A/N: Well FF.N isn't working well for me @ the moment so I don't know exactly how long it'll be before this chapter actually gets read by anyone…but I'm in the mood for writing it!! Been reading the SG fan fic awards all avo…they're so good lol! Anywayz on with the fic…
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"Yeah?" Daniel said.
Jack looked over at him suspiciously. He was pretty sure that whatever Daniel was being told was extremely important.
"Thanks…gotta go," he hung up the phone and stared at Jack.
"Daniel?" Jack asked.
"That wasn't good news," Daniel replied.
"Well?" Jack looked at him as if to say 'You better spill now or else!'
Daniel looked nervously at the two Aussie cops…how could he possibly explain it without them finding out.
"You remember Jolinar?" Daniel asked, wincing as he said it.
"You're not serious…" Jack said, almost as if asking him to tell him that what he had just said was a joke. "For crying out loud…can this thing drive any faster?"
Harry opened his mouth to reply when Jack cut him off.
"Who called?" Jack asked.
"Uh…Frasier," Daniel replied.
"What else did she say?" Jack asked. "And how do they know?"
"Jonas and Jacob came…from the other place…and apparently Jason contacted…" Daniel was desperately trying to think of ways to explain it without giving anything about the Goa'uld away to the two Aussies, "…contacted Sarah."
"Why?" Jack asked.
Daniel glanced nervously at Steven who was suddenly very curious.
"Oh…" Jack said, suddenly figuring out the connection between Osiris and the Jolinar experience. "Oh…"
"Yeah…oh…" Daniel replied.
"What the hell are you two on about?" Harry asked. "Look I don't care what sort of classified material you yanks are withholding from us…this is our investigation and we need to know all that we can."
"We can't tell you everything…" Jack said.
"Well you better damn well tell us something or I'm not driving any further!!" Harry said, pulling over and stopping the car. "Now spit…"
Nervous glances were exchanged between the three SG-1 members.
"Show 'em Teal'c," Jack finally broke the silence.
Teal'c pulled off his baseball cap to reveal the shiny gold emblem on his forehead.
"So?" Harry asked. "That means nothing to me, mate."
"I am not of this Earth," Teal'c said.
Both Harry and Steven had on the most unbelieving faces that Daniel or Jack had ever seen.
"Look, we work on a top secret military base called the SGC," Jack started. "There's an object under the ground there called the 'Stargate'. It can transport us to any other planet with a Stargate on it! This includes planets run by people called the Goa'uld. The Goa'uld pose as gods on multiple worlds to gain followers to do their dirty work. Earth used to be under the control of these Goa'uld back in the Egyptian days. They passed themselves off as Egyptian Gods, but Jason Blank has been inhabited by the Goa'uld Tutankhamen."
Steven and Harry's faces remained unbelieving.
"Look…I don't care if you believe us or not…but Carter is going to be infested with one of these Goa'uld and we're going to get there and stop it," Jack paused, "and if you're not gonna drive us there I'm gonna walk!"
Harry's expression changed slightly. "You're serious, aren't ya mate?"
Jack didn't even replied, he just stared at Harry, as if daring him not to believe. Harry sighed and turned back around, starting up the four-wheel-drive again.
"OK, keep talking…so what exactly is a Goa'uld?" Harry asked.
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"Samantha Carter," Jason's voice came.
Sam looked up from her position on the floor. Jason, Osiris & a couple of Jaffa were standing, staring at her. Osiris was holding a familiar looking type of jar.
"You're going to implant me…" Sam stated, not asked.
"Ankhesenamun has chosen you as her new host," Osiris said.
"You know when I fell for the new pop singer I didn't actually wanna get married to him…" Sam spat out.
Jason stepped forward and grabbed her arm, pulling her up harshly. "Don't you mock me, Major."
This time Sam actually spat, right in Jason's eye. Then she kneed him somewhere painful and as he bent over made a break for it. She turned around and clambered up the hay bails behind her, up to the only window in the room.
"Get her!" Osiris shouted, but the Jaffa had already started scrambling up the hay bails behind her.
Sam reached the window and kicked plank boarding up the window with her foot. It was painful but it didn't matter, she was escaping. She jumped out the window onto the roof of the barn and clambered across it.
"Kree," a Jaffa shouted from behind her, knowing well that she knew exactly what that meant.
Sam stopped long enough to see the Jaffa had a zat pointed at her and then jumped off the roof onto the water tank…and went straight through it in the cold water. She swore and tried to pull herself back out of the water, only to see four Jaffa pointed zats at her from the roof and another ten or so pointed staff weapons at her from the ground below. She felt like she'd just sunk to the bottom of the tank. This didn't look like one mess she was going to get out of too quickly.
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"So they're going to put one of those Goa'uld things into Major Carter's head?" Steven asked.
"Yes they're going to put one of those Goa'uld things in her head…but we're not gonna let that happen…right Harry?" Jack said.
The whole car fell into silence. Jack returned to staring out the window. It was completely dark now, the only light coming from the full moon above. They were starting the up journey now. If they didn't reach the cabin soon Jack knew it would be too late, and he wasn't going to let that happen, not to anyone…especially not to Sam.
"Jack?" Daniel asked, turning around and looking at him.
"Yes Daniel?" Jack replied.
"You OK?" Daniel asked.
"Yes Daniel, I'm fine," Jack replied, staring back out the window.
"You sure?" Daniel asked.
"Daniel!"
He didn't reply, but he stared at Jack. Jack avoided his gaze, staring back out the window at the lights in the distance which he knew were Melbourne's. It had started as such an innocent trip, trying to find out if Jason Blank was a Goa'uld or not, this was never supposed to happen – none of this was supposed to happen. It was all his fault. He should've known better than to let Sam go in there by herself, he should've known that if Jason was a Goa'uld he would've sensed the naquadah in Sam's blood. But he hadn't thought of that, he hadn't known that this would all happen and now Sam was going to become a Goa'uld because of him.
"We're almost there," Harry announced.
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Jason threw Sam back into the room. "How dare you defy your god."
"You're not my god – actually you've never been a god!" Sam replied. "You're a snake in the head of a teenage pop idol!"
Jason glared at her. "I like defiant women…you will make a good wife. Start the implantation."
Osiris opened the jar and Jason reached inside and took out a Goa'uld. Sam didn't remember Goa'uld being that big or nasty, although she hadn't seen one out of its host for a very long time. She winced as Jason brought the Goa'uld close to her face.
"You will join me by my side and together we shall take Earth to be ours and show those damn system lords what they really need to do to take over the galaxy," Jason stated.
"That's what you're still doing here? Trying to take over Earth as a stepping stone for overthrowing the system lords and then taking over the universe?" Sam asked.
"You're smarter than I thought," Jason said.
The Goa'uld started snaking its way around Sam's neck, not quite touching her skin yet. Sam pulled her head back, but Jason had a hold on her arm so she couldn't step away. She winced as it touched her skin…
"Hold it!" a familiar voice said from the door.
Everyone spun around, including Jason. He let go of the snake and it jumped into the back of her neck. In between the pain of the Goa'uld entering her body she could see Teal'c, Daniel, Jack and two men she didn't know aiming weapons at the Goa'uld. She shouted in pain and fell to the ground.
"Carter!" Jack shouted.
She could hear shooting but everything was becoming hazy. Suddenly someone dropped at her side.
"Carter…" she heard Jack say, quieter this time. "Fight it, come on you can fight it. We're gonna get you outta here."
But she knew as well as he did that there was no way to get the Goa'uld out of her system unless she was cryogenically frozen and there was no technology on Earth that could do that.
"I'm sorry," she whispered.
"No Carter, don't let go so easily," Jack said.
"Sir, I can't fight it…" Sam replied.
"Sam…please don't do this," he said, she could hear the desperation in his voice.
"Get out of here," Sam whispered and suddenly she didn't have control over her actions anymore.
Jack watched as Sam's eyes shut and opened again, glowing in the familiar Goa'uld-like way. Sam, who was no longer Sam, reached out and grabbed Jack around the neck.
"You will die for your insolence," she whispered.
"Well you don't take long to catch on…" Jack stopped because she was constricting his throat.
"Let him go," Daniel's voice came.
Sam could see Daniel aiming the gun at her, she knew he wouldn't shoot. She willed him to shoot. But she couldn't open her mouth, she couldn't tell Daniel that she would rather be shot dead than spend the rest of her life as a Goa'uld. She wasn't killing Jack, she could see she was killing Jack, and he was trying to pry her fingers away from his neck, and she wanted to stop it, but she had no control.
"Carter, let go," he managed to get out.
I can't, sir, she wanted to say…but she couldn't. She could still see Daniel pointed the gun at her. She wanted him to shoot.
"Jack?" Daniel asked.
"Don't do it, Daniel!" Jack ordered. "Don't shoot her."
"You will die, sholvah," Sam felt herself saying, as she tightened her grip around Jack's throat.
No! Sam thought. She tried as hard as she could to prevent the Goa'uld from strangling her CO, but this Goa'uld was strong, stronger than she remembered Jolinar being. Ankhesenamun had a tight hold over her, one she couldn't break through.
Jack couldn't even talk anymore.
"Jack, I have to do it," Daniel said.
She could see the look in Jack's eyes. He didn't want this to happen, he couldn't watch while Daniel shot Sam. But he didn't have a choice. She could see it in his eyes, he was trying to tell her everything in what could be their last moments. She knew what he was trying to tell her. She tried to return the message but she didn't know if he could see it. She felt the shot before she saw it happen and suddenly she was sprawled on the floor of the barn.
Jack leaned forward, took her head in his hands. She could see Daniel turning around and shooting the Jaffa that had just entered the building. But Ankhesenamun wouldn't look away from Jack, almost as if she knew this was the worst torture for both Sam and Jack.
"I know," he whispered. "I know, Sam…I'm sorry…"
Sam tried to reply, she tried to tell him she knew too, and that she was sorry too…but she couldn't. She couldn't move her mouth or her eyes or anything! She had no control over it. She was trapped. Her body was dying, but the Goa'uld in her mind was hiding something.
She watched as Jack stood up and stood next to Daniel, helping to kill the Goa'uld.
"We have to leave her, O'Neill," Teal'c said. "She's already been infested!"
"Teal'c I don't care!" Jack shouted. "I'm not leaving without her!"
"Jack, we have to!" Daniel shouted. "Trust me I don't want to but we have to leave her! She has more chance of surviving if we leave her here."
Jack stared at Daniel.
"We'll come back," Daniel said.
"No," Jack said. "I'm not leaving."
"Colonel," Sam said, as surprised as everyone else that she spoke. "Leave!"
Both Jack and Daniel spun around to face her. The pain in Jack's eyes was worse than Sam could've described. He didn't want to leave.
"Just leave damnit," Sam whispered.
She knew the only reason she could talk was because the Goa'uld was busy trying to heal her wounds.
"Carter…" Jack started.
"I know! Just leave me…Colonel please leave!" Sam said, pleading with her eyes as much as her words.
He stared back. The he suddenly turned around and walked out of the barn, followed closely by Daniel, Teal'c and the two Australians. Sam closed her eyes, praying she would die rather than be brought back to life. She didn't want this life. She couldn't stand living like this…
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A/N: Tada – I actually finished the chapter!! Yay!! While watching Rove [live] & Buffy as well!! Well u'll have to come read the next chapter to find out wat happens right? Lol! So the more reviews the quicker I write!! *nudges & winks* Review review review!!