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Your Portal by xnightvixenx--Set in Season 3
A/N: Sorry this has taken me so long to do...I got completely stuck and needed a while to get back on track. I hope this chapter is okay, because it's more dialogue and explanation than anything else. But it got me where I need to be so I can post Ch5 soon!! And thanks to all my lovely reviewers and critics! I proofed it this time around.
"How did it do that?" Jack demanded.
"I don't know. This thing could be doing any type of undetectable damage to her body, but it seems to be focusing only on her memories and the emotions that are connected to them. I think it's somehow able to amplify the emotions from those memories and that's why she's having so much difficulty."
"So how do we get rid of it?"
"Colonel, I don't think I've ever heard you ask so many questions at once. But the answer is, I don't know." Jack sighed.
"Have somebody send Daniel down here."
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"How is she?"
"Okay." Jack shrugged. "Listen, if I ever needed a favor, it's now. I need you to find those people and find out how to save Sam."
"Well, yeah. That was Hammond's first priority too. Okay, he said it 'compared with making diplomatic relations.'"
"Okay. Good luck, Danny boy. I hope you meet those people because otherwise you will be meeting some very angry people on your return home."
"I know." Daniel made a nervous sort of grin and walked out.
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"Whoa." Daniel crested the hill with Teal'c right on his heels.
"Indeed." The valley below had been carved into a beautiful village. Grey stone houses decorated with many colors of fluttering banners jutted out from the mountainsides. In the middle of the valley stood a massive and spectacularly constructed house that looked like a palace.
"Well, let's check it out." SG-7 began the descent down into the valley as Daniel held up his camera. Teal'c raised an eyebrow. "It's just too pretty to resist."
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"Well?" General Hammond stood in the gate room as Daniel walked down the ramp.
"I think we should go to the infirmary and discuss this with Dr. Frasier and Jack, sir."
"Alright." Hammond turned to SG-7. "Debriefing at 0930. Get yourselves cleaned up. Dr. Jackson?" Daniel was already on his way to the infirmary.
Janet looked up as soon as Daniel entered. Jack was sitting on Sam's bed, absorbed in playing with his Game Boy.
"Well, I have some...interesting news." Daniel strode over to Sam's bed and Jack looked up expectantly. "The Tagraan-the locals from PXC 371, known to them as Tagraa-don't know exactly how the venom works."
Janet looked worriedly down at Sam, but Daniel continued on. "They do, however, know how to help her. But we have to go back to Tagraa." Daniel looked anywhere but at Jack.
"Daniel, what's the catch? Stop avoiding it," Jack snapped.
"The Tagraan use the venom as a way of- of arranging marriages."
"What!" Jack yelped.
"The women go through this process when they're 24, apparently. They're given a small dose of the venom and then the parents bring in prospective husbands for their daughter. Keinar, the leader of the Tagraan, says that when the girl is completely calm...then her true love has been found."
Deathly silence settled over the room. General Hammond exchanged a shocked look with Janet. Jack stared at Daniel, contemplating whether to hug him for confirming that she cared or to punch him for saying it in front of General Hammond.
Daniel broke the silence by adding, "And unless he loves her back, she dies within 48 hours. If he does love her, then they go through the cold fire together." Daniel shifted uncomfortably under the gaze of the three shocked people staring at him.
"Well," General Hammond said, "Let's do it."
"Sir, you can't possibly..." Jack trailed off.
"Colonel, if this is what has to be done to save possibly the most valuable mind at the SGC, then we're going to do it. We'll discuss the consequences later. You will depart with Teal'c and SG-5 at 1100 hours."
"Yes, sir." General Hammond left, leaving a bemused Janet, confused Jack, and a slightly nervous but smirking Daniel. "You'd better not be making this up," hissed Jack.
"Why would I? I want to see Sam cured and back on SG-1 just as much as the next person."
"Except if the next person is Jack," Janet sniggered. She was suddenly feeling better now that she knew her best friend would be cured, but something deep inside told her not to get her hopes too high.
Your Portal by xnightvixenx--Set in Season 3
A/N: Sorry this has taken me so long to do...I got completely stuck and needed a while to get back on track. I hope this chapter is okay, because it's more dialogue and explanation than anything else. But it got me where I need to be so I can post Ch5 soon!! And thanks to all my lovely reviewers and critics! I proofed it this time around.
"How did it do that?" Jack demanded.
"I don't know. This thing could be doing any type of undetectable damage to her body, but it seems to be focusing only on her memories and the emotions that are connected to them. I think it's somehow able to amplify the emotions from those memories and that's why she's having so much difficulty."
"So how do we get rid of it?"
"Colonel, I don't think I've ever heard you ask so many questions at once. But the answer is, I don't know." Jack sighed.
"Have somebody send Daniel down here."
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"How is she?"
"Okay." Jack shrugged. "Listen, if I ever needed a favor, it's now. I need you to find those people and find out how to save Sam."
"Well, yeah. That was Hammond's first priority too. Okay, he said it 'compared with making diplomatic relations.'"
"Okay. Good luck, Danny boy. I hope you meet those people because otherwise you will be meeting some very angry people on your return home."
"I know." Daniel made a nervous sort of grin and walked out.
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"Whoa." Daniel crested the hill with Teal'c right on his heels.
"Indeed." The valley below had been carved into a beautiful village. Grey stone houses decorated with many colors of fluttering banners jutted out from the mountainsides. In the middle of the valley stood a massive and spectacularly constructed house that looked like a palace.
"Well, let's check it out." SG-7 began the descent down into the valley as Daniel held up his camera. Teal'c raised an eyebrow. "It's just too pretty to resist."
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"Well?" General Hammond stood in the gate room as Daniel walked down the ramp.
"I think we should go to the infirmary and discuss this with Dr. Frasier and Jack, sir."
"Alright." Hammond turned to SG-7. "Debriefing at 0930. Get yourselves cleaned up. Dr. Jackson?" Daniel was already on his way to the infirmary.
Janet looked up as soon as Daniel entered. Jack was sitting on Sam's bed, absorbed in playing with his Game Boy.
"Well, I have some...interesting news." Daniel strode over to Sam's bed and Jack looked up expectantly. "The Tagraan-the locals from PXC 371, known to them as Tagraa-don't know exactly how the venom works."
Janet looked worriedly down at Sam, but Daniel continued on. "They do, however, know how to help her. But we have to go back to Tagraa." Daniel looked anywhere but at Jack.
"Daniel, what's the catch? Stop avoiding it," Jack snapped.
"The Tagraan use the venom as a way of- of arranging marriages."
"What!" Jack yelped.
"The women go through this process when they're 24, apparently. They're given a small dose of the venom and then the parents bring in prospective husbands for their daughter. Keinar, the leader of the Tagraan, says that when the girl is completely calm...then her true love has been found."
Deathly silence settled over the room. General Hammond exchanged a shocked look with Janet. Jack stared at Daniel, contemplating whether to hug him for confirming that she cared or to punch him for saying it in front of General Hammond.
Daniel broke the silence by adding, "And unless he loves her back, she dies within 48 hours. If he does love her, then they go through the cold fire together." Daniel shifted uncomfortably under the gaze of the three shocked people staring at him.
"Well," General Hammond said, "Let's do it."
"Sir, you can't possibly..." Jack trailed off.
"Colonel, if this is what has to be done to save possibly the most valuable mind at the SGC, then we're going to do it. We'll discuss the consequences later. You will depart with Teal'c and SG-5 at 1100 hours."
"Yes, sir." General Hammond left, leaving a bemused Janet, confused Jack, and a slightly nervous but smirking Daniel. "You'd better not be making this up," hissed Jack.
"Why would I? I want to see Sam cured and back on SG-1 just as much as the next person."
"Except if the next person is Jack," Janet sniggered. She was suddenly feeling better now that she knew her best friend would be cured, but something deep inside told her not to get her hopes too high.