"What about you? How will you get out of here?"
"Do not worry about me, Droven. I can take care of myself."
"Thank you." She then headed off in the direction of the torture chambers. "I hope I'm in time to save them."
"I pray that you are, Jesse."
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Jack woke up with a serious headache and his knee was screaming out in pain. He then forced himself to get to his feet only to find himself in a chamber like he had been in before when he had been captured by Ba'al. "This looks familiar," he said to himself, as he began to walk around to get his knee working again. Voices on the other side of the door caught his attention and he moved closer to hear what they were saying.
"Master Craven killed the blonde one," a Jaffa reported. "He wants this one. He demands the information about earth from them. She was weak. She didn't last long."
"They never do," another Jaffa said, before he turned to face the door. "I'll get him and bring him before Master Craven."
"Sam's dead," Jack whispered to himself, before he moved back to the end of the chamber and sat down. "That can't be possible. She can't be dead."
Just then the doors opened and a Jaffa stepped into the chamber. "On your feet, slave," he yelled at Jack.
"If you can't tell, my knee doesn't want to work right today." Jack motioned to his knee, but he quickly got to his feet the moment the Jaffa aimed his staff weapon at him. "Okay, I'm up."
"Don't use that tone with me, slave."
"Or what. You'll shoot me."
The Jaffa aimed his staff weapon at Jack again. "If I have to, I will." That got Jack to move to the end of the chamber. "Move, slave." He motioned for the door, but he didn't make it
"Hey ugly," a voice called out, and as the Jaffa turned to see who it was, he was shot down by a zat. Jack then watched at Jesse made her way around the fallen Jaffa and she soon was at his side. "Nice to see that you're alive, sir."
"Lt. Marshall, what the hell are you doing here?" he asked her, as she pulled out a combat knife from her boot. "I thought you took off the moment those Jaffa came through the gate."
"I am here, Sir, to get you out of here," she said, as she cut the restraints off his wrists and returned the knife to her boot. "But in order for this to work. You're going to have to come with me. I can get you out of here, but you're going to have to trust me."
"I will trust you, Lt., when you show me that you can be trusted."
"Sir, it's either Droven, Jesse, or Marshall. I dropped the rank a very long time ago."
"Fine, Marshall. How the hell are you going to get us out of here?"
"That's easy." He shot her a concerned look and that got her to smile. "This is a mothership after all. They have gliders and then there is that nice cargo ship they brought us aboard on. It's really up to you what you choose."
"Right. So let's go." Jack started to head out the door, but paused when Marshall didn't follow him. "What is it now?"
"Aren't you forgetting something, Sir?" She asked him, as she came up to his side.
"Marshall, what am I forgetting?"
"Carter, Sir," Jesse moved passed him and headed down one side of the corridor, forcing Jack to follow her.
"What about her?" Marshall stopped at a corner and shot a glance around it. "I thought she was dead. I heard some Jaffa talking about the fact that Craven killed her."
"Yeah, but they have that coffin like thing that brings you back to life."
"A sarcophagus?"
"Yeah, those things are nasty. The withdrawal from those things can drive you insane."
"We know about that. Daniel learned that the hard way, but then so do we know about the side effects they have." Marshall ducked back away from the corner and Jack pulled her into the open chamber behind them. The door slide shut just as five armed Jaffa walked by. "They seem happy." That got Jesse to smile, as she went to check the door. "Okay, what about Sam."
"She's not dead. I know for a fact that Craven prefers blonde female slaves."
"So she's alive."
"Yes, sir. He probably tried to get all the information out of her and killed her when she didn't give it to him. He's then brought her back to start it all over again."
"I know how that goes."
"You were tortured by a System Lord, Sir?"
"Yeah, Ba'al."
"He's not one of Craven's friends. That much I know, it seems that Ba'al sent him a gift that took out two of his motherships."
"That sounds like Ba'al. Let's get back on the subject of Carter."
"Okay, what do you want to know? I've heard from the Jaffa that Craven has killed her about five times and then brought her back to life. I would have probably given him everything by now."
"Yeah, Carter's tough."
"I know, Sir." Jesse punched the controls on the door and it swung open to reveal a single Jaffa. "Hello there. How are you today?"
Just as the Jaffa was about to yell to his companions, Jesse zated him and he fell to the floor. "That was graceful," Jack said to her, as he helped her drag the Jaffa into the chamber and they shut the door. "So where's Carter?"
"She's here, but I don't know for how much longer. So I suggest, Sir, that we hurry."
"Right, led the way."
"Yes, Sir." She took off in the opposite direction and Jack followed her.
TBC