"Mark, time to get up. Mark!" My sleep was interrupted by this very insistent voice. I mumbled something before trying to turn around. "Mark. Time to get outta here. Come on."
Get outta here? That sounded good. I open my eyes and find that our cell now has five new guys in it. They all are wearing military camouflage and have very big guns. "Don't worry, they're the good guys. Can you move." I nod and let them help me up while I look at the new arrivals, but I don't see the two faces I want to.
"Where's dad and Sam?"
"Osiris hasn't brought them back yet. We're going to get to a safe position and come back for them."
"What! We can't leave them here. What happened to nobody gets left behind. I thought that was one of the major phrases for the military."
"So is don't let the civilian get hurt. Our first priority is to get you to safety."
"I'm not going without my family." I sit back down on the cot to illustrate my point. "I'll do whatever you want me to do, but I'm not leaving without them."
"Alright, you win." His quick surrender told me he didn't want to leave them any more than I did. "But you have to do everything I tell you to. No questions, no hesitations." I nod my agreement.
"Daniel, as a fellow civilian I'm putting you in charge of him. Keep close and don't let him get hurt okay." Another man in the room nodded. "Okay. Let's move."
The group started moving down the corridor outside the cell. Slowly we made our way toward the main part of the building.
"O'Neill, up ahead is the main chamber. That is where Major Carter and General Carter would be brought to be tortured." He nods and starts using hand signals that I can't follow.
As we reach the double doors of the room, all we hear is silence. Cautiously they enter the room with their guns drawn before giving the all clear. The guy standing next to me, I think his name was Daniel, says we can go in now. I enter to a sight that will forever haunt my sleep.
Dad and Sam were both chained up, hanging from chains coming down from the ceiling so that they were just barely touching the floor. They were facing each other. My sister was nearly unconscious and my father had a look of pain that was purely emotional. It didn't take me long to figure out what happened, and I didn't like it. It did take a minute for me to realize that everyone was just standing here.
"Help them!"
"We're tying to Mark. There's some kind of barrier here. It won't let us through. We're trying to find another way in now. Teal'c any idea what this is?"
"Many Goa'uld palaces have structures such as this. It is a place to spy upon their guests without being seen."
"Guess we came through the wrong doors. Any idea how to open it?"
"There should be a panel somewhere." We began looking around the area.
Suddenly a door opened in the room. Everyone instinctively ducked onto the ground and watched. A lady came through the door surrounded by guards. As she reached my family, she stopped and stared, a wicked smile forming on her lips that somehow matched the viciousness in her eyes.
"Have you thought any more about what I offered you?"
"I have and I will never betray the Tok'ra."
"Then it is your daughter that will pay the price. Let's begin." She said something to one of the guards. He left and returned seconds later with a vial of the blue drug and a vial of a yellow one. He undid the restraint holding her arm and put the two vials into the infuser before re-chaining her. The lady then picked up a whip and moved back towards Sam. The yellow stuff must have been some kind of stimulate because Sam seemed more awake now then when we first walked in.
She began to use the whip against my sister, stopping every so often to ask dad the location of the Tok'ra. Every time he wouldn't respond she would go back to hurting Sam. Sam couldn't hold in her agony for very long and soon she was screaming with each stroke. Soon she got tired of the whip and moved to the next torture device.
The big long table of to the side had many different things on it, and I now know that they are all torture tools. She gracefully put the whip on the table and picked up something that looked like a stick with two prongs sticking out of it. She went back to Sam and started repeating the process. She continued this for what seemed like hours, every so often getting bored of the torture tool she was using and getting a new toy. It was an interruption by a guard that finally ceased Sam's torture. They had a short conversation that I couldn't follow before she stormed out of the room, the guards following her.
"Teal'c what's going on?" Colonel O'Neill's pale face dueled sharply with the fury in his eyes at having to watch the torture of his friend.
"The guards at the Stargate have not reported in. They sent a small group to investigate and they also have not reported in. Osiris is now personally going to find out what has happened."
"Find that door panel now! Ferretti, how many men do you have guarding the Stargate?"
"Two Colonel."
"Recall them. They won't stand a chance against an angry Goa'uld. Set up a rendevous place in the forest."
"Sir, we found the panel."
"Okay, Ferretti, after you contact your men take SG-2 and start securing a way outta here. We'll be right behind you." Without waiting for an answer Colonel O'Neill charged into the room, the rest of us closely behind him. Dad saw us out of the corner of his eye and started to relax, though he never moves his eyes away from Sam's face. SG-2 quickly goes into the hallway, securing our exit. That leaves the four of us to free dad and Sam. Teal'c gently nudges my shoulder indicating I should follow him. We quickly head over to where dad is chained, while Daniel and Colonel O'Neill race over to Sam.
We got Dad down at the same time the others were undoing Sam's chains. She gave a soft cry as her chains came undone and slumped into the waiting arms of Daniel like a ragdoll. They gently laid her down on the floor and began looking at her wounds. It was bad, lines on her back criss-crossed each other, blood flowing out from the deeper cuts. They were talking to her while they looked her over, telling her everything was okay now, although I don't know how much she really heard. Amazingly she was still awake, although the way she blankly stared out into space and didn't respond to anything told me it was just because of the drugs they had given her.
They were finishing up when the radio cracked to life. The voice on the other side was saying that Osiris was on her way back and didn't look happy. That convinced us to get moving, dad gently picking up Sam and carrying her. We managed to make it outside and hide in the forest before we saw Osiris walking by. Then we heard a very angry scream. She knew we escaped.