It took Riley about ten minutes to finally locate Jesse. She had gone to the gate room to look at the gate. "Jess, we need to talk," he called out to her when she saw him and got to her feet to leave. When she didn't appear to be stopping, he grabbed her arm and forced her to face him. "Please."

"I don't have anything to say to you, Riley," she said, as she broke free from his hold. "You lied to me."

"I had to."

"No, Riley, you didn't have to." She walked past him to stand at the base of the ramp. "You could have told me. We are/were engaged to be married. Doesn't that mean anything to you?"

"What do you want me to say?"

"I want you to tell me the truth, Ri." Tears soon began to gather at the edge of her eyes and she blinked them back. "You're not the same person anymore." She shot a glance down at her hands and the tears started to fall. "I don't know if I can even trust you anymore."

"What do you mean by that?"

"Well for starters, you sent us here. Ethan could have died. Then you showed up and mysteriously there are two armed Re'fa with you."

"I didn't know they were with me when I came through."

"That was because they didn't come with you. They came with us."

"What? How did you know?" Riley turned to see her rubbing the scar on her face. "They gave that to you when they went through the gate before you."

"Yeah, they did."

"Okay, and you're mad at me for not telling you the truth."

"I told you enough so that you wouldn't be worried about me. I don't leave a double life like you do."

"I do not."

"Are you telling me the truth?"

"Yes, little one I am."

"We can test that."

"What?"

"Yeah, we can test to make sure that you are telling me the truth. They have the device."

"You're not serious. You want to test me to see if I'm telling you the truth now."

"Yes, you have given me little to no choice in the matter."

"Jess, this is insane."

"Really." She went up to him and grabbed his hands. "When were you gonna tell me how you got the mark, of those chosen to become a Jaffa, on the palm of your hand?" Riley looked down at his hand to see the cross mark on his right palm. "What? Did you really think that I wouldn't have noticed it?"

"Jess." She cut him off with a look. "Okay, you want the truth." She nodded. "Fine. You can have the truth."

"The entire truth."

"As much as I can give you."

"Okay, I'll take what you can give me." She then sat down on the edge of the ramp and he began to pace. "Riley?"

"I know. I'm thinking where I need to start."

"Okay, how did you know how to send us here?'

"I had heard about it when I was in the midst of Apophis. Nirrti had figured it out and was gonna send a squad of Re'fa back to Earth to destroy it. Apophis then said something about doing more tests on you and Ethan, so I took off to find you guys. I was the reason why that base blew up as well. I was searching for you guys."

"After the base exploded, I grabbed Ethan and decided that we should try to make it for the gate."

"I know, I saw you guys. I figured you could deal with few Jaffa, so I took a few seconds to look for Katie. I didn't find her, and I then followed you guys to the gate. I activated the device that I had stole from Nirrti's lab, and you guys went through. I was gonna follow you but it was then that I saw Cassie. I had to get her out of there. Apophis would have killed her right there on the spot."

"I know you have your loyality to her, but why?"

"Because she saved me from becoming a host."

"What?"

"Nirrti was gonna make me a host, but Amonet stopped her. I think that Nirrti kinda fears Amonet because of the fact that she is Apophis' mate, or that she's stronger than Nirrti is."

"So Amonet did what to you?"

"Nothing, she gave me the mark to become one of Apophis' Jaffa so that no other Goa'uld would try to turn me into a host again."

"So she really did change. Being inside your mom while she was pregnant with you really did changer her."

"Yeah it did. I don't know how, but I kinda think it's because she thinks of me as her child as well." He ran a hand through his hair and sat down on the ramp next to her. "So am I on the right track. This is what you want to hear, right?"

"Yeah." She then jumped to her feet and began to pace.

"Jesse, what is it?" She turned and ran into the wall. "Ouch." Jesse rubbed her forehead and then began to pace again. "Jesse." He reached out and grabbed her arm, forcing her to look at him. "What's going on? Now you're not telling me stuff."

"What about us, Ri?"

"What about us? I'm confused now."

"We were supposed to get married remember?"

"Yeah, I remember. We can't do it now. Too much has happened."

"I'm not asking you to marry me, Ri. I just was asking what's gonna happen to us."

"I don't know."

The tears started to fall and Jesse wiped them away with the back of her hand. "I thought you would say that." She then turned to go only to have him step in front of her. "You really don't love me do you?"

"Yes, pet, I do love you. It's just right now I don't know what's gonna happen. We need to figure out a plan of some kind before we take this to the next step."

"I don't know if there is a next step for us, Ri. Too many things have come between us that I can't look past."

"I know." He lifted up a hand and gently touched the scare on her face. "I'm sorry."

"I know." He broke away and looked up at the gate. "Riley, what is it?"

"It's Cassie." He turned to face with fear in her eyes. "She's in trouble."

"How do you know that?"

"I just do."

"So what do you think we should do?"

"We should rescue her."

"Sounds like a plan. Let's go tell them." They then head out the door in search of the others to tell them of the plan.

TBC