He stood in the circle that had been made by the rings for a long moment, staring at Ian's Glock, literally stunned by just how quickly he'd lost the most important thing in his world. What had he been thinking, bringing her here? He should have made more of an argument; shouldn't have let her talk him into it – no matter how much she'd wanted to go. And he'd known she'd wanted to go, just from watching her. He should have known something was going to happen, and should have refused to-

"Jack?"

Daniel had come up behind him, Jacob and Teal'c, but Jack had been the only one that hadn't noticed his arrival.

He turned to the archeologist, and Daniel saw the loss in Jack's eyes, even through the shock. Realizing Jack wasn't the one to ask, Daniel turned to Jacob, who was looking just as stunned, but more composed. Of course, he had Selmac to keep him that way.

"Do the Tok'ra have ships here, Jacob?" Daniel asked.

Jack looked at Jacob, too, wondering why he hadn't thought of that. With a Tok'ra ship they could go find the ship that the rings had gone to, and could find Sam and Ian. But Jacob struck that down, immediately. He shook his head.

"We came through the gate."

Jack looked back at the hangar, where Veda and Bren were standing talking to Pia and looking around for any evidence of Cato.

"What about the Ancient ship?" Jack asked, suddenly, desperately. "Sam had it working somewhat." He made a move towards the hangar. "If we could figure out how-"

Suddenly an explosion rocked the area once more, and the hangar that had housed the Ancient's ship exploded from the inside out, sending shrapnel everywhere and mowing down the three Tok'ra that had been standing closest to it. The force of the explosion knocked Jack and the others down, and rained pieces of stone and metal down on them for a full minute as they covered themselves.

"Shit."

"He booby trapped it…" Daniel said, rolling over and looking at the building that was leveled, and the Ancient ship destroyed with it.

Jack felt his stomach clench as the disappointment of not being able to go immediately after Sam and Ian hit him, and he didn't even realize he'd been hit with shrapnel from building until Teal'c pulled him to his feet and gestured wordlessly to the blood on his forearm, where there was a piece of steel sticking through the fabric of his jacket. While Jacob and Daniel and Jaffer went over to check and see if any of the three Tok'ra had survived the explosion, Teal'c pulled the metal from Jack's arm and wrapped it tightly to stop the bleeding.

"Pia and Bern are alive, Jack," Daniel called as Jacob started first aid. "We'll need to get them to the SGC, though."

It was the closest medical facility, after all.

Jack frowned, but knew that there wasn't another choice. He nodded; and headed over to the smoking ruins that had once held the most advanced piece of technology they'd ever had a chance at – and more importantly, had been the last place he'd seen Sam.

"Fine. Let's get them ready to move and get out of here."

He'd think of something.

OOOOOOOOO

Gentle tapping on her cheek woke her. And Sam wished immediately that it hadn't, even before she opened her eyes. Her head hurt so bad that she felt sick, and her back was screaming at her one spasm at a time. Then she opened her eyes and saw an unfamiliar Jaffa kneeling by her, doing the tapping – under the careful watch of Cato, who was standing right behind the pair.

"What…?"

She tried to look around, and felt even sicker.

"Easy Sam…"

Ian's voice drew her attention, and the cadet knelt painfully beside her, his eyes worried and the side of his head smeared with blood.

"Ian? What?"

"It was a trap, Sam," Ian told her, looking up at Cato.

Sam's gaze followed his, and the Goa'uld gestured for the Jaffa to move, which he did immediately.

"You are my prisoners," Cato told her – repeating what he'd already told Ian.

Sam frowned, and then winced when she felt another spasm in her back.

"What?"

"Apparently, he's not Cato the Tok'ra at all," Ian told her, explaining it so Sam wouldn't have to listen to the Goa'uld's mocking tone. "He's some system lord who took Cato's host and infiltrated the Tok'ra a while ago."

"But why?" Sam asked, wincing again. God, her back hurt.

"Because I have something that you can make work and I can't," Cato told her, gesturing again, this time behind them. Ian and Sam both looked, and a large section of the wall of the room they were in suddenly moved out of the way, revealing to Sam the ship that she'd been in. Ian saw for the first time what the big fuss had been and felt a surge of hope. It was an Ancient ship – it was a Gateship.

"It's the ship from the planet," Sam said, stupidly. Of course, her head was still pounding, and the baby was suddenly moving in her and with her back hurting, she was having trouble making sense of anything going around her just then.

"No," Cato told her. "This is another."

"There were two," Ian realized, his mind working far better than Sam's just then, although he didn't know it. His head was killing him, too, but he'd been awake longer. "It makes sense; there are two hangars…"

Cato's expression was smug once more, and with typical Goa'uld arrogance, he was more than willing to tell them just how clever he'd been.

"I found them more than a year ago, and immediately knew them to be technology I have never seen before."

Which meant technology none of the other Goa'uld had ever seen, either – which translated into an advantage. Sam understood that immediately, but didn't say anything. Ian didn't understand, but didn't care enough to ask.

"So you tried to make it work…" Sam said, wincing again as the baby shifted and her back spasmed once more.

Cato scowled.

"It will not work. I have tried everything. So I knew I needed to find someone who might."

"And you picked the Tok'ra?" Ian asked, looking over at the ship once more. He knew it wouldn't work for the Goa'uld – or the Tok'ra, for the same reason.

"Fool! I picked the Tau'ri. Your people are so primitive, and yet you have luck when it comes to making things work. I infiltrated the Tok'ra to get at the Tau'ri. And I have."

"But…" Sam still didn't understand how, but Cato was done explaining.

"You will make it work for me."

"But-"

"Or you will die."