Disclaimer: Not mine, except for original characters and scenarios. Don't sue, I don't have any money anyway.
Author's Notes: The lyrics in this are used without permission and rightfully belong to Machine Gun Fellatio a very cool band, no infringement intended.
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Major, Colonel. Fiona Cole interrupted the pair as they went through Major Carter's report. Emily Shaw has intelligence as to the whereabouts of the goa'uld.
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It was this brief statement that led to Carter, O'Neill, Fiona, Emily and Alex clambering into a rental car at 7:30pm that night. They had jointly decided that a night offensive was best. Offensive being a term loosely used as this was purely an info gathering expedition.
As Alex started the car he began lecturing Jack on how this was to be covert operation and none of his trademark gung-ho nature was necessary. The key aspect was stealth, he emphasised. Jack riled himself up and prepared to let fly at Alex with a string of abuse when:
Cruise around town with the windows down
Shake it all round to the stereo sound
Cruise around town with the windows down
Shake it all round to the summertime sound
You're like a rollercoaster, toast ya
in a big four-poster bed
hey ba da da da da da da
say what?
Alex, blushing furiously hastily turned the radio off.
Yeah, you're real stealthy. Jack drawled. Stealthy like an anvil. Sam expertly covered her laughter with a cough and they drove off.
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It was an abandoned warehouse. Why is it always an abandoned something?' Sam mused. She, Emily, and Fiona were creeping around the right side of the large decrepit building whilst Alex and Jack took the left side. The silence was broken by the Major's radio clicking to life.
We got nothing over here Major, nobody's home. Came the tinny voice of Jack O'Neill.
Copy that Colonel. We're coming up on a lighted window, wait a sec while we check it out. Carter cut off the radio and motioned for Emily to give her a boost while Fiona took up a watch position.
Sam grappled with the window sill and tried to peer through the glass. It was hard to see much, the glass was grimy with dirt and dust. The Major pulled up a bit of her sleeve and wiped clean a patch, she was met with the sight of a small clean room.
The all too familiar gut wrenching tingle skipped down her spine, the tell-tale sign of goa'uld infestation. Problem was Sam couldn't see a single goa'uld.
The woman leaned in closer so her face was touching the glass, to get a better look. There was a door down one end of the room that opened. Two women entered one had her arm bandaged. Sam's breath caught. They were from the alleyway.
As one they turned their heads gold eyes flashing, and stared at the Major. In her panic to get down and out of there Carter slipped and she and Emily ended in a heap. She grabbed her radio.
Sir! I saw two! They're here and they know we're here! She gasped out as Fiona helped her to her feet
Get out front, it's time to go! Came the tinny reply. The three women didn't need to be told twice. Breaking into a run they were only a hundred metres from the Colonel when the radio came to life yet again.
Where are you Major?
Almost there Sir!
The trio burst around the side and were moments from the safety of the car when Emily tripped. She'd fallen over some old corrugated iron and lay sprawled on the ground.
Sam shouted at Fiona as she turned to help the fallen woman from the ground. Emily's ankle had gone straight through a section of the rusted sheet metal.
Sam didn't hear the car revving but she heard the Colonel shout.
Carter! Move! Sam looked up and saw a car hurtling towards her. Emily scampered out of the way and Sam knew that she should have been too but she couldn't. She was rooted to the spot.
Something heavy impacted on her side sending her flying, she landed roughly on the ground, gasping for air to fill her lungs. She struggled to her feet as she heard Fiona yell.
Sam's lungs had stopped burning by the time she reached Fiona. The Colonel lay unconscious on the ground in front of her, blood oozing from cuts and his leg at a funny angle. Suddenly it dawned on Sam, he pushed her out of the way. She wasn't able to get her own skinny ass outta there so the damn man had pushed her out of the way. Sam shook her head, she'd yell at him later. Or maybe apologise till she was blue in the face.
Alex had started the car and Emily stood by the open door waiting for them. The car that hit the Colonel had disappeared leaving them time to move without fear of being flattened like a cane toad. Fiona and Sam struggled with the unconscious man and sighed with relief when he was finally settled on the backseat, he was still out cold and Sam knew that he'd 1) Kill her when he woke up and 2) Probably call the General and bring someone else in, and then all the stuff about the buyer would get out.
Sam leaned back against the chair as they drove out of the grounds and towards the nearest hospital. The prickling sensation danced ever so slightly along her neck and she saw two gold eyes staring at her from behind the fence. They were playing with them Sam realised, waiting for the perfect time to cut her down and hand her over.
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