AN: So, here we are again, "Heart of Glass", chapter 9, Hopefully that stupid writing blockade of mine has gone away by now...
Btw. As I spoke of exorcisms last time, I meant exactly what you meant, Krys.
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"SG-5, secure perimeter around the Gate, SGs 1 and 3, you're with me", quickly the teams moved out, braced for encountering the worst on this secret outpost.
Though they had not run into any Jaffa at the Stargate, they now became engaged in battle, as soon as they neared the fortress.
They took cover in a low ditch and struggled to win the fight against at least two dozens of enemy Jaffa.
At first things didn't look too bad for them and they even were about to move on as reinforcements were sent, a whole lot more than they had already dealt with and they were coming from all directions, right toward their position.
Suddenly a loss of this battle seemed inevitable and the fight to rescue Daniel would soon turn into a fight for all their lives with no way out...
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With her powers completely drained from her Yasir lay on the floor next to Daniel who was completely exhausted himself.
Silently she began to weep, burying her face in his side.
"I'm so sorry", she whispered in a meek tone Daniel had never before heard from her.
Slowly he rolled over from his back, pulled Yasir closer and cupped her wet face with his hands.
"Shsh. It's okay", he consoled her quietly.
"I...", she stammered her voice becoming more and more broken by tears.
Now Daniel sat up and pulled her with him, "Nothing more", he told her softly, "it's not your fault."
Yasir's body glided closer to his and they embraced for a long while until her tears had faded.
Then, finally Yasir rose to her feet, perplexedly staring down on Daniel, at once stricken by a fearful urgency:
"We have to get out before Baal finds us here", she said quietly.
"Agreed", Daniel jumped to his feet as well, taking Yasir by her wrists, carefully eyeing her for an instant before he dared to speak out what was on his mind, "It's his baby, isn't it?"
"Daniel...", her eyes widened even more as she spoke to him now, "It isn't. It's a part of Anubis's ascended remains. Baal only had enough mercy to take me in, thinking he might take advantage from it."
Daniel let out a pained sigh, "Hell, this is just cruel. No wonder you were that evil..."
Once again Yasir's face turned into a grimace and she was about to cry again.
"No, don't cry again now", he took Yasir by the hand and led her outside before more tears could flow.
As they stepped outside there started a commotion in the hall; Jaffa ran past them without even noticing their presence. The reason for all that seemed to be an intruder alert in the surroundings of the fortress. The moment Daniel realized it, he stopped dead in his tracks.
"What is it?" Yasir inquired worriedly.
"It's my friends, they've come to rescue me..."
Yasir froze, "There are over two hundred Jaffa stationed on this base. Your friends must've been overrun by now."
Daniel let out a frustrated groan, "There must be something we can do."
But Yasir simply shook her head adding, "Not now that Baal is here."
"No", desperately Daniel dashed his fists against the near wall.
Then, suddenly something more than unexpected happened, changing everything at once...:
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"SG-5, this is O'Neill. Our position has been compromised. Repeat: our position has been com...", Jack did not get any further, since now a group of Jaffa was aiming their staffs at him from all directions.
"Crap", he muttered under his breath and prepared to surrender.
Only an instant later he realized Colonel Reynolds's stare going toward the plain behind him. "Look at that", he brought out, "the Jaffa are ... vanishing."
"What", Jack snapped in an agitated, trying to turn his head, on what he heard the sound of staffs energizing all around him, but before it came to an impact, all the enemy soldiers around him were gone.
After a short silence he found his breath again, "Now can anybody please tell me what's going on here?"
Everybody around him shook their heads, being equally confused.
"All right, I'd see we better move on now before that ugly bunch returns", Jack finally decided.
But Reynolds held him off, "Jack, what if it's a trap of this Yasir?"
The question didn't need answering, because in that moment Teal'C spotted two people running toward them, it were Daniel and Yasir.
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"You've brought her with you!" Jack's jaw practically dropped and he was about to aim his pistol at Yasir as the two of them finally arrived at the ditch.
"I won't harm you anymore", she replied, almost looking like she was about to pout, "Daniel has turned me back to normal again."
"So, has he?" Jack eyed her suspiciously.
Daniel folded his arms, "Yes, Jack, I have."
"Well in that case", Jack gave a cynical smirk.
"Don't worry your head off, okay? She won't be here much longer anyway", Daniel defended her.
"Oh, what a pity! How come?"
Daniel grinned patting Yasir's shoulder, "Oma has just been here; she has offered Yasir another chance to ascend, since she managed to talk the other into the idea that Anubis has gone a bit too far this time", he explained, giving Yasir a last passionate hug before she suddenly disappeared in a column of white, gleaming light, whispering a warm, "Goodbye. We'll meet again."
"Anubis, huh?", Jack took an arm around Daniel's back and pulled him over to the other side of the ditch, "I think you'll have to explain that to us..."
"Well...", Daniel began.
"Later, Danny Boy", he keyed the radio, "This is O'Neill. Dial us out, we'll soon be back."
Some minutes later the three teams returned home to the SGC, as complete as they actually should be, having ended another torment caused by Anubis.
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AN: That's it, people, we're through in the end. Thank you very pretty much for reviewing on this one. (It needed some fixing here and there, but I'm glad you liked it, though.)
Love, Baalsgirl