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Okay, here's the next chapter. Enjoy!
In the last chapter:
It was a nice trip, at first. Everything went just as planned; and it seemed like the worst thing that was going to happen was stubbing my toe on one of Daniel's artefacts.
Oh, how wrong I was.
We'd been at the site for about five hours so far; it was mid-afternoon. Teal'c spotted it first, his cry of "O'Neill" echoing across the open ground. The next thing I knew, the Colonel was beside me, yelling to leave everything and run. I looked behind me, and my first thought was 'where's the sky gone?' A huge, black thundercloud dominated the air as far as the eye could see; crackling with lightning. It was moving so fast it was upon us before we had made it halfway back to the Gate, the wind plucking at our clothes, rain stinging our cheeks. We were running through the forest when it caught us, nearing the edge, making the place that mere hours ago had been still and tranquil into a terrifying, swirling hell-hole.
There was a terrible cracking noise to my left, and then something slammed into me, and I was rolling forwards, out of control, buffeted by the wind. As I came to a stop, I scrambled to my feet, and turned.
There was a huge tree lying where I had been standing just seconds ago.
There was no sign of the Colonel, who had been running slightly behind me, covering his teams sixes, as usual. It was then that the horrible realisation of what had happened crept over me. The impact I had felt, the cracking…the Colonel must have pushed me out of the way of the falling object – and been hit by it himself.
I screamed his name, trying to be heard above the wind, but there was no reply, that I could hear. The others were to far ahead to have realised what was going on – the Colonel must have been running deliberately slowly so that he could keep an eye on me. This was all my fault. If I had only run a little faster…tears were running down my face as I fumbled with my radio, trying to call Sam, praying that it would work with all the interference from the storm.
And then, the most wonderful thing happened. As I was trying to let Sam know what had happened, I glanced back at the tree, trying to gauge it's weight – Sam wanted to know, for some reason – and there he was. Stumbling out of the piles of crushed branches.
ALIVE.
He limped up to me, yelling at me to keep running, pulling me along until I snapped out of my shock. We burst free of the forest, and saw Sam, Daniel and Teal'c running towards us. The Colonel flipped the switch on his radio, yelling at them to get to the gate.
Then it struck.
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