. Before Jack could intervene though, Sam
whipped out her knife and stabbed the perve in the arm. He yelped and tossed her aside, cursing like
a sailor. Getting angrier, he shoved
Sam against the concrete wall causing her to bang her head.
Jack would have
jumped in if Daniel hadn't come running down the hall followed by the rest of
the survivors and the hoards of Jaffa. Oh crap!
I know, I know, this is a terrible place to
stop, but I gotta do it somewhere. I've
got the next chapter in the works, and should soon be out, and I'm going to
answer all unanswered questions in the next chapter too. If you're confused about something, let me
know and I'll input it in one of the next parts.
That's it for know,
See ya
Peace
