A/N sorry about the calling Jack both Colonel and General, it's hard to remember to switch from Colonel for the last 7 years and General for just the last. I'll try to go back and fix that, but it might take me a while, please forgive by inequities. Mine too! I also totally forgot. Jack is hot! The Beta, Cybrokat

Chapter 11

Scully was just in front of Daniel as they neared the gate room. Heavy weapons fire could be heard in the room so they were coming up very cautiously to the bend that opened into it. As they rounded the corner, they saw that the gate was still open and Kull warriors were coming through fairly constantly. They would get off several shots and occasionally bring a near by Tok'ra down before they would be brought down by disrupter shots.

Rapidly looking around, Scully counted about seven Tok'ra still remaining as well as Mulder and Teal'c. Things didn't seem to be going well for them.

Scully brought herself into a better position in order to fire upon the incoming warriors, but her addition didn't seem to be helping much. They just kept coming through, one after another. It was an endless stream of black clad, faceless killing machines.

After a few minutes, Daniel tapped Scully on the shoulder and said, "Shouldn't it have shut down by now?"

"How should I know?" she yelled back to him over the din of the battle in front of her.

Daniel continued to wait behind Scully as continued to fire upon the warriors for another few minutes. "Alright," Daniel said to her. "Something is wrong here; I am going to see if I can make it to Teal'c. Cover me." And he took off, leaving Scully to make sure that he didn't get shot up in the process.

When he reached Teal'c's side, the Jaffa grabbed him and threw him to the ground as a blast from a warrior passed through the air where his body had just been. "Thanks," Daniel said as he saw what nearly had happened.

"Daniel Jackson, what are you doing here?" Teal'c asked as he continued to fire upon the warriors.

"Well we were going to see if we might be able to sneak in and dial out when the gate shuts down, but it hasn't yet. Do you know why?" Daniel asked him quickly.

"I do not. But I do not believe the gate has shut down since it has opened. For some reason the 38 minute window is not working," Teal'c said as he brought down another warrior, which was quickly replaced by a new one.

"Well that's not supposed to happen,"

"No it is not Daniel Jackson."

"Well, could you cover me? I'll get Scully and well see if we can't come up with a new plan."

"Indeed I will."

And again Daniel was off, back to where he had left Scully.

"Alright, plans are changed, we need to go back to the others and see if we can't come up with something else."

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A few minutes later, they were back with the others explaining the situation. "Teal'c says that the gate has not shut down since it was first opened, that means that whoever this is, has figured out a way to by pass the 38 minute window," Daniel explained.

"I knew it couldn't be that easy," Jack said.

"So now what do we do? Is there anyway to shut it down manually?" Grissom asked.

"Well, in the past we have been able to shut down a wormhole by cutting off the power, but I'm sure that the only way for the wormhole to still be open is something has to be supplying it with an outside power source. If that's the case, then shutting down power on our end won't do anything. The gate will just continue to draw power from the other side to maintain the stable wormhole." Sam said.

"Well there must be some way to shut this thing down or maybe to make it shift. Redirect the wormhole to another location?" Sara asked.

"Yeah, like that can be done," Greg scoffed.

"Actually, it can." Sam said, sitting up a little bit more as she started to think it through.

"It can?" Greg, Grissom, and Sara all asked in unison.

"Yeah, if the gate on our end suddenly receives a massive amount of energy, it will cause the wormhole to jump to another gate nearby in the system. Kind of like a fork in a lightening strike," Sam explained.

"But can this be done while there are people en route?" Sara asked.

"Yes, General O'Neill and I are proof. The same thing happened to us in the first year that we had opened the gate. We were sent to another gate that was buried in the Antarctic when the gate we left was hit by some massive energy weapon."

"But can this work if used on the receiving gate?" Scully asked.

"Yes, we were able to do that when we accidentally opened a gate to a planet that was at the edge of a black hole event horizon. This should work if we can make a large enough finely focused blast at the gate. As soon as the gate jumps, we can dial out to Earth and they will be unable to gate back in."

"Alright, sound like a great plan," O'Neill began. "But one problem. Last time we used this method to shut down the gate I thought we had to use a very specified shaped charge that had to be set in just the right location. Now correct me if I'm wrong, but we don't have one of those. For that matter, we don't have any explosive."

They were all silent for a moment. It was true; they had no access to any explosives. But then suddenly Greg cautiously said, "Well maybe we do."

"What?" O'Neill asked.

"Well, now that we're talking about explosives, I think I recall that when that Goa'uld was making this devise," He began as he pulled the communication devise out of his pocket. "That he included a massive bomb in it so in case no one came to his call he could use it."

"That little thing?" O'Neill said skeptically. "I don't see how something like that could cause a very big explosion.

"Ah General, do you remember that test I did with the substances that we found in Cassie's chest after we brought her home? How the microscopic pieces mixed together were enough to completely destroy the testing room?"

"Oh, yeah. Well that was with Naquadah. I don't think ol' Greggo here could have gotten his hands on any of that.

"Actually, I think that he removed some liquid Na... Naqeedah? Yeah, Naquadah from the power source that he took from the staff weapon to power the communicator. He used that and… potassium I think it was, from the lab to make the explosion devise."

"That will defiantly do it. Those are exactly the same chemicals used in a bomb that a Goa'uld implanted in a little girl's chest that was supposed to go off as soon as she was close to the Stargate. Do you know how to set the bomb off?" Sam asked Greg.

"I think that once the power source is removed form the devise, it would release a small amount of acid that would disintegrate a thin piece of plastic that separates the chemicals. I would say that it would go off about, oh, twenty seconds after the power source was removed."

"Not much time, I wonder if we could get the chemicals out and make our own explosive devise," Sam pondered.

"I wouldn't recommend it Sam," Jacob said. "Working with those two chemicals is very dangerous stuff and there are bound to be booby traps in the devise. Besides, you would be the best for the job and both of your arms are broken."

"Yeah, your right. We're going to have to do this the hard way."

"Don't we always," O'Neill said as he rolled his eyes.

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"Alright, so let me see if I got this." Greg said. "Daniel and Agent Scully will go in first, Scully providing cover fire for Daniel who will be grabbing more Kull Disruptors for the rest of us. Once he brings them back to us, General O'Neill, Jacob, Scully, Daniel and Sara will all lay down cover fire while Colonel Carter, myself and Grissom go to set the bomb."

"Well, since I don't have use of either of my arms, you two will be doing the actual setting while I direct you how and where to position it," Carter corrected.

"Yeah, right. So are you sure you really want me playing around with something that has this much explosive power?" Greg asked.

"Probably not," Sara said under her breath.

"You did before and even if you don't think so, you still have a fair amount of Goa'uld knowledge left in your brain that you may be able to pull from," Carter said. "Besides, you are the one that made the bomb."

"Not that I had much choice in the matter," Greg mumbled

"Of course you don't have much choice in the matter now either," Grissom replied.

Greg shrugged as Jack said, "Alright, this has got to be one of the more scary plans that we have tried but hey, the scarier, the better I always say."

Sam smiled at him as Jacob said. "Ok, how are we getting Jack down there? He does still have a broken leg."

"An excellent question!" said Jack. "Carter?"

"Well you should be able to get down there alright if someone helps support you so you don't have to walk on that leg. It should be relatively safe going down to the gate room since the Tok'ra seem to have contained the incoming warriors to that room," Sam answered.

"I'll help him," Sara volunteered. "I don't have anything else that I am required to do so I would be a logical choice," she answered Grissom's questioning look.

"Sounds good, are we all set on what we each need to do then?"

Everyone nodded as Jack said, "Well not really, but when am I ever? Let's head out."

Sara then moved over and helped Jack up, moving to his right side and bringing his right arm around her shoulders. Jack grunted in pain as he stood and then leaned heavily on Sara once he reached a standing position.

Daniel and Scully moved out first as Greg helped Jacob to his feet and Grissom helped Sam. After a moment of waiting, Jacob and Sara with Jack moved out. Grissom and Greg fell in quickly behind.

As the group approached the bend in the tunnel to the gate room, Sara carefully lowered Jack down so that he could lean against the wall while he provided cover fire. As soon as Jack was sitting against the wall just inside of the tunnel as they awaited Daniel and Scully's return, Grissom came up to Sara and pulled her back from the rest for a moment.

"Sara… I… I'm not sure why I pulled you over her but... I'm afraid... this may be my last chance to talk to you."

Sara held her breath for a moment as she waited for him to finish. But, unfortunately, it seemed that he was going to need some encouragement to be able to say what he wanted. "Grissom… Gil, it's ok, just say it."

He looked over her face, trying to find the words that were not in his vocabulary. They only had moments left before they would all need to focus one hundred percent on the mission at hand or none of them were going to make it out of there.

He needed more time. Why had he put this moment off for so long? All the times that he could have had this conversation with Sara in the past flashed through his head and he kept pushing it aside. Now here they were, about to face a dangerous and possibly deadly situation. This was it; there was no more time to take; no more time to stumble over the words and wade through the sea of emotions that he had been drowning in since the moment that he met her.

"Sara… I, I care for you… a lot more than I have shown you and probably even should."

She took a second to read the honesty in his face and voice. He truly did feel for her, this was proof. A rush of relief filled her soul; after so much time spent wondering, he loves me, he loves me not, she finally had an answer. "G…Gil, I think you know what I feel," was all that she could answer.

Just then Daniel was back with the weapons. As Sara turned to go get hers, Grissom grabbed her arm and pulled her back to him, giving her a quick yet deep and loving kiss. In the possible last moments of their lives, everything finally seemed to fall into place. This was how they were meant to be, together. In that brief exchange, they both felt a promise made to each other; if they both made it out of that alive, they would have to pick up from this point. There was to be no forgetting; this happened and must be addressed later.

As Grissom let her go, Daniel was beside them, clearing his throat as he was handing them both a disrupter.

"I need one?" Grissom asked him as he allowed Sara to slip from his side.

"Yeah, we're going to be covering you from back here, but it will be good if you have a weapon of your own to defend with. You know, just in case."

"Well, let's hope there will be no just in case," Grissom said as he reluctantly took the weapon from Daniel.

"Grissom, are you ready to go?" Sam asked as she came up to the two men.

"Yes, let's get this over with," Grissom answered as her turned to Sam.

"Good. Daniel, you, Sara, Scully, and Dad will spread out from here to provide cover for us. The General will stay here and cover this angle. You will fan out one at a time as the remainder here cover each one. Got it?"

"Yeah Sam, and good luck," Daniel answered her.

"You too, now let's get rolling."