Disclaimer: I do not own stargate sg-1, it is the property of MGM and this story has been written purely for entertainment value. No money has or will exchange hands – however all original story lines and characters belong to me. Thanx
I'm sorry about the delay on this chapter but once again I've been thrown back in to the academic work that I have to get out of the way before I can write this and my other stories. I also need to mention to those of you that know about Naomi already because you've read my original work that there are going to be a few differences in her back story – this is after all a totally different setting for her. For those of you who don't – don't worry.
There was only half an hour left before they were due to set out, and Liam, not content to just sit around and wait went to find Naomi. There was something that she wasn't telling him – she wasn't just a normal teenager and the fear she'd displayed in that briefing meant that some how it was all related to Kinsey.
I wouldn't put it past him to have been the one to kill her family. Although why he would do it was still something of a mystery. He knew she was extremely smart and intuitive and that she sometimes knew more than she should about certain things… but how would that tie her to the senator?
He found her in the quarters that she had been assigned, a few doors down from his, she was on the phone when he walked in, talking to Todd by the sounds of the conversation.
"Yeah, I know… I should be back in a couple of days… this is just one of those things that I have to see through." She told Todd, waving Liam into the room before she put the phone down.
"Does he know what you get up to down here?" he asked her, not quite sure how to approach the subject he wanted to know about.
Naomi nodded, knowing it was better not to keep anything from him, not after all the secrets back at the high school. "Yeah, he's part of it too – although neither of us knew at first. You'd be surprised how many people our age are beginning to get involved. He's here for his ancient language skills."
"Oh, so I take it he know's about me and Amy." But this time she shook her head.
"No, he know's about the work I do – not about you two." Then she looked at him, understanding why he'd come to see her. "You want to know why I didn't back you up don't you?"
He just simply nodded, glad that she'd had enough insight to guess at why he was there and not pacing the corridors.
"I guess I could just tell you that it's all classified again… but you probably do – or at least did have a high enough security clearing to know." She paused; her past still hurt her even now. "Where I come from Kinsey became the president of the U.S and people like me and my family were hunted down."
Liam snapped his head up to look at her, where she came from? Who the hell was this girl?
He was beginning to understand why her file was so classified. But he didn't voice these thoughts; instead he let her continue knowing that he would probably get more out of her that way.
"He led a sub organisation – sort of like the NID, only these were far more ruthless… and they came after my family. The cover story said that we were a political target and were killed by a loan group of extremists… the truth is though, that Kinsey wanted to get his hands on us and those on the planet like us… but he didn't expect my family to fight back and they were killed in the process." She paused, squeezing her eyes shut to prevent any tears from escaping.
"My sister was the one who saved me, pushed me out of my bedroom window, I landed on the porch roof – unconscious and I was found a few hours later by our next door neighbours, they took me to a 'safe' hospital and looked after me when I finally woke up, then they helped me escape here."
When it was clear that she had finished Liam had to struggle to find any thing to say to her. "I don't understand… where are you from?" he asked, unable to comprehend what she was telling him.
"Earth, just not the same one that you're from, you remember the Quantum mirror don't you?" he nodded "Well the people in my reality had connections with the SGA, the SGC with a few changes really. They snuck me in and sent me through – it wasn't safe for me there, Soon enough Kinsey would have found out that I was alive and come after me… they couldn't let it happen and seeing as I'd never existed in this reality it was completely safe for me to stay here."
"I thought that they'd destroyed that thing." He said, shaking his head and looking at the way she avoided any sort of eye contact with him, he guessed that she was fighting back tears.
"They couldn't - I'm not quite sure why but they can't be destroyed, so it was just hidden in a storage room here – area 51 didn't seem to be safe enough according to Major Carter so they left it here."
Liam nodded again, it was all he seemed to be doing as he absorbed everything that she was telling him. There was one thing that she kept leaving out though. She'd never once mentioned why he'd been after her family in the first place.
"Why'd he come after you?" And she looked at him, a wary smile on her face.
"Now even the people at the SGC know that, never mind the government... I couldn't risk what happened in my reality happening here as well." Her gaze became slightly more intense, as if she was searching for any sign that he may betray her trust.
"Naomi I swear I won't tell a soul." And she knew that he meant it.
"I can't tell you exactly, but I can give you some idea. You remember Nerti's experiments and how they almost worked on Jonas?" He nodded and shuddered; he'd almost lost Sam on that mission…
"Well it can happen naturally, some people just evolve faster than others." She told him quietly and Liam finally understood. He suddenly had a whole lot more respect for her and what she had gone through. In some ways she had just as much to hide as he and Amy did.
"I really am sorry you know, about what happened." She just shook her head.
"Don't worry about it, you just go save Amy, bring her home alive Liam, don't let Kinsey carry out his plan… you should know by now that he'll stop at nothing to get what he wants and you shouldn't either." And he thanked her before heading out of her room and making his way towards the surface and the rest of the rescue team.
It had taken longer than expected to reach their destination – but they were finally outside, the building looked ordinary enough, situated on the outside of a business park. It wasn't the warehouse location that they were expecting to find… but most of their equipment had been scrambled the moment they arrived at the complex, telling them for certain that they were there.
"Right, SG-3, keep watch over all exits on the building, SG-10, stay here and keep watch – if anything should go wrong – you know the signal." The two respective teams nodded and Sg-3 headed out of the truck. Leaving Liam and the rest of SG-1 stood just outside, making final checks on their equipment and preparing to sneak into the building.
"Here's the plan – Daniel, Teal'c and Liam I want you to go in through the second entrance that we scouted on our first look at the building, me and Carter will take the so called exit." Jack explained, checking that his
60 was loaded correctly and affixing it to the small clip on his uniform.
Everyone involved nodded, with out protest and waited for him to give them the ok.
"Ok, you're all aware that the main mission objective is to get in, get Amy and get out – try and avoid any casualties – we're here for a rescue mission." There were strained looks on everyone's faces but it was Teal'c that asked the question on everyone's mind.
"What are we to do if we encounter senator Kinsey?" his calm voice betrayed his inner thoughts and he knew that Jack was doing the same.
"Our orders are to arrest him on sight and if he resists… then we are to remove him and the threat that he poses by any means necessary, the joint chiefs and the President have issued a dead or alive order, preferring of course, the latter." He explained and before anyone could comment he added. "Ok team, head out."
It had taken them around ten minutes to reach the side entrance, being careful not to be spotted – although none of them could shake the feeling that they were being watched there was no evidence that there positions had been made …. Yet.
Liam's heart was pounding but he couldn't decide whether it was to do with being able to see Amy again or the fact that this was the first dangerous mission he'd been on for six months.
Eyeing the entrance they were supposed to enter the building by he started to pick out certain details, pipes and tubes ran down the wall, suggesting to him that it was near some sort of laboratory, they seemed colour coded and well protected. The windows on this part of the floor were opaque and barred, a sight that both deepened his concern and gave in hope of finding her there…
"Daniel Jackson, Liam, I believe it is now that we make our move."
They nodded and moved, making sure to check around them every few seconds, to the door. It didn't take long to break the hinge and within a few moments they were all safely inside the building.
"Now what?" Liam asked, checking to see if anyone was around.
"Now we try and find Amy, look for some sort of holding cell as we make our way around." Daniel told him, keeping his voice low and as quiet as he could.
Bit it wasn't quite quiet enough, they could hear the sounds of guns being loaded and people heading in their direction.
"Ok, better move quickly." He added, the looked to Liam who seemed to be searching the ceiling. "What is it?" he asked, still valuing his opinion, despite the fact he wasn't technically the real Colonel O'Neill.
"Up there, there's some sort of lab…. The windows are barred off too – I noticed on the way in." Liam told them, backing down the corridor in an attempt to move away from their fast approaching 'welcome party'.
"Do you believe that Major Carters clone is being held there?" Teal'c asked and the young man nodded. "Well then I believe that that would be the direction to take." The Jaffa said, rather hurriedly as the other men came up behind them.
"Right." Daniel commented before leading the way down the corridor, looking for any sign of a staircase. He hoped Liam was right; otherwise they were walking straight into a trap.
She could hear the voices outside of the room, but no one entered. It seemed as though there was some sort of an emergency happening outside of where she was being held. But she was in too much pain to fully understand what was going on.
All she'd managed to do since the time that Kinsey left her was move herself into a sitting position against one of the cold stonewalls. Her head still throbbed and the pain in her arm was becoming unbearable – it didn't seem to be broken though, a thought that came as some relief to her.
Her mind was too clouded to believe that all the commotion outside might have been her rescue party; it wasn't something she was able to hope for. Amy was just glad that Kinsey hadn't shown his face again, although she knew that he would… there were still answers that he wanted from her.
Answers he would do anything to get…
"Do you think they've found them?" Jack asked as they moved down the corridor at the back of the building. The only sound that could be heard was distant gunfire.
Sam shrugged, "I hope not sir, they're the only ones that seem to stand any chance of finding her at the moment – we're too surrounded here and would be too easily spotted." She was avoiding looking at him as she spoke, she couldn't describe the feeling of urgency that she felt – not even if she tried with every theory that she'd ever come across. She felt as though she was some how picking up on her clones anxiety… she knew that she was in some degree of pain, a feeling that set her nerves on edge.
She also seemed to be picking up her clones own relentless feelings for Liam, they seemed to have grown far more than hers for Jack and she knew that it was because Amy had been allowed to develop those feelings with him… damn it, despite what had happened she still wished that she could experience that.
"Let's try and do a sweep of the second floor, there's a stair case near where we came in and it might be safer than staying here." She still didn't look at him though; she couldn't because she knew that she would end up transfixed and possibly compromising the mission.
"Yes sir." She replied, with full formality, following his lead and suppressing the part of her mind that screamed for this to all be over.
"Liam if you're going to go for it now's the time to go!" Daniel shouted firing another round at the security personnel that had met them as they reached the front of what had turned out to be a lab.
He nodded, diving for the gap between the crossfire and slipping unnoticed into the door at the back of the lab. He slammed the door behind him just as he saw one of the guards fall to the ground after a flash of blue light had engulfed him.
Liam then opened the door in front of him and froze completely in his tracks.
Amy lay against the back wall of the wall, her right hand loosely holding the top of her left arm, her eyes were half closed, her face was deathly pale and her blonde hair was roughed up all around her face. But in that moment none of that mattered and as soon as he got the message to his feet that he wanted to move, he was by her side.
She mumbled something he couldn't understand as he checked her over, her left arm didn't appear to be broken and there was nothing else physically wrong with her so he took her into his arms, feeling a strange sort of calm take over him. Even despite the danger that they were still in and all that lay around them he felt complete again.
"Amy, come on its me." She heard the voice of the being that held her, although she thought that she was dreaming or that once again Kinsey had come back for her. But he would never hold her the way that she was being held, he only ever hit her, seeming to want minimal contact.
The only person who could hold her with that much care was Liam… and she didn't know if he was really there, had he found her?
"Its gonna be ok, the others will be here in a minute and we'll get you out of here." His voice…it was his voice, he was there at last.
"Liam." She whispered before wrapping her good arm around him and holding him as tightly as she dared.
She could feel him plant kisses in her hair and down her neck, you'd have thought that it was forever since he'd last seen her… not the short time that had actually passed. Time that still felt like a blur to Amy.
"How did you get here?" she asked weakly, nuzzling her head against his neck.
"Long story, but first we have to get you out of here." He explained, trying to stand and support her.
"Ah, you might find that you have a problem with that Jack." And within a second Liam had pulled his zat from the holster on his leg and turned to aim it at the senator, keeping Amy at his side.
"I can kill you right now Kinsey." He warned, fire burning in his eyes and his fingers already on the trigger.
But it seemed that the senator was one cruel step ahead of them.
He pressed a button on his sleeve and an orange light flickered around him. "Pretty neat don't you think, my people here managed to engineer the system to work for people without Naquada in their system.
He moved towards the two of them, unable to stop smiling, now he had them both – it had been unexpected… but it had worked out better than he could have hoped.
"Now, I see I'll have to bring my plans to move her, and now you, forwards a little." He sneered, standing in front of them and pressing another button, Liam could now make out the device that camouflaged with his suit. There was no way that they had any chance of escaping the room, something he realised when the goa'uld transportation rings went up around them. He didn't know where they were going… only that their problems had just gotten a hell of a lot worse.
Well there it is, sorry again for the delay. I'd like to mention that I've re edited one of my other stargate stories 'fated circle' so for those of you who've read it or are interested in reading it the format should now be easier to understand. As always, constructive criticism and positive feedback is welcome. Thanks also to Ste-raw for checking this over for me before I posted it!