Wiccan Science
Sorry about the long wait, but I've been getting distracted by other people's fics, they are just so damn good.
Pleez read and review, at the moment this is my most reviewed fic so I work on this more but be warned that can change so take this as incentive to review. They make my day, (hence the desperation and blackmail).
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Part 4
Willow sat in her room gripping the edge of the chair. She could still feel the dark magic pulsing through her, she was mentally and emotionally exhausted but physically she felt unbelievable, as though she could run a marathon or something.
She couldn't believe she had done it, she had promised herself she wouldn't, she had sworn off evil mojo for the rest of her life and what had she done, attacked a military installation with the previously mentioned dark mojo. Guilt flooded through her, she couldn't believe what she had done, she had been so angry and she had just lost it completely, like a bad sequel, Return of the Black-eyed Bitch.
Now she was worried about facing the withdrawal, she was a junkie, without her next fix of black magic there would be no way she would be able to leave the room for at least two days. Her withdrawal hadn't hit yet though and by the feel of her body at the moment she figured it would be the next morning before it affected her.
Well there is no way I'm getting to sleep now, I may as well get prepared. There were several things she could do, she had to buy food and pay the rent for the next week and buy aspirin, lots of aspirin. From past experience she knew her head was going to hurt. She spent about an hour getting set up and then sat down to work her way through all the information she had been given.
Aliens exist, interesting. Thousands of different worlds that can be travelled to through the Stargate, I really need to try that some day. Whole new cultures and maybe a new magic system it's too good to resist. Plus I need to visit Teal'c anyway, make sure he's absorbing our Earth culture, I wonder where he lives.
'I can't believe she really gave you these things.' O'Niel hadn't stopped laughing since he saw the box.
'She said I needed to be more 'Earthy' and she did not understand how I had lived here this long and not seen these things.' Teal'c answered with a slight smile as he continued to watch his friends reaction.
'I know but I mean, the entire collection of Disney DVD's and Shrek not exactly amazing cultural finds, and Harry Potter, what was that all about? I'm sure I saw Star Wars in there too and a whole bunch of music CD's. Shouldn't she have given you an encyclopaedia or something? How is Ben and Jerry's ice cream useful?'
'You are mistaken O'Niel, there was an interactive encyclopaedia computer disk included. There was also a list of films I have to watch before I can watch Shrek including Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and The Matrix.'
'So what else was in the box I didn't really see the stuff at the bottom, it looked like books?'
'It was indeed O'Niel.' His statement was short, an unsubtle attempt to avoid the question.
'Do you want to expand on that?' Jack managed to once again completely miss the hint.
'I am not at liberty to say.' As immovable as ever Teal'c simply stood his ground.
Carter broke in for the first time after listening with open curiosity for the last few minutes, 'it might be a good idea to respect Willows wishes Colonel, I mean look what happened to Daniel.'
The group was silent for a few moments thinking about this, O'Niel having the good grace to look a little sheepish.
After reading Willow's letter to him, Jack had held it for Sam to read, and then absently handed it to Daniel when he had requested it, despite the written warning. Daniel was still recovering in the infirmary after the paper had changed into a few hundred fire ants and promptly bitten any parts of his skin they could find. Apparently, Willow was still pissed off at Daniel for setting her up.
'What is happening about Willow anyway, its not like we can just pretend we never met her?' Carter broke the silence directing her question at Jack since he had just come from a meeting with the General.
'All our intel has been passed along to the Pentagon and until they decide what to do there's a team watching her.' O'Niel sighed at the idea of a possible second confrontation with the red head over surveillance.
Teal'c looked surprised, 'do you think that is wise O'Niel was that not what caused the problem in the first place.'
'Yeah, but this time its long distance, no contact and no bugs, just watching her position, making sure she doesn't disappear. Anyway, what are we doing for the rest of the day.' Jack swiftly changed the subject from the order, which he himself was not too confident about.
'We can't go off world until Daniel is fit and that wont be for another week, so until then we have free time unless something unexpected happens, and I just jinxed it didn't I?'
It had been two days since her run in with the military and her headache was just beginning to disappear. In between the moments of agonising pain, Willow had come up with a plan.
The first bit was no more black arts for this girl, only nice white, emotionally balanced magic from now on. The second bit was to go back to the SGC and hitch a ride on one of their wormholes, the transportation spell itself isn't black magic so she wouldn't be breaking her rule to get there and going through unseen was simple enough, all she had to do was make up an invisibility potion which admittedly is maybe not quite so simple especially since it tastes bad enough to make you ill.
She made a list of the ingredients she needed and went to a small herbalist's shop she had found earlier in the week. She bought enough for three potions, one for getting through the gate, one for getting back and one for emergencies. Each dose should last about three hours and if that wasn't long enough well, she had other more natural spells, which were still bloody effective. She was not to keen to use her darker magics on another planet anyway since she was unsure how the system would work. Shit there might not be any magic at all or none I can tap into, then I'll just drain all my reserves. Oh well, my reserves are pretty big anyway oh and I can use my crystal.
Several months ago, she had found a beautiful amethyst which could be used for storing energies from the Earth as well as holding any of her personal powers that she channelled into it. It was perfect for this little visit.
She planned to put her plan into action the next day, to give herself time to get back to her full strength and to open the crystal to nature's energies and let it grow in strength.
She was just getting ready to go to sleep, nothing beats sleep for healing energies when she decided to check on Teal'c. There had been a few things in the box other than those things that all good Earthlings should see. There were books on demons and magic but most importantly, there was a small necklace with a clear quartz crystal on it. The crystal itself would give a little protection to its wearer but its main quality is that it means she could tell where he is and also whether he is alright, and also that she could use her power through it if the need arose, aren't crystals great, useful little buggers. The letter had explained all this to Teal'c and she hoped he would wear it, it had also explained that if he ever really needed help he should just direct his thoughts into the crystal and she would get the message, she seriously hoped he would understand how to do that.
She didn't know why she felt such a great need to protect Teal'c but they had just clicked and now she just had to keep him safe. It wasn't often that she had feelings like that so she figured they must mean something.
She reached out with her mind towards Teal'c and found that he was in the base, she couldn't tell what he was doing but he felt safe enough so she pulled away and prepared to sleep.
The next day she hired a car and drove out to the edge of the military compound, it was easier to transport over small distances and she wanted to check out what was going on in there before going in. she stood by the car and projected her thoughts into the what she assumed was the control room of the base. By doing this she could see and hear what was going on, she didn't want to move until she was sure the Stargate was being opened.
She only had to wait a few minutes before hearing a voice saying 'chevron one encoded'. She downed her first bottle of potion gagging slightly at the taste, and transported herself to the gate-room
'SG-1 to the briefing room.' The voice rang through every part of the base and the members of SG-1 immediately stopped what they had been doing and moved towards the briefing room, including a still rather swollen Daniel Jackson.
When they arrived, they found the General pacing, apparently deep in thought.
'You rang General?' Jack tried to calm the situation a little but failed to draw even a smile from Hammond.
'The surveillance team just reported that Willow is just outside the base.' The look on the General's face was enough to show that he had no idea what to do about this.
'Red hair or black?' Carter knew the question sounded strange but it was the only way she knew to work out whether Willow was dangerous or not, well she's always dangerous but whether she's pissed off or not.
'Red hair, and they report that she is simply standing at her car looking towards the base.' If he was going to say anything else he was cut off by his phone ringing.
While the General answered it Teal'c spoke quietly to Colonel O'Niel, 'I do not believe she intends any harm, she believes we got her point and is willing to let it go, she expressed her regrets for her actions.'
'And I'm sure she will be sorry next time as well, but what if she found out about the team following her. Has the pentagon not made a decision yet?' Daniel spoke up, his nerves showing in his voce but since he always seemed to be the target of Willows anger it was understandable.
They heard the gate connecting, 'who's going out just now?' Jack asked with a kind of vague curiosity.
'SG-7, they are going for training in Goa'uld tactics and weaponry at the Tokra compound, just for the day, its part of the shared intelligence agreement.' Carter answered without really thinking about it, she was still thinking over the current 'Willow' situation.
'She's gone.' The General hung up the phone looking harassed.
'Great, there's no problem then…and I've missed something haven't I?' Jack stopped when he realised that the look on Hammond's face did not tally with the information he had just given.
'What I mean is she disappeared, surveillance haven't a clue where she is, for all we know she could be in the building now.'
'Well that explains the worried face, but she still had red hair right?' Jack clung to the only good sign he could find.
'Yes she did, but that's just a theory for all we know it could be wrong.' Hammond was worried it was written all over his face. 'I'll alert all base personnel that if they see her, they should keep their distance, I need to contact the pentagon and tell them the latest.'
Wow that was some ride, the wormhole is very pretty colours, Willow arrived on the other side just after the SG team and decided to follow them since they seemed to know their way around this cave system.
She watched them meet up with a robed guy. Hold on he's like Teal'c he has a worm in him, but its in his head, doesn't that make him a Goa'uld, what are they doing talking to a Goa'uld. Woah Willow chill, there just must be something you don't know about, maybe he's a friendly Goa'uld, like Casper.
She walked after them humming the Casper the Friendly Ghost cartoon theme tune in her head, Xander always loved that cartoon.
A few seconds later three other robed guys ran around the corner, they looked around for a second before speaking rapidly to the guy who had been leading the team.
'Is there a problem?' one of the members of the SG team spoke up.
'Yes, we would like to know why we cannot see a member of your team, they register on the heat scanner but not on the surveillance.
'What do you mean, here are the four members of our team….' Willow didn't stay to hear the rest, she silently moved down the corridor in the opposite direction. Idiot, of course they picked up your body heat, well at least I can fix that. She tried to draw magic from the area around her to make it appear she was at room temperature to allow herself to move unseen. It didn't quite work out though, she was not prepared for the power rush that hit her unshielded mind like a ton of bricks, she collapsed.
'You're sure there's some one there' O'Niel looked sceptically at the empty area of floor. This is fun.
The SGC had been called when the Tokra had apparently detected an invisible person following SG-7 through the gate and about two and a half hours later the three fit members of SG-1 were standing in a corridor studying an empty space.
Jack was fairly sure however that both he and the rest of his team knew the identity of this mystery person, but if it is her why is she just lying there, its not as if she couldn't just leave.
Carter was watching the infrared picture and spoke up suddenly, 'she's moving.'
One of the Tokra Council looked up sharply at the use of the word, 'she'. Jack groaned internally, great now they're going to want to know how we knew it was a she.
Suddenly the empty space he had been staring at filled with the image of Red Willow sitting up and cradling her head in her hands. God now I'm thinking of her as two different people Red Willow and Black Willow, its all Carter's fault.
No one moved for a moment and then Teal'c knelt down in front of her asking in his usual mono tone, 'Willow Rosenberg are you well?'
It seemed to take a second for her to register the voice, 'Guess I got caught huh? Next time I'll remember to lower my body temperature.' She looked up at the people surrounding her, her face becoming the picture of innocence 'they look kinda mad, did I do something wrong?'
