Yay! The long-awaited sequel! The Young Goa'uld Woman! Now, if
you haven't read The Little Goa'uld Girl, click on the little button up
there that says harrypotter4ever, and read it! I promise, you'll love that
one tons, and this one more. Oh! And feel free to review on the other
one, even though we've finished it!-Raven
ok, in the third section, everyone's gonna be talking. If you want some humor, just imagine them going around in a circle and talking like people do in the basement on That 70's show!-Talon
*cough* You've found a new show to obsess over!-Raven.
You love That 70's show too!-Talon
*no comment*-Raven
Chapter 1
Bittersweet Reunion-
"So." Carter asked her CO nonchalantly, as they packed for their upcoming mission. "Where're we off to?"
"PX4-929. I thought you knew all this!"
"Wait, sir! Isn't that . . .Caressia?"
Jack pondered for a moment. Then. . .
"Yes, Carter, I believe it is!"
"Isn't that where we sent Thera eight months ago?"
"Hmm. . . I believe so, yes. Wonder why she hasn't come back yet. I mean, for visits or holidays or anything."
"I'm sure she'd busy, what with ruling over an entire planet and all!"
"You're probably right."
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Standing before the Stargate, Daniel Jackson felt he was doing a fine job of masking his emotions. After all, Jack hadn't insisted that he was as nervous as a puppy that that was about to get a new bone, as he had on several other occasions. But, of course, he had every reason to be. This was his daughter, after all. Not like Shifu, who he'd birthed, met on various occasions, and knew wasn't genetically related to him. This was a girl, who was his real daughter! And he hadn't even seen her in eight months! He sure hoped everything was all right!
The event horizon exploded from the circular device he'd christened "Stargate." One by one, the members of SG1 stepped through, and found themselves on Caressia. However, it wasn't as they'd expected.
A crowd of sturdy looking men had gathered around the 'chapa'ai' pointing spears, staff weapons, zat guns, and arrows at their faces. Nobody moved.
"Well!" Jack said, trying to relieve the obvious tension. "This is a. . . . . very nice welcoming committee. And, if you don't mind, I think you've made your point, so you can all, go away now!" he attempted to ease a particularly sharp looking arrow away from his face.
"Stop!" a familiar cry rang out. "Don't hurt them, they're friends!" Thera and Tolm pushed their way through the crowd, trying to break it up. A rather large man holding a staff weapon pushed her to the ground. Daniel made a move as though to help her up, but she gave him a 'don't-do-anything' kind of look, and he remained where he was, as she helped herself up, but he couldn't help but notice the bruise that had welled up on her cheek.
"She speaks the truth!" Tolm bellowed. "They will not harm you!" One by one, the villagers lowered their weapons, all except the one who had pushed Thera.
"Don't shoot them, Behraam!" Thera said testily. The man turned the glare at her.
"I will shoot you!" he said, and as though to prove he was true to his word, he fired at her thigh. "I do not take orders from a blood traitor!"
"Thera!" all of Sg1 cried, but before they could even take a step toward her, Tolm had dashed to her side and hoisted her arm over his shoulder.
"I will take them into my house, Behraam, and while they are there, they cannot be harmed!"
"Then you take them into the house of a child!"
"I do. And it would be no different then if they had entered yours." he turned to the team. "Come." he said, and helped Thera to hobble down the dirt road, to a small house at the outskirts of the village.
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"How did this happen?" Teal'c asked, clearly as shocked as the rest of the team at the disrespect shown to Thera. "If they served N'kiri for centuries, why do they suddenly show such hatred towards you?"
"Well, after we came back, that guy Behraam lead a revolt. He believed that Ra was still alive and that I wasn't in control, and that with the right treatment, he could bring anyone who opposed Ra to their knees." Thera answered, easing herself into a chair and pouring some tea into cups for everybody.
"Well, he was half right!" Jack said, taking a sip of the watery tea Thera had served.
"How long has this been going on?" Daniel asked, clearly revolted at the idea of beating on a child.
"Since about fifteen minutes after I stepped through the gate." Thera said with a false sweetness in her voice, as she herself took a sip of tea. It was then that Daniel noticed the state she was in. She wore a tattered brown, wool dress, that hardly covered the cuts and bruises that blemished her skin. She looked more like a slave than a To'kra. Perhaps the most regal thing about her was that she still wore some of her Egyptian jewelry.
"She's been living here in this house with me." Tolm continued for her. "It was unexpected, so please excuse this mess."
"Thera." Sam put in. "Why hasn't N'kiri healed all your wounds?"
"Believe me, she's been trying. She's so worn out right now, that even if she tried, she couldn't take control."
"They only allow us to live because they fear Kajren." Tolm went on. "They don't bother us, as long as Thera's under my protection. You are, of course, welcome to stay for as long as you like! I will share my home with you!"
"Thank you." Teal'c said, inclining his head slightly. Tolm turned to Thera and said something under his breath in some other language, and Thera nodded and walked into the other room. She returned a few seconds later holding what looked like some sort of amulet. It took Sam a few seconds to realize that it was the same tablet-pendant that she'd worn almost a year ago, that Jonas had been able to use to find out more about N'kiri with.
"There was a device, in a palace in the woods a couple of weeks ago. " Thera explained. "It had some sort of keyhole in it, and I put this in."
"And?" Sam said, interested.
"Well. . . some machine came out of the ground about five seconds before the whole thing disappeared!" Daniel gave Thera one of his famous 'please explain' looks.
"What, you mean it just. . . . disappeared?" he inquired.
"Gone! It just vanished! I don't have any idea what happened."
"But, as far as I know, only the Notts had that kind of technology." Sam said.
"Maybe the Notts came here once, a long, long time ago!"
"W-wait!" Daniel put in. "That wouldn't make any sense! The Notts don't have hidden bases, or technology that would respond to a goa'uld pendant!"
"Oh." Jack said, shrugging.
"Indeed, it would be unlikely." Teal'c put in.
"We could show you if you like." Tolm offered. Thera just shrugged.
"All right." Sam said.
"I'll show you now." Thera offered.
"But your wound-"
"It's not as bad as the knife." Thera retorted, shifting uneasily in her chair. "And besides, I can walk with a crutch, it's not like I haven't gotten good practice over the last eight months!"
"Thera, you shouldn't!"
"Sam, I could argue with you all day, all night, and until the end of time, and we both know I'd win! So, let's just cut it short, and I'll show you! Besides, I have the key, in case we find something, and if anybody can find it, it's me! Tolm tends to get lost."
Tolm flushed and sipped his tea through pursed lips. Sam looked at Daniel, as though willing him to tell her she couldn't go. Jack looked at Daniel, amused. Daniel himself flushed and sipped his tea.
"I'll go get me crutch." Thera said, looking like she couldn't decide whether she was pleased or disappointed. Daniel hadn't said a word directly to her. . . .
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After Sam and Thera had left, Tolm approached Daniel.
"Dr. Jackson." he said formally. Daniel nodded, and turned his head from the window. "I have to tell you something."
"Okay." Daniel said, sensing danger.
"It's about Thera. She tries not to show it, but she's miserable here. She should be! Sir, she is dying as we speak! Her simbeote weakens every minute,
as does Thera."
Daniel sighed. "I thought so." he murmured.
"She resembles you greatly, Dr. Jackson. Your morals and beliefs, that is. She would give her life to stay here and watch over these people, and I am afraid that will become the case."
"Yeah." he muttered.
"I request that you return her to Earth, to live with you, sir."
"What?" Daniel cried incredulously. "I-I can't take her back with me! I don't know how to raise kids!"
"You helped in the upbringing of the harsesis Shifu."
"Thera will not be so different. She has, after all, learned great things from her bonding with N'kiri. She knows of people and things she has never seen before. Klorel, the Notts. . ."
"Yes. . . but, I can't-'
'And if I was told correctly, you are expecting your wife to give birth to another child soon. I am sure you would not give it up!"
"Tolm. I'd really love to take her in, but. . . . I don't think I'd make a very good father to a girl I never even knew existed most of her life. I mean, I can't just jump right in and start ordering her around like a regular parent, but if I were to take her in, I wouldn't want to be too lapse about it either."
"Eight months ago, you were eager to take her in!"
"But that's just it! After eight months, two people who are related and ought to live in the same house, they get shy around each other, and. . . ."
"It would be uncomfortable."
"Exactly!"
Tolm paused for a moment, draining his cup of tea. Then, he said the one thing every lover of the male species dreads to say, whether or not the relationship between the father and daughter is great.
"Dr. Jackson. . . . I love your daughter. I love her very much, to the point where, if I could take all those beatings for her, I would leap at the opportunity. And Kajren feels the same way for N'kiri. But if losing her is the only way to protect her, I'm willing to do that. The reason she hasn't ascended to visit you in the past eight months, is, ascending takes a great deal of energy. In fact, I've roughly estimated that, even at full health, she couldn't do it but once a week. And for these past eight months, she's been struggling to simply stay in her body! The villagers know of the scar left from the knife, and they know that if they were to attack there, they could weaken her the most. And they do. To ask her to stay would be to ask her to sacrifice her life, for no cause whatsoever. Dr., I'm asking you to save her life right now."
Daniel glanced down at the rough grain of the wood on the table. How could he get out of this mess?
Cool, huh? R&R! And be sure to give us requests, advice, and if need be, flames. But PLEASE, Requests and advice! I'm running dry of ideas, and I need your help!-Talon
You are losing it! R&R, or I'll erm. . .oh dang, I used all the good threats on the last chapter! Ok, I'll make the girls who don't review date Felger and Maybourne, and they guys that don't review, you're stuck with Felger's woman, and we'll tell him you stole her!-Raven *what am I talking about?*
ok, in the third section, everyone's gonna be talking. If you want some humor, just imagine them going around in a circle and talking like people do in the basement on That 70's show!-Talon
*cough* You've found a new show to obsess over!-Raven.
You love That 70's show too!-Talon
*no comment*-Raven
Chapter 1
Bittersweet Reunion-
"So." Carter asked her CO nonchalantly, as they packed for their upcoming mission. "Where're we off to?"
"PX4-929. I thought you knew all this!"
"Wait, sir! Isn't that . . .Caressia?"
Jack pondered for a moment. Then. . .
"Yes, Carter, I believe it is!"
"Isn't that where we sent Thera eight months ago?"
"Hmm. . . I believe so, yes. Wonder why she hasn't come back yet. I mean, for visits or holidays or anything."
"I'm sure she'd busy, what with ruling over an entire planet and all!"
"You're probably right."
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Standing before the Stargate, Daniel Jackson felt he was doing a fine job of masking his emotions. After all, Jack hadn't insisted that he was as nervous as a puppy that that was about to get a new bone, as he had on several other occasions. But, of course, he had every reason to be. This was his daughter, after all. Not like Shifu, who he'd birthed, met on various occasions, and knew wasn't genetically related to him. This was a girl, who was his real daughter! And he hadn't even seen her in eight months! He sure hoped everything was all right!
The event horizon exploded from the circular device he'd christened "Stargate." One by one, the members of SG1 stepped through, and found themselves on Caressia. However, it wasn't as they'd expected.
A crowd of sturdy looking men had gathered around the 'chapa'ai' pointing spears, staff weapons, zat guns, and arrows at their faces. Nobody moved.
"Well!" Jack said, trying to relieve the obvious tension. "This is a. . . . . very nice welcoming committee. And, if you don't mind, I think you've made your point, so you can all, go away now!" he attempted to ease a particularly sharp looking arrow away from his face.
"Stop!" a familiar cry rang out. "Don't hurt them, they're friends!" Thera and Tolm pushed their way through the crowd, trying to break it up. A rather large man holding a staff weapon pushed her to the ground. Daniel made a move as though to help her up, but she gave him a 'don't-do-anything' kind of look, and he remained where he was, as she helped herself up, but he couldn't help but notice the bruise that had welled up on her cheek.
"She speaks the truth!" Tolm bellowed. "They will not harm you!" One by one, the villagers lowered their weapons, all except the one who had pushed Thera.
"Don't shoot them, Behraam!" Thera said testily. The man turned the glare at her.
"I will shoot you!" he said, and as though to prove he was true to his word, he fired at her thigh. "I do not take orders from a blood traitor!"
"Thera!" all of Sg1 cried, but before they could even take a step toward her, Tolm had dashed to her side and hoisted her arm over his shoulder.
"I will take them into my house, Behraam, and while they are there, they cannot be harmed!"
"Then you take them into the house of a child!"
"I do. And it would be no different then if they had entered yours." he turned to the team. "Come." he said, and helped Thera to hobble down the dirt road, to a small house at the outskirts of the village.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~
"How did this happen?" Teal'c asked, clearly as shocked as the rest of the team at the disrespect shown to Thera. "If they served N'kiri for centuries, why do they suddenly show such hatred towards you?"
"Well, after we came back, that guy Behraam lead a revolt. He believed that Ra was still alive and that I wasn't in control, and that with the right treatment, he could bring anyone who opposed Ra to their knees." Thera answered, easing herself into a chair and pouring some tea into cups for everybody.
"Well, he was half right!" Jack said, taking a sip of the watery tea Thera had served.
"How long has this been going on?" Daniel asked, clearly revolted at the idea of beating on a child.
"Since about fifteen minutes after I stepped through the gate." Thera said with a false sweetness in her voice, as she herself took a sip of tea. It was then that Daniel noticed the state she was in. She wore a tattered brown, wool dress, that hardly covered the cuts and bruises that blemished her skin. She looked more like a slave than a To'kra. Perhaps the most regal thing about her was that she still wore some of her Egyptian jewelry.
"She's been living here in this house with me." Tolm continued for her. "It was unexpected, so please excuse this mess."
"Thera." Sam put in. "Why hasn't N'kiri healed all your wounds?"
"Believe me, she's been trying. She's so worn out right now, that even if she tried, she couldn't take control."
"They only allow us to live because they fear Kajren." Tolm went on. "They don't bother us, as long as Thera's under my protection. You are, of course, welcome to stay for as long as you like! I will share my home with you!"
"Thank you." Teal'c said, inclining his head slightly. Tolm turned to Thera and said something under his breath in some other language, and Thera nodded and walked into the other room. She returned a few seconds later holding what looked like some sort of amulet. It took Sam a few seconds to realize that it was the same tablet-pendant that she'd worn almost a year ago, that Jonas had been able to use to find out more about N'kiri with.
"There was a device, in a palace in the woods a couple of weeks ago. " Thera explained. "It had some sort of keyhole in it, and I put this in."
"And?" Sam said, interested.
"Well. . . some machine came out of the ground about five seconds before the whole thing disappeared!" Daniel gave Thera one of his famous 'please explain' looks.
"What, you mean it just. . . . disappeared?" he inquired.
"Gone! It just vanished! I don't have any idea what happened."
"But, as far as I know, only the Notts had that kind of technology." Sam said.
"Maybe the Notts came here once, a long, long time ago!"
"W-wait!" Daniel put in. "That wouldn't make any sense! The Notts don't have hidden bases, or technology that would respond to a goa'uld pendant!"
"Oh." Jack said, shrugging.
"Indeed, it would be unlikely." Teal'c put in.
"We could show you if you like." Tolm offered. Thera just shrugged.
"All right." Sam said.
"I'll show you now." Thera offered.
"But your wound-"
"It's not as bad as the knife." Thera retorted, shifting uneasily in her chair. "And besides, I can walk with a crutch, it's not like I haven't gotten good practice over the last eight months!"
"Thera, you shouldn't!"
"Sam, I could argue with you all day, all night, and until the end of time, and we both know I'd win! So, let's just cut it short, and I'll show you! Besides, I have the key, in case we find something, and if anybody can find it, it's me! Tolm tends to get lost."
Tolm flushed and sipped his tea through pursed lips. Sam looked at Daniel, as though willing him to tell her she couldn't go. Jack looked at Daniel, amused. Daniel himself flushed and sipped his tea.
"I'll go get me crutch." Thera said, looking like she couldn't decide whether she was pleased or disappointed. Daniel hadn't said a word directly to her. . . .
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After Sam and Thera had left, Tolm approached Daniel.
"Dr. Jackson." he said formally. Daniel nodded, and turned his head from the window. "I have to tell you something."
"Okay." Daniel said, sensing danger.
"It's about Thera. She tries not to show it, but she's miserable here. She should be! Sir, she is dying as we speak! Her simbeote weakens every minute,
as does Thera."
Daniel sighed. "I thought so." he murmured.
"She resembles you greatly, Dr. Jackson. Your morals and beliefs, that is. She would give her life to stay here and watch over these people, and I am afraid that will become the case."
"Yeah." he muttered.
"I request that you return her to Earth, to live with you, sir."
"What?" Daniel cried incredulously. "I-I can't take her back with me! I don't know how to raise kids!"
"You helped in the upbringing of the harsesis Shifu."
"Thera will not be so different. She has, after all, learned great things from her bonding with N'kiri. She knows of people and things she has never seen before. Klorel, the Notts. . ."
"Yes. . . but, I can't-'
'And if I was told correctly, you are expecting your wife to give birth to another child soon. I am sure you would not give it up!"
"Tolm. I'd really love to take her in, but. . . . I don't think I'd make a very good father to a girl I never even knew existed most of her life. I mean, I can't just jump right in and start ordering her around like a regular parent, but if I were to take her in, I wouldn't want to be too lapse about it either."
"Eight months ago, you were eager to take her in!"
"But that's just it! After eight months, two people who are related and ought to live in the same house, they get shy around each other, and. . . ."
"It would be uncomfortable."
"Exactly!"
Tolm paused for a moment, draining his cup of tea. Then, he said the one thing every lover of the male species dreads to say, whether or not the relationship between the father and daughter is great.
"Dr. Jackson. . . . I love your daughter. I love her very much, to the point where, if I could take all those beatings for her, I would leap at the opportunity. And Kajren feels the same way for N'kiri. But if losing her is the only way to protect her, I'm willing to do that. The reason she hasn't ascended to visit you in the past eight months, is, ascending takes a great deal of energy. In fact, I've roughly estimated that, even at full health, she couldn't do it but once a week. And for these past eight months, she's been struggling to simply stay in her body! The villagers know of the scar left from the knife, and they know that if they were to attack there, they could weaken her the most. And they do. To ask her to stay would be to ask her to sacrifice her life, for no cause whatsoever. Dr., I'm asking you to save her life right now."
Daniel glanced down at the rough grain of the wood on the table. How could he get out of this mess?
Cool, huh? R&R! And be sure to give us requests, advice, and if need be, flames. But PLEASE, Requests and advice! I'm running dry of ideas, and I need your help!-Talon
You are losing it! R&R, or I'll erm. . .oh dang, I used all the good threats on the last chapter! Ok, I'll make the girls who don't review date Felger and Maybourne, and they guys that don't review, you're stuck with Felger's woman, and we'll tell him you stole her!-Raven *what am I talking about?*