The Colonel's Sister
This story and all themes and ideas contained in said story are the sole ownership of J.L. Scott. Any copyright infringements can be prosecuted in a court of law.
To borrow a phrase: Stargate SG-1 no mine......no money, no sue, please?
"Head for the Gate!" Jack yelled as they ran from the ship and the preying death gliders. Ahead, between Teal'c and Carter, Jackie tripped on a branch and fell to the ground. Carter paused to help her up and they continued their mad dash for the open field. Jack could only pray they wouldn't be picked off out in the open, before someone could dial the gate.
They were reaching the edge of the field when they heard the tell tale sounds of the gate locking in and opening. They skidded to a stop in the grass and waited to see who would come walking through the watery event horizon.
The Jaffa came out shooting. Death in the form of yellow energy lanced out at them, splintering trees behind them and scorching the grass in front of Earth's team.
"Fall back!" Jack yelled, wondering where the hell they could hide now. The Jaffa continued to pour through the gate, firing in their direction, and getting closer with every shot. Daniel and Jackie were already in the modest cover of the forest while Teal'c, Carter and himself returned fire, striking the occasional Jaffa. But for every enemy that fell, another three emerged from the gate. Staff weapon fire blew chunks from the world around them, blowing dirt and wood at them from above and below.
"Jack!" Jackie yelled at him and he took the chance to turn his head enough to glance at her out of the corners of his eyes. She was pointing to something large and gray, half hidden behind trees.
"It's the size of a house!" his sister alerted him. Large enough to protect their backs, so they only had to worry about defending from one side.
"Go!" He ordered, nodding at Teal'c to get going. Daniel may be a decent shot, and Jackie may think strategically, but they still needed protection.
"Carter, set some claymores" He pulled the two he had out and tried to find the best place to put them. Carter was following suit when some lucky Jaffa hit a precarious branch in the tree she was working under. She didn't have any time to get out of the way before it came crashing down on her. It landed square on her back, pushing her into the ground.
"Carter!" Jack scurried over other fallen branches and knelt beside her.
"Carter !" he shook her. Her eyes were open and there was pain on her face. Her breathing was halting and she cringed with every breath. Jack leaned into the branch and tried to push it off of her. It was almost too heavy, but he managed to flip it off.
"Carter, you okay?" he asked as he helped her turn over. She cried out with the pain.
"I think I broke some ribs, sir" she answered.
"Can you walk?" he asked. Carter cringed with the effort of drawing oxygen into her lungs.
"I don't think so" she answered. Jack got a determined look on his face as he let his gun hang on its strap and slipped one arm under her knees and another under her neck. She wound her arms around his neck and suppressed another cry.
"Hold on" he told her and then got to his feet. He puffed just a bit as he made for whatever protection his sister may have found.
"What happened?" Daniel cried as they came into view. Jack let Carter slip from his arms and onto the ground as gently as he could. Jackie had been right, the boulder was the size of a house. There were smaller chunks which looked as if they'd fallen or been blown off littering the area immediately surrounding it, and the ground sloped down towards its base, just a bit. Wonderfully defendable.
"A tree branch fell on her" Jack answered, "She's probably got a few broken ribs." He crouched down by Teal'c, who was spying out from behind a chunk of boulder.
"The firing has ceased" the ex-Jaffa reported, "We have not seen any Jaffa near here"
"Think we lost them?" Jack asked. Teal'c merely raised a brow.
"Jack?" The Colonel turned his head. Jackie was crouched on the ground behind him, worry and fear clear in her expression. She looked so damn young. He was supposed to be keeping her safe, dammit! Why did he keep leading her right into danger?
"Just...stay with Carter" her told her. She swallowed but nodded. No matter what those damn Ferlings had put into her head, there was nothing in her 20 years that could have prepared her for being smack dab in the middle of a battle, with Jaffa or with anyone at all. He fervently wished he could spare her the experience, but there was nothing he could do now.
"Damn it" he muttered under his breath. Daniel joined them, looking at his friend for orders on what to do next.
"There are too many to fight, O'Neill" Teal'c said, "They will have the Stargate heavily defended"
"So what are we supposed to do?" Daniel asked. There were sometimes that Jack wished he wasn't the one in charge.
"We'll wait until nightfall" he said, "See if we can get to it then" Teal'c nodded. Together the three men planted the rest of their claymores in a half circle around their hideout. Jack checked all of their clips and figured how much ammo they had.
They burrowed into their little niche. The hours passed. A couple of times some Jaffa came close, but they passed right by and the humans sighed in relief, spared battle for the time being. Carter developed a cough. Jackie forced her to drink some water and eat some of the rations they had. Dusk fell on them quickly, but then it lingered without passing into night. All they could do was wait.
About an hour after dusk had set in, they could hear the faint sounds of the Stargate opening again. There was no way for them to tell what was going on, so they just waited quietly, inwardly preparing to start shooting.
"Colonel O'Neill, this is Hammond! Report!" the familiar voice sounded over their comms.
"This is O'Neill" Jack replied, "Sir, we're pinned down. There are Jaffa everywhere"
"Did your sister find what she was looking for?" Hammond asked.
"Uh, yes sir. It's a necklace thingy, Daniel and Carter think it's something else. Sir, we don't have a way to get back to the gate" He sucked in a deep breath as he admitted the last. He hated saying that.
"I'll send reinforcements" Hammond said.
"That would be unwise, General Hammond" Teal'c piped up, "They will be captured or killed as they emerge from the stargate"
"What should I do, Colonel?" the General inquired.
"Nothing, sir" Jack reported with another sigh. There was a pause before Hammond replied.
"Understood. We'll keep the door open, SG-1. Hammond out" And with that they could hear the gate close down. The dusk seemed a bit darker, and Jack hoped night would fall quicker now. He was still surprised there hadn't been more Jaffa search parties out looking for them, but he guessed a lot of them must've been employed in the search for whatever it was hanging from his little sister's throat at the moment. He scrambled over to where Carter was laying.
"How you doin'?" he asked. She coughed. Daniel looked at the ground.
"We need to get her to the infirmary" he said.
"We're working on it" Jack answered, "Hang in there Carter" She nodded at him. Jackie was sitting with her back to the boulder. He slid down beside her. She was staring at Carter.
"She's getting worse" she said.
"She'll be fine" Jack replied, "Carter's stronger than she looks" Jackie shook her head.
"It's all my fault" she said, "You shouldn't have brought me"
"And let the Goa'uld get their hands on...whatever that is" He touched the stone on her chest.
"I should've come by myself" she continued, "You're all stuck here because of me"
"First of all, I never would have let you come by yourself, none of us would have" Jack said firmly, "And second of all, I thought you were supposed to be reading our mission reports. We get out of this kind of stuff all of the time" Jackie looked far from convinced.
"Look, kid..."
"Jack," Jackie looked completely forlorn, "I'm not a kid anymore" Her brother's lip twitched. That had been the other part. He was never around, and when he was he treated her like some empty headed kid. He hadn't wanted to admit that she was growing up, growing away. From him. Kids were supposed to grow away from their parents, not their siblings. He hadn't meant to become her father.
"I know" he said, "I know you're not" Carter coughed, rather loudly.
"Jack?" Daniel called to him. The O'Neill's joined him. Teal'c turned his head to watch from his sentinel position.
"She's getting worse" Daniel whispered. Carter's eyes were closed. She was paler than she had any right to be, even in the darkness, and there was a thin sheet of perspiration on her forehead. There was nothing he could do for her, and it was killing him.
"Move" He was suddenly pushed to the side by his sister. She knelt beside Carter and put her hands out over her chest.
"What are you doing?" Daniel asked.
"Be quiet" Jackie replied. Her eyes glazed over and her brow creased. The stone on her chest began to glow, just the way it had when she'd first put it on.
"Jackie...what are you doing?" Jack asked, but she didn't respond. She just stared straight ahead, with her hands hovering over Carter's chest, and that stone on her neck glowing. They all waited. Her hands started shaking, and then began glowing with the same blue light as the stone. The light fell from her hands and into Carter's chest. Nobody said anything. In fact, the entire forest seemed to go silent. And then her hands returned to normal and she fell back onto her rear, breathing deeply and looking sleepy. Carter's eyes opened and she sat up.
This story and all themes and ideas contained in said story are the sole ownership of J.L. Scott. Any copyright infringements can be prosecuted in a court of law.
To borrow a phrase: Stargate SG-1 no mine......no money, no sue, please?
"Head for the Gate!" Jack yelled as they ran from the ship and the preying death gliders. Ahead, between Teal'c and Carter, Jackie tripped on a branch and fell to the ground. Carter paused to help her up and they continued their mad dash for the open field. Jack could only pray they wouldn't be picked off out in the open, before someone could dial the gate.
They were reaching the edge of the field when they heard the tell tale sounds of the gate locking in and opening. They skidded to a stop in the grass and waited to see who would come walking through the watery event horizon.
The Jaffa came out shooting. Death in the form of yellow energy lanced out at them, splintering trees behind them and scorching the grass in front of Earth's team.
"Fall back!" Jack yelled, wondering where the hell they could hide now. The Jaffa continued to pour through the gate, firing in their direction, and getting closer with every shot. Daniel and Jackie were already in the modest cover of the forest while Teal'c, Carter and himself returned fire, striking the occasional Jaffa. But for every enemy that fell, another three emerged from the gate. Staff weapon fire blew chunks from the world around them, blowing dirt and wood at them from above and below.
"Jack!" Jackie yelled at him and he took the chance to turn his head enough to glance at her out of the corners of his eyes. She was pointing to something large and gray, half hidden behind trees.
"It's the size of a house!" his sister alerted him. Large enough to protect their backs, so they only had to worry about defending from one side.
"Go!" He ordered, nodding at Teal'c to get going. Daniel may be a decent shot, and Jackie may think strategically, but they still needed protection.
"Carter, set some claymores" He pulled the two he had out and tried to find the best place to put them. Carter was following suit when some lucky Jaffa hit a precarious branch in the tree she was working under. She didn't have any time to get out of the way before it came crashing down on her. It landed square on her back, pushing her into the ground.
"Carter!" Jack scurried over other fallen branches and knelt beside her.
"Carter !" he shook her. Her eyes were open and there was pain on her face. Her breathing was halting and she cringed with every breath. Jack leaned into the branch and tried to push it off of her. It was almost too heavy, but he managed to flip it off.
"Carter, you okay?" he asked as he helped her turn over. She cried out with the pain.
"I think I broke some ribs, sir" she answered.
"Can you walk?" he asked. Carter cringed with the effort of drawing oxygen into her lungs.
"I don't think so" she answered. Jack got a determined look on his face as he let his gun hang on its strap and slipped one arm under her knees and another under her neck. She wound her arms around his neck and suppressed another cry.
"Hold on" he told her and then got to his feet. He puffed just a bit as he made for whatever protection his sister may have found.
"What happened?" Daniel cried as they came into view. Jack let Carter slip from his arms and onto the ground as gently as he could. Jackie had been right, the boulder was the size of a house. There were smaller chunks which looked as if they'd fallen or been blown off littering the area immediately surrounding it, and the ground sloped down towards its base, just a bit. Wonderfully defendable.
"A tree branch fell on her" Jack answered, "She's probably got a few broken ribs." He crouched down by Teal'c, who was spying out from behind a chunk of boulder.
"The firing has ceased" the ex-Jaffa reported, "We have not seen any Jaffa near here"
"Think we lost them?" Jack asked. Teal'c merely raised a brow.
"Jack?" The Colonel turned his head. Jackie was crouched on the ground behind him, worry and fear clear in her expression. She looked so damn young. He was supposed to be keeping her safe, dammit! Why did he keep leading her right into danger?
"Just...stay with Carter" her told her. She swallowed but nodded. No matter what those damn Ferlings had put into her head, there was nothing in her 20 years that could have prepared her for being smack dab in the middle of a battle, with Jaffa or with anyone at all. He fervently wished he could spare her the experience, but there was nothing he could do now.
"Damn it" he muttered under his breath. Daniel joined them, looking at his friend for orders on what to do next.
"There are too many to fight, O'Neill" Teal'c said, "They will have the Stargate heavily defended"
"So what are we supposed to do?" Daniel asked. There were sometimes that Jack wished he wasn't the one in charge.
"We'll wait until nightfall" he said, "See if we can get to it then" Teal'c nodded. Together the three men planted the rest of their claymores in a half circle around their hideout. Jack checked all of their clips and figured how much ammo they had.
They burrowed into their little niche. The hours passed. A couple of times some Jaffa came close, but they passed right by and the humans sighed in relief, spared battle for the time being. Carter developed a cough. Jackie forced her to drink some water and eat some of the rations they had. Dusk fell on them quickly, but then it lingered without passing into night. All they could do was wait.
About an hour after dusk had set in, they could hear the faint sounds of the Stargate opening again. There was no way for them to tell what was going on, so they just waited quietly, inwardly preparing to start shooting.
"Colonel O'Neill, this is Hammond! Report!" the familiar voice sounded over their comms.
"This is O'Neill" Jack replied, "Sir, we're pinned down. There are Jaffa everywhere"
"Did your sister find what she was looking for?" Hammond asked.
"Uh, yes sir. It's a necklace thingy, Daniel and Carter think it's something else. Sir, we don't have a way to get back to the gate" He sucked in a deep breath as he admitted the last. He hated saying that.
"I'll send reinforcements" Hammond said.
"That would be unwise, General Hammond" Teal'c piped up, "They will be captured or killed as they emerge from the stargate"
"What should I do, Colonel?" the General inquired.
"Nothing, sir" Jack reported with another sigh. There was a pause before Hammond replied.
"Understood. We'll keep the door open, SG-1. Hammond out" And with that they could hear the gate close down. The dusk seemed a bit darker, and Jack hoped night would fall quicker now. He was still surprised there hadn't been more Jaffa search parties out looking for them, but he guessed a lot of them must've been employed in the search for whatever it was hanging from his little sister's throat at the moment. He scrambled over to where Carter was laying.
"How you doin'?" he asked. She coughed. Daniel looked at the ground.
"We need to get her to the infirmary" he said.
"We're working on it" Jack answered, "Hang in there Carter" She nodded at him. Jackie was sitting with her back to the boulder. He slid down beside her. She was staring at Carter.
"She's getting worse" she said.
"She'll be fine" Jack replied, "Carter's stronger than she looks" Jackie shook her head.
"It's all my fault" she said, "You shouldn't have brought me"
"And let the Goa'uld get their hands on...whatever that is" He touched the stone on her chest.
"I should've come by myself" she continued, "You're all stuck here because of me"
"First of all, I never would have let you come by yourself, none of us would have" Jack said firmly, "And second of all, I thought you were supposed to be reading our mission reports. We get out of this kind of stuff all of the time" Jackie looked far from convinced.
"Look, kid..."
"Jack," Jackie looked completely forlorn, "I'm not a kid anymore" Her brother's lip twitched. That had been the other part. He was never around, and when he was he treated her like some empty headed kid. He hadn't wanted to admit that she was growing up, growing away. From him. Kids were supposed to grow away from their parents, not their siblings. He hadn't meant to become her father.
"I know" he said, "I know you're not" Carter coughed, rather loudly.
"Jack?" Daniel called to him. The O'Neill's joined him. Teal'c turned his head to watch from his sentinel position.
"She's getting worse" Daniel whispered. Carter's eyes were closed. She was paler than she had any right to be, even in the darkness, and there was a thin sheet of perspiration on her forehead. There was nothing he could do for her, and it was killing him.
"Move" He was suddenly pushed to the side by his sister. She knelt beside Carter and put her hands out over her chest.
"What are you doing?" Daniel asked.
"Be quiet" Jackie replied. Her eyes glazed over and her brow creased. The stone on her chest began to glow, just the way it had when she'd first put it on.
"Jackie...what are you doing?" Jack asked, but she didn't respond. She just stared straight ahead, with her hands hovering over Carter's chest, and that stone on her neck glowing. They all waited. Her hands started shaking, and then began glowing with the same blue light as the stone. The light fell from her hands and into Carter's chest. Nobody said anything. In fact, the entire forest seemed to go silent. And then her hands returned to normal and she fell back onto her rear, breathing deeply and looking sleepy. Carter's eyes opened and she sat up.