"Destiny"
Ch. 2
(Earth, SGC, Briefing Room)
Once Nicole and baby Evelyn were settled they all met back in the Briefing Room, as ordered by General Hammond. Jack, Sam, and Teal'c sat on one side of the Briefing Table. Daniel, Nicole, who was feeding Evey in her arms, and Colonel Colburn sat on the other side of the table, while General Hammond sat in his normal spot at the head of the table.
"Okay, so tell me: why does the Goa'ulds want with a baby?" Jack said.
"Some how they found out about me and my abilities and that I was hiding out on the Mining Planet," Nicole said.
"Ba'al captured Nicole right after she gave birth to Evey," Colburn said.
"I was still tired. I couldn't even move, never-the-less turn into my phoenix form," Nicole explained. "So, I let Ba'al torture me for information."
*Flashback*
(Ba'al's ship, main torture room)
Ba'al takes a knife from the table beside him. He points it at Nicole's chest from a few feet away.
"Tell me: how were able to turn into the beautiful and powerful creature?" he asked.
""Why do you want to know that?" Nicole asked weakly.
"That is none of your concern. Now tell me or . . . "
". . . or what? You'll kill me? I can't die, remember?" She grinned as Ba'al became furious. "You won't get anything out of me."
"We shall see," he said.
Ba'al let go of the knife and let it stab her in the chest. Nicole gasped in pain. He then took another knife and said:
"Now let's try this again . . . "
*End Flashback*
Nicole gave a little shudder as the past events ran through her mind.
"I waited until I regained my strength. I, with some help of a Tok'ra operative, manage to escape and get to the Transport rings inside Ba'al's ship. Then I Stargated to the mining planet," Nicole continued.
She finished feeding Evelyn, got up and started to burp her daughter, pacing back and forth in front of the window that over looked the 'gate Room and the Stargate.
"But, how did Ba'al find out about Evelyn?" Jack asked.
"When we started to run out of baby supplies, so Colonel Colburn and I decided to pay Earth a little visit," Nicole said.
"Unfortunately, the Stargate couldn't establish a connection to the Earth 'gate. No matter how hard we tried," Colburn said.
"The Earth Stargate was, indeed, out of order for several weeks," Teal'c supplied.
"Yeah, we figured that. So, we contacted the Tok'ra," Nicole said.
Nicole finished burping Evelyn and laid her down in her swing chair Jack had bought for her. Nicole sat back down and joined the Briefing properly.
"Anyways, as luck would have it, as you know, there was a Goa'uld spy, working for Ba'al, hiding within the Tok'ra resistance," Nicole continued. "By the time you guys got ride of him, the Goa'ulds had already gotten word of Evey.
"Thor had wanted you to stay on that planet to hide you and your baby. Did he mention why?" general Hammond said.
"Because Evelyn has both of the phoenix and Mutant abilities. The Goa'ulds plan on turning her into a host," she explained.
"If the Goa'ulds manage to make Evelyn a host, the there will be little chance for Earth to stop any Goa'uld strong hold from either taking over the planet or destroying it," Sam aid.
"Which means, protecting Evey is on our list of top priorities right now," Daniel said.
Hammond nodded to everyone at the table and said:
"It's hard to believe that the fate of the universe lays in the hands of a baby,"
To be continued . . .