Hey! Sorry, I had most of this chapter written, but from the last one to what I had, there seemed to be a substantial unexplained jump. So I had to fill it in. Hopefully, I managed to make it less of a big leap.
Enjoy!
M.
Chapter V
Unknown Underground Location.
August 27th, 2003
Magnus POV
"There are some boundaries, William," I said as we look at the New Sanctuary, he is grinning like a child who had just encountered a candy shop. "I need you to know them and analyze if you want to follow them. I can't let you in there unless you truly want this."
"For some reason, I'm starting to believe this won't be another massive leap of faith," he turns around and waits. I bit my lower lip before I find a way to start.
"Partners," he raises his eyebrows. "They are not allowed down if they are from topside. Not even Abby." He nods. "Any knowledge given to you, can't be shared, not even who you work for or what you do."
"Then how I am supposed to do, you know, taxes and all."
"We will provide you with a background, and you will need to learn it and live accordingly," he nods again. "If you decide that you no longer want to share your days between there and here, you will have a choice of either, leaving us with all it implies. Or, we will provide you with a scene that will result in your 'death.' That choice will positively sever you from either world."
"I don't understand it, Magnus."
"It has to do with me and my death, William. No one can suspect I didn't die. I can't allow the 113 years I've invested in getting to this point be in vain. I can't allow them to pay for an avoidable mistake."
It was a long journey to prepare myself for this timeline again, 113 years don't pass in a blink of an eye. At least not some decades, I must confess I missed these last couple of decades a lot, especially when I was forced to go back to corsets and horse carriages and lost a range of things that I grew accustomed to having. But then, when I started to consider how to move around without affecting my timeline, and this plan started to take form in my mind, every little second counted.
"Okay, Magnus," he says, grinning. "I don't care, you can fill me in all the intricacies you found, and I'll still accept the proposal. My only request is that you keep your word this time, Helen."
"My word," I state.
"Yes, no lies."
"Then allow me to show you the premises," I smile, and we start walking.
"Is there any other surprise that I should be aware of?" William asks curiously after testing the chair in his new office by rotating it around its center. We have been walking for hours; he wanted to see everything. And now, here we are. I pursed my lips; alas, I had to honor the only request he had made.
"No lies," I affirm, wondering how I had come to accept such an offer from him. And how could I not tell him the truth now? I ponder. "It seems to me this was not the first time I've said that to you…" I trail, because, yes. There are many other little changes and histories to be told.
"There are things!" William exclaims in a mix of confusion and joy. I can't but nod.
"Yes, of course, there are things, William," I roll my eyes. "114 years of them," I smile secretively to myself. Although, there are things a Lady never tells. "Many things happened, and I couldn't talk about them because the present was more conflicted."
"Such as?"
"Shall we go to my office? I believe I will need a decent cup of tea, and you will need space to pace."
He nodded, and we walked away towards my office, the last place he was yet to see. Looking at it from inside, this part of the building was almost like being back in the Old City Sanctuary. Out there, the world was different. Here, abnormals roam free, and only those extremely dangerous or those who need particular climates or have special needs are kept in special containment areas one level below us, under the underground city of New Praxis. Eden City. Oh, scratch that, we are still debating on the name. Nothing seems fitting, and calling it Sanctuary seems not enough.
We enter my office, and Will raises his eyebrows. I know what that's for, it's a mix of every single office I had in my life. It looks eclectic. I walk towards the small seating area I left on the side, and I show Will a brand-new coffee machine, and the placement of all the elements we need to make our drinks in there. He has this cute grin the whole time. Then, we work in silence as if making tea and coffee was such a complicated task that needs all the focus in the world. When I move to the seating area, and he follows suit.
"Are you ready, or do you need more time?" He asks, and I take a sip of my tea, smiling over the rim of my cup. He smiles back.
"While I was on my long-lived vacations, I couldn't avoid but notice there were certain adjustments I could make as time went, that is, without modifying this timeline. There were things completely out of the list, and some that never occurred to me until it was too late. But a handful was doable."
"Like this," he says, raising his hands to make his point clearer. I nod.
"As you already know, I worked my way to get all that I needed in time for my big topside end," he nodded, "but there were other things I also managed to do."
"Like?"
"Remember when Tesla and I entered that software?"
"Yes?" He answers dubiously.
"At that moment, I didn't realize, or maybe I did, and it didn't make sense…"
"Magnus," he stops me and takes one of my hands into his. "Whatever it is, I'm sure you already did it." He looks at me earnestly, "I've learned to accept in the time I was by myself, that there's nothing I can do to change the past. No matter how much I wanted to, and that also applies to you." I'm taken aback from his answer, and he notices because he grins. "Unless, of course, you managed to convince Worth of giving you the plans for his machine," I squint at him.
"Cheeky monkey," I grin. "But that's an experience I don't want to repeat," I shudder to think about it. "Here goes nothing, when on the software, I found a hidden message. It was a signature I was acquainted with and a message I didn't quite understand."
"What did it say?"
"It said 'she's okay. You will save her later on.'"
"What?"
"It was on the part of the software that was yet to be touched, and the signature was mine."
"I'm not following you," he frowns, I sigh.
"I didn't realize back then what it meant until I was placing that same message in that same software. William, I saved Ashley," I murmur, loud and clear enough for him to understand.
"You did what?"
"I realize how this might sound. But I didn't do it lightly; it took me a long while to figure a way for it to happen. And an even longer planning to make it happen."
"But you checked the software! You searched for her conscience or something, and it didn't show anything out of the ordinary."
"Yes, it didn't because I had downloaded both Ashley and the warrior from the barrier before the thought of checking it occurred to my old self. The complicated part was to bring them out in two separate bodies. But I managed."
"Ashley is alive?"
"She is by principle alive," I sigh, pursing my lips, his eyes widen, "She's not fully herself yet. She needs to be under containment, since she still has to learn to control her new set of skills, and I can't have her roaming free in case she loses control."
"Whoa. What?"
"There is a whole new development of a way to contain her ability to disintegrate herself and keep her in the room. We've managed. She is currently undergoing therapy, and it is presenting encouraging results. From the starting point to know, she is holding herself better and has reached up to 6 hours of self-control. However, she needs more food and exercise than she needed before."
"Wait, how did you manage to 'download' her? I mean, if she was in the software, wasn't that only her mind? Wasn't her body blown away?"
"Yes, to both. I found myself in need to recreate an empty vessel for Ashley's mind."
"And correct me if I'm wrong, but even with the chances of getting her pre-Cabal, you kept them all?" he seems perturbed by this. If I must confess, I am still disturbed by leaving them all.
"Sadly, there was no other way," I lowered my eyes and bit my lower lip. I know he won't like the next part. "As I didn't have much to go with the other girl, I created her a healthy human body and downloaded her conscience in it. She never managed to reconcile what she felt it was her with the body she had. Thankfully, I had a copy of Ashley's DNA after the changes, and I could create her whole."
"You had a copy? How?"
"I entered the Cabal and got it."
"Why not free her right then?"
"And change the whole timeline only from the egotistical desire of keeping my daughter alive? I thought about it; trust me. But the implications were far greater than the benefits. And I couldn't risk it."
"Okay, to place us on the same page: Your daughter, who killed herself and an attacker against the Sanctuary EMP, wasn't dead. As you had predicted, their minds got sucked into the barrier software while their bodies disintegrated. And while in your past, you mourned her; this you downloaded both out of the system and into somewhere. And then, somehow," he waves, "you created a body for Ashley, and you are treating her because she has all the superpowers the cabal gave her, and she can't control them entirely."
"Sounds pretty much it," I sighed tiredly, making myself ready to get his final verdict. Surprisingly, he smiled.
"I missed this!" He grins. "Tell me more about the treatment, is there any way I can help? You ought to tell me about those 113 years you were unaccounted for, oh, and any other thing you want to confess to me." She smiled, and I finally relaxed. "Oh, and happy birthday, by the way."
March 19th, 2004
SGC
Colorado Springs
In the months since she discovered Jacob wasn't her dad, things got extremely complicated in the Universe. Go'auld's, replicators, and saving other worlds from their impending doom became far more preoccupying (and gratifying) than pursuing a not so easily tracked Doctor. Some new hints of the Magnus family legacy poped here and there, but nothing that could break the case. So it was laid under the pile, and they rarely visited it anymore.
Sam had kept the picture of Ashley Magnus to herself, and had continuously checked on her friend to see if the girl made an appearance. She didn't, and Sam concluded that something had happened to the girl. Carter assumed the girl was related to the same family that held all that fortune in patents, and as a Magnus, Ashley couldn't be broke. She had searched the obituaries around the globe and found no mention of a deceased Magnus. The girl dropped out of the face of Earth; the perks of being a millionaire maybe? Or maybe her name was lost in a small town newspaper Sam hadn't found yet.
Then, a couple of months earlier, when there was no lead left, and the Magnus name was merely a thought that came and went in her head. Her buddy called to let her know the girl had made an appearance and was back on the buying track.
For some unknown reason, Sam felt a weight lifting from her shoulders, almost like when she learned her dad was healing well. Carter blamed it on the age of the girl and dismissed any other ideas. Her personal life was a mess; when things got considerably calmer at work, she had to search for something to do and create proactively. Because it was easier to deal with them when she exhausted herself both in the gym and at the lab than to think about what she was supposedly fully accepting of the massive change in her identity than over two years later, she had never confronted. She still wasn't ready to face. And then, there was nothing left for her to do.
"I need something to do, and I need it now," she said to the air.
"Good thing Hammond called then," Jack's voice made her jump a little.
"What? Sir, you scared me."
"I'm sorry, but you seemed extremely interested in that point in your wall, " he smiled, pointing her wall, making her smile. "Are you sure you are okay?"
"I'm… getting there," Sam compromised, and he nodded. She knew he would never interfere unless she asked him for help. Sam smiled because she knew what came next.
"If you ever need someone to talk… you know."
"Yeah, thanks, sir."
Underground Sanctuary (Eden City/ New Praxis/Magnusville/ Insert an approved name)
Same time
For years, she was always running from a place to the next: If she wasn't saving the abnormals of impending doom, or reliving her life trying her best to stay put. Or killing, protecting, helping, surviving, then moving the Sanctuaries one by one and planning with Feliz the movement of her money.
When everything was finally in place, settling took a couple of months. And the moment they had achieved it, Helen went a couple of weeks freaking out (yes, she does freak out) before she got the courage to recall Will and inform him of the existence of Utopian City.
The novelty was wearing off. Seven months passed since Helen sat in the same place, explaining to Will how she had saved Ashley without altering the timeline. Six months since William severed his connections with the top world for good. Three weeks since Kate's wedding. Henry and Erika's baby was almost due, and with how long that pregnancy was, the baby's room was redecorated at least a dozen times, taking away all the charm that creating a home for your child could have.
She was bored, utterly bored.
She needed something to do; anything would feel right at the moment. And then, her internal comm rung.
"Magnus," she saluted, trying not to show what she was already feeling.
"Hey, boss. We got a call from a top side checkpoint. Someone spotted a paloraevious rummaging through Colorado Springs. However, there's no top team close enough to get there before any of the other agencies," Helen grinned and quickly checked the weather, a rare 23 degrees in that area surprised her.
"Call Will, Kate, Tesla, and offer it to Ashley too; she might want to join us. Prepare the right weapons and remember, they move in groups."
"Sure, boss. Meet you at the extraction point in 20."
Almost two hours later
Colorado Springs Sewers
Will's POV
"Great, just great! Why must they always go to the sewers? Why can they go to a place that at least smells good? Shit! I will have to rewash my hair; now it smells like a sewer!" Kate whines over the radio. 'Women,' I think.
"Tell me about it; be grateful you don't smell it as bad as I do," Henry said. I must add super sensitive to odor abnormals to my last remark. I expect to hear Nikola anytime soon complaining about it, but, hey! The guy hasn't showered in a week; he should be used to this.
"You know, your complaint is…" I start, and apparently, Magnus got fed up too, because she interrupts me.
"Enough, we are supposed to be hunting this abnormal and chatting over the radio is not helping," I think I heard some trail of a smile there. Hmmm.
"Helen, you must always ruin the fun?" Nikola added. There! I was right; he can't help himself.
What are we doing here? Well, thanks to the Colorado Sanctuary 'cover' office, we are here looking for a regular Paloraevius, in what seems to be another hunting down in the sewers. According to Helen, and I will quote her 'the Paloraevius is a marvelous abnormal, they go in packs. Therefore, whenever only one is spotted, we can be sure there are at least another pair somewhere near. And they are most definitely harmless creatures'.
Yeah, right. That vampire thing was a harmless creature too.
Okay, back on track, we came down here in the middle of one smelly concatenation of sewer paths of some sort. We made it our insertion point; the place has at least ten tunnels of sewers pointing to different ways. When I saw, this I thought, 'who the hell designs sewers like this?'. So, we did what we do best whenever we want to get in trouble: we split.
There are six of us, at least four of them and ten tunnels. Every one of us picked one with the hopes of finding the creature and get out of this forgotten and smelly place. Well, yes, after a couple of months down at the new Sanctuary with sweet-smelling flowers and stuff, I agree this does smell atrocious. My only hope is for this thing not being in my tunnel; the harmless ones always seem to look at me as food.
Colorado Springs,
O'Neill POV
I look down at the entrance point Sam chose for us, and I consider someone is laughing at our current situation because even though we aren't being beaten, tortured, killed at this moment. I'm starting to believe this could be one of our worst missions so far. Top ten, definitively. And the day looked perfect outside.
Oh, I've must pissed Hammond.
I came down the last step of the ladder, and I am looking at what I can only describe as a big hole with ten tunnels going in every possible direction.
"What are we looking for again?" Daniel asks, turning around and moving his glasses up his nose again.
"A giant lizard kind of thingy," I answer, ha! And people believe I'm the one who doesn't pay attention in briefings.
"I wonder how the hell they came out with that description?" Sam says, jumping to the ground.
"The description was: 'We saw Godzilla going down the sewers,'" I say. I 'm just trying to figure out how Hammond could keep a straight face when telling us that one.
"I always thought Godzilla was large," Daniel commented, "what did you do to the General this time, Jack?"
"I didn't do a thing! For crying out loud! Why has to be my fault? Maybe your rocks pissed him off, or Carter blowing up her lab, or maybe he is just getting revenge for all those things we ALL did since we started," Daniel, Sam, and Teal'c look at me with an eyebrow raised, they got to be practicing that! "I didn't do anything to him!" After a moment, Carter takes pity on me because and smiles.
"Well, I say we have to choose a path;" she changes subjects. "We will have more opportunities if everyone takes one tunnel." And yes, she is the smart one.
"Indeed. May I suggest we mark the tunnels we choose?" Teal'c offers.
"Great Idea, T!" Daniel takes a sharpie out of his pocket. Every one of us stands in front of one tunnel. Then Danny comes and marks our initials beside our pick. When he writes the D in his tube, I say, "Well, if you find something, try to drag it here and radio in, so the rest can show here, and we can all go home." And then run in. Damn! I hate sewers. That hell planet smelled way better.
Some minutes passed.
One radio crackled.
"I found nothing here; I'm coming back," Nikola advised to Sanctuary Team when he reached what it seemed the end of his tunnel.
"Move up to the reunion point, people! I have an angry creature on its way," Kate informed.
"Roger that! I got nothing," Henry replied.
"Colonel, Daniel, Teal'c, I got a Godzilla on my six, I'm going to the meeting point. Hurry up," Sam shouted into her comm, getting three: 'on my way' for an answer.
"Henry! Get those stunners out, and hit the palthing that thinks I'm food," Kate shouted to her radio.
Being the one with the 'extra speed' Nikola was the first out, with his eyes set on the tunnel where Kate was, he failed to notice someone else at the start point. Out of the force in which Nikola bumped him, the guy fell to the wet floor.
"Henry, where the heck did you place those damned things?!" Nikola shouted to his radio while rummaging in a bag, ignoring the groaning in the background completely.
"I've got one," Ash said. "I'm taking it to the meeting point."
Moments later, Will and Henry came running out of their tunnels, and they started to go through the bags they had left right next to every one of the tunnels they went in.
"Tesla?" Nikola turned around, hearing his name and looked at the guy standing looking soaked. The vampire's first reaction was to aim his gun at him.
"Well, well, it is Dr. Jackson. What are you doing down here?" William snapped his head in their direction.
"There are two incomings. Can you entertain him?" Will asked. Nikola grinned and nodded. With that, Will and Henry continued charging weapons.
Teal'c came out of his tunnel on time to see Daniel at the wrong end of a gun. Stealthily, he moved closer to the attacker gun aimed at Nikola's chest. Jack came out on the opposite side of them and assessing the situation; he pointed to the back of Nikola's head.
Nikola chuckled when he heard the third man pointing at him; his laugh caught Henry's attention.
"Now what, Vl..." Henry stopped, clenching his jaw when he turned to see Nikola's situation. Without a doubt, he pointed his weapon to O'Neill's skull.
"Uhm, guys…" Henry trailed nervously.
"I would put down my weapon if I were you, pal," Jack said out loud, and Nikola laughed. Will looked at the five armed men, and to the corridors from where Kate and Ashley were bound to come out very soon. So, he took the best decision he could.
"Everybody put down your weapons; we are using tranq's only!" No one lowered their gun, "Oh! Come on, Nikola, Kate will be out in no time," he looked at Henry. "Henry, you know we can't kill it if we don't want to be dead ourselves."
The HAP lowered his gun and aimed it to the entrance of Kate's tunnel. "I don't know who the hell you three are," Will continued. "But we have bigger issues than fighting with you right now, so could you please stop aiming at him! Or you might as well shoot him and do all of us a favor." Not giving them time to answer, he shoved the weird-looking gun towards Jack. "It's way better as a weapon for this creature." Jack clenched his jaw and nodded.
"Lower the guns, guys. We can't endanger Sam more," he said, and his teammates nodded, grabbing the guns William was passing them. "Godzilla's coming from that point in any minute now!" Jack shouted, pointing his new firearm to the tunnel marked with S.
"I don't believe that the Paloraevius looks like a Godzilla, a huge lizard, maybe…" Nikola talked to himself.
"Henry?" Daniel asked, and Henry nodded.
"Dr. Jackson?" Daniel nodded; he had a confused look on his face.
"Kate, Ash, where are you?" William asked, and at the same moment, the electric blast was heard coming from one tunnel.
"Oh, follow the lights! Angry Pal is heading on your way," Ashley answered. Will shook his head, and smiled, Ash was having fun, and in times like those, she was just like old times.
A few seconds later, the SG-1 team saw an electric blast, and then someone came out running, she turned to the exit of the tunnel she had just left and, Henry threw some weapon to the black-haired head. Without a doubt, she fired something to the very Godzilla looking thing. The beast got trapped in an electrified net of sorts. Then she took the gun in the tight holster and shot two darts to the animal's lower belly. Cracking her neck, Kate turned and found out a huge crowd.
She didn't have time to ask anything because a blond head came out of another tunnel, she kneeled and screamed: "Shoot at it!" at the same moment that the Paloraevius jumped over her.
Kate knew that wasn't Ashley, because, with perfect timing, the young Magnus, came running out and slid herself passing under the creature when it was midair above the woman and fired twice. Kate saw Ashley 'blink'.
Ashley was out of options; she wouldn't be able to hit the creature and avoid the woman if she didn't disappear. It happened too fast. At first, she was about to collide with her, and then she was behind her. Thankfully, the woman was covering her face, and the action was unnoticed by people far away from the situation. However, she knew the energy cost would have effects over her self-control. Kate grinned at Ashley reassuringly.
"Hey, all good. Two out no harm," Kate added, patting her shoulder.
"Three, I've managed to sedate mine a couple of meters in, I thought you could use another hand."
"We did, and gosh, that was better than chasing that basilisk!" They looked around. "Hey, guys. Where's Doc?"
"Who are all of you?" Sam asked, standing out with Jack's help.
"Wow! I didn't know Godzilla had fangs! Cool!"
"I didn't hear anything from Magnus since we went apart," Will said. "Can you secure them for transport?"
"On it," Kate added, patting Henry's shoulder before they did as Will asked while Ashley returned to her tunnel to start dragging the creature out to the meeting point.
"Magnus? As in Doctor Magnus?" Daniel asked
"Who else?" Nikola rolled his eyes.
"She is here?"
"Who the hell are you?" Kate inquired annoyed
"I guess you will have a chance to personally meet her," Nikola said at the same time. "Funny, the same abnormals that avoided your first encounter are the ones that bring you together, " Nikola said, pointing to the tunnel that Magnus went in. "She has to come out of that tunnel."
"No word from mom yet?" Ashley asked as she came out of the tunnel dragging her creature. Will shook his head no.
The place was crowded and loud; everyone seemed to have questions, and no one was giving answers. Henry and Kate took the easy way out and got back to ground level and started to pull the transport crates with the paloraeviuses.
The odd group went silent when they heard a splash, and someone rolled and spun in an almost military way. If they weren't right there, they would have thought it was a movie, perfectly choreographed. The woman rolled, and the beast jumped right on top of her. She took a weapon out or her thigh and fired to its belly. The animal fell limp on the floor, and she stopped rolling and stood up quickly.
"Add another dose!" She screamed to no one in particular. But being the closest, Will took a weapon and fired at the creature which was already on the floor. Without saying anything else, the woman that had just emerged from the tunnel marked with an O ran back into it. The sound of a blast took over, and seconds later, she appeared again with another Godzilla hot on her heels. "Get down!" she screamed.
Used to her orders, the Sanctuary team threw themselves to the floor. However, SG1 didn't follow on time, the angry lizard jumped right in the middle of the group, attacked two of the men.
When Helen raised, the two males where bleeding, one of them appeared to be unconscious. But it was the woman that got the worse part, the creature cornered her against a wall, and then they heard her scream as her stomach was scratched deeply judging by the way the blood poured out with force. Seeing Sam hurt, Teal'c shot all his rounds to the creature, but the guns didn't appear to have any effect.
Magnus POV
"Aim for the stomach! It is its only weak spot!" Will screams to the black guy who seems to be the only unscathed intruder. Nikola is faster than him.
He used his gift to reach one of the electric weapons that laid discarded, and he fires it the paloraevius effectively, making it angrier.
"Will assist them," I shout, feeling somewhat desperate. Nikola already started to run away from the creature who now has targeted him. Henry jumps in at that moment and half-trips over the net gun. "Henry! Net!" I shout at him, and he throws it at me.
"Nikola, at three!" I say, and he looks at me.
"Can we make it two?!" He pleads
"One!"
"I hate sewers, Helen!"
"TWO!" I scream, Nikola jumps into the deep part of the drain, while I shoot the net trapping the beast. From the corner of my eye, I see Ashley approaching quickly.
"You okay?" I nod, and she adds the tranquilizers. Nikola emerges soaked in sewer waters; he clears his face and then adds:
"You did that on purpose, Helen Magnus!" I try not to laugh; Ashley doesn't even try.
"Of course not, my dear Nikola! Why would I ask you to throw yourself in sewer waters on purpose?" I ask as innocently as I can. Well, yes, sometimes, I am a terrible person. I know.
"My dear Helen, you know how I abhor taking baths!" I am about to reply, when I hear whimpers, we run out. I assess the situation as fast as I can: We have three injured, two men, one of them is putting pressure on his injury, while green looking Henry does the same with the unconscious one. And then, there's the woman, Will and the big guy from her team are exerting pressure on her injuries.
"Oh! God, the venom," I whisper to myself. "We need to take them to the Sanctuary! Now!" I order loudly.
"I cannot let you take them," the guy putting pressure on the woman's injuries says. Bloody Hell! I don't have time for this! They don't have time for this!
"Listen, I'm a Physician, and luckily, I am the only one who can treat your friends. This creature has a dangerous neurotoxin; if I do not give them the antidote, they will die an excruciating death. This place isn't sanitary enough to risk putting the cure in here, but I will shoot them with sedatives that will make them comfortable while we transport them and slower the toxin at the same time. Would you agree?" While he considers his options, I say to the radio, "Kate, get down here, bring three human sedatives and two duct tapes?"
"I'll be right there, Doc."
"I believe you will be my friend's best opportunity," the man says, I smile at him. Kate throws at emergency bag towards me and hands the same to Nikola.
"Niko, please replace Henry."
"Doc, I'm going to secure the last Pal up and drive it, you know, for containment. Henry can take the second van. Oh! and Ash is requesting a ride back, you know, for control." Kate comments, and I frown at the last part.
"Thanks, Kate. Please take her. Henry, make sure you have everything settled so we can also transport them." He nods and quickly disappears towards the top. " I will need your help keeping pressure, and holding her half seated so I can dress her wounds," I say to the man, and he nods. He lifts her with ease, and I stop for a minute, caught on her face. I can't afford to put much thought on anything but her wounds, yet I can't help to notice she looks exactly like me.
She is losing blood, an awful lot of it. I grab the duct tape and start to roll it around her middle, over the gauzes soaked with her blood. "Can I have your name?" I ask him.
"Teal'c," he says, raising an eyebrow when he sees me taping his friend.
"It helps to keep the amount of pressure stable," I explain, he merely bows his head. It is strange how I feel that with his simple bow, he is putting a lot of trust in me. When we are applying the last touches to our injured, Henry lowers the final cage.
Teal'c raised his eyebrow again; then, he helps me move her. I believe he saw the practicality of it, especially when we were out there rather soon, and his friends are now comfortably laid inside the transport van. Finally, when we are all settled in, Henry speeds off in the direction of the office. Thankfully from there, the access to hollow Earth and our side of the town is somewhat close.