AN: Ok here's the next chapter, sorry to dissapoint but this is not going to be a Sam/Martouf fic (though thereare little hints of that)
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Garshaw left Yosuuf to deal with the council, she was in no mood to deal with anyone or argue on the side of the humans, after all not one of them would volunteer to host Selmak
"Does that surprise you after what Jolinar did to Samantha Carter?" Yosuuf asked as the council debated. Garshaw didn't answer because she knew her host was right..
Finally the council agreed to meet with the Tau'ri and Garshaw left to inform them but she agreed with Yosuuf's assessment of the situation; the council were going to refuse the request. They had only agreed to the meeting because it was Garshaw who had made it and the whole council knew the stress she was under at the moment.
The meeting went as Yosuuf had predicted, the council refused the Tau'ri request for an alliance and refused to allow them to leave. Garshaw's heart went out to Samantha Carter when she found out that the younger woman's father was dying.
"Just as your mate is." Yosuuf said, "How would you feel?" Garshaw didn't answer, she felt guilty enough without Yosuuf's help. After a second meeting with the now eight Tau'ri, a meeting in which she lost her temper and came as near to storming out a room as she ever had, she stood in a hallway arguing with Martouf/Lantash.
The pair had clearly become besotted with Samantha Carter in a very short space of time, both were trying to convince her to find a way to allow Samantha to return to her father, and when Yosuuf joined in Garshaw had to listen to the argument in surround sound.
A welcome interruption came in the form of one of the guards who had been assigned to guard the Tau'ri. "Master Garshaw, the former host of Jolinar wishes to speak with you." Martouf followed her as she returned to the room.
"What is it?" She asked as she entered
"You said a symbiote can cure most problems in a human?" Garshaw wasn't sure if that was a statement or a question but she decided to answer it any way.
"Yes."
"Does that include cancer?" Samantha asked
"What is cancer?" Martouf asked before Garshaw could
When the young man answered Garshaw said, "Oh yes, it's a common aliment amongst your species. We cure it all the time, it's of no consequence." Yosuuf had started to develop it twenty years ago and Garshaw had cured her easily, but she couldn't quite see where the conversation was going.
"If you stop thinking so loud we might find out." Yosuuf pointed out
"We might have a host for you." O'Neill said
"You have a host for Selmak?" Garshaw was relived and shocked but as much as she tried she couldn't keep the hope out of her voice.
"Yes." Samantha said, "my father. He's got cancer and if Selmak can save his life I think he'd be willing to try it."
"But you have to let us go back." O'Neill pointed out
Garshaw frantically tried to think of a way to do that without annoying the rest of the council too much, finally she accepted Yosuuf's suggestion, "I will let two of you but the rest will remain to ensure you will return."
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After Garshaw left she went to see Selmak, even in the few hours she had been gone it was clear her condition had deteriorated. Garshaw dismissed the healers and sat on the side of Selmak's bed, she took her hand. "Selmak? It's me."
Selmak's eyes open, "Garshaw, my angel. I'd hoped I get to see you again. One last time."
"Don't talk like that." Garshaw scolded her, "we may have found you a new host but you have to hold on for a little while longer."
"I will try, for you my love." Selmak closed her eyes and Garshaw kissed her hand softly before laying it down again.
When she turned to the doorway she found Lantash standing with there. "I will stay with her until the Tau'ri return."
"Thank you Lantash, and you and Martouf both have my condolences and sympathies for the loss of your mate."
Lantash bowed his head, "Thank you Master Garshaw but in our heart we have know that Jolinar was dead for sometime, it was simply that Martouf didn't want to give up hope."
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"I would like to take this opportunity to express my admiration for your cause." The Jaffa's voice brought Garshaw out of her thoughts; "It is both honourable and brave."
"Thank you Jaffa, I must say I feel the same about you. To break from Apophis and then turn to fight him shows great strength of character." She was about to say more when she heard Martouf calling her name, now what? Then she realised what it could be and prayed she was wrong.
"We have just received word from our scout in the Shoran'ka quadrant. The Goa'uld System Lords have been told where we are. They have dispatched two motherships."
"Why today of all days?" Garshaw asked rhetorically, "I wish I'd never woken up this morning." "When will they arrive?" She asked Martouf
"Within the day, perhaps hours." He informed her. This really wasn't a good day
"Start the evacuation." She hurried off after Martouf and the guards but stopped when she heard the young Tau'ri, Daniel Jackson, call her.
"What about us?" He asked her when he caught up with her.
"You are free to go now, since we are evacuating." Garshaw told him, then it occurred to her, if they evacuated then O'Neill and Carter wouldn't know where they were and then Selmak would die. A wave of sadness washed over her.
"Don't you need any help?" Jackson asked
"A few more hands is always helpful, Garshaw. And this way the other two will still come back, though I think that Samantha would come back anyway."
"Yes thank you." Garshaw told him, "Telsun." She called to a passing man, "These people of the Tau'ri wish to help us evacuated."
"Come with me." Telsun said and the six men followed him, Martouf turned to her.
"I will return to Selmak."
"Thank you Martouf, if they return in time, I want you to oversee the blending if the man is agreeable. With the evacuation underway I will not be able to be there." Martouf nodded once and ran down an adjoining tunnel while Garshaw ran to her chamber and quickly packed her and Yosuuf's few possessions before placing them with the other's personal belongings to be transported. Then she went to the council chamber to begin packing the equipment.
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AN: Thanks for reading, if you want more then you'll get it quicker if you review
AN: I'm thinking of doind a long Sam/Jolinar/Martouf/Lantash fic, any comments?