Young Again
Title: Young Again.
Author: Crystal Candle.
Email: crystal_candle@hotmail.com
Status: complete.
Category: action, adventure, romance.
Pairings: S/J.
Spoilers: None.
Season: any .
Rating: PG 13.
Content Warnings: some violence.
Summary: Two members of SG1 are part of an elaborate Goa'uld trap, while the rescue attempt is hindered by an epidemic on the base. Response to the following challenge by Blue Monkey Gal -
Challenge #1,603 by blue monkey gal
Using something other than the fountain of youth, I wanna see the following... 1. Sam & ........ getting turned into kids (Only one other person)
2. Extra points if it's Sam & Jack.
3. They get captured by a Goa'uld (????? Maybe it's a carefully set up plan *hint* ?????)
4. So the other two members ........&....... go to rescue them.
5. Sam must be quite young, 5/6 and the other about 12/13.
6. They can get tortured, but they are young, so just......surprise me THANKS! Submitted by Blue Monkey Gal
Disclaimer: I don't own these characters or anything to do with stargate, I just write stories for others to read and enjoy, without making any profit of any kind.
As soon as they stepped through the stargate, they were greeted by the friendly people of P3X-792. "Welcome!" they all cried, and ran towards the team with open arms, surrounding them and propelling them towards their city. "Friendly folk!" Jack shouted over the din towards Daniel, who had two rather pretty looking women attached to him. Daniel just shrugged like always and went with the flow. Jack looked towards Teal'c and saw that people were accepting him like the rest, which was unusual as he usually scared people.
Jack himself was surrounded by many people trying to talk to him at once - "Please, come see our city." "Welcome stranger!" "Would you like some of our Hannad cakes?" "I am Masaan, I'll guide you through our city if you like." He couldn't make out all that they were saying, but he got the impression that they were nice people with a friendly atmosphere.
And that was exactly the problem. Call him over pessimistic and suspicious, but Jack had misgivings about this whole situation. Too good to be true and all that. Plus he hated to let his guard down, even if there seemed to be no danger. So he pushed the enthusiastic people aside and tried to find Sam. she usually shared in his misgivings about people being too friendly, they'd been caught out too many times already. Looking around he realised he couldn't see Sam anywhere. Fear started to rise within him, even though he tried to quell it and rationalise that she must be in the crowd somewhere.
Even so, once they had reached the city, Jack still couldn't see Sam anywhere. He went over to find Daniel and Teal'c, and just as he was approaching them, he was grabbed roughly from behind and a knife held to his throat. Struggling against them was no good, they were too many, and they were holding Sam close by with a knife to her throat too. She was unconscious by the looks of it, but he didn't want to risk that they'd harm her, so he relaxed some and let them drag him away.
He couldn't call out, but Daniel and Teal'C must have seen the movement and saw Jack's situation. The last thing Jack saw before he was knocked out, was Daniel and Teal'c firing upon the civilians who suddenly possessed weapons.
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Jack groaned and held his head. He was lying on a very hard, cold, stone floor, and it was killing his back! Opening his eyes slowly, he sat up and pulled at the restraints on his hands and feet. "God I hate it when that happens." he muttered to himself. "Sir? You're awake." Sam sounded relieved. His head whipped round, and he saw his 2IC in the same position on the other side of the room, pulling at her restraints and hurting her wrists at the same time.
"Carter. Do you know where we are?" "No Sir, I was captured almost as soon as we went through the gate. They threw a blanket over my head, I suppose so you wouldn't see me." "Any idea, why we were taken prisoner by those lovely folks out there?" He said while still holding his head, there was blood on his hands and his head was throbbing like hell! Must have been when they knocked him out. Sam made a small smile at his use of the phrase 'lovely folks', but was concerned about his head wound. "When they brought me back here they were talking about needing another test subject. I guess that's you." "Ya think?" Jack replied sarcastically.
Sam regarded Jack and wondered if he was really in the mood to hear what she had to tell him, but it was hardly something she could put off. "So I've been listening to their conversations," she started quietly. ".and it seems the only reason we're here is because they want to test some new drugs on us." "Oh, just great!" Jack exclaimed, while holding the cut on his head. "Well Major? Any ideas on how to get out of here? Coz I sure as hell ain't being no guinea-pig for these guys!" Sam looked at Jack and saw the blood dripping down his hands. "Sir, are you alright? That wound looks pretty bad." She said gently. "I'm fine Carter. Let's just concentrate on getting out of here huh?"
Easier said than done, Sam thought. "At least Daniel and Teal'c got away. I heard the guards talking about it." She said reassuringly. Just then, the guards entered the room followed by what appeared to be doctors. They got out some needles and proceeded towards Sam. She struggled against them, but restrained she was helpless as they injected her with whatever drugs they intended testing. "NO! Get away from her! What are you doing?!" Jack cried to no avail. And when they finished with Sam they moved onto Jack and did the same.
And then they left. Sam and Jack looked at each other. "For some reason I was expecting the results to be instantaneous." Sam said, confused. "Great, now we get to wait and worry about what's gonna happen to us." Jack said grumpily. Daniel and Teal'c had better hurry up!
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Back at the SGC, Daniel and Teal'c were in a briefing with General Hammond about the sudden change in the people's attitudes on P3X-725. "It was crazy," Daniel was saying. "They seemed such friendly down-to-Earth people. then all of a sudden they were armed and viscous and we see Jack and Sam being hauled away to a holding cell!"
"Daniel Jackson," Teal'C calmly cut in "there was little we could have achieved. They appeared to be at a primitive stage of technology and gave us no reason to fear them." Teal'C then turned to address the General. "General Hammond, it seems strange that such a simple culture could possess the advanced weapons technology that they displayed."
"Teal'C is right, there must be something else going on there, some other race or culture influencing them. I find it hard to believe those weapons were their own. They were so much more advanced than ours that Sam and Jack were over-powered easily, we were lucky to be able to escape ourselves."
"We must go back with reinforcements." Teal'c stated firmly. Daniel looked a little dizzy and held tightly to the desk. "Are you alright son?" Hammond asked, and when he didn't get a reply -"First we have to get you to the infirmary! Teal'C help me escort him down."
Teal'C nodded and proceeded to the infirmary with Daniel leaning heavily on his shoulder. Almost there, Daniel collapsed unconscious onto the floor, and Hammond came running up - "Teal'C call Dr Frasier and ask for her assistance while I check Dr Jackson is ok." He had just knelt down next to Daniel to check his pulse when Teal'C's prone body fell to the floor, collapsed along with the unconscious Daniel. Worried, Hammond had to call for help to get them to the infirmary.
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Jack started to stir from his sleep, and wondered when he had actually gone to sleep. Last thing he remembered. now that was strange, he felt like a great fog was enveloping his thoughts and memories and he felt extremely disorientated and confused. It was quite dark and musty in here, and his body ached all over as I he had the flu or something. Still, he managed to sit up and look around. He looked over to his right and saw a small girl with long blonde hair - about 5 years old. Who the hell is she? He thought. And more importantly why were they in what appeared to be a cell?
Sam started to stir from her sleep, funny since she couldn't remember dozing off. She looked to her right and saw a boy a lot older than her - about 13 years old. She looked around scared and confused. Where were mommy and daddy? What was this place? Tears formed in her eyes as the fear of this unknown place took over.
Jack saw the girl was frightened so he slowly moved next to her and tried to comfort her. "Hey, it's alright. I don't know what's going on yet, but I'm sure everything's fine." He said gently, and pulled the little girl into his arms. Sam held onto this stranger, even though her mummy had always told her not to talk to strangers, she felt like she knew this boy, and that he was a good person. Summoning up her courage she spoke to him, "Who are you?"
Jack looked into the girl's shining blue eyes and thought that he recognised something. some feeling, some memory about this person. "I'm Jonathan O'Neill, but you can call me Jack, everyone else does." He said smiling at her, trying to hide his own fear of the situation from her. "Your name's Sam, isn't it?" He asked quietly.
"How did you know that?" Sam said surprised. "I don't know really, I just had this thought or memory that I was put in this cell with someone called Sam." He shrugged while Sam looked confused.
"What's a cell?" Sam asked as she put her thumb in her mouth and played with her hair. Jack thought maybe he shouldn't scare her with the answer, and instead decided on some diversionary tactics. "So, how old are you Sam? I bet you must be about. oooh, 20 years old?"
Sam giggled hysterically and hit him playfully on his chest. "No silly! I'm not that old!" "Ok, so how old are you then?" Sam was about to reply when her attention was taken by something else. "Your head's bleeding!" she shouted, and jumped up to try and have a closer look.
"Where?" Jack asked, and ran his hand over his forehead. Sure enough, his hand came back with blood on it. "Ouch" he said as he felt the lump forming. "Wonder how that happened."
"The nasty man hit you so you wouldn't get away." Sam said in a trembled voice. "I don't remember that." Jack said confused. "What else do you remember?" "Jack I don't wanna be hit on the head! Can't we go now? Get away from the nasty man that hurt you!" Sam was almost crying clutching round his neck.
"Woah, calm down, calm down." Jack picked her up and stood up to look around their cell. He certainly didn't want to stick around and wait for whoever hit him to come back. But there was only one way out of this room, and that was through the locked door. He sighed and sat back down again, holding Sam close trying to alleviate her fear. But his own fear was getting a strong grip on him. He had no idea where they were, who had locked them in here, or why any of this was happening - whatever was going on, they were in trouble.
He half wished their captors would walk in, just so he'd know who they were. And then he wanted to take back that wish when the door burst open, and a man with glowing eyes walked in.
Yep, we are definitely in trouble here, he thought.
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After extensive tests on Teal'C and Daniel, Janet had to give General Hammond the bad news. "It's a virus Sir. A particularly virulent one at that. It seems much like the flu, but biologically it resembles nothing like we have on Earth." "Are you saying they brought it back through the stargate today?" Hammond asked, very concerned now. "Yes Sir. I would have noticed it before if it was from their last mission." "Are Doctor Jackson and Teal'C ok?" "At the moment they are simply exhibiting the usual symptoms of flu - dizziness, nausea, head aches, lethargy. I've confined them to the infirmary for the moment, not that they are in any shape to try wandering around." "Isn't Teal'C's symbiont helping him to recover?" Hammond asked, already fearing the negative answer. "I'm afraid not Sir."
Hammond put his head in his hands. There always seemed to be something going wrong around here! "That's not all the bad news Sir." Janet said gently as Hammond's head whipped up to look at her. "And what's that Doctor?" "It's extremely contagious. I've already had several men come down with it in the last hour." She looked apologetic, even though it wasn't her fault. "I suggest we quarantine the base Sir."
The General nodded and went to inform the President of the situation.
Walking back into the infirmary, Janet found both Daniel and Teacl'C awake. "Janet!" Daniel called her over. Standing by Daniel's bed, Janet took in the dishelved appearance of the man that was by no means a stranger to the infirmary, always seeming to spend more time in here than the other members of his team.
"Janet." Daniel spoke weakly. "You've gotta clear us for duty. We can't stay in the infirmary while Jack and Sam are prisoners on another planet." "I am in agreement." Teal'C stated as succinctly as usual.
"I'm sorry, but you two are going nowhere until I deem you fit to. I'll speak to Hammond and see what he's doing about the situation." Janet got up and checked their vitals on the monitor. "In the meantime, it may get a bit crowded in here." She glanced at the nurses as they brought two more people in and lay them on makeshift beds that they had had to set up. "It seems we have an epidemic on our hands."
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Apophis looked at the two children with glee. He couldn't believe that the Jaffa had actually got the formula right, and that he was now looking at the child forms of O'Neill and Carter! Now he would get all the information he needed about Earth and their stargate!
With a benevolent grin he walked up to the pair, noting how Carter hung so tightly on O'Neill's neck in fear. Wait a minute. fear? Since when did the infamous SG1 show that much fear? Something was wrong here.
"Jaffa Mourin'T!" He shouted. A strong burly Jaffa came running in and bowed in front of Apophis. "Yes my Lord?" "You are certain your formula is right?" He gave the Jaffa a deadly glare. "Y..yes my Lord." Mourin'T stammered.
Apophis then addressed Jack. "Tell me, what is your name and rank boy?" Jack gulped and answered "Jack, Jack O'Neill. But what do you mean by rank? I'm only 13 years old." His voice sounded small against the man with the glowing eyes, but he continued all the same. "Who are you, and why have you put us in here?" he asked bravely. "I am your God, Apophis!" He roared, evidently extremely angry at something.
"I only wanted them to become physically children in order to intimidate them and restrain them, I did not want for them to become mentally children you fool!!" Apophis screamed at Mourin'T and hit him to the floor.
"They may yet remember the details of their adult life. Just give it some time, it will be easy to manipulate them and get information in their fragile emotional state!" Mourin'T begged from the floor.
Apophis stopped to consider, he did badly want to get information. And he did badly want to do O'Neill harm. "Very well. Take them to your lab for further experimentation before I interrogate them myself." Apophis commanded and left abruptly after giving O'Neill and Carter one last evil stare.
Sam gripped Jack even tighter if it was possible, and a few tears slipped down her cheeks. Jack felt her crying but realised there was little he could do to make her feel better, what they had just heard did not sound good for them - experiments and torture. He was also struggling to comprehend what they had said about himself and Sam. He was an adult and they had made him a child again? It didn't sound possible, infact it sounded downright crazy! Still, something crazy was going on here. Last time he checked people's eyes didn't glow.
Jack was marched down some huge golden corridors by men with large sticks that looked like weapons. Still carrying Sam who was worryingly quiet, he finally arrived at Mourin'T's laboratory.
A big scary looking Jaffa came towards Jack and took hold of Sam. "No.. nooo!!" Sam screamed and struggled, trying to keep a grip on Jack, who was busy trying to kick or hurt the man in some way and keep a hold on Sam at the same time. The struggle continued for several minutes as the Jaffa just couldn't handle the two kids struggling at once. Sam managed to bite him on the arm, and he retaliated with a hard smack across her face. Sam screamed and started crying, as the Jaffa finally got a hold on her and another came to help and held Jack back.
"Shut up! Shut up!" The Jaffa shouted at Sam as her wailing escalated. "Leave her alone!" Jack intervened. The Jaffa turned and gave Jack a menacing look. "What was that?!" "She. she's just a kid." Jack finished quietly as the Jaffa stormed towards him. "Lets see if we can't do something about that attitude, boy." He all but growled at him, raising a staff weapon above Jack.
"No don't hurt him!" Sam shouted, but to no avail, as two Jaffa held Jack down while the other beat him viscously with the staff weapon.
To Be Continued.
Title: Young Again.
Author: Crystal Candle.
Email: crystal_candle@hotmail.com
Status: complete.
Category: action, adventure, romance.
Pairings: S/J.
Spoilers: None.
Season: any .
Rating: PG 13.
Content Warnings: some violence.
Summary: Two members of SG1 are part of an elaborate Goa'uld trap, while the rescue attempt is hindered by an epidemic on the base. Response to the following challenge by Blue Monkey Gal -
Challenge #1,603 by blue monkey gal
Using something other than the fountain of youth, I wanna see the following... 1. Sam & ........ getting turned into kids (Only one other person)
2. Extra points if it's Sam & Jack.
3. They get captured by a Goa'uld (????? Maybe it's a carefully set up plan *hint* ?????)
4. So the other two members ........&....... go to rescue them.
5. Sam must be quite young, 5/6 and the other about 12/13.
6. They can get tortured, but they are young, so just......surprise me THANKS! Submitted by Blue Monkey Gal
Disclaimer: I don't own these characters or anything to do with stargate, I just write stories for others to read and enjoy, without making any profit of any kind.
As soon as they stepped through the stargate, they were greeted by the friendly people of P3X-792. "Welcome!" they all cried, and ran towards the team with open arms, surrounding them and propelling them towards their city. "Friendly folk!" Jack shouted over the din towards Daniel, who had two rather pretty looking women attached to him. Daniel just shrugged like always and went with the flow. Jack looked towards Teal'c and saw that people were accepting him like the rest, which was unusual as he usually scared people.
Jack himself was surrounded by many people trying to talk to him at once - "Please, come see our city." "Welcome stranger!" "Would you like some of our Hannad cakes?" "I am Masaan, I'll guide you through our city if you like." He couldn't make out all that they were saying, but he got the impression that they were nice people with a friendly atmosphere.
And that was exactly the problem. Call him over pessimistic and suspicious, but Jack had misgivings about this whole situation. Too good to be true and all that. Plus he hated to let his guard down, even if there seemed to be no danger. So he pushed the enthusiastic people aside and tried to find Sam. she usually shared in his misgivings about people being too friendly, they'd been caught out too many times already. Looking around he realised he couldn't see Sam anywhere. Fear started to rise within him, even though he tried to quell it and rationalise that she must be in the crowd somewhere.
Even so, once they had reached the city, Jack still couldn't see Sam anywhere. He went over to find Daniel and Teal'c, and just as he was approaching them, he was grabbed roughly from behind and a knife held to his throat. Struggling against them was no good, they were too many, and they were holding Sam close by with a knife to her throat too. She was unconscious by the looks of it, but he didn't want to risk that they'd harm her, so he relaxed some and let them drag him away.
He couldn't call out, but Daniel and Teal'C must have seen the movement and saw Jack's situation. The last thing Jack saw before he was knocked out, was Daniel and Teal'c firing upon the civilians who suddenly possessed weapons.
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Jack groaned and held his head. He was lying on a very hard, cold, stone floor, and it was killing his back! Opening his eyes slowly, he sat up and pulled at the restraints on his hands and feet. "God I hate it when that happens." he muttered to himself. "Sir? You're awake." Sam sounded relieved. His head whipped round, and he saw his 2IC in the same position on the other side of the room, pulling at her restraints and hurting her wrists at the same time.
"Carter. Do you know where we are?" "No Sir, I was captured almost as soon as we went through the gate. They threw a blanket over my head, I suppose so you wouldn't see me." "Any idea, why we were taken prisoner by those lovely folks out there?" He said while still holding his head, there was blood on his hands and his head was throbbing like hell! Must have been when they knocked him out. Sam made a small smile at his use of the phrase 'lovely folks', but was concerned about his head wound. "When they brought me back here they were talking about needing another test subject. I guess that's you." "Ya think?" Jack replied sarcastically.
Sam regarded Jack and wondered if he was really in the mood to hear what she had to tell him, but it was hardly something she could put off. "So I've been listening to their conversations," she started quietly. ".and it seems the only reason we're here is because they want to test some new drugs on us." "Oh, just great!" Jack exclaimed, while holding the cut on his head. "Well Major? Any ideas on how to get out of here? Coz I sure as hell ain't being no guinea-pig for these guys!" Sam looked at Jack and saw the blood dripping down his hands. "Sir, are you alright? That wound looks pretty bad." She said gently. "I'm fine Carter. Let's just concentrate on getting out of here huh?"
Easier said than done, Sam thought. "At least Daniel and Teal'c got away. I heard the guards talking about it." She said reassuringly. Just then, the guards entered the room followed by what appeared to be doctors. They got out some needles and proceeded towards Sam. She struggled against them, but restrained she was helpless as they injected her with whatever drugs they intended testing. "NO! Get away from her! What are you doing?!" Jack cried to no avail. And when they finished with Sam they moved onto Jack and did the same.
And then they left. Sam and Jack looked at each other. "For some reason I was expecting the results to be instantaneous." Sam said, confused. "Great, now we get to wait and worry about what's gonna happen to us." Jack said grumpily. Daniel and Teal'c had better hurry up!
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Back at the SGC, Daniel and Teal'c were in a briefing with General Hammond about the sudden change in the people's attitudes on P3X-725. "It was crazy," Daniel was saying. "They seemed such friendly down-to-Earth people. then all of a sudden they were armed and viscous and we see Jack and Sam being hauled away to a holding cell!"
"Daniel Jackson," Teal'C calmly cut in "there was little we could have achieved. They appeared to be at a primitive stage of technology and gave us no reason to fear them." Teal'C then turned to address the General. "General Hammond, it seems strange that such a simple culture could possess the advanced weapons technology that they displayed."
"Teal'C is right, there must be something else going on there, some other race or culture influencing them. I find it hard to believe those weapons were their own. They were so much more advanced than ours that Sam and Jack were over-powered easily, we were lucky to be able to escape ourselves."
"We must go back with reinforcements." Teal'c stated firmly. Daniel looked a little dizzy and held tightly to the desk. "Are you alright son?" Hammond asked, and when he didn't get a reply -"First we have to get you to the infirmary! Teal'C help me escort him down."
Teal'C nodded and proceeded to the infirmary with Daniel leaning heavily on his shoulder. Almost there, Daniel collapsed unconscious onto the floor, and Hammond came running up - "Teal'C call Dr Frasier and ask for her assistance while I check Dr Jackson is ok." He had just knelt down next to Daniel to check his pulse when Teal'C's prone body fell to the floor, collapsed along with the unconscious Daniel. Worried, Hammond had to call for help to get them to the infirmary.
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Jack started to stir from his sleep, and wondered when he had actually gone to sleep. Last thing he remembered. now that was strange, he felt like a great fog was enveloping his thoughts and memories and he felt extremely disorientated and confused. It was quite dark and musty in here, and his body ached all over as I he had the flu or something. Still, he managed to sit up and look around. He looked over to his right and saw a small girl with long blonde hair - about 5 years old. Who the hell is she? He thought. And more importantly why were they in what appeared to be a cell?
Sam started to stir from her sleep, funny since she couldn't remember dozing off. She looked to her right and saw a boy a lot older than her - about 13 years old. She looked around scared and confused. Where were mommy and daddy? What was this place? Tears formed in her eyes as the fear of this unknown place took over.
Jack saw the girl was frightened so he slowly moved next to her and tried to comfort her. "Hey, it's alright. I don't know what's going on yet, but I'm sure everything's fine." He said gently, and pulled the little girl into his arms. Sam held onto this stranger, even though her mummy had always told her not to talk to strangers, she felt like she knew this boy, and that he was a good person. Summoning up her courage she spoke to him, "Who are you?"
Jack looked into the girl's shining blue eyes and thought that he recognised something. some feeling, some memory about this person. "I'm Jonathan O'Neill, but you can call me Jack, everyone else does." He said smiling at her, trying to hide his own fear of the situation from her. "Your name's Sam, isn't it?" He asked quietly.
"How did you know that?" Sam said surprised. "I don't know really, I just had this thought or memory that I was put in this cell with someone called Sam." He shrugged while Sam looked confused.
"What's a cell?" Sam asked as she put her thumb in her mouth and played with her hair. Jack thought maybe he shouldn't scare her with the answer, and instead decided on some diversionary tactics. "So, how old are you Sam? I bet you must be about. oooh, 20 years old?"
Sam giggled hysterically and hit him playfully on his chest. "No silly! I'm not that old!" "Ok, so how old are you then?" Sam was about to reply when her attention was taken by something else. "Your head's bleeding!" she shouted, and jumped up to try and have a closer look.
"Where?" Jack asked, and ran his hand over his forehead. Sure enough, his hand came back with blood on it. "Ouch" he said as he felt the lump forming. "Wonder how that happened."
"The nasty man hit you so you wouldn't get away." Sam said in a trembled voice. "I don't remember that." Jack said confused. "What else do you remember?" "Jack I don't wanna be hit on the head! Can't we go now? Get away from the nasty man that hurt you!" Sam was almost crying clutching round his neck.
"Woah, calm down, calm down." Jack picked her up and stood up to look around their cell. He certainly didn't want to stick around and wait for whoever hit him to come back. But there was only one way out of this room, and that was through the locked door. He sighed and sat back down again, holding Sam close trying to alleviate her fear. But his own fear was getting a strong grip on him. He had no idea where they were, who had locked them in here, or why any of this was happening - whatever was going on, they were in trouble.
He half wished their captors would walk in, just so he'd know who they were. And then he wanted to take back that wish when the door burst open, and a man with glowing eyes walked in.
Yep, we are definitely in trouble here, he thought.
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After extensive tests on Teal'C and Daniel, Janet had to give General Hammond the bad news. "It's a virus Sir. A particularly virulent one at that. It seems much like the flu, but biologically it resembles nothing like we have on Earth." "Are you saying they brought it back through the stargate today?" Hammond asked, very concerned now. "Yes Sir. I would have noticed it before if it was from their last mission." "Are Doctor Jackson and Teal'C ok?" "At the moment they are simply exhibiting the usual symptoms of flu - dizziness, nausea, head aches, lethargy. I've confined them to the infirmary for the moment, not that they are in any shape to try wandering around." "Isn't Teal'C's symbiont helping him to recover?" Hammond asked, already fearing the negative answer. "I'm afraid not Sir."
Hammond put his head in his hands. There always seemed to be something going wrong around here! "That's not all the bad news Sir." Janet said gently as Hammond's head whipped up to look at her. "And what's that Doctor?" "It's extremely contagious. I've already had several men come down with it in the last hour." She looked apologetic, even though it wasn't her fault. "I suggest we quarantine the base Sir."
The General nodded and went to inform the President of the situation.
Walking back into the infirmary, Janet found both Daniel and Teacl'C awake. "Janet!" Daniel called her over. Standing by Daniel's bed, Janet took in the dishelved appearance of the man that was by no means a stranger to the infirmary, always seeming to spend more time in here than the other members of his team.
"Janet." Daniel spoke weakly. "You've gotta clear us for duty. We can't stay in the infirmary while Jack and Sam are prisoners on another planet." "I am in agreement." Teal'C stated as succinctly as usual.
"I'm sorry, but you two are going nowhere until I deem you fit to. I'll speak to Hammond and see what he's doing about the situation." Janet got up and checked their vitals on the monitor. "In the meantime, it may get a bit crowded in here." She glanced at the nurses as they brought two more people in and lay them on makeshift beds that they had had to set up. "It seems we have an epidemic on our hands."
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Apophis looked at the two children with glee. He couldn't believe that the Jaffa had actually got the formula right, and that he was now looking at the child forms of O'Neill and Carter! Now he would get all the information he needed about Earth and their stargate!
With a benevolent grin he walked up to the pair, noting how Carter hung so tightly on O'Neill's neck in fear. Wait a minute. fear? Since when did the infamous SG1 show that much fear? Something was wrong here.
"Jaffa Mourin'T!" He shouted. A strong burly Jaffa came running in and bowed in front of Apophis. "Yes my Lord?" "You are certain your formula is right?" He gave the Jaffa a deadly glare. "Y..yes my Lord." Mourin'T stammered.
Apophis then addressed Jack. "Tell me, what is your name and rank boy?" Jack gulped and answered "Jack, Jack O'Neill. But what do you mean by rank? I'm only 13 years old." His voice sounded small against the man with the glowing eyes, but he continued all the same. "Who are you, and why have you put us in here?" he asked bravely. "I am your God, Apophis!" He roared, evidently extremely angry at something.
"I only wanted them to become physically children in order to intimidate them and restrain them, I did not want for them to become mentally children you fool!!" Apophis screamed at Mourin'T and hit him to the floor.
"They may yet remember the details of their adult life. Just give it some time, it will be easy to manipulate them and get information in their fragile emotional state!" Mourin'T begged from the floor.
Apophis stopped to consider, he did badly want to get information. And he did badly want to do O'Neill harm. "Very well. Take them to your lab for further experimentation before I interrogate them myself." Apophis commanded and left abruptly after giving O'Neill and Carter one last evil stare.
Sam gripped Jack even tighter if it was possible, and a few tears slipped down her cheeks. Jack felt her crying but realised there was little he could do to make her feel better, what they had just heard did not sound good for them - experiments and torture. He was also struggling to comprehend what they had said about himself and Sam. He was an adult and they had made him a child again? It didn't sound possible, infact it sounded downright crazy! Still, something crazy was going on here. Last time he checked people's eyes didn't glow.
Jack was marched down some huge golden corridors by men with large sticks that looked like weapons. Still carrying Sam who was worryingly quiet, he finally arrived at Mourin'T's laboratory.
A big scary looking Jaffa came towards Jack and took hold of Sam. "No.. nooo!!" Sam screamed and struggled, trying to keep a grip on Jack, who was busy trying to kick or hurt the man in some way and keep a hold on Sam at the same time. The struggle continued for several minutes as the Jaffa just couldn't handle the two kids struggling at once. Sam managed to bite him on the arm, and he retaliated with a hard smack across her face. Sam screamed and started crying, as the Jaffa finally got a hold on her and another came to help and held Jack back.
"Shut up! Shut up!" The Jaffa shouted at Sam as her wailing escalated. "Leave her alone!" Jack intervened. The Jaffa turned and gave Jack a menacing look. "What was that?!" "She. she's just a kid." Jack finished quietly as the Jaffa stormed towards him. "Lets see if we can't do something about that attitude, boy." He all but growled at him, raising a staff weapon above Jack.
"No don't hurt him!" Sam shouted, but to no avail, as two Jaffa held Jack down while the other beat him viscously with the staff weapon.
To Be Continued.