Author's Note: I guess I should have said this in the last chapter. This
is my first fanfic and I have missed a lot of the shows so if I mess
something up don't yell at me too bad ( But please let me know if I've
spelled anyone's names wrong. Thanks and enjoy!!
Sam was jolted from her sleep by the sound of the alarm and the voice on the intercom alerting everyone to an intruder. Grabbing her boots she rushed from her quarters almost running into Jack.
"What's going on sir?"
"Our little friend's gone AWOL." Jack smiled a little. "Nice shirt Carter."
She had rushed out of her room in her tank top. Not quite regulation but it was too late to turn back now. The pushed through a small crowd at the end of level 16 and moved next to the general.
"Colonel, Major. I'm glad you're here." The general had to yell to be heard over the noise.
"What's going on? What is that awful sound?"
"That Colonel is your guest. She left the infirmary and is in the rec room with two TV's and four."
"Six sir." A nearby airman corrected.
"Fine, six radio's going all at once."
"Why didn't you turn them off?" Sam asked the airman.
"She growled at me ma'am."
Jack busted out laughing while Sam headed down to the rec room. She entered and had to cover her hares. It wasn't the volume so much but there were too may people talking at once.
"Sam!" The girl turned and smiled. When she saw Sam holding her ears she quickly turned off the TV's and radio's. "I'm sorry Sam. Did I wake you?" "You practically woke the whole base!"
"Whoa Carter, what did she just say?" Jack asked as he moved next to Sam.
"She said," realization dawned on Sam as she turned back to the girl. "When, how'd you learn English?"
"I listened, I learned." She shrugged her shoulders and waved at all the radio's.
"Riight. Of course." Jack sighed. "Come on you need to go back to bed. And stay there."
"Do I have to?"
"Yes." Sam cut in. "Come on I'll go with you."
The girl walked into the hall to have several guns trained on her. She dropped into a fighting stance ready to attack the men if she need to.
"General." Sam exclaimed as she saw what was happening. "Please sir, she isn't going to hurt anyone."
"Stand down and dismissed."
The girl relaxed the second the guns were lowered. She walked over to the general. "I'm sorry sir. I didn't mean to cause any problems. I won't do it again."
"I'll take her back sir."
"Good idea Major." Hammond waited until they were out of sight. "Colonel, I thought you said she didn't speak English."
"She didn't. Apparently she just learned it." Not a word was spoken as the two entered the infirmary. Sam smiled, Jack must have called and told Janet to give them some space. The girl hopped up on the bed and turning to Sam she ran her hand across Sam's forehead.
"Why don't you have the mark? Like Teal'c?"
"I'm not a Jaffa." Sam stated like it was the most obvious thing in the world.
"You are Goa'uld?"
"I am not!"
"You feel like a Goa'uld."
"Feel like.I was a host but I'm not now." Sam scrunched up her forehead. "You mean Teal'c and I feel different to you?"
"Teal'c yes, you no."
"Wait." Sam was really getting confused. "You said."
"Let me try to explain." The girl cut in, crossing her legs on the bed she continued. "Every being has a distinct 'feel' to them. My people are able to change the way others feel to us, sort of like cloaking them so we can easily recognize them as friends."
"Sam, she should be resting." Janet moved next to girl, resting her hand on the bed.
"I'm okay."
"Wait, how do you do that?"
"Easy." The girl smiled and placed her hand on top of Janet's, closed her eyes for a brief second then let go. "Woa." Janet shivered. "What just happened?"
"That's it?"
"Yupp"
"Sam."
"It's okay Janet. Looks like you qualify as a friend." Sam smiled. "What did it feel like?"
"Warm tingling sensation. What was it?"
"Apparently she changed the way you feel."
"There seems to be another way to do it. One I didn't know of."
"What do you mean?" Sam asked.
"Well it is forbidden to heal those not from our world. It appears that healing you had made you feel exactly like my people." The girl's face grew sand and distant.
"Hey, you can go home any time you want. We're not going to force you to stay." Janet tried to comfort the girl.
"No I can't." A tear slipped down her cheek. "The Goa'uld destroyed my planet, killed everyone and everything. I was. away. Playing on another planet. I came back and everyone was dead. There were there though. Crating up our machines. I ran back and went through the Stargate."
"I'm sure some of your people made it out alive." Sam whispered, her words sounding false even to her.
"No, no one was away but me, and my people can't be used as hosts." The girl straightened up and wiped her tears away. "I'm sorry. It's been so long since I've felt someone from home."
"What about the friends you spoke of?" Sam asked.
"They feel like friends. They are different yet the same all at once."
"I'm still not sure I understand what you mean by feel." Janet said.
"Have you ever felt someone staring at you from across the room?"
"Yeah." Janet said as she finally grasped the concept.
"It is like that. It was my people's most advanced sense. We could feel when others were coming, how they were feeling. I never realized how comforting it was to be constantly surrounded by love and concern until I found myself alone."
"Wait you said I feel exactly like your people?" Sam asked rejoining the conversation.
"Yupp."
"Does that mean you can tell how I'm feeling?"
"Yes." The girl frowned. "I'm sorry. I didn't intend to make you uncomfortable."
"No. You haven't." Sam started.
"Remember, I can tell."
"Okay, a little but I'm not upset. I just need to get used to the fact someone will know what I'm thinking."
"I can't read your mind Sam. I'll know if your angry or sad but I won't know why unless you tell me." The girl shook her head in amusement as she felt a wave of relief from her new friend.
"Hey," Janet decided it was time to change the topic of conversation. "What is your name?"
"Max."
"How old are you?" Janet continued, picking up Max's chart.
"By your time I'm somewhere between 20 and 24."
"How long were you stuck on that planet?" Sam asked.
"Two rotations of it's sun."
"Hey ladies." Jack entered the room. "How would you like a tour?"
"I'm not allowed to leave." Max answered plainly.
"Doc?"
"It's fine with me but."
"Great, it's already cleared with the general." Jack smiled. "Care to join us Major?"
"Sure."
"Hey guys?"
"Yeah Max?" 'Max' Jack mouthed to Janet. "Could I get some, uh, different clothes?" Max asked causing Sam to laugh.
"Here. I know. Ugly color but it's all we've got lying around." Jack handed Max a set of BDU's.
"You can change over there." Janet pointed to a folding screen a few feet away.
"And Major." Jack tossed her a button down shirt. "I thought you might want that."
Sam blushed a little as she slipped on her shirt. Max reappeared and came over to Jack, smiling she took his hand.
"Hey!" He shivered and pulled back his hand. "What was that?"
"Welcome to the family." Sam and Janet laughed.
* * *
"And here is the control room where we dial the 'gate." Jack stood next to the general looking at the monitors.
"Sir, is that RICK?" Sam asked pointing to the overturned machine.
"That is correct."
"RICK?" Asked Jack
"Yes a remote controlled mining." Sam looked over at Jack, she could practically see his mind shutting down. She wasn't even going to try to explain it to him, turning back to the general she continued. "Was it successful?"
"It was but somehow it got overturned. The planet has been experiencing severe earthquakes we are worried we won't be able to retrieve it."
"How much naquida (sorry I have no idea how to spell it!) did it mine?"
"It filled its cargo container."
"Sir we can't leave that there!"
"I'm well aware of that major. I've got a team suiting up to go and try to right it." General Hammond sighed. "if they aren't ready in the next five minutes we'll most likely loose it. There are two teams off world, and I'm not happy about keeping the gate open like this."
"Why not just send those guys?" Jack asked
"Sir the atmosphere consists mostly of helium and CO2 we can't breath over there." Sam told him.
"So how was that thing, whatever it is, to get back here?" Jack asked.
"It is remote controlled. We controlled it for the most part but we programmed it to come home. All we had to do was set it up directly in front of the DHD and shut down the gate from this side. It would then dial home its self and move up and through the even horizon." Sam sighed and looked at her watch. "Do you know how important that naquida is? We can't just give up."
"We will try again after the arrival of SG-2 and 7. If we can still connect we'll send a team."
"What the hell is she doing!" Jack grabbed the mic to try and stop her but it was too late, Max was already through the 'gate.
They all turned their attention to the four screens, RICK had been equipped with four cameras to aid the operators, two were obstructed by ground.
"Did you see that?" Sam squinted at one of the screens. "Sir. We have a problem."
"Ya think?" Jack snapped.
"Look, there." Sam pointed to the corner of the screen where she had saw the movement.
"Great!" Jack yelled as he saw the group of men, things, moving toward the 'gate. "I'm going to get her!"
"You will do no such thing." The general looked at Jack like he had grown another head.
"I'll hold my breath."
"Wait, sir look."
"Does she look a little green to anyone?" Jack asked as they watched the girl struggle to pull RICK back on it's wheels.
"Carter? How much does that thing weigh?"
"You don't want to know." Sam flinched as RICK slammed onto it's wheels. "Hurry guys get that thing in front of the DHD, we need to get them home."
Max jumped out of the way when the machine moved on its own. As soon as it was in front of the DHD the worm hole disappeared. She panicked for a moment before she saw the machine working the DHD.
As the wormhole sprung to life the general shouted. "Get that video feed back online!"
"Looks like the natives are restless. Someone turn the sound up." Jack barked, the general had moved away to phone Dr. Fraiser and her medical team.
"It is sir." Answered a nervous Captain. "The microphone must have been damaged when it fell over."
They watched as Max interacted with a group of aliens, her back to the cameras.
"They don't look so happy."
"Who doesn't' look happy?" The general asked as he returned. "What's going on? Major, I thought you said we couldn't breath over there."
"We can't sir."
"Who are they?"
"We don't know but they don't seem happy."
"Get her back here." The general ordered. RICK was almost to the gate and he didn't want to leave her there with angry locals. "Dr. Fraiser's on her way."
"Max." Sam said into the mic, thankfully Max looked back, the speaker wasn't broken. "Max, get back here NOW."
There was a slight break in the video feed. They saw Max yelling over her shoulder at the group of aliens. Another few seconds of static.
"What was that?" It happened again then the feed went dead. "Carter!"
"Sir I think they were shooting at her."
Jack was out the door, followed closely by Sam, heading to the gate room. When they got there RICK was already at the bottom of the ramp and Max was practically convulsing on the floor in front of the Stargate. Jack rushed up and scooped up the still convulsing girl, carried her down the ramp and placed her on a stretcher. Wow, he though, second time in as many days she's landed herself in the infirmary. Stepping back to let the doctors work he saw that she was indeed looking a little green, and there was something blue quickly spreading out over the sheet. They started to wheel her out when Sam spoke up.
"Janet look." Sam stopped the stretcher. Max was quickly returning to a normal color. Coughing one last time Max opened her eyes.
"Man I forgot how much that sucks."
"Explain." Was all a worried and once again confused Jack could say.
"I can adapt to any environment in less than five minutes." Max coughed again and winced. "You guys shouldn't go back there. I sort of pissed them off the last time I was there. And again just now."
"Oh, that's not good." Jack said as Max passed out. "Hey that looks an awful lot like blood now."
Janet looked down at what Jack pointed to. A blue spot quickly turning red. "Damn it. Move Now!"
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Sam was jolted from her sleep by the sound of the alarm and the voice on the intercom alerting everyone to an intruder. Grabbing her boots she rushed from her quarters almost running into Jack.
"What's going on sir?"
"Our little friend's gone AWOL." Jack smiled a little. "Nice shirt Carter."
She had rushed out of her room in her tank top. Not quite regulation but it was too late to turn back now. The pushed through a small crowd at the end of level 16 and moved next to the general.
"Colonel, Major. I'm glad you're here." The general had to yell to be heard over the noise.
"What's going on? What is that awful sound?"
"That Colonel is your guest. She left the infirmary and is in the rec room with two TV's and four."
"Six sir." A nearby airman corrected.
"Fine, six radio's going all at once."
"Why didn't you turn them off?" Sam asked the airman.
"She growled at me ma'am."
Jack busted out laughing while Sam headed down to the rec room. She entered and had to cover her hares. It wasn't the volume so much but there were too may people talking at once.
"Sam!" The girl turned and smiled. When she saw Sam holding her ears she quickly turned off the TV's and radio's. "I'm sorry Sam. Did I wake you?" "You practically woke the whole base!"
"Whoa Carter, what did she just say?" Jack asked as he moved next to Sam.
"She said," realization dawned on Sam as she turned back to the girl. "When, how'd you learn English?"
"I listened, I learned." She shrugged her shoulders and waved at all the radio's.
"Riight. Of course." Jack sighed. "Come on you need to go back to bed. And stay there."
"Do I have to?"
"Yes." Sam cut in. "Come on I'll go with you."
The girl walked into the hall to have several guns trained on her. She dropped into a fighting stance ready to attack the men if she need to.
"General." Sam exclaimed as she saw what was happening. "Please sir, she isn't going to hurt anyone."
"Stand down and dismissed."
The girl relaxed the second the guns were lowered. She walked over to the general. "I'm sorry sir. I didn't mean to cause any problems. I won't do it again."
"I'll take her back sir."
"Good idea Major." Hammond waited until they were out of sight. "Colonel, I thought you said she didn't speak English."
"She didn't. Apparently she just learned it." Not a word was spoken as the two entered the infirmary. Sam smiled, Jack must have called and told Janet to give them some space. The girl hopped up on the bed and turning to Sam she ran her hand across Sam's forehead.
"Why don't you have the mark? Like Teal'c?"
"I'm not a Jaffa." Sam stated like it was the most obvious thing in the world.
"You are Goa'uld?"
"I am not!"
"You feel like a Goa'uld."
"Feel like.I was a host but I'm not now." Sam scrunched up her forehead. "You mean Teal'c and I feel different to you?"
"Teal'c yes, you no."
"Wait." Sam was really getting confused. "You said."
"Let me try to explain." The girl cut in, crossing her legs on the bed she continued. "Every being has a distinct 'feel' to them. My people are able to change the way others feel to us, sort of like cloaking them so we can easily recognize them as friends."
"Sam, she should be resting." Janet moved next to girl, resting her hand on the bed.
"I'm okay."
"Wait, how do you do that?"
"Easy." The girl smiled and placed her hand on top of Janet's, closed her eyes for a brief second then let go. "Woa." Janet shivered. "What just happened?"
"That's it?"
"Yupp"
"Sam."
"It's okay Janet. Looks like you qualify as a friend." Sam smiled. "What did it feel like?"
"Warm tingling sensation. What was it?"
"Apparently she changed the way you feel."
"There seems to be another way to do it. One I didn't know of."
"What do you mean?" Sam asked.
"Well it is forbidden to heal those not from our world. It appears that healing you had made you feel exactly like my people." The girl's face grew sand and distant.
"Hey, you can go home any time you want. We're not going to force you to stay." Janet tried to comfort the girl.
"No I can't." A tear slipped down her cheek. "The Goa'uld destroyed my planet, killed everyone and everything. I was. away. Playing on another planet. I came back and everyone was dead. There were there though. Crating up our machines. I ran back and went through the Stargate."
"I'm sure some of your people made it out alive." Sam whispered, her words sounding false even to her.
"No, no one was away but me, and my people can't be used as hosts." The girl straightened up and wiped her tears away. "I'm sorry. It's been so long since I've felt someone from home."
"What about the friends you spoke of?" Sam asked.
"They feel like friends. They are different yet the same all at once."
"I'm still not sure I understand what you mean by feel." Janet said.
"Have you ever felt someone staring at you from across the room?"
"Yeah." Janet said as she finally grasped the concept.
"It is like that. It was my people's most advanced sense. We could feel when others were coming, how they were feeling. I never realized how comforting it was to be constantly surrounded by love and concern until I found myself alone."
"Wait you said I feel exactly like your people?" Sam asked rejoining the conversation.
"Yupp."
"Does that mean you can tell how I'm feeling?"
"Yes." The girl frowned. "I'm sorry. I didn't intend to make you uncomfortable."
"No. You haven't." Sam started.
"Remember, I can tell."
"Okay, a little but I'm not upset. I just need to get used to the fact someone will know what I'm thinking."
"I can't read your mind Sam. I'll know if your angry or sad but I won't know why unless you tell me." The girl shook her head in amusement as she felt a wave of relief from her new friend.
"Hey," Janet decided it was time to change the topic of conversation. "What is your name?"
"Max."
"How old are you?" Janet continued, picking up Max's chart.
"By your time I'm somewhere between 20 and 24."
"How long were you stuck on that planet?" Sam asked.
"Two rotations of it's sun."
"Hey ladies." Jack entered the room. "How would you like a tour?"
"I'm not allowed to leave." Max answered plainly.
"Doc?"
"It's fine with me but."
"Great, it's already cleared with the general." Jack smiled. "Care to join us Major?"
"Sure."
"Hey guys?"
"Yeah Max?" 'Max' Jack mouthed to Janet. "Could I get some, uh, different clothes?" Max asked causing Sam to laugh.
"Here. I know. Ugly color but it's all we've got lying around." Jack handed Max a set of BDU's.
"You can change over there." Janet pointed to a folding screen a few feet away.
"And Major." Jack tossed her a button down shirt. "I thought you might want that."
Sam blushed a little as she slipped on her shirt. Max reappeared and came over to Jack, smiling she took his hand.
"Hey!" He shivered and pulled back his hand. "What was that?"
"Welcome to the family." Sam and Janet laughed.
* * *
"And here is the control room where we dial the 'gate." Jack stood next to the general looking at the monitors.
"Sir, is that RICK?" Sam asked pointing to the overturned machine.
"That is correct."
"RICK?" Asked Jack
"Yes a remote controlled mining." Sam looked over at Jack, she could practically see his mind shutting down. She wasn't even going to try to explain it to him, turning back to the general she continued. "Was it successful?"
"It was but somehow it got overturned. The planet has been experiencing severe earthquakes we are worried we won't be able to retrieve it."
"How much naquida (sorry I have no idea how to spell it!) did it mine?"
"It filled its cargo container."
"Sir we can't leave that there!"
"I'm well aware of that major. I've got a team suiting up to go and try to right it." General Hammond sighed. "if they aren't ready in the next five minutes we'll most likely loose it. There are two teams off world, and I'm not happy about keeping the gate open like this."
"Why not just send those guys?" Jack asked
"Sir the atmosphere consists mostly of helium and CO2 we can't breath over there." Sam told him.
"So how was that thing, whatever it is, to get back here?" Jack asked.
"It is remote controlled. We controlled it for the most part but we programmed it to come home. All we had to do was set it up directly in front of the DHD and shut down the gate from this side. It would then dial home its self and move up and through the even horizon." Sam sighed and looked at her watch. "Do you know how important that naquida is? We can't just give up."
"We will try again after the arrival of SG-2 and 7. If we can still connect we'll send a team."
"What the hell is she doing!" Jack grabbed the mic to try and stop her but it was too late, Max was already through the 'gate.
They all turned their attention to the four screens, RICK had been equipped with four cameras to aid the operators, two were obstructed by ground.
"Did you see that?" Sam squinted at one of the screens. "Sir. We have a problem."
"Ya think?" Jack snapped.
"Look, there." Sam pointed to the corner of the screen where she had saw the movement.
"Great!" Jack yelled as he saw the group of men, things, moving toward the 'gate. "I'm going to get her!"
"You will do no such thing." The general looked at Jack like he had grown another head.
"I'll hold my breath."
"Wait, sir look."
"Does she look a little green to anyone?" Jack asked as they watched the girl struggle to pull RICK back on it's wheels.
"Carter? How much does that thing weigh?"
"You don't want to know." Sam flinched as RICK slammed onto it's wheels. "Hurry guys get that thing in front of the DHD, we need to get them home."
Max jumped out of the way when the machine moved on its own. As soon as it was in front of the DHD the worm hole disappeared. She panicked for a moment before she saw the machine working the DHD.
As the wormhole sprung to life the general shouted. "Get that video feed back online!"
"Looks like the natives are restless. Someone turn the sound up." Jack barked, the general had moved away to phone Dr. Fraiser and her medical team.
"It is sir." Answered a nervous Captain. "The microphone must have been damaged when it fell over."
They watched as Max interacted with a group of aliens, her back to the cameras.
"They don't look so happy."
"Who doesn't' look happy?" The general asked as he returned. "What's going on? Major, I thought you said we couldn't breath over there."
"We can't sir."
"Who are they?"
"We don't know but they don't seem happy."
"Get her back here." The general ordered. RICK was almost to the gate and he didn't want to leave her there with angry locals. "Dr. Fraiser's on her way."
"Max." Sam said into the mic, thankfully Max looked back, the speaker wasn't broken. "Max, get back here NOW."
There was a slight break in the video feed. They saw Max yelling over her shoulder at the group of aliens. Another few seconds of static.
"What was that?" It happened again then the feed went dead. "Carter!"
"Sir I think they were shooting at her."
Jack was out the door, followed closely by Sam, heading to the gate room. When they got there RICK was already at the bottom of the ramp and Max was practically convulsing on the floor in front of the Stargate. Jack rushed up and scooped up the still convulsing girl, carried her down the ramp and placed her on a stretcher. Wow, he though, second time in as many days she's landed herself in the infirmary. Stepping back to let the doctors work he saw that she was indeed looking a little green, and there was something blue quickly spreading out over the sheet. They started to wheel her out when Sam spoke up.
"Janet look." Sam stopped the stretcher. Max was quickly returning to a normal color. Coughing one last time Max opened her eyes.
"Man I forgot how much that sucks."
"Explain." Was all a worried and once again confused Jack could say.
"I can adapt to any environment in less than five minutes." Max coughed again and winced. "You guys shouldn't go back there. I sort of pissed them off the last time I was there. And again just now."
"Oh, that's not good." Jack said as Max passed out. "Hey that looks an awful lot like blood now."
Janet looked down at what Jack pointed to. A blue spot quickly turning red. "Damn it. Move Now!"
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