This is the final part of my fic (at long bloody last!) So sit back and
enjoy the ride...
Epilogue.
"Move people!" Jack yelled skidding to a halt behind a large boulder. "Carter go!"
The blonde major nodded before running into the centre of the room, firing at the Jaffa, Brianna close behind. When they were in position a set of rings fell from the ceiling and circled them, but not before a staff weapon was fired and found its target.
The rings disengaged leaving dust hanging in the air from down in the palace, Sam slumped to the floor in pain, crying out.
"Sam!" Brianna rushed to her adopted mothers side.
The staff blast had burned its way into Sam's left side leaving a bloody mass.
"I'm...okay." Sam said through gritted teeth.
"Sure you are." Brianna put on a brave everything-is-gonna-be-okay look, while rummaging around in Sam's pack for the morphine and bandages.
"Don't bother...there...there isn't enough...time." Sam said waving her away.
"Fine, here's the morphine." She said handing it to Sam. "And a bandage, do what you can while I find the bomb."
Bri pulled Sam away from the rings, Sam nodded; Bri grabbed her pack and Zat gun, and ran to the next room checking her watch.
"Sam I found it!" Bri yelled through the Goa'uld Alkesh glider. She slid underneath the big contraption floating in the centre of the room and carefully undid the cover to the control panel. "Crap."
She slid herself out from underneath and yelled to Sam. "I can't do it. Someone messed up the controls." She glanced back under the bomb at the smouldering mess.
"Pull the crystals!" Sam yelled back.
"Kay!" Brianna walked around to the other side of the bomb and slid back under, she pressed a code into the panel and nothing happened so she tried another. This one worked and the panel popped open with a hiss.
Problem.
"Which crystal?" Bri yelled.
"The red one!"
Brianna looked at all the crystals and banged her head on the floor. "Would there be any chance of surviving if I pulled the green one?"
"Not likely!" Sam yelled. "Sorry Bri I forgot!"
"She forgot? Well I almost forgot until I saw a two red crystals!" She muttered. "Okay, think rationally...ip dip sky blue, nanny's sitting on the loo, sing a song, drop a bomb, out goes you." She recited while her finger hovered over each crystal. "You it is then."
She sighed, and looked at her watch. Two minutes. Two minutes and they are all dead anyway. This way there was a 50/50 chance of saving the planet, or dying. There was still a matter of the Jaffa retreating through the Stargate; if she waited two minutes then they wouldn't be able to, they'd die and not live to kill anymore. If she pulled the right crystal they would all escape and kill lots more innocent people. Then there were the inhabitants of the planet, Tok'ra, rebel Jaffa and several SG teams. The fate of millions was in her hands that scared her a bit.
"Okay," She said to the crystals. "I can do this, don't look at me in that tone of voice!"
One minute.
Brianna sighed then took several deep breaths. Carefully she enclosed her fingers around the crystal she had chosen to pull, hoping that it was actually red.
30 seconds.
She yanked the crystal free of the panel and waited with her eyes closed for the explosion.
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"Man down!" Someone screamed close to where Daniel was crouching behind a piece of broken pillar firing at the remaining Jaffa.
The air was filled with dust making his eyes water and his throat clog up. From what he could hear there was an even bigger battle going on outside. He could see Jack now running towards him, the Colonel dived behind Daniel's pillar as a Staff blast reached the place he was standing seconds before.
"Most of the Jaffa are down from inside, Griff says that the Jaffa are winning outside." He looked around. "We need more time to stop them getting to Sam and Bri."
Daniel nodded not failing to notice that Jack had used Sam's name for yet another time. He didn't have time to linger on that because of the lovely Jaffa now targeting him.
Five minutes later all the Jaffa in the building were dead or stunned and strewn across the floor, in between the Jaffa was the occasional fallen SG team member.
"Griff, report." Jack said into his radio.
"The Jaffa are out numbered Sir." The radio crackled. "Hammond sent reinforcements through, we have them surrounded."
"Good work. O'Neill out." He looked at his watch.
30 seconds.
"Come on girls." He muttered to himself.
"They'll be fine Jack. They'll make it." Daniel said reassuringly.
"Indeed." Teal'c agreed although he saw the blast aimed for major Carter, but he knew she was a fighter. "There weren't any Jaffa on the ship and both major Carter and Brianna are capable."
"Brace yourselves men!" Jack yelled around as his watch turned to 00:00.
He waited ten seconds. When nothing had happened twenty seconds after the timer was supposed to have gone off he gave the order to go and help to get the injured troops to the gate.
"O'Neill, I think it would be wise if we go and retrieve major Carter and Brianna ourselves." Teal'c said.
"Why, what happened Teal'c?" Daniel asked following the Jaffa to the ring transporters.
"I am unsure."
The first thing they saw when the rings had dumped them on the ship was a trail of blood leading to a heap in the corner.
"Colonel?" Sam asked in her pain and morphine induced delusional state.
"Yeah Carter, you did it." He smiled while trying to adjust the shoddy bandage work.
"No Sir, Bri...she did it." She said before passing out.
Brianna came out of the other room with the crystal in her hand and a smile on her face, which dropped when she saw the now unconscious Sam.
"Will, will she be okay?"
"If we get her back soon so Janet can look after her." Jack said lifting his 2IC into his arms gently.
The radio crackled and major Griffs voice could be heard. "Sir, the injured are back at the SGC, we are starting to move the dead now."
"Leave the dead Griff." Jack ordered. "We'll send retrieval to come get them, just focus on the injured and alive."
"Yes Sir." And the radio turned off.
"Lets go home kids." Jack said.
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Two days later SG1 had piled into the infirmary with flowers and cake (from Jack) for Sam.
"Guys you didn't have to do this." She smiled.
"Yes we did, the cake is for you too eat so you get your energy back and come home to look after this pain in the butt." Jack grinned ruffling Brianna's hair.
"OY!" The girl said smacking his hand away. "Sam you better get better soon because Jack is really annoying."
"She won't be allowed home for a while," Janet said coming up behind them. "I know Jacob healed a lot but you still need rest and I doubt you'll get it with this lot around."
"Aww, doc, we ain't that bad." Jack complained.
Janet retorted with one of her looks.
"Okay so maybe we could be a bit more...helpful." Jack admitted. "Less annoying, the list goes on..."
"Yes it does Colonel, now Sam needs her rest so say good bye." The petite doctor ordered before leaving.
"So Major, I order you to get better like now and we'll come and break you out tomorrow okay?" Jack smiled.
"Sir, yes Sir." Sam smiled back.
The others said their goodbyes leaving Jack alone with Sam.
"How's Bri doing?" Sam asked.
"She's good, she says she's old enough to stay in your house on her own and that we should stop pestering her." He grinned one of his boyish grins.
"You never grow up Jack O'Neill!" She grinned back. "She wants a dog."
"And you're considering this?"
"Yeah, well she doesn't go off-world so much and I've cut back on a lot of things to do with work...I think I need a bigger house."
"Well, you could move in with me." He whispered to her.
"How would that work out?"
"Well Hammonds already offered me a civilian consultancy and..."
"You resigned?" She cut him off.
"Kind of." He took Sam's hands in his. "Look, Daniel's already noticed that we look more intimate than usual, we can't keep Brianna quiet for much longer so news of us seeing each other is bound to get out somehow. This way, they know that I'm no longer in the air force so it is perfectly alright."
"I love you Jack, you know that don't you?" She said quietly, looking into his chocolate brown eyes.
"Always, but I love you more."
"Do not!"
"Do too!"
"Prove it!"
"When you get out my dear, when you get out." He winked and walked away.
Sam sighed and flopped back onto the pillows, then screwed her eyes up in pain.
"Note to self: Kill Jack O'Neill and get more painkillers."
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The end is nigh! Complete, finito, I will write no more!
Please review!!!
Epilogue.
"Move people!" Jack yelled skidding to a halt behind a large boulder. "Carter go!"
The blonde major nodded before running into the centre of the room, firing at the Jaffa, Brianna close behind. When they were in position a set of rings fell from the ceiling and circled them, but not before a staff weapon was fired and found its target.
The rings disengaged leaving dust hanging in the air from down in the palace, Sam slumped to the floor in pain, crying out.
"Sam!" Brianna rushed to her adopted mothers side.
The staff blast had burned its way into Sam's left side leaving a bloody mass.
"I'm...okay." Sam said through gritted teeth.
"Sure you are." Brianna put on a brave everything-is-gonna-be-okay look, while rummaging around in Sam's pack for the morphine and bandages.
"Don't bother...there...there isn't enough...time." Sam said waving her away.
"Fine, here's the morphine." She said handing it to Sam. "And a bandage, do what you can while I find the bomb."
Bri pulled Sam away from the rings, Sam nodded; Bri grabbed her pack and Zat gun, and ran to the next room checking her watch.
"Sam I found it!" Bri yelled through the Goa'uld Alkesh glider. She slid underneath the big contraption floating in the centre of the room and carefully undid the cover to the control panel. "Crap."
She slid herself out from underneath and yelled to Sam. "I can't do it. Someone messed up the controls." She glanced back under the bomb at the smouldering mess.
"Pull the crystals!" Sam yelled back.
"Kay!" Brianna walked around to the other side of the bomb and slid back under, she pressed a code into the panel and nothing happened so she tried another. This one worked and the panel popped open with a hiss.
Problem.
"Which crystal?" Bri yelled.
"The red one!"
Brianna looked at all the crystals and banged her head on the floor. "Would there be any chance of surviving if I pulled the green one?"
"Not likely!" Sam yelled. "Sorry Bri I forgot!"
"She forgot? Well I almost forgot until I saw a two red crystals!" She muttered. "Okay, think rationally...ip dip sky blue, nanny's sitting on the loo, sing a song, drop a bomb, out goes you." She recited while her finger hovered over each crystal. "You it is then."
She sighed, and looked at her watch. Two minutes. Two minutes and they are all dead anyway. This way there was a 50/50 chance of saving the planet, or dying. There was still a matter of the Jaffa retreating through the Stargate; if she waited two minutes then they wouldn't be able to, they'd die and not live to kill anymore. If she pulled the right crystal they would all escape and kill lots more innocent people. Then there were the inhabitants of the planet, Tok'ra, rebel Jaffa and several SG teams. The fate of millions was in her hands that scared her a bit.
"Okay," She said to the crystals. "I can do this, don't look at me in that tone of voice!"
One minute.
Brianna sighed then took several deep breaths. Carefully she enclosed her fingers around the crystal she had chosen to pull, hoping that it was actually red.
30 seconds.
She yanked the crystal free of the panel and waited with her eyes closed for the explosion.
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"Man down!" Someone screamed close to where Daniel was crouching behind a piece of broken pillar firing at the remaining Jaffa.
The air was filled with dust making his eyes water and his throat clog up. From what he could hear there was an even bigger battle going on outside. He could see Jack now running towards him, the Colonel dived behind Daniel's pillar as a Staff blast reached the place he was standing seconds before.
"Most of the Jaffa are down from inside, Griff says that the Jaffa are winning outside." He looked around. "We need more time to stop them getting to Sam and Bri."
Daniel nodded not failing to notice that Jack had used Sam's name for yet another time. He didn't have time to linger on that because of the lovely Jaffa now targeting him.
Five minutes later all the Jaffa in the building were dead or stunned and strewn across the floor, in between the Jaffa was the occasional fallen SG team member.
"Griff, report." Jack said into his radio.
"The Jaffa are out numbered Sir." The radio crackled. "Hammond sent reinforcements through, we have them surrounded."
"Good work. O'Neill out." He looked at his watch.
30 seconds.
"Come on girls." He muttered to himself.
"They'll be fine Jack. They'll make it." Daniel said reassuringly.
"Indeed." Teal'c agreed although he saw the blast aimed for major Carter, but he knew she was a fighter. "There weren't any Jaffa on the ship and both major Carter and Brianna are capable."
"Brace yourselves men!" Jack yelled around as his watch turned to 00:00.
He waited ten seconds. When nothing had happened twenty seconds after the timer was supposed to have gone off he gave the order to go and help to get the injured troops to the gate.
"O'Neill, I think it would be wise if we go and retrieve major Carter and Brianna ourselves." Teal'c said.
"Why, what happened Teal'c?" Daniel asked following the Jaffa to the ring transporters.
"I am unsure."
The first thing they saw when the rings had dumped them on the ship was a trail of blood leading to a heap in the corner.
"Colonel?" Sam asked in her pain and morphine induced delusional state.
"Yeah Carter, you did it." He smiled while trying to adjust the shoddy bandage work.
"No Sir, Bri...she did it." She said before passing out.
Brianna came out of the other room with the crystal in her hand and a smile on her face, which dropped when she saw the now unconscious Sam.
"Will, will she be okay?"
"If we get her back soon so Janet can look after her." Jack said lifting his 2IC into his arms gently.
The radio crackled and major Griffs voice could be heard. "Sir, the injured are back at the SGC, we are starting to move the dead now."
"Leave the dead Griff." Jack ordered. "We'll send retrieval to come get them, just focus on the injured and alive."
"Yes Sir." And the radio turned off.
"Lets go home kids." Jack said.
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Two days later SG1 had piled into the infirmary with flowers and cake (from Jack) for Sam.
"Guys you didn't have to do this." She smiled.
"Yes we did, the cake is for you too eat so you get your energy back and come home to look after this pain in the butt." Jack grinned ruffling Brianna's hair.
"OY!" The girl said smacking his hand away. "Sam you better get better soon because Jack is really annoying."
"She won't be allowed home for a while," Janet said coming up behind them. "I know Jacob healed a lot but you still need rest and I doubt you'll get it with this lot around."
"Aww, doc, we ain't that bad." Jack complained.
Janet retorted with one of her looks.
"Okay so maybe we could be a bit more...helpful." Jack admitted. "Less annoying, the list goes on..."
"Yes it does Colonel, now Sam needs her rest so say good bye." The petite doctor ordered before leaving.
"So Major, I order you to get better like now and we'll come and break you out tomorrow okay?" Jack smiled.
"Sir, yes Sir." Sam smiled back.
The others said their goodbyes leaving Jack alone with Sam.
"How's Bri doing?" Sam asked.
"She's good, she says she's old enough to stay in your house on her own and that we should stop pestering her." He grinned one of his boyish grins.
"You never grow up Jack O'Neill!" She grinned back. "She wants a dog."
"And you're considering this?"
"Yeah, well she doesn't go off-world so much and I've cut back on a lot of things to do with work...I think I need a bigger house."
"Well, you could move in with me." He whispered to her.
"How would that work out?"
"Well Hammonds already offered me a civilian consultancy and..."
"You resigned?" She cut him off.
"Kind of." He took Sam's hands in his. "Look, Daniel's already noticed that we look more intimate than usual, we can't keep Brianna quiet for much longer so news of us seeing each other is bound to get out somehow. This way, they know that I'm no longer in the air force so it is perfectly alright."
"I love you Jack, you know that don't you?" She said quietly, looking into his chocolate brown eyes.
"Always, but I love you more."
"Do not!"
"Do too!"
"Prove it!"
"When you get out my dear, when you get out." He winked and walked away.
Sam sighed and flopped back onto the pillows, then screwed her eyes up in pain.
"Note to self: Kill Jack O'Neill and get more painkillers."
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The end is nigh! Complete, finito, I will write no more!
Please review!!!