TITLE: Forget Me Not
AUTHOR: Sanny
E-Mail: Sanny_c24@hotmail.com
STATUS: Complete
RATING: R
SPOILERS: Stargate Motion Picture, Children of the Gods, Cold Lazarus, A Matter of Time, The Nox, The Broca Divide, Beneath the Surface, Upgrades.
CONTENT WARNING: Drama, Hurt/comfort, Graphic medical situations, mention of torture, rape and sexual content.
DISCLAMER: I do not own SG-1, though I wish I had, this story is for enjoyment purposes only, no money was exchanged, the Stargate characters are owned by MGM, GEKKO and ShowTime, any other characters and the story belong to the author.
AUTHOR NOTES: Please read and review, reviews mean a lot to me so please don't be shy and leave one.
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Forget Me Not – Chapter five
"Good morning Major Carter, how are you today?" Sam raised her head from her computer screen, to stare at her CO all geared up, a serious look on his face. She looked confused.
"Sir?" she asked
"Do you have the time Major?" she looked at her wristwatch and panicked, they were due off world 10 minutes ago, she looked at the clock on the wall it had the correct time.
"Sir I'm sorry" she jumped and started to pack her things "I'll be ready in two minutes". He said nothing as she ran out of her lab to the locker rooms, she was embarrassed to say she was thinking of him and that's why she lost track of time. When she entered the gate room Jack was already back there waiting as well as Teal'c and Daniel.
"Sir again I'm sorry"
"Forget it Major" he brushed her apology away. Sam leaned into Daniel as the ring started spinning,
"Where are we going?" she asked in a hushed whisper,
"NWR169" Daniel answered back, Sam shrugged her shoulders, for the first time she had no idea where they were going, it was like she never attended the debriefing the day before.
"Onward pirates to the great ocean we go" Jack sited in a heavy Irish accent as he raised his right arm high and stepped into the void. Sam and Daniel quickly followed smirking at the glimpse of old Jack, as Teal'c followed with a raised eyebrow and a question in his eyes, General Hammond hid a laugh.
On the other side they found green grass, a sun hiding behind some clouds and feeling the soft gentle drops of rain on their faces, as they stepped down the stairs to the ground the most beautiful rainbow appeared, the colors were amazing, far brighter then the colors of the rainbows on Earth.
"This is the most beautiful rainbow I have ever seen" Sam said as Daniel nodded, Teal'c looked up at the rainbow also admiring its beauty as Jack said
"Shouldn't we be looking for the pot of gold me little Lapricons?" again in a heavy Irish accent, both Sam and Daniel started laughing so hard they fell to the ground holding their stomachs. Jack hid a grin the old Jack is back thought Sam smiling from the ground up at him. The laughing finally died and the two scientists rose to their feet as the group started walking on a barely marked path to the north.
An hour later they reached some ruins, Daniel's excitement rose as he skipped from one ruin to another filming and writing in his notebook, he came across a pedestal, it was over 8 feet high and 3 feet wide, all 4 walls of the pedestal where covered in writings, Daniel made sure to film all sides top to bottom, as he started working on deciphering the writings. Jack ordered Teal'c and Sam to look around and secure the perimeter.
About an hour of looking around and finding nothing of significance all 3 SG-1 members rendezvoused back at the ruins to pick up Daniel, he was so into the translation he didn't notice them until they all stood right behind him and Jack called. "Hey Daniel, as fascinating as this must be to you we have got to go now, you can keep translating when we get home"
"It seems to be a derivation of Spanish; I wasn't sure until I found `Blancuero Negrura Ojo` …"
"Hurry up Daniel" Jack rushed him. Daniel unwillingly rose to his feet collecting his things and picking up his backpack still talking mostly to Sam, figuring the scientist in her would want to listen to his findings.
"We never encountered the Spanish word or culture on any of the worlds we gated to"
"But it is likely that you will encounter all cultures eventually Daniel, the Goa'uld took people from Earth to be slaves on other planets it's more then possible that they took Spanish people too"
"Yes but this dialect is strange, there's another part to this language that I can't figure out".
"You will" her confidence in him made him blush, they neared the gate, Daniel dialed as Jack entered their code and they all stepped through.
As soon as they were back Daniel took his leave of the group and headed straight to his office.
At the debriefing General Hammond reviewed SG-1's mission report and after hearing from Col. O'Neill that there was nothing special concerning military intelligence it was Daniel's turn, as he started explaining enthusiastically what he found.
"It's some sort of Spanish mixed with something else that I don't know, I did come across `Blancuero Negrura Ojo` written several times…"
"That's the second time you mentioned that name, what are you talking about?" Jack interrupted; there was a silence in the room,
"I…I…" Daniel stuttered not knowing what to say, Jack looked at General Hammond
"Well?"
"It's what the creatures that attacked you on P3X427 are called"
"How do you know?"
"We will fill you in later Col. O'Neill, now please let Dr. Jackson finish this debriefing" Jack fell silent as Daniel continued.
"Unfortunately until I figure what's mixed with the Spanish I won't be able to translate the writings on the pedestal"
"So what do we do?"
"Hope to find the answer somewhere else and without coming across these things"
"Maybe there's something back on 169 that we missed, we where only there for a few hours not enough to survey the entire ruins"
"With our luck you would have pressed a secret button that would have sent us straight to Natu" Jack said. Daniel didn't answer just set there staring at him.
"OK this debriefing is over" General Hammond looked at the schedule in front of him "you are scheduled for a standard recon mission tomorrow to P3W944, Major Carter what information do you have on this planet?"
"Nothing much Sir, the air is breathable, the atmosphere is livable, no radiation we could detect, no intelligent life forms in the vicinity, but there are signs that people do live or lived some distance away, anyway the gate seems like it hasn't been used in a while".
"Very well, be ready at 09:00 hours, dismissed" they all rose from their chairs. Daniel rushed back to his translations, Teal'c walking to his quarters for a much needed kal-no-rim. Jack left followed closely by Sam, she still needed to clear the air after her behavior and since General Hammond gave her the O.K to fill him in, she wanted to talk to him right away.
"Col. O'Neill?" she called after him "Sir wait, please, I need to talk to you" Jack kept on going "Col. O'Neill, Jack please" she called again, Jack stopped not turning around, Sam walked in behind him "please I have to talk to you" she opened the door they where standing by, it was a storage room, she turned the lights on as he entered and she closed the door behind him.
"I couldn't tell you Jack, I was under orders"
"I understand, orders are orders"
"It was so difficult for me not to tell you that I knew how they looked like, the only thing I could think of was to … brush you off … I'm so sorry"
"You know how the creatures that attacked us look like?" his look was accusing as she nodded.
"Apparently Teal'c caught a very detailed glimpse at them before he stepped through, he and Daniel reconstructed the image on Daniel's computer"
"I want to see it later, and another thing, how do you know their name?" his voice was low.
"My dad recognized them, but he's not sure, nobody is sure about these … things" there were a few minutes of silence between them "I wanted to tell you so much" tears started forming in her eyes as her voice trembled.
Jack raised his hand cupping her neck and pulling her into a hug burying his face in her hair inhaling her scent. She felt a warm feeling sweep over her as she felt him so close to her, he used his other hand to lift her chin to him as his lips captured hers. Her heart was pounding so hard she thought it would burst right out of her chest
"We can't do this here" she whispered.
"Why?"
"Because it's base and there are regulations Sir" he looked at her questioningly. "Maybe this weekend when we go off duty and off base?" she whispered back at him, a wide smile appeared on his face as he stole yet another kiss before she pushed herself away from him and left the storage room, making sure no one saw her.
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She made sure she wasn't late a second time, all of SG-1 were standing away from the gate's ramp waiting for the dial sequence to complete. They stepped through, `landing` in an old temple that seemed like it hasn't been visited in years, everything was covered with a thick layer of dust, the walls and the round pedestals that supported the ceiling were all painted in red colors that were faded, stories told of the people that used to occupy that place. In the center of the room, right in front of the stargate was what looked to be a stone altar; surprisingly to the members of SG-1 it was now occupied.
"I thought you said no life forms in the vicinity?" Jack's mp5 was pointed at the form lying on the altar; with its back to the stargate and the team.
"This… table was empty when the MALP went through" Sam answered as Jack stepped down walking quietly around the altar at the head while Carter went around at the feet, Teal'c kept his ground at the foot of the stairs and Daniel walked around at a distance behind Sam, checking the wall paintings and the glyphs on the altar.
On the strange altar Jack noticed the heavy chains part of the altar binding what looked to be a female, since he could only see long dark hair covering the face and a long white gown, only her feet were showing and he could see the chains binding her feet and her hands, she didn't move, he couldn't tell if she was breathing, Carter kept her gun taut on the still figure as Jack stepped closer and tried to find a pulse, he moved her hair away from her face, she was pale, her eyes were closed and her lips were slightly parted, Jack felt for a pulse it was weak and thready.
"Sir, What is it?"
"I don't think she'll live much longer if she stays here like this".
"It looks like she is some kind of sacrifice", Daniel said.
"Is it possible that the MALP we sent made them think `the gods` where coming and they left her here on purpose?" Sam asked.
"You said the place hasn't been visited in a long while why would they come now?"
Jack pushed his gun back over his shoulder and crouched on one knee "can she be a Goa'uld?"
"I'm not sensing a Goa'uld Sir" Sam answered coming a little closer to the woman. Jack tried to free her hands, it was difficult to open the chains and Daniel seeing Jack struggling went to her feet to try and free them. It took them several minutes to free the woman from her binds, Teal'c kept an eye on her while Sam kept her guns barrel on her as well. The moment she was free Jack picked her up and ordered Daniel to dial home.
"Incoming traveler, incoming traveler" the P.A. system on base came to life with the Siren warning and the red lights flashing. General Hammond left his office in a hurry and went down the flight of stairs to the control room "it's SG-1 Sir".
"Open the iris" General Hammond ordered as he went to greet his team at the gate room while ordering the lieutenant to call Dr. Fraiser, it was too soon, they stepped out not even an hour ago, that usually meant trouble; as Jack stepped through carrying the strange woman/alien.
"Col. what is going on?"
"Don't know yet Sir", he said while Dr. Fraiser and a gurney came through the door and he gently placed the woman onto it, Janet quickly started listening to her heart and lungs, and checking her pupils.
"OK let's go" Janet called out leaving the gate room with her patient.
Back in the briefing room General Hammond asked his #1 team to explain what happened, Col. O'Neill gave him the Reader's Digest version while the rest of the team nodded in agreement.
"Do you have any idea where she came from or who she is?"
"No Sir, the MALP showed the place was abandoned, she must have been brought there after we sent it …" Janet entered the room.
"Dr.?" General Hammond focused his attention on her.
"Well … first of all she is human, I estimate about 27-28 years old, she is very thin, and it looks as if her systems were on the brink of crashing when SG-1 found her, mostly due to malnutrition. Maybe she was only chained for one day, but she has been a prisoner or something like that for quite a while, oh and she's pregnant".
"What?" came out the unanimous question out of the entire group, aside for Teal'c who merely raised an eyebrow.
After dismissing them the team went together to the commissary, malnutrition making all of them think about food, and the fact that it was lunchtime.
"I wonder who she is" Sam wondered aloud to her friends while they ate their lunch.
"I wonder what kind of person would be so heartless to starve to death a woman carrying a child", Daniel said.
"Did Fraiser check that the child is human?" Jack asked as the others stared at him, rising from the table and rushing to the infirmary.
"Janet?" Sam called as they entered the infirmary like a storm.
"What is it?" Janet came out from behind a curtain.
"The woman we brought …"
"Yeah?"
"Did you check out the baby?"
"Of course", she paused and then realized what they meant and nodded "it's a normal human baby, only in trouble since it appears its mother hasn't been eating in roughly 2 to 3 weeks".
"How is she?" Daniel asked relieved to hear that the baby wasn't a threat to the woman or to them.
"A little better, we've been re-hydrating her and keeping her mildly sedated just in case". While Janet was talking to them Daniel moved behind her and around the curtain, there she was, lying on the bed, she was beautiful, her skin was very pale, her hair dark and long, very long framing her face and going down, past her shoulders and over her back, her lips were pale pink and she looked very thin, he came back round the curtain rejoining the others.
"How far along is she? She looks so thin I would have never though she was pregnant by looking at her".
"She's about 24 weeks, six months into her pregnancy" Janet answered "and you're right she's too thin and her baby is too small, I can only hope that we … you got to her in time to reverse the damage, because if this baby comes now the chances of it surviving are not very good".
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Everything was blurry but there was something different about this place, the walls around her were not red, where was she? She tried to focus; there was a strange beeping sound, could the evil gods have taken her? A blurry image came into view, she blinked several times to make it come into focus, it was a man, tall, good looking, didn't look like a god, didn't look evil either, looked human like she was, had these beautiful big blue eyes.
"Hi, are you feeling better today?" he asked, she had the most beautiful deep dark blue eyes, her cheeks had a rosy glow to them and her lips looked redder, her eyes questioned him. It took him a few seconds to realize she didn't understand him, he will have to wait until she talks to him to know if he can understand her language or learn it if necessary, she kept on staring at him, he grabbed a chair and set next to her bed, waiting.
"Daniel" he pointed to himself saying his name, she looked intrigued,
"Daniel" he repeated. Jack came in.
"So Daniel, how's our little mommy doing got anything?" she raised her eyes to look at Jack when she saw him come in, she wandered if all the men on this planet looked as good as these two, Daniel looked over his shoulder.
"Nothing yet, Jack, it's gonna take some time". She looked and listened to them with great interest, what a strange language she thought as Jack shrugged his shoulders and left, Daniel turned in his seat to face her again, she looked at him, took a deeper breath and then stuttered,
"Da…n...El".
"Yes that's right" Daniel nodded with excitement "Daniel" pointing to himself saying his name again, then he pointed to her with a question in his eyes, she understood.
"Rommie" she said and Daniel smiled at her nodding and repeating her name
"Rommie" the most beautiful name for the most beautiful woman Daniel thought to himself.
Janet entered the room her eyes reading Jane Doe's file, she didn't notice Daniel was there until she literally bumped into his chair.
"Daniel, I didn't know you where here, how is Jane doing? Did you figure out what language she speaks?"
"Not yet Janet but we did manage to introduce each other, her name is Rommie" he gestured to the woman saying her name followed by him pointing at Janet and telling Rommie her name.
"Ja…net" she repeated stuttering as both smiled at her.
"She looks a lot better today Janet, do you think I can show her around the facility?"
"I guess she can move around a little, but she has to stay with the IV, and she shouldn't exhort herself too much"
"I promise we'll be back here in half an hour tops" Daniel gave Janet his word and she nodded and left the room.
Daniel nodded at Rommie and extended his hand to help her sit on the bed, he then helped her stand allowing her to lean on him as she stood for the first time in days, she smiled shyly at him, Daniel entwined their hands together and started slowly for the door out of the infirmary.
On their way they walked into Sam as she smiled and Daniel introduced them.
"Hi Rommie, it's nice to meet you" Sam gently shook her hand. Fascinated with their culture and ways Rommie smiled.
"Sam" she said clearly.
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Within several weeks Daniel was able to communicate with Rommie in her language and she was able to speak moderate English. She looked much better, she was eating and Janet's last exam of her fetus showed improvement, though she was not out of the woods yet.
They where assembled in the briefing room, General Hammond smiled at Rommie nodding his head.
"I trust you're feeling better Rommie?" he asked concern in his voice
"Yes, thank you General George" he smiled
"Can you tell me where you're from?"
"You call P3 double 944, I call Luna Bay"
"Beautiful name isn't it?" Daniel said, "Their language is a mixture of so many, it was hard to figure out, Luna Bay means bay of the moon. Most of Rommie's people are gone, she and a hand full were kept as prisoners on 944, Rommie was to be sacrificed the day we saved her, you know to who she was to be sacrificed to?"
"Let me guess, the Goa'uld" Jack said.
"Wrong, the Blancuero Negrura Ojo", silence in the room was deafening. Then Daniel continued. "Rommie told me that years ago, when their planet was still prosperous and beautiful they came, the Blancuero, they took the women away and killed most of the men with vicious weapons that fired yellow lightning".
"Same weapons we were attacked by" Sam recalled as Daniel nodded.
"Probably, they remained a handful of people and whenever the BNO returned they would go into hiding, I'd like to add that I believe the women where taken to be used as a way for these creatures to breed, anyway" he shook his head "when her people found out she was with child they thought it was from one of the creatures that returned several weeks before, remaining for several days hunting the women, so her own people imprisoned her in order to try and starve the 'creature within her' to death. She tried to tell them that the child was from her love, a young man of their people, a young man that shortly after was killed"
"Why didn't they believe her?"
"Because it's forbidden, only the Blancuero are allowed to `take` the women"
"Oh my god" Sam was shocked as were the rest of the people sitting in that room.
Rommie looked at the faces of the people who saved her life then said in obscure English,
"You save me" she said "you free people, I want be free people too, I ask you to ayudar me to stay in Gaya, Please?" she pleaded.
"Ayudar?" Hammond questioned "Gaya?"
"Aid, Earth" Daniel explained. All eyes where fixed on General Hammond
"I'll do my best" he promised after which he dismissed everyone.
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TBC