A/N: Eep I promised Daiva the other day that I'd update! But I forgot! So here it is...
Chapter Nine
What had he been thinking? Anger rose up within Sam as she walked quickly down the hallway, stupidly not paying much attention to what was happening around her. She felt Teal'c making his way silently behind her.
Kissed her. He had kissed her. Again. Except this time she could remember it.
She shook her head, she couldn't think about that, not now, they had other things to do. Save Alex and Daniel fast enough and there might even be a way to help save Jack. Well now she was just kidding herself. Angrily she stopped at the corner and looked around carefully.
Empty.
She turned the corner only to have Teal'c grab her back. At that moment the nearby door opened and a squadron of Jaffa walked out.
"Thanks…" Sam whispered.
"You are not paying attention ColonelCarter," Teal'c said.
She decided it was better to remain silent than to deny that. Of course she wasn't paying attention, she could still taste Jack O'Neill on her lips, how could she possibly be paying attention? Instead she watched after the Jaffa and then moved swiftly into the other corridor. The bridge was somewhere in the direction she was heading, and she was assuming that's where Alex would be. Daniel on the other hand was probably in the torture chamber.
She cringed at the thought.
"This way," she said, turning another corner.
"Colonel Carter…I believe the torture chamber is in this direction," Teal'c said.
"You get Daniel, I'll get Alex," Sam said.
"Will you be fine alone?" Teal'c asked, concerned.
"I'll be fine, Teal'c," Sam reassured him. "Meet you at the fighter bay."
Teal'c nodded and ran off quickly in the other direction. Sam was left alone in the corridor, she made her way quickly towards the bridge of the ship. How the hell she was going to walk onto the bridge, undetected, grab a Goa'uld and then, still undetected and escape via the fighter bay was unknown to her, but she was sure she could pull it off somehow…
She stopped as she heard Jaffa footsteps coming from behind her. Ducking into a nearby room and shutting the door she waited for the Jaffa to pass.
"Colonel Carter…that's what they call you isn't it?"
Sam froze before slowly turning around.
Alex Shaw stood in the room, silhouetted by the light coming from the window behind her.
"Just who I was looking for…" Sam muttered, raising the zat gun she held in her hand.
What had he been thinking? Jack shook his head as he took another turn down the hallway. Well he obviously hadn't been thinking, why in his right mind would he kiss her right then. She was a married woman for crying out loud!
But he didn't regret it.
He pulled his pack tighter around him, the naquadah weighing down extremely heavily.
"They are coming this way, they will be here within half an hour."
Jack ducked behind a wall, listening carefully to the two Goa'uld standing in the hallway.
"Already? I thought they were waiting for the opportune moment," another voice replied.
"Melk'ta says the famous SG-1 are aboard…they may alert Atum to the presence of Tok'ra in his ranks."
Jack stepped out from behind the wall.
"If you two are going to talk about us, at least do it somewhere private," he said loudly.
The two Tok'ra jumped and aimed their weapons in Jack's direction. After a few seconds they realised who he was and lowered their weapons.
"Jack O'Neill," the female Tok'ra said, bowing slightly. "It is an honour to meet one of the Tau'ri who defeated the Goa'uld…"
"Looks like we missed a spot," Jack said. "Nice of you to share that information with us by the way…"
"It looks like you found out anyway," the female Tok'ra replied.
"That's beside the point," Jack muttered. "Anyway, good luck with your little attack, I'm on my way to do my own business, it was nice to meet you, have a nice day."
Jack flashed them a fake smiled before pushing passed them and continuing down the hallway towards the ship's core.
"What would your business be?" the male Tok'ra this time.
"Well that would be my business and therefore not yours," Jack said over his shoulder.
He heard the two Tok'ra following him and stopped, turning around to face them.
"Excuse me, I said 'have a nice day', I don't know about on your world, but where I come from that's usually a way of saying 'get lost'," Jack said.
"We can not allow you do perform anything that will jeopardise our mission," the female Tok'ra said.
"Who said anything about jeopardising your mission?" Jack said, then not allowing either of the Tok'ra to reply he continued. "Ask Jacob, he sent us here on another mission."
"Selmak?" the male Tok'ra asked.
"That's the one," Jack replied. "Now if you'd excuse me…."
He turned back around and continued towards the core.
"You are heading for the core…I do not believe Selmak would have given you a mission involving the core."
"Oh for crying out loud!" Jack hissed, turning around and zatting the two Tok'ra. "Much better."
He turned back around and jogged as quick as possible towards the core of the ship. He had approximately 25 minutes to blow the ship to hell before the Tok'ra fleet turned up and finished the job.
Daniel cringed as the Jaffa hit the switch again, pre-empting the electricity which he knew would soon surge through his body, once the machine had built up enough power. Suddenly there was a staff blast and the Jaffa hit the ground. A brown, green and black blur appeared next to him, flicking the switch off and beginning to unstrap him.
"Teal'c…" Daniel mumbled.
"We must get to the fighter bay and meet ColonelCarter," Teal'c said.
"Jack?" Daniel asked weakly.
There was no reply. Daniel felt the straps come free and Teal'c throwing him over his shoulder before he fell unconscious.
Jacob looked out the cargo ship window. He wondered if SG-1 had rescued the girl and made it out yet. He hoped so, because this fleet was about to be decimated and he didn't particularly want SG-1 to go out with them. He liked watching hyperspace, the strange colouring was hypnotic in a strange way.
"We are exiting hyperspace."
The announcement came over the speaker, sent from the head mothership. They were a mismatched fleet of cargo ships, Goa'uld motherships, fighters and the Tok'ra's own ships, built since the decline of the Goa'uld empire.
Jacob turned to head towards the bridge, but was faced with Councillor Melk'ta.
"I'm sorry Selmak…I have always respected you, but you are now going to be in my way," Melk'ta raised a zat gun at him.
"You're Goa'uld…" Jacob said.
"And you are not," Melk'ta replied.
Jacob let Selmak take over. "What are you going to do now?"
"I will take this cargo ship and drop out of hyperspace a second earlier to warn Atum of your arrival," Melk'ta said. "Goodbye Selmak."
He fired the zat and everything suddenly went black for Jacob.
Melk'ta grinned and turned around, heading for the controls of the ship…
