Title: "People Don't Just Disappear" - that's just the stuff legends are
made of!
Author: Zoe Hands
E-Mail: zoehands@hotmail.com
Category: General
Rating: PG-13, angst
Season: About the end of 4
Summary: SG-1, General Hammond and Janet come under fire.
Disclaimer: Stargate SG-1 isn't mine and I wasn't paid to write this – damn shame.
Author's notes: First and foremost my punctuation sucks! but I've tried to make it as readable as possible.
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I posted the beginning of this story on here about 7 months ago! I apologise it's taken me this long to write the rest of it, well it's almost finished, should be by Saturday, so I thought to jog your memories I'll post it all anew - chapter one today, two on Tuesday, Three on Thursday and the final one at the weekend and thanx to the people who e-mailed me to remind me to get my ass in gear and finish it
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People don't just Disappear.
Janet stumbled through the event horizon and collapsed on the ramp, exhausted and bloody.
"Medical team to the gate room" was the message resonating over the PA and Janet thought of the irony of the moment, how it would normally be her that came running to that call, instead her colleagues would be the ones coming to her aid. Colonel Keller and Major Davis knelt down beside Janet...
"Doctor Fraiser, where is the General, where are SG-1?" asked Davis with an air of urgency in his voice. Janet closed her eyes as if surpressing anything she might want to say, trying to hold back something...something almost too painful to recall. "Janet, it's imperative we know what has happened" pressed Davis. Before Janet could say a word, Davis was pushed aside by the arriving medical team...
"Right, lets get her onto a gurney and to the infirmary right away" ordered Doctor Warner
"Doctor we need to find out what happened before we can plan a rescue mission" said Davis as he stopped Warner from leaving with the gurney by grabbing his arm
"Listen if I don't treat her injuries, it's possible she'll never be able to tell you anything, now let me do my job!" snapped Warner as he snatched back his arm from Davis' grasp, the tension in the air all too apparent.
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8 hours earlier...
"Colonel O'Neill can you hear me?" said Hammond as he tried to raise Jack via the MALP through an open wormhole
"Yes General, I can hear you" responded Jack
"What is your current situation?"
"Well General, things here are pretty much at a dead stop, they say they'll only agree terms with the commander of the SGC, which despite a long successful career is sadly not me" barbed Jack
"Have they agreed to share their medical technology in return for the iron we promised them?"
"Well sir, they say that such a deal can only be finalised between the leaders of the two parties concerned, I'd say the risk assessment is pretty low General, they seem like pretty peaceful folk"
"Okay Jack, tell them they can expect me within the hour, inform them I'll be bringing Doctor Fraiser with me, so she can have a better look at this technology they're offering"
"Yes Sir, I'll have Carter wait by the gate for you"
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The present...
Janet's eyes slowly fluttered open, and as she began to recognise where she was, she flew upwards into a seated position and began to remove the nodes monitoring her stats. Warner noticed she was awake and rushed to her side to prevent her from removing anymore of the nodes and her IV, "Janet, Janet! Listen to me, you're in the SGC, you're going to be okay" reasoned Warner
"I know exactly where I am, we have to go back, we have to help them, Oh God, they're still there, we have to go back, help me please" panted Janet as she began to hyperventilate, her eyes were wide with fear.
"Okay Janet, just try and calm down for me, take deep slow breathes" Said Warner stretching over her almost in a restraining position
"No you don't understand, they're hurt, I came back to get help, how long have I been here, they were expecting me right back with help, " said Janet frantically trying to get Warner to understand and pushing him backwards as she tried to get out of bed.
Warner was convinced she wasn't herself and needed proper restraint "Nurse, 5cc's hyperbaline". The nurse quickly returned with the needle containing the sedative
"No, NO! What are you doing? no I have to help them!" shouted Janet as she saw the needle coming her way,
"No Janet, what you need to do is relax or I'll be forced to sedate you" warned Doctor Warner.
Taking a deep breath Janet answered "Okay, okay but you need to listen to me"
"Yes Janet I am listening" said Warner rather patronisingly
"No you're not listening, where is Colonel Keller or Major Davis, I have to speak with them"
"Nurse, see if you cant get them down here will you" said Warner to the waiting nurse, he then turned once more to face Janet "Now will you calm down"
"Just get them here now, please".
Colonel Keller walked in, closely followed by Major Davis, "Janet, can you tell us what's happened to the General and SG-1" asked Davis once more
"The Colonel ordered me to come back through the gate to get reinforcements, they're depending on those reinforcements, you need to get there now"
"What you don't seem to understand is I need to know what happened before I can send anymore troops through that gate!" interjected Colonel Keller who was the senior officer in Jack and Hammond's absence.
"No Sir! What you don't seem to understand is without immediate help General Hammond and SG-1 will be dead!" barked Janet
"Doctor Fraiser, you've already been back over 36 hours" said Davis trying to engage her attention
"What?" said Janet taken aback by Davis' last statement
"You were hurt when you came through and you were brought here to the infirmary where you have been asleep for the last 36 hours" explained Davis
"For Christ's sake, didn't you think of waking me up! Don't you care what's happened to them?! We have to go now!" said Janet, who became very animated once more
"Janet, we have teams on stand-by ready to go on a rescue mission, but I can't give them the go ahead until I know exactly what transpired on that planet, now please tell me what happened, who attacked you?" asked Keller
"The natives became hostile once they realised that the deal SG-1 had negotiated couldn't go ahead, they seemed so peaceful but it was just a cover, they wanted the iron to help make a weapon, once General Hammond knew that he couldn't authorise it, so they thought they would hold us to ransom, so we tried to fight our way out of there but rather than let us get away they opened fire"
"How many were there, what sort of weapons did they have, did they take up offensive positions around the gate, will we be ambushed as soon as we go through?, we've sent a UAV but it's sending back no telemetry, we surmised they're using some sort of scrambler, once I know this I can get a team through that gate, now it's important you be accurate"
"They have projectile weapons much like our own, there were around 20 of the natives that attacked us, it was just a small building where the meeting took place, Sam was shot in the chest right away and the General tried to help her but he was also shot in the leg and Colonel O'Neill had to order a retreat as we couldn't get anywhere near them to help, we took cover in a small sort of storage shed about half a click from the meeting house, that's when Colonel O'Neill ordered me to head for the gate and get reinforcements"
"Okay, Davis tell SG teams 2, 5 and 6 they have a go!" Ordered Keller
"I'll need to go with them...to lead you to the shed"
"I'm sure we'll find it," said Davis trying to comfort Janet "besides you're in no state to go with them"
"I'm fine! And you'll need a doctor to go" argued Janet
"Then Doctor Warner can accompany the SG Teams offworld" interceded Keller with an air of finality, but Janet was having none of it
"No, I can show you exactly where they are, and Sam needs my help, she was shot in the chest I can help her, she's my friend!" said Janet visibly shaken and concerned. Keller and Davis exchanged looks, Davis tilted his head to one side as if to say 'I'm not sure this is a good idea', Keller looked back down to Janet, who was peering up at him through glazed eyes.
"Okay Doctor, but you hang in the rear until the area is secured"
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SG Teams 2, 5 and 6 exited through the gate with Janet in tow, there was a misplaced calm in the air, not a sound to be heard from either animal nor man.
"It's this way," said Janet disturbing the silence that descended on them from all around. The teams cautiously hurried along the track which Janet and General Hammond had been escorted down by Sam, now almost two days ago. Janet soon found herself stretching further and further ahead of the SG Teams, so Major Miller, the leader of SG-6 caught her up and took her arm, "What are you doing?" asked Janet angrily
"Now you listen to me Doctor and you listen good, I understand you want to help your friends, hell they're my friends too, but neither you or I know what's waiting out there for us, we could be ambushed at any moment, we are going as fast as it is safe to go, we'll be no good to them dead now will we?" said Miller
Janet knew he was right but it didn't matter, all she could see were visions of her best friend being shot in the chest and going down, and then the General too being shot as he went to her aid, she too had wanted to go back to help but it was the Colonel who had grabbed her by the jacket and physically dragged her with him to safety, firing his weapon all the way. She recalled that the Colonel had said "We'll get them, don't you worry, but now is not the time". Janet never took her eyes off Sam and the General all the way as she was being taken back, she saw as the General despite being shot himself covered Sam's body with his own, protecting her from further injury, and she remembered noting that Sam was so still, deadly still.
As they neared the shed where Colonel O'Neill, Daniel and Teal'c had taken refuge the silence was still deafening, it drowned out even the slightest hope that someone may be alive in there.
"SG-2 cover our six, SG Teams 5 and 6 on my lead" ordered Miller, "Janet you remain in the rear until the area is secured"
Janet gave him an accepting nod.
They rushed the hut in a swift dynamic movement, but nothing. The shed was unoccupied but there were tell-tail blood stains against the wall and covering the floor like a liquid carpet, Miller winced at what this indicated, he radioed back to the waiting Janet and SG-2 "It's clear, move up."
Janet jogged to the hut and saw it deserted except for bullet shells and blood splatters and puddles, she closed her eyes as if trying to deny them from witnessing what looked like a kill house, she left the shed and began to take deep breathes "Well what are we waiting for, they're obviously not here, lets get moving" she said embracing the need she felt to be actively doing something
"Okay you heard the lady lets move out, Grant take point" ordered Miller.
It wasn't long before the building where the meeting had taken place was in view; it too was shrouded in a quiet desolation, bullet holes clearly visible in the perimeter wall. "As before SG-2 watch our six, the rest on me!" whispered Miller. Once again they rushed the building and once again they were disappointed as it yielded nothing but blood and fired shell casings. "Shit!" said Miller in obvious frustration.
Janet and SG-2 moved up on the building, on the dirt track behind the perimeter wall that lead to the foyer Janet sank to her knees and pushed her hand to the clotted dirt beneath her. "This is where Sam was shot," she exclaimed. Janet looked up into the air as if waiting for everything to become clear. Miller walked over to her
"There's a lot of blood there" he said sympathetically
"Don't you think I know that" snapped Janet
Lt. Grant walked up to Miller "Well what now Sir?"
"Well they can't of just disappeared, lets find them!" said Miller inspiringly, Janet looked up to him with a look of gratitude, it was obvious to him that she was thankful that he wasn't about to give up, he tipped his head in acknowledgement of her glance.
To be continued on Tuesday…
Author: Zoe Hands
E-Mail: zoehands@hotmail.com
Category: General
Rating: PG-13, angst
Season: About the end of 4
Summary: SG-1, General Hammond and Janet come under fire.
Disclaimer: Stargate SG-1 isn't mine and I wasn't paid to write this – damn shame.
Author's notes: First and foremost my punctuation sucks! but I've tried to make it as readable as possible.
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I posted the beginning of this story on here about 7 months ago! I apologise it's taken me this long to write the rest of it, well it's almost finished, should be by Saturday, so I thought to jog your memories I'll post it all anew - chapter one today, two on Tuesday, Three on Thursday and the final one at the weekend and thanx to the people who e-mailed me to remind me to get my ass in gear and finish it
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People don't just Disappear.
Janet stumbled through the event horizon and collapsed on the ramp, exhausted and bloody.
"Medical team to the gate room" was the message resonating over the PA and Janet thought of the irony of the moment, how it would normally be her that came running to that call, instead her colleagues would be the ones coming to her aid. Colonel Keller and Major Davis knelt down beside Janet...
"Doctor Fraiser, where is the General, where are SG-1?" asked Davis with an air of urgency in his voice. Janet closed her eyes as if surpressing anything she might want to say, trying to hold back something...something almost too painful to recall. "Janet, it's imperative we know what has happened" pressed Davis. Before Janet could say a word, Davis was pushed aside by the arriving medical team...
"Right, lets get her onto a gurney and to the infirmary right away" ordered Doctor Warner
"Doctor we need to find out what happened before we can plan a rescue mission" said Davis as he stopped Warner from leaving with the gurney by grabbing his arm
"Listen if I don't treat her injuries, it's possible she'll never be able to tell you anything, now let me do my job!" snapped Warner as he snatched back his arm from Davis' grasp, the tension in the air all too apparent.
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8 hours earlier...
"Colonel O'Neill can you hear me?" said Hammond as he tried to raise Jack via the MALP through an open wormhole
"Yes General, I can hear you" responded Jack
"What is your current situation?"
"Well General, things here are pretty much at a dead stop, they say they'll only agree terms with the commander of the SGC, which despite a long successful career is sadly not me" barbed Jack
"Have they agreed to share their medical technology in return for the iron we promised them?"
"Well sir, they say that such a deal can only be finalised between the leaders of the two parties concerned, I'd say the risk assessment is pretty low General, they seem like pretty peaceful folk"
"Okay Jack, tell them they can expect me within the hour, inform them I'll be bringing Doctor Fraiser with me, so she can have a better look at this technology they're offering"
"Yes Sir, I'll have Carter wait by the gate for you"
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The present...
Janet's eyes slowly fluttered open, and as she began to recognise where she was, she flew upwards into a seated position and began to remove the nodes monitoring her stats. Warner noticed she was awake and rushed to her side to prevent her from removing anymore of the nodes and her IV, "Janet, Janet! Listen to me, you're in the SGC, you're going to be okay" reasoned Warner
"I know exactly where I am, we have to go back, we have to help them, Oh God, they're still there, we have to go back, help me please" panted Janet as she began to hyperventilate, her eyes were wide with fear.
"Okay Janet, just try and calm down for me, take deep slow breathes" Said Warner stretching over her almost in a restraining position
"No you don't understand, they're hurt, I came back to get help, how long have I been here, they were expecting me right back with help, " said Janet frantically trying to get Warner to understand and pushing him backwards as she tried to get out of bed.
Warner was convinced she wasn't herself and needed proper restraint "Nurse, 5cc's hyperbaline". The nurse quickly returned with the needle containing the sedative
"No, NO! What are you doing? no I have to help them!" shouted Janet as she saw the needle coming her way,
"No Janet, what you need to do is relax or I'll be forced to sedate you" warned Doctor Warner.
Taking a deep breath Janet answered "Okay, okay but you need to listen to me"
"Yes Janet I am listening" said Warner rather patronisingly
"No you're not listening, where is Colonel Keller or Major Davis, I have to speak with them"
"Nurse, see if you cant get them down here will you" said Warner to the waiting nurse, he then turned once more to face Janet "Now will you calm down"
"Just get them here now, please".
Colonel Keller walked in, closely followed by Major Davis, "Janet, can you tell us what's happened to the General and SG-1" asked Davis once more
"The Colonel ordered me to come back through the gate to get reinforcements, they're depending on those reinforcements, you need to get there now"
"What you don't seem to understand is I need to know what happened before I can send anymore troops through that gate!" interjected Colonel Keller who was the senior officer in Jack and Hammond's absence.
"No Sir! What you don't seem to understand is without immediate help General Hammond and SG-1 will be dead!" barked Janet
"Doctor Fraiser, you've already been back over 36 hours" said Davis trying to engage her attention
"What?" said Janet taken aback by Davis' last statement
"You were hurt when you came through and you were brought here to the infirmary where you have been asleep for the last 36 hours" explained Davis
"For Christ's sake, didn't you think of waking me up! Don't you care what's happened to them?! We have to go now!" said Janet, who became very animated once more
"Janet, we have teams on stand-by ready to go on a rescue mission, but I can't give them the go ahead until I know exactly what transpired on that planet, now please tell me what happened, who attacked you?" asked Keller
"The natives became hostile once they realised that the deal SG-1 had negotiated couldn't go ahead, they seemed so peaceful but it was just a cover, they wanted the iron to help make a weapon, once General Hammond knew that he couldn't authorise it, so they thought they would hold us to ransom, so we tried to fight our way out of there but rather than let us get away they opened fire"
"How many were there, what sort of weapons did they have, did they take up offensive positions around the gate, will we be ambushed as soon as we go through?, we've sent a UAV but it's sending back no telemetry, we surmised they're using some sort of scrambler, once I know this I can get a team through that gate, now it's important you be accurate"
"They have projectile weapons much like our own, there were around 20 of the natives that attacked us, it was just a small building where the meeting took place, Sam was shot in the chest right away and the General tried to help her but he was also shot in the leg and Colonel O'Neill had to order a retreat as we couldn't get anywhere near them to help, we took cover in a small sort of storage shed about half a click from the meeting house, that's when Colonel O'Neill ordered me to head for the gate and get reinforcements"
"Okay, Davis tell SG teams 2, 5 and 6 they have a go!" Ordered Keller
"I'll need to go with them...to lead you to the shed"
"I'm sure we'll find it," said Davis trying to comfort Janet "besides you're in no state to go with them"
"I'm fine! And you'll need a doctor to go" argued Janet
"Then Doctor Warner can accompany the SG Teams offworld" interceded Keller with an air of finality, but Janet was having none of it
"No, I can show you exactly where they are, and Sam needs my help, she was shot in the chest I can help her, she's my friend!" said Janet visibly shaken and concerned. Keller and Davis exchanged looks, Davis tilted his head to one side as if to say 'I'm not sure this is a good idea', Keller looked back down to Janet, who was peering up at him through glazed eyes.
"Okay Doctor, but you hang in the rear until the area is secured"
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SG Teams 2, 5 and 6 exited through the gate with Janet in tow, there was a misplaced calm in the air, not a sound to be heard from either animal nor man.
"It's this way," said Janet disturbing the silence that descended on them from all around. The teams cautiously hurried along the track which Janet and General Hammond had been escorted down by Sam, now almost two days ago. Janet soon found herself stretching further and further ahead of the SG Teams, so Major Miller, the leader of SG-6 caught her up and took her arm, "What are you doing?" asked Janet angrily
"Now you listen to me Doctor and you listen good, I understand you want to help your friends, hell they're my friends too, but neither you or I know what's waiting out there for us, we could be ambushed at any moment, we are going as fast as it is safe to go, we'll be no good to them dead now will we?" said Miller
Janet knew he was right but it didn't matter, all she could see were visions of her best friend being shot in the chest and going down, and then the General too being shot as he went to her aid, she too had wanted to go back to help but it was the Colonel who had grabbed her by the jacket and physically dragged her with him to safety, firing his weapon all the way. She recalled that the Colonel had said "We'll get them, don't you worry, but now is not the time". Janet never took her eyes off Sam and the General all the way as she was being taken back, she saw as the General despite being shot himself covered Sam's body with his own, protecting her from further injury, and she remembered noting that Sam was so still, deadly still.
As they neared the shed where Colonel O'Neill, Daniel and Teal'c had taken refuge the silence was still deafening, it drowned out even the slightest hope that someone may be alive in there.
"SG-2 cover our six, SG Teams 5 and 6 on my lead" ordered Miller, "Janet you remain in the rear until the area is secured"
Janet gave him an accepting nod.
They rushed the hut in a swift dynamic movement, but nothing. The shed was unoccupied but there were tell-tail blood stains against the wall and covering the floor like a liquid carpet, Miller winced at what this indicated, he radioed back to the waiting Janet and SG-2 "It's clear, move up."
Janet jogged to the hut and saw it deserted except for bullet shells and blood splatters and puddles, she closed her eyes as if trying to deny them from witnessing what looked like a kill house, she left the shed and began to take deep breathes "Well what are we waiting for, they're obviously not here, lets get moving" she said embracing the need she felt to be actively doing something
"Okay you heard the lady lets move out, Grant take point" ordered Miller.
It wasn't long before the building where the meeting had taken place was in view; it too was shrouded in a quiet desolation, bullet holes clearly visible in the perimeter wall. "As before SG-2 watch our six, the rest on me!" whispered Miller. Once again they rushed the building and once again they were disappointed as it yielded nothing but blood and fired shell casings. "Shit!" said Miller in obvious frustration.
Janet and SG-2 moved up on the building, on the dirt track behind the perimeter wall that lead to the foyer Janet sank to her knees and pushed her hand to the clotted dirt beneath her. "This is where Sam was shot," she exclaimed. Janet looked up into the air as if waiting for everything to become clear. Miller walked over to her
"There's a lot of blood there" he said sympathetically
"Don't you think I know that" snapped Janet
Lt. Grant walked up to Miller "Well what now Sir?"
"Well they can't of just disappeared, lets find them!" said Miller inspiringly, Janet looked up to him with a look of gratitude, it was obvious to him that she was thankful that he wasn't about to give up, he tipped his head in acknowledgement of her glance.
To be continued on Tuesday…