New Arrivals
The following story is under the sole ownership and copyright of J.L. Scott. Unauthorized copying and/or use is actionable in a court of law.
To borrow a phrase: SG-1 and Star Gate no mine, no permission, no money, no sue...please?
AN: Warning: this is a VERY long chapter!
Over the next month, Sg's 1, 5, and 9 went back to the Place of the Pure many times. Most of them knew all of the kids by name, and where they worked. Maria's ankle had healed nicely and she was doing without crutches now, though she still hobbeled a bit. Cass had become their favorite because she would "juggle" anything they asked her to, except other children. Several of the older boys, Marcus and Inigo especially, a pair of 7 and 8 year olds, followed Jack and Teal'c almost everywhere, mimichking them as best they could. Daniel, along with Bennett, Forus, and Sam collected a lot of information about Anala's people and their customs.
"The Parts of the Family are like the branches of government, only it's really a religion. The Books are full of traditions, codes of conduct, histories, training directions, and rules for....um....procreation" he told told Jack excitedly over dinner one night. They were slotted for five straight days and had set up a camp in the tall grasses behind the barn/stable. Sam was due in two weeks, January 28th to be exact. Summer had a firm hold on the Place of the Pure but on Earth winter was still breaking out. Jack had had doubts about Sam coming along, but Janet had assured him that two weeks was plenty of leeway time. Darrow and Moorway, the two specialists from 5 and 9 helping Jack at the ruins while Daniel was busy with the Books, were almost done with their work. There was little more than two crushed huts and a few broken pieces of pottery, but it was enough to keep them excited.
"Many, many rules for that" Sam commented. She sat on the ground, leaning against Jack's legs, eating the extra rations she had brought along. On the other side of the camp fire, Cass laughed at the image in her mother's head. She shivered slightly and Greg pulled her into him.
"I found something else though" Jack raised an eyebrow at his friend.
"There's a reference, in the Book of the Pure, and another in the Book of the Fathers. Basically something about the Place of the Pure being spoiled"
"And?" Jack prodded.
"The Fathers decend upon the Pure"
"What does that mean, Uncle Danny?" Cass asked. Daniel shrugged.
"I'm not sure" he answered, but it didn't take Cass's senses to tell he was worried about it.
"I believe it is late" Teal'c said.
"I think you're right, Teal'c" Sam said as she used Jack to push herself from the ground. The others zipped themselves into their tents, Teal'c took up his night watch post, and Cass and Jack snuggled into their sleeping bags on opposite sides of the fire.
The images seemed to flash through his mind like lightning as the night slowly crept by and he slept through it........
Moonlight poured through the window and Jack drug himself out of bed to gather a crying infant from her crib......the door creaked open ad a frightened four year old with tear stains dripping down to her chin climbed into th large bed to snuggle against her Daddy, the only one who could protect her rom the terrifying images that found their way into her mind, uninvited..........a seven year old in pig tails suddenly found herself in the backyard instead of her bedroom where she'd been not a second ago and he gathered her up, telling her she'd be okay and they'd learn to control this strange and frightening ablitiy together...........a gun fired and a man fell and the 12 year old's eyes grew to the size of saucers as the weapon fell from her hand and the emptiness of the dead man's body filled her with the kind of guilt only the devil should ever have to endure, but he was there, telling her she'd done the right thing, she'd had to save Uncle Danny, he'd help her get through the pain.............a million times, different surroundings, happy times, bad times, different years, but always the same face, always him, and always he was saying "I love you"
.....And then there was gun fire and the pain engulfed her as he fell to the ground, his body ruined and his soul gone from it, and the wormhole pulled her away, the echo of his love a knife to her heart, slowly stabbed and slowly drawn out again, the cold ground of an alien planet her only consolation now.........
Jack woke in a cold sweat. On the other side of the fire, Cass tossesd in her troubled sleep, and her father knew he'd been privy to her dream/memories once again. Months ago he'd shared the first one with her, cementing her in his heart forever, deeply entrenched in his own soul. Despite all her strength, all of her abilities, she couldn't outrun the deep psychological trauma she'd been forced to endure at the hands of an ungraceful Fate and a cruel universe she had barely escaped. Jack knew she was blissfully happy, her Father brought back to life, her mother handed her with a smile, and the healing love of a man who knew too well, and yet the dreams haunted her. Jack wondered if she would ever escape the pain, and offered to some unseen, unknown, unparticipatory God his own life to lift that weight from the girl's strong shoulders. She still tossed in her dreams, and Jack couldn't stand her suffering anymore.
"Cassi, baby" he whispered in her ear. Her eyes flew open, and Jack could see her trembling. The small frightened four year old who didn't understand the cruelty of the world in her eyes again. She leapt into his arms and he was there to comfort her, one more time.
"Good morning, campers!" Jack greeted the team as they emerged into the cool mist of morning. This was their last day in the Place of the Pure, and Daniel and Darrow assured them they wouldn't need to come back for a long while. Cass was already cleaning the fire ring out and Teal'c had a tent down and put away.
"We're due back home at 1400 hours, so let's get a move on" Jack ordered. Behind him, four children came running toward them, screaming in terror. They all grabbed guns and tried to see throug the mist to what the problem was. Cass flinched as the children grew closer.
"Hey, hey! Gloria, Inigo!" Jack caught the two as they tried to flee.
"Grab Jolina and Roberto!" he shouted over his shoulder.
"Got em!" Forus yelled.
"Inigo, Inigo!" Jack had to let go of Gloria to keep ahold of the young boy, but luckily she had an affinity for Greg and she ran straight to him.
"Inigo, what's wrong?" Jack asked again. The boy started jabbering in his own language, a hodge podge of spanish and french, which Jack didn't understand a word of.
"He just keeps saying 'they're coming' " Daniel told him.
"Who's coming Inigo?" Jack asked, but the little boy was too frightened to answer.
"All right, get this stuff down!" Jack ordered quietly, "Forus, Darrow" he pointed to his eyes and then at the Gate, telling them to scout. Bennett and Paroski took the kids while everyone else pulled the camp down. Darrow and Forus came jogging back.
"Sir, it looks like men from the Home Place. They grabbed Fredrique and Constella, two of em took em back through the gate, but there's about 10 of em spreading out from the house." Darrow reported quietly. More screams and wallers could be heard coming from the house. Jack signaled for them to move out, around the orchard and around the gate so they came up from the front.
Dad, what about the kids? Cass asked silently.
"Guess we'll have to take them with us for now" Jack answered very quietly. Cass nodded and the kids came floating behind them as they ran. They all tried to scream, but Cass stopped the sounds before they could escape from their little mouths. That only served to terrify them even more but Cass didn't have the time to explain. The three teams crept up very quietly on the gate. They squatted in the grass while Daniel dialed home. As soon as the gate opened, they heard shouts from what had to be the men from the Home Place, and they were getting closer. The SG teams loaded the trolley up with their gear and Cass rolled it up and through the gate, unhappy with the speed of it's engine. As soon as it was through a shot hit the ground at Teal'c's feet.
Shit! resounded dully in the skulls of SG-1 as Cass, Jack, Teal'c and Greg dropped to the ground to cover the rest of the team. The shots coming from the men were not staff weapon energy, but they were some sort of energy weapon.
Are we the only ones in this universe that uses projectiles? Cass asked as she fired back into the grass. They could see the men closing in on them, shouting to each other. Every blast got closer.
"Go, go, go!" Jack shouted. Forus grabbed Gloria and led SG-9 with additions of Inigo, Jolina and Roberto, through the gate. Darrow and most of SG-5 made it through a few seconds behind.
Then a shot got through. The blue-green beam pierced through the shimmering event horizen.
"Ah, for cryin' out loud!" Jack muttered. As soon as that blast got through to the other side, Hammond would close the iris.
"Hurry, hurry!" Sam was a having a little problem hauling ass and Jack hung back with her. Cass was at the front of the line, but she was hanging back too. Suddenly Greg caught something the rest of them had missed.
"Cassi!" he shouting in warning, but he was too late. The blast tore right into her chest, the force throwing her onto her back. Greg was the first to her side, checking her pulse.
"She's not dead!" he shouted, but the rest of them already knew it. They had felt her die before, and they hadn't this time. The men from the Home Place were nearly upon them. They were still firing, but they had horrible aim. Still three more shots made it through the gate before it closed.
"I'll redial!" Daniel shouted, heading back for the DHD.
"No! There's no time!" Jack told him, "Let's get back to the house!"
"Sir?" Sam questioned, "Can we endanger all those kids?"
"I don't see how we have a choice Sam!" her husband responded, "It's the only cover near by!" Teal'c had Cass and Greg carried his staff weapon.
"Let's go!" Jack grabbed Sam's hand and they started running, right at one of the Home Place men. The man's face revealed his terror in the face of their charge. He raised his weapon, a sort of handgun/crossbow thing, but he was shaking hard. Jack shot him in the leg. He fell whimpering in the grass and the group ran past him. The Home Place men were shouting back and forth, trying to invert their circle and catch the escapees, but they were too late. The family had made it to the house. The front door was unlocked and they simply pushed their way in. The children were terrified and Anala was trying to calm them. In Teal'c's arms Cass jerked while her unconcience mind readjusted to the emotions the young one's were generating.
"Get these kids upstairs, Anala!" Daniel told her.
"Where are the others?' the young woman asked desperately.
"They went to our planet, don't worry, just get those kids upstairs!" he reiterated. She quickly began herding the kids upstairs. Greg and Jack pushed one of the couches in front of the door and Teal'c laid Cassi down on another.
"Cassi's breathing has steadied" he announced. There was a burned hole in her clothing, but the skin underneath wasn't too badly burned. He left her and joined Jack beneath one of the two windows thta looked out at the gate.
"What of the back way?" he asked.
"It has been locked and blocked" Anala informed him, returning back down the stairs.
"Daniel why the hell are these guys after us?" Jack demanded.
"The Place of the Pure has been spoiled" Daniel repeated, "And the Father's have decended. Jack, they're going to destroy everything here"
"I thought you said there weren't any Father's left" Greg, who was trying to attend to Cassi, objected.
"The men looked frightened. I do not believe they are well trained" Teal'c commented.
"They're trained well enough" Jack replied as a shot shattered through the single glass window pane and scorched the wall behind.
"Jack?" A pained gasp made Jack turn. Sam was breathing hard and her hands were on her stomach.
"I know you're busy, but I just went into labor"
The following story is under the sole ownership and copyright of J.L. Scott. Unauthorized copying and/or use is actionable in a court of law.
To borrow a phrase: SG-1 and Star Gate no mine, no permission, no money, no sue...please?
AN: Warning: this is a VERY long chapter!
Over the next month, Sg's 1, 5, and 9 went back to the Place of the Pure many times. Most of them knew all of the kids by name, and where they worked. Maria's ankle had healed nicely and she was doing without crutches now, though she still hobbeled a bit. Cass had become their favorite because she would "juggle" anything they asked her to, except other children. Several of the older boys, Marcus and Inigo especially, a pair of 7 and 8 year olds, followed Jack and Teal'c almost everywhere, mimichking them as best they could. Daniel, along with Bennett, Forus, and Sam collected a lot of information about Anala's people and their customs.
"The Parts of the Family are like the branches of government, only it's really a religion. The Books are full of traditions, codes of conduct, histories, training directions, and rules for....um....procreation" he told told Jack excitedly over dinner one night. They were slotted for five straight days and had set up a camp in the tall grasses behind the barn/stable. Sam was due in two weeks, January 28th to be exact. Summer had a firm hold on the Place of the Pure but on Earth winter was still breaking out. Jack had had doubts about Sam coming along, but Janet had assured him that two weeks was plenty of leeway time. Darrow and Moorway, the two specialists from 5 and 9 helping Jack at the ruins while Daniel was busy with the Books, were almost done with their work. There was little more than two crushed huts and a few broken pieces of pottery, but it was enough to keep them excited.
"Many, many rules for that" Sam commented. She sat on the ground, leaning against Jack's legs, eating the extra rations she had brought along. On the other side of the camp fire, Cass laughed at the image in her mother's head. She shivered slightly and Greg pulled her into him.
"I found something else though" Jack raised an eyebrow at his friend.
"There's a reference, in the Book of the Pure, and another in the Book of the Fathers. Basically something about the Place of the Pure being spoiled"
"And?" Jack prodded.
"The Fathers decend upon the Pure"
"What does that mean, Uncle Danny?" Cass asked. Daniel shrugged.
"I'm not sure" he answered, but it didn't take Cass's senses to tell he was worried about it.
"I believe it is late" Teal'c said.
"I think you're right, Teal'c" Sam said as she used Jack to push herself from the ground. The others zipped themselves into their tents, Teal'c took up his night watch post, and Cass and Jack snuggled into their sleeping bags on opposite sides of the fire.
The images seemed to flash through his mind like lightning as the night slowly crept by and he slept through it........
Moonlight poured through the window and Jack drug himself out of bed to gather a crying infant from her crib......the door creaked open ad a frightened four year old with tear stains dripping down to her chin climbed into th large bed to snuggle against her Daddy, the only one who could protect her rom the terrifying images that found their way into her mind, uninvited..........a seven year old in pig tails suddenly found herself in the backyard instead of her bedroom where she'd been not a second ago and he gathered her up, telling her she'd be okay and they'd learn to control this strange and frightening ablitiy together...........a gun fired and a man fell and the 12 year old's eyes grew to the size of saucers as the weapon fell from her hand and the emptiness of the dead man's body filled her with the kind of guilt only the devil should ever have to endure, but he was there, telling her she'd done the right thing, she'd had to save Uncle Danny, he'd help her get through the pain.............a million times, different surroundings, happy times, bad times, different years, but always the same face, always him, and always he was saying "I love you"
.....And then there was gun fire and the pain engulfed her as he fell to the ground, his body ruined and his soul gone from it, and the wormhole pulled her away, the echo of his love a knife to her heart, slowly stabbed and slowly drawn out again, the cold ground of an alien planet her only consolation now.........
Jack woke in a cold sweat. On the other side of the fire, Cass tossesd in her troubled sleep, and her father knew he'd been privy to her dream/memories once again. Months ago he'd shared the first one with her, cementing her in his heart forever, deeply entrenched in his own soul. Despite all her strength, all of her abilities, she couldn't outrun the deep psychological trauma she'd been forced to endure at the hands of an ungraceful Fate and a cruel universe she had barely escaped. Jack knew she was blissfully happy, her Father brought back to life, her mother handed her with a smile, and the healing love of a man who knew too well, and yet the dreams haunted her. Jack wondered if she would ever escape the pain, and offered to some unseen, unknown, unparticipatory God his own life to lift that weight from the girl's strong shoulders. She still tossed in her dreams, and Jack couldn't stand her suffering anymore.
"Cassi, baby" he whispered in her ear. Her eyes flew open, and Jack could see her trembling. The small frightened four year old who didn't understand the cruelty of the world in her eyes again. She leapt into his arms and he was there to comfort her, one more time.
"Good morning, campers!" Jack greeted the team as they emerged into the cool mist of morning. This was their last day in the Place of the Pure, and Daniel and Darrow assured them they wouldn't need to come back for a long while. Cass was already cleaning the fire ring out and Teal'c had a tent down and put away.
"We're due back home at 1400 hours, so let's get a move on" Jack ordered. Behind him, four children came running toward them, screaming in terror. They all grabbed guns and tried to see throug the mist to what the problem was. Cass flinched as the children grew closer.
"Hey, hey! Gloria, Inigo!" Jack caught the two as they tried to flee.
"Grab Jolina and Roberto!" he shouted over his shoulder.
"Got em!" Forus yelled.
"Inigo, Inigo!" Jack had to let go of Gloria to keep ahold of the young boy, but luckily she had an affinity for Greg and she ran straight to him.
"Inigo, what's wrong?" Jack asked again. The boy started jabbering in his own language, a hodge podge of spanish and french, which Jack didn't understand a word of.
"He just keeps saying 'they're coming' " Daniel told him.
"Who's coming Inigo?" Jack asked, but the little boy was too frightened to answer.
"All right, get this stuff down!" Jack ordered quietly, "Forus, Darrow" he pointed to his eyes and then at the Gate, telling them to scout. Bennett and Paroski took the kids while everyone else pulled the camp down. Darrow and Forus came jogging back.
"Sir, it looks like men from the Home Place. They grabbed Fredrique and Constella, two of em took em back through the gate, but there's about 10 of em spreading out from the house." Darrow reported quietly. More screams and wallers could be heard coming from the house. Jack signaled for them to move out, around the orchard and around the gate so they came up from the front.
Dad, what about the kids? Cass asked silently.
"Guess we'll have to take them with us for now" Jack answered very quietly. Cass nodded and the kids came floating behind them as they ran. They all tried to scream, but Cass stopped the sounds before they could escape from their little mouths. That only served to terrify them even more but Cass didn't have the time to explain. The three teams crept up very quietly on the gate. They squatted in the grass while Daniel dialed home. As soon as the gate opened, they heard shouts from what had to be the men from the Home Place, and they were getting closer. The SG teams loaded the trolley up with their gear and Cass rolled it up and through the gate, unhappy with the speed of it's engine. As soon as it was through a shot hit the ground at Teal'c's feet.
Shit! resounded dully in the skulls of SG-1 as Cass, Jack, Teal'c and Greg dropped to the ground to cover the rest of the team. The shots coming from the men were not staff weapon energy, but they were some sort of energy weapon.
Are we the only ones in this universe that uses projectiles? Cass asked as she fired back into the grass. They could see the men closing in on them, shouting to each other. Every blast got closer.
"Go, go, go!" Jack shouted. Forus grabbed Gloria and led SG-9 with additions of Inigo, Jolina and Roberto, through the gate. Darrow and most of SG-5 made it through a few seconds behind.
Then a shot got through. The blue-green beam pierced through the shimmering event horizen.
"Ah, for cryin' out loud!" Jack muttered. As soon as that blast got through to the other side, Hammond would close the iris.
"Hurry, hurry!" Sam was a having a little problem hauling ass and Jack hung back with her. Cass was at the front of the line, but she was hanging back too. Suddenly Greg caught something the rest of them had missed.
"Cassi!" he shouting in warning, but he was too late. The blast tore right into her chest, the force throwing her onto her back. Greg was the first to her side, checking her pulse.
"She's not dead!" he shouted, but the rest of them already knew it. They had felt her die before, and they hadn't this time. The men from the Home Place were nearly upon them. They were still firing, but they had horrible aim. Still three more shots made it through the gate before it closed.
"I'll redial!" Daniel shouted, heading back for the DHD.
"No! There's no time!" Jack told him, "Let's get back to the house!"
"Sir?" Sam questioned, "Can we endanger all those kids?"
"I don't see how we have a choice Sam!" her husband responded, "It's the only cover near by!" Teal'c had Cass and Greg carried his staff weapon.
"Let's go!" Jack grabbed Sam's hand and they started running, right at one of the Home Place men. The man's face revealed his terror in the face of their charge. He raised his weapon, a sort of handgun/crossbow thing, but he was shaking hard. Jack shot him in the leg. He fell whimpering in the grass and the group ran past him. The Home Place men were shouting back and forth, trying to invert their circle and catch the escapees, but they were too late. The family had made it to the house. The front door was unlocked and they simply pushed their way in. The children were terrified and Anala was trying to calm them. In Teal'c's arms Cass jerked while her unconcience mind readjusted to the emotions the young one's were generating.
"Get these kids upstairs, Anala!" Daniel told her.
"Where are the others?' the young woman asked desperately.
"They went to our planet, don't worry, just get those kids upstairs!" he reiterated. She quickly began herding the kids upstairs. Greg and Jack pushed one of the couches in front of the door and Teal'c laid Cassi down on another.
"Cassi's breathing has steadied" he announced. There was a burned hole in her clothing, but the skin underneath wasn't too badly burned. He left her and joined Jack beneath one of the two windows thta looked out at the gate.
"What of the back way?" he asked.
"It has been locked and blocked" Anala informed him, returning back down the stairs.
"Daniel why the hell are these guys after us?" Jack demanded.
"The Place of the Pure has been spoiled" Daniel repeated, "And the Father's have decended. Jack, they're going to destroy everything here"
"I thought you said there weren't any Father's left" Greg, who was trying to attend to Cassi, objected.
"The men looked frightened. I do not believe they are well trained" Teal'c commented.
"They're trained well enough" Jack replied as a shot shattered through the single glass window pane and scorched the wall behind.
"Jack?" A pained gasp made Jack turn. Sam was breathing hard and her hands were on her stomach.
"I know you're busy, but I just went into labor"