Title: In the Middle (1/?)
Rating: It will become R
Summary: SG-1 meets goes to planet that is very much like Earth
Spoilers: Basic knowledge
Archive: SJD yes
Disclaimer: Not mine don't sue me!
AN: I really hope no one is offended by the subject that this story will follow. I don't know why I decided to write about it, other than I just did. I know a lot about what happened. And sometimes it's hard not to think about it. Well, here it goes…
5:19.
Well, that's a rather… odd time to wake up suddenly in the morning. Sam looked over at her alarm clock, squinting to see it properly after just waking.
"Ugh…" she muttered as she fell back on her bed. She put her hands over her face and rubbed her eyes after a second. She had to get up in another eleven minutes, no reason to go back to sleep.
"Might as well just get up now and get some coffee for once," she drowsily said to herself as she rolled over and waited for her alarm to go off in ten minutes.
"Goooooooood morning everyone! I hope you had a good night's sleep!" Jack announced as he walked in to the mess hall. He walked closer, then clapped and rubbed his hands together with a bright smile. Sam and Daniel just looked at him over their identical glasses of coffee.
"You seem most, exuberant O'Neill," Teal'c stated next to Daniel.
"Why not? The birds are chirping, the sun is shining,"
"Mrs. Manki finally moved out didn't she?" Sam asked. They knew the situation.
"The woman was a nuisance! 'Oh Mr. O'Neill! I brought your paper to your door step! Oh Mr. O'Neill! I see you haven't been home lately! Oh Mr. O'Neill! I see that you haven't been on a date in a long long time. Might I suggest my daughter?" Sam and Daniel laughed into their cups hearing Jack do his best impersonation of her, winding his voice high into mockery. Teal'c even cracked a crooked grin.
"I actually think she liked you," Daniel stated, looking over his notes. Sam grinned again while Jack became flustered.
"What's that?" he asked, trying to change the subject.
"The notes for today's de-briefing. I thought you read them," Daniel said.
"What? Oh, yeah, yeah sure did. I was just testing you." He slumped into his chair and crossed his arms over his chest. It even looked like he was sticking out his bottom lip out a little bit.
"Well people let's get this de-briefing done and over with," he announced after a few moments of awkward silence.
"Where's the fire Jack?"
"No fire. Just want to go, you know?"
"Is there a storm coming?" Teal'c asked.
"No…" Sam said in confusion.
"Well then O'Neill, perhaps the birds have all established a case of sudden laryngitis?" He simply raised his eyebrow to meet Jack's squinted eyes. Sam just laughed into her cup again.
"Ha ha!" With that, he turned on his heel and stalked out of the room.
"We sent a MALP to P5X-484, and we found nothing out of the ordinary. Just some trees for Jack and soil for Sam." Daniel was standing at the head of the table, giving the gist of the mission. Jack had heard enough of them to not have to listen to Daniel.
"SG-1, you have a go." With that, everyone stood, except for Jack.
"What? That's it? No three hour long ramblings?" he asked, holding his hand in the air like a valley-girl.
"No. Is that ok with you? Cause I could if you wanted me to," he started. Jack jumped off of his seat and held his hands out in front of him.
"No no no! That's alright! Don't worry about me! See you guy in a half hour!" he yelled behind his shoulder as he was running out of the door.
"You have to teach me how to do that Daniel," Sam said as she stood stunned.
"See anything interesting?" Jack asked as everyone else started working. He liked his job; he just made sure everyone else was doing something. How simple…
"We're good for 48 hours off world, Jack. I suggest that we start heading down the path in front of the 'gate." Daniel involuntarily pushed his glasses up the bridge of his nose and squinted, looking straight forward. Jack glanced around to see if there were any objections.
Seeing none, he shrugged and walked forward off of the stone platform that every Stargate seemed to appear on. The four started their journey casually, making easy talk or just being silent. Until Teal'c heard something.
"Teal'c?" Jack asked, sensing him go tense.
"I hear something in the distance." He swiveled his head around, trying to see anything coming.
"Can you make it out?" Sam asked, tightening her grip on her P-90.
"It sounds like, engines," Daniel said. They could all hear it now. They all put their backs together, trying to cover each other's backs. In front of Sam a jeep pulled out, followed by three others. It looked remarkably like ones made on Earth. The people in the Jeep held guns pointed at SG-1. It was a stand off as the other jeeps continued to circle the team.
"Put your weapons down!" someone called from the first jeep.
"You put yours down!" Jack yelled back.
"I don't think so! You're outnumbered here. Put 'em down!" Sensing that they weren't going to win the situation right away, Jack grimaced as he lowered his gun and put his hands up. His team immediately imitated his actions. They were roughly shoved into on of the last jeeps and taken away through the trees.
"How did you get here?" one of the leaders asked. They were all led into a room that looked very Earthy-military. There were maps on the walls and guns on the table, which surprised everyone. They never ran into guns before. There were five men in the room, all wearing the same light brown-tan color outfit. Teal'c noticed the banner on their arms right away. It was a dark green band with a white symbol on it. He couldn't make it out yet.
"Through the Stargate," Jack replied. 'Wow, was that me not being sarcastic?'
"What business do you have here?" They were all shoved on their knees in a row, and the man questioning them moved forward. He brought a chair with him and sat down in front of them. Two men behind them held guns defensively incase they tried to escape.
"We are simple explorers, searching out civilizations like our own. And by your technology, yours has come the closest." Daniel had taken notice of everything.
"Whose side are you on?" The four were silent for a moment.
"Side of…" Jack lead on.
"The CC."
"CC?"
"Of the Continental Conflict. Don't play stupid with us. We have better things to do with our time." The man interrogating them stood up off of the chair he was sitting on.
"We aren't playing stupid! We really don't know what the fight is about! We aren't from this world!" Daniel's voice quickened with excitement and desire for the man to understand what they were talking about.
"Yes, we have had allies and enemies come through the 'gate. Now, which are you?" He was done playing games. He shoved the chair to the ground and pulled a gun out from the back of his pants and aimed at the group.
"Yours if you put the gun down!" Jack yelled.
"Tell me the truth or she gets it!" he yelled as he loomed over Sam grabbed her head from behind, pointing the gun at her temple.
"We're telling you the truth! We don't know anything! We could be you allies! You seem to be closely related to us! This could be a great opportunity!" Daniel sputtered out. Sam tried not to wince as his grip tightened.
"Or you can blow it and shoot her," O'Neill warned with a growl. The man seemed to weigh his words closely, and put the gun down and shoved Sam back to the ground.
"Take them to a holding room. I'll talk to them later," he said to the two men behind them. After getting hauled to their feet, they were lead through a military camp to a holding room.
"Does this look familiar to anyone?" Jack asked after he was shoved in and thanked his captors for the lovely service.
"It looks like, Earth. Military. Us. This is something we would set up. The colors are a little lighter, but the tents, the beds, everything is the same." Sam was looking around the room as she spoke, taking in everything.
"I wonder what the global conflict is," Daniel thought out loud as he started to look around with same.
"Continental conflict Daniel, continental," Jack corrected.
"Did anyone see the symbol worn on the armband?" Teal'c finally said.
"I did. I saw it up close and personal when that guy had me at gun point. It was a white "M" with a white circle around it. I don't know what it means yet." She sat down on a bunk and dropped her head into her hands.
"Their technology is much like that of the Earth's military, O'Neill." Teal'c took as second to look around the room.
"Yeah, I noticed that. Jeeps, guns, it's all weird." He sat next to Sam and mimicked her movements.
"On your feet!" Someone yelled as the door was shoved open. Everyone jumped to attention, waiting for, well, something to happen. No one knew just yet what to expect from their sibling planet. The same man who interrogated them before marched into their shack, splitting the team into to with Daniel and Teal'c on one side and Sam and Jack on the other.
"What brings you here?" he asked, looking at no one.
"We're explorers from a distant planet, trying to meet new races of people," Daniel tried again.
"What side are you on?"
"Side of what?" Jack tried again.
"Stop this bullshit! I want to know now! Who do you serve? Khnum or Mentu?" he yelled at them.
"We serve no one, as you serve a false god!" Teal'c announced to the man. He became more and more passionate every time he announced that to someone new.
"Toss them in!" he yelled back over his shoulder to the men waiting outside. They were forced out of the tent, and manhandled to a different section of the camp. That part was obviously the prison.
Barbed wire marked the sections between camp and prison, with people on both sides. They noticed train tracks as they passed above them, especially since Daniel almost fell on them. The officers were clearly distinguished from the prisoners. The officers were clean, with nice tan uniforms on, while the prisoners had black rags on. Jack even saw a few of them smoking cigars.
But that wasn't what made his stomach want to get rid of everything.
A prisoner was hanging from the entranceway. And he knew that they hung him. As a warning to the other prisoners not to screw up. They made an example of him.
"Learn from it," one of the guards said as he laughed.
They were led through the prison, and made to see the injustices that were happening. There were guards at every new barrack, just waiting for someone to screw up. The people, woman and children included, tip-toed past them. Teal'c couldn't remember the last time he saw people this afraid of their captors on this large of a scale.
They were led into a new facility and given the same black clothes as everyone else; black pants that were too large, but had a draw string on them, and a black top. Some shoddy shoes clung to their feet. After they changed into their new garments, they were led into a new room and forced to sit in chairs. Someone came up behind Jack, Daniel, and Sam, but left Teal'c alone for a moment. The new people cut as much hair off of them as possible.
Daniel was laughing inside, thinking, 'Well at least they didn't get that much hair!' It was a small victory, but he needed one right now.
After they had their hair cut, they were led into a barracks, where they were told that would be their place to sleep. No one paid too much attention to them at first.
"They're probably too afraid to say anything to the new people right now," Jack said out loud, thinking the same thing as the other people.
"Daniel, do you remember the two names of the Goul'ds in this fight?" Sam asked as she sat down on a bunk.
"Um, yeah. Mentu, Egyptian God of War and Sun, and Khnum, old Egyptian God of creation."
"Any idea as to why they're fighting?" Jack asked.
"If I remember correctly, they both shared a wife, Menhit. And, Menhit and Khnum had a child, Heka, who stood for all magic, supernatural powers and miracles and was patron of wizards and physicians." Daniel sat down and leaned back.
"So, why are they fighting?"
"I have no idea."
"Does any of this seem familiar to anyone?" Sam asked.
"What? Being imprisoned against our will, not being believed that we don't want to start trouble, the horrible living conditions…. Yeah it kinda rings a bell." He had hoped to at least get a rise out of her. Nada.
"It's like World War II," Daniel said. She only nodded.
"Wadda mean?"
"Continental Conflict? This prison? It's nothing more than a concentration camp! I wouldn't be surprised if we were forced to work tomorrow," Sam said, her voice trying to not elevate to draw attention.
"But I'm not Jewish!"
"That's not the point. There were more people who were imprisoned that just Jews. There were Communists, homosexuals, mentally handicapped people, anyone else who opposed their 'god' was thrown in," Daniel rambled.
"Are you calling me a Russian?!" Jack squeaked out, audibly offended.
"No Jack! What I'm saying is, this is their form of a world war. Half these people have probably done nothing more than believe something different than they were supposed to." Everyone was sitting down again, and needed a moment of silence. Everything just needed to sink in.
"Jesus Christ," Jack murmured into his hands.
"This isn't good," Sam said.
"And we're stuck," Jack said.
"Right in the middle of it all."
TBC
Rating: It will become R
Summary: SG-1 meets goes to planet that is very much like Earth
Spoilers: Basic knowledge
Archive: SJD yes
Disclaimer: Not mine don't sue me!
AN: I really hope no one is offended by the subject that this story will follow. I don't know why I decided to write about it, other than I just did. I know a lot about what happened. And sometimes it's hard not to think about it. Well, here it goes…
5:19.
Well, that's a rather… odd time to wake up suddenly in the morning. Sam looked over at her alarm clock, squinting to see it properly after just waking.
"Ugh…" she muttered as she fell back on her bed. She put her hands over her face and rubbed her eyes after a second. She had to get up in another eleven minutes, no reason to go back to sleep.
"Might as well just get up now and get some coffee for once," she drowsily said to herself as she rolled over and waited for her alarm to go off in ten minutes.
"Goooooooood morning everyone! I hope you had a good night's sleep!" Jack announced as he walked in to the mess hall. He walked closer, then clapped and rubbed his hands together with a bright smile. Sam and Daniel just looked at him over their identical glasses of coffee.
"You seem most, exuberant O'Neill," Teal'c stated next to Daniel.
"Why not? The birds are chirping, the sun is shining,"
"Mrs. Manki finally moved out didn't she?" Sam asked. They knew the situation.
"The woman was a nuisance! 'Oh Mr. O'Neill! I brought your paper to your door step! Oh Mr. O'Neill! I see you haven't been home lately! Oh Mr. O'Neill! I see that you haven't been on a date in a long long time. Might I suggest my daughter?" Sam and Daniel laughed into their cups hearing Jack do his best impersonation of her, winding his voice high into mockery. Teal'c even cracked a crooked grin.
"I actually think she liked you," Daniel stated, looking over his notes. Sam grinned again while Jack became flustered.
"What's that?" he asked, trying to change the subject.
"The notes for today's de-briefing. I thought you read them," Daniel said.
"What? Oh, yeah, yeah sure did. I was just testing you." He slumped into his chair and crossed his arms over his chest. It even looked like he was sticking out his bottom lip out a little bit.
"Well people let's get this de-briefing done and over with," he announced after a few moments of awkward silence.
"Where's the fire Jack?"
"No fire. Just want to go, you know?"
"Is there a storm coming?" Teal'c asked.
"No…" Sam said in confusion.
"Well then O'Neill, perhaps the birds have all established a case of sudden laryngitis?" He simply raised his eyebrow to meet Jack's squinted eyes. Sam just laughed into her cup again.
"Ha ha!" With that, he turned on his heel and stalked out of the room.
"We sent a MALP to P5X-484, and we found nothing out of the ordinary. Just some trees for Jack and soil for Sam." Daniel was standing at the head of the table, giving the gist of the mission. Jack had heard enough of them to not have to listen to Daniel.
"SG-1, you have a go." With that, everyone stood, except for Jack.
"What? That's it? No three hour long ramblings?" he asked, holding his hand in the air like a valley-girl.
"No. Is that ok with you? Cause I could if you wanted me to," he started. Jack jumped off of his seat and held his hands out in front of him.
"No no no! That's alright! Don't worry about me! See you guy in a half hour!" he yelled behind his shoulder as he was running out of the door.
"You have to teach me how to do that Daniel," Sam said as she stood stunned.
"See anything interesting?" Jack asked as everyone else started working. He liked his job; he just made sure everyone else was doing something. How simple…
"We're good for 48 hours off world, Jack. I suggest that we start heading down the path in front of the 'gate." Daniel involuntarily pushed his glasses up the bridge of his nose and squinted, looking straight forward. Jack glanced around to see if there were any objections.
Seeing none, he shrugged and walked forward off of the stone platform that every Stargate seemed to appear on. The four started their journey casually, making easy talk or just being silent. Until Teal'c heard something.
"Teal'c?" Jack asked, sensing him go tense.
"I hear something in the distance." He swiveled his head around, trying to see anything coming.
"Can you make it out?" Sam asked, tightening her grip on her P-90.
"It sounds like, engines," Daniel said. They could all hear it now. They all put their backs together, trying to cover each other's backs. In front of Sam a jeep pulled out, followed by three others. It looked remarkably like ones made on Earth. The people in the Jeep held guns pointed at SG-1. It was a stand off as the other jeeps continued to circle the team.
"Put your weapons down!" someone called from the first jeep.
"You put yours down!" Jack yelled back.
"I don't think so! You're outnumbered here. Put 'em down!" Sensing that they weren't going to win the situation right away, Jack grimaced as he lowered his gun and put his hands up. His team immediately imitated his actions. They were roughly shoved into on of the last jeeps and taken away through the trees.
"How did you get here?" one of the leaders asked. They were all led into a room that looked very Earthy-military. There were maps on the walls and guns on the table, which surprised everyone. They never ran into guns before. There were five men in the room, all wearing the same light brown-tan color outfit. Teal'c noticed the banner on their arms right away. It was a dark green band with a white symbol on it. He couldn't make it out yet.
"Through the Stargate," Jack replied. 'Wow, was that me not being sarcastic?'
"What business do you have here?" They were all shoved on their knees in a row, and the man questioning them moved forward. He brought a chair with him and sat down in front of them. Two men behind them held guns defensively incase they tried to escape.
"We are simple explorers, searching out civilizations like our own. And by your technology, yours has come the closest." Daniel had taken notice of everything.
"Whose side are you on?" The four were silent for a moment.
"Side of…" Jack lead on.
"The CC."
"CC?"
"Of the Continental Conflict. Don't play stupid with us. We have better things to do with our time." The man interrogating them stood up off of the chair he was sitting on.
"We aren't playing stupid! We really don't know what the fight is about! We aren't from this world!" Daniel's voice quickened with excitement and desire for the man to understand what they were talking about.
"Yes, we have had allies and enemies come through the 'gate. Now, which are you?" He was done playing games. He shoved the chair to the ground and pulled a gun out from the back of his pants and aimed at the group.
"Yours if you put the gun down!" Jack yelled.
"Tell me the truth or she gets it!" he yelled as he loomed over Sam grabbed her head from behind, pointing the gun at her temple.
"We're telling you the truth! We don't know anything! We could be you allies! You seem to be closely related to us! This could be a great opportunity!" Daniel sputtered out. Sam tried not to wince as his grip tightened.
"Or you can blow it and shoot her," O'Neill warned with a growl. The man seemed to weigh his words closely, and put the gun down and shoved Sam back to the ground.
"Take them to a holding room. I'll talk to them later," he said to the two men behind them. After getting hauled to their feet, they were lead through a military camp to a holding room.
"Does this look familiar to anyone?" Jack asked after he was shoved in and thanked his captors for the lovely service.
"It looks like, Earth. Military. Us. This is something we would set up. The colors are a little lighter, but the tents, the beds, everything is the same." Sam was looking around the room as she spoke, taking in everything.
"I wonder what the global conflict is," Daniel thought out loud as he started to look around with same.
"Continental conflict Daniel, continental," Jack corrected.
"Did anyone see the symbol worn on the armband?" Teal'c finally said.
"I did. I saw it up close and personal when that guy had me at gun point. It was a white "M" with a white circle around it. I don't know what it means yet." She sat down on a bunk and dropped her head into her hands.
"Their technology is much like that of the Earth's military, O'Neill." Teal'c took as second to look around the room.
"Yeah, I noticed that. Jeeps, guns, it's all weird." He sat next to Sam and mimicked her movements.
"On your feet!" Someone yelled as the door was shoved open. Everyone jumped to attention, waiting for, well, something to happen. No one knew just yet what to expect from their sibling planet. The same man who interrogated them before marched into their shack, splitting the team into to with Daniel and Teal'c on one side and Sam and Jack on the other.
"What brings you here?" he asked, looking at no one.
"We're explorers from a distant planet, trying to meet new races of people," Daniel tried again.
"What side are you on?"
"Side of what?" Jack tried again.
"Stop this bullshit! I want to know now! Who do you serve? Khnum or Mentu?" he yelled at them.
"We serve no one, as you serve a false god!" Teal'c announced to the man. He became more and more passionate every time he announced that to someone new.
"Toss them in!" he yelled back over his shoulder to the men waiting outside. They were forced out of the tent, and manhandled to a different section of the camp. That part was obviously the prison.
Barbed wire marked the sections between camp and prison, with people on both sides. They noticed train tracks as they passed above them, especially since Daniel almost fell on them. The officers were clearly distinguished from the prisoners. The officers were clean, with nice tan uniforms on, while the prisoners had black rags on. Jack even saw a few of them smoking cigars.
But that wasn't what made his stomach want to get rid of everything.
A prisoner was hanging from the entranceway. And he knew that they hung him. As a warning to the other prisoners not to screw up. They made an example of him.
"Learn from it," one of the guards said as he laughed.
They were led through the prison, and made to see the injustices that were happening. There were guards at every new barrack, just waiting for someone to screw up. The people, woman and children included, tip-toed past them. Teal'c couldn't remember the last time he saw people this afraid of their captors on this large of a scale.
They were led into a new facility and given the same black clothes as everyone else; black pants that were too large, but had a draw string on them, and a black top. Some shoddy shoes clung to their feet. After they changed into their new garments, they were led into a new room and forced to sit in chairs. Someone came up behind Jack, Daniel, and Sam, but left Teal'c alone for a moment. The new people cut as much hair off of them as possible.
Daniel was laughing inside, thinking, 'Well at least they didn't get that much hair!' It was a small victory, but he needed one right now.
After they had their hair cut, they were led into a barracks, where they were told that would be their place to sleep. No one paid too much attention to them at first.
"They're probably too afraid to say anything to the new people right now," Jack said out loud, thinking the same thing as the other people.
"Daniel, do you remember the two names of the Goul'ds in this fight?" Sam asked as she sat down on a bunk.
"Um, yeah. Mentu, Egyptian God of War and Sun, and Khnum, old Egyptian God of creation."
"Any idea as to why they're fighting?" Jack asked.
"If I remember correctly, they both shared a wife, Menhit. And, Menhit and Khnum had a child, Heka, who stood for all magic, supernatural powers and miracles and was patron of wizards and physicians." Daniel sat down and leaned back.
"So, why are they fighting?"
"I have no idea."
"Does any of this seem familiar to anyone?" Sam asked.
"What? Being imprisoned against our will, not being believed that we don't want to start trouble, the horrible living conditions…. Yeah it kinda rings a bell." He had hoped to at least get a rise out of her. Nada.
"It's like World War II," Daniel said. She only nodded.
"Wadda mean?"
"Continental Conflict? This prison? It's nothing more than a concentration camp! I wouldn't be surprised if we were forced to work tomorrow," Sam said, her voice trying to not elevate to draw attention.
"But I'm not Jewish!"
"That's not the point. There were more people who were imprisoned that just Jews. There were Communists, homosexuals, mentally handicapped people, anyone else who opposed their 'god' was thrown in," Daniel rambled.
"Are you calling me a Russian?!" Jack squeaked out, audibly offended.
"No Jack! What I'm saying is, this is their form of a world war. Half these people have probably done nothing more than believe something different than they were supposed to." Everyone was sitting down again, and needed a moment of silence. Everything just needed to sink in.
"Jesus Christ," Jack murmured into his hands.
"This isn't good," Sam said.
"And we're stuck," Jack said.
"Right in the middle of it all."
TBC