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General Disaster.

By LetitiaRichards.

Previously:-

They followed the dark robed servant, heads bowed down in defeat, but hearts and minds determined to face their death with equanimity.

Chapter 10

As they walked, Sam noted that they were still on a Goa'uld ship and not inside a palace as they had first thought or expected. She cast troubled eyes towards her companion as they followed the hooded figure.

Daniel frowned back and took a look over his shoulder, realising that they were alone and that there were no guards escorting them. He reached out and touched Sam's hand, tugging on it slightly, to point his thumb over his shoulder. Sam turned to see what Daniel was indicating.

As soon as she realised they were on their own with just one member of the enemy, Sam signalled to Daniel of her intent. It was time to make a break for it. Gesturing wildly, they both quickened their steps enough to reach out and grab the man in front.

He yelped as he went down under both their weight, and Daniel hit him with a right hook that surprised both of them when the man fell limp in their grasp.

"Wow, Daniel!" Sam gasped in a whisper, looking down on the sprawled inert figure. "I didn't know you could do that?"

"Nor did I!" he replied dryly.

"Quick, grab his arms, lets put him in here out of the way."

They pulled him into a side room, that thankfully was empty, and Sam shut and locked the door behind him. Their only regret was that the man was unarmed, so they couldn't take his weapon and put it to good use.

Behind them, they heard footsteps and then staggered unsteadily as the ship attempted to launch into hyperspace, but failed.

They looked at each other, wondering what went wrong and was in store for them. They had to get off the ship, doubting if they would be able to overcome the entire Jaffa crew let alone Anubis, but it was worth a try.

They hurried off towards where the Pel'tak was, hoping that they could take the Jaffa in there and lock the doors as they had done once before on Apophis' ship some years ago.

They met with no resistance along the route, and were surprised to see just one person in the control room flying the ship. He was tall, well built and wore a hooded cape, just as the servant had.

Sam and Daniel split up and circled the figure. They knew this wasn't Anubis, his hands were uncovered as he worked the controls.

Sam held up her fingers, counting off; three...two...one...

Daniel tackled him from the right, and Sam from the left. They all went down heavily, the man grunting as he impacted the floor underneath the two friends, Sam wrapped his cloak around his face so he couldn't see and Daniel gave it his best shot and smacked his fist against the helpless man's jaw, hoping to knock him out too.

The figure stilled , but only for a moment before his strength returned and forced Daniel from his chest, then sat up complaining loudly, pushing the hood and the folds of material from his head.

Sam sat back on her heels and gasped in disbelief.

Daniel whipped his head round, eyes wide at the familiar voice.

"Dad?"

"Jacob?"

"Well, that's a nice way of saying thanks for saving your butts, I must say. It's good to see you two too!" Jacob snarked.

"God, Dad, we didn't know... I mean, nobody said..." Sam stuttered. "We thought we were on Anubis' ship!"

Jacob snorted with amusement.

"I heard you two were in trouble, so I 'borrowed' this ship. Ba'al's not too happy about it, but, what the heck? How about we just get the hell outta here?"

"What about the hyperdrive?" Sam asked, checking over the controls already.

"I think I've fixed it for now, but I'm not sure how long it will last. We sustained a little damage during our escape from Ba'al."

Jacob returned to the control panel and started pressing the glowing orbs, manoeuvring the ship easily and engaged the hyperdrive, this time with success. Sam and Daniel standing slightly behind him to look over his shoulder as they moved through the darkness of space.

"How did you know where we were?" Sam's curiosity was overwhelming her now they were relatively safe.

"We had a spy on Osiris' ship and they sent a coded message about the rendezvous with Anubis. We managed to get there first and stay cloaked until she arrived. They only way off that ship was to use the rings, so I intercepted your transport. You ended up on here, rather than in Anubis' palace. They're probably still wondering what went wrong."

"God, I really thought we'd had it this time. Have you heard anything about Jack and General Hammond?" Daniel asked, wondering how they were faring.

"What about Jack and George?" Jacob demanded, worry beginning to churn his stomach. He hadn't been in touch with the SGC. He'd set out straight away as soon as he'd heard that Sam and Daniel were on board Osiris' ship heading for a not so pretty get-together with Anubis.

"Ah, we were on P5Z 721. We were exploring a temple when there was a quake. Colonel O'Neill went to help General Hammond, wh..."

"Wait a minute!" Jacob cried incredulously. "George was off-world with you?"

"Yeah. The PTB in Washington decided that we needed a babysitter," Daniel snorted in disgust. Their meddling had probably cost the lives of two good men, both of whom he considered his friends.

"What?"

Jacob couldn't believe what he was hearing.

"A babysitter? What the hell were they thinking?"

"Apparently Sg-1 has a reputation for leaving too many costly items behind in our haste to leave a planet. Of course having Jaffa or angry natives on our tails didn't seem to make any difference. General Hammond was there to see if we left equipment behind on purpose," Daniel informed him, his voice betraying his inner thoughts as to that lame excuse.

"So what happened to Jack and George?" Jacob persisted.

Jacob turned towards his daughter, as her eyes dropped to the floor and visibly paled, leaving Jacob to think the worst.

"The floor gave way Dad. We don't know what happened to them. Then the rest of the temple collapsed on top of them. We don't know what happened after that. We barely escaped that only to be captured by Osiris."

Daniel stood with his eyes closed and his arms held tightly across his chest.

"Osiris said she couldn't detect any life signs so we left them there," he mumbled morosely.

"What about Teal'c? Wasn't he there?"

Sam raised her shoulders in a shrug and flapped her hands against her thighs. She turned away, tears glistening in her eyes.

Jacob knew how much she admired George, and if the truth were known how much she cared for Jack too, despite the regs. Teal'c also held a place in her heart too as a warrior brother, so to possibly lose all three of them would be a pretty heavy blow for her to cope with. He moved the few steps towards her and wrapped her in his arms, comforting her.

"I'm sure it's not as bad as you think Sam. Jack's pretty tough and so is George. I'll drop you guys off on Falopia Minor. There's a Stargate there..."

"We don't have a GDO Dad," Sam sighed.

"That's okay. I got mine. Brought it along knowing you guys probably 'lost' yours."

Sam offered her father a warm smile, and hugged him tightly, thanking god that he was still alive. 'Where would she be without him?' she wondered.

TBC