Title: SG-3 (09/10)

Rating: R

Spoilers: A Hundred Days (small moment where I take the mickey out of Laira!)

Details: Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Character death, Torture, 3rd Person POV

Summary: Sam disobeys Robert bigtime in order to help a friend on SG-1.

Disclaimer: None of the characters or places in this story belong to me, they are the property of MGM Worldwide, ShowTime, Gekko Film Corporation and Brad Wright. No copyright infringement intended - please don't sue me! I'm skint anyhow.

Author Notes: Enjoy, and please send feedback!

~SG-3 (09/10) ~

(c) Ruth, June 2003

**********

Three months after that disastrous mission, SG-3 were settling back into their normal routine – without SG-1.

Robert couldn't say that he missed them, because it would have been a damned lie. Edelson and Phillips thought the same, but Sam missed her new friend, the archaeologist Daniel Jackson. He'd been somewhat of a kindred spirit to her, more on her wavelength than any of the men on her team.

They often met up after work, went out for coffee and cookies. Sometimes they went to his place, other times to hers, and sometimes they went out to eat. Sam had never been so happy in all of her life - and neither had Daniel. They continued to build and strengthen their friendship over many weeks.

Jack O'Neill had noticed that his archaeologist had become a lot happier and - bouncier, for want of a better word. He still had no idea that he and Sam were still seeing each other. SG-3 were not friends of SG-1, and that was well-known throughout the SGC. Sam and Daniel were almost the Romeo and Juliet of the base, but they weren't actually romantically involved. Yet.

**********

"SG-1, you are clear to go!" said General Hammond, watching as Colonel O'Neill, Major Kawalsky, Dr Jackson and Teal'c made their way up the ramp. He smiled as Daniel tripped and almost fell over, hoisted back up by Teal'c. Then, they all disappeared through the event horizon.

On the other side, Jack O'Neill grimaced and stretched. "Trees. My favourite."

Daniel was already off, having seen a large piece of architecture that was just screaming out to be examined.

"I will accompany Dr Jackson," said Teal'c, before following the excited archaeologist.

"This is so great! I've never seen so many hyroglyphs before…"

Teal'c looked around him, at the same time digesting the torrent of information that Daniel was throwing at him.

Back at base camp, Jack and Kawalsky were on watch.

"Daniel seems a lot happier than usual," Jack commented.

Kawalsky nodded, staring off into space a little.

"What?" Jack asked.

Kawalsky looked at his oldest friend. "It's only what I heard the nurses gossiping about in the infirmary…"

Jack sat up and grinned. "What?" he asked.

"Well," said Charlie, "Apparently he and Sam Carter are an item."

Jack's mouth fell open. "Sam Carter? SG-3? Is the man mad?"

"Apparently they've been seeing each other for quite some time now."

"Ew!"

"I don't mean like that, Jack, I mean as friends."

"Oh, yeah. How long d'ya reckon that will last?"

"Why don't we ask him later?" Charlie replied.

Suddenly, there was a cracking noise and the two men were pulled from their gossiping. Jack raised his gun in preparation for an attack, but none came.

"What the hell was that?" he asked Charlie.

Kawalsky shook his head. "I don't know."

They both lowered their weapons. Jack felt the hairs beginning to rise on the back of his neck. Suddenly, they were pounced upon by two large jaffa and their weapons were disabled.

The larger of the two, who introduced himself as Has'ha, shoved Jack's radio in his face and told him to radio the Shol'va Teal'c.

"Teal'c?"

"O'Neill?"

"I…"

Jack felt the staff weapon being shoved into his back and Has'ha whispering: "The jaffa only!"

"I need ya to come back to base camp."

"Daniel Jackson will accompany me."

The weapon was pushed further into his back. "Ah! Uh…no, Teal'c, leave him with his rocks."

Teal'c frowned. "Is that wise?"

"He won't leave them, will he? Teal'c, it's pretty urgent."

"I will come right away, O'Neill."

Teal'c put his radio down. "Daniel Jackson, I must return to base camp briefly. Will you be safe until I return?"

"Mm," Daniel replied, still buried in translations.

Teal'c bowed his head before he left, still not totally comfortable with the situation.

**********

SG-3 sat down in the briefing room with General Hammond.

"I take it your recent mission to Edora was successful?" he asked.

"Yeah," Makepeace replied, "But this really annoying alien woman kept trying it on with me."

Sam smiled. The woman, called Laira, had been like an octopus.

"Interesting as that is, Colonel," said the General, with infinite patience, "Do you feel that the Edorans are suitable trading partners?"

Makepeace paused. "No. Really, they have fuck all - I mean, very little, to offer us."

"Thank you, Colonel, and please try to moderate your language."

"Yes, General."

**********

"You will return through the chapa'ai and not return!" Has'ha ordered, pushing Teal'c up with Jack and Charlie near the gate.

"We will not leave without Doctor Jackson," said Teal'c.

"Really?" Has'ha asked. He surveyed the three men for a moment, then swiftly took up his staff weapon and fired it at Kawalsky.

The blast hit him in the chest, and he fell to the floor gasping.

"Charlie!" Jack shouted, falling to his knees next to his best friend.

Kawalsky began to cough up blood, rolling onto his side to prevent himself from choking.

"It…was…..an….honor…Colonel," he spat through a mouthful of blood.

"Charlie! Don't you dare!"

His body shuddered for a moment, but then he lay still.

Jack raised his eyes to meet Has'ha, and stubbornly hailed Daniel on his radio.

"Daniel! Daniel, leave your damned rocks alone and get back here! DANIEL!"

There was no reply.

"Leave!" the jaffa ordered.

Jack dragged Charlie's body back to the gate - there was no way that he was leaving him here to rot.

Very reluctantly, Teal'c began to dial Earth.

**********

"I hope that your next mission will be less annoying, Colonel."

Just then, the klaxon blared.

"Unscheduled Gate Activation!"

General Hammond and SG-3 ran to the gate room, waiting to see who it was.

"Receiving SG-1's access code, sir," said Sergeant Davis.

"Open the iris!" he ordered.

A second later, Teal'c ran down the ramp, followed shortly by Jack and…

Sam's hand flew to her mouth. The control room went deathly silent.

"Where is Dr Jackson?" General Hammond asked.

"We….he….he's been taken prisoner."

"What?" Sam asked, a little louder than she'd meant to.

"Charlie's dead," Jack said slowly, looking down at his fallen friend.

"He was a fine officer, son. We'll arrange a proper burial."

Jack waited until his friend's body had been removed from the room before he quickly left the room and ran off to the showers.

Sam stared at the gate. Daniel was a prisoner of the Goa'uld, and there was no-one there to help him.

"Carter, c'mon!" said Makepeace, "We're going out for a drink, ya coming?"

"How can you go out when Kawalsky is dead…and Daniel is missing?" she asked, a touch of anger slipping into her voice.

"Captain," Robert replied icily, "People often die in the line of duty. You have to move on."

With that he left the room. Sam felt tears welling up in her eyes and she ran from the room to the safety of her lab, where she burst into tears, pressing her back into the wall.

She would never see Daniel again.

Stop thinking like that! She thought, and do something about it!

As the tears subsided, she pulled her knees up under her chin and thought. How could she bring him back? A sudden thought rushed into her head and she stood up, wiping the tears from her face with her sleeve.

**********

"Sir, couldn't we organise a rescue mission for Dr Jackson?"

"I'm sorry, Captain, but until we know more about the situation, nobody is going anywhere!"

"But, sir…"

"CAPTAIN! Dr Jackson is not even a member of SG-3! I appreciate your concern, but there is nothing that we can do."

Sam left Hammond's office and went back to her lab. If the General didn't want to know, she would have to ask Makepeace. Wait - he was out enjoying himself.

She decided to take a trip down to Daniel's lab, to think things through more clearly in her mind.

**********

When Daniel awoke he tasted blood in his mouth, and felt very dizzy. "Jack?" he asked.

"I am afraid not," a horribly familiar voice answered.

He looked up into the extremely happy face of Apophis.

"Wha - where's Jack? Charlie? T-"

"Your friends are of no concern to you now," Apophis smiled evilly, "Only the preservation of your own life."

Daniel swallowed as Apophis donned a ribbon device.

"Tell me - where is the Beta site of the Tau'ri stronghold situated?"

Daniel remembered Jack telling him, but couldn't recall the gate code.

"I…uh…I don't know!"

The device activated, sending a searing, hot pain through his scalp.

"Agh!"

"You will tell me in time, along with many other things."

**********

Sam looked around his lab and smiled. It perfectly reflected his character - untidy, but warm and inviting. She was looking around the room when her eyes fell on the mission report on his desk. She checked that nobody was at the door, then opened it. She immediately saw the gate address, so she picked up a pen and scribbled it on her hand.

"What are you doing?" came a voice from the doorway.

Sam whirled around to see Colonel O'Neill framed in the door. He didn't look pleased.

"Sir, I…"

He walked over to her and wrenched her hand away from the desk, looking at the address on it.

"You're planning a rescue mission?"

She swallowed and kept looking at him defiantly. "Yes, sir."

"Well, ya know, ya do have to have General Hammond's permission."

"Yes, sir."

"Well, ya know, I know that he hasn't given you permission, so - what the hell are ya doing?"

She pulled her hand away from his and began to walk away.

"Captain!" he thundered, "I am speaking to you!"

She ignored him, and walked out of the lab.

*********

The next morning, Sam walked down the corridor to Makepeace's office and knocked twice. She gingerly opened the door and stepped inside.

He was swinging back on his chair, trying to write a report at the same time. She took the small moment to glance at the ranking officer's security number, then she spoke to him.

"Sir."

"Captain. How may I be of help?"

"Uh..well, sir, I was hoping you could put an idea of mine to General Hammond…"

He sat back up in his chair with a thud. "Such as?"

"Such as a rescue mission for Doctor Jackson."

Makepeace groaned and snapped a pencil between his fingers.

"No, Captain!"

"Why?" she asked, suddenly realising that she shouldn't have been talking to him in that way.

"Because I damn well say so, Captain!"

"But…"

"Colonel O'Neill came to me last night and told me that you behaved in an incredibly insubordinate manner towards him. Normally, I would have told him to stick it up his arse, but I think I can see where he's coming from!"

"Sir…"

"YOU WILL NOT ORGANISE A RESCUE MISSION FOR DOCTOR JACKSON, DO YOU UNDERSTAND?" he shouted.

"Yes, sir."

"Any more behaviour like that and you'll be looking at demotion, or worse - a court martial!"

Sam left the office quickly, heading back to her lab again.

General Hammond didn't want to know. Her commanding officer didn't want to know. It looked like she was going to have to rescue Daniel using more unofficial methods…

**********

Daniel moaned in pain and leant back against the wall, trying to stem the flow of blood from his shoulder.

"I will come to you again, Tau'ri!" Apophis promised, before he swept menacingly out of the room.

Daniel looked up at the ceiling in despair. Where the hell were Jack, Charlie and Teal'c?

**********

Later that night, Sam was ready to do something she really didn't ought to. She'd been to the armoury, collected an M-16 and a zat gun. She'd hidden the M-16 by the gate so that she could reach it later, and the zat was hidden in her clothing.

She was dressed in black combat gear with heavy duty black boots on her feet. She held her hand in front of her face and saw it tremble slightly.

"Do it for Daniel," she thought, and left her lab, careful to avoid both people and cameras.

When she reached the control room, she was relieved to see that only one airman was on duty, guarding the control pannel. Very quietly, she approached him, sliding the zat out of her belt.

"Sorry," she said, and zatted the airman. Then, she entered hers and Makepeace's security codes into the computer and began to dial the gate.

Instantly, klaxons began to blare and she was forced to lock down the doors.

She saw General Hammond on the monitor, ordering that the doors should be broken through as soon as possible.

"Hurry up! She whispered to the gate, as it continued to dial.

"Chevron 5 encoded!"

She looked up at the monitor and saw that security on level 27 had been breached.

"Shit! Hurry up!"

"Chevron 6 encoded!"

She ran from the control room down to the gate room and retrieved her hidden M-16.

"Chevron 7 locked!"

The gate blasted to life at the same instant General Hammond, Colonel O'Neill and Colonel Makepeace broke through the control room door.

She ran up the ramp and heard Makepeace shouting after her.

"YOU'LL BE COURT-MARTIALLED FOR THIS, CAPTAIN!"

Ignoring him, she stepped through the gate and began her search for Daniel.

TO BE CONTINUED IN PART 10

Author's Note: Ooh, the penultimate part. What did you think? Feedback to samcarterusaf@yahoo.co.uk